Transcript
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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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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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I'm your host, Ali.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli.
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And this is Cold and Missing, episode 71.
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We're in the 70s now.
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And you have a new case for us this week, right?
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I sure do.
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We are on a cold case this week.
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Awesome.
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Let's get to it.
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So today we are covering the cold case of Tiesha Sargeant.
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And this takes place in May of 2006 in Brooklyn, New York.
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But first a little bit about Tiesha.
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Tiesha is a brilliant young woman.
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She was 26 years old in 2006 and she would have been 44 years old today.
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Family and friends describe her as a lovely, charming, and an overachieving kind of person.
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She was a first generation as both of her parents were from Guyana.
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During her middle school years, Tiesha was accepted into the Prep for Prep program.
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Prep for Prep is a program in New York City for young people of color to get scholarships
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to the city's best private schools.
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Basically they take kind of standardized tests.
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And if you score high enough, you take more tests and IQ tests.
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And eventually you get placed into this program if you score well enough, which Tiesha did.
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She went above and beyond.
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Tiesha was accepted into the Brealey School, where she excelled.
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Tiesha was the co-head of the student government.
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The junior prom princess, second soprano in the chorus, dominated the field hockey team
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and even tutored younger kids in her free time.
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So yeah, she did everything.
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She was everywhere all the time.
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Tiesha went on to attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she began to explore
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racial identity politics.
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She penned many papers about the role of black women in society and wanted to pursue more
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writing after college.
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After graduating, Tiesha hopped around from a few different corporate jobs, but in 2006
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she had just started working for the publishing giant Conde Nast in Manhattan.
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She was working as a web designer, but the freelance nature of her job gave her time
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to write in the evenings, which she loved.
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So now a timeline of events.
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Tiesha, in 2006, was living with her boyfriend, Keve Huggins.
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They live on a second floor walk-up apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in Brooklyn,
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New York.
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This is just blocks away from where Tiesha grew up.
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Tiesha loves Keve and believes that this is who she is supposed to spend the rest of her
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life with.
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Her friends said that they could hear her smiling through the phone when she talked
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about him.
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Some people in Tiesha's life expressed concerns about their relationship.
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There was often money and guns around the apartment, and Keve was selling weed out
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of the home when Tiesha was at work without her knowing.
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Tiesha defends her relationship and Keve.
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Tiesha tells a friend, quote, as long as he's not disrespectful to me or the relationship,
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I'm good.
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I've told him that.
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On Saturday, May 13th, Keve had been selling weed during the day, and he says he sold around
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$6,000 of weed that day, made up of amongst three or four deals.
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Later that evening, Keve's cell phone rang, and when he picks up, he's on the receiving
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end of a threatening phone call.
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He doesn't think much about it.
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He eventually falls asleep on the couch.
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Sunday, the next day, was his birthday.
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In the late hours of Saturday to the early morning of Sunday, May 14th, which is also
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Mother's Day, three intruders climbed through the couple's second-floor window and caught
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Keve by surprise, who was asleep on the couch.
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One of the intruders pushed Tiesha on top of Keve and tied them up before putting a sheet
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over both of them.
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From the reports, it seems like they were face-to-face, Tiesha and Keve.
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The gunman fired once and shot Tiesha in the back of the head.
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A police source told newspaper, quote, he lives.
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She doesn't.
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They were so close he heard her sigh when she was hit.
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This all happens around 1.30 a.m.
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As the intruders fled the apartment with $5,000 and Keve's cell phone, Keve calls the police,
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I'm assuming using Tiesha's phone or another phone that was available in the apartment.
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Keve tells police about Tiesha's murder and the break-in.
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The thieves did leave behind a gun behind their apartment.
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Keve was not injured at all in the break-in.
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When police arrived, they do announce Tiesha dead on the scene, and they also find weed
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in the apartment, which Keve readily admits that he was selling.
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They bring him downtown for an interview, but they don't call him a suspect immediately.
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They do end up arresting him on drug-related charges, since they did find just under four
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ounces of weed in the apartment.
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Police find that unloaded gun in the backyard, but they do not believe that this was the
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murder weapon.
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On Tuesday, May 16th, family and friends are shocked by the death of Tiesha.
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Her friend, Corrin Mills, says, quote, she was a star, ambitious, motivated, beautiful,
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kind.
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It is just unfathomable to all of us.
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Police continue to investigate the murder.
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Again, a police source close to the investigation says, quote, either way, this young woman
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was innocent, end quote.
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Keve, who had been arrested on the drug-related charges, does make bail that evening and leaves
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prison.
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Tiesha's family and friends beg that anyone who has ever bought weed from their apartment
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come forward, and that anyone who knows anything about Tiesha's murder to come forward with
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that information.
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On Wednesday, May 17th, Tiesha is laid to rest.
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Her family and friends gather for her funeral service and say goodbye.
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Her family is distraught over this senseless killing.
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Her friend, Corrin, says, quote, everyone is reeling and so very, very, very angry about
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this relationship, this new boyfriend.
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We are shocked because this was not on anyone's radar.
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Tiesha was a special person.
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There was no reason to worry that anything bad would have ever happened to her.
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End quote.
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And although her friend does say that this is a new boyfriend, they had been dating for
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about a year at this point and had just moved in together in their Brooklyn apartment just
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a few months before the murder.
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Police continue to question Keve about Tiesha's murder, and he's being very cooperative with
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police at this time.
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The police tell the newspapers, quote, we are looking at him, at everything, especially
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his recent drug dealings.
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The victim is shot and killed.
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The boyfriend not only survives, he is not hurt in any way.
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End quote.
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On Thursday, May 18th, just four days after the murder, Tiesha's father, Henry, speaks
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to the public for the first time.
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Henry is still dazed from the death of his daughter, but he does not blame Keve for
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what happened.
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Keve continues to cooperate with police and returns back to the apartment to walk police
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through the night.
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Police are looking into the threatening phone call that Keve received just hours before
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the break-in and murder.
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Police also try to get Keve to take a polygraph test.
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At first, he readily agrees, but just as quickly, he changes his mind and refuses to submit
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to the polygraph.
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The next update comes about a month later, on June 24th.
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Police release a sketch of the suspect.
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The sketch comes from Keve, who briefly saw a man holding a gun before the sheet was placed
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over him and Tiesha.
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Tiesha's father, Henry, who originally was supportive of Keve, has turned icy against
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him.
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Henry says, quote, you sold drugs from this place without my daughter knowing.
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You put her in danger.
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There will always be a cloud following you.
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You need to take a polygraph test to satisfy me, the police, and yourself."
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End quote.
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Henry pleads with Keve through the media to be upfront about what he knows.
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Henry says that Keve has never been clear on how he was tied up and couldn't do anything
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to protect his daughter.
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Keve, in an interview with a reporter, told them that he woke up with his hands bound
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around Tiesha and held together with a zip tie.
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It was only after the shot that he was able to break free.
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Keve said that even though they were face to face and Tiesha was still alive, that she
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didn't say anything in those final moments.
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At this point in time, Keve has lawyered up, but him and his lawyers are saying that
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he is willing to take the polygraph test now and police and Tiesha's family are hopeful
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that he will keep his word.
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At the beginning of July, Keve sits down with New York Magazine to tell his side of
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the story.
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Keve says, quote, that was my girlfriend.
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She was going to be my future wife.
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I don't have any reason to hold back information, but the police have nothing to go on.
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They need a bad guy.
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End quote.
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Keve also mentions in this interview that hours after Tiesha was murdered, a call was
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made to her cell phone using his phone, which had been stolen by the three intruders.
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Keve claims that the police have made no effort in tracking where the phone call came
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from.
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In September of 2006, four months after the murder, Keve finally takes the polygraph
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test, but the results are inconclusive.
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Keve will say that he did pass a polygraph test that his lawyer administrated, but the
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police polygraph comes back inconclusive.
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It's shortly after this that the case really falls out of the media.
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In May of 2008, it's been two years since Tiesha was killed, police still have no suspects
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in the case.
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Keve has never been named a suspect in Tiesha's case officially, but he's never been ruled
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out publicly by the police either.
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Police still seem to believe that Keve knows more than what he has told police.
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A reporter for the Daily News reaches out to Keve for a statement, but he doesn't
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have much to say.
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When asked if he had any idea who killed Tiesha, he says, quote, I'm not going to go guessing
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two years after the fact.
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End quote.
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In 2017, it's now been 11 years since Tiesha's murder, the NYPD announces that they are officially
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reopening her case in the cold case squad, but since then there has been no updates and
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no arrests.
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So with that, if you know anything about the murder of Tiesha Sargeant in May of 2006,
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please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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That's 1-800-577-TIPS.
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And the sources for the timeline today come from the Daily News, Newsday, the New York
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Post and New York Magazine.
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So that is the case of Tiesha Sargeant.
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Mostly my initial reaction to this case is just a huge wave of sadness.
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What a brilliant mind to lose so senselessly and carelessly, like to leave the world.
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I mean, I really enjoyed, and every time we cover a case, I really enjoy how much you
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cover just who the person was as much as you can find out about them.
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And I just feel a deep sadness that this soul didn't rightfully, you know, continue to exist
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in the world.
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That was my reaction too.
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I just thought, like, what a brilliant mind and, like, beautiful person to have been taken
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from this world.
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Like, I think that had Tiesha lived, we would be reading her writing and she would have
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gone really far in this life and would have been a leader and a prolific writer.
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I mean, she was so smart, just so smart.
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That's one thing that people said again and again was just how smart and brilliant she
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was.
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I think my second reaction is all of the circumstances, just like life circumstances surrounding her
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boyfriend.
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Could you remind me his name again?
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Keev Huggins.
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Keev, thank you.
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What I thought was, it just doesn't look good for this guy.
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Especially at the time, there's a lot of negatives, like being ticked off there, you know, how
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marijuana operates in our country right now is so different even from, well, this was
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about 15 years ago now.
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2006.
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Yeah, so close to, it was such a different time.
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So the way it was looked at socioeconomically, if you were selling, if you were buying, what
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type of person you were, how people thought of you, the race of the person in relation
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to marijuana at all.
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So that's pretty much what I thought was whether he did it or not, it just, his circumstances
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really didn't help him.
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Yeah, it just doesn't, it doesn't look and or sound great from my perspective.
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No, you know, Keev is really cooperative with police in that first week or so.
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And then, you know, they asked him to take a polygraph test, he refuses, and that's kind
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of when the cooperation stops on his end with the police and with the investigation.
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The one thing that I just kind of keep coming back to, and it seems like this was a sticking
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point for her family as well was how exactly did they get tied up without him being able
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to, you know, fight back.
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From his own statement to the press, he was asleep on the couch and kind of woke up with
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Tiesha on top of him and his arms bound with zip ties.
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And it's hard to imagine that someone gets put on top of you and your hands get zip tied
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without you waking up in that process at all.
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Just like kind of waking up just moments before the sheet is put over both of them.
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Like that's that's really the point where I'm like, something is there maybe that isn't
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being said or maybe at least not publicly.
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Probably it has been said to investigators, but that's just when I try to like imagine
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what was happening, I just I can't really figure that part out at all.
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been in handcuffs before, not for anything too serious.
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I'm sober and so much I make so much so many better decisions now in my life, but I have
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had the unfortunate experience of having my hands handcuffed, which I know from listening
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to true crime and stuff is pretty similar to at least the tension that would be created
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with your hands behind your back, zip tied around each.
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So his hands actually weren't behind his back, according to him.
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They were around Tiesha and zip tied behind her.
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So that way he was kind of holding her and that's how they were tied up was like his
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hands were holding her and then she's shot in the back of the head.
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Well still, the the experience of having your hands like hands and arms restrained, that
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is a physical experience that if you weren't initially awake for, you would probably actually
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like sure as hell wake up.
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I just that part.
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Yeah, it's so unclear to me how it happened.
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But again, I don't want to speculate and like really want to give this person the benefit
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of the doubt.
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Yeah, it's like the only way that I could see that happening was if you know, he falls
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asleep on the couch with Tiesha like kind of laying on top of him if they were cuddling
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or something and fell asleep and he already had his hands around her.
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And then somebody comes in and zip ties them quickly, I could see how like maybe they would
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get to you, like get you like kind of incapacitated before you fully wake up to realize what's
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happening.
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But from his own statements, it doesn't seem like Tiesha was asleep on the couch with him.
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It seemed like she had gone to bed and he fell asleep on the couch.
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So you know, Tiesha was a small girl, but she still weighed, you know, 120 pounds, I bet.
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And so like for 120 pound body to be put on you, wrap your arms around them zip tied and
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then you kind of wake up.
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I just feel like you would have woken up when she was placed on you.
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And again, I hope that that has been told to investigators.
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But yeah, that's like really a sticking point for me is how exactly did this happen?
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There is also a part of me that, you know, just has willingness to understand him.
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When he sat down for that interview and said, you know, they need a bad guy.
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I feel for him a little bit where I'm like, yeah, it's pretty easy here to draw as many
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conclusions as you want that somehow, you know, it's this guy who did it, he committed
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the crime or whatever.
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I I don't I feel like it sounds like devil's advocate or whatever.
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I just circumstantially I understood that where he was coming from, at least from that
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that comment, but I just wish he would have been continuously cooperative.
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I guess I could understand why he would be afraid to say yes to a polygraph.
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Like initially without a lawyer, you know, there's there's room in my mind there to
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understand why he acted the way that he did with police and there's room for me to wish
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that he had chosen otherwise.
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That makes sense.
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And you know, my my knee jerk, my gut reaction is that I don't think that Keve did kill
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Tiesha.
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I don't think that he was the murderer.
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I wonder if part of, you know, the sheet being put over them, which I do believe happened,
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nothing from the police is, you know, contradicted of that.
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But I wonder if like him saying that he was asleep and he woke up and just saw one person
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with a gun before the sheet was put over them, if that's him just like not trying to like
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rat anybody else out.
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I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything like that, but I know that sometimes in the
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world of drug dealing and, you know, illicit activity that even if something terrible happens,
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like a murder of a loved one, like you even if you know who did it, you still don't rat
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on them.
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You don't snitch on them.
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That happens.
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That has happened.
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It will probably happen again.
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So I just like wonder if that's kind of playing a part here as well.
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I guess my question now is just sort of a recap on where law enforcement has left off
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and yeah, where this case is now and where this case is now and what we can do to help
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get Tiesha's name back out there if there's more that we can do now that this case is
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at the forefront of our minds and all of our listeners.
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As I mentioned in 2017, the New York Police Department's cold case squad officially reopened
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Tiesha's case, but since 2017, there really hasn't been any movement officially from police
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on this case.
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There's been no arrests.
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There's been no suspects.
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The only kind of piece we have of the suspect is the sketch that was made by police provided
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from the description that Keefe gave them.
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So that's really where we're at.
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You know, there were three people that broke into the apartment according to Keefe.
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So that's three people who potentially have talked since then, potentially have mentioned
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something, potentially have said something in their sleep, have said something drunkenly.
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So that's three opportunities for someone to slip and say something that will eventually
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bring the killer or killers to justice for Tiesha.
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And again, if you know anything about the murder of Tiesha, please call Crimestoppers
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at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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That's 1-800-577-8477.
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While you are listening to this episode, it would be so wonderful and so appreciated on
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our end if you are listening in Apple podcasts, if you could rate, review, and please, please,
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That really helps our podcasts become a bit more noticeable on the charts.
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And more importantly, it helps us get these names out there that we talk about on each
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episode here at Cold and Missing.
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We did get a new review this week from someone named Joshua.
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I think I might know this person in real life, but in case I don't, and I'm sure you're listening,
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I hope you're still listening, thank you so much for doing that.
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I really appreciate it.
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Eli really appreciates it.
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And again, just like Eli said, rating, reviewing, it's a free way to support this podcast and
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a way to support cold cases and missing people.
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It gets their names out there to others who will give the podcast a try based off of your
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recommendation.
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What an influencer you are.
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We will also be posting pictures of Tiesha on our Instagram as well as a photo of the
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suspect.
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We have that suspect sketch, so we will be posting that up on our Instagram.
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If you're not following us already at Cold and Missing, we should pop right up and
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you can also go to cold and missing.com where Ali has so beautifully provided our listeners
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with transcripts and more information on how to support the podcast.
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That's coldandmissing.com.
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But that is all I have for this week.
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Thank you so much again for listening to Cold and Missing.
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I so appreciate being part of your week and a part of your little routine.
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So thank you for being here.
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I'm your host, Ali.
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And I am your cohost, Eli.
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Have a good week and stay safe, y'all.
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Stay safe, y'all.
