[narrator] Tracie Bell was last seen on March 6th, 2018.
[Maurice Macklin] Tracie was a no-call, no-show.
I said, send somebody to her house, like, pronto.
But when the police got there, no signs of Tracie.
Some people think, like, she just left, but I don't think so.
If she was gonna leave, why she didn't take her car with her?
[narrator] Her family is desperate for answers.
The officers, they wound up finding her keys in the parking lot.
Why is her keys tossed away?
Where is Tracie?
I ran into some paperwork in the closet in her bedroom
from Tracie's ex-boyfriend.
I think he was living a double life 'cause he's supposed to had a wife.
[narrator] This episode ofDisappeared
retraces Tracie's last known steps.
There's a few different theories that lends itself to
an accident or foul play.
So, we decided we have to conduct a search.
[Jason Morgan] All right, good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here.
We're here for Tracie.
Zoom in.
[man] It was kinda like a hit you in the gut,
and you thinking, "Hmm, something ain't right,
but I just don't know it yet.
I'm just gonna keep digging until I find her."
[narrator] The more people who know Tracie's story,
the greater the chance of bringing her home.
Share on social media, get the word out,
help find her.
Have you seen Tracie Bell?
I'm Louella Bell, and I'm Tracie Bell's mother.
She disappeared on March the 6th, 2018 from Richton Park.
She was born and raised here in Chicago.
I'm Stephanie Thomas. I'm Tracie Bell's favorite cousin.
Tracie and I grew up together since we were ten or so.
And we referred to each other as favorite cousins,
because we didn't have, like, a sister to grow up with. So...
that was our thing.
Tracie grew up on the south side of Chicago.
So, she's pretty much a real city girl.
She likes to hang out and have fun. Very easygoing.
Hard-working.
Tracie liked school.
Her thing was to get a job so that she could become independent of her mom and dad
and move out and get her own place.
My daughter Tracie went to college here in Chicago.
She was 20... 20-something when she had Giovanna.
[Stephanie] We were calling her GG.
I don't remember exactly when Tracie started to date Giovanna's dad,
but they went their separate ways.
I think she let him come around to see Giovanna,
but of course, he backed off at some point.
And then she dated another young man some years after that,
and then he also vanished.
But that's not something that she wanted people to know.
Tracie started working for the State's Attorney's Office as a secretary,
and she loved, loved, loved her job.
I'm Maurice Macklin. I'm a retired deputy chief
from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
Started there June 1st, 1990.
Was an investigator, moved up through the ranks
from investigator, sergeant, commander and then deputy chief.
And then, as I moved up in rank, Tracie was right there as my assistant.
She was very meticulous about stuff,
and she was very organized.
So, I can always depend on her.
So, she was a good employee.
Went we first came there, we was co-workers, then we became family members,
because me and her would argue like we were brothers and sisters.
[Stephanie] Early '90s, she purchased her condo,
and she loved it because it was two baths,
two beds. So, that way she could have
some space that was her space,
and then still have more than enough room for Giovanna,
and whomever wanted to visit.
[Maurice] She cared about GG. I mean, she used to try to
make sure she had the means to do things, as she was a young kid.
[Stephanie] Giovanna met her future husband
and it seemed that Tracie liked him, initially.
They made a nice little young couple.
[Louella] She must have been 17 or 18,
or she may have been 19. Something like that.
She wasn't that old when she got married to this boy.
And then, once they were married,
I think he joined the military,
and they had their first child together, a daughter.
He was in the military and then stationed outside of the state of Illinois.
That's, I think, when we started to see a different side of him,
and we were not particularly fond of him.
Of what was going on with him.
And it may not have just been him, it may have been
the two of them together. It just wasn't a good fit.
[Louella] She got deeply into the drinking, Giovanna did,
and that made things even worse.
And when she drank, she turned into a different person.
And Tracie many times would let her know, "GG, you can't... you know,
drinking is not for you."
But she had become just irrational,
and sometimes even violent.
She could not control her drinking habits.
By the time Giovanna and her husband back to the state of Illinois, I think they had
two children.
And they moved in with Tracie,
and it wasn't ideal for Tracie,
because now you've got four people in and out
in her place,
and you go to work, and you come home and things are a mess.
Which was difficult for her because she was used to not sharing her space,
and she had asked them to move but they didn't ever move out.
And along came child number three.
I think that's when this husband of hers
became very, I don't know, demanding, angry, unlikable,
for both Tracie and Giovanna. Especially for Tracie,
because now he's not just being mean to the wife, he's being mean
sometimes to the kids, and also to Tracie.
She had a lot she was dealing with,
and I don't know how she managed to deal like that as long as she did,
because that would have wore me down tremendously.
[Maurice] You could tell it was weighing on her when it came to her work.
She was, like, missing things and...
as I think about it,
that should have been a tell-tale sign too, about...
that she just needed to go somewhere, just rest for 24 hours. [chuckles]
And just some me-time.
She was tired of being up all night sometimes,
or dealing with what's going on with her daughter and her son-in-law.
And she said, "I'm finna change the locks so nobody can get in here."
I said, "No, can't do that.
You have to go through steps.
You need to talk to somebody about this."
And then she found out about the eviction process.
[Louella] My daughter was finally able to get an eviction order
to get her daughter to vacate from her property.
They gave her a date that was on March the 6th.
So that day, my granddaughter, the kids got her stuff and she went over
to the hotel. That's where she got a place to be,
because she could no longer be there.
Tracie had took some time off leading up to March 5th.
So, she took off that Friday and that Monday.
On March 6th, 2018, Tracie was a no-call, no-show.
Tracie always communicated about being off,
and when it became a no-call, no-show for Tracie Bell,
that was definitely something of urgence that we needed to take care of.
I wasn't at work 'cause I had the flu.
But I said, "Send somebody to her house,
like, pronto, like now."
Because of the history, I knew what was going on with the eviction,
things of that nature, so that's why I sent investigators
out to their house right away.
But when they got on the scene, they said, "Hey,
we don't see her, she's not in the condo."
So they continued to do their search around and look for Tracie,
and then they find Tracie hiding under the stairs.
The way they explained it to me is just that, like,
she was just hiding, and then she came out, like, "Okay, you found me."
And that was it. Then she became really stand-offish. Like, "Hey,
you know, I'm okay, leave me alone," basically, and they were like,
"Hey, we're here to help you."
They was trying to get her to just talk and try to figure out
why you are up under these stairs.
And that's something that she did not provide. She was just there.
[Stephanie] That was weird. Why would you be tucked away?
Why aren't you upstairs in your place?
I mean, what was going on?
Who's she hiding from and why?
[Maurice] That's when the paramedics show up, but she is refusing medical treatment.
She probably would have been okay
if she had went and got some medical treatment,
'cause then they could have helped, but she refused to do that.
[Maurice] I sent her a text talking about, basically,
"Hey, I'm upset that you didn't let the medical staff examine you,
but I'm glad they found you."
And I said, "I will talk to you later on.
You know, I will call you."
I was just relieved that she was okay.
That was the main thing.
Wednesday, March 7th,
same situation comes up where
Tracie's a no-call, no-show.
And I'm like, "Wait a minute. Get back over to the house right away, again."
So, dispatched Richton Park police right back to the house again.
I eventually wind up going over there.
Louella, her mom, was there at the house, at the condo when I pulled up
and we had to wind up ordering a locksmith to gain entry into the condo.
Inside the house, a lot of alcohol bottles in the front
where GG and her husband were staying at.
Kids' clothes and things of that nature around the house, around the condo.
And that was basically it when we got there.
No signs of Tracie,
and also we went to the back area to check the stairs
to make sure she wasn't hiding under the stairs.
So, she was not there either.
[Louella] It was in a mess
because of the kids' stuff was everywhere,
and it wasn't nothing in order.
Now, her bedroom was pretty decent, but the living room and kitchen area,
you know, nobody had nothing put away.
The police instinct came out first...
of looking at what's what. Is there a sign of struggle here?
What... Is there anything... blood evidence?
Anything that you could see that said, "Hey,
this is a crime scene" and go from there.
But we didn't see that.
But Tracie's purse was there.
No cell phone and no keys
to the vehicles was inside the purse.
At that point in time, I'm trying to figure out, I'm like,
"Okay, so she just grabbed her keys and cell phone, just left out the house,
in a hurry to just make a quick run somewhere?"
But the thing was, her car was still there.
So, if your car is still there, where are you going?
That didn't add up. Did not make sense.
And, you know, for your purse to be there, I'm like,
"No, you normally take your purse with you."
So, just to grab two items and go out,
that doesn't make sense at all.
So, it was kinda like a hit you in the gut
and you thinking, "Hmm, something ain't right
but I just don't know it yet.
I'm just gonna keep digging until I find it."
We wound up calling a K9 and they found a scent
of Tracie coming out of the apartment
and the dogs just stopped right in the parking lot. Just stopped.
There was no more like... it appeared like somebody picked her up
and drove away.
It's not that far. If this is the door,
here's the parking lot.
It's not like it's a long walk.
You step outside the door,
and it's only a few feet before, you know,
you're right in the path of where the cars are parked.
Now the officers, they wound up finding her keys in the parking lot,
away from her car, by another car.
So it was just by chance with them just looking in the parking lot
and they found her keys.
So now, why's her keys tossed away?
I knew something was wrong.
But you're trying to figure out, did somebody grab her?
Where is Tracie?
[Maurice] We trying to figure out, did somebody grab her?
That kinda threw us for a loop and didn't make sense.
So, we had to do a step-by-step investigation.
We didn't know if Tracie walked away,
disappeared, some criminal activity.
We didn't have nothing.
It was eating me up on the inside.
That's without a doubt. It was eating me up.
But in order to bring Tracie home safely,
I got to stay focused on the investigation,
making sure we're using the right tools and resources
to bring her back home.
The Richton Park Police Department only had like a couple of detectives.
And we had more investigations in the bureau, had expertise,
and, you know, wires, cell phone tracking...
different things of investigators, homicide detectives.
So, that's when we came into the Richton Park Police Department.
I wanna say it was about eight or nine of us
walking in there like, Tracie's one of us.
She's a family member. We're here to assist you
in this investigation of our own person too.
So, I reached out to Sergeant Margaret.
My name is Margaret.
I'm a sergeant with Cook County State's Attorney's Office Investigations Bureau.
Tracie Bell was the administrative assistant to that unit,
the unit I supervised.
But we did not have any personal...
interaction at that time.
And through the interviews of her colleagues who shared her work space,
we learned that Tracie was having difficulty in her home,
which stemmed primarily from the difficult relationship
between her daughter and her daughter's husband.
[Maurice] She started sharing stories about
what was going on with Giovanna and her husband.
She was saying there was a lot of domestic problems,
and you could see it in Tracie's face.
I started putting stuff together.
[indistinct police chatter]
[Margaret] Some of the calls for service Richton Park police documented
to Tracie Bell's condominium
historically included domestic violence incidents
between her daughter and her daughter's husband.
[Stephanie] I had conversations with Tracie and other family members
about Giovanna and her husband being violent.
About Giovanna having, you know...
broken ribs, broken eye socket or something.
Him dragging her down the sidewalk in front of the kids,
and really just ugliness.
[Maurice] Tracie wanted to do something about it herself
and we had domestic violence experts
down there to where she could talk to and say,
"Hey, what steps can... or resources can my daughter use
to get out of this situation, or to help the situation or something?"
[keypad beeping]
[Margaret] I learned the weekend prior to Tracie's disappearance,
she had telephone contact with Richton Park Police Department
and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
relative to her grandchildren.
[Stephanie] Tracie made the call to Child Protective Servies on
Giovanna's husband, I believe it was something that he had
supposedly done to the son, the youngest child.
And I believe DCFS had pulled all three children from the home.
But shortly after the children were placed with DCFS,
a medical review unfounded the allegations of abuse,
and those children were returned to their parents.
[Stephanie] They gave the children back to Giovanna.
Now, Tracie still doesn't have peace of mind,
because now these kids are back in the hands of their mom
and possibly their dad.
So you're still worried about them.
[Margaret] During the early stages of the investigation,
it became important to have formal interviews
of Giovanna, as well as her husband.
We formally interviewed the husband at a suburban police agency.
He accounted for his whereabouts, and he was co-operative.
We were also able, the following day, to formally interview Giovanna.
Her recollection was inconsistent,
but attribution to whether or not that was
her memory or her substance abuse was difficult to determine at the time.
So that interview, it did not provide any additional leads.
Giovanna eventually just kind of got on a negative, um...
she stopped dealing with any of us
because she felt like we were pointing a finger at her,
her or her husband.
And we weren't. We just wanted to talk to her.
[Maurice] My personal opinion,
anything that deals with my mom and my mom is missing,
I'm gonna be calling you every day.
I'm gonna be sending you a text like, "Hey, what's the update?
What's going on?"
[Margaret] Although there was an established history of domestic violence
between Giovanna and her husband,
there was never an allegation, that I'm aware of,
of violence between Tracie Bell and Giovanna's husband.
Or Tracie Bell and Giovanna.
So we had to continue to do our investigation.
[Stephanie] So, I believe that
Thursday I met Tracie's supervisor Maurice at her condo
and then I just kind of
picking things up off the floor and straightening things up,
I ran into some paperwork from Tracie's ex-boyfriend.
I was like, "Wow, this stuff is only like six months old."
So that means that this person's now back in her life,
when you're telling us for the last several years
he was not in your life.
I was so taken aback, until I...
I kinda threw my hands up, I was like, what's going on?
[Stephanie] While cleaning Tracie's apartment, and I ran across mail
of her ex-boyfriend's, I was just...
thrown aback, because...
he's not in the picture anymore,
is what I've been told for the last several years.
But this mail was, like, six months old.
I was confused 'cause,
you know, in the past when I knew him when they were dating,
when Giovanna was little,
we all got alone with him. He was fun, he was great...
fun guy to be around. But...
when they stopped seeing each other, I didn't know. I was like, "Okay,
things fall together, they fall apart."
But after asking her for several years,
"Are you still seeing this guy, are you guys friends?"
"No, no, no, no."
Like, I mean, adamantly, like, "No, he's a clown."
Okay. So when I saw the mail, I was just like,
"Hmm...
hmm... okay."
[Louella] Well, he wasn't my cup of tea because
he'd deal with other people's children.
There was some competition there with Tracie,
and I don't know why she kept seeing him.
[Maurice] To my knowledge, Tracie was in no relationship with anybody at that point,
but we still had to follow up on
finding out about her ex-boyfriend. Like, "Hey,
when did y'all break up?"
Or, "When's the last time y'all seen each other?
Did you pick her up on a Saturday night?" [chuckles]
So, those are things that... those pointed questions needed to be asked
about that person. So, if he is gonna be a suspect, let's clear this up right away.
[Margaret] We were able to ascertain his identity
and make contact with him,
and he did provide a time for us to do an interview at his home.
He appeared co-operative, he answered their questions.
Denied a current relationship with Tracie,
and suggested his contact with her was limited to the
fall of 2017.
In a review of the historical records from Tracie's phone,
his known numbers were consistent
with not having contacted her cell phone since September of 2017.
[Maurice] He was very forthcoming right away,
and definitely wanted to make sure because
he had a life of his own,
and married and stuff, so,
he was able to clear this up.
I don't think he wanted that to bleed off into his
personal life, right then and there.
But I said, "I think he was living a double life,"
because he was supposed to had a wife.
That's what I heard.
[Stephanie] I felt like they always had a decent relationship, so even...
if they were on friendly terms again,
maybe she just does not want 20 questions from us. Like,
"So, you're friends with him? You guys dated, you broke up,
and now you're friends again. He's hanging out. You know, what's going on?"
Maybe she didn't want all those questions.
[Maurice] So, at this point, what do we have?
We need to look through everything again and again.
[Margaret] We have to follow the evidence.
And the evidence suggests it's just as possible
Tracie Bell left on her own accord.
[Maurice] So, the Richton Park Police put on their website
that Tracie Bell was missing.
So, those little identifiers and stuff in the neighborhood, that was done.
[Margaret] They were able to create a missing person's flyer,
distribute it to the Cook County Sheriff's Court Services Department,
which covered all of our locations.
[Stephanie] There was a vigil that was organized, was put together
with the State's Attorney's Office and some family members, and, um...
so several co-workers came out, detectives,
clerical, um...
a dozen or so family members,
and probably people exchanged information,
so that we can stay in touch with one another.
Giovanna didn't show up for that.
When we did foot searches, we let her know we were gonna go out.
She never did any of those.
In fact, Giovanna got on bad terms with all of us
for one reason or another.
I believe so that she would not have to deal with us.
[Louella] So then, where else do you go?
Because you can say that sometimes peoples are confused,
and they do wind up in places
because they don't know what's what.
But then, if you show 'em pictures and ask some questions,
and nobody's seen anybody like that,
it's like they don't exist.
In December 2018, the investigation felt like it stood still.
But just when we think there's nothing,
a co-worker who's known her for over 25 years
is sure she saw Tracie Bell at a western suburb,
at a restaurant.
It's not that far from Tracie Bell's relatives
who live in the south suburbs.
It's a viable lead.
[narrator] Tracie Bell was last seen on March 6th, 2018.
[narrator reading]
[Margaret] At the low point in the investigation,
we were uplifted when a colleague
from Cook County State's Attorney's Office
who had known Tracie for over 25 years
reported that she'd swear she saw Tracie
ahead of her in line at a restaurant.
It was December, so it was cold.
Everybody was bundled up,
and she said it was exactly Tracie
with different hair and purple lipstick.
With that information, we were able to go to the restaurant.
We requested video,
but some time had passed,
and unfortunately, that video had been overwritten.
It brings excitement because you're like, "Okay, somebody saw her.
So, she's alive, walking around."
But then you sitting back, like,
"Is this a mistaken identity?"
I tried not to get my
hopes that high right then and there.
I'm like, "Okay, until I actually hear that Tracie Bell voice,
we gonna follow these tips and see where it leads us."
[Margaret] Richton Park filed a request by her service provider
and they were provided limited access to cell phone data.
Unfortunately, her device was last used
the evening before she was reported missing.
It did not provide any additional leads.
We were also able to request
to be notified, should any financial activity occur.
No activity had been present on her accounts
since the weekend prior to her disappearance.
[Louella] Some of the people just wanna think like she just left,
but I don't think so,
because she had a plan of redoing her house.
And she had also just got a new car.
So, if she was gonna leave, why she didn't take her car with her?
Regarding the supposed sighting,
I don't buy into it because of her medical conditions.
She had rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes.
Got to take your medications daily.
There's not been any activity on her bank account,
her vehicle's not being moved.
How's she getting around? How's she surviving with no money?
The Tracie that I know would not have just...
vanished into thin air.
You know, like saying to the world, "Kiss my ass, world."
I'm not feeling like, you know, she's alive.
And I wanted to know what happened to her.
[Margaret] In the fall of 2021,
we learned that the Cook County Sheriff's Department was
creating a Missing Person's project,
which coincided with our investigation,
and our need for further assistance.
The Sheriff's Office will now have a dedicated link
on its website,
and have also dedicated three detectives
to start working these Missing Person's cases full time.
My name's Tom Dart. I am sheriff of Cook County.
I've been sheriff now for 17 years.
Back in September of '21,
I wanted to formalize a specific Missing Person's unit,
because in the spectrum of things law enforcement works on,
Missing Persons is pretty low on the spectrum.
The reason being is because this person went missing today
and an hour later they're back.
Those things happen all the time,
which lends itself to then not being treated as seriously by departments at times.
And so, as a result of that,
it really requires you to have some really focused people working on it.
And so, one of the ones we're actively on now is Tracie Bell's case.
My name is Jason Moran.
I'm a detective commander with the Cook County Sheriff's police.
What our first job to do is to
start looking at all the available information.
So, we'll reach out to the originating agencies
and we'll ask them to see
the reports and any evidence that was collected.
[Margaret] There was a meeting in March of 2021
with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office Investigations Bureau
and Richton Park Police Department,
as well as Cook County Sheriff's Police.
During that meeting, there was a disclosure by Richton Park Police Department
about a report on the evening Tracie Bell went missing
that was not something known to the State's Attorney's Office
prior to March of '21.
This report was not identified,
in part because the description was a
female Hispanic.
Tracie Bell was a very light-skinned Black female.
But it established itself as the last known sighting of Tracie Bell.
[Jason] This officer wa s concerned for this woman's well-being.
That she appeared to be confused in some way.
This is at the McDonald's restaurant near Lake George.
Maybe 50 feet away from Lake George.
While Tracie appeared to be confused,
she was not interested in having the police or paramedics assist her.
So once we realized Tracie was in that area
at night by Lake George,
is it possible that Tracie was having a mental health issue?
Or a medical issue, maybe like a low blood sugar,
and could she have had an accident?
Given the fact that the hours following her disappearance
were particularly frigid for that time of year...
[Tom] It's large enough where, um...
you could conceivably see an individual going there
and passing away.
It's sort of a place that sorta screamed for additional searches.
So we decided we have to conduct a search.
All right, good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here.
We're here for Tracie.
We know that she was last seen down at this McDonald's here.
And about 50 feet behind that McDonald's is Lake George here.
So, what we're trying to do is learn
if Tracie, for whatever reason, was...
came into the lake and unfortunately drowned.
And we could find her remains, or...
we could find her clothing or something
that puts her here.
We're gonna walk along the shoreline to see if there's any...
anything that's important.
We're also gonna do a UAV in the air
and a remote-control submarine.
If anything is found, holler out
and we'll assess what evidence you're seeing.
Okay. Perfect.
[Jason speaking]
[Jason] The drones, they're really great
to sort of see a larger area.
It helps us understand the scene.
It also helps us locate evidence that we otherwise wouldn't see.
We're gonna go look at the screen now.
What's that long thing in the back?
The long white thing next to that lure, or that bobber.
[drone buzzing]
It's just wood.
Yeah, I could see a million different scenarios where someone
came in, fell in, whatever it might be,
and... I mean, no one would see that.
And in case Tracie did go in...
So that's where this submarine would come in.
[Todd Duignan] So, our latest addition to this ASRT team
has been the new ROV.
It's a submersible remote-operated vehicle.
These use these on shipwrecks.
They used these same type of devices that go 200, 300 meters deep.
Bodies are usually within a very short distance of where they go in.
[Jason] The McDonald's is just right on the other side of that,
so we're working towards that direction.
[engine whirring]
[Jason speaking]
[Jason] And we're gonna let the family know too
that we were out here trying.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-We're not gonna give up. -Yeah. Yeah.
[Margaret] We've done a lot of work at this point.
We have not ruled out any options.
[Jason] Around the time of Tracie's disappearance,
she could have been going though a mental, and/or medical issue.
There's a few different theories
that lends itself to an accident.
Or foul play.
[Margaret] We know that the relationship between
Giovanna and her husband
was increasing in frequency of domestic violence
at the time of her disappearance.
Missing Person cases are a mystery.
You know, some more mysterious than others.
And in Tracie's case, we could not discount the fact
that she could have been gone due to suspicious circumstances.
And... or foul play.
That is something that we still are weighing,
and we're still looking at.
[Stephanie] Giovanna passed the last October, 2022.
It was difficult. It was difficult because,
you know, Tracie's been missing since 2018, and now
her only child is gone.
And we still don't have answers to Tracie's disappearance.
When I found out about Giovanna passing,
it took me back. I was like, "Wait a minute,
she passed?" 'Cause she's young.
So you look at it and then you're like,
"Wait a minute, what happened?"
She passed away from a drug overdose. Fentanyl.
I know she always drank,
but as far as her to dabble in
anything other than that, no knowledge.
But, you know, things change, people change.
[Louella] And I think it was, she didn't want to live anymore.
I really do. I think that,
that's just my personal thought...
because her mother wasn't here anymore.
[Stephanie] During Giovanna's funeral,
her husband was incarcerated
because of domestic disturbance with Giovanna.
Part of me believes that Giovanna knew something.
[Maurice] To think, to me, in my opinion, I think GG might have known something.
She might have known something extra but she just didn't reveal it.
And we lost the opportunity when she passed away.
[Jason] Tracie Bell has been missing for over five years,
and we're still investigating her disappearance.
For all missing persons, your case does not close
until the missing returns or is located.
[Stephanie] We're still just kind of hanging in limbo.
Her disappearance...
has been a... has affected so many people.
So many people, and...
and left a lot of us with a lot of unanswered questions
and confused, and...
you know, I miss our long conversations.
I miss her laugh.
[Louella] That's a thing that's not easy to deal with,
losing a child.
And the main part about it,
you don't know what happened, and where the remains at.
But if you lose a child and you put them away,
you know, a funeral or burial, then you knew that's that.
But then you have a child that is missing,
you often be wondering, where? What?
And that makes the difference.
[Maurice] Help us to bring closure.
Tracie, if you out here looking at this,
hey, you are loved. You not gonna be judged.
Just come on home and say, "Hey, I am okay,
you all. I just took a time out.
And that time out lasted five years."
But call us.
Either way it goes, if you know something,
especially if you hear us out there,
or somebody that knows something...
don't hesitate. Make that phone call today.
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I go to the river, and I see Chris' truck,
and I look in the truck-- he's not there.
That only in my mind makes me think that he got picked up.
The only clue that's recovered is a cigarette butt.
I don't see my husband willingly leaving his children.