The NAMUS-45: Gina DeJesus

True Crime Bullsh**

Studio BOTH/AND

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The final missing person from the NAMUS-45 is identified, which only makes the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line all the more suspicious. And a harrowing tale of abduction and survival inspires both hope and a closer look at the many failures in law enforcement when teenagers go missing.

This episode was written and researched by Michelle Tooker.
With production, editing, and additional research by Josh Hallmark.

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Music by: Buddha Times, Interference, Be Still the Earth, Drifting, and Caleb Etheridge
Featured song by Duce Williams

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0:00.0	This is a studio both and production.
0:16.6	If you'd like to support this show and get ad-free episodes for as little as $2 a month,
0:22.0	go to patreon.com slash studio both and MP5407.
0:40.8	For a long time, this was just a number in the keys FBI files next to the words,
0:46.4	namus reports case has been resolved and archived.
0:51.1	Then in the summer of 2022, researchers Kim Kay and Michelle had a discussion about the
0:56.7	unknown namus numbers in the FBI files.
1:00.3	Kim had discovered that MP5407 was in fact the missing person number assigned to Gina
1:06.9	de Jesus who had vanished from Cleveland, Ohio in 2004.
1:12.0	Through further research, Michelle and Kim also determined that MP13744 likely belonged
1:19.6	to Chiyoma Gray and these two discoveries gave us new insights into keys and his online
1:26.4	activities, but more on that later.
1:32.8	Most people recognized Georgina Gina de Jesus' name as she belongs to a small subset of
1:38.2	people who were abducted, held captive and managed to escape.
1:43.8	The Jesus and two other women broke free from their abductor Ariel Castro in May of 2013
1:50.2	and what the press dubbed the miracle in Cleveland.
1:54.4	But before that miraculous rescue, Gina was a child who was missing for nine years, a
2:01.0	child who loved roller skating and ice skating and singing along to all of the pop songs
2:05.8	on the radio when her father drove her to school.
2:11.0	On the afternoon of Friday, April 2nd, 2004, 14-year-old Gina completed another week of
2:16.8	school and was looking forward to the weekend.
2:19.4	She began walking home from Wilbur Wright Middle School in Cleveland, Ohio with her close
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