Episode 176: Trevor Nichols

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So don't don't don't get Hello and
welcome to the Catch My Killer Podcast.

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Thank you for listening. My name
is Mark. For nearly eight years,

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I've written a weekly newspaper column about
true crimes and missing people for the Claremont

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Sun newspaper in Ohio. With the
column and podcast, my objective has always

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been to bring attention to cases that
haven't received much media attention, if any.

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This week's story involves a missing young
soldier named Trevor Nichols, who was

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a specialist with the tenth Mountain Division's
first Brigade Combat Team at Fort Drum,

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New York. He had recently learned
that he had been transferred to Fort Riley,

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Kansas. However, Trevor never made
it to Fort Riley. He was

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twenty four years old when he disappeared
in two seventeen and has not been seen

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or heard from since. Trevor Michael
Nichols was a young man from Tremont City,

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Ohio, who was twenty four when
he vanished in two seventeen. He

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had come from a military family and
wanted to follow in his other family members

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footsteps and joined the United States Army
after high school. Before he had disappeared.

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Trevor had gotten married and had a
son who he loved dearly. Unfortunately,

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his marriage wouldn't last. His mother, Aaron, said that her daughter

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in law had a difficult time adjusting
to being a soldier's wife in handling Trevor's

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deployments. He was a cook in
the army and served in both Afghanistan and

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Iraq. His mother, Aaron said
that Trevor had a passion for cooking,

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and he could cook a great meal
with just a few ingredients. He also

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enjoyed going for long walks, which
is something he had always done. She

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also said that he loved his son
more than anything else in the world,

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and he was bothered that he would
be moving farther away from his son once

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he transferred to Fort Riley, but
his mother did say he welcomed the challenge

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of having a fresh start in a
new location. Unfortunately, the six foot

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to two hundred pounds soldier with brown
hair and hazel eyes would never make it

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to his new duty station in Fort
Riley, Kansas. Aaron has said that

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she last spoke to her son on
November fourteenth, twenty seventeen. However,

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it's unknown when he was actually last
seen. The last person to have been

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seen with Trevor was a friend who
was also in the army. The friend

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said that he had dropped Trevor off
at an Amtrak station in Syracuse, New

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York. Aaron believes the date to
have been November seventeenth, twenty seventeen.

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However, she doesn't know if her
son ever made it to the train station

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because there is no proof, only
the word of Trevor's friend. Aaron also

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said that he left behind his driver's
license United States Military identification card in his

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cell phone. If he was leaving
town, why would he not take his

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phone and identification with him. She
has said that none of this makes any

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sense to her. Trevor was considered
a wall and then labeled as a deserter.

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On December eighteenth, twenty seventeen,
Aaron tried to file a missing person's

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report on her son in New York, but she said that law enforcement refused

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to do so. She eventually filed
the missionary report with law enforcement in Tremont

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City, Ohio, where the report
was accepted. Aaron has said that she

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was told by Army investigators known as
CID that Trevor was seen on video at

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a Burger King in Pulaski, New
York, which she found odd because she

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said that he didn't know anyone there. He was also allegedly seen at different

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ATM machines withdrawing money. According to
Aaron, the Army investigators have since closed

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their investigation on Trevor. She has
never seen the video footage of him at

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Burger King or any of the ATM
machines. She has said that no one

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has shared any information with her about
her son, and she has been left

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in the dark about Trevor's final moments. What really happened to Trevor Nichols.

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He's been missing for over five years. No one has seen or heard from

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Trevor since twenty seventeen. His mother, Aaron, has dispelled rumors of suicide

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or any involvement from her daughter in
law. For this story, I spoke

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to Aaron Nichols about the disappearance of
her beloved son, Trevor Michael Nichols,

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and now on with the story of
Trevor Nichols as told by his mother,

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Aaron. Trevor is the baby of
the family. We've got three sons by

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birth and three that we call our
extra children. They were not legally adopted

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that they lived with us. We
were mom and dad, so he's the

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baby of them all. We also
have a very strong military family, my

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husbands and veteran. His grandparents,
my husband's parents were both Air Force in

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Vietnam grandparents military. His middle brother
is a marine. One of the extra

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boys is maybe they went in a
year before Trevor back in him when he

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was kid, very fun, loving
kid. He was in a learning disabled

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class, but only because he stuck
to himself, and he was more of

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a loner, called all of all, but just so smart. When he

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was in probably seventhentieth grade, he
was reading college level books. The teacher

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would have to ask me permission to
let him read because he would want to

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be reading the Stigian King novels and
and things like that. And he was

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seventh grade. He just had a
wealth of wanting more knowledge and so he

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was my book love, najor,
loves getting out and just he would walk

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everywhere. He had just a couple
for him to mean, he was mainly

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a loner, but him and Will
were best friends in high school. He

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met his girlfriend Carla in senior year
and they were together all his senior year

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and then a year after high school, he decided he wanted to go into

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the military. By this time,
his brothers Tim and Travis were both already

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in for a year. And it
was June of two thousand and twelve and

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he decided he wanted to join the
army. So everybody really supported him because

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being from a strong military family,
the boys had this sense of rivalry,

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like I said, the ones of
Marine ones maybe and now brought as his

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army. So he went to Fort
Venns for basic, and then when he

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graduated from basic, we actually took
Carlo with us and went down for his

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graduation. So it was a family
affair. Yeah, we were very proud

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of I'm very proud of his accomplishments. He wanted to go into airborne training

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so that he could get his jump
winks, Yes, thank you. He

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wanted to go airborne, but he
was injured on a very first show.

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He heard his hip, and so
he was sideline for a while, and

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so then they didn't let him continue
because they were afraid that hip would cause

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problems. So he ended up going
to Fort Drum, New York, and

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he was a cook chef and he
just loved that. This kid has been

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cooking from the time he was probably
sevent eight years old. He of all

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the kids, would be the one
that would come out and help me do

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stuff in the kitchen. And it
was just amazing because he could throw food

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together that you wouldn't even think would
go together, and just create magnificent meals.

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It was just talented in the kitchen. Well, as it's been famously

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said, the army travels on its
stomach. Yeah, two sixteen, I

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think after he got back from Iraq, he actually had a short tour at

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West Point and got to do the
kitchen at West Point, and oh,

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he'd loved that. Him and Carl
got married in twenty fourteen and Lucas was

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born year and a half later.
Lucas was born right after he got back

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from well, actually he was still
in Iraq when Luke was born. He

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loved it up in New York.
We went up and visited several times,

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and he'd loved the history up there, and he was a nature bus he'd

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loved taking the walks and just begin
around all the finger lakes. And even

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when he was home, he would
walk miles every day. That wasn't unheard

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of at all. So and my
point in that is the morning that he

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disappeared. I even asked everybody,
Yes, are you sure he's just not

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out taken a walk, you know, because that was his thing. He

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loved loved his getting mountain nature.
So he was into photography much like his

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mama. He took photography classes in
high school. He said he was really

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into that. He loved music.
He played guitar. So when Trevor went

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to airborne training, it was his
goal to get his wings. And then

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I'm assuming he may have had a
desire to go to ranger school because it's

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what a lot of young men want
to do. It's a challenge and it's

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difficult, but once it's achieved and
you get your ranger tab and your Airborne

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wings, that's very impressive, especially
among your peers because they realize how difficult

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the training is to earn those accomplishments. So when he didn't get his jump

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wings, was he really disappointed or
did he just take it and stride and

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figure there will be an other opportunities. He was disappointed, but he still

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took it well. So even though
the first time, thinks self, he

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still didn't lose that motivation and he
had just re up in two sixteen when

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he was over in Iraq. What
did he do in Iraq? Did he

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work in the kitchen? Oh?
Yes, he still worked in the kitchen.

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He was in Afghanistan for his first
tour and his second tour was in

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Iraq. Can you tell me about
his experiences while he was in Iraq and

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Afghanistan? Did he share anything with
you about what he did over there,

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or what he saw or his overall
experiences. She didn't say a whole lot

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about it. And I really do
feel that he came home with some post

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traumatic not diagnoses, but I feel
that he was dealing with something, because

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even his wife said she could tell
that he had changed. Things were different

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on his first tour in Afghanistry and
even though he was a chef, he

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still had to do some of the
patrol. And he said one night when

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he was out on patrol, a
mortar shell fell within feet of where he

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and one of the other soldiers were, and thank god it was a bed,

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or he probably would have come upon
a body bag, because he said

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it was that close and that he
did tell me about that, but it

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took very good six months before he
even told me about that happening. And

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you could just tell he said,
Mama's seeing things that you know that you

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know well. I can tell you
that when a soldier returns home from combat,

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their lives are never the same,
because I can remember when my father

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came home from Vietnam. I mean, my brothers and I were younger,

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but I still remember my dad just
being I don't know, I want to

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say, maybe a little bit bitter, a little bit angry about how he

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was treated or just how the public
was towards the war. And until the

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day he died, I think he
carried that with him, and he truly

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was never the same person. He
was drafted when he was about nineteen,

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I believe, and he did two
tours. But from what I understand,

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he was a fun loving guy before
he was sent to Vietnam, but after

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he returned, it aged him and
he was just never the same. And

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he had told me several times because
we had talked about it, and he

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said that those experiences that he had
in Vietnam had shaped him for the rest

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of his life. It sounds like
your son may have experienced something similar to

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what my father experienced, right,
And I didn't get that overall vibe with

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Trevor but I could just tell her
he was more quiet. He and I

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have always been close, and you
could tell he was more quiet when he

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got back. And I didn't see
it, of course, because we live

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in Ohio and he was in New
York. But his wife did say that

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he was drinking more. Yeah,
that sounds pretty common with a lot of

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vets returning home from more. I
know my dad. I can remember he

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did drink and smoke a lot after
he came home. So I think your

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son's experience with drinking isn't uncommon because
they do it to soothe their pain,

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I guess is a good way of
saying it. So where was he going

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to after leaving for Drum? Where
was he supposed to be going Fort Riley,

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Kansas? And what were his thoughts
about being transferred to Kansas? Was

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he angry or did he accept it
as a new challenge? What were his

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thoughts about leaving New York? Okay, So gon do a little backpedaling,

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just a little bit. In twenty
sixteen, Lucas was born in March and

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he had the three months stint at
West Point. His wife came home because

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of the baby and being up there
alone, so she came back home here

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to Ohio and stayed with her parents. So he gets back from West Point

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and he came here to Ohio to
get her and the baby, and she

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breaks an this to him that she
wants to break things off. She just

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didn't think she was cut out to
be a military wife with him having so

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many deployments and being away from home, and she's the homebody type girl,

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and she just couldn't deal with it. She told him that she wanted a

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divorce. So he goes back up
to New York alone. I was still

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remember kicking him home that day.
It was just so hard on him.

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And when he got into orders to
transfer, he was frustrated because he said,

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I'm already so far away from Lucas. Now I'm going to be even

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further away in the opposite direction.
So he didn't want to leave his baby.

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He just adored that baby, and
Lucas was so important to him,

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and that's why. So that was
the process to everything that happened afterward.

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I can't accept it in my own
heart. And he was trying to work

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things out with Mala, So that's
why I'm saying he just didn't get up

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and leave because he was so upset
about being transferred further away from Lucas.

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Why would he just desert and not
have anything to do with any of us

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and not be able to see Lucas
forever. That just doesn't make sense right,

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And based on media reports he vanished
from a train station in New York

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is can you confirm that is being
true? Is that what happened to him?

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We honestly don't know. We have
no proof. I have no purse

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of life after Tuesday night, So
as of now, you really don't know

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if he actually made it to the
train station. All I have is the

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word of this one friend that said
that he took him and dropped him off

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there by the time I tried to
file him, this person report to Timeline.

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Trevor called on Tuesday night, November
fourteenth, and says that he was

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trying to move Carlos things in the
storage and he didn't know if he was

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going to be able to come home
and see us before he transferred to Riley.

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Then Wednesday morning was the morning that
I get a call from one of

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his army buddies and said Trevor didn't
show up for drill this morning. We

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don't know where he's at and this
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Correct, yes, so that was
Wednesday morning. They called and said

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that he didn't show up for drill. They went to the apartment there on

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Port dram and they found his keys, his military ide, his driver's license,

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his wallet, everything was left there
in the apartment that he was gone.

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So the Army Buddy and ninth Gage
we walked back and forth for a

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couple of days and we're trying to
figure out where was he, what was

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going on. Nobody heard from him. And then on Friday, November seventeenth,

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Gage called me and said that they
found him in Pulaski, which is

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not quite anowledged about a half hour
south of Watertown where a Fort Dramas and

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they met up with Charvor's there.
They found him there. Aaron would learn

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more about her son's alleged sighting in
Pulaski, New York. However, she

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has her doubts because as far as
she knows, he didn't know anyone there,

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and she has never seen any video
to actually confirm that it was her

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son. At a Pulaski Burger King. We will take a short break and

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be right back with her thoughts about
her son allegedly being seen in Pulaski,

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New York. So how did you
find out that he was in Pulaski?

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How did you know that? Did
someone tell you that he was there or

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did someone see him there? What
were the circumstances behind you finding out that

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he was in Pulaski? There was
activity on his debit card and they notified

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the wife. Carla called me and
said, do you have any family in

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Pulaski? I said, no,
we don't know anybody in the New Yorkers.

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I do guys, and so then
that's when I called Gauge, and

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Gauge and a couple of the other
buddies went to Puloski, supposed to legal

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look for Trevor, and they said
that they found him, but they said

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that he wouldn't talk to me on
the phone. But he's okay. So

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no proof of life other than their
word for it. So, including your

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son's friend, how many guys went
up there looking for Trevor? To my

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understanding, three, But I don't
know the names of the other two.

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I don't even know if they were
all guys for that matter. I just

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know it was Gauge and two other
people. Two other army friends supposedly went

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to find him in Pulaski. So
after the friend found Trevor and Pulaski,

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what was the time period from when
he found Trevor in Pulaski when he supposedly

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dropped him off at the train station
only an hour or so? He called

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me back another hour or so and
said, well, Trevor just got on

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the train and he's headed out of
the state, that he wouldn't talk to

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you, okay. So then that
brings me to this question that doesn't sound

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to me as being truthful because I
was in the military, as was other

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family members of yours, and I
can tell you that from my own personal

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experience, you didn't go anywhere without
your wallet, your military ID, and

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your money. I mean especially your
military ID, because it was always stressed

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upon you about how important it was
for you to always carry that with you.

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And I never went anywhere without my
military ID, so I find it

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unusual that your son would actually go
anywhere without his. And I'm not familiar

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with taking to the amtrack, but
I'm assuming that you would probably have to

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have some type of ID with you
to board without, especially Postale eleven you

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can't get on a train without your
ID, So don't you find it strange

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that your son would board a train
without his ID, money, or even

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a cell phone. I mean,
who goes anywhere without their cell phone?

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I know I don't go anywhere.
Even the youngest teenagers who have a cell

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phone, they don't go anywhere without
their cell phones. So it just seems

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strange to me that he would go
to a train station without his military ID

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or his phone without anything. Right
exactly, I'm assuming that this makes no

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sense to you or anyone else for
that matter. No, it didn't.

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And I have to say that the
first night did everything happen, You're kind

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of like in a state of shock. So Trevor has traveled by the train

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before, so even though this isn't
adding up, at the same time,

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I thought, well, maybe he
is coming home. We've gone up to

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Cleveland to pick him up at the
train station before. So I remember sitting

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up all that night thinking, Okay, I'm going to get a call about

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three o'clock in the morning telling me
that he's up in Cleveland and I need

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to go get him. But then
that call never came. Okay, So

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now let me ask you about his
Amtrak picket. If he boarded the amtrack,

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I'm assuming he probably would have charged
his ticket on a credit card.

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I'm guessing because a lot of people
don't carry cash today. So did you

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ever confirm whether or not he had
actually purchased a ticket? But I just

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did. We have nothing, nothing, but they wouldn't talk to me,

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being his mom, and so supposedly
all this happened like on Friday night.

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So by Monday morning, I'm calling
the New York Police trying to file a

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missing person report. They wouldn't let
me do it. They said, no,

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this is a military matter, and
they won't take a report. So

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then after New York refused to take
the missing person's report, I'm assuming that

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you tried to do so in Ohio, which is what I would have done.

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At that point, I was disbaffled. They were telling me that I

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couldn't file a missing person report because
it was a military mouth, and I

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didn't know what to do. So
what did you do? I ended up

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talking to CID and they told me
that they'll remember I said that on Thursday

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there was activity on his debit card, and that's how we knew he was

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in Ploffsky. So supposedly the CID
said that they had picture proof that that

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was Trevor using his card in Pulaski
and that was proof that he left base

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of his own free will. Therefore
he was a deserter and they closed the

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case. Now, how did the
Army investigators actually confirm that it was your

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son? They didn't show you any
pictures a day. I'm thinking that they

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should have because it would have made
more sense to show you the pictures and

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said, can you identify this young
man as your son? No, and

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I still haven't. I asked for
the CID report, never got the copies

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of the pictures. Well, they
said it was a camera at the Burger

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King, that he went to Burger
King and used his debit card, and

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from the video camera at burger King, they took a picture of their video

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which supposedly him buying as a meal
or whatever. Do you know if he

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was alone or was there anyone with
him in the pictures? Did the Army

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investigators ever tell you? No,
he was alone. Supposedly he went there

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alone on Thursday. Then that's when
we were notified there was activity on his

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debit card. I didn't notify Gauge
and let him know until Friday. So

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it was Friday afternoon when Gauge at
the other two Army buddies went looking for

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Trevor and supposedly found him in Pulaski. Now, have you ever been able

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to see his transactions on his debit
card or credit card or whatever he used.

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Have you ever reviewed any of the
statements from back then? No,

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they didn't include that in the CID
report. And his wife did not have

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access. Trevor handled the money,
so she didn't have access to their bank

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account. Now, he had a
cell phone, is that correct? Yes,

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which was left at base. So
then he traveled to Pulaski without a

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cell phone, no cell phone,
no nothing. Again, who goes anywhere

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without a cell phone? And why
would he travel to Pulaski without a cell

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phone? That doesn't make sense.
I mean, what happens if there was

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an emergency or he just needed to
let someone know where he was without the

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phone. Yeah, were able to
check his cell phone records. Tobody else

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mentioned that to me, And I
don't even know what curier he had back

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then, you know. Interesting enough? I once saw a detective on television

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discussing the importance of cell phones,
and he said that any law enforcement agency

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that doesn't review cell phone records isn't
doing their job. And he makes a

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valid point because if you think about
it, a cell phone has a lot

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of information on it. People their
entire lives are on their all their contacts,

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their videos, their access to their
banking, their social media. It's

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gotten to be where most people have
their higher lives attached to their cell phone.

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And I'm assuming that your son was
no different, right right, And

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I'm guessing that your son's cell phone
had some valuable information on it as well.

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And I'm assuming that you never got
to see anything on his cell phone

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or even had an opportunity to see
his phone. And we never got the

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phone, well Warrens's phone at now
haven't even knows where it disappeared to because

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it's never been returned to his wife. And based on what I've seen through

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media reports, your son was classified
as being a wall and then in December

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of twenty seventeen, they changed his
status to deserter. Is that correct?

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At the thirty days of a wall, then they slipped it to desert her

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status and I was told by CID
then I could not file a publicnessed person's

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case until he was in desorder status, which makes no sense at all,

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I don't understand. But because by
then when I finally filed it, and

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I even tried calling New York to
file it and they still wouldn't let me,

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and I did end up filing here
in Ohio. I ended up filing

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it right here with the police department
where I lived. So when we did

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file, it was just so frustrating
all the way around because by then they

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called the train station and so their
video is on the thirty day to loop.

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By then thirty days is also they
couldn't even check the old footage of

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video to even see if he had
even been to the train station. Well,

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I think that at this point a
lot of what could have happened to

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him has to be attached to the
train station, because that's where he was

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last seen allegedly by a friend.
But yet there's no proof of whether or

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not he actually bought a ticket.
There's no witnesses or video camera footage of

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him being seen at the train station. And even they said that the last

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last bank activity had been a green
machine or cash machine atm and the burger

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king in Bolosky was the last activity
on his card, so there was no

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purchase of a ticket, even from
them reporting it to me. Now,

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after you found out that he had
supposedly gone to that burger king in Pulaski,

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did you ever go out there,
maybe with a picture of your son

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and ask any of the employees if
they had actually seen your son there?

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Now that I did not, And
part of that with finances. They're in

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New York and I'm in Ohio,
and at the time I wasn't working,

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and I had no concept of what
to even do. I was like an

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overwhelmed mode and your brain doesn't even
think of what to do next to try

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even look for him. So God, honestly, I had never even thought

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of going to New York to try
to look for him, especially when his

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friend said he has left the state. He's not in New York anymore.

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So I didn't know where to start. Now, what's Trevor's official status today?

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Is he considered a deserter? Is
that correct? Yes? I mean

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according to the military, he's a
wall deserter. But in the public realm

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he is listed as a missing person
and he is listed in namous Nam.

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The National Alliance of missing persons.
While researching this case, I found a

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couple different motives that were considered,
which can't be confirmed at this time.

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But some people think that he had
committed suicide, and the other thought was

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that maybe his ex wife knew more
about his disappearance than what she said.

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But then that's not unusual because whenever
someone disappears or gets murdered, the first

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person that's always suspected is either the
spouse or the significant other. Yeah,

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they always the spouse, yes,
But Carlo was here in Ohio, so

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I really don't see her having much
of a hand in it. And a

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suicide, I will tell you that
boy was one of the most positive.

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I dealt with depression for years,
and I was recital for years. My

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poor kids dealt with so much because
I was in and out of mental health

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battling depression. And Trevor was probably
from my saving racist because that kid would

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always say, Mom, you're stronger
than that. That's not the way to

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go. You could fight this,
and suicide not the answer. So I

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do not believe that he would ever
fall to those depths himself. Aaron has

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expressed much frustration about the whereabouts of
her missing son she considers her son's story

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similar to other soldiers who have either
disappeared or died under unusual circumstances. We

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will take a final break in return
with Aaron's closing thoughts on the disappearance of

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her son. Well, regarding this
suicide belief, you have to wonder that

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if he did commit suicide, then
how come all these years later no one

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has ever found his body. Because
when people commit suicide, typically they don't

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go hide and do it. They
do it where they will be found immediately,

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because they want their family to know
immediately what happened so that they can

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move on with their lives. Yeah. No, things are done and over.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well, based
on what you've told me and what

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I've read about this case, it
doesn't sound like your son would be the

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type of young man who would commit
suicide because he had a son that he

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loved, and he was close with
you, and it sounds like he was

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satisfied with his career in the military. So the only other alternative would be

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to suspect that there is foul play
involved, that Trevor disappeared because someone made

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him disappear, and and that's like
his dad would always knowing his love for

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nature and how much he got out
and walked and did things out nature.

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His dad's peace of mind comes from
saying, maybe he just sell in a

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river somewhere and drowned or something.
I said, Okay, but here we

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are, We're five and a half
years later. Why don't we have a

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body. Well, the suicide route
doesn't seem likely. No, I agree.

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I don't agree with that either.
So, and I am not big.

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I am not into psychics, but
a friend is very big on the

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psychic realm. And for Christmas about
two three years ago, she bought me

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a cold breathing and the lady knew
nothing about me, knew nothing about Trevor.

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I had never talked to her before
we started talking on the phone and

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I said, well, I'm looking
for my son, And right away she

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said, you don't want to hear
this, but he's gone and don't look

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for him. He's telling you not
to look for him because you will suffer

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the same thing. So that just
gives me goose bumps, especially after the

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Vanessa Gillen case. And now have
you ever heard of Dakota's stump? Yes,

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I've heard about his story. Okay, I am friends with his mom

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and his case wasn't Dakota's case at
Fort Campbell, Kentucky? Is that right?

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I thought maybe it was in Kentucky, but I can't remember for sure.

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No, it was forth Hood.
And if I recall, he died

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in a car accident. Car accident, Yes, car accident on base.

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But they tried to tell the mom
that he was in Indiana, close to

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their home. No, he'd never
left base. They found his body on

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base, right, and his family
doesn't believe what the army has told them.

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They think that something else happened to
Dakota and they have been trying to

410
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:40.119
figure it out ever since. Right, So that case and now Richard Halliday

411
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:49.239
the who's the other kid? Wesley? There was another one that's the found

412
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:54.079
ride around the same time as the
killing, Gregory Widell. Gregor Widell,

413
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:59.199
Yes, that was it. Yes, I'm definitely familiar with his story.

414
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:05.480
I did interview his wife for the
podcast, and she was willing to talk

415
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.960
to me. And I know that
she's been arrested several times. And if

416
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:15.239
you look at the internet, you'll
see many comments about people thinking that she

417
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.119
knows more than what she's ever said
about his death. But I don't know

418
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:24.639
anything about that. I just know
that she was gracious enough to speak to

419
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:30.920
me, and I appreciate that because
I feel like just getting his story out

420
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:37.239
there was good and she was willing
to share her thoughts about her husband with

421
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:42.119
me. So yeah, But his
situation was the same thing. He was

422
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:46.199
due to be transferred, his wallet
and ID and everything was left behind.

423
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:52.119
They said that he was a wall
disorder, and look how long it tolcom

424
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.559
Finally they find his body. You
know. Part of the reason I think

425
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.679
that I don't push harder to try
to find Trevor is it scares me to

426
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.519
yesses, that's what I'm gonna me. That's Mike going to be my answer.

427
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.719
Well, you're a Trevor's mother,
and I don't care what any psychic

428
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.159
says. It'll just eat away at
you for the rest of your life if

429
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:17.079
you don't find out what happened to
him. And a lot of times I

430
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:25.119
think that the last person to be
seen with the missing or deceased person usually

431
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:31.519
has more answers than what they've ever
publicly revealed. And psychics are wrong sometimes.

432
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:37.760
Take a look at the girl that
was in Cleveland, Sylvia Brown,

433
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.480
the famous psychic said that this girl
was deceased and she was found chained up

434
00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.960
in a basement in Cleveland. So
she was definitely wrong about that one.

435
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:52.440
But you have to keep searching because
no one's going to care more about what

436
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:59.960
happened to Trevor than you will,
because you're his mother. And of course

437
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:06.159
the best place for you or law
enforcement to start is with the friend that

438
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:12.280
allegedly took him to the train station. You have to talk to him if

439
00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.239
you can and see if he's changed
his story over the past five years.

440
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:22.400
And now he won't talk to anybody. I've had private investigators and people are

441
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.079
like call engaged, and he won't
talk to anybody about anything that happened that

442
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:31.880
day. And what about the other
two Army buddies that supposedly went to Pulaski

443
00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:37.239
with your son's friend. Do you
know their identities? No? And there

444
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:43.679
was nothing listened in the CID report
either. Everything was didacted. And you

445
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:47.320
know something that I found really interesting
about this story. You had told me

446
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.480
about the friend taking him to the
train station, But the different reports and

447
00:39:53.039 --> 00:40:00.280
things that I've seen don't really mention
or focus on the and that took him

448
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.920
to the train station. Allegedly this
is the last person to have been seen

449
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.039
with your son, But yet no
one is talking about this guy. I

450
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:14.880
find that kind of strange, don't
you. Why isn't anyone talking about this

451
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:19.559
guy? I'm surprised. Do you
know if this friend is still in the

452
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:23.599
army or maybe the reserves or National
Guard, or does even have any affiliation

453
00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:29.159
with the military anymore? I honestly
don't know. I haven't tried to contact

454
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:31.880
age in a couple of years.
He was listed it up at Fort Drum

455
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:37.480
for a long time, but I
don't know if we struggling on okay?

456
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.719
And if anyone has any information about
your son, who would they need to

457
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:50.840
contact with that information. I've had
several private investigators over the years. Brenda

458
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:55.039
Paradise is one that's been involved at
Guardian Church Services. That's one that's been

459
00:40:55.079 --> 00:41:00.480
involved on and off ever since the
beginning. But number to contact would be

460
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.960
the police department here in Park County, Ohio. Now, what have you

461
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:10.840
been doing on your own to generate
publicity for your son's case? Do you

462
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.239
have a Facebook page for him?
Or do you use Twitter or TikTok any

463
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:21.360
of those? I grew up a
Facebook page it's called Missing Trevor Nichols.

464
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.559
There for a while it was really
good and I would do post every week,

465
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:29.760
because then I went to every month, and lately it seems like it

466
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.480
was getting harder and harder just to
post because I feel like I'm holding nowhere

467
00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:36.360
with it. Here we are,
We're five and a half years later and

468
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.559
not a single clue as to where
he is, and so it gets really

469
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.280
hard some days to keep posting and
just feel like we're I don't know,

470
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:51.079
but I do try to keep the
story alive. I've done a several podcasts

471
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:58.440
I've done, I've distribute flyers,
I've done a lanterns for the lost events

472
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:04.760
where we let off air Lavern,
the fire Lavern. So you've been vigilant

473
00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:08.800
about keeping your son's story out there, you know. I've tried to keep

474
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:14.960
a story out there. Usually the
seventeenth of every month you'll see Facebook post

475
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:19.800
on his page, in my personal
page, just trying to keep the story

476
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:24.079
out there. Now, how often
do you contact law enforcement about your son

477
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.719
case? Have you tried to reach
out to the military, you know,

478
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:34.519
the Army, CID, anyone in
a position of authority about your son's case.

479
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:40.039
It's impossible to talk to anybody at
EPA New York because you if I

480
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:45.800
call CID, all they tell me
is this face is closed. They're not

481
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:51.239
looking for him. They're not doing
anything. Yeah, right, because once

482
00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:54.559
they label you as a dessert,
they stop looking for you. Yeah.

483
00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:00.000
So that's just it. So why
do I even bother to call him anymore?

484
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:01.719
Because I called one time and then
they said, We're not even going

485
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.320
to talk to you over the phone. It's like, well, I'm in

486
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:10.519
Ohio, you're in New York.
So I can tell you the whole process

487
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.599
of enlistment. I mean, I
can only go by my own experience,

488
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.960
but I can remember the recruiter coming
into my home and sitting there with me

489
00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.000
and my parents and him telling me
how the Army's going to take care of

490
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.599
me. You know, tell my
mom and dad don't worry about Mark.

491
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.199
We'll take care of him. We
leave no man behind and all that stuff.

492
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:34.920
And you know, the military takes
care of their own, that sort

493
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.719
of thing. You know that raw
Ross Speach. I heard that when I

494
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.800
was a seventeen year old kid,
and you know, at the time,

495
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:46.599
I believed it because my dad was
a veteran and my grandfather was also a

496
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:50.760
veteran, so naturally I just believed
it. And I'm a young kid.

497
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.159
I don't know any better, which
I've learned over the years, that they

498
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:59.639
tell you that they've got your back, but when a soldier disappears or gets

499
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.239
or something strange happens to him or
her, than the first thing they do

500
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:08.239
is bail. You know they're not
there for you. Like, for instance,

501
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:12.400
for your son, they probably spend
more time trying to recruit him than

502
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.159
they did even looking for your son. It's obvious that something happened to him,

503
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:21.039
but yet it was very easy for
them to label him as a deserter

504
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:27.440
and basically forget about him. But
when they first spoke to him, they

505
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.119
probably told him that they would always
have his back and if anything bad happened

506
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:37.039
to him, they would uncover any
type of criminal activity or that sort of

507
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:42.400
a thing. Not only have they
labeled your son as a deserter, but

508
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:47.400
it sounds like they've also deserted him. And the reality is, and I've

509
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:52.800
said this to other people that have
lost soldiers and their family, think about

510
00:44:52.840 --> 00:45:00.519
this. Had all these soldiers that
died under mysterious circumstances never joined the military,

511
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.320
they'd probably all still be alive today. Think about that, Well,

512
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.920
you will definitely have to catch up
on everything that's happening with the Richard Holliday

513
00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:17.119
case because the level of life and
the seat and everything that happened with them,

514
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:23.639
it's just unreal what they've gone through. And they've been very active and

515
00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:30.320
trying to find Richard, and oh, it's just oh yeah, Yes.

516
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:37.000
I've talked to Richard's mom for the
podcast, and I admire her because she's

517
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:40.719
been hell bent on finding out what
happened to her son. So I know

518
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:46.039
that she just learned recently that he
died, but it doesn't sound like she

519
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:52.239
has any answers. So I definitely
commend her for trying to figure out what

520
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:57.719
exactly happened to Richard. And sometimes
I get so angry at myself for not

521
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:01.639
doing more, But I have the
private day it's like I don't even know

522
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:05.360
where to go next. At times, you know, I just I don't

523
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:08.679
know what to do. Well,
you can't, and you shouldn't beat yourself

524
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:15.119
up over your son's disappearance. Don't
feel like you haven't done everything that you

525
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:21.360
have. You speaking to me tells
me that you've done a lot. I

526
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:27.960
mean, your circumstances are you have
nothing. You're trying to figure out what

527
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:31.800
happened to your son with nothing.
You have no pictures, you have no

528
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:37.920
evidence, you have nothing. The
only thing that you know about your son

529
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:43.920
is what some guy that's it supposedly
was his friend, has said, and

530
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.320
that was that he dropped him off
at a train station. Other than that,

531
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:51.320
you don't know. There's been no
sightings, there's been no updates,

532
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:55.760
and no one has shared anything with
you. So you're basically in a dark

533
00:46:55.880 --> 00:47:00.280
room wearing a blindfold, trying to
find your way to the light. And

534
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:07.199
it's going to be a difficult road
for you, but you're going to continue

535
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:12.199
traveling down that road to you find
something out and it's all you can do,

536
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:19.000
right Yeah, Yeah, I would
definitely say that someone out there knows

537
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:22.639
what happened to your son, But
what you have to do is try to

538
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:30.119
find out who that person is,
and by contacting your media, doing podcasts

539
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:35.639
and bringing awareness to your son's story, those are going to improve the odds

540
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:42.519
that the right person hears about your
son's case and maybe feel some sympathy for

541
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:45.639
you, or just makes a decision
that they need to do the right thing

542
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:52.519
and reach out to someone and let
them know what happened to your son,

543
00:47:52.199 --> 00:48:00.519
right right, somebody's gotten know something, you know, yeah, yes,

544
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.239
and I agory someone out there knows
something. So the last thing that I

545
00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:09.159
would want to ask you is for
anyone out there that's listening to this podcast,

546
00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:14.920
if they know anything about what happened
to your son, Trevor, what

547
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.599
would you say to that person or
persons? I just need peace. I

548
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:24.800
need closure. It is beyond imaginable
how this has affected my life for the

549
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:30.800
past five and a half years.
That I can't drive down the street and

550
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.679
see somebody walking along the side of
the road because Trevor used to walk everywhere

551
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:39.679
without making a double check look to
make sure that's not my son. I

552
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:44.519
can't imagine having to spend the rest
of my life doing this. I just

553
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:49.320
want that closure. If he's gone, I need to know that so that

554
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.679
I can just process it and deal
with it. I want that closure to

555
00:48:52.719 --> 00:49:00.440
know that I can't keep looking forever
with audi answers, and that can elodes

556
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:05.840
the story of Trevor Nichols. What
happened to this young soldier? Was he

557
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:08.719
a victim of foul play or did
he go off the grid and just leave

558
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:14.480
his life behind. His family believes
that something happened to him because they know

559
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:20.000
he would never deserve his family or
his military obligations. His family is heartbroken

560
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:24.519
over Trevor's disappearance and they will continue
in their search for him. Someone out

561
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:29.440
there knows what happened to him.
Do you know what happened to Trevor?

562
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:34.360
Are you the person with the key
to solving this strange mystery? If you

563
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:39.920
know anything about this case, please
contact the Tremont City Police Department in Ohio

564
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:46.840
at nine three seven three two eight
two five six zero. And if you

565
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:52.000
would like to know more about Trevor's
case, you can also visit the Missing

566
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:58.199
Trevor Nichols Facebook page. I will
be sure to provide this information in the

567
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:02.079
case story notes. And if you
are a parent, law enforcement official,

568
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:07.840
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569
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:13.880
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Thank you for listening.