Travis Abney

Cheryl's family has been great this whole time.

But now it's – Do you feel like they were duped by this guy or is he kind of inserting himself into – and they're not interested or they're – I don't think they were duped by him.

I just think that he had convinced them that like we're going to find her and he played the –

knight in shining armor and you know just a ridiculous person ridiculous guy i couldn't stand him um that being said so we go to like one of her anniversaries that marks you know whether it was her birthday or they held vigils for her a lot and i'm like trying to make my way over to the family to talk to them and he's he's literally just guarding them like a bodyguard

and he and I don't care for each other, I don't like him, he don't like me, and I wanna go talk to the family and stuff, but I wanna avoid him so badly that I actually kind of, he kind of kept me from doing that, you know, not because he intimidated me or anything, but just because I hated talking to him so much that, and to this day, he might still be in touch with them or whatever, and he did nothing for this case, nothing.

So, um, anyways, back to the Dateline story.

So, you know, they finish up doing my interview and you have to sign, you know, consent to, you know, them use your footage or whatever.

And I just so happen to ask them, I'm like, what do you, what's, what's, what are you guys doing the rest of the day?

And they're like, Oh, we're going to go meet with this, this guy that I keep referring to.

And, uh, you know, he, we're going to spend some time with him.

And I was like,

It's a waste of time.

He's a clown.

He's just a clown.

And if you want to – if you're going to do that, then I'm going to go ahead and pull back my consent for all this because I don't want to be tied to this guy's name.

He has done nothing to assist in our case.

I think he's a clown.

I made it very clear that if he's going to, if this episode is going to feature a lot of him, then count me out.

And they never, to my knowledge, aired anything with, I mean, it never did air.

But as far as I know,