Oct. 14, 2025

Flashback: The Murder of Tiffany Booth

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The Council on Criminal Justice has estimated there was an 8% Increase in Domestic Violence Incidents in the United States following the Pandemic Stay-At-Home orders, while the Las Vegas Metro Police Department reported a 12 percent spike in domestic violence calls.

One woman’s kind gesture to a co-worker in need led to a whirlwind pandemic lockdown relationship, and later tragically resulted in her murder.

Her murderer remains at large, and her family needs your help to secure justice for Tiffany and ensure he faces the consequences of his actions.

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It was October twentieth, twenty twenty, when Tiffany Booth was

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discovered murdered in the Nevada Desert. Her car had been

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found on October ninth, and investigators quickly used technology to

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locate her. While we're thankful that at least her fate

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isn't a mystery like so many other cases, we cover

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her very likely murderer at WARDO Clemente's location is still

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a mystery.

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Five years later, the reward for Clemente is still twenty

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thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars from crime stoppers and ten

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thousand from the FBI. He may be using the alias

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Daniel Trent. When Tiffany's friend, Bree Tovar and Tiffany's mother

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were trying to locate Tiffany in September of twenty twenty,

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they found dozens of social media accounts under the name

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Daniel Trent, all containing pictures of Clemente. We've spoken to

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Tiffany's cousin, an Angelina a few times since we released

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the episode, and we've made a few edits here and there,

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but it's largely unchanged.

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One of the things she said when we last chatted

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was to reiterate that he's still out there and we

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need to rally together to find him. He's dangerous and

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I couldn't stand if he hurt another young woman. We

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absolutely agree Eduardo or Eddie or Edward or whatever he's

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calling himself is out there, still at large, and he

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has to pay for what he did to Tiffany. We

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do want to note that in the original episode we

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said that at Wardo didn't have a sister, but in

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fact we're told that he did so when he claimed

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that his sister was trying to kill him when he

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asked to move in with Tiffany. We now know that

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that sister does apparently exist, at least.

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In the episode, we mentioned that Clemente got a ride

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back from Eli, Nevada, where he was found sleeping in

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someone's yard. The people that gave him that ride dropped

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him off at a hospital in Henderson, where he claimed

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his brother worked, which points towards someone having seen him

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here locally since the murder. We also talked in the

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episode about Hailey Gray's True Crime Training course, and since

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we aired this originally, the course has been rebranded to

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the True Crime Research Training Course and you can find

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that at Truecrimeresearch Training dot Com. If you're interested in

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the research end of what we do, we recommend checking

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that out. So, without further delay, here's our episode flashback

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on the murder of Tiffany Booth.

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The Council on Criminal Justice has estimated there was an

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eight percent increase in domestic violence incidents in the United

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States following the pandemic state at home orders, while the

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Las Vegas Metro Police Department reported a twelve percent spike

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in domestic violence calls.

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One woman's kind gesture to a coworker in need led

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to a whirlwind pandemic lockdown relationship and later tragically resulted

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in her murder. Her murderer remains at large and her

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family needs your help to secure justice for Tiffany and

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I'm sure he faces the consequences of his actions.

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Hi, and Welcome to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas

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true crime podcast where we focus on cases that deal

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with domestic violence.

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I'm your host Sean.

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And I'm your co host John.

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All Right, before we.

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Get into the case, I want to take a minute

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and thank Hailey Gray for her research on this case.

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Haley shared this information about what we're going to talk

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about in this episode with other podcasts to really spread

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the word about this case. Haley is part of the

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team behind True Crime podcast Training, so if you're listening

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and thinking about starting your own podcast or maybe becoming

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a podcast researcher, you should look into their course.

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The True Crime Podcasting Training course was really helpful to us.

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It definitely helped me understand just how many places there

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are out there to help with researching podcasts, things like

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court records, newspaper archive of things that I didn't even

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know existed before. So we both definitely recommend that for

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podcasters or podcast researchers.

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And you can find them at Truecrime Podcasting dot com.

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This episode today is about Tiffany Booth, who was reported

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missing from Las Vegas on October fifth, twenty twenty, and

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later was unfortunately found tragically murdered. And John, even though

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we live here in Las Vegas and unlike the other

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cases we've discussed so far on Sins and Survivors. I

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do not remember hearing about this case firsthand. I actually

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learned about it because some of the podcasts that Haley

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shared her research with discussed what had happened to Tiffany.

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But before that I had never heard of it. And

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actually one of the complaints of Tiffany's family was that

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there was not a lot of media coverage when Tiffany

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was first found to be missing. And I just want

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to say that that's why we are doing this episode,

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because we need to bring more attention to these cases

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and cases in Nevada and Las Vegas, especially ones like

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these that have a domestic violence component.

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And I actually found out about this case from you

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after you learned about it. I remember us wondering at

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the time, why what was going on? Were we just

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not paying attention? Was there not enough news media coverage

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or what was going on? Part of it definitely was

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that I had been off Facebook for a while at

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that point, and I don't think we were watching the

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news very consistently, even though it was during the pandemic.

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Yeah, I think so.

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It's also really surprising to me that since this happened

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in late twenty twenty, kind of during the height of

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the COVID pandemic during the second wave, I guess it was,

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and we still didn't hear about it. I'm not really

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sure why that is, because what else were we doing

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besides streaming Netflix content. Regardless, though, with cases like this

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one where we have a very strong suspect who has

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simply disappeared, just like Tabitha Tozi's case that we covered

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life last week, it's so important to get the word

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out about what happened to get the murder suspect, Eduardo

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Clemente in this case, get his face out there so

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people know to look for him. Just like Nate Sanchez

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last week. Tiffany's murder is out there and he needs

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to be brought in.

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Absolutely, I agree with you that Tiffany disappeared in October

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of twenty twenty, and yeah, that was the height of

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COVID and she, unfortunately may have just been lost in

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the shuffle of other news with everything else that was

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happening at that time. To start us off, I'll just

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share some background information on who Tiffany was. So Tiffany

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was born on June eleventh, nineteen eighty five, making her

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thirty five years old when she disappeared. Tiffany was an

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extremely family oriented person. She moved to Las Vegas in

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twenty nineteen from San Antonio, Texas, specifically to help out

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her mom, Judy. Her mom was having some health issues

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and Tiffany stepped up to be there for her, and

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the two of them shared a condo in Vegas. And

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to me, this sounds like a very Vegas story.

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That's true.

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A lot of people end up moving here because their

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family members have moved here. Your family, your entire family

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basically moved here because you were here. And for me,

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my mom moved here about eighteen months ago, so that's

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really typical.

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And one of the things her family has said about

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Tiffany is that she was the glue that held them together,

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And to me, this really highlights what her loss means

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to everyone around her. Tiffany was an animal lover. She

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had a beloved cat called Fluffy Kitty that of course

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she adored. She was a Seattle Seahawks fan, and according

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to her family, she was extremely caring. I mean, I

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think that show is with her relocating her life to

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be here for her mom, but she was always looking

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out for others. And helping people out, and as a result,

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her family has said that Tiffany could be vulnerable, potentially

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to manipulation because she had such a good heart and

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she was just a very trusting person. Tiffany worked in it.

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She was interested in Disney, genealogy and true crime, and

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she loved playing board games with her family late into

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the night. She was also great with kids and hoped

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to work with children one day.

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One story that has been shared is that Tiffany was

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amazing with Angelina's son, who has autism. Angelina mentioned that

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her son used to struggle with his breathing treatments and

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hated wearing his mask. Tiffany also had asthma, important for

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later in the story, and she would send him pictures

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of herself doing the same treatments and she would say, see,

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grown ups have to do this too, And then she

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also would show him how to use his mask very patiently.

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Yeah, it sounds like she was just such a loving person,

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and I know that her family is in a lot

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of pain after what happened to her. Tiffany having asthma

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became a major concern once the pandemic hit in March

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of twenty twenty Judy, her mom contracted COVID and to

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avoid putting Tiffany's health at risk, Judy moved in with

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Judy's boyfriend and Tiffany stayed at the condo by herself. Well,

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Fluffy Kitty was there with her too, and around the

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same time her coworker EDWARDO Clemente. He approached Tiffany with

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a bit of a pity play, maybe so he lies

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to her and claims that he doesn't have a place

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to stay because his sister tried to kill him, and

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he asked to stay with Tiffany on her couch, and

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Tiffany let him move in as her roommate. And at

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first they were just living together as friends and roommates.

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Tiffany would refer to Eduardo as her roommate to her mom,

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friends and family, etc. But she didn't even say to

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her family that she was living with a guy. She

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would just say my roommate. Buteduardo and Tiffany's relationship changed

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around July of twenty twenty and they became more than roommates.

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I think we all remember how weird things were during

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the summer of twenty twenty. We weren't even really beyond

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the initial outbreak yet, and we weren't even doing those

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things where we would meet up in parks fifty feet

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apart to talk to each other. So I can sort

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of see how a relationship that started in the midst

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of all that, in the middle of lockdown such as

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it was, could become intense really quickly. One of the

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things I know that you taught me was that domestic

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violence rates increased during that period of the pandemic. When

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you think about the incredibly high unemployment, which was honestly

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much worse here in the Las Vegas area and took

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a lot longer to go back down when the pandemic

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ended if you add in the isolation. I've kind of

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always suspected that the domestic violence rate here might have

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increased a bit more than it did in other places.

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So later in September, Tiffany started telling her friends in

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some of her family about Eduardo, but she still kept

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it from her mom. At that point, Tiffany confided in

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her cousin Angelina and said things about Eduardo and referred

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to him as a teddy bear and that she's never

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felt that sway before, and even referred to him as

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her prince charming Angelina has said in retrospect that Tiffany

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was absolutely being love bombed, but at the time, as

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she told John Walsh on in Pursuit, she said, Eduardo

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quote seemed like a perfect fit unquote. And this is

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another thing that I've learned from you is that it's

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a very common pattern for abusers to use love bombing

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as a way to ingratiate themselves with people. They'll shower

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the person with all that love and affection and get

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them hooked, which is another form of manipulation through giving

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that affection.

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And it seems like the men.

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Who do this always know how to pick their love

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bomb target somehow.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I remember when we were discussing this case and you

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heard some of those details about how fast their relationship

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were and what Tiffany was saying about Eduardo, and you said, oh,

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that's love bombing, like right away.

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Yeah, yeah, it absolutely was.

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Another thing I want to mention is that there's a

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YouTube channel that we really love called pop Culture Detective.

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They write and present long form essays on YouTube that

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examine different things in as you'd expect, pop Culture will

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include a link to their YouTube channel in the show

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notes for you, so you can check them out. They

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did one in twenty eighteen called Stalking for Love, which

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talks about the trope of the persistent man who won't

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take no for an answer. So this sort of thing

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seems really innocuous or even endearing when it's in a

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movie like fifty first States. That's a really particularly egregious

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one or ten things I Hate about You, But it's

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really insidious, and I'd argue that this type of behavior

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really fits into that category. I think that video essay

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is like twenty twenty three to twenty five minutes long,

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and it's well worth a listen. It'll be in the

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show notes, we'll include it there.

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So, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, when we're

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talking about love bombing, love bombing is absolutely a form

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of emotional abuse. When we're talking about love bombing, we

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aren't talking about little nice things or gestures that a

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person you're dating might do for you, like fixing your

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coffee to go in the morning. We're talking about someone

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who is violating your boundaries, which can be a sign

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of an unhealthy relationship or abuse. So the DV hotlineless

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these four.

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Signs of love bombing.

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Number one is someone saying that you're their soulmate or

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very early, I love youse when you haven't known that

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other person very long. This can feel very off putting,

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so go with your gut if you're hearing these kinds

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of things. Number two exaggerated compliments, not just you look

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nice today, but really big statements like my life would

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be nothing without you, or there's no one more perfect

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than you. Number three is gifts, and again these will

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be excessive gifts. Gifts given when there's no occasion for

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a gift, or just over the top expensive or that

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maybe cross a line, such as if the gift creates

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some kind of reliance on the other person, like they

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start paying your rent or your car payment, maybe they

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take you on extreme high end vacations or buy you

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luxury items, or if there's like a stipulation attached to

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the gift where they might do like a quid pro quo,

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like oh, I paid your phone bills, so don't ignore my.

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Calls, or for communication overload.

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often or like for long periods of time because you're

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just enjoying learning more about each other. But when the

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communication becomes overwhelming, that's another sign you can look for.

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So this is one of those areas where I think

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it's important as parents to have these conversations with our

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male children about this. The idea that this gets normalized

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in pop culture and memorialized in movies, this happens all

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So it's really important that this be pointed out to

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our male children and have it explained to them, and

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explain to them.

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Why this is just not acceptable.

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All the stuff you mentioned there, the excessive gifts, the

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wild compliments, the I love yous, and the communication all

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make my spidy senses just tingle. They just skeeve me out.

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But I've also made a ton of my own mistakes

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in this regard, and it would have been nice if

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this had been explained to me when I was a

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bit younger. This isn't stuff you're born knowing. You just

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have to fumble your way through it. The darker side

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of that, of course, is when you're thirty eight years

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old and you should know better, and you do most

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likely know better, and you know exactly what you're doing,

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and you pray on someone specifically using these techniques.

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Tiffany expressed to family in a group chat that her

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mom wasn't in how she was head over heels Eduardo

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that they were already talking about marriage. Now, remember they've

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been living together under extreme circumstances, maybe four or five

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months at this point, and only dating maybe two months,

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and Tiffany is mentioning how Eduardo and her want to

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have a Star Wars themed wedding, so.

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That actually sounds awesome, and it sounds like Tiffany was

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really taken in by Eduardo at that point. On September

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twenty seventh, Tiffany and Eduardo had dinner with Tiffany's mom, Judy,

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and that was the first time that Judy had ever

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met Eduardo. Tiffany finally came clean about her relationship with

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Eduardo to Judy and told her that it was serious.

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Judy says she found Eduardo to be normal, nice and

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highly intelligent, but she thought he seemed secretive due to

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a lack of information about his family. On Thursday, October first,

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Judy received a text from Tiffany's phone number telling her

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that she Tiffany needed to leave her condo because her

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asthma was acting up and being aggravated by marijuana smo

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coming through a neighbor's vents. She said that she and

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Eduardo would be staying in Boulder City. So you and

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I Sean live about twenty five thirty minutes from Boulder

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City and like close enough that I can ride my

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And Boulder City is great. I love it.

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They have cool restaurants like Cornish Pasty, and cool bars

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like beer Zombies, and a really cool hotel like the

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Boulder Damn Hotel that has a speakeasy in the basement.

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So if you're going there for the day or for

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an overnight from Henderson, that's definitely not weird at all.

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nice way to get out of the bigger city of

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So I agree with you.

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I think that that's a completely understandable, understandable thing that

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two people might do when they're feeling kind of like

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they need to get out of their their condo, just

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get away for a little bit.

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Tiffany told her employer that she wouldn't be coming into

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work on that Friday, October second, saying that they'd return

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home that day, but she wouldn't be back to work

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until Monday, October fifth. She also made plans to have

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dinner with Judy on Sunday, the fourth. Judy seemed to

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be pretty suspicious from the beginning, trying to contact Tiffany

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by text on Thursday. Her friends have also said that

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it was strange that Judy didn't hear back because she

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and Tiffany were always in close contact, and weirdly, during

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that time, Tiffany was active on social media, but she

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wasn't liking or commenting, which was very strange.

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Yeah, the family thought it was odd that Tiffany wasn't

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answering their texts, but they they've said, they didn't want

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to worry too much or get into the worst case scenarios.

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They seem to think that, you know, Tiffany and Eduardo,

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they were in a new relationship. Possibly they even eloped,

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which I guess is not out of the realm of possibility.

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But the family also noticed that during this time, these

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few days, they only received text from Tiffany.

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No one had spoken to her on the phone.

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So Judy had access to the security cameras at Tiffany's condo,

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so she could log in and see that Tiffany's car

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was gone, and she noticed that the security footage from

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September twenty ninth September thirtieth and October first had all

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been manually deleted, so this kind of made her concerned

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about what's going on. And as we mentioned, Tiffany was

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the glue of her family and friends, and she was

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in several group chats, including a group of friends that

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she had from San Antonio, and this group of friends

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noticed that on October third and fourth that Tiffany's location

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showed that she was in Idaho, which of course was

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very strange. They did not understand why she would be

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in Idaho.

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Idaho is a seven and a half hour drive from

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Las Vegas, about five hundred miles and definitely nowhere near

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Boulder City, and location services on your phone just don't lie.

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We talked two weeks ago about the dangers of airtech

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eggs for stocking and the misuse of location tracking, but

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in this case, it was absolutely crucial to figure out

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what had happened and as well as to finally discovering

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Tiffany's ultimate fate. On Monday, October fifth, both Tiffany and

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Eduardo had not returned to work, which was very unusual

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for Tiffany. Despite attempts to contact them, no one could

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reach either of them, so obviously Judy was concerned, so

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she started texting Tiffany about the cat, Fuzzy Kitty, to

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see if the cat was okay and if she needed

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help with the cat, and again received no response. So

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this really made Judy even more worried because Tiffany would

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never leave without setting up proper care for her cat

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and responding to questions about her kitty. So given that,

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Judy and her boyfriend decided to investigate by going to

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Tiffany's condo, and really alarmingly, they discovered that there was

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no food or water for Fuzzy Kitty and all. Also,

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none of Tiffany's belongings were gone, which was really concerning

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because they had allegedly gone to Boulder City and probably

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would have taken something. And even worse, Judy found Tiffany's

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asthma medication her apartment, which was ostensibly the reason that

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they left in the first place, because her asthma was

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acting up so very strange, she wouldn't have taken that

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with her, and on top of that, she did not

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take her laptop, which was very odd for her. So

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at that point, on the same day, Monday, October fifth,

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Judy reported both Tiffany and Eduardo as missing persons, because

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remember at that point, everyone thought they were together and

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