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Welcome to postmortem. I'm your host, Anne Marie Green, and today we're discussing the case of 14-year-old Jade Colvin.

She was reported missing in June of 2016 after she ran away from a local shelter in Iowa for troubled youth. But then her case went unsolved for years until a new team of investigators set out to find answers following leads

all the way to a remote farm in Decora, Iowa. So joining me today's 48 hours correspondent,

Natalie Morales, who reported on Jade's case.

And once again, Natalie, it's always good to have you here.

Thanks again for having me, Emery. Now, I should point out, this is a case about the passion and the persistence of so many investigators who really worked together to try to solve this years-long mystery of what happened

to this missing young girl. Absolutely. I want to give everyone the quick reminder, as per usual.

If you have not watched or listen to this episode, it's called Jade Colvin is missing. Go check it

out and then come back for this conversation. All right, Natalie, we learned

very early on in the hour. Jade Colvin's had a tough, tough childhood. Both her mother,

LaDawn and her father, Kevin, they struggle with substance abuse. Jade is only 13 when she's

placed in foster care, but she's in and out of different facilities, and she runs away

a lot. So when she ran away in 2016, in a way, this was part of a pattern. So I'm wondering why,

for Jade's family and for her friends, why they thought this was different. Well, I mean, she

literally just fell off the map. You know, as you mentioned, she did frequently run away. She ran away from a shelter. She was hiding from the foster care system. Her mother, LaDawn, also tried to hide her from the system as well. She didn't want her daughter to be in foster care. She wanted her daughter to be with her, but as you mentioned, LaDahn and Jade's

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