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the every month or his missing is one more month that a wife doesn't have her husband. If not for me, I wish my brother will be found just so. His little girl doesn't have to grow up without a father, our family. We have come to terms with the fact that
is no longer what does so at this point, we are just looking for a body or like a bone or like anything that it confirms that he's
because we know he's not alive, my man still wants system has its own or maybe he'll come back. Maybe he's she'll stated
reason hospital, or maybe you so.
they are not build. The rational, she'll have crying spell
Why should this be really sad issue, mrs here so my mother comes here
Fiji one refugee camp and he's
like I feel I must try to stay with us. I'd partners were willing to risk our lie
because a lot of people died on that journey like it was, in my view, would hide behind bushes for like hours and days, to make sure like weeding, get killed
I don't blame him for being missing at Billy. He tried to stay alive
sometimes I came in. I would have these conversations and he would just be
crying and just he wants to do better like he was try,
On august thirtieth, two thousand seventeen twenty three year old, terracina hoodlum belly.
The home that is shared with his wife and young daughter and was taken by a friend to residents in phoenix arizona here.
not been seen or heard from since in this
sixteen months since two has disappeared, his family has struggled to find answers and has
I have to wonder how, for taurasi life in the united states went so horribly wrong.
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story is something that most of us couldn't even imagine when you look at me
years of tourists e he looks.
Any ordinary guy. He seems,
we always smiling posing freedom
for pictures with his beautiful wife and adorable daughter life
outside looking in seemed great, but underneath
and her aussi and where he was in life. You have to go back to the very beginning of his life.
when two Rossi was born, while his family was escaping genocide. Terrain
see, is a burundian refugees who was born in nineteen. Eighty four after his family had walked for four days to attend any and refugee camp to Rossi spent
first four years of his life living in this refugee camp, whereas parents,
undergoing intense vetting by the united nations hoping to be resettled.
Nineteen ninety eight rossi, his siblings and parents, were
The united states and given a small apartment in phoenix arizona,
the family didn't know the language, culture or customs, but only
One thing mattered: they were safe and they were together. We spoke to her.
Sees older sister alene for this episode and she shared
the family was facing when they arrived in the united states. So I think the bigger struggled for my
parents when they, when they came to the united states, was adjusting to
All the new live all of the new language than new types of people. There,
things like flash in the toilet like two new could every
was, though, new to them. They haven't seen a lotta. Didn't knowledge is that
We have here in the united states, they didn't speak the language. The food is different, so just that we're getting that system, but then also trying to navigate the education system, the medical system, the all of the different entities that we have here in the united states
that are either in the refugee camp in tanzania or in burundi, but will be
everything is now one broody refugees come here, derek
community. But when we came here
back in ninety eight, there wasn't a burundian community here so much. You know some as much as we have now so finding a broom the interpreter, and then there was just not have that, like a lot of,
available resources are even if there were weedy, know what those resources word. But I think I will go through life really difficult for my parents. It ends up being like the children and taking care of the parents in some aspects because, like we're like, I was too
working documents revamp because kids learn the language quicker than parents do just because of the eight different them and also the resources cause. I was in school, they were now. I ended up being more doctors, appointment, immigration appointment, things like die, yeah fighting they struggled was I've just things, and
getting used to american the american lifestyle. Whatever. That means, I think, by my parents, America, for them was a
to allow their kids to grow and flourish and, through I m, be saying and have opportunities that day they wouldn't child had otherwise and fred them. That's what they're american dream is for their kids to thrive and to be success want to be safe, though I get prevent like getting off the play.
Meant there were american because they were safe. While I was researching this episode, I had to look up protruding on a map high school job.
He was a long time ago. Burundi is small
country just south of rwanda. Eastern Congo
and west of kenya in nineteen. Seventy two,
a rebellion against, the government was started by a group known as the hutus at the time
government was run by the tutsi group. The tutsis and the hutus
semantically killed each other and the act
The hutus were classified as genocide by the united nations and ninety ninety two during
this time several hundred thousand tutsis and hutus, fled the political unrest in burundi. They fled to the neighbouring countries. The congo
rwanda and tanzania alene explained
her family would have been in so much danger. Had they remained in burundi. The war that impacted us was between the hutus, which have been tried and acquitted, which is another type in burundi, and when the war started,
we are my mom and data from two of the two of the opposing tried for my mom is pushed through and my daddy's two p m, because there from the two different tribes, they have mixed children and because of that on doing it,
like ninety ninety three. Ninety, through turn now war, we will not fail to stay in burundi because, while we were all mix them because there was a very
hi. Chance, like maybe like an undeniable than chance that we were going to be killed in burundi, is
during this time that tourists his family was fleeing the country along with so many others,
tourists. His mother was eight months pregnant. They walked for four days.
Seeking refuge alene was able
to describe the conditions in which to rouse was born and spent his
last year's, isn't my mom was pregnant with her ass, the when we left
the genocide in rwanda we did it. We were not safe in burundi, so we walked two tonnes.
Suddenly out, which is then neighbouring country about. Maybe they four days away during that time,
My mom was pregnant and I'll get to the point. To my, why I'm telling you the mammals pregnant, because my mom and trust his relationship is like ridiculously was ridiculously amazing, so my mom was like eight months pregnant.
him she faster than a loose and because the word, what what
one through war and war is not there's nothing pleasant or not hard about going through war when we get to tanzania he's born, but of course is born in these, like stress potential in its war time. So if surely, it's not a healthy environment for a child
to grow up in salt. We lived in tanzania for five years in the refugee camp. Ever we first got there. There was nothing. There was no
the united nations there was no red cross helping refugees. I mean this is back in ninety four like right. At the beginning of the genocide, so there was really nothing they hadn't seen a wave of refugees like us before they just didn't know what to do like. We were just in an empty field, and people may do. I think, like when a child grows up first year or two is in constant survival mode. There's sometimes mental health either develops or you're born with there, because of the stress that he went through in my mom's womb as she was trying to escape and save her other children, because my mom has nine kids, while had nine kids cause
we don't have to rossi, but she had nine kids. So at the time before he was more like we were escaping with, like I think by and there we were a little like I was for so they were trying to carry sms
Are we all lived and we saw people died and it was just crazy shit when you live in that
have environment like mental health happens like I have depression or anxiety, but I take or I went to therapy and I healed whatever right like there was a lot of my starvation like things that are. Malnutrition was an issue of lack of education, but for him like he came here when he was younger, so I do think that that dot the five years that we were there hadn't him.
I've done him, because it was the foundation years after spending the first four years of his life in a refugee camp, trust
family finally received the news that the united states was going to accept them turned
It was only four years old when his family resettled in peoria arizona
The family immediately began, working and acclimated to life in america
embracing their new home and culture. On the other side of the world trade,
If attended public schools and made friends with everyone, he knew, but the trauma
experiences of his early childhood would always haunt him. Alene explained what
Rossi was up against because he went through so much his birth was traumatic hid in this show. His first
sure three years, but you ve foundation years were extremely traumatic when he was in a refugee camp. He wasn't even
could be alive so because of all of this trauma through the war through the refugee camp
through coming here through not getting adequate mental health services. If you would have gotten the hoped for them
mental health. He wouldn't be missing, like I don't think you would be missing or not because when he was taking, he was fine like she was in our working and taking care of the wife and taking care of his door.
I don't know much about the complex world of immigration to the. U s, and I
definitely don't know what it's like to be a refugee,
to learn more about what refugees and immigrants go through when they come to the united states. So we spoke to Nicole walker, who works
the international rescue committee in phoenix arizona she spoke
but what she does for I see and how their organization was found. It my name's, Nicky walker,
development manager at the impartial risky committee, I've been here. Twelve years now, I receive opened in nineteen thirty three to help originally ready
he's going out of nazi germany, nazi controlled europe, and since then, we we now work and forty countries. Twenty six. U s cities continuing to help refugees who are fleeing but also
asylum seekers who are trying to re establish on their lives, so we do everything, fun teaching them english, making sure they have medical assistance.
The way through to the time when they are ready to purchase a home and maybe even start as us. So we should have.
You know, we see our borders as being there there nuisance.
why their new connection, their new community, because they're leaving everything behind great so
So what I do here is as relevant manager and sir work with communications
Make sure that this message is shared with the commission
if the refugees are and how the community can get bargain
Writing a warm welcome to them. So there are different resettlement agencies. I received
no more here and in arizona, ah there's catholic charities, lutheran social services and then a smile because heirs, and so each agency has a contract with the federal government to provide basic assistance during the first couple of months of refugee resettlement, and that includes a thick housing assistance, finding employment and that's pretty much what's required now. You know I can tell you that the resettlement agencies, our interest, is to ensure the success of somebody who is being resettled here. So at I or c I can speak specifically. We really take a holistic approach, I'm as far as the types of additional services that we provide, so we are a nonprofit, so we seek donations and grants
to try to expand our programs as we see the needs arising so, for example, in the phoenix office. When I started twelve years ago, you know we we didn't yet have an education program. A youth program or behavioral health program was a fairly small since then we've you know, we've realized that this is a you know. These are very critical needs for the the types of populations that we have been receiving, and so we have decided to focus on expanding those those programs, and now we have a very robust behavioral health program, intensive case management program that goes beyond just those two months that the the federal government requires us to ah to to follow somebody to
three months, so that is different and in every agency. But I can tell you that china here I see we even have an immigration programmed. It works with people after they ve been here for five years, so we don't without close a case, essentially until somebody becomes a citizen. So if somebody
few in our four years down the road become unemployed.
And they needed assistance from us. They could come back to us and say: hey guys, I know.
It's been awhile, but I'm I'd like to get a little bit of extra help from you and it won't be as intense.
and as one on one is as it was at the beginning when they first arrived norse, nor should it be, and we want to teach folks how to do stuff for themselves
not rely on us entirely. So that's kind of the progression of other systems
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Sometimes the media uses terms interchangeably, and that leaves us with
mixed messages that dont provide accurate information in order
better understand what rossi and his family went through in order to be resettled in the united states. I asked Nicole
what it means to be a refugee. So a refugee is somebody who has been forced to flee their country and have crossed an international border, and that's very important, so they've actually made it out of the country where they are from and are going to a secondary country of refuge, and they have fled for very specific reasons under the definition of a refugee is, is fled because of their religion, their political opinion, their membership in a social group. So the tootsies vs the hutus, for example, so that it's not a situation where they are fleeing because
or the economy because they're looking for a better job, it's a situation where their life is in danger. They have been threatened themselves or that their their family's lives have been threatened. They've witnessed some sort of violence, and so you know that persecution is.
very real, very personal and very violent they've been forced out of their home because of that so a refugee will actually get their status abroad even before they step on an airplane. They will have gone through extensive interviews through if they're coming to the us, they will have gone through extensive interviews. Through F b, I state department department of security. You know seven or eight different federal agencies that cross check information. Take a retinal scans and just ensure that person is who they are, I won't say, are given that refugee status
today's check from the medical checks, etc, and then they are sent to their country of resettlement. So then they arrive in the united states and they have that refugee status with that provides them unemployment. I e numbers: they can work
five years from their point of arrival, they can apply for finland ship it within one year. They will play for green card within five years. It play for citizenship. So so it's a very formalised process in the. U s, it does provide a path: citizenship now with asylum seekers, it's different, but certainly by definition, a refugee as somebody who has experienced trauma just by definition of what they have gone
through and or what we see quite a bit. You know, understandably, is a post, traumatic stress, disorder and the an aversion to accessing behavioral health or mental health which happens in our own culture, there's a stigma about accessing behavioral and mental health, but it's
especially pronounced in uncertain culture. So you know in an interesting case. I don't. I don't have that information about his individual situate.
but I can tell you of twelve years working here
I remember when we were resettling liberia due to the different population than then try sees that I remember as having a challenge of
encouraging them to to come to to see our therapists intact, whether this, because they felt like its day,
that they needed, meaning
He will that that would indicate that there were some help is asked or that they were somehow
decisions, and then they would be either have that's shadows, challenge
with their own within their own community. Is anybody found out, and so we
a whole lot of teaching to do about the hebrew help with that community.
and it turned out. You know we started setting up small group where no we'd have
they know more intimate conversations that wasn't necessarily therapy. It was more group therapy. Good group talks, inactivity using
We have a gardening program that people can access that doubles as a sort of therapy
you're right, I mean, I think, by definition, a refugee as somebody who will have experience that trauma and along with that of course, because the human beings,
we're going to have some of those. Potentially I mean. Obviously, he can't paint with such a broad serve to say that everybody is going to have the mental health issues that wouldn't be fair or correct.
That, certainly depending on the level of trauma, Dave experience that they're gonna happen is challenging. The cost
waned? What challenges people who are we settled in the united states are up against and what kind of issue
was taurasi and his family faced. What did I think, people that realize that the trauma that that refugees go through
before they arise doesn't just thought when they get here. Their lives are continuing to change rapidly and drastically the culture shock. If you were a different type of shock that happen,
But it continues pass in other their moment of arrival and that's why we feel that it's really critical for the community to come
gather around refugees because, because that trauma didn't just end.
Nicole, also shared the misconceptions americans have about immigration and refugee resettlement, as well as
actually takes place. What I can tell you is,
the goal of the u s resettlement programme. So this is the federal government that running this programme is self sufficiency. The way that they do, that is by helping the refugee for one or two months when they first arrive with that went to assistance, but then expecting that they are going to get employed within those wondered
months in that situation in hours. If you one day had you were forced to flee to the middle of mogadishu and all of a sudden had to learn the language, the culture,
The woman. You have to behave differently and act differently,
that in that society expects somebody to be able to get on their feet completely.
Two months. It is not realistic, and so we recognise that is non profit organisations, a social service agencies,
and we come together with the community, with churches with with individuals in the neighborhood, create that welcome for the first few months of their arrival
and into another, the next couple of years, with different programmes that they that they can access, but that's done through profit, nonprofit entity. So that's private funds
that we do. You know when there are certain other federal programmes that we can access any other nonprofit can through grants. So I'll give you an example of our new,
His program, who are in the? U s, d, a is a great supporter of our new roots program because it encourages urban agriculture and sustainable agriculture, which is what the refugees are doing in india
the rest of the population. That's involved the new routes, that's what they are doing in phoenix, and so the idea that people are are getting about refugees. Getting everything paid for it might be happening in other countries
The resettlement program is very different. The model is very different in other countries. You know
written in norway, give much more assistance for much longer than the EU s does, but the differences that they won't necessarily be able to consider citizens than those countries, and so the u S is built to encourage self sufficiency pathetic
It also encourage people to become citizens and truly integrate into our our community. I wanted to ask
cole, how my family and my audience can plug into our communities to assist those who are new to our area. I think the first, that is to better understand,
refugees are, and the best way to do, that is to meet a refugee. There are resettlement agencies all over the country in almost every city that could be it.
Church or it could be, as an irish case case, justice and independent, not profit, for that would be. My recommendation is the first step is to learn about your neighbors. You know who live next door who owns
the somali restaurant. You know down the street and I create that. Welcome. Simply by being curious about about other cultures in you know, different nonprofits and different agencies have different ways to bond here.
get involved. That will give you a chance to learn more about these populations, but then, I think also realising that refugees are business owners that they do open business,
the purchase homes. They are our neighbours, and I know that as a matter of fact, having with you now in this case
unity and seeing the different populations become integrated
over the years of working with refugees, and in I'm going to have lunch at an iraqi restaurants this afternoon down the street and those are refugees, I'm
only wearing a necklace made by a refugee artisan that I purchased at a world is, are you know, and so I think realizing that that refugees are our neighbours are part of our community.
And getting involved in resettlement, I think, is the gateway to provide that warm welcome to our neighbours, theirs
much more to this story than someone whose life was transformed by the civil unrest in which they were born into a
He told me how these struggles made her family stronger and willing to take on anything
I wanted to know what taurasi is like
selene shared the joy, the her brother brought to everyone he met. He is just like a class like every
it loves him, but when you meet my brother you're, like oh, my god, she's such a sweet kid and just funny very lovable, he's also very like he could talk. He could probably sell you like a dead dog and convince you that I come to live at some point, he's just so creative and then he's so friendly and so social. He makes everyone feel safe, loved and cared about like it's just if my brother would have had like proper mental health, the tree
it my brother's own mental inability to stay on medications that he was prescribed. I think that if you have proper mental healthcare and if he would have stayed on the meds, then he would still be with us. I think my brother's missing, because of
his mental hop. We heard Nicole share the traumas that refugees often experience before the resettlement process occurs. Tourists
struggle with a mental health issues. Early on in life. Alene spoke about
behaviors that caused her family to become concerned and how he was diagnosed, I mean they're ravaging. I was wrong. I think there are a lot of his behaviour. Hop issues came from that bad trauma, like I think, that's where a lot of
came from, then we come to america and we put him in school and he learns English and he's thriving. He gets he's. Such a smart care are. Was such a smart kid light
really great grades and then, when he was twelve or thirteen, now all of a sudden. By suddenly he thought having anger issues which you ve never had
really, and then he kept getting suspend difference closer. My dad moved him to family members and I are, and then he ended up in love juvenile system out there just kept getting into behaviour. Hopped issues
I'll go back to mental health issues, but even their right. You don't even think that he lives in a dubious like day would talk about him like their talk about this,
straight day under old kid, like the way that everybody loved a lot the loved my brother, he used to volunteer for the boys and girls club
the peoria center in in where we lived he used to volunteer. If there's like a a youth and police department, there's like a a police like where you volunteer
the police in your neighborhood, like you used to be involved in a lot of volunteer work when he was on meds. He was a different person, so when I will let him come stay at my house when you take
imagine he would be grey like. I wouldn't be worried about anything going missing, but then, when he would get off his meds, I think the voices in his head would tell him like one time. He was just
in the garage. You want me, like china, barring the trash to see if bill fill up
something just things that are not normal, you know if you burn fire in a garage, is going to explode. These are things you should know anyway, so he starts school and we started noticing some behavioral issues and we start we start getting him into mental health services, but at the time my parents didn't understand, because again, this is not their country. This is not their culture, even if you have
mental health in my country. They just think you're crazy and that's it. You know, there's really no services they're, just like oh, why does that say? You know that's how like you're, crazy and currenty, and that's it though we didn't know, we just thought he was misbehave.
in school cause. He wouldn't be able to still spill. He will like walk out of the classroom because he's like well, my friend told me to, and they were like worse his friend that you're talking about at an early age, there were signs
There was something wrong, but we just don't know what it was killed.
Have more swings, then, later on life later on, like when he was nineteen? Twenty, he was diagnosis bipolar
try ass. He made his wife cheyenne when they were still in grade school. They have a
after that a lean says to rossi doated on she explained,
but his relationship with his wife and daughter were like prior to his disappearance, but where they took care of his daughter, no matter what he was going through. He always loved his child and take care of his wife to the best of his mental ability. As far as loving
thought. It was always a hundred percent, his wife. You know every relationship had issues, but the aim
Is she loves my brother like see she literally, she would take a bullet for him. She loves him man. I love his life. My brother one, I have lived as long as he did it without his wife. I don't think so. We ve had him as long as we ve had him, because I love this. She had for him. I can.
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over the years. Trusty had some run in with the law
because taurasi was a green card holder and had not
become unnaturalized. U s, citizen the federal government
detained him when he was arrested,
during this time he was entered into removal proceedings and had to go before an immigration judge to explain why he should be allowed to remain in the united states. These proceed
these are complex and often misunderstood. There are several
factors and immigration judge would have two way to determine whether or not to rossi would be removed from the. U s. During
time. Trusses wife, cheyenne filed spousal petition to allow to rossi another avenue to stay in the. U s, only
shared this part of taurasi story when you're bright as a refugee. You have your green card and then after five years you can apply for citizenship. But for us, when we were brought here, we have green cards, but because you have to be eighteen or your parents have to become citizens before you turn eighteen and are for you just be a citizen once you're eighteen. So for me, I didn't become a citizen until I was twenty three because my parents tried to take the test. Like my dad tried four times, which was seven hundred and sixty five dollars two times with the family of nine plus paying them, you know like it's just not financially affordable for
now tried not many times because of his own traumas during the warlike here for her like a lot of ptsd. That does not allow him to learn or retain information like you, and I could well my dear choices that if for the citizenship test, the information doesn't register, my brother's wife was able to fight for him to stay, because you have to prove that why they should let you stay party does like his mental ill he's not mentally capable I e they kept him because he is not able to like
he didn't understand, he's not mentally compensate. They can't important, because one like burn these delicious at home,
The media is not like. He was born there, but he doesn't have citizenship their ends. His wife was, I think his wife was pregnant at the time. So she was like my husband is taking his mind
He takes care of his family. He takes care of me.
you know, and he did. I think her case was showing that he supports her horizon americans with his uncle. You have to show I: why should you stay in this country so getting to the point it because weren't they gonna send him. They brought him here, one who was three america like you was a great except from here one, whose three? Yes, he committed this offence, but he needs mental health service. This is anything he doesn't need to get the port it. You know, then judge will listen to the story and it depends on them.
Because I was at a hearing, the judge literally deported thirty five patients at the same time, despite Rossi struggles in life, he tragedy
in positive and wanted to inspire others to do the same. Here's a clip from a veto
that too Rossi had posted on facebook, us all
at all world and I'm blessed, though, cause a god and Jesus Christ. The good life is good. My daughter straight, my wife's dream whole family straight, and I just pray everyday that everybody straight cause. Nobody deserved a golden not in, but you've got to believe that everything you do go do this for a purpose cause god don't do nothing to you that he can't handle and you've got to believe that you can overcome anything any trial. Tribulation any circumstance would the strength of Jesus Christ, you've got to believe in something and whatever you do believe a lie. You gotta believe that it's going to be able to get you do and I believe in Jesus Christ and god I believe in you know, in mountainous, my wife she's at work right now. What daughter's, strong and healthy I'll see all my nieces and nephews dished on beautiful and healthy the hotel room? Quite let me let me get older and save the safest way cause a
one against the car accident, but even if it does happen, I know I can handle the boom, because a guy got a purpose for me, and I know I believe it. One hundred percent, that is all a straight alene, is now a social worker, a career
she chose based on her own experiences, growing up and a desire to help others
She reminded us that american society approaches mental health differently from their culture in africa
although a lean and her family, are grateful for the resources the. U s has to dedicate towards mental health care are system is far from perfect.
She spoke about some of the struggles tracy faced with peer issues,
occasion and trying to take care of his family all? At the same time, we would not have proper mental health services, though it's like. We bring people who
went to all of this war and all this trauma and we put them in india.
environments
doping is like you didn't choose to have mental health issues. It wasn't like he started doing heroin and became mentally ill life were made him the way that he is there wasn't drugs and made him the way that he is our.
That was that he was. I can tell you right now. If I did not go to therapy, I would have already been there like the ship that I went through. I would have already been dead, but can you imagine being four years old and being raped by like a thirty six year old? We don't grow up in the best neighborhood either. So it's like
I like negative influences and then he's done his own mental health issues and we
well him that just like thrive and survive without meds and then cause cause. I get frustrated when I think of like how bad the system is cause like when he's on his meds right when he's on his psych meds, he hits he like paid. His wife's mortgage took care of his daughter, like we knew when he was on his meds, because
I always knew where he was how he was doing, but we never even when he was not on meds. We always knew he was in jail or at ST luke's hospital, which is the mental health behavior place like like these are his three places, his wife's house jail or the mental hospital like and just circles that way you know cause when you take meds, you feel better, you stop taking them. You get, you know cause when you're like
you'll find rush lucky taking them in august of two thousand seventeen. Now, twenty three year old rossi, on one hand, is a loving husband and doting father, but
the other hand he struggling with some mental health issues and trying to kid
life on track for himself and his family. This is,
two rossi mysteriously disappears wins
august thirtieth. Two thousand seventeen was a sweltering one hundred and eight degrees in phoenix toronto
what does wife that he was going to run an errand a friend.
im a home in phoenix and was due to pick him up later that day
Tracy, never answered his friends cause, so here
atrocities, wife cheyenne, that something seemed wrong. Five hundred and fifty.
gazed later to russie remains missing in despite
where's about what may have happened to him his case lax
hard evidence to solve it. So
and a twenty three year old, terracina yeoman belly. How did some
you ve been through so much in his short life just vanish. That brings us to the
in part, one of tourists story in part to level
I've deeper into the circumstances surrounding trusses disappearance, you get to hear from trusses wife and also did
Dr Johnson, from the phoenix police department
you, may remember, detective johnson, from march years, episode from a few weeks back well he's
again to share his perspective on the investigation into terraces disappearance,
be sure to listen to part two to hear the rest of taurasi story at the time
of his disappearance. Tracy was twenty three years old, five foot. Seventy
This time and late. Approximately one hundred and thirty pounds is black hair and brown eyes view of any information about to receive disappearance. Please contact the feed
its police department at six zero to five
three four to one to mine,
you can follow tresses case on facebook, I bring to rossi home when I hope for my family's answers, but even if we can have any,
You know, because it so hard to my move on when you don't have any sort of proof that the persons deceased, because there is still a chance- I think, there's a chance. So he could still
I personally don't like there's a chance. If you come back my mom in his, why believed that does it turns it could come back, but they also realistically know? How is he gonna come back.
The way I know terracina way that when I talk to you, know a lean and then cheyenne is your taurasi, easy,
young father,
and he's a brother and then their from africa
and a move that to the united states when a was a young child? And that's what I stick with? I really want to provide answers to both a lean into cheyenne and to turn
young daughter,
the
the.
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