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Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

The Millbrook Twins (Part Two: The Unknown)

Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Unresolved Productions

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On the approximate date of April 8th, 1991, the family of missing teenagers Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook were met by one of the investigators handling their case. The family was told that because their 17th birthday had come-and-gone, that the girls - wherever they were - could no longer be forced to return home. 

So the family had to put their faith in a higher power to help their missing relatives return home, because law enforcement had no interest in finding them. Then, just two years after this meeting, one of the police officials contacted NCMEC - the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - and told them that the girls had been found. 

Which is it? Were they still missing, or had they been found?

This would just be the beginning of a three-decades-in-the-making mystery, which has consumed the time and effort of Shanta Sturgis, the twins' younger sister. To this day, she (and the rest of the twins' family) has received little-to-no help from law enforcement. I speak to her, and the makers of the Fall Line podcast, in an effort to get to the bottom of law enforcement's hesitance to speak out about this investigation.

Part two of three.

 

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

Music by Lisa Hogan

 

Follow along with Shanta at her Facebook group, Missing Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, which can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/twwinsfammily/

Check out The Fall Line podcast, whose website can be found at: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/

 

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Transcript

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One of the things I do want to point out is that one of the illuminating experiences that

0:42.3

Chante has had is the slow realization that tens of thousands of people care about her and

0:49.2

her sisters and that makes the fact that Augusta Richmond County is ignoring them, even more

0:57.2

frustrating and harsh and strange to her because here are all these people that care and the

1:03.4

organization that should ostensibly be protecting them and serving them won't make this one single

1:11.3

gesture that could change everything in the case.

1:19.2

The area that Jeanette and Denette Milbrooke disappeared from, the Augusta neighborhood known as

1:33.8

Bethlehem, was home to Augusta's cotton industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

1:39.5

Over the next couple of years, the area would see an evolution of sorts. The cotton companies would

1:46.6

make way for brick makers who took advantage of the ponds on Bethlehem's east side. Nowadays,

1:52.8

there is still a brick making company in that area, but the brickyards exist as a bit of an

1:58.0

oasis in Bethlehem, a place where people who live in the city can travel just a few blocks and go

2:03.5

fishing. The family of the Milbrooke twins knew this area to be a bit rough, but they had never

2:09.2

had reason to fear danger coming to themselves or the ones they cared for. With the twins traveling

2:15.4

in Unison, they had no reason to believe that harm would or even could come to them. So, after

2:22.8

reporting the twins missing, their family believed that the police would go through the proper

2:27.6

process. You know, the stuff you see in cop movies and police procedures. The family believed

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