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Missing

273 // Hand Signal For Help

Missing

Crawlspace Media

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

3.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Tim Pilleri, Lance Reenstierna and Jennifer Amell speak with Andrea Gunraj of the Canadian Women's Foundation who helped create the Hand Signal For Help. Check out what work they're doing at the Canadian Women's Foundation: canadianwomen.org Check out the Signal For Help: https://canadianwomen.org/signal-for-help/ Follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdnwomenfdn Follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canadianwomensfoundation/ Follow Andrea Gunraj on Twitter: twitter.com/andreagunraj This episode is sponsored by: Eaze Click the following link and use our PROMO code for 30% off your order. https://fanlink.to/eazemissing PROMO code MISSING THE WELL Cleanse Click the following link and use our PROMO code for 20% off your order. https://fanlink.to/wellmissing PROMO code MISSING The Generation Why from Wondery Subscribe now: https://wondery.com/shows/generation-why/ Follow Private Investigations For the Missing and please donate if you can: https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Follow Missing: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/ Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

A November 4th of 2021, a 16-year-old girl was trapped in her abductors' car while he

0:23.2

was traveling through Kentucky.

0:25.1

She began to make these strange hand gestures through the window at passing cars.

0:29.6

She held up four fingers with her thumb tucked into the palm, and she closed her fingers

0:34.4

around her thumb to make a fist.

0:36.5

Many passers-by thought she was waving, but one motorist recognized the hand signal

0:41.4

from TikTok and called the police.

0:43.9

Law enforcement was unfamiliar with the hand gesture, but they pulled the vehicle over

0:48.1

anyway.

0:49.3

They discovered that the girl inside had been reported missing by her parents days

0:53.7

ago from Asheville, North Carolina.

0:56.4

Her abductor was a man named James Herbert Brick, and they charged him with unlawful imprisonment.

1:02.6

He also had pornographic images of a child on his phone and has been charged with possession.

1:07.9

The girl and James Brick had been acquaintances, and Brick forced her to go on a trip with

1:12.3

them to visit family in Ohio.

1:14.5

Once Brick's family found out that the girl was a minor and that she was a missing person,

1:18.9

Brick took off toward Kentucky.

1:20.8

This girl used the hand signal for help, and it likely saved her life.

1:50.8

Welcome back to Missing!

1:54.6

I am Tim here today with Lance!

1:56.8

Lance, how are you today?

1:58.3

Couldn't be better, Tim.

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