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Some people talk about cold cases and cases just being really cold cold and arctic. I mean for me

I'm like, okay, well, this is like an iceberg and all the cold cases that we know about are above the water and this one is so cold

It's still below the water. This is the first time I'm ever able to

Speak about it in a platform more than just me and a family member. Judy's like the girl the time forgot and I find it heartbreaking

And I just wanted to advance and get somewhere with it

These letters like they do help in a lot of ways and I think as I go through them more and more and analyzing them

There's a lot of interesting stuff in it. I don't think it's gonna lead me to a direction in terms of where to look but it definitely

Helps me to establish this idea that something happened to her and

Even if it wasn't by his hand or on purpose

She's probably not coming back. I was reading even today about oh, yeah, I have classes tomorrow in this exam and and you know

Like somebody in the middle of their life and then all of a sudden it's like poof never seen or heard from again

19 year old Judith Brown disappeared from New York City in April of

1977 at the time Judith was living on her own

So her family wasn't immediately aware that Judith was missing and much of Judith's last known footsteps before she disappeared

Remain a mystery to her family even today 45 years after she vanished

But back in 1977 Judith's family learned she was missing when the FBI came knocking at their door

You see Judith had disappeared along with someone else a

A murderer who had escaped from a local mental health facility more than 45 years later both of them remain missing

For many years Judith's family kept quiet about this

It was too upsetting to reopen those wounds

But as the years wore on a younger generation of Judith's family took an interest in finding answers

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