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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 to Cold and Missing.
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I'm your host, Ali.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli.
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Welcome back everyone.
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At the top, I just always like to say thank you.
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This past week we saw a lot of follows on our Instagram page, a lot of sharing, a lot
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of commenting, a lot of reading and reviewing.
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We appreciate you so much.
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The kindness is overwhelming.
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So thank you so much.
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But with that, we are on a missing person case this week.
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That's right.
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We are on episode 122.
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Would you like to get us started?
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Yep.
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Let's get into it.
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So just as a bit of a content warning at the top, this case does involve a young person.
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Today we are talking about the missing person case of Maurice Red Jefferson.
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And this takes place in November of 1983 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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But first, a little bit about Maurice.
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Maurice is 16 years old in 1983.
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He also goes by the nickname Red, given to him because of his striking red hair against
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his black skin.
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His mother, Bettye Bridges, says, quote, his color changes with the sun.
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On a hot day, it looks bright orange in tone.
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It's really unique, end quote.
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Maurice is a 10th grader at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.
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At school, he is known for being soft spoken and kind.
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He was part of the ROTC.
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He held strong religious convictions and had been in his church choir for a long time.
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He ended up quitting the choir because the rehearsals conflicted with his basketball
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practice.
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He loved basketball and was part of the junior varsity team.
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He had big plans for his life.
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He wanted to go to medical school and become a doctor.
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At this time in 1983, Maurice lived with his grandparents on the 200 block of Northwest
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30th Terrace in Fort Lauderdale.
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He lived with his grandparents to finish out high school.
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Maurice's mother had recently remarried a man who was a pastor of a church in Alabama.
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So Maurice spent a lot of time in both Florida and Alabama, but his school days were at his
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grandparents' house.
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In 1983, Maurice was around 5 foot 11 and 120 pounds.
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He had his noticeable red hair, but also walked with a distinct bow-legged gait.
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And now a timeline of events.
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On Monday, November 28, 1983.
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It started as a typical Monday for Red.
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He went to school and came home.
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He took a quick nap on the couch and when he woke up, he snacked on some popcorn and
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called a friend from school.
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He then started to get ready for basketball practice.
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Maurice is wearing white shorts with a blue stripe, a white shirt, and white sneakers
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with white tube socks.
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At around 520 p.m., Maurice waves goodbye to his grandmother and starts walking to basketball
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practice.
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The walk to practice would have been around 30 minutes.
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His grandmother did note that Red did leave a little early for practice on that Monday
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night.
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He wanted to stop by his girlfriend's house, who lived only a few blocks away from the
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school.
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All things considered, he was only leaving 30 minutes earlier than he needed to for practice.
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So here is where there is some difference in the timeline over the years.
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Today, when the story is reported, this is the last time that Red was ever seen, leaving
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his grandmother's house.
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Back in 1983, however, there were some different details that came out in the reporting that
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will come out through the timeline.
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So back to that Monday evening, it's unclear exactly when Maurice's family realized that
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something was wrong.
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What is reported is that when his family went to police that night, they were told that
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police guidelines meant that they would not start investigating until he had been missing
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for at least three days.
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This would mean that the police started their investigation into Maurice's disappearance
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on Thursday, December 1st, three days after he was last seen.
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One of the first places they check is to see if Maurice is with his biological father who
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lived in the area, but he's not there.
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Police start to look into if Red could have been a runaway, but nothing points to that.
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Everything that he owned was left in his room, including his wallet, which he had left sitting
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on the TV after school.
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Also, Maurice didn't have any history of running away and there was nothing going on in his
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life that would cause him to run.
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On Friday, December 2nd, so he has been missing for four days now, police start going door
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to door to talk to neighbors to see if they saw anything on that Monday night.
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It's during this canvassing that police find two teenage girls who tell them that they
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saw Maurice at Franklin Park shooting baskets with some younger kids on Monday night.
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They believe it was around 7 p.m.
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They say they saw two men pull up in a blue and white Oldsmobile.
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One of the men in the car offered Maurice a ride, but when he refused the offer, the
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two men forced him into the car and sped away.
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It's at this point that police start treating his case as an abduction.
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Over the weekend, friends, family, and teammates spend the weekend hanging up missing person
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posters for Red all over Fort Lauderdale.
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His mother is lost for words.
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But he says, quote, We can't understand what happened.
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Maurice didn't have an enemy in the world.
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It doesn't make any sense.
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End quote.
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His mother also can't believe that no one has seen him due to his distinct red hair.
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Police asked the FBI to get involved in the case.
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They quickly agree, but almost as quickly pull out of the investigation.
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They say that they're able to find a witness who says that they saw Maurice a few hours
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after he was reportedly seen being forced into the Oldsmobile.
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Because of this, the FBI does not believe an abduction took place and therefore they
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should not be involved in the case.
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The days turn into weeks and 1983 rolls into 1984.
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By the end of January 1984, so Maurice has been missing for two months at this point,
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police have no leads in the case.
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The family at this point has hired a private investigator to help them in their search,
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but he also hasn't turned up any leads.
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The PI says, quote, If I had to make a guess, I'd say foul play is the answer.
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Maybe the world came crashing down on his shoulders and he just took off.
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If it's not that, then yes, I would have to assume that he is dead.
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End quote.
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His family, however, stays optimistic that Red will come home.
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They keep three Bibles open at their homes at all times, showing that they have not closed
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the book on Maurice.
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They do believe firmly, though, that if Maurice had the ability to call them, he would have
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by now.
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He would not go this long without talking to his family.
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After this, the case truly seems to go cold.
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The next update I could find is in August of 1985, so Maurice has been missing for almost
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two years at this point.
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On August 8th of 1985, the family celebrates Red's 18th birthday.
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His mother says, quote, We haven't stopped looking for him and we want to hear him.
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End quote.
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Investigators assigned to his case say that they are no closer to finding him than they
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were when he first went missing.
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Throughout the rest of the 80s and the 90s, Maurice's missing person poster will appear
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in newspapers from time to time.
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When it is listed, he is shown as a non-family abduction.
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But it's here that we start seeing his last known whereabouts as leaving for basketball
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practice.
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Slowly, over the years, the story of him being forced into a car will fall out of the narrative.
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It's unclear if police have officially ruled this out, that it didn't happen, or if it's
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just a detail that has kind of been lost in the reporting over the years.
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In 2009, so it's been over 25 years since Red vanished, local media coverage is drummed
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up when a small film company announces that they want to make a documentary about his
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case.
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To date, it doesn't appear that the film has been released or not anywhere that I could
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find.
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Red's grandmother is still alive at this time and she still hopes to know what happened
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to Maurice.
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She says, quote, I've always said it's like the earth opened up and swallowed him.
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What happened to him?
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We don't know, end quote.
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She says that she has lived in the same house with the same phone number since 1983, so
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that if Maurice ever needed to reach out or could reach out, he would know exactly how
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to get a hold of his family.
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But that is truly all we know about the disappearance of Maurice Red Jefferson.
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If you know anything about the disappearance of Maurice Red Jefferson in November of 1983
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or his whereabouts today, please call the Bower County Sheriff's Office at 954-321-4735.
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So that is the case of Maurice Red Jefferson.
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I just want to start off my response with commenting on what a dedicated, steadfast
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young man he sounded like.
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It sounded like he had goals that he wanted to reach and was really trying to move his
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life forward.
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Him having Red hair and having the nickname Red is something that's very familiar to me
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because I also have Red hair and that was a nickname, continues to be a nickname of
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mine.
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And when you do have Red hair, it is something that's consistently notable about you and
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that's very clear here too.
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And I did see the pictures of him now and I'm excited for our listeners to see them
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in the graphics.
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But I love that in all areas of his life he was very committed to everything that he did.
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Even having to choose between singing in basketball and landing in basketball.
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I just enjoyed hearing how motivated he was.
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Yeah, he was a young man who just had really big dreams and goals and I feel this way about
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every missing person case.
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But especially here this feels like an instance where it's like what a remarkable person that
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vanished and it's like we all have lost out because he did not get to reach these goals
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or wherever his life was going to take him.
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It seems like we all missed out on his impact because of something that happened in 1983.
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Yeah, the way he went missing, it stands out because it really does seem like he vanished
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or was plucked from the earth's surface.
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I have so many more questions that I know can't be answered within this moment about
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this case but I do think it's very important to continue to ask those questions when people
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who are related to this person are still alive in this case.
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I think that there are answers out there so I'm eager to ask you these questions.
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My first one being how was that the law back in 1983 where it needed to be three days for
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a minor?
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I just want to hear more about that on your end.
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Maybe you know more but that was shocking.
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It's shocking.
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I couldn't believe.
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I've never heard of three days waiting period.
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I've heard of a 24 hour waiting period but never have I heard of three days especially
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for a 16 year old.
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So that was shocking and I feel like we would be remiss to not think that there could be
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racism playing into this with a black family coming to the police looking for a teenager
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and them kind of brushing it off for three days.
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I don't know if that really was the guidelines.
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I tried to research and try to find other instances of it but I couldn't pull anything
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up.
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That doesn't mean it's not there.
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I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for without access to old records and things
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that just aren't online.
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So I don't know but that is what the family says that they were told and that is bonkers
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to me.
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Yeah and to continue on the narrative that I also think is true that he is not a runaway.
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To give that some more validity people don't leave their things behind when they're trying
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to run away.
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I think it's different if they are fleeing an environment but that means you're usually
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fleeing an emergency situation and that simply was not the case here.
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To call this a runaway when all of his things were left behind when he was waving goodbye
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as he was leaving is wrong.
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I don't know.
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It didn't make sense to me how that narrative even came up when it so clearly was not the
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case.
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Yeah, you know it almost felt like to me that investigators at the time were kind of scrambling.
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They knew they had really messed up waiting three days.
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They find these witnesses that say they saw an abduction which I know brings up its own
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questions but you know he didn't show up again.
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Runaways usually would have surfaced anyway by three days.
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He's not at his dad's house.
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He's not anywhere that he should be.
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No relatives house, no friends houses and then they hear these two teenage girls stories
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so it's like I think they really kind of scrambled quickly to try to reverse time, try to get
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a lead but like the trail really seemed like it had already gone cold by the time they
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had started investigating.
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Yeah and what that scrambling led to was the FBI coming in and then backing out and that
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right there was really really unfortunate because they were accessing resources that
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could have really been helpful in this case but the FBI had nothing to work on but still
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them choosing to not advocate for this missing person or lean in a little bit more is confusing
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to me.
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Granted this was so many years ago and I don't know what was going on at the time but it
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also seemed like an odd choice to me for them to back out of continuing to investigate.
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Yeah and that kind of brings us around to the witnesses these two teenage girls that
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say they saw a blue and white Oldsmobile pull up, offer Maurice a ride and when he refused
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they forced him into the car.
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So the FBI says they found a witness who says that a few hours after that event was supposed
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to have happened they did see Maurice.
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We never get any details of where he was seen, what his condition was like, what any circumstance
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was around that we just hear that that's what they found so they don't believe that an
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abduction took place from that.
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So that's the FBI.
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But then it gets us back to the two teenage girls.
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So what happened there?
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Did police rule that story out?
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Has it ever been able to be ruled out officially?
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It brings up a ton of questions and kind of feels like you know a key piece like is this
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part of the narrative or not and police to my knowledge have never come out and said
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one way or the other.
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Yeah I mean one of the last things I wrote down as I was listening to you discuss the
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timeline was that it seems like to me details like this should not be muddled when there
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are so few.
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This was one area where there was a lot of detail about the possibility of what happened
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to him and it was just dropped.
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Yeah as I've mentioned over the years this possible abduction that detailed these witnesses
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it gets dropped.
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They don't talk about it you know in 2009, 2005 there were some articles and they don't
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necessarily talk about this abduction.
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So I don't know if it has been ruled out officially but his case is labeled as a non-family abduction.
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So that is still how the police seem to be handling his case.
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Hearing the last detail about his grandmother and that you know she lives in the same house,
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has the same number it's such an echo of how the loved ones of a missing person their lives
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stand still the moment they go missing and I could really feel that and just you reading
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that simple statement of fact like she lives in the same house, has the same number.
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Something about that while it can be very beautiful in this case it felt like she stood
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still in time and it's just waiting for him to come home and with this case being in the
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80s I don't think time has to stand still for these people anymore.
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I think that this case is solvable.
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Yeah I really hope for the family that they are able to bring Red home that they're able
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to get answers in this.
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You know I know his mom still advocates very fiercely for his case so I really hope that
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we're able to get momentum on his case and get the answers that we're looking for because
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I do feel like they're out there.
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There's there's more here there's more details there's more to be uncovered in this case
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so again if you know anything about the disappearance of Maurice Red Jefferson in November of 1983
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or his whereabouts today please call the Bower County Sheriff's Office at 954-321-4735.
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So we will have pictures of Maurice on our Instagram you'll see his striking red hair
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and there's also a few age progressions of what he would look like into his 30s and 40s
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so more of what he would look like today.
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So if you want to see those please check them out please share them in your communities
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get his name out there get his case out there get his picture out there so we can get some
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more coverage for Red.
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