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Theresa Doyle - Searcher for Jennifer:
It's more about the undercurrent that cannot be tamed, by building or organization, you put a bunch of people that are mentally ill and put a bunch of people that are physically ill and you bury people here and there and you dump garbage and poison the environment and then you sit around and scratch your head and wonder 'Gee why are things going wrong? or why is there a chill cast over this Staten Island, this wonderful place?' Because it's about those undercurrents, those things that had come before
It's more about the undercurrent that cannot be tamed, by building or organization, you put a bunch of people that are mentally ill and put a bunch of people that are physically ill and you bury people here and there and you dump garbage and poison the environment and then you sit around and scratch your head and wonder 'Gee why are things going wrong? or why is there a chill cast over this Staten Island, this wonderful place?' Because it's about those undercurrents, those things that had come before
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physically ill, and you bury
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people here and there, and you
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dump garbage, and you poison the
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environment.
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And then you sit around, and you
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scratch your head, and you
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wonder, "gee, why are things
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going wrong?"
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Or, "why is there a chill cast
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over this Staten Island, this
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wonderful place?"
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Because it's about those
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undercurrents, those things that
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had come before.
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As children, we were deluded
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by our parents' belief that
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Staten Island was such a safe
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place to grow up.
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But in reality, every community
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has a seedy underside.
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Every suburbia has its secrets.
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We only discovered our own
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because of what happened with
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Jennifer...
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And then with all the other
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children.
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After Donna Cutugno and her team
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found the body of
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Jennifer Schweiger, the police
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started connecting the dots.
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They looked at other missing
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children from Staten Island.
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Eventually, they focused in on
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four different cases spanning
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over 15 years...
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Tiahease Jackson, a 10-year-old
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girl with learning disabilities
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who disappeared four years
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before Jennifer.
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Hank Gafforio, 21 but with the
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I.Q. Of a 15-year-old,
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disappeared three years before
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Jennifer.
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7-year-old Holly Ann Hughes, who
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went missing six years before
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and finally Alice Pereira, last
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seen 1972, 15 years before
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to this day, none of their
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bodies have ever been found.
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They are missing-person cases
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that have occurred on
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Staten Island that have not been
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resolved.
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As kids, we never thought
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we'd learn the real story behind
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instead, Rand was sent to
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prison, and the stories just
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faded away.
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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.
