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🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the fall line. |
0:15.5 | This podcast and everything, really, that we've done with it begins with one event. |
0:31.5 | The disappearance of Jeanette and Jeanette Milbrooke. |
0:34.8 | For turn-al-twins who, on March 18, 1990, left a convenience store in Augusta, Georgia on foot. |
0:42.5 | They were headed to their mother's house just a few miles away, but they never made it. |
0:48.5 | Through our work on this case, a case closed for over 20 years. |
0:53.5 | From 1991 until 2013, we have made many friends and allies. |
1:00.5 | One person in particular has been a strong presence in both our work and in supporting the family of the twins. |
1:07.5 | She makes sure the twins sister Chante and their mother Miss Louise get coverage each time anything changes in the case or an anniversary comes up. |
1:18.5 | In fact, she's been there with us since the beginning, working on the other side of the media line in more traditional news. |
1:26.5 | We met Renetta DeBose, anchor and reporter for Augusta Aikens' WJBF, four years ago, and from the start, it was clear we were all interested in the same things. |
1:39.5 | Investigating cold cases and attracting the attention to the most forgotten murders and disappearances. |
1:45.5 | Renetta has stuck with the Net and Jeanette's case, but they aren't the only missing or murdered people in Augusta or in Aikens. |
1:54.5 | And as Renetta has built her career in the Augusta Aikens area, she's become known as the television news reporter to dig into and stay with the area's coldest cases. |
2:06.5 | And she's likely the perfect person for that job because she's not just an investigative journalist. |
2:13.5 | She's also the family member of a murder victim whose case has gone cold. |
2:18.5 | Her own grandmother, Gwendolyn, was killed in Indiana, and the family has been waiting for answers since Renetta was a small child. |
2:26.5 | She's grown up with the unfinished business and the pain of her grandmother's case and absence permeating her family. |
2:34.5 | As long as we've known Renetta, she's been busy, never a woman to sit idle. |
2:40.5 | She's on so many committees and boards that she often has a meeting every night in a given week. |
2:46.5 | She's a member of the Augusta Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated and on the positively Augusta HIV AIDS and Awareness Board, |
2:56.5 | a member of the Augusta Chapter of the links incorporated and a member of the Patient Advisory Board of the PCOS Challenge, the National Polycystic Overy Syndrome Association. |
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