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My name is James Wulner, and this is episode 20 of a production of forum communications. My name is James

Walner, and this is episode 20 of a better search for Barbara. Hi. I'm sorry. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. I feel like I know you kind of. And he snooping in mom's room and found a letter and said that it was a suicide letter.

He did. He remembers it being a suicide.

Yeah. And he said he brought it up to grandma and she would not talk about it.

This is the original report that came in on 412, 1981, at 1556 hours, okay?

And this is what it says.

Call from Louise Cotton reporting that her daughter Barbara has not come home since yesterday.

She is a 15-year-old, list her date of birth, brown hair and eyes, small build, wearing a tan short jacket and blue jeans.

Was last seen at a friend's house at about 10 p.m. last night. Was with a guy by the name of Stacey earlier in the evening.

Stacey, first name, used to wash dishes at cakes and cones.

Some of the things that he liked to do could kill you.

Because how would nobody know about this point?

He enjoyed choking and suffocating me and my sister.

She was, I don't know, one of the kindest people I knew.

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