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♪

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- Oh, my God!

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- [sobbing]

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[police sirens]

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- In the 21st century,
we leave behind

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the digital story of
our lives, a chronicle

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of our greatest triumphs, but
also our darkest nightmares.

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♪

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both: ♪ He was a boy,
she was a girl ♪

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♪ Can I make it
anymore obvious? ♪

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♪ He was a punk

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♪ She did ballet

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♪ What more can I say?

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[mouse clicks]

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- Well, nice to meet you.

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I'm excited to talk to you.

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And I know it's
a hard topic to talk about.

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But first, I just want you
to tell me about Lea.

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- Hi, Lea!

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- Lea, um,
she was a good baby.

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She came a little early, but
doctors said she was perfect.

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And she just wanted to come
out and meet the world.

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She had a good upbringing
by her stepfather,

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who's very smart.

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She went to a great school
in Redondo Beach.

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It was a great school.

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She loved it.

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She liked to listen to music.

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She took piano lessons
because her stepdad

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is a Steinway piano
technician.

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She was just a joy
for everybody,

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except her brother--

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[laughing]

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When she was little.

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She would follow him
around everywhere

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and that would annoy him
when he was a toddler.

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In their early adulthood,
they became very close.

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She wanted to be like him.

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♪

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It was a hard move for them.

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It was a culture shock
because

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we moved up into
the mountains.

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And it's just everything
was so different.

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- So how was it
growing up in Cotopaxi?

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- How old were you when
you moved up there then?

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- Yeah.

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- Okay.

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- She did get pretty heavily
into social media.

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It was a big part of her life.

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I didn't even
get on social media

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until Lea went to college
and she got me on there

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so we could,
you know, communicate.

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And I had her dog.

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And I could send pictures
of her dog.

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- You're so silly.

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You're such a silly man.
[toy squeaking]

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[clears throat]

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Come here, Odie.
[clicking tongue]

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Odie, come here!
[clapping]

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- She always liked
pictures taken.

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I used to make fun of her
about taking so many selfies,

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but I'm glad she did now
because we didn't

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do a lot of video-taking
when they were younger.

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[band music playing]

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- Whoo!

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Why's she got her purse?

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- Lea!
- What a dork.

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♪

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Everything was fine.

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Everything was fine until
she graduated high school.

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Lea went to the same college
that Maxx did.

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[applause]

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- Maxx K. Porter.

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- Whoo!
- Yeah!

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♪

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- That's when she started
getting lonely.

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She was going through a
hard time and she dropped out.

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♪

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She had a car.

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So she would go out a lot.

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She wouldn't answer my calls.

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It's like I don't know
where you are and I'm worried.

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[keyboard clacking]

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- I think she was
coming to terms

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with the way her life was
going and realizing that

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this is not what she wanted.

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[phone ringing]

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- Your call has been forwarded
to an automatic

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voice message system.

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- I got a phone call from
Maxx and I says,

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let me try
and get a hold of her.

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And then
I'm trying to text her.

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Never answered the text,

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phone straight to voicemail,
not even a ring.

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And I remember--I remember
my heart dropping

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because she had that phone
glued to her.

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There was something wrong.

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And so I called the police
immediately after that.

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[ominous music]

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♪

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- When did you
talk to her last?

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- What was that
conversation about?

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- She had a bunch
of job interviews...

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- It's like,
she just disappeared

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off the face of the Earth.

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And it's not like her.

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- Tried texting her,
I've tried calling her.

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Left her some messages
on Facebook.

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[line ringing,
messages chiming]

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- Automatic voice message
system.

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- She had already
opened up to her brother

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about what she
was going through

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and made him promise
not to tell me.

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I wish she would have told me.

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- Can you spell
your name for me?

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- J-E-S-S-E--
- All right.

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- Kay.

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[chuckles]

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[cell bars rattle]

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- Westminster police
are hoping you can help

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find this missing 19-year-old.

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She's Lea Chali Porter.

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She lives in Pueblo,
but she was

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in Westminster last Thursday
when she went missing.

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- ...Facebook,
so I started, you know,

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hitting her up on Facebook.

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And that's how
we started talking.

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And flowers and candy
and all this [bleep].

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And she was like,

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"You're going to be
my boyfriend

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whether you like it or not,"
And I was like,

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"No, I'm too old.

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I can't take you seriously."
And...

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♪

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- Then I fell in love
with her, man.

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Fell for her hard.

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- Mm-kay.

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- When Maxx would call her,

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there would always
be fighting in the background.

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And Lea was always upset and
he would be yelling at her.

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- Your call has been forwarded

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to an automatic
voice message system.

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- I suspected
she was cheating on me.

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- I had no idea
because Maxx was

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trying so hard to
get her away from him

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because it was abusive.

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But she kept
going back to him.

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- Right now, friends and
family are desperately

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searching for Lea Porter.

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- We have some good leads
on where Lea is at,

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so we're out looking for Lea.

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We want to bring her home
to her family.

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- Mm-kay.

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- Mm-kay.

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I ended up going into
a hotel and charging a room.

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I didn't think I had
enough money on my card,

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but I just went in
and just tried to see

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if it would go through
and it went through.

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So--

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- You remember what
that hotel was?

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- Castle Inn.

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We stayed the night there.

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- Kay.

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- The next morning,
we checked out.

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And we sat in the parking lot
for a little bit

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just kind of crying
and hugging each other.

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- Because I paid her bills,

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the first thing I did
was get into my AT&T account.

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And when I saw that
the last activity on her phone

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was the 3rd...
[sniffling]

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And so I called, like,
the last five people

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that she talked to,
but I kept noticing

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one number over and over.

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And it was actually
the very last phone call

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that she made as well.

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- When's the last time
you had conversations with her

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after you left?

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- And did she respond?
- No.

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[dramatic sting]

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[door clicks]

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She texted me
on Tuesday morning.

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[number pad beeping]

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[line ringing]

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- I was told that I'm not
a suspect, but I mean,

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I just want to be
as co-operative

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as possible to make sure that,
you know, I stay that way.

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- It was a medical, yeah.

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- For psychiatric reasons?
- Yes.

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- OK.

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You know, was he
diagnosed with anything?

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- No.

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- [sighs]

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♪

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She makes it clear as day

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that she does not want
a relationship.

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- Well, the family, they think
you took advantage of her.

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[chuckles]

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[sighs]

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[dog barking]

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- It's believed that Waide was
the last to see Porter alive

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and had allowed
police to search

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his apartment nearby, along
Federal earlier in the week.

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- Mm-hmm.

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- [sighs]

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- [sighs]

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[sighs]
And...

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♪

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[beep]

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♪

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[distant sirens wailing]

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- Mm-hmm.

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I asked them to read Lea.

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[kids chattering]

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[cards shuffling]

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- [sighs]

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- [sighs]

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[sighs]

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- Okay.

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- [sobbing]

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[siren wailing]

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- Developing tonight,
the arrest after a young woman

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disappears in Westminster.

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The man who last saw her alive
is now accused of killing her.

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- Christopher Waide
turned himself in

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to Westminster police
last night.

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- Detectives here
have been talking to him

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since last Thursday.

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That's when 19-year-old
Lea Porter

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was reported missing.

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And you can see
as recently as Monday,

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Waide even posted a missing
poster of Porter, writing,

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please Lea, come back to us.

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- Police say she left
Pueblo to meet up

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with Waide, a friend
whom she'd recently

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reconnected with
over Facebook.

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- Now Porter's family tells me
that her brother and also

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her boyfriend
got Waide to confess

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while the conversation
was being recorded.

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- They say that Porter's
family definitely helped

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get this case to where it is.

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Just over a week after
she's reported missing,

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they have an arrest.

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- Police searched
his apartment twice

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and today, sectioned off
part of a public landfill

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in connection with the case.

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- But they say the search
could be a costly

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and a massive undertaking.

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- Investigators spent 45 days
searching the landfill

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associated with that bin.

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They were able to find Lea's
clothes, her cell phone,

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but never her body.

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- Anytime you don't have
a body in a homicide,

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leaves the question as to,
not only what the cause

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of death was, but whether
or not there is a death.

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♪

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- An emotional day in court
for the family of Lea Porter.

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Today, her killer,
Christopher Waide,

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accepting a plea deal
of second-degree murder.

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Both the first-degree murder
and sex assault charges

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were dismissed.

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- And they said,
"OK, well, where is Lea?"

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And he said, "simply,
I already told you."

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He lied
because he told us

264
00:40:04,369 --> 00:40:09,173
that he redressed her in
these clothes that we found.

265
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And she's not in them.

266
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- He got 48 years for killing,
murdering my daughter.

267
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She has been
discarded somewhere.

268
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You know, whether he's hidden
her someplace where he can

269
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go back and visit her, which is
truly what my mama heart says.

270
00:41:22,914 --> 00:41:24,949
- Today, her stepfather,
who was emotional

271
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both in and out
of the courtroom.

272
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- I want him to suffer.

273
00:41:30,588 --> 00:41:32,023
I want him life in prison.

274
00:41:32,190 --> 00:41:36,227
I don't...in regular jail.

275
00:41:36,394 --> 00:41:38,830
And if they don't do it,
I'm going to kill him myself.

276
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I promise.

277
00:41:40,998 --> 00:41:42,266
- I think it was
the right thing to do.

278
00:41:42,433 --> 00:41:43,768
I think it's justice.

279
00:41:43,868 --> 00:41:45,470
I know the family doesn't
think that right now.

280
00:41:45,636 --> 00:41:47,004
I hope that one day they will.

281
00:41:47,105 --> 00:41:49,207
- Lea's mom still wears
this photo of her daughter

282
00:41:49,307 --> 00:41:51,676
around her neck
and says the hardest part

283
00:41:51,843 --> 00:41:53,711
is not knowing where Lea is.

284
00:41:53,878 --> 00:41:55,513
- I mean, I'm trying to--

285
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,916
I'm trying to come to terms
that I may never find her.

286
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♪

287
00:42:02,987 --> 00:42:03,988
- Hi, Lea!

288
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- Hi.

289
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- A one, a two,

290
00:42:08,993 --> 00:42:11,763
a skilly dilly do.

291
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Eeh!

292
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- It's New Year's Eve, 2015.

293
00:42:18,002 --> 00:42:20,972
This month has been
very difficult for us.

294
00:42:21,072 --> 00:42:23,841
Thanksgiving was excruciating.

295
00:42:28,846 --> 00:42:32,417
And then Christmas,
which will...

296
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:36,554
never be Christmas again
without Lea.

297
00:42:36,721 --> 00:42:38,489
I would want her to know

298
00:42:38,589 --> 00:42:40,958
that I wish I could have
helped her...

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♪

300
00:42:43,261 --> 00:42:45,329
And how much I love her.

301
00:42:45,430 --> 00:42:46,664
[sniffles]

302
00:42:46,831 --> 00:42:48,900
And I miss her so much.

303
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♪