Phoenix Forgotten Page #4

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# 'Cause we're better than Texas #

# 'Cause we're so big and fierce #

# Call us T-Rexes #

# Look at our faces,

I know you wanna sex us! #

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# Arizona, take off your rainbow shades #

# Arizona,

have another look at the world... #

What happened between here

and when they left the car...

you see that's the mystery.

Wouldn't know if it was

a couple of hours or maybe a whole day.

That's the hole we're trying to fill.

Another day in the desert,

searching for clues for three missing teens.

So the ground search was odd,

'cause it turned up almost nothing.

Normally in a case like that

where people turn up missing

and then we find a vehicle,

um, they locate something.

And there were no effective trails

that led us one direction or another

and even when they used their dogs out there.

After two days of searching,

a small army of law officers

are setting up camp

alongside a desert highway.

People that are on the ground tell you that,

"Hey, the one gal has

a bright yellow shirt or something."

So that's something that you're gonna

try to key on as looking down.

And you just go back and forth,

kind of like mowing the yard.

It looks very flat from the air,

but when you get down on the ground

and you start walking around

even the smallest bit of terrain, there is

a lot of... lot of places they could be.

Now anyone with any information

about this case

is asked to call a special tip line...

If you'd have asked me

at the front end, "Are we going

to find these kids," I would have said,

"Yeah. Oh, yeah, we'll find them."

Three things to look for. Three shirts.

I don't want to be morbid, but three bodies.

I mean, there's-there's more...

there's more to search for.

We just found nothing.

So if you were to speculate,

what do you think happened to them?

Maybe if I wasn't on camera or something,

I think maybe I could give you some opinions,

but, um, it's hard to speculate.

Okay, so what do you think happened?

There's potentially some sort

of relationship issue.

One boy likes the girl,

and the girl likes the other boy,

and the two boys find out about the issue.

Maybe somebody came along and picked them up

and could have taken them somewhere,

but they should have surfaced.

Foul play is possible,

but it's very tough

if only one person did it.

It's very difficult to hold three people,

you know, together.

It could just be someone

out there that's running some dope.

They were just

in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Wrong place wrong time.

Stumble upon something that was five miles

from where they were,

where the vehicle was located,

and they were driven to that loca...

Like I said, we didn't find anything,

so who knows what happened?

Hard to speculate.

How did you meet Josh?

I feel weird talking about this,

'cause I know he's gonna watch it later.

We met, uh... we met in church actually.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Everybody called Josh, "Ginger,"

and they were making fun of him,

like, calling him "Ginger"

because of his red hair,

but when I was little, I didn't know

"Ginger" was a name for redheads.

I just thought it was a nickname,

like, specifically for Josh.

So I just thought the coolest kid at

Sunday school... everybody knew who he was,

so I went out of my way to hang out with him.

That's when we started becoming friends.

Oh, nice.

I just got some B-roll,

but I got some really cool cactuses...

Were you guys filming me while I was asleep?

- No.

- No. Never.

Okay, a little bit.

- Can you put your seatbelt back on?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Literally nothing out here.

Hello!

You're gonna get

your head taken off by one of those.

- I wanna live here.

- You wanna live here?

Yeah. Maybe.

Whoa, whoa, watch out!

- God!

- Sorry, guys. My bad.

- Whoa, check that out.

- What? What is it?

Dead animal. A coyote?

- Is it two?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, it is.

- Hold on, this camera sucks.

- So that's it?

- That's it.

That's the last he shot.

Hang on. So Josh went all the way out there

and then just didn't shoot

anything past the road?

Doesn't that seem weird to you?

I always thought it was a little odd.

Why? Why odd?

Well, your brother...

He seemed to have that camera

glued to his face all the time.

It-It just didn't make

any sense to leave it behind.

So do you think

maybe they had a second camera?

Like, is that a possibility?

I thought about that.

I-I still think your brother

would have had that with him.

I know Ashley had access

to those camera equipment

and could check out,

but I don't remember anything

being unaccounted for at the time.

We... we ran that thread out

as far as we could,

and we just couldn't take it, and law

enforcement couldn't take it anywhere either.

So that's what the kids would

have been using back in '97, right?

It's a little before my time,

but yeah, probably.

Do you still have any

of those old cameras laying around?

Yeah.

I'm Ashley Foster, CPTV.

Just want to say hello to all

the new freshmen in the building.

Where did you get this?

This was found in Mark Abrams' Jeep

after he went missing

with Ashley and with my brother.

We think Josh had

a second camera with him on the trip.

If he did have one,

it most likely came from the school,

so I was wondering if you thought Ashley

could have checked one out from here,

like, maybe she used a different name?

It's possible, but like I said,

it was before I started.

Would there have been, like,

a logbook or records of that?

- Like, stuff that might have been...

- It's been 20 years.

I'm so sorry I can't be of more help to you.

Even if they had a second camera,

it just... it went missing with them.

Just another dead end, you know?

And new developments tonight.

Rescuers were forced to call off

their search for three missing teens,

saying there was "no new

credible evidence or clues

to guide the search."

It's like they've been written off.

They've been... my son and his friends have

been abandoned by the police department.

All the efforts by law enforcement

to develop some evidence as to what happened,

they were pretty... well, they were negative.

They could never go anywhere with the case.

I think if they had kids, they'd want

somebody looking for their kid.

Dear Ashley,

I know that you're alive...

and that you can hear my voice right now.

You can't imagine how much your father

and I miss you... and love you.

Every night, I have a dream

that I come downstairs

and you're sitting at the table

like you were never even gone.

I know this means something.

I know it means that you... are still alive.

Your father and I will never give up hope.

I love you, Ashley. Please come home.

I wanted a funeral...

but Jack wouldn't have it.

So, here we are.

The bench was a compromise?

Yep. That's what marriage is about.

It's... uh... Sophie, I don't...

I don't think your brother's alive.

I-I... I don't think... I don't think he is.

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