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Court Junkie

Ep 135: The Social Circle

Court Junkie

PodcastOne

True Crime, News, Talk Radio, Government

4.88.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In January 2005, 16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds went missing from East Moline, Illinois. Investigators quickly uncovered that Adrianne’s friends knew more than they were saying. What happened to Adrianne Reynolds would shock nearly everyone in their community. Thank you to everyone who shared this story with us, including Joanna Reynolds, Nicole Lally, and Toria Wilson. Please check out Toria’s podcast, Missing and Murdered in the Midwest for even more in-depth info on this case. Sponsors in this episode: Madison Reed - Get 10% off plus free shipping on your first Color Kit when you go to Madison-Reed.com and use code COURT. The Jordan Harbinger Show - Subscribe anywhere you listen to podcasts Care/of - Get 50% off your first Care/of order by going to TakeCareOf.com and entering the code junkie50. NetSuite - Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at NetSuite.com/COURT . This episode was researched and written by Gabrielle Russon. Please consider supporting Court Junkie with as little as $3 a month via Patreon.com/CourtJunkie to receive ad-free episodes. Help support Court Junkie with $6 a month and get access to bonus monthly episodes. Follow me on Twitter @CourtJunkiePod or Instagram at CourtJunkie.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Nicole Lally was a rookie journalist with a gut feeling.

0:05.5

As if by fate, she had stumbled onto what she thought had the potential to be a big

0:10.1

new story.

0:11.8

Later on, it would become the most memorable story of her career.

0:16.0

In January of 2005, I was on my way into work for a night shift and I stopped to make

0:21.7

Donald.

0:22.7

And there was a woman that was hanging up signs of missing people.

0:25.8

Knowing I was going to the station to need to bring some story ideas, kind of

0:29.7

stock, it was Adrian Reynolds, stepmother.

0:33.5

And she obviously had been upset and crying and Adrian was missing and I explained to her

0:38.5

that I was in a quarter.

0:39.5

I got her contact information and went into work and said, hey, we don't typically

0:46.4

jump on cases of missing teens because a lot of times it's a runaway or some family

0:52.4

dispute.

0:53.4

So we kind of wait for police to leave us if it's something more.

0:57.1

And I just had this gut feeling and I really pushed my new director Arthur Steadman at the

1:01.1

time to let me kind of make some phone call.

1:05.1

Let me talk to the family and see what was going on.

1:07.2

And I actually set up an interview for that night at Adrian Reynolds home with her family.

1:12.8

Soon Nicole, who at the time worked at CBS Affiliated Channel, WHBF in Rock Island,

1:19.3

Illinois, and other reporters across the country were captivated by the Adrian Reynolds

1:24.9

case.

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