Cold and Missing: Nefertiti Trader

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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.

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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

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Welcome back everyone.

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I'm Ali.

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And I'm Eli.

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And we're back at Cold and Missing on our 43rd episode.

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That's correct, episode 43.

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Wow.

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What'd you say?

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Wow.

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Wow.

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I thought you said, well.

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I was like, oh, we're just going to go right into getting started, okay.

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But I love that energy.

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I think people enjoy that we get right to it.

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Well, with that said, would you like to get us started?

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Yeah, let's just get into it.

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Okay, great.

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Episode 43.

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Ah, this is a missing persons case, correct?

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All right, let's do it.

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So today I have for you a missing persons case.

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And this is the case of Nefertiti Trader.

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And this takes place in June of 2014 in Newcastle, Delaware.

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But first a little bit about Nefertiti.

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Nefertiti, or Neffie, as her family and friends call her, is 33 years old in 2014.

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She was born February 21st, 1981, and she would be 42 years old today.

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Neffie is a loving mother of three and is extremely close with her family.

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She talks with her mother every day, multiple times a day.

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Her cousin, William Trader, said she was, quote, an outgoing person.

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She is real fun to be around.

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And if you don't like her, you will love to not like her.

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She is a real good person, end quote.

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Nefertiti is described as an outgoing people person who lived life to the fullest.

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At this time in 2014, she was on medical leave from her custodial job at Christiana Hospital

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as she was about to undergo a medical procedure.

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Neffie lived in a duplex in the Saddlebrook community in Newcastle, Delaware.

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This subdivision is a big square with an empty field in the middle.

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And there is only one way in and one way out.

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So the way you come in is the way you have to exit.

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There's just one road that runs through the subdivision.

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And now a timeline of events.

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On Sunday, June 29th, 2014, I couldn't find a lot of details surrounding Neffie's movements

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earlier in the day.

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But what we do know is that in the evening, she took her cousin, William, who also lived

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with her, to work, and when she returned home, she watched the BET Awards.

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After the award show ends, her and her mother, Denise Trader, talk on the phone to discuss

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the award show.

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Now it's unclear if Neffie goes to sleep or if she has insomnia, but early the next morning,

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so this would be Monday, June 30th, 2014, around 3.30am, Neffie leaves her home to go

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to a nearby 7-Eleven.

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It was about a 7 minute drive from her home.

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According to her family, it was normal for her to go to 7-Eleven to get coffees for her

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and her daughter.

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Police are able to confirm that Neffie does go to the 7-Eleven and buys a pack of Newport

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cigarettes, two coffees, and a loaf of bread.

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There is no surveillance footage of her at the 7-Eleven, but she was a regular there

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and the clerk recognized her in her pink sweatsuit.

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The clerk did say that it was unusual for Neffie to be there at 7-Eleven at that time.

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Neffie's two oldest teenage children were at the home during this outing.

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Her 17-year-old son heard a noise early in the morning and went downstairs to investigate

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but didn't see anything, so he went back to bed.

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At around 4am, a neighbor, his name is Joe Robinson, he happened to be up at that time

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and he noticed that Neffie's front porch light lit up.

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When he went to go look out the second-story window, he saw someone dragging Neffie into

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her 2000 Acura RL and putting her in the back seat.

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The person was wearing tan shorts and a black hoodie.

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By the time Joe got downstairs, the car is gone.

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Joe says that he hesitated calling police because he was unsure if someone was sick

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and was taken to the hospital.

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He says, quote, had I known something was going on like that, I wouldn't have hesitated.

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It bothers me.

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I hope they find her.

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End quote.

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According to Officer Tracy Duffy with the New Castle County Police, quote, the witness

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saw her speaking to someone, but they weren't able to tell if it was a male or female, and

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then they forced her into the vehicle.

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End quote.

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As the day breaks, on June 30th, Neffie's family began calling her as this was their

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usual routine.

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When her mother is unable to get a hold of her, she thinks that maybe Neffie had returned

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to work early and this would explain why her cell phone was off.

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Denise decides to head over to Neffie's house around 6 p.m. that day when she would have

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normally returned home from work.

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When her mother arrives at Neffie's house, she notices several strange things.

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She finds a loaf of bread that someone had stepped on in the front yard.

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On the front porch are two coffees, a pack of Newports, and an unopened condom on a chair.

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And then Neffie's flip flops were laying near each other by the front door.

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But there are no signs of Nefertiti at her home.

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Her mother is worried since Neffie is not home and her car is gone.

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Denise decides to return to her home and try Neffie's cell phone one more time.

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When she doesn't pick up, Denise reports her missing at 9.37 p.m.

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Now presumably from here, the police do begin to investigate, but the next update we get

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is July 2nd, so this would just be two days after her abduction.

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Police have been unable to track down Neffie's car.

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After the vehicle left her home, it was seen on surveillance footage passing a nearby Verizon

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store, but this is the last time that the vehicle is caught on surveillance.

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And to date, the car has never been found.

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Police ask for the public's help in looking for Neffie's car.

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On July 15th, so this is just 15 days, Officer Tracy Duffy says, quote, we think that she

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knew her abductor, but we can't rule out that it was a stranger, end quote.

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So the summer comes and goes, and then the next update I could find is in October of

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that same year, so this would be three months after Nefretiti's abduction.

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Police at this time have no strong leads and no solid information, according to Tracy Duffy.

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There is a rumor that Neffie's cell phone was powered on a few weeks after her abduction

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and then powered off again very quickly, but police refuse to confirm or deny this rumor.

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On Monday, November 17th, 2014, so this is four and a half months now, Denise Trader,

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Neffie's mom, speaks out in the local media against the New Castle County police claiming

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that they are not doing enough to find her daughter.

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Denise says, quote, it eats me up a whole lot.

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There's not a day that goes by that I don't wonder where she's at and when she'll be

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back, end quote.

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Police say the case is still open and active, but Denise spends most of her free time driving

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around looking for Neffie's car.

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Denise believes that if you find the car, you'll find Neffie.

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On Saturday, February 21st, 2015, this is almost eight months Nefretiti has been gone,

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family gather for what should have been Neffie's 34th birthday.

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Nefretiti and her mother Denise share birthdays, so they usually had a family dinner together

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and then the family went out to celebrate the mother daughter duo.

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But this year's gathering is much more subdued.

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Police says, quote, I talk to her all the time.

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I tell her, get ready to get home, baby.

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Get prepared, end quote.

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Police do say that since Neffie's abduction, there have been no cell phone activity and

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no bank activity.

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In June of 2015, so this is one year now, the FBI get involved and they offer a $30,000

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reward for information leading to Neffie.

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Neffie's cousin, Corey Trader, says, quote, we need to know if Nef's alive.

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We need to know if she's gone.

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It's just hard to have that lingering over your head.

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It's been a year.

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You know, Nef done missed her birthday and her kids birthdays, end quote.

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Police say her car is still missing and they don't have any leads and there aren't any

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tips coming in regarding the case.

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And then it appears that the case does get pretty cold.

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The next update I could find came from 2017.

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So this would be three years that Nefertiti has been gone.

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And the FBI believe that she is deceased and she's declared legally dead.

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And this is just three years after her abduction.

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In February of 2018, despite the hearing that declared Neffie as legally dead, Denise, her

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mother still believes that her daughter is alive.

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Denise has heard rumors that a woman was seen in Wilmington, Delaware that looked like Neffie.

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She says, quote, I've heard that some girl has been spotted in Shop Right over on South

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Market Street.

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Some girl who resembles her has been spotted over there, end quote.

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And now this piece is not necessarily connected to Nefertiti's case, at least not officially,

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but it did seem relevant to share in the timeline of events.

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So in November of 2020, a man named Roddy Prince is on trial for shooting five of his

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coworkers, three of which died in 2017.

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After killing his coworkers in Maryland, he drove to Delaware to try and kill a business

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owner.

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He does end up shooting this man, but he survives.

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During the trial, it is revealed that on February 22nd, 2014, Roddy Prince was jumped outside

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of Club Rebel early in the morning and Neffie was a witness to this.

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Neffie was with Roddy during the attack.

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They had been sitting in her car when five or six men pulled Prince from the passenger

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seat and attacked him.

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Neffie told police that she couldn't see any of the attackers because the attack happened

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towards the back of her vehicle and on the ground.

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After the attack, Roddy Prince admits that everything changed for him and he became suspicious

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of everyone.

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He believed that the men who attacked him and Neffie were paid by the local businessman

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to attack him.

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This is the same man that Roddy will try to shoot and kill in 2017.

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Neffie would go missing four months after this attack in 2014, but Prince has never been

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charged in relation to her disappearance.

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But that is the last update that I could find for Nefertiti Trader.

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If you know anything about the abduction of Nefertiti Trader or her whereabouts today,

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you are encouraged to call the New Castle County Cold Case Squad at 302-395-2781.

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And the sources for the timeline today come from the News Journal, ABC 6, ABC 7, and News

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1.

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So that is the case of Nefertiti Trader.

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Thank you for bringing this case to light.

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Like I say, I think pretty much every episode at this point, I don't understand how I haven't

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heard about it.

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And I don't understand how this isn't solved.

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I was shocked like kind of continuously when you kept saying 2014.

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And that it aligned so close with something pretty terrible happening a few months prior

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directly relating to her.

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Yeah, I mean, a lot jumped out immediately.

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But honestly, the most disturbing thing was my body had a full reaction when you said

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the loaf of bread was stepped on and that there was a condom there.

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I was just like the mark of the bread of a foot step in the foot imprint in the bread.

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To me, like that sounds like a struggle.

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And then the this my body like, it was like repulsed, I think.

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Because I was like, that's fucking planned.

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And that's disgusting.

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I just was upset because, well, I was scared listening to you tell me that.

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So I was just listening to it, so I imagine that she was probably really scared.

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It was really scary, like hearing what you said.

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I guess I wanted to know like what you thought like, how is this not solved?

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I don't understand.

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Yeah, there's a lot of questions.

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The event that happened about four months before she disappeared.

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I could only find one news source that talked about this or that made this connection.

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So that was the news journal.

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So just a shout out to the news journal and their writing.

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Yeah, thank you.

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I mean, but they made this connection.

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And they're the only ones that I found that wrote about it in this way.

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But it does seem like this would be a place to begin an investigation.

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And a huge place.

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Yeah.

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I was like, how is it not?

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Right.

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Because, you know, the officer, the spokesperson officer, Tracy Duffy, did say that they believed

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that the abductor was known to her.

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And there are a couple of clues at the crime scene that kind of indicate this.

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Like, the coffees were not spilled, right?

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They were set down.

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So that would indicate that she either, you know, got to the front door, set them down,

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or she felt comfortable enough to like talk to someone and set them down.

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There's a lot of questions too, because no other car was seen.

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Because there is a witness in this, the neighbor who lived a few houses down, it seems like,

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herself of the description, saw the abduction take place, and there was no other car mentioned,

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at least to the media.

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There was no other car mentioned.

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So this person, whoever did this, how did they get there?

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That's a big question that I have.

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That's what I think that's why I was emphasizing the planned part.

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It's like, were you watching?

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But again, it was kind of odd for her to be out at that hour.

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So was there a planned meeting?

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Was she going to meet somebody?

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Was somebody going to swing by to talk?

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That's what I meant, I guess, more to emphasize again, that it's very scary.

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It's like, was that person in one place for multiple days watching and waiting?

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Totally, yeah.

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That's what I'm saying.

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But I also think it's a great point that what you, like what you just said, I mean, there's

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tons of ways it could have happened that this person, you know, what seems like just appeared

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or whatever.

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And one person saw it.

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But like, if it's dark, they said they couldn't tell the gender of the person.

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Like that person, you know, if they had brought a condom that was maybe going to be used to

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like prevent DNA or whatever, maybe they were wearing gloves too, you know, so.

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Yeah, her cigarettes, her shoes and the coffees were found on the porch table.

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Oh, her shoes.

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Her shoes were found.

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Her shoes were up on the table?

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They weren't up on the table.

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They were like kind of kicked off near the front door, but they were near each other.

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They weren't like scattered around the front yard.

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They were near each other by the front door.

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Yeah, it was it what what it sounds like to me is that she basically like completely disarmed

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herself as if she was about to walk inside, like put everything like kicked off her shoes,

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set like the stuff down to open the door.

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And that's like, maybe where.

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Yeah, the family did think it was strange that the shoes were on the outside.

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That was weird to them.

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And out of the normal, like she wouldn't leave her shoes on the front porch.

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Like her shoes would be inside.

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Oh, God.

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So that's even more disturbing.

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There's yeah, there's like I thought that like maybe she was sitting down, having a

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cigarette, drinking her coffee and somebody that she knew was like, oh, hey, right.

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Stop by whatever.

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Because her family said she wouldn't talk to somebody she didn't know at this hour.

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Like they were pretty sure about that, that if some stranger had just like start talking

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to her, she wouldn't have engaged this person.

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That doesn't mean that either.

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I would have immediately walked inside at 3am outside of our home.

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Right.

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No, I would walk in, lock my door.

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I'm not doing it.

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Right.

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And I mean, maybe that is what happened, because also there's the idea like maybe she was just

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walking to the front door, put the coffees down on the front porch table, get her keys,

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unlock the door, and then somebody like grabs her, snatches her out of her shoes, essentially.

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And the struggle happens.

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She has the bread in her hand because she's still trying.

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She was unlocking the door.

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She kept that that gets stepped on.

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She gets put in her car.

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But this person, whoever did this, like they are banking that, you know, she has her keys

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on her.

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They're able to get the car keys from her.

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Like it's there are elements of it that seemed very preplanned, but then also elements of

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it that it's like this was just like sheer randomness.

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Like, yeah, it could be.

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I mean, it's speculative.

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There could be so many things.

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Right.

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But it seems like to me, the biggest lead at this point would be speaking to Roddy Prince.

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In her home, I'm sorry to interrupt, but just before we keep moving on in her home, she

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lived with her mother, sister, or she lived alone.

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So she lived with her children, two of which were home at this time.

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And she usually brought a coffee home for her daughter.

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OK.

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And her 17 year old son did hear a commotion early in the morning, went downstairs, didn't

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see anything and went back to bed.

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We don't know.

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And then her cousin also lived with her, but he was at work during this time, I believe.

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And I don't know the timeline as far as the kids go, because I assume they wake up and

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they know their mom's not there.

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They would be confused.

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But you said her nephew lived with her?

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Her cousin.

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Who is her cousin?

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That's her cousin William.

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She had dropped him off at work earlier that evening.

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Yeah, to emphasize the theory of it was a it was possibly a planned attack.

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They are with knowing that information about her cousin William, they're banking on the

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fact that an adult male won't be in the home who's working a third shift.

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And if he's where does he work?

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I couldn't find that information.

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Yeah.

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Well, I mean, third shift at that time.

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I'm just going to like based on like statistics, I'm going to go ahead and assume that maybe

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Williams a big dude, you know, like because the fact that there is like a young son there.

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I mean, I don't know physically know these people.

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But like, if you're banking on it, if you're if you if you know, OK, she lives with a couple

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of people who's going to be home, oh, this guy's going to be out of there.

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This is a good time.

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Everyone's going to be asleep.

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You know, like rarely is she home alone.

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And this is like the best case scenario of being alone when people are kind of incapacitated

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by sleep and, you know, the biggest person isn't around and not really that I'm leaning

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towards like gender.

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It's more just like size.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah, I agree with you.

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I think that's all makes a lot of sense.

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And then the question just like that remains in that scenario is like, how do you get her

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outside?

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How do you make sure she goes to the 7-Eleven?

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How do you you know, how do you get her outside of her home?

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah, that's why I think that quite possibly because it is three thirty a.m. and everyone

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is kind of saying the odd thing about it all is like, yes, it's yes, it's commonplace

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for her to be going to the 7-Eleven.

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Yes.

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The things that she buys.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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I don't think that second coffee was for her daughter.

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I think the second coffee was for someone that she was meeting up with.

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And that person is.

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Yeah, and you know, her cell phone being taken and that.

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You know, I think that would have a lot of evidence on it.

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Who was the last person to contact her?

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And I don't know if they why they wouldn't be able to get that information from the cell

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phone carrier themselves.

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You know what I mean?

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Mm hmm.

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To be able to pull that data of like the last phone numbers or the last texts.

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I feel like they should have been able to do this in 2014 and maybe they have and they

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just haven't released that information.

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And I understand that, again, like that there's emphasis on keeping things under wraps.

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I understand that.

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But.

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But me and my Nancy Drew, like this is where I would start.

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And like these are the things that I would want to like check off my list to like.

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No, because the attack seems targeted, but so chaotic and random.

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The stepped on bread, that's the it's so careless.

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Another thing that wasn't mentioned that I just have questions about is if the loaf

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of bread was in a plastic bag and if so, what happened to that plastic bag?

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Because they don't mention it at the crime scene.

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It doesn't mean that it wasn't there.

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Maybe it just wasn't like that significant, but.

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Well, yeah, and if there was a blueprint in it, there's got to be a label in it.

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Like bread is a perfect medium to catch like, you know, like a Nike print that's in the

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bottom of.

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Yeah, or even just some tread marks.

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Exactly.

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It's really sad that there was a delay in getting the police involved in this.

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It also really points to the possibility of it being personal because cigarettes are left

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behind shoes, coffee, like they don't take anything.

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They don't even go in the house.

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No, it was about her.

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And the car has never been found to date her home, like just looking in Google Maps, it

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is not far from the Delaware River.

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So I don't I couldn't find any reports that the river had ever been searched for a vehicle

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or what's like what's what's the terrain?

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Or I mean, like, I guess I'm wondering, does it like rush really fast?

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Like if a car were to go in, is it going to dump over to a place where like it would be

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really hard to find it?

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I don't know.

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I think a lot of it depends on where it goes into the river, how deep it is at that part.

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What kind of car is it?

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It is a silver 2000 Acura RL with Delaware license plates.

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Like a sedan like just like a four door.

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Yeah, four door sedan.

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I have never found any evidence that it was searched in regards to Nefertiti's disappearance.

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But her family is holding out hope that she is alive and that she will come back to them.

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And again, if you know anything about Nefertiti's abduction in 2014 or her whereabouts today,

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you are encouraged to call the Newcastle County cold case unit at 302-395-2781.

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Wow, thanks for bringing this case to light.

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Yeah, and her case has been covered by other podcasts before.

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We're not the first.

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Usually we are, but in this case, we are not the first.

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