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🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Just a warning. This episode contains descriptions of violence, references to child trafficking and profanities. We don't want you to be cut off guard. |
0:18.0 | What do you remember about that day? |
0:20.0 | So I was over at my parents house, it was summertime during COVID, so I take the girls over there to go swimming because they were driving me crazy in the house. And it was too hot to play outside. |
0:31.0 | Ready? |
0:37.0 | It was a hot Wednesday evening in July of 2020. By the time Lana arrived at her parents house, her sister Rosanne was already by the pool. |
0:46.0 | What do you remember about her that day? |
0:48.0 | The normal regular old Rosanne just hanging out with the pool, listening to classic rock, watching the girls swim, playing with bubbles, just normal stuff. |
1:02.0 | Not anything different about that day whatsoever. |
1:07.0 | We were swimming in the pool and Rosanne brought up something. She was like, have you heard that they are selling pieces of furniture online? |
1:17.0 | And there are people in them, like little kids. And the furniture is named after what the missing kid was. She pulled up a picture of something and it was like, had some person's name. And then it was like an arm war. |
1:31.0 | And it was like $75,000. And she was saying, yeah, there's a missing person related to the name. Like you'll find a missing person that has that name. |
1:43.0 | And what was your reaction? |
1:45.0 | I was totally falling along in the beginning. Like, I'm all about conspiracy theories. I'm talking about ghosts, bigfoot, all the things. |
1:53.0 | I think that's probably why at the beginning we didn't really think anything of it because we are a family that does like to investigate conspiracies. |
2:05.0 | My parents did a road trip. One of the big highlights was them stopping at Roswell. So I don't think any of us really thought anything too much about it at the time. |
2:19.0 | That night, Lana spent about an hour on her phone looking into the conspiracy Rosanne had told her about by the pool. |
2:25.0 | She decided it was too far fetched to be true and forgot about it. |
2:29.0 | But at her parents' house about nine miles away, Rosanne was coming to a very different conclusion. |
2:35.0 | I wake up and look at my phone and I have a text message from 730 in the morning. And it says, dude, call me when you're awake enough for me to tell you some crazy shit I've rabbit hold into. Mind blown emoji. |
2:49.0 | Rosanne had been up all night. |
2:51.0 | From the time I left, probably at four or five until seven o'clock in the morning on YouTube, on the internet, Googling, finding all this stuff about whatever Hollywood sex trafficking rings she had discovered. |
3:08.0 | 14 hours. That's all it took for Rosanne's life to change. |
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