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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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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 to Cold and Missing.
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I'm Ali.
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And I'm Eli.
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Welcome back everyone.
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And love seeing the comments, love seeing you guys engage with each other and with us.
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But with that, should we just go ahead and jump into this week's episode?
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Episode 102, let's do it.
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So just as a bit of a content warning, this case does involve a young person.
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Today we are talking about the disappearance of Jaquilla Scales.
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And this takes place in September of 2001 in Wichita, Kansas.
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But first, a little bit about Jaquilla.
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Jaquilla is only four years old in 2001.
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Those that loved Jaquilla said that she had an old soul.
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In fact, her family called her Granny Boo.
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Jaquilla and her two-year-old brother lived with their great-grandmother, Mattie.
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Jaquilla's mom, Eureka, lived there too.
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Eureka had Jaquilla when she was only 14 years old.
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Since Eureka was so young, her grandmother, Mattie, took custody of Jaquilla.
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Eureka's own mother had passed away when she was only eight years old due to sickle
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cell anemia.
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So Jaquilla never had a chance to meet her true grandmother.
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But Mattie stepped into the grandmother role as a great-grandmother.
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Jaquilla, her younger brother, Eureka, and Mattie all lived together on the 1600 block
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of Volusia Avenue on Wichita's northeast side.
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The little pink home did have one known issue.
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The back door was broken and unable to lock.
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But the family felt safe.
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The back door was in Mattie’s room and her dog barked at everything and everyone.
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They were sure if someone tried to get in, they would hear it.
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Jaquilla loved McDonald's, pretty dresses, playing with dolls, and dancing to R&B music.
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At just four years old, she loved to just chat, chat, chat away with folks, further
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assuring those around her of her old soul.
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Jaquilla in 2001 is three foot and weighs 40 pounds.
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She has a scar on her upper right leg and a birthmark on her face.
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And now, a timeline of events.
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On Tuesday, September 4th, 2001, Jaquilla had had a big day.
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She had just started preschool that day and she had just spent Labor Day weekend playing
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with family and friends.
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When it was time to get ready for bed, she put on her floral nightgown and crawled into
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her great-grandmother's bed with her little brother around 8 p.m.
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Even though it was September, it was still very hot outside and Mattie’s room had the
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window AC unit.
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Also in Mattie’s room was that back door that I mentioned previously.
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After putting the kids to bed, Mattie took her evening medication for her arthritis,
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which made her drowsy.
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She got into bed to get comfortable and watched TV while Jaquilla and her younger brother slept
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next to her.
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At around 1230 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5th, so that same night but technically the
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next day, Mattie notices that Jaquilla is shivering while sleeping so close to the AC unit.
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She covers her up with a comforter.
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At around 3 a.m., Mattie wakes up again and finds the bedroom back door wide open and
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Jaquilla is gone.
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Mattie starts searching for Jaquilla immediately.
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Mattie hadn't heard her dog barking, so she begins checking the house, looking in every
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space that Jaquilla could possibly fit in, and when she doesn't find her, at 4.06 a.m.,
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she calls 911 to report her missing.
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By 4.30 a.m., police are knocking on the door of the apartment where Eureka was staying.
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Eureka had been spending nights with friends and getting some space from her grandmother
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as they were starting to bicker more and more.
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Her and her friend had been staying up watching TV for most of the night.
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When they went out on the front porch in the early morning hours, they started to notice
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more and more cop cars drive by.
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When police knock on the door, they ask if she has her daughter.
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Eureka is instantly frightened and tells police that her daughter stays with her grandmother,
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Mattie.
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Police ask to search the friend's apartment for Jaquilla, and they're allowed to.
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They don't find any sign of the girl.
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Eureka rushes to her home on Volusia Avenue and asks her grandmother what's going on.
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Eureka, looking back at the event, says, quote, she said she didn't know.
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She thinks somebody came into the backyard, into her back door, and took her out the bed.
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That's when I lost it.
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Like, are you for real?
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You sure?
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She ain't nowhere in this house hiding.
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She said she looked everywhere and she couldn't find her.
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I couldn't figure out why it happened or who would want to do this to her or to me, unquote.
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As the morning ticks on, police start combing the neighborhood and going door to door to
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ask neighbors if they had seen Jaquilla.
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Police search homes to make sure Jaquilla isn't somewhere hiding.
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Family and friends come to the neighborhood to help assist.
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As news starts to spread, local news and radio start to report on the story.
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At this time in 2001, there was no official Amber Alert system in Wichita.
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Over the next two days, the search party grows with not just more volunteers from the community,
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but also local, state, and federal investigators come to help aid in the search.
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Police get two tips that they rush to chase down in the first few days.
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One is from a woman who thought she saw Jaquilla at Burger King.
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But when police arrive, the girl is too young to be her.
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Another woman calls in a tip because she finds a teddy bear and four children's VHS tapes
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on a street corner.
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This ends up having nothing to do with Jaquilla, police say.
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On September 9, 2001, police begin focusing on dragging and searching storm drains in
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the area for any sign of the missing four-year-old.
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Despite Jaquilla having been missing for four days, police have no leads on what might have
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happened to her.
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And then September 11 happened and the nation turned their eyes to the East Coast, and the
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news was dominated with media related to 9-11.
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It takes months for Jaquilla's story to get into the media again, but behind the scenes,
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police continue to search and run down leads.
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The next update comes in December of 2001, so Jaquilla has been missing for three months.
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Police say that they haven't been able to rule out the theory that Jaquilla just got
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up and wandered out of the house, but police and the family seriously doubt that happened.
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Jaquilla was scared of the dark.
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Her mother Eureka says, quote, she would never look out that door into the dark and decide
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to go out there, end quote.
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In February of 2002, so it's been five months since Jaquilla vanished, police say that they
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do not believe that this is a case of parental abduction, but they also do not have any suspects
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in the case.
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Mattie tells local media that she has stopped taking her medication at night except for
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aspirin so she can be alert in the night if Jaquilla comes home.
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Mattie is heartbroken for her great granddaughter.
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She again tells the local media that she has lost three of her own children, Jaquilla's
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grandmother to sickle cell anemia.
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Her son was stabbed to death in a case of mistaken identity, and she lost another child
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at just 10 months old.
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But Jaquilla's disappearance is a different kind of pain.
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Mattie says, quote, this is worse than my kid dying.
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This here is painful.
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Dead, I can understand.
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Disappeared, I can't handle, end quote.
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The family also begs that whoever has Jaquilla that they take her to the doctor for checkups.
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It's revealed here that Jaquilla also has been diagnosed with sickle cell anemia.
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Mattie says, quote, whoever got her, please make sure she gets her checkup, end quote.
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In September of 2002, so it's been one year since Jaquilla disappeared, and there has been
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some progress on her case.
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Police say that they have ruled out Jaquilla's family as being involved in her disappearance.
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However, police are now at a dead end with the case.
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Lieutenant Roy Mitchell says, quote, we still have no suspects.
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We really don't know what happened that night, end quote.
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Police and Jaquilla's family find it hard to believe that Jaquilla would wander into
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the dark.
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Equally, though, they doubt that someone would be bold enough to walk into a room with two
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other sleeping people and take her from the bed.
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Jaquilla's mother, Eureka, says, quote, Jaquilla would start crying if someone tried to move
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her.
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She didn't like to be bothered.
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It would have had to have been someone she knew, end quote.
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Jaquilla's family are also frustrated with the lack of national media attention that
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her case has gotten.
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Elizabeth Smart had been kidnapped in the summer of 2002 out of her bed, and the case
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was covered coast to coast.
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But Jaquilla, being snatched out of her bed, only made the local news.
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Jaquilla's case will again and again be a catalyst to start the conversation of why
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are some cases covered more than others?
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Does race and socioeconomic status play a part?
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We now know that these things do matter in reporting of lost children, but the conversation
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was happening back in 2002 as well.
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At the three-year anniversary of her disappearance in September of 2004, the family gets renewed
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hope that Jaquilla's picture and her age-progressed photo will be featured on a flyer that will
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be mailed out nationally.
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Her mother still holds onto the hope that she'll come home, quote, every day I wake
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up I think it's going to happen.
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She's going to be home, but she's still not here, end quote.
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The next update comes in 2011, so at this point it's been 10 years since Jaquilla disappeared.
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Police say that due to advances in DNA, they are getting ready to submit Jaquilla's DNA
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to a database to see if there's any hit.
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But nothing comes of this as of 2024.
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In 2013, so it's been 12 years since Jaquilla vanished, and the family remains hopeful that
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Jaquilla can still come home alive.
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They see what happened in Ohio, where Amanda Barry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus were
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all rescued after being held captive in Ariel Castro's basement.
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All three girls had been missing for years.
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Michelle Barry had been missing for over 10 years when she was rescued, and Jaquilla's
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family have to hang on to hope that this could be true for her too.
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In 2018, Jaquilla has been missing for 17 years.
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Police do say that they have developed some suspects in the case, but they are very tight-lipped
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about this information.
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They don't give any additional details as to how the suspect came about, who it is,
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who they were in 2001 in relation to Jaquilla, no information, but it does seem like police
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have a suspect, at least one, in 2018.
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But that is really the last update that we get about Jaquilla's case and the last development
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in the case.
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So if you know anything about the disappearance of Jaquilla's scales in September of 2001,
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or her whereabouts today, please call the Wichita Cold Case Unit at 316-268-4379.
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So that is the case of Jaquilla's scales.
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I really appreciated that you had so much detail about her family.
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They seem like such a supportive family, even through what seems like the unimaginable,
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like the amount of things collectively that they've gone through as a family.
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But you could still really feel the love that they had for each other.
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Yeah.
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Jaquilla was very close with her great-grandmother, Mattie, and they had a very special bond with
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Jaquilla having the nickname Granny Boo.
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Just really sweet.
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I loved the nickname Granny Boo for a little four-year-old.
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It made me laugh, and I understood that four-year-old kind of perfectly with that nickname.
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Yeah.
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I could very clearly see her and her spirit in my head.
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But what seems extra vicious about this crime happening is that the familiarity of the family,
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even when you said the pink house, I could instantly picture it.
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Yeah, it seemed just extra vicious to me because I can see and feel the family so clearly.
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Absolutely.
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What happened even all these years later, I mean, as of recording this, it'll be 23
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years since she's vanished.
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I still don't seem to have a clear picture of exactly what happened that night.
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I have so many questions about what evidence they were able to gather during those first
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initial days.
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Yeah, me as well, because what I wrote down was sleeping in safety, the way that they
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just slept as a family.
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I guess I wanted to hear your thoughts more on that because it was a small house.
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They were sleeping close together.
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How did... I just want to know what you think about it.
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It is a small house, whenever I looked it up on Google Maps.
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It is a small house with Mattie, Jaquilla, and Jaquilla's little brother all sleeping
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in the same bed in a tight room.
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The bedroom wasn't that big either.
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From the description, it sounds like the back door was kind of right next to the bed.
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It does seem very emboldened that somebody would just walk in and grab her and leave
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with two people sleeping.
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Granted, one of them is a young two-year-old, but the other person is an adult.
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Yes, she did have medication that made her drowsy.
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It's still a very bold move.
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Yes, bold and equally as nightmarish, like the description of waking up and something
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being a few degrees off, but shocking and startling to wake up that way.
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But the community really showed up for this family, and I just had to make extra note
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of that because it seemed like everyone was there for them instantly.
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Yeah, and I do just want to say one thing here, kind of about the timeline of Jaquilla
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going missing.
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There are some family members who have cast doubt on Mattie's story of things, but one
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thing that is certain in police reporting and all the media reporting are the times.
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So it does seem very surely that around 1230, around midnight, Jaquilla is seen, and then
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around 3 a.m. she's gone.
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So it's a three-hour window that the unimaginable happens.
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Yeah, and with the unimaginable, there was another, there was a global unimaginable with
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9-11, and something that I wrote down was the shift in focus that just has to happen
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because the national trauma, because it's just so big, that it has to be just heartbreakingly
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difficult to know that even though you have a loved one who is missing, that this is also
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happening in the world, and it's just so much, and this family has been through so much.
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I really hope that they find answers.
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Yeah, you know, you and I, we were both kind of in middle school when 9-11 happened, but
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it did dominate the news.
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That's one thing I remember very clearly.
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It was on every channel, even the kids' channels, like Nickelodeon had news coverage on it.
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So it was everywhere, but because the national attention had shifted, how many other people
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went missing right around this time that just never got the coverage that maybe they should
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have gotten because attention was elsewhere.
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It just feels like these victims and kind of the echo of everything.
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That brings me to, the harsh reality of that brings me to ask the question of why do you
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think law enforcement was so tight lipped?
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You're talking about the suspects that police talked about in 2018?
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Yes, I know this timeline had a lot in it, but you, something else I wrote down was the
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timeline and like comparison and clarity was, it was present.
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I followed along, but yes, what I'm talking about right now is from 2018.
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Yeah, I'm really curious about the suspects or suspects.
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It really does seem like police have developed a couple of promising leads.
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I would be very curious to know, you know, if I could sit down with police and know anything,
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I would want to know what the status of these suspects are.
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Are they still interested in these people?
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Have they been able to rule them out?
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You know, are they just kind of waiting for the one tip to confirm involvement?
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I would really be curious to know where the case stands today and what's being done for
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Jekyla today.
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Well, I think what we can do here is just, you know, bringing her name to the forefront
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and hopefully people listen and her name gets circulating again and her story because her
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family really deserves some peace.
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Absolutely.
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Her family deserves answers and Jekyla deserves to come home.
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You know, if she's somewhere, she deserves to come home to her family.
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She didn't get to spend a lot of her life with them, so she deserves all of the time.
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And again, if you know anything about the disappearance of Jekyla's scales in September
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of 2001 or her whereabouts today, please call the Wichita Cold Case Unit at 316-268-4379.
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And we will have Jekyla's picture, what she looked like at four years old, as well as
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her most recent age progression up on our Instagram at Cold and Missing.
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So if your following is there, please share the photo of Jekyla and the age progression
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just to get it out there in your stories, in your community.
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Please share it, get her face out there, her age progression out there, and her case out
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there.
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And again, you can find us at Cold and Missing.
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Thank you again so much for listening to Cold and Missing.
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I'm your host, Allie.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli.
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