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Hello and welcome to true crime daily the podcast covering high profile and under the radar cases from across the country every week on your host and a Garcia we are recording this on Wednesday October 13th 2021.

Our guest today is Atlanta based criminal defense attorney Gerald Griggs who is a friend of the show welcome back Gerald.

Thank you for having me and it's always a pleasure.

Oh, I think your phone is ringing. You may need to get that.

Always busy in this office.

You know what? That's what I love about this podcast.

Phones ring dogs bark.

All righty. Let's get to our cases this week.

They center on two missing women a New Jersey woman on a cross country adventure to California.

Following her dream to become a chef went missing in June in the Coachella Valley.

Now local authorities announced that there's been a gruesome discovery.

But is it related to the Lauren Cho case?

We don't know yet, but there's a lot to talk about this case because Lawrence case received much needed national attention in response to the disappearance and then

murder of Gabby Petito who was on a cross country trip herself.

And that case really galvanized many people, especially those who are defenders of survivors and of the missing and of the murdered who said, you know what?

Yes, let's help Gabby's family, but what about all the other families?

And so we've seen a lot of cases Gerald that have been solved or at least the person has been found in the weeks since that.

Because of the amount of attention that's been placed on these cases.

So I think that's very important. We're going to talk about that.

But first, a Missouri woman is still missing after disappearing in July.

The man that she was reportedly staying with claims that Cassidy Rainwater drove off in the middle of the night with a stranger.

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