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on the upper right hand corner at thin air podcast.com now on with the show. the Deborah Sykes was not the type of person whose disappearance would end up as headline news.

She was 38 years old when she went missing in 2005 and in the small town she lived in she was mostly known for hanging around in bars.

Though she was married with two children, the story of her disappearance at least to the police was that she was missing because she wanted to be and that's the story.

The story. The story. In our last episode, I told the story of Marie Watson, who went missing after a custody battle and in Daniels investigation of the

disappearance of Deborah Sykes I heard a familiar story that she went missing because that's the type of

person she was and that her disappearance was her doing, if not her fault entirely because of her lifestyle.

In Marie's case, she had been a prostitute, and in Deborah's case, a known alcoholic, and in both cases they had a fair share of run-ins with the law.

Maybe it's unfair to say that police did no real investigation but in both of these stories it seems true enough, that those in our society

who are the most marginalized risk having the justice of an honest investigation just

taken from them, because police assume that whatever happened

to them resulted from their bad choices. A prevailing theory at the outset of both of these

cases was that they would just show up one day after running from their problems.

In Marie's case, it's been 38 years.

In Deborah's, it's been just over 11. As time has passed in both of these cases, family members are left in the wake,

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