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Trudy Court

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Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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It's been 40 years, and she was 13. She'd be 50-something. We think, you know, we wonder how she would have been as she had grown, who she married. what her children would be like.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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Never gave Mom and Dad any problem. She was funny, beautiful, very smart, very loving. Just a happy-go-lucky 13-year-old.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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She had been at my brother's the day before because my brother and his wife were going out. The day that she went missing was Father's Day. Ada was supposed to get picked up by my sister Dar. Something happened, I'm not exactly sure. I can't remember a lot back then. There's a lot of missing pieces, but... Yeah, Dar was supposed to go pick her up. Something happened that she couldn't.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

1677.35

My brother and his wife were probably a little hungover from being out the night before, so Ada decided she would just take the bus home because it was a beautiful day.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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Ada left to catch the bus in the morning. My mom lived in Burnaby. So from Coquitlam to Burnaby on the bus, you know, should be like an hour or so. My mother called my sister and I. We must have been about three or four and said that Ada hadn't arrived home yet and could we come out? So my sister Dawn and I went out to Burnaby to be with mom and we just waited and thought maybe she was

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

1730.27

You know, stopped at a friend's, but she was really responsible and would call. So, but we were thinking of all kinds of things that could have happened, right? Stopped at a friend's, went to the mall and just got distracted. So we just waited. And I remember clearly, mom had a couch in front of this big window that looked out onto the street.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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And I remember sitting on the couch and watching the end of the street. There was a building. And I knew that when she got off the bus, she had to come around that building. And I remember getting the bus schedule and watching every bus that passed.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

1781.802

I believe mom called the police after it got dark that night. And, well, of course, their first question was, you know, could she have run away?

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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We learned later that where my brother John lives, Olson was kind of a maintenance person, possibly. But he was known by the children that he would hand candy out to them, and they all called him the Candyman.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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Yeah, we believe that she did know of him because she would take the girls out to the playground. So we believe that she had met him.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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...should have let the families know.

Sea of Lies from Uncover

S33 E2: Something Monstrous | Calls From a Killer

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She didn't really do—she was just a mess. So it was up to the rest of us to gather whatever information we could. Some of the stuff we held back from her. She wasn't in good health. So we were doing all the trying to, you know, find out what's going on.