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So welcome to this week's edition of
The Path Went Chili. So On.

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We're going to be co hosted by
Jewels and I because Ashley is away this

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week, so we're gonna go back
to our format where I tell Jewels about

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a case that I'm very familiar with
and she's going to react to it and

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we'll discuss it. And I decided
to do the nineteen eighty six disappearance of

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nine year old Antonette Kadito, which
took place in the small town of Gallup,

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New Mexico. This is a very
famous case. It was on Unsaw

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Mysteries. I covered it on The
Trail Went Cold about two years ago,

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but I wanted to revisit it because
last week the Trace Evidence podcast released a

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new update episode revealing a lot of
new information which had never been made public

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before. And the reason that this
has come out now is because of a

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YouTube series that just came out called
Disappeared in Darkness, which is hosted by

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a former journalist named Crystal Gutierrez.
She was able to obtain some files from

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an FBI investigation from the mid nineteen
nineties and there's a lot of new information

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in there that has never been made
public before and is making me look at

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the case in a different light.
So that's why I wanted to revisit it

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and have an all new discussion about
it. And there will be a lot

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to talk about jewels. Are you
familiar with this case? You know?

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I think I heard a podcast on
this case maybe a year or two ago,

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enough so that when you sent me
the audio to listen to to familiarize

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myself with it for when we discussed
it later on, I was like,

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oh, yeah, I definitely remember
this, but the details are a little

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bit murky, and I purpose fully
didn't look it up or look into any

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of it. I wanted it all
to be fresh, and I wanted to

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be surprised and have like genuine reactions
for the listeners. Okay, so yeah,

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I'll give you a lot of the
details, and then we'll discuss certain

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aspects of the case. And I'm
going to start off by telling you the

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official narrative of the case, which
has been told for over thirty years now.

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It's going to turn out that a
lot of the stuff that I'm sharing

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with you may have turned out to
be false. But when we finished talking

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about the known facts of the case, that's when I'm going to reveal the

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new information and talk about how it
takes the case in a totally different direction.

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So we started in nineteen eighty six
in the town of Gallup, New

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Mexico, and our victim is nine
year old Antonett Kayodeto, who was originally

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born on Christmas Day in nineteen seventy
six, so she would be nine years

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old at this point. She's a
biracial child because her father, Larry Astrado,

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was Hispanic and her mother, Penny
Kayodeto, belonged to the Navajo nation.

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But Penny and Larry would wind up
separating, and then Penny would go

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on to have two more daughters with
another man. And at this point,

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Sadie, the second daughter, is
seven years old and the youngest daughter,

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Wendy, is five years old.
I believe Penny was now raising her children

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as a single mother, and even
though Antonette is only nine years old at

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this point, she is pretty much
considered to be the mother figure in this

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family. She is considered to be
very mature for her age and helps a

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lot around the house trying to take
care of her younger sisters. And as

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we're going to talk about, Penny
did not have the best reputation as the

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most responsible parent. She was known
for going out a lot and partying,

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so Antonette pretty much had to take
the reins to ensure that Sadie and Wendy

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were well taken care of. I
think we see this dynamics so often with

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single parent household, not necessarily that
the parent is like an absent parent,

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or that they've got a substance use
disorder or anything like that, but just

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that they're spread really, really thin
across many different things. They're trying to

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make a living, and then trying
to be a mother to three daughters is

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a huge endeavor, and I'm sure
in retrospect, Penny looked back and was

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like, of course, there were
things that I could have done to be

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a better mother, and maybe the
pressure shouldn't have been on Antonette to be

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that mother figure. But we often
see the eldest child, particularly if it

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is a female child, take on
that role of mother to their younger siblings

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when the mother isn't present for a
variety of reasons, whether they'd be that

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they're at work or either with a
boyfriend, or they're abusing drugs or alcohol.

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So it is a huge amount of
responsibility to put on a young child

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exactly. It really does not sound
like Antonette had much of a childhood at

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all. And this was a very
low income housing area. The family did

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not have a lot of money,
so Penny was stretched thin and had to

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rely on Antonette a lot. And
as we're going to talk about later on,

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one of the theories that would come
up is that perhaps Penny decided that

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having three kids was too much of
a burden, and that's why she may

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have decided to get of Antonette.
But the whole thing began on the morning

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of April the six, nineteen eighty
six, which was a Sunday, and

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all the children woke up at seven
am in order to go to Bible school,

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and right from the outset you see
some alarm bells with the way of

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this story unfolded because the previous evening, Penny had gone out to a bar

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with some friends and left her children
in the company of a babysitter until she

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arrived home at around midnight, and
that in itself is an unusual But the

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story, which has been shared for
a long time is that after Penny sent

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the baby sit her home, she
let the children stay up very late playing

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with her and they apparently did not
go to bed until around three am.

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And that's very unusual for children who
were aged nine, seven and five to

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go to bed at three am and
then be up four hours later in order

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to go to a Bible school.
And even though the house had four bedrooms,

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it was apparently common practice for all
three daughters to sleep in the same

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bedroom with Penny, and her story
has always been that they went to sleep

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shortly four three am, but when
she woke up at seven am, Antonette

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was gone. I mean, there
are those types of families that do all

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like to sleep in like a communal
type of a situation, all in one

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bedroom. But if you have a
house this large, you would think that

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people the children would be sleeping in
like a children's bedroom, you know,

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like all the girls would be in
there. They're kind of of that age

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where you may want a little bit
of independence rather than sleeping in a room

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with your mother. And that's not
to judge a situation in which parents choose

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to do that. I mean,
it is extremely atypical, but it does

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work for some families. But what
I do find really strange here, and

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I honestly call bs on it,
it just does not sound plausible, is

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that after the babysitter goes home,
you let the children stay up until three

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am, Like you wouldn't even do
that with like a sixteen year old.

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You mean, maybe you let a
sixteen year old stay up with their friends

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and watch movies until they pass out, but you're not going to be like,

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hey, you can stay up with
me until three. It just doesn't

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sound like it's grounded in reality exactly. And as we're going to find out

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later on, at least one of
the daughters would later tell a story which

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says that that wasn't true at all, that this was even though this was

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a story that Penny told the police, it's really untruthful. And it's like

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it's one of those things where you're
reading about the case and none of the

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law enforcement people are treating it as
particularly unusual, but you're like, did

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I hear that right? Did these
girls really stay up till three am?

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Because I know when I was at
age, I was not staying up that

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later, particularly when I had to
be up early the following morning. Oh

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my gosh, I remember sitting on
the top of the stairs. And my

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parents got divorced when I was really
young, like maybe when I was four.

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They were divorced, separated when I
was three, and I remember when

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my mom was like dating this guy
and I wanted to stay up later and

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she'd be like, no, you
got to go to bed. And I

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remember sitting at the top of the
stairs. And then later when my mom

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moved out and my dad had the
house, doing the same thing with my

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dad and he'd be like, You've
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mean, I wouldn't say that my
parents were extremely lenient, but I wouldn't

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say that they were extremely strict either. And I think when I was that

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age, I was, you know, you got to go to bed by

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ten pm at the latest. How
old was Antinette at this time? Old?

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Nine years old? Yeah, they
would have been like, you got

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to be in bed by nine pm. Maybe if they let me stay up

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a little bit later, it would
have been ten pm. And I do

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recognize that all families operate differently,
but I'm going to go out on a

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limb here and say, pretty much, no families are going to let their

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nine years old and younger girls stay
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doing until three am? Like,
I don't, I just don't even understand

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what one could be potentially doing.
Are you having a movie marathon? Why

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are you still awake? What is
keeping you up at that time because most

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people are going to be overcome with
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just seems fishy or like you said, that law enforcement didn't key into this

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is really interesting to me. Yeah. I think they probably did key into

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it, but they just didn't let
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But according to Penny, when she
woke up, none of Antonette's clothing or

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personal itings were missing. The only
thing that was not there was the paint

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nightgown she had last been seen wearing
when she went to bed. Even though

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Penny was certain that she had locked
the front door and latched the adjacent screen

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door before she went to bed,
she noticed that these doors were now unlocked

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and unlatched, So she started wondering
maybe Antonette just decided to step out into

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the morning air or something. But
once she checked with all the neighbors and

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found out that no one had seen
Antonette, she got really concerned and finally

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called the police in order to officially
report her missing. So here is the

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very first version of events. So
what allegedly took place in the middle of

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the night. We're going to hear
a number of different stories, but at

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the time, the one that was
reported in the newspapers back in nineteen eighty

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six was shared by the middle daughter, Sadie. He claimed that both she

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and Antonette had been woken up in
the middle of the night by the sound

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of knocking at the front door,
and when Antonette went to see who it

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was, Sadie said she heard the
sound of a man and a woman outside

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identifying themselves as an aunt and an
uncle and saying, hurry up, opened

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the door, we're called out here, But apparently Antonette looked out the window,

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did not recognize the man out there
and refused to let them in,

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and then returned to the bedroom.
And then, according to Sadie, she

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soon heard someone knocking on the front
door a second time, and while she

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recalled seeing Antonette get up and leave
to go see who it was, Sadie

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said that she stayed in bed and
pretty much fell asleep immediately thereafter, so

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she could not be certain if Antonette
actually opened the door, but her family

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said that Antonette would never opened the
door for strangers, particularly in the middle

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of the night. But what seems
weird is that Penny said that she slept

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through all this, that she did
not recall hearing these two knocks at all.

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And though if you look at the
layout of the house, you'll see

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that the bedroom she was in,
the master bedroom, was very close to

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the front door. So it seems
weird that these two kids would be awoken

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by these knocks but Penny would not
hear anything. Was Penny a drink her,

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Yeah, she was, so that
has been pushed forward as an alternate

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possibility. If she had been drinking
heavily that night or doing drugs and passed

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out, then potentially she could have
slept through it. Yeah. I think

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that is extremely possible, maybe even
probable. Like you said, there are

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different scenarios here. We've got more
information. If she is indeed involved,

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it very well could be a cover
story. But on the other hand,

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if she isn't involved, then it
could be an excuse in that if she

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was very intoxicated, and I mean
if she could have been up till three

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am drinking you're really exhausted, there
may have been other substances involved, hence

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the three am going to bedtime.
It's just a little bit odd to be

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sitting around your home, even just
drinking alcohol if you're not having a party.

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It's a little bizarre and there's just
something that really doesn't feel right about

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it. So perhaps she was just
really really drunk and didn't hear the knocking

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on the front door. I mean, I'm a heavy sleeper. I'm not

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a big drinker, Like I'll have
a drink on occasion, but I'm not

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a drinker where I'm drinking to get
drunk, like I fall asleep. I'm

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really tired. The chance of me
waking up in the middle of the night

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to the sound of knocking at the
door, I probably wouldn't hear it,

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whereas like my husband is keyed into
like every single little sound. Are you

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like that? Are you a heavy
sleeper? I can be. Yeah,

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So I think it is plausible that
I could have slept through some knocking if

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I was really really tired. But
it does seem kind of unusual that both

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Sadi and Antonette could be woken up
twice within the course of the same night

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and Penny just did not recall hearing
anything. Well, they probably weren't drunk,

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yeah, exactly, hopefully hopefully,
Yeah, I hope that Penny was

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not that irresponsible a mother, so
they launched a missing person's investigation from Antonette.

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Could not find any trace of her, and the investigation remained at a

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stand for about an entire year until
April the twelfth, nineteen eighty seven,

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when a dispatcher at the Gallup Police
Department received a phone call from a very

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frightened sounding girl who repeatedly said that
her name was Antonette Kidito and that she

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was calling from Albuquerque. The dispatcher
tried to ask the girl for more details,

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but then the girl was interrupted by
the sound of an angry, unidentified

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man who yelled, who said you
could use the phone, and then the

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girl screamed and some scuffling could be
heard before the call was abruptly cut off.

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And I know that I sent you
a link to the audio file because

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you can find the nine one one
call on YouTube. So what are your

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thoughts on it? It was terrifying, like just to hear the panic in

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this little girl's voice. I one
hundred percent think that it is a genuine

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nine one one call. I don't
believe for a second that that's a prank,

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but something about it is strange and
that it does feel like if if

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it is a kidnapping, it's an
atypical one, because what type of kidnapp

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would a child then have the potential
to access to telephone? It seems a

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little bit strange. So there is
just this one element of this kidnapping,

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of this nine one one call that
does feel a little bit odd or a

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hate saying a typical over and over
again, but that is exactly what it

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feels like. Yeah, I mean, some people have speculated that the call

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could have been some sort of mean
spirited prank, because whenever a missing person's

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cases make the news, there'll always
be people who like decide to like mess

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with the police or torment the families. But you listen to the call and

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it's a little girl who does sound
genuinely frightened. So if it was a

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prank, it was a pretty well
done one. One other thing worth mentioning

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is that the call it apparently lasted
over a total of forty seconds, but

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because this is technology from nineteen eighty
seven, it does not sound like the

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dispatcher was able to trace it.
But they've only released twenty seconds of the

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audio, which is the one you
can find on YouTube, but it's been

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reported that the original recording contained the
sound of another voice in the background,

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which may have belonged to an elderly
person, and they could be heard asking

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who is on the line when the
man yells at the crying girl. I

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mean, I can understand withholding details
from the public, but it seems strange

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to me that this case is still
unsolved after thirty seven years and we've never

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heard the full forty second audio.
We've only heard that twenty second snippet.

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And all I could think was,
why not play the voice of this other

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person in the background, because maybe
someone will recognize it and it could help

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the case. I mean, this
would potentially support the narrative that there could

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be family involvement, because in a
situation where say a family member takes another

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family member, and especially when it's
a young child, you might not have

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a situation where you need to bind
their hands and their feet. But in

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a regular kidnapping, I would think
that you would be sequestering that child somehow,

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and you would be binding their hands
and feet. You would be making

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it in paulible for them to escape
and impossible for them to be able to

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call for help in any capacity.
But that isn't what we see here,

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if this is indeed genuine exactly,
I mean, we have seen some other

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documented kidnappings like Elizabeth Smart, where
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so long and creates such a climate
of fear that they eventually give them a

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little freedom and allow them to do
stuff like go out in public because they

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think, I've put so much fear
into this young person, she won't dare

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try to escape or do anything to
try to get away. And that could

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have happened here. If Antonette was
being held captive for a year, that

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maybe her kidnapper decided to give her
some more freedom and let her wander around

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the house, but then she decided
to use the opportunity to make a phone

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call. The audio was played for
Penny, and she said that she was

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absolutely certain that the caller did sound
like Antonette, but she claimed she did

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not recognize the voice of the man
on the recording. And a lot of

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people have speculated, like, if
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why what she called the police departments
and Gallop or why wouldn't she try

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to call home or dial nine one
one. My theory about that is that

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in nineteen eighty seven, only fifty
percent of the communities in the US had

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nine one one, So I'm thinking
that either Antonette didn't know how to use

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it, or had never heard of
it, or it was just not available

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in that section of New Mexico.
And another point worth mentioning is that her

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family did not actually have a house
phone at the time she was abducted,

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and that Penny only installed one just
in case any kidnappers called or the police

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needed to get hold of her.
So if Antonette's trying to escape and wanting

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to phone for help, she's not
going to phone her mother because her mother

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did not have a phone. And
I've kind of theorized that if she was

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such a responsible person around the house, that perhaps at one point she memorized

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the phone number for the Gallup Police
Department and that's why it was the first

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number she dialed when she was trying
to call for help. Yeah, I

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doubt she had like a phone book
right there where she had a list of

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potential police numbers that she could call, because it wasn't so easy as it

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is today, where it's like you
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So the fact that she would be
responsible enough to remember a number.

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I don't think we could get too
bogged down in which number she called Gallup

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or Albuquerque. I think the fact
that she remembered one of them is pretty

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amazing, if that is indeed a
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The point you bring up is interesting
when you bring up what you said

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just a little while ago about the
Elizabeth smartcase. Where you see the people

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there, people who were held under
darress eventually are given more freedoms, you

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have Stockholm syndrome kind of kick in
for some people. You have situations like

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Colleen stan where when she was released
after being sexually tortured and held in this

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box for it was like years.
I think when she was let go,

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she just like left and didn't go
to the police. Wasn't until I can't

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remember the man, the guy's name
Cameron maybe, yeah, I can't remember

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his last name, but when his
partner found Jesus or whatever, and she

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decided to tell the pastor, and
then the pastor got the police involved,

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and then they talked to Colleen and
then all of this came out and it

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was like, whoa, she just
is let go and she doesn't even go

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to the police. But it's like
he had told her this whole time that

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this organization was watching her and that
if she made a wrong move they were

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going to come for her. They've
got all this time to brainwash, so

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it does make sense that she could
have had a little bit of freedom,

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and they might have trusted that she
wouldn't be calculated enough at her young age

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to wait for that moment to try
to make her move. Well, now

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that we're on the subject of captive
girls being allowed to be taken out in

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public, that brings us to the
next development in the case, which took

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place in nineteen ninety one. The
FBI decided to release an age progressed a

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composite sketch to show what Antonette would
have looked like at fourteen, because she

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had been missing for about five years
at this point, and after this composite

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sketch was released, the authorities were
soon contacted by a waitress from a diner

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in Carson City, Nevada, who
claimed that she had served a teenage girl

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matching Antonette's description. According to the
waitress, the girl was in the company

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of a white man and a white
woman who she described as looking unkempt.

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She said that to the girl who
looked like Antonette like appeared to be really

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shy and frightened and never looked up, and that when she was serving them,

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she would do weird things like intentionally
knocked her fork on the floor and

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get the waitress to go pick it
up, as if she was trying to

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capture her attention. And then later
on the couple and the girl left,

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and when the waitress was coming to
collect the plates and the check, she

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found out that the girl had written
a message under a napkin with the words

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helped me and call the police.
And of course, once this waitress saw

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Antonette's age composite sketch, she thought
she bears a resemblance to this girl,

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so that's why she decided to contact
the authorities. In retrospect. I do

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not believe that this girl was Antonette. I think this was probably a mistaken

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eyewitness siding. But it's kind of
a compelling mystery within a mystery, because

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it makes me wonder who was this
girl and why was she writing these secret

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messages in order to call for help. I mean, I guess there's any

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number of reasons. It could have
been a situation where she could be with

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her family members and maybe she's being
abused in some way. That's why she's

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not looking up. She might not
be kidnapped. It could be really simple,

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or she could be another missing child
who's being kidnapped. There is no

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shortage of that when you look all
across the US. You don't even have

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to look locally. It could be
somebody from another state. But it could

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just be somebody so simple as there's
violence in the home, they're being abused,

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whether you know, psychologically, emotionally, sexually, and they really need

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some kind of law enforcement intervention.
Yeah, that's the vibe I got,

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just the way that she was acting
her body language, and she was in

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public where it felt like she was
fearful of the two people she was with

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and was just trying to capture the
waitresses attention. And it makes me feel

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kind of bad for because if she
wasn't Antonette, it makes me wonder what

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happened to this girl. I hope
she turned out all right. But one

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reason that I am inclined to think
that the eyewitness was mistaken is because we

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see so many missing persons cases where
they see a photograph of the missing victim

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and then see someone that they're completely
certain is the victim, but then it

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turns out they were wrong. Well, this is a case where she's not

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even judging the appearance on a current
photo of Antonette. She's looking at an

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age enhanced composit sketch to show up
what Antonette might look like at age fourteen.

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But we don't even know if those
things are really accurate. So I

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am inclined to believe that the waitress
just saw another girl who kind of looked

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like the sketch. I'm inclined to
agree with you, just because we've got

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eyewitness sightings that are so problematic.
We've got nobody to substantiate this possibility that

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this could be Antonette based on what
she looked like. They're like, if

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there was another couple of waitresses,
maybe one of the cooks had seen her.

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There was a few other people that
were like, yeah, you're right,

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it could be her. But again, when we're working off an imperfect

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sketch here, this isn't like just
a composite sketch of Antonette, like you

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said, it's age progress. So
they're just assuming she's going to progress like

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that. There's a lot of variables
that go into how someone ages and how

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someone grows, how much sunlight they're
getting, what type of food they're eating,

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you know, their psychological state,
how much exercise they're getting. There's

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so many different factors. Just how
well taken care of she is. You're

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just going to assume that she's going
to age in this linear way, but

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that isn't always the case. Somebody
could be stunted with their growth, or

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they could they could flourish, they
could grow taller and bigger, their facial

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features could be slightly different for a
variety of reasons. Say she breaks her

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nose, So I just think that
the probability of that actually being Antonette is

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pretty low. Yeah, I totally
agree, particularly when you learn the new

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information that I'm going to share later
on. But that exiting what is important

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in the long run, because it
compelled the Gallop Police Department to start performing

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a new investigation and reinterview people connected
to the case. And they also brought

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in an FBI agent because if Antonette
had been kidnapped and cross state lines,

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it would technically make it a federal
case under the FBI's jurisdiction. So the

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lead detective from the gallop d a
guy named Marty Escabelle, as well as

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an FBI agent named Kevin Miles.
They decided to interview Antonette's youngest sister,

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Wendy, who would have only been
five years old at the time her sister

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went missing. And as you recall, the person who originally shared the story

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about the knox on the door in
the middle of the night was the middle

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sister, Sadie, So I don't
think Wendy had really talked about her all

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that much. And what's interesting is
that Escabelle and Miles decided to approach Wendy

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while she was at her school playground. They decided not to question her in

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the presence of her mother, and
this is when Wendy just suddenly told an

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all new story where she said that
sometime during the early morning hours, she

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was awakened by a knock at the
front door, and when Antonett went to

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answer it and asked who it was, a man replied that it was her

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uncle Joe, and according to Wendy, she saw Antonette open the door.

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But then Wendy then said that she
saw two men grab Antonette and forced her

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into a brown van which was parked
in front of the house before they drove

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away. So the investigators immediately asked
Wendy, why did you wait five years

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to tell us this story, and
she said, well, I was worried

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I was going to get in trouble. I saw that my mother was crying

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a lot of the time and seemed
upset, so and I was worried that

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no one would believe me. So
that's why I didn't say anything until now.

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But she said that she didn't really
get a good enough look at the

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two men to provide much of a
description. And it turned out that Antonette

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did have an uncle, Joe,
who was married to Penny's sister back in

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nineteen eighty six, but after interviewing
him, investigators learned that he had a

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rock solid alibi on the night Antonette
when missing, so they ruled him out

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as being the person who went to
the door that night or having any involvement

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in Antonette's disappearance. But the story, of course, is so weird because

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it completely predicts the story that Sadie
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That's so strange. It's so weird
that there actually is an uncle show.

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But I wonder if they checked his
alibi back then, and that's why they

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know that he had a rock solid
alibi, because who could be asked about

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where they were on a date five
years ago and be like, oh,

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yeah, I was exactly doing this
one thing and be able to provide it

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to police five years later. That
just seems odd. But maybe they already

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have that information, and they'd already
interviewed all of the people close to Antoinette

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and all of her family members and
so on. But don't you think it's

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like a little bit odd these two
guys like creep up on the playground and

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they go to interview her when she's
unaccompanied by an adult. It seems a

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little odd. I mean, I
understand why they did it, because they're

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trying to get a genuine answer,
but all it sounds a little sketchy when

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you do that to a child.
And it's kind of funny because they show

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a reenactment of it on Unsolved Mysteries, and as far as I can tell,

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Wendy is playing herself and the two
investigators are playing themselves. And while

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they didn't say so publicly at the
time, I get the feeling that maybe

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they privately had some suspicions about Penny
that they weren't telling the whole truth,

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and this is why they decided to
question Wendy without the presence of her mother,

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thinking that, Okay, if we
finally speak to her and Penny has

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been withholding anything, then maybe Wendy
will tell us. But instead she gives

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them a completely different story about this
uncle Joe, which no one was expecting.

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And it is true though it does
sound like that, like they did

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look at Uncle Joe back in nineteen
eighty six and then they checked him out

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again five years later and became convinced
that he did have a solid alibi and

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wasn't involved. So the speculation was
that if this story was true, then

408
00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:49.079
whoever knocked on the door that night
had intimate knowledge of Antonette's life and figured,

409
00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:52.720
well, if she's comfortable with her
uncle Joe and we says her uncle

410
00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.440
Joe, then she'll be willing to
open the door, and then we can

411
00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.000
use this opportunity to kidnap her.
Okay, question for you, what do

412
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:04.920
you think about the veracity of Wendy's
statements given how young she was at the

413
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:11.720
time, Like how accurate do you
think that they could potentially be or do

414
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.240
you think that there's a possibility that
she may have conflated kind of other information

415
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:22.440
and kind of external information and built
some narrative in her head because children have

416
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.240
been known to do that. Well, that was what I was thinking originally,

417
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.319
because like we've had this story from
Sadie that there was a man and

418
00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.160
a woman knocking on the door in
the middle of the night, claiming to

419
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:36.799
be Antonette's aunt and uncle, saying
let us in, we're called outside.

420
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.680
But then Antonette looked out the window
saw that it was two people's she did

421
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.240
not recognize, and then refused to
open the door. And it's never been

422
00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.279
clarified if Wendy was awake or witnessed
this particular event, but it could be

423
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.720
a thing where she was so young
at the time, and maybe Sadie's told

424
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:53.960
her this story that a bunch of
stuff has entered her head to convince her

425
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.759
that it was Uncle Joe knocking on
the door that night, and then Antonette

426
00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:00.680
answered, and who knows, maybe
she had a vivid dream about it and

427
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.000
was convinced it was reality, and
then all these years later that was the

428
00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:10.759
story she shared with police. Because
it's pretty easy to manipulate or implant false

429
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.720
memories with people, even in a
way that isn't malicious. I mean,

430
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:19.480
psychologists do these experiments where they show
people these pictures of their family on a

431
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:23.240
vacation in a certain place, and
they like superimpose their heads in there,

432
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.440
and then they tell them about,
oh, yes, no, you went

433
00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.240
to Hawaii, you were there,
don't you remember that vacation? And then

434
00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.400
as time goes on, they start
filling in the gaps. They'll start telling

435
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.680
you all these details of these vacations. They genuinely believe that this is something

436
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.000
that happened to them. It's really
not hard to do. So if you're

437
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.279
like a seven year old child and
you're having an older sibling tell you that,

438
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.279
it could be pretty easy to take
on that information. But it is

439
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:53.200
also possible that she too saw something
similar. It is true, and we'll

440
00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:56.160
talk more about this later on,
but I think there is also a possibility

441
00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:00.400
that her mother could have fettered that
story. And basically, he said,

442
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.039
if the police come to question you
again, tell them that uncle someone claiming

443
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.759
to be Uncle Joe was at the
door, even though it may not even

444
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:11.559
be true. So I first became
familiar with this case when it was featured

445
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.079
on Unsolved Mysteries in December of nineteen
ninety two. It had all this information

446
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.519
about Uncle Joe and the sighting of
the diner, and it also played the

447
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:23.759
audio of the phone call. And
watching it now, it's very bizarre because

448
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.319
at the time there had never been
any public suspicion that Penny was considered to

449
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.480
be a suspect or that the authorities
believe that she knew more than she was

450
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.279
telling. So watching it, you
just assume that Penny is a really bereaved

451
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.640
mother who's doing everything possible to try
to find her daughter. And there's this

452
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:47.039
very weird section where they show Penny
Pink visit to a Navajo medicine woman who

453
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:51.680
was holding what they call a centuries
old Navajo ceremony called the Crystal Ritual,

454
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.359
and which she is attempting to contact
Antonette's spirit, and the medicine woman is

455
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.519
shown on camera saying that she believes
Antonette is still alive and being held against

456
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.880
her will somewhere in the southwest United
States, and may have even had her

457
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.240
own child at that point. And
of course watching this at the time,

458
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.519
it's like, Okay, this is
unsolved mysteries. They love looking at people

459
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.680
who supposedly have psychic abilities and stuff, so they're just kind of doing this

460
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:19.319
for the camera. But as the
years went on, authorities would start directing

461
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.680
suspicion about Penny. So you have
to wonder, is she visiting this Noveljo

462
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:27.720
Medicine a woman just to like give
off the impression that she's innocent and that

463
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:33.279
she has no knowledge of what happened
to her daughter. Yeah, it could

464
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.680
go either way. I mean,
she could be trying to do too much

465
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.039
in the sense that she's trying to
like just put herself out there, like

466
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.119
the lady doth protests too much.
Let me just go around and like do

467
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.599
all of these things and try to
look the most innocent. But it also

468
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.440
could just be this is part of
her culture and she's really trying to connect

469
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.519
to it in order to speak to
her daughter's spirit or in order to commune

470
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.920
with her in some type of way. So it could be interpreted in a

471
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.279
multitude of ways. If you're in
the camp of thinking that she has something

472
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.519
to do with Antonette's disappearance, then
it could just be like this lady is

473
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:12.440
doing this for optics type of a
thing. Yeah, it's certainly possible in

474
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:15.960
retrospect that that's possibly what she was
doing. I'd be really curious to know

475
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:19.680
who came up with the idea of
taking the case to Unsolved Mysteries to begin

476
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:24.119
with, because if Penny had involvement
in Antonette's disappearance or knew what happened to

477
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:29.960
her, I cannot see her deciding
to want to get the national exposure for

478
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.400
the case on television because Unsawd Mysteries
did play a role in solving a lot

479
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:37.079
of cold cases back during the nineteen
nineties. But if it's a case where

480
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:40.200
law enforcement decided to take the case
to the show, then I can see

481
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:44.359
Penny thinking, well, it's gonna
look suspicious if I'm not interviewed and don't

482
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.279
go along with it, So I'm
gonna try it for optics. I'm going

483
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:51.599
to play the role of the bereaved
mother. What about Jule Kaylor. Did

484
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:54.640
he bring that case to Unsolved Mysteries
or was that law enforcement? I don't

485
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.039
know that for certain. I have
a feeling it wasn't. I think it

486
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:01.960
was probably Dottie's sister because she was
working fervently to find her and he pretty

487
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.720
much figured, well, they're gonna
put me on camera. I got nothing

488
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.079
to hide, so I'm just gonna
say whatever the hell I want and the

489
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:13.279
rest is history. Yeah, that
was shocking. I mean there are certain

490
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.880
people like Tim McClure, you know, in the Murder of Terry McClure that

491
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.640
didn't come off very well either.
There's some where you're like, why are

492
00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:25.480
you even doing an interview? Somebody
should have told you no, but yet

493
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:30.160
they just go full force. And
I think a lot of times it's a

494
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.759
lack of education. With Juel Kaylor, it was not that he was an

495
00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.000
intelligent man. He just chose to
do the interview, and I think he

496
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:42.359
was completely just like unaffected by the
fact that he may come off in a

497
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:45.599
certain way. He just knew that
there was nothing that could be brought forth

498
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:49.920
to be able to put him in
prison. So he was just like a

499
00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:53.319
little flagrant about it pretty much.
Yeah, And in this case, it's

500
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:57.279
like, Okay, well, who's
the one who's pushing this forward? Because

501
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.599
we do see people who just love
attention, even though it might be like,

502
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.319
hey, I had something to do
with what happened to my child,

503
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.480
it might be like what could I
do to garner the most attention? Because

504
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:12.199
I'm somebody who feeds off of that. Well. I will say that at

505
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.360
the time I originally watched this,
and for many years afterwards, I never

506
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.800
thought a Penny Kayidito and Duke Kale
are in the same sentence. Like,

507
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.039
I didn't really feel suspicious about her
at all. I mean, I did

508
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.159
find the story weird that Antonette woke
up in the middle of the night to

509
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:29.400
answer the door, but Penny seemed
like a genuinely grieving mother. It kind

510
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.519
of took me by surprise many years
after the fact, when I found out

511
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:37.280
that the authorities were suspicious of her. She was going through a really rough

512
00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:42.480
time after Antonette's disappearance, as she
spent many years struggling with alcoholism and had

513
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.559
to be institutionalized a few times.
And it was in April of nineteen ninety

514
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:51.199
nine when she passed away at the
age of only forty six due to cirrhrosis

515
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:57.719
of liver and cardiac issues. And
this is interesting, Apparently the FBI they

516
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:00.199
had interviewed her sometime in the mid
nineteen nineties, and they said that they

517
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:05.800
were planning to reinterview her on her
deathbed, but she passed away before they

518
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:08.079
could do so. So it seemed
clear that they believe she might have had

519
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:12.400
some knowledge that she way have wanted
to get off her chest, but they

520
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:15.559
just never got the opportunity to get
it. Damn. Yeah, I know.

521
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:21.400
So that's sad that they never got
that opportunity, and like just wanted

522
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.760
to touch on really quickly in regards
to what you said earlier about how you

523
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:30.559
didn't think of Penny and Joel kaylor
in like the same vein because you thought,

524
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:32.320
like, she's just a grieving mother. I think even if she is

525
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:37.000
involved, she still can be a
grieving mother. I think one can look

526
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:40.079
back in retrospect and go, I
have the I have these great regret.

527
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:45.119
This isn't what I should have done. I am, you know, falling

528
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.559
apart at the seems here emotionally.
I mean, people do make mistakes.

529
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:52.440
I mean, that's a catastrophic mistake
if you do that. But I think

530
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.000
that to assume that they aren't going
to grieve, I think would be a

531
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.559
wrong assumption. I think unless you're
you know, a psycho path, you're

532
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.519
probably going to have some sort of
grief, even if they were kidnapped or

533
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.079
died at your hand. Oh yeah, Like I never got the sense that

534
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.800
Penny was a psychopath. I do
believe that if she was complicit in her

535
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:15.639
daughter's disappearance or gave her away,
that she eventually came to suffer great remorse

536
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:20.239
about it, and I think that's
what led to herself destructive lifestyle and her

537
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:23.559
becoming an alcoholic and dying at such
a young age. But it was kind

538
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:28.639
of weird because the detective who was
interviewed on Unsolved Mysteries, Marty Escabell.

539
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:32.039
He was interviewed for a newspaper article
in two and ten, and by that

540
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:36.159
point he had left the department and
was no longer working on the case,

541
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:39.320
and for the first time he publicly
expressed his suspicions about Penny, saying,

542
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:44.800
quote, I'm pretty confident that Penny
had knowledge of who took Antonette based on

543
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:49.039
her failing a polygraph test and ministered
by the FBI. End quote. So

544
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.599
in retrospect, you're now thinking it
makes a lot more sense now that he

545
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:57.280
decided to go and interview Wendy alone
while she was on the playground because he

546
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.880
had these suspicions about Penny all along. Yeah, and you know, as

547
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:06.480
an investigator, even though that's the
wrong move in the sense that you can't

548
00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:10.000
really go forward with anything that child
says in court because they need to have

549
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:14.639
a guardian present. But if you're
trying to just get to the crux of

550
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:16.920
the story here, and you really
want to see if this is going to

551
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:22.800
kind of diverge from her initial statement, if there's going to be anything unique,

552
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.840
if there's going to be similarities,
because what they're looking for is consistency.

553
00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:30.519
Right. There may be other elements
that you remember, but the general

554
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:35.239
like meat of the story should remain
the same. It's when somebody's giving you

555
00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:39.159
something completely different, You're going,
WHOA, Okay, why why is this

556
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:43.920
different? And I think it's because
of all those reasons that we discussed previously.

557
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:47.000
It could just be because she's conflated
these memories with her sister Sadie.

558
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.320
It also could be because her mother
has fed her this, and it also

559
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:54.159
could be because it is a genuine
memory. Yeah, it is possible.

560
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:58.719
Like I'm sure they were just checking
like every option that they had. But

561
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:01.679
it did surprise me though, when
I was researching my podcast episode that other

562
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.159
police detectives did have some suspicions,
not specifically about Penny, but against members

563
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:12.360
of the family. Because I found
a nineteen eighty seven article in the Albuquerque

564
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.320
Journal where a police detective said that
where he confirmed that no one had yet

565
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:19.760
been ruled out as a suspect,
including family members, and he said this

566
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.840
quote, My gut feeling is that
some family members may not be telling us

567
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.559
all they know. He said that
police originally did not know that a number

568
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:30.039
of people had been in and out
of the Kaiadido residence on the night of

569
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:34.960
Antonette's disappearance, And it was one
of those things where Penny just did not

570
00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:38.559
reveal this ahead of time and only
like did it like days after the fact,

571
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:42.920
even though you should tell police everything
if your child has gone missing.

572
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.280
So it sounds like they had suspicions
about her from the get go, but

573
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:52.719
we're electing to keep it private until
after Penny passed away. So murky and

574
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:59.239
like insidious. What would these family
members want with Antonette? What did they

575
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.280
do with her if they were indeed
involved? Did they hold her against her

576
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.440
will? Did they sell her into
sex trafficking? Did they keep her for

577
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:14.559
some kind of nefarious purpose. It's
just so convoluted and confusing, and I

578
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.000
hate to even think of the awful
things that could have befallen this little girl.

579
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.880
But the fact that police seem to
keep coming back to this common denominator

580
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:29.199
of the family. We hate as
true crime podcasters to ever point the finger

581
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:35.440
at the family unless there is substantial
evidence to prove their involvement. But when

582
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:43.719
law enforcement keep revisiting this and keep
articulating their suspicions, there's potentially something there.

583
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:46.920
Oh yeah, Like it should be
confirmed that Penny was never publicly named

584
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:51.599
as a suspect or person of interest, and that even if law enforcement had

585
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.960
their suspicions about her, they did
not have any evidence to show that she

586
00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:59.280
was involved, which is why they
kind of kept their suspicions private. But

587
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:01.800
one other thing I wanted to address
is that there's a rumor that has spread

588
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:06.559
about Penny for many, many years. I've seen it on online message boards

589
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:10.679
and inforums and discussions about this case
that she reportedly purchased a new sports car

590
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:15.679
the very week after Antonette went missing, which it was true, would look

591
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:20.800
very very sketchy because this was a
family living in poverty in a low income

592
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:23.000
housing area, and she should not
have the money for a sports car.

593
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:28.320
So if it was true, it
lends possible credence to the idea that maybe

594
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.960
she sold her daughter for money and
was just kind of flaunting it now that

595
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:35.840
Antonette was gone. But the problem
is, I've never been able to find

596
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:39.719
any media source, any newspaper article
that shares this sports car story, and

597
00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:44.239
I'm trying to figure out where it
originated. And I think someone who claimed

598
00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.760
to have inside knowledge of the case
left this comment on web sluice many many

599
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.000
years ago, and I think people
have taken this comment and spread it as

600
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:54.239
fact. But I just want to
confirm here that I have no idea if

601
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:58.960
this story about Penny getting the sports
car is true. I've never seen this

602
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.960
verify by any credible source, and
I will go out on a limb and

603
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:07.760
say if she was involved, and
that's a big if, Like we don't

604
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:12.119
know one hundred percent here, and
I haven't heard the rest of the story

605
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.159
and what this new information is.
But if you want to get rid of

606
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:20.480
a child because three children are too
much of a burden, you're not going

607
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:23.280
to pick your oldest child, who
takes on a motherly role and does a

608
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:28.000
lot of the work for you,
unless it's for some type of monetary gain.

609
00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.159
You would pick the youngest because they
would be the most of a burden.

610
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.360
That would at least be my thought
process. What would you think,

611
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:36.880
Yeah, I've got the same thing. I mean, even though I have

612
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:39.480
my suspicions about Penny, I do
find it unusual that if she had too

613
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:44.320
many children that she would give away
the oldest one who has helped her out

614
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.639
so much around the house and become
the mother figure and is also going to

615
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:51.320
have a memory of her previous life, because theoretically, if she decided to

616
00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:53.840
give away Wendy, she's still only
five years old, so if she goes

617
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:59.000
off as someone else, she could
forget her identity and lose all memories of

618
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.360
her family. So it just seems
weird unless she encountered someone who had a

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special interest in Antonette and then decided
I'm going to give her away because that's

620
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the only way i can make money
and relieve myself of a burden. I

621
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mean, maybe she knew somebody that
was like, this is the age group

622
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.559
that I like, right, prepubescent, but not a five year old.

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And I'm just speculating here. This
is just an idea, but it just

624
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.719
seems like such an odd thing to
give away a child who will be the

625
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.960
first out of the home, so
you will have to provide the least amount

626
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.519
of support for her. Right because
she's nine, she'll be out of the

627
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.559
house in nine years in theory,
and so she'll be out. But a

628
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.760
five year old, you're going to
have many more years of support, and

629
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:45.119
you have to do so much more
for a five year old, especially in

630
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a situation where you have your eldest
daughter who's basically taken on the mom role

631
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.199
when you're out working or drinking or
whatever she was doing. So it just

632
00:42:55.320 --> 00:43:00.280
seems very strange that she would be
the one to get rid of if you

633
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:02.599
felt like you had too many kids. I just think logically, you get

634
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:07.320
rid of the child who is the
most work and that's typically the youngest.

635
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.559
And to expand upon that point,
Antonette was described as being very headstrong and

636
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.199
mature for her age. So if
that is actually her making the nine one

637
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:17.800
one call, that would kind of
fit with her personality that even if she's

638
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:22.760
being held captive by someone, she's
probably smart enough to say, if I

639
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:24.639
say the right things, he might
give me some freedom to wander around the

640
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:29.199
house and I'll use this as an
opportunity to call the police. And once

641
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.880
Again, that's a reason why it
doesn't seem logical to give away a nine

642
00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:37.440
year old child unless the person who
abducted her specifically wanted her. And we're

643
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:40.400
going to talk about this later on, but there has been a suspect who

644
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:45.639
popped up on the radar who may
have had an interest in Antonette. Well,

645
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.840
before I talk about that part,
I wanted to mention that in twenty

646
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:53.880
sixteen, the Albuquerque Journal decided to
run a thirtieth anniversary article of Antonette's disappearance,

647
00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:58.559
and Wendy decided to speak about the
case for the first time, I

648
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:02.119
believe the first time she had been
interviewed since the Unsolved Mystery segment back in

649
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.760
nineteen ninety two, and Wendy revealed
that she had also led a very rough

650
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:12.679
life with issues with substance abuse with
drugs and alcohol, and like her mother,

651
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:16.119
she also had been institutionalized for some
point. She even said as she

652
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:20.800
was growing up that her and Penny
would become so bereaved about what happened to

653
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.400
Antonette that they would actually drink together
or get high together in order to numb

654
00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:29.400
the pain, because her disappearance was
just causing so much grief for the family.

655
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:32.239
By this point, Wendy had had
a total of five children, and

656
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:37.400
there were times where the children were
actually taken away from her by the state,

657
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:40.840
and she also got involved with criminal
activity where and she was affiliated with

658
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:45.400
a gang at some point. But
by twenty sixteen, she said she had

659
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:49.079
finally cleaned her life up. She
was letam in California with her husband and

660
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.920
her children. She had reconciled with
them, and she finally spoke about the

661
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:58.079
case and how it led her down
such a self destructive lifestyle that she finally

662
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:02.519
checked herself into rehab and finally reconnected
with her kids and was now living a

663
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:07.559
happy life. But she still wanted
to find out what happened to her sister.

664
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.840
But of course she said that after
all this time, she didn't have

665
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:14.960
any real insight of what happened.
She was now saying that she didn't really

666
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:17.920
believe that the Uncle Joe knock actually
happened. She was kind of vague about

667
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:21.920
how she said it. She didn't
really say that it didn't happen. She

668
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:24.639
just says that maybe it wasn't my
uncle Joe who showed up at the house

669
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:29.599
that night. But her most interesting
comment is that she said she was now

670
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.719
as strange from her other sister,
Sadie, who had not talked about the

671
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:36.239
case in many, many years.
I don't think she had gone on the

672
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.119
record since nineteen eighty six. And
as we're going to talk about momentarily,

673
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:44.239
Sadie has recently come out with some
new insights which will cause you to look

674
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.239
at the case in a different light. I was just going to say,

675
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.440
I really want to hear what Sadie
has to say. She was the middle

676
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.559
child, right, so she would
have a little more insight, and she

677
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:59.480
was the one who had a story
right from the jump. So I would

678
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.199
give a little more veracity to the
statements of Sadie than that of Wendy,

679
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.559
just because of the age different.
Sadie was seven, Wendy was five.

680
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:12.000
Your recollection of things at the age
of five is kind of murky at best,

681
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:15.199
but it gets a little more solid, I think by the age of

682
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.480
seven. So I'm really interested to
hear what she has to say and why

683
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.960
the two of them are strange.
Well, I still don't know why they

684
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.679
were estranged. I get the feeling
they might have different outlooks on what they

685
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.800
believe happened to Antonette, and as
Sadie has recently been interviewed, but I

686
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:34.519
still have no idea if she's reconciled
with Wendy. But I can kind of

687
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:38.039
understand because Wendy's fell into substance abuse
issues in criminal activity, and as far

688
00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:42.119
as I know, Sadie has stayed
away from that. But I get the

689
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.920
sense that Wendy and Penny we're like
getting into drugs and alcohol to deal with

690
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:51.000
the grief of losing Antonette, whereas
Sadie wanted to handle things differently, and

691
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:54.239
that's probably why she became a strange
from her family. This new information that

692
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:59.440
came out I mentioned in the intro. They launched a new YouTube series called

693
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:05.119
Disappear Into Darkness, which had a
two part series about Antonette Kaidito's disappearance,

694
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.960
and it was hosted by a journalist
named Crystal Gutierrez, who finally got some

695
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:13.960
access to some files from the FBI, because, like I mentioned, during

696
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.880
the mid nineteen nineties, they did
an interview with Penny where she supposedly failed

697
00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:22.480
a polygraph and they did an in
depth exploration into her story. But this

698
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.320
investigation, none of the results were
released publicly until this very moment, and

699
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:32.320
most importantly, Crystal Gautierrez actually tracked
down Sadie and got an interview with her,

700
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:36.440
and she agreed to go on the
record for the first time and tell

701
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:39.079
a different version of events that we've
heard for the past thirty seven years.

702
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:46.360
Wow, that is pretty insane to
go that long and to be radio silent.

703
00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:51.639
There's a variety of reasons, and
I can never judge a family member,

704
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:55.239
especially a sibling who was a young
child and incredibly traumatized from that.

705
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.960
But to find that moment and to
find that strength to go I want to

706
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:05.000
tell my story, that is so
powerful exactly, And some of the stuff

707
00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.960
that Sadie says here is pretty shocking
and it makes you wonder, like why

708
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:10.760
she never mentioned it earlier. But
I guess she was just dealing with so

709
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:15.199
much grief that she just did not
feel comfortable going on the record about this

710
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.000
and making it public. So I
think this is about a good point to

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00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:22.719
end Part one. So join us
next week for Part two as we continue

712
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:27.519
to discuss the unsolved disappearance of Antonette
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