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🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 124 minutes
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0:00.0 | Rebecca Henderson Polk was a 26 year old from Demopolis, Alabama. |
0:04.0 | She was very close to her parents and spent Labor Day 2015 with them. |
0:09.0 | That evening she left their home, but never said where she was going. |
0:12.0 | The next morning, Rebecca was seen on a video camera over the border in Mississippi. |
0:17.0 | Her car was found a few hours after that video was recorded. |
0:21.0 | She was never seen again. I'm at Denzel and this is |
0:28.9 | unfound. You're going to be. Oh, I'm told when visitors come to the United States for the first time and drive, you know, |
1:01.1 | get on the roads and put some miles on the rental car. |
1:04.4 | They are astounded by two things. |
1:07.1 | Number one, just how big this country is. |
1:10.6 | I've been told this is particularly true for people who come from countries where |
1:14.0 | pieces of land are at a premium. Number two, they're amazed at how they can drive |
1:19.3 | from state to state, which are essentially countries almost of themselves, and nobody asks for any |
1:25.7 | identification, no passport requests, no paperwork, nothing, despite them being foreigners. |
1:32.3 | In fact, without the sign saying, |
1:33.8 | Welcome to Florida, welcome to California, |
1:36.1 | welcome to Pennsylvania, |
1:38.0 | they'd never even know they crossed over a state border. |
1:41.0 | And I'm reminded of this section from the film Hunt for Red October. |
1:44.6 | Sam Neil's character Vassily Borodin says, and I will have a pickup truck, |
1:50.0 | maybe even a recreational vehicle, and drive from state to state. |
1:54.0 | Do they let you do that? |
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