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We would all be lucky to have a friend like Leah.

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Leah's never giving up on Shelly.

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"Here’s what actually happened." While police do have a duty to check on welfare and report on it, they can't get inside anyone's mind and see if 'they are resigned to their fate'.

Keep lighting up the 'where's Shelly' torch Leah, it's light might help Shelly.

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Tony, do you think that you will be doing any investigative reporting on Paul Haggis's trial and circumstances with Scientology? I read Paulette Cooper's story and was stunned/shocked by what Scientology did to her and to Mike Rinder and his family, setting up a spy across the street from where they lived. It would be interesting to see, perhaps one day, if Scientology was involved with Paul Haggis trial.

*I was shocked by the $7.5M win. Bill Cosby had over 65 victims and didn't pay this amount.

*Apologies for writing about the Paul Haggis trial here. I didn't know where else to write it.

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I am shocked! SHOCKED, I tell you! The lapd gets stuff wrong??!?! Why, never!

....... Oh wait. 🤔 *That* lapd? The one that's been so utterly stultified by corruption since before it ever even coalesced into an official police department and whose entire history feels like slamming your head repeatedly into the exact same brick wall for damn near 2 centuries? Oh yeah, them. Bless their hearts. A fair few of us are still waiting around for them to figure out who killed the Black Dahlia. Or who killed the investigation. Whichever. It'd be awfully nice if they'd do something meaningful and non-sketch-af about Shelly before 70-odd years go by. They're one of the most fascinating and frustrating fucked up historical American institutions, but there's always the point where it stops being historical and it all keeps bleeding into things they could fix right now to help actual living humans, and then they just.... never do.

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Tony, are you able or allowed to provide this accurate information to LAPD's Tweet so that the truth is acknowledged? Or do you think that Leah herself will update the information once she reads it?

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I’m confused. You write that LAPD spoke to Shelly in 2013 and closed the Missing person case but the LAPD 2022 press release says they spoke to her and closed it in 2014. Did the LAPD press release just make a mistake?

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Yes, they messed up, which is why I added the [sic] to their press release, to indicate the error.

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