Episode 182: Cornelis "Casey" Bokslag (Part 1 of 2)

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Hello, and welcome to the Cash
My Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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My name is Mark. For nearly
eight years, I've written a weekly

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newspaper column about true crimes and missing
people for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.

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With the column at podcast, it
has always been my objective to bring

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attention to cases that have not received
much media attention if any. This week's

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story involves a twenty nine year old
Utah man named Cornelius Boxlog. For this

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story, I will refer to Cornelius
as Casey, his preferred nickname. Casey

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was born in the Netherlands and immigrated
to America as a child. He served

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four years in the U. States
Marine Corps. He transitioned back to civilian

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life after serving four years in the
service. On June sixth, two twenty

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two. He would last be seen
withdrawing money from an ATM machine. No

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one has seen Casey since leaving the
ATM machine. This is the first part

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of a two part story. Be
sure to listen to the conclusion next week.

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Cornelius Boxlog twenty nine was born in
the city of Tilburg in the Netherlands

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and immigrated to America in two thousand
and one with his family. Casey's parents

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are Robert and Ells shuts Boxlog.
Casey was also the oldest of three children.

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The family would eventually settle in Sandy, Utah, after moving there in

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two thousand and seven. For this
story, I will refer to Cornelius as

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Casey, which was his nickname.
Casey would adapt to American culture in the

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English language after arriving in the country. On June sixth, twenty twenty two,

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he was last seen at a Wells
Fargo atm Machine in Salt Lake City,

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Utah. Casey enjoyed being outdoors and
was a frequent skier. His father,

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Robert, said that Casey was a
very active young man. He also

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said that his son was adventurous and
that's why he decided to find adventure by

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joining the United States Marine Corps.
After leaving the Marines with an honorable discharge,

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Casey secured a job as a ranger
working at the watershed for Salt Lake

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City Public Utilities. It was the
agency in charge of providing drinking water.

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Robert last saw his son on Saturday, June fourth, two twenty two.

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Everything seemed normal. He had visited
his parents and had dinner with him Robert

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said there was nothing unusual about Casey's
visit. His behavior didn't arouse any suspicion

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or concerns. Casey had told his
parents that he had work prolated virtual training

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for the upcoming Monday and Tuesday.
Robert said that his son was miffed about

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it because he had to take the
tests on his days off. On June

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fifth, Robert said that Casey was
playing an online game with one of his

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younger brothers. He told his brother
he had to go because his rice was

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done. Casey had also bought a
gun that same day. His father didn't

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seem concerned about the gun purchase because
Casey enjoyed shooting. Besides, he was

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a Marine Corps veteran trained in firing
weapons. According to Robert, Casey was

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captured on a security camera before noon
on Monday, June to sixth. He

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had left his apartment alone in South
Salt Lake. He had his backpack on

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and was likely headed to his job
for his online training scheduled for noon.

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He was last seen with drawing one
hundred dollars from a Wells Fargo atm Machine

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in Salt Lake City, which was
near his job, but he never made

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it to work. After leaving the
ATM machine, he has never been seen

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again. Robert says that law enforcement
checked Casey's cell phone records and according to

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phone records, his phone was last
active in the area of the ATM machine

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On June eighth. Casey's boss became
concerned when he didn't show up for work.

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His boss contacted Robert to share his
concerns. It definitely wasn't like Casey

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to not show up for work.
He was reliable and always showed up.

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Robert has said he had not seen
his son and he did not know where

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he was. Casey's vehicle would later
be found abandoned off I eighty by the

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Castle Rock exit near the Wyoming border
in Summit County, Utah. Casey's E

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six eight FE license plate was missing. After launching a massive search, law

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enforcement found no trace of Casey.
He's been missing for just over a year.

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His family is desperately trying to find
him. And now on with the

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story of Cornelius Boxlock is told by
his father, Robert Boxlock my soundly by

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now. He's thirty years old,
so thirty years ago. He was born

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in the city of Tilburg in the
Netherlands, and he grew up without any

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issues out just his regular school days, and we moved to the whole family

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to the United States. Okay,
he has two British younger and so the

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kids were still young, and he
thought, okay, if we go make

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the big leap, let's do it
now the kids are still small and that

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easily. Okay, let me interrupt
you real quick. I need to know

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how do I pronounce his name?
Is it cornelis box lag or did I

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just totally butcher his name a little? But there's no no good way to

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say it in English? How does
your family pronounce his name in Dutch?

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It's Cornelis say Dick Bulach and his
nickname is Casey? Is that correct?

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We nicknamed him Casey when we moved
to the US. His nickname in the

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Midlands was case which is spelled k
e s, which is a very common

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Dutch name. Both my grandfathers were
old Corneliss, so he thold. His

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son and my grandfather were was called
Frederick. So yeah, it's an issue

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name. And how old was casing
when your family left the Netherlands to move

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to the United States. I think
humus a bit ate. Was the move

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a big change for him. Was
he happy being in the United States or

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was he ever homesick? No,
he had a good friend in Nedlands,

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like little kids have, you always
have a best friend. But they kept

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in touch through the internet a little
bit. But you know, so many

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new impressions and new things and the
place in the US. We went to

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Albuquerque, and that was a big
culture shock. It was for us and

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for the kids really different. You
were coming from the straight Netherlands to more

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the Hispanic style of living in a
different climate, different people. Everything were

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a little bit different. But the
kids abducted their new country very quick.

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At home, we stopped speaking Dutch
for the first filf year, so the

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kids had to speak English and that
goes amazingly fast. Little kids just pick

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it up like it's We moved quite
a few times after Albuquerque. That didn't

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even last year was the chip factory
I worked in closed, so I had

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a new position in Boise, Idaho, so we moved there, which was

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again totally different. That's where Casey
was still in elementary school. Then we

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moved to Virginia, where we were
way out in the sticks on the I

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don't know if you know the Skyline
drive. It's a National Park. It

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starts in the north at a little
town of Full of Royal and that's where

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we lived. So we lived in
the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a

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beautiful area, but it was a
small town. It's only at the time

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fifteen thousand people, so it's a
really small town out in the sticks of

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Virginia. Look Gigs, you liked
it there. He went to elementary and

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later he went to middle school there. And then I got an opportunity to

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go more to the west because the
West we liked Boise and that kind of

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living. So I had a chance
to start a job here in Lehigh,

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Utah, and so we moved to
Sandy, which is a superb of Salt

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Lake City, and that's where he
really grew up, did his high school.

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He wasn't a straight age student,
but didn't have any problems in high

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school, had a couple of friends. But when he came out of high

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school, he really didn't know what
he wanted to do. He didn't have

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a feeling that he wants to go
to college like so many kids uncertain what

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to do, and he liked outdoor
and adventure. So he came to my

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wife and I traveled all for work. At the time he came to my

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life, he says, I want
to go to the military. Out of

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the blow. We never talked about
it before. We were surprised, and

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then we talked about it. So
why the Marine Corps? Why not the

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Navy or any of the other branches. You know, the story isn't totally

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clear. After he talked to my
wife and then later he talked to me

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and he wanted to adventure in excitement. And I don't know if he came

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with it or I came with it. It's like if he got to the

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military eight for the biggest right.
But later we found out he already knew

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the recruiter of the Marine Corps.
He ain't Sandy, So I think we

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were blind syed about that one.
But I think it was even before he

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graduated high school. He knew what
he wanted and the recruiter back to recruiting

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office. Here he trained for physical
training because he wasn't a sports guy,

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but he was fit, so he
did to training and all that, which

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helped him tremendously in bootcare. Because
the physical part of the boot camp was

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not an issue. You can't prepare
for the mental tricks they play on here,

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but especially the Marine Corps. Thirteen
weeks so the Mangui. But then

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he trained and he liked a recruiter
and they did games and stuff. And

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then when he graduated pretty much only
a couple of weeks later, he went

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to Marine Corps. He went to
boot camp, came back that his training

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for a warehouse clerk. He wanted
another job in the Marine Corps, but

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he couldn't get it because he wasn't
an American citizen yet. So a lot

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of jobs in the Marine Corps were
blocked because of confidentiality and that kind of

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thing. And so he went to
be a warehouse clerk and did his training

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for that. After his training,
because he was best of the class,

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he got three weeks of leaf and
after three weeks of leaf, he had

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chosen to go to Okinawa, Japan. So he got his wish, he

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got his adventure. He going to
for har away Land. And because of

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his job, he never ever was
assigned to any action scene. He never

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went to Iraq, he never went
to Afghanistan was big at time. But

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he did the supply you know,
engines for him VC. They came out

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of the warehouse and there was one
broke down and putlands what kind of city

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somewhere in Afghanistan. They had to
get that alne flight the kind of thing.

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He was good at it. So
he remained stateside during these major conflicts.

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Well he didn't be a stateside or
Okinawa in this case, but he

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never went to a conflict zone.
It sounds like he was fortunate. Then

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he did the trainings, the big
exercises with the marine with the Navy.

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Hope about sailed to Thailand do an
exercise there, that kind of thing.

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I think he went to Malaysia or
something in that area that they did trainings.

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So he had a couple of adventures. He did his helicopter survival They

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put you in a mock up helicopter
that falls into water and rotate and you

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had to get out of it.
And did his swim training. Of course

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every marine has two is shooting training, which he was pretty good, not

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excepting, but pretty good. But
in the Marine Corps he really excelled in

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being a logical guy, a guy
who's on task, guy who you can

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always rely on. And after his
two years in Okinaba, he came back

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stateside. He did his last two
years of his four year contract in I

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think it's called Pendleton no Le June
June, Okay, June. Yeah,

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that's in North Carolina. After serving
four years in the Marine Corps, Casey

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was asked to re enlist. He
chose not to because the Marines would not

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guarantee the job that he wanted.
In writing, Casey decided that he was

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ready to leave the military and rejoined
the civilian world. But we'll take a

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short break and learn more about Casey's
career goals. After he received his honorable

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discharge from the Marine Corps and he
was looking he at one buddy from boot

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camp and that buddy also went to
Oknawa. He went to another American baseball

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Loknava. But still they were in
cool text and once in a while they

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show each other and at the fact
time to come back stick side and the

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same time they worked together. So
that was the guy who he knew all

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the four years in the Marine Corps. So that was a good thing in

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the end for because what it is, it's the rank just under sergeant.

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That would be the rank of corporal. Yeah, corporal, yep, so

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he got corporal before he uh,
he said, now four years is enough.

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The Marine Corps offered him another four, and he said, I wasn't

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that in that job, because by
then he was an American citizen. And

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he said, I won't do that
job. And they said, oh,

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yeah, you can get it.
And he said, okay, put it

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in writing. Oh we'll do that
where you sign up for another four.

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No, you put it in writing
first. He learned from other guys they

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didn't want to do that. He
said, nah, never mind. I

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had fun, but I'm going back, go back home. So that's what

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he did, and his four years
in the Marine Corps, he came back

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home and being the adventures type.
Here in Utah, we have a little

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renter Sports and the ski area where
we are self for skied it's called Felta.

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And he got a joke at the
ski area in Alpha to check his

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people have to write tickets for the
lift, you know that adult people don't

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go in the kitch ticket and stuff
like that. And how old was Casey

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when his enlistment ended? But then
he was twenty two okay? And what

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year would that have been? Two
thousand and fifteen thereabouts. And I read

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that after he left the Marine Corps
he was able to get a job working

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for a lodge or something along those
lines. Is that what he did.

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It's a ski area. They got
like a five lift and the watches,

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so he's attending the lift, and
they're electronic gates that swing open if your

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pass is nearby. It's an idea
thing. You just have to have it

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in the pocut of your ski jacket. And if you go to the gate,

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the gate opens. But the gate
opens for every velt pass, but

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if it's an adult and has a
pass for a kid, which is much

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cheaper, it will still open.
But then they have iPads, and then

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on the iPad they can see what
kind of pass, and if it's a

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season pass, they see photo of
a person. So sometimes people try to

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go on the ticket off their twelve
year old order. You've got the craziest

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things. I worked there myself too
later years now. Did he enjoy that

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type of warmth? He enjoyed that. He always liked skiing, even as

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a kid, whisky when we live
in Boise, and whiskied when we came

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to a salt lake. So he
enjoyed the skiing. And in that ski

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area, the Alta ski area,
you work fifty minutes fifty minutes off of

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course, you're in the elements.
Right, you're standing on the snow,

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So if the winter is cool,
you need fifty minutes to get warm.

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But if it's a nice day,
he just goes skiing for fifty minutes.

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So days were like that and he
liked that. But ski areas are seasonal,

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so in the summer he needed to
do something else. I believe he

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worked at another ski area that in
the summer it's a resort and has all

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kinds of games for kids and stuff
to you know, sort of be an

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old all around, a year round
thing. I think he worked there one

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year. He didn't like that much. You little kids and stuff. That

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wasn't his big thing. So after
another winter he went to work or the

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city of Salt Lake City. Salt
Lake City has the department and it's called

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the water shed, and it takes
care of the areas where we got our

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drinking water. And the funny thing
is the ski areas are all on the

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Salt Lake City side are all part
of that watershed. So in the winter

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he worked there as a ski bun
and in the summer he worked there taking

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care of some plants that don't belong
there. They mow him or they take

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care of that, so he was
a groundskeeper. Then, yeah, it's

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a groundkeeper, but it's also a
little policing because the canyons here, they're

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called cotton boot canyons. They are
not accessible with dogs. Dogs aren't forbidden,

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and that's all to keep the water
quality. And of course you got

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people, I'll take my dog and
go for the walk, and then they

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got to go. And when they
see that, they got to go over.

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He didn't you see the sign.
You got to keep your dog out

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of the canyon, walk back through
your car, bring the dog down.

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He can't bring the dog. So
he did a little bit of policing.

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And after a couple of years of
doing that in the somewhere in the ski

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booming in the winter, he got
a real position with the watershed. He

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became a they're called rangers. So
he gave a ranger in the watershed and

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it comes with a jacket with a
little star on it and your official.

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Yeah, you're a city official pretty
much. And they take care of the

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little dams that we have in the
area. They're the smaller ones, the

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smaller reservorests there. They're not really
big, but they take care of that.

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They take care of the maintenance.
They also take care say a car

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gets off the road, they're goals
because maybe the car's leaking oil or diesel

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or whatever flu it. And they
got to protect the war and then they

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worked together with the police and whatever
authorities. He liked a job a loot.

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He liked it a lot. I
think he got one promotion that he

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applied for more lead senior ranger.
It's a team lead. And according to

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his boss, he got a job. But just before that was officially announced,

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he disappeared. And then we're talking
June six, two twenty two.

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Now, before he disappeared, did
he have any type of social life.

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Did he have a serious girlfriend,
children, or anything along those lines.

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What can you tell me about his
social life? So he never had much

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of a social life. Wasn't into
food or any sports. At school,

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he always had a couple of good
friends. He had no girlfriends, and

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at some point in time he had
a boyfriend. So we discovered that he

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was gay. Which we grew up
in the Midlands and the Midlands is a

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very free and open society, so
for us, it's no as you at

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all. And when he came back
from the Marine Corps, he had that

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boyfriend. He wasn't. That was
a guy from here, from the city

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here, and he and the boyfriend
actually lived in our house for a while.

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So then it was a good relationship. No violence or anything like that,

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No violence at all. It was
a good relationship to at some point,

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some relations I'd say, they grow
apart and once things annoy you,

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they started knowing you more and more. And then at some point in case

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she said, well, my friend, this is not working. So they's

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played up. And the case he
was a person. I think the social

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things he had hall was with people
at work. He went with the guys

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and the go from work. They
went to cemovie, they went outward,

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dinner, things like that. Case
he came at least later because in twenty

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twenty I had my stroke and since
the stroke, he at least once a

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week he came over and we hadn't
dinner together and stuff like that. You

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know. And based on your description
of Casey, he sounds like a really

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great son. Yeah he is.
And that was the thing where his boss

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called me on June eight, because
case he is always very reliable. If

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he says I'll be there at two, he is there at five minutes.

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Suit he's looking to leave you wait
until two thirty. He'll text her cool

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and say, hey, I got
a flat or whatever happened. But normally

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you could totally rely on him and
those sort. His boss was really worried

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because it was the first time he
didn't show up. On June eighth,

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Casey's boss became concerned when he didn't
show up for work. Casey was a

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responsible young man and would never not
show up for work. Casey's boss would

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then contact Casey's father, Robert,
to share his concerns. We will take

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a final break in return with Robert
boxlogs thoughts on his son's disappearance. So

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this phone call would have occurred on
j Days correct, two days after Casey

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officially disappeared. Yeah, at June
night and during fourth Saturday, we had

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a dinner here at our house.
He was there, my youngest film was

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there, and it was normal.
He just complained a bit because Monday and

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Tuesday were his days off, and
on Monday and Tuesday he had to do

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some online training page like, yeah, and I got to do a training

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on my day off, and blah
blah. But it was very cool and

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very normal. Afternoon, we said
goodbye and my younger son talked to MM

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from the afternoon around four o'clock and
they talked about the game on Steam.

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I think they used Steam to talk
to each other on the headset in the

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computer. And but then the Monday, June sixth, he had to do

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it training. Well, his boss
said later told me that he never showed

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up for the online training, so
that was strange. The seventy to do

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another training online. He never did
that training. So on the age when

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he was expected to be back at
work, he didn't show up. I

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suppose called me, he said,
you know where case he isn't at work.

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I guess no, he didn't show
up, so we went to his

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apartment and there was no answer at
the door. We went to the office

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and they said, well, if
you want to get into apartment, we

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Edward didn't have a key, so
if you want to get into the apartment,

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it con't take a police So they
helped us because we don't know anything

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in south Old Lake, it's another
city, and they helped us contact police.

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Police came and they did the welfare
check and they said he's not there

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and he said he has a little
silver Suzuki Oka. Check if his car

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is there. So they went and
searched on the parking lot and his car

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was also gone, and so he
was registered as missing, and his car

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was the license plate and make and
all were also registered with the Southold Lake

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Police. And by that time you're
very sick and hofull. He said,

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we will investigate. In the evening, I got a phone call and they

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said we found the cars. Like, whoa, that's a good well.

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They found the car on a dirt
dirt parking lot next to the freeway in

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the direction of Evanston, Wyoming.
So it's a state border to the east.

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It's about an hour and fifteen minutes
from Salt Lake City. It's a

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sparsely populated area, I would say, But the parking l and where they

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found the car, it's all open
to right and there's no forest there.

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It's all grass land because it's pretty
high up and it's pretty dry, so

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that's all grass land, and certainly
in the summer or in June, it's

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all dry. It's all yellow grass
and then a couple of bushes, but

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nothing much there. So you can
see the car from the freeway. It

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wasn't hidden at all. But one
thing was very strange the largest plates were

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removed, and one thing that immediately
took my attention the screws were put back

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in the car. It would be
a thing that I would do, just

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not willing to lose his screws.
He put them back. That's the way

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you do it. But it also
says that whoever removed the license plate took

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their time. It wasn't rushed.
It's something, yeah, I would say

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some someone did that fairly, calmly. Was no reason to believe that case

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he would hurt himself. There were
some suggestions of other people, well maybe

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money problems. Well no, he
did. He had and he still has

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a very substantial amount of money in
the bank account. And she was sizing

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up for buying his first house.
And let me tell you, he had

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enough to do a substantial doubt and
payment. So money wasn't of an issue

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in his personal life. We don't
know, but we never found any reason

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to believe there was an issue there. People from his work all say,

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well, he seemed happy and great
to work with and this none that so

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on a personal level, no indication
whatsoever why he would leave. On the

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other hand, the police also found
no indication whatsoever over crime. There were

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no blood in the car or any
traces of struggling every belonging. That more

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scene on the video when he left
his apartment, because there's video from June

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sixth that he leaves his apartment.
I think it was eleven forty or thereabouts.

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He has his backpack for work,
although he didn't have to work that

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day. Something that looks like a
lunch box or something like that. So

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officially case he was last seen on
the sixth when a security camera picked him

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up taking one hundred dollars out of
his bank account. Does that sound correct?

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So from the sixth, we have
a couple of cameras. One camera

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is from his apartment building. Unfortunately, his apartment building had a lot of

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broken cameras, so for instance,
the parting lot of camera that didn't work.

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But we have a friend of mine
and my wife. They check down

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a store or a business. I
think they got to drive aall or stuff,

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and they have a camera facing the
street and you could see a car

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exactly like my son's car and with
a person who is probably about six feet

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which is my son's hide, driving
to the street at eleven fifty, So

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that totally makes sense. That is
about ten minutes from his home. He's

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driving north towards his workplace, and
a couple of minutes later he is on

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camera at a nearby well Fargo at
m where he very normally calmly gets a

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hundred bucks in cash. And we
even know what probable backstory is why he

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needed cash because he was going to
treat some of the temporary workers that the

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ship employees in the summer. He
was going to treat them for Peter.

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So we know from a very short
period from about twenty minutes. We have

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him on camera a couple of times, but never on his workplace. They

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have cameras on the parking lot and
he never showed them. And we think

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he might have gone to his workplace
because he couldn't connect to his training from

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home for whatever reason, and thought
he, I'll go to the workplace and

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they grab one of the computers there
and do the training there. It's a

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theory, it's not confirmed no one
else. Another thing that he did on

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the Sunday before he disappeared is he
bought a handgun. He talked to my

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youngest son who likes guns. They
they go bang and they loud, and

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that's why he likes it. No
other reason, just why do you like

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fireworks? While they go pay,
and they talked about him buying a gun,

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and then it's stuff that they talked
about. Funny enough, I didn't

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talk about that one Sunday when they
talked on the steam and that was after

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the gun was purchased. The police
knows when the gun was purchased. At

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what time, I'm not sure,
but it's possibly even at videos from the

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gun store. And because if you
buy got here there is a background check,

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so his background check was done at
a certain time and when it comes

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back to the gun store as okay, that's okay, you can take the

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gun home, So that's what he
did. That gun is also missing,

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so we assume that gun was in
his backpack when he left on Monday.

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After that, the car was found
on money on a Wednesday evening. The

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police has been able to find a
witness who believes that the car was parked

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there already on Monday. So between
eleven forty leaving his suburbense and somewhere on

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Monday late afternoon or evening, the
car was brought to that parking lot because

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she disappeared, and I'm assuming that
there were no witnesses. So no one

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actually saw anyone driving Casey's car to
that remote location. No, no,

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No one has been able to be
tracked or whatever. No, police doesn't

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haven't been able to check anyone down. And what about a cell phone?

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He did have a cell phone?
Is that correct? Yep, you have

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a cell phone. But he didn't
have much failures if to think inness him

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detect they make a phone call,
he was good and a still smartphone.

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He was handy with looking things up
on his phone and stuff. His phone

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was switched off for it at least
the signal was lost again around that noontime

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on the sixth, and according to
police, the last time the cell phone

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was in contact with the cell tower
was around the area where the ATM was.

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And so the car was found way
to the east, like I said,

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an hour and fifteen minute drive.
There is no trace of any cell

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phone things to any towers in that
area or on the way to it,

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because along that freeway there's cell phone
towers almost everywhere. So yeah, the

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cell phone was either switched off,
empty, broke or whatever happened. Where

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is his cell phone at now?
That's with it. So his cell phone

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and pistol both went with him because
neither of those items have ever been located.

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That's correct, and his license plate
is also missing. There's plate,

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his bullet with his bank cards and
his credit card and on the website that

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there's a list of things. There's
some really weird special things that you're unique.

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He had a key hangard that had
two pictures of diolate father who would

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died in twenty twenty. We made
a key hanger everyone who gave everyone one

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just as a remembrance, so that
on his key chain he had one of

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those baracord doubles. I think there
was also on his keys. And that

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concludes the first half of casey box
logs story. Please listen to the conclusion

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next sweek. Have you seen this
adventurous military veteran Casey has described as being

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six foot two, weighing one hundred
and forty pounds. He has blonde hair

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and gray eyes and a goatee.
He typically wears long green wrangler cargo pants,

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a T shirt, military boots,
or sneakers in a cap. Anyone

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with information about Casey's whereabouts is asked
to contact the South Salt Lake Police Department

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at eight zero one nine four zero
six one seven nine, or contact Valley

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Emergency Communications Center at eight zero one
eight four zero four zero zero zero and

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reference case number LK twenty twenty two
DASH one eighty six nine three. Additionally,

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the family has set up a website
and Facebook page, both dedicated to

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finding Casey. The website is titled
Casey Missing, in the Facebook page just

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titled Cornelius Casey voxlog Missing. There
is also a fifty thousand dollars reward for

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anyone who can provide useful information leading
to finding Casey. I will also provide

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all of this information in the case
story It's and if you are a parent,

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law enforcement official, friend, or
relative seeking justice for an unsolved Thomas

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side case, please visit my website
and complete the contact form. You can

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also contact me through Facebook. Thank
you for listening.