Cold and Missing: Trevell Henley

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Hello everyone.

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Hello.

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Welcome back to Cold and Missing.

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I am your co-host, Eli, and this is my lovely wife.

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Ali McLaughlin, and I'm your host for Cold and Missing.

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Welcome back, everyone.

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Hope you enjoyed our new intro music.

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Yeah, that was a really great choice, honey.

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Thank you.

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Well, I narrowed it down to eight, and then I had Eli help me pick out from those finalists.

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So hope you all enjoyed.

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We love a spooky stringed instrument.

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Always.

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We love a fast-paced, nerve-wracking, spooky sound.

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Love it.

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That's why the violin was invented.

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For scaring people.

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Originally, when the violin came out, it was associated with the devil.

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That's why the devil went down to Georgia, and he plays a violin, because you could be

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so rhythmic with a violin, kind of for the first time, that people were like, well, this

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is the devil's music for sure, because people are dancing.

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Fun fact, Ali actually plays the violin.

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She won't brag about herself on here, but I will for her.

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She is a human of many talents, and she can slay on the old fiddle.

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It's called sawing, when it's on a fiddle.

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Oh, sorry.

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What did I say?

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She can chop the fiddle.

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I didn't say that, but.

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No, he said, I don't even remember what you said.

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OK, so I'm about to be sad about something.

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Oh, yes.

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Really sad?

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Is this cold or missing?

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So, this is missing, but he is considered endangered missing.

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So the police do not think that he is alive.

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Understood.

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I am ready to be hurt.

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So today we're going to be talking about the missing person case of Trevell Lamar Henley,

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and he was 15 years old when he went missing July 2, 1999 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Today he would be 38 years old.

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In July of 1999, Trevell is living on the 1300 block of Republic Avenue with his grandmother

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and brother.

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His grandma had raised both him and his brother since infancy.

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So this is his home, really the only home he's ever known.

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We love grandmas who are mamas.

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We love grandmas who are mamas.

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Trevell was a student at Medina Middle School where it's reported that he loved sports and

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reading.

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He went by the nickname Nuke.

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And at the time of his disappearance, it was reported that he was trying to join a gang

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in Columbus called the Blood Street Villains, and it was possible that he was jumped into

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the gang already when he went missing.

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And I only bring this up because it's important later.

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So Friday, July 2, 1999, Trevell was last seen by his younger brother walking to the

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home of Daylin Green.

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Now Daylin is 19 years old and he lives on the 1200 block of Republic Avenue.

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So he's just one block away.

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He's very close to where Trevell and his brother live.

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As the day goes on July 2, into the evening, his grandmother, her name is Rhonda, Rhonda

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begins to worry about him as he has not checked in.

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And according to Rhonda, he was always on time and she said he always contacted her.

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So this is very odd that he is not home or letting her know where she is at this time.

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Okay.

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So he's responsible.

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We know this about him.

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Yes.

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Communicative.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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He's communicative.

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He doesn't do this.

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This is very strange for him to not be in touch with his grandmother.

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So Saturday, July 3, 1999, this is the next day, Trevell's grandmother reports him missing

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and Rhonda tells police that on June 28th, so this would be four days before he was last

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seen before his disappearance, he had been shot in the hand and was wearing a cast on

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his left hand.

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Geez.

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So on June 28th, 1999, so this was again four days before his disappearance, this is what

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his grandmother reports is happening on June 28th.

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So while he was walking near his home, somebody assaults Trevell and shoots him and Trevell

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goes to help nearby to Daylen's house because remember, Daylen lives very close to him and

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his grandma.

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So he goes to Daylen's house for help after he is shot.

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And Trevell comes back to his grandmother's house with Daylen who offers to drive them

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both to the hospital.

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So him and Daylen are now at his grandmother's house, his grandma Rhonda's house, and they

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all three of them go to the hospital.

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And Rhonda says while getting treated at the hospital, Daylen stayed very close to Trevell

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the whole time.

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So while he was being treated, while he was being stitched up and get the cast put on,

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Daylen did not leave his side.

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Trevell was put into a cast and discharged that same day.

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He didn't have to stay in the hospital.

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But later that same night, so this is still June 28th, the same day he was shot, Trevelle

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tells his grandmother Rhonda that there was no assault and that he had shot himself at

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Daylen's house.

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To make it look like he had been initiated or something?

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See, I don't know if maybe this is like two young men who have a gun and they're like,

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you know, looking at it, kind of playing with it and it accidentally goes off, you know?

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Because I'm thinking, and I couldn't find confirmation of this, but I'm thinking if

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you're right handed, you know, you have it, the gun in your right hand with the trigger,

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you know, on your right hand.

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And if you're kind of holding it and looking at it, you know, your left hand's nearby,

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like it could go off kind of easily and like jostling it.

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So I don't know if something like that happened and maybe there was like a worry about honesty

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at the hospital or honesty in the beginning.

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Or if there was somebody who assaulted him and they didn't want to go further with the

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police and so this is just his way to lie about it.

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You know what I mean?

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So I don't know exactly the truth behind the gunshot.

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It's reported again and again that he says an assault happened, they go to the hospital,

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later that night he tells his grandmother he actually did it at Dalen's house.

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So we're still in the beginning of July and Trevell is missing, but there's really no

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big effort to find this middle schooler.

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There's no searches being done.

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No like big grid searches like we talked about in Tionda's and Diamond's case.

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Nothing, nothing even remotely close to that.

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Nothing really happens with his case again, like he's not mentioned until fall of 1999.

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So that's the same year that he goes missing, but summer has passed and now we enter into

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the fall.

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And details around these next few pieces of information are very iffy.

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They have been reported a lot of different ways.

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I think I have a general understanding of what happened, but there are some questions

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here that we'll go over.

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So fall of 1999, the home that Trevell was last seen at goes up in a fire.

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So this would be Dalen Green's house.

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So while investigating the fire, police find blood stains, a spent shell casing, Trevell's

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ID, living room carpet that had been cut out and was missing, like a section of the living

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room carpet was missing as opposed to all of the carpet was missing, just a section

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of it was.

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And additional clothing and handguns are also found, but unclear if those are related to

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Trevell.

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So there are some questions about what comes first, the fire or the search.

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So I have seen it reported both ways that the police search, find these things.

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They're searching for Trevell.

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So they go to the house he was last seen.

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I don't know why this is happening months later and not a day later.

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Like he's a middle school boy.

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But I've seen it reported both ways of where they search first and then a fire breaks out

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at the home.

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And then this narrative, which seems to be reported more.

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And I found an interview with police where they say the fire happens first and then the

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search happens as a result of the fire.

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There are also reports that this home that Daylen Green was living in was technically

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vacant at the time that Trevell went missing.

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But again, this isn't very clear.

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And it's only mentioned once or twice.

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And I don't know if during the summer of 1999, if it was not vacant.

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And then in the fall just became vacant.

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I'm not sure.

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But that is also mentioned about this home.

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So after finding blood stains, a spent shell casing, Trevell's ID, a section of the living

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room carpet missing, and then the additional clothing and handguns, police believe that

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a homicide has occurred and Trevell is no longer alive.

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So this is fall of 1999.

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Police do suspect that Daylen Green did kill Trevell.

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But to date, no charges have been brought against him.

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And at this time, Daylen is 19, but he does have a pretty extensive criminal record.

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And most of them are violent crimes at this time.

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But Trevell, who I mentioned, it's reported that he wanted to join a gang and Daylen was

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in that gang, the Blood Street Villains.

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But Trevell has no criminal history at all.

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So that's 1999.

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That's the fall of 1999.

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They suspect he's dead, but they still know searches are done to recover his body.

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To date, not a single search or canvas has been done to find Trevell's remains.

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And even with this home, this initial search is done, but nothing else was done to the

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home that's reported, at least.

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There was no ground penetrating sonar walking the grounds to see.

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This would have been just a few months later, so you would have been able to just visually

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see if the ground had been disturbed or something like that.

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And so October of 2009, so this is 10 years later, Tywan Sanders, and this is Trevell's

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brother, who was the last person to see him walking to Daylen's greenhouse on July 2nd.

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So Tywan, he was shot to death during an argument at 22 years old, and the murderer was caught

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and sentenced, and it's not believed that it's related at all to Trevell.

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I just feel so bad for Rhonda, because this is her other grandchild that she's been raising

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since he was a baby.

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Her children.

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He's murdered.

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Yeah.

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He was murdered at 22 years old, which is so young.

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So December of 2014, the local media in Columbus, they run Trevell's story again, and Rhonda,

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at this time, she is a lung cancer survivor.

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She had lung cancer for six years.

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She was diagnosed-

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Wow, Rhonda, St. Rhonda.

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St. Rhonda.

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Truly.

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She was diagnosed after Trevell went missing.

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She went through six years of treatment, and when she-

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Wow.

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That's a long time.

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I know part of her lung was also removed, so this woman has been through so much, and

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at the very least, she deserves to have her grandson's remains.

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Yeah.

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So she knows where he is, and that's all she wants in this interview in 2014.

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She just wants Trevell's remains, so that way, she can be at peace.

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It's like the bare minimum of, quote, justice in this type of situation is just having base

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knowledge and your loved one back with you in some way, even though they can never be

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with you in the way that they should be.

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Yeah.

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But one thing that I read and I hear again and again from loved ones of people who are

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missing, it's they want them home.

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Yeah.

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Dead, alive, they want to know where they are.

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They don't want them lying out in some field.

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They want a place where they can be remembered.

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It's so in us as a species.

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It's such an ancient practice to bury your dead or do-

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To mourn.

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To mourn is like, I would say, it's mourning is just as natural as living because it's

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a part of life.

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Yeah.

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And mourning your dead for every culture has specific motions to walk through.

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Rituals?

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Yeah, like rituals.

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And to deny family those comfort of rituals and the process of that ritual in mourning

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is so cruel.

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So with Trevill's case, when I first found it, I was like, well, there's going to be

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so much news on this.

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This is going to be such a juicy case, but really that's all the information I have.

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And I, you know, I started to feel a little bit mad about it.

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Like, why did this middle school boy, why was there no search done?

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Like, why was there no search?

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Why has there never been a search done to recover his body?

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Like, in, you know, like kind of my anger and researching this, Trevill is a young

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black man.

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Yeah, I was going to say statistically, I think we all know why.

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Yes.

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But I found this foundation, they're called the Black and Missing Foundation.

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They're incredible.

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So their main purpose is just getting media involved in covering the disappearance of

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black indigenous people of color.

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Like that is their mission and their goal is to level the playing field in media coverage

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when it comes to missing people.

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So a big reason, and again, I've learned all of this from the Black and Missing Foundation,

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a big reason that black children aren't a bigger priority within the media when they

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go missing.

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I think that's for example why this 15 year old boy, because again, he is a boy, he is

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a middle schooler, a boy.

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You know, black children are often classified as runaways right away, even when there's

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no history of that.

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And like the adultification of black children.

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And that like, their adolescence isn't the same.

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Like that doesn't, yeah.

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Right.

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So it's going on and on, but sorry.

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Please continue.

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But if you're classified as a runaway, you automatically do not qualify for an Amber

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Alert, which can be like such a big resource in getting children back quickly, especially

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in those critical first few hours.

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But if police believe that they walked away on their own, which police usually believe

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that black children do, even when there's no evidence of that and evidence to the contrary

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even, they will still be classified as runaways.

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And then also missing BIPOC, so that if our listeners don't know, that's black indigenous

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people of color.

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So BIPOC.

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So missing BIPOC, children and adults are labeled and associated with criminal involvement,

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gangs and drugs.

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So this racist idea that BIPOC people have ins and outs with crime on the daily and that

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this is just part of their lives is also a reason that there's no media coverage because

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it's like, well, this is just part of their day to day life.

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Just the systemic racist assumption.

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So that is why that I mentioned Trevell.

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It was rumored that he wanted to join this gang.

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But police say that there's this rumor, but in my mind, I'm also like, well, is it just

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a 15 year old boy who's hanging out with an older kid in the neighborhood?

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You know what I mean?

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Sure.

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And just because Daylin was associated with this gang, did Trevell just get lumped in

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automatically?

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And that's why it was like, well, he wanted to join this gang.

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So he was probably jumped in and they killed him on accident.

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You know?

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But even with that said, gang members are still people.

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You know?

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I don't care.

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Gang violence is always a product of other failings in the system.

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So black children go missing because of other systemic racism issues.

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No childcare.

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Poverty.

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Systemic poverty, generational poverty where families cannot climb out of it.

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What was some of the other things?

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I just want to quote black and missing as much as possible since they are the...

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The resource.

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The resource.

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Yeah.

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And they are doing the work.

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So around 41% of the population that is missing are by POC people.

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So black indigenous people of color.

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So that's 41% of the missing population.

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But when you look at the number, the population, you know, white versus by POC, that it is

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wildly skewed that black people, indigenous people, people of color will go missing more

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than white people.

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And it will take longer to find them almost always.

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So here at cold and missing, you know, we are firmly black lives matter.

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We firmly believe that.

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Feels strange to even have to say it, but I know we do.

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And part of the black and missing foundation, part of their goal is to balance the scales

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in media coverage.

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So this week with the disappearance of Eliza Fletcher is actually like a really great example

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of the missing white woman syndrome, which is what dominates, you know, missing coverage.

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Yeah.

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Like if a person is missing, if she is a white attractive woman, she is going to get national

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if not international media coverage.

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That fact that she went missing.

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And we saw this to be true with Eliza Fletcher this week.

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She was a 34 year old white woman who was abducted during her morning run on September

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2nd.

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National coverage ensued as I think it should.

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And I want to be clear, like black and missing foundation has said, like, do they think that,

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you know, people like Eliza Fletcher deserve less media coverage?

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No.

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But every missing person deserves this kind of media coverage.

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Every missing person.

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More room, like more room for me doesn't mean less room for you.

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Yes.

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We also, you know, as consumers of true crime, you know, like we also have a responsibility

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to like kind of seek out stories that are different from what we look at to educate

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ourselves.

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You know, the missing white woman syndrome really makes a hunger for stories about victims

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that look like Eliza to the exclusion of all others, which is the problem.

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Like we can't just focus to the exclusion of others.

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We need everybody to get this kind of coverage.

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National media coverage, especially with missing people, they can go missing so quickly and

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move so quickly that, you know, local coverage is great.

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Like we saw great local coverage with Tionda and Diamond Bradley when they went missing.

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But nationally, they didn't get that coverage.

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And those girls could have been in any state at that time when they've been missing for

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years.

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So national coverage is so important.

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This missing case to me and the fact that it's in 1999 is no different from like the

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black murdered and missing children of Atlanta back in the sixties.

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Like Travell got as much coverage as those children 30, 40 years later.

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Right.

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And the thing is, it seems very solvable.

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Like it seems like police kind of have everything, right?

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Like you seem to know where he was killed at, like this house.

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You seem to have a prime suspect.

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But like, why can't you, like, why has no search ever been done for his body?

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It's not like it's a city that doesn't have the money to provide the resources for a search.

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Yeah.

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This is a big city in Ohio, you know?

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But to date, no searches for Travell's body has ever been done.

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His body has not been recovered.

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Rhonda, as best as I can tell, she is still alive.

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I couldn't find anything that said differently for her.

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But she deserves answers.

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This incredible grandmother raising her two grandchildren who are both murdered.

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That's completely unfair and no family should have to go through that.

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But then also her going through six years of cancer treatment.

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Like the very least that this woman deserves everything, but at the very least she deserves

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to know where her grandson is that has been missing since 1999.

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So Travell was last seen.

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He was wearing a cast on his left hand.

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He has black hair, brown eyes, a scar on his lower lip and a scar on the crown of his head.

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He goes by the nickname Nuke.

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He is considered to be dead at this time.

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So if you have any information about what happened to him in 1999, July of 1999, where

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his remains would be, if you have any information at all pertaining to Travell, please call

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the Columbus Police Department at 614-645-4545.

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Sources for today's podcast come from the Columbus Dispatch, WTTV News, The Charlie

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Project and The Black and Missing Foundation.

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And if you want to know more about The Black and Missing Foundation or if you want to review

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some of the cases that they are handling right now, if you want to visit them, I'm going

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to link their website in the show notes so that way you can go directly there.

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You can donate to the cause.

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There's also an incredible documentary on HBO about The Black and Missing Foundation

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and the work that they do.

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And it's, if you like true crime, you're going to love this.

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Very good.

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It's four part series and it's very good.

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It dives into what they do.

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It goes into some of their success stories of bringing missing people home, but then

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also highlights people who are still missing.

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So it's just, it's a really great watch.

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And these women who run the foundation are very incredible and are doing God's work out

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here.

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So that's it though.

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That's all I have on Travell, unfortunately.

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Travell hopefully once again, this episode maybe opens some doors, uncovers some things

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and this case can maybe get moving again.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Cause Miss Rhonda, she deserves answers to everything.

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That's all I can think about.

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Travell deserves justice and he deserves to be brought home.

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But she deserves some peace.

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She deserves much peace.

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So thank y'all for listening.

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