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Barbara Brancaccio:
Despite constant threats by state officials to stay away from Willowbrook, Donna and the Friends of Jennifer kept going back. Donna Cutugno - Founder, Friends of Jennifer:
This area had been covered thousands of times by volunteers, by police, by dogs, but in that time one gentleman came across an area that he noticed had clay balls. Up on top like someone patted down and then this was all, you know, pushed back over with the trees, it was just a little spot that he noticed the clay balls. And that's what made us go back, or made him go, insist we go back. And George showed us the location that he thought needed to be looked at... The smell as soon as you start digging
Despite constant threats by state officials to stay away from Willowbrook, Donna and the Friends of Jennifer kept going back. Donna Cutugno - Founder, Friends of Jennifer:
This area had been covered thousands of times by volunteers, by police, by dogs, but in that time one gentleman came across an area that he noticed had clay balls. Up on top like someone patted down and then this was all, you know, pushed back over with the trees, it was just a little spot that he noticed the clay balls. And that's what made us go back, or made him go, insist we go back. And George showed us the location that he thought needed to be looked at... The smell as soon as you start digging
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Jennifer is.
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Despite constant threats by state officials
to stay away from willowbrook, Donna and the
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friends of Jennifer kept going
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this area had been covered
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thousands of times by
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volunteers, by police, by dogs.
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But in that time, one gentleman
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came across an area that he
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noticed had Clay balls up on
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top, like someone patted down.
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And then this was all, you know,
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pushed back over with the trees.
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It was just a little spot that
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he noticed the Clay balls.
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And that's what made us go back,
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or made him insist that we go
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and George showed us the
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location that he thought...
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Needed to be looked at.
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The smell... as soon as you
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start digging...
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We saw her toes.
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And everybody stopped.
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Father Henry gave her last
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rites.
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And they took us out of the
woods.
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Ernie, a grisly discovery
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back here tonight, back here in
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the 384 acres of the
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Staten Island developmental
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center... an arm and a leg
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sticking out from a shallow
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They are eerie shadows, police
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and others at the scene where
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the body of 12-year-old
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Jennifer Lynn Schweiger tonight
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was found.
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Police were preventing anyone from
getting this close to the scene.
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Even Jennifer's father is kept
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Yeah, Jennifer's father's
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here.
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He says you gave him permission
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to come through?
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Unless they can walk on
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water, they stay outside.
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There are two other girls
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who, over the last couple of
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years, have turned up missing
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here on Staten Island.
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They will be searching this area
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in the next few days to see what
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they can find.
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As one police officer told us
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tonight, god knows what they
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can find here.
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The discovery of Jennifer's
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body only 150 yards from Rand's
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campsite confirmed everyone's
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worst nightmare.
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Movie Summary
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
