Kat Nelson
Appearances
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
There's no audio to the video. What is he telling her? What is she saying back to him?
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
When I first started in the Bureau, Jolene was already an agent at the office. She was obviously a phenomenal agent. It was always my dream and my goal to work a case with her.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
Working in Alaska, we're working with our local and state partners all the time.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
Initially, we're focused on the very first part of it. When we first see this person coming into contact with Samantha, when they're initially leaving.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
You couldn't go around a street corner and not see a business that had freed up their space on their billboard to show her missing picture and information. It was everywhere. Coworkers worked to cover every inch of town with this poster.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
It wasn't exactly clear that it was the same individual from the coffee hut, but there weren't enough things different between them that would completely exclude that as being a possibility.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
It was just so obvious how much her father cared about Samantha and what a close relationship they had.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
I also grew up in this area. I know what it was like being a teenager in Alaska. You know, the reaction that her dad would have at her not coming home is the reaction my dad would have at me for not coming home.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
Once Samantha leaves with this unknown individual, we start picking up the surveillance from the street cameras. There was a really great image of this white pickup truck. However, the license plate was unreadable on the video.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
The direction that this text message gave was to go to Connor Park.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
Finally, something has happened. Anchorage Police Department responds. And we're asking ourselves, is Samantha alive? Is she dead? There's a bulletin board that's near the dog park.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
There is a credit card number that is attributed to Samantha's account.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
Seeing the silver exterior come into play just added one more confusing element to this case.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
But right after the ATM withdrawals, we weren't getting any new information in once again.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
Our hope to find Samantha is still strong, but it is very discouraging when you're not having strong leads to work off of.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
It shocked all of us that now this case had clearly left all of Alaska behind. And now we're in the lower 48 in a completely different state that we never had on our radar.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
And then on March 10th, there is an ATM withdrawal that's made in Humboldt, Texas. So once again, things have continued to move east.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
During this whole time, we're asking ourselves, is Samantha with this individual? Is she in the vehicle? It's still a mystery to us.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
I'm Kat Nelson, and I'm a special agent with the FBI. Samantha was kind of your typical teenager to me. She seemed to have a close-knit group of friends that cared a lot about her. Samantha was living at her father's house. Her boyfriend would also stay there as well.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
You don't see a lot of people just walk up as people are driving a vehicle.
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Wild Crime: Ain't She Purty? | S4 Ep. 1
And then this individual just jumped straight into the coffee hut. The windows on the coffee huts are usually pretty high up off the ground. So this individual just leapt into the coffee hut through the window just very effortlessly.