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The Lost Kids

2: Pulling a Daniel

The Lost Kids

USG Audio

True Crime, Unsolvedcrime, Investigative Journalism, Therapeutic School, Society & Culture, History, Investigative Reporting, Troubled Teen, Missing Person

4.8702 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A former resident of CEDU Runnings Springs returns to the old campus to explain how she ran away from CEDU eight times and almost died on the mountainside.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on the Lost Kids.

0:04.3

We all got together because we knew he was leaving and we were sitting there at that counter

0:11.8

in that kitchen and we were, we just kept saying to him, if anything goes wrong, you

0:18.9

call me.

0:20.8

Then that Friday, we talked.

0:23.8

And right away, Daniel, Daniel was really upset.

0:26.6

You don't even know this is really bad school.

0:28.8

I don't want to stay.

0:29.8

He was good at best school.

0:30.6

Really bad school.

0:32.4

A staff call that said Daniel ran away.

0:35.7

We report that to the police.

0:38.6

The mistake we have is that I sent him to see him.

0:41.8

We didn't know that as such a best school, and we were fooled by them.

0:51.8

Tell me about what you remember of Daniel Ewan.

0:55.5

I was on what they called an escort duty.

0:59.2

And I remember trying to engage him into conversation and sort of explain that every new student feels some sadness or anger.

1:09.6

This is Erica Kaplan Isaac.

1:11.9

She was already a student at Cedoo Running Springs in California, when Daniel

1:15.9

Ewan arrived in February 2004.

1:19.0

I usually said things like, you know, it's going to be okay.

1:24.4

This program is hard, but it's survivable. You're going to get through this. You're going to make

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