The Disappearance of the Millbrook Twins, Part 1
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This prologue introduces the city of Augusta and some important aspects of Jeannette and Dannette's case: why their case was closed, the neighborhood in which the girls disappeared, and questions regarding the the runaway theory.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Fall Line. |
| 0:18.4 | Augusta, Georgia, 1990. |
| 0:21.2 | A Sunday in March. |
| 0:23.0 | It was 66 degrees and there was no rain. |
| 0:26.8 | That week, Janet Jackson's escapade hit number one on the charts. |
| 0:30.7 | The most popular TV show was The Simpsons and Jeanette and Danette Milbrooke were home with |
| 0:35.5 | their family. They were faced with a problem. How to get to school for the next week. |
| 0:40.8 | You see, their family had just moved from their home on 12th Street in downtown Augusta, |
| 0:45.6 | over to an apartment and Jennings Homes on CUNY Circle. |
| 0:48.9 | Danette and Jeanette were 15 and twins, but in different grades. |
| 0:52.7 | And they were now at a new school district. |
| 0:54.8 | They'd be allowed to finish out the year at Lucy Laney, their old high school, |
| 0:58.5 | but their bus would no longer pick them up. |
| 1:01.2 | Their mother, Louise, didn't want them walking all that way alone, nearly three miles one way, |
| 1:06.4 | but she didn't have money to give them for a week's ride on the city bus. |
| 1:10.4 | So they called their godfather Ted, who lived in their old neighborhood, Bethlehem, |
| 1:14.5 | and he agreed to supply the $20 they'd need. They decided to walk to his house to retrieve it. |
| 1:20.0 | The twins 12-year-old sister, Shantay, asked to come along, but they said no. |
| 1:25.0 | Why? Probably because they were 15 and she was 12 and the walk was long. |
| 1:30.4 | They weren't alone very often. Maybe they wanted that time. |
| 1:34.1 | They were supposed to be back by dinner time. They left at three, and after they made it to |
| 1:38.5 | their godfathers, they visited their cousin Juanita and asked if she'd walk home with them. |
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