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situations and I on date line that any our little shining star IT was devastating, that empty ness. We had to believe that we would find her someday.

Boni ducker was a dedicated student, a dedicated mother.

The last thing he said to me is, mom, I love you.

Did bEthany go? Is this a missing person? Is that a homicide? We don't know you.

There's no obvious bloodstains. There's no weapon is found inside of the apartment.

One clue came on his bick willey.

I tried to get away what, but he pulled back.

SHE was a woman .

in fear just had so I could kill you right now if I wanted to.

What he went through and imaginable.

two women turn targets. Could one helps saw the mystery of the other.

There is this evil person out there that .

willing to thank the amount of violence of his was on.

We had to hope. We had to pray.

There are still people at risk. Is gotta put away?

I'm lester halt and this is deadline.

Here's Keith Morrison with bEthany vanished. I is thursday, remember, thirteen, twenty fourteen. IT was just after two P.

M. On the investigator press record. And we're about moving and stuff like that, right? Flying a roaster room, man was a woman in a hospital bed bed and beaten SHE survived a violent assault. By some miracle, SHE could recall every painful detail.

Over over and I pretty shared another body and day after a cycle.

Her violent attacker was well known to detect us. They've been hunting him for years from one town to another as a leap frog, from one abusive relationship to another. He was crafted, dodging, arrested every turn, managing to escape their grass because there was never enough evidence until now, until the woman in the hospital told her story, SHE would become the key to solving a mystery. Three years in the making, the mystery of a Young mother, three months pregnant, two without a word, suddenly vanished.

The last day that I saw bEthany was a glorious day.

As was every day, eleven bills got to see her granddaughter by that last day in two thousand and eleven, best and a decor was all grown up and very busy, buzzing around aspirin, Virginia, an hours drive away, and balancing college for total new baby on the way. So spending the day with best in y and her husband a meal was a treat.

SHE came over, and we got to just spend the time talking with each other and sharing, you know, like how he was doing, how everything was going work in school. I made all my teza for her, and he loved my ginger snap cookies. So I made ginger snap cookies.

all the gram as intuition. But something seemed to be weigh on destiny.

SHE wasn't herself. SHE was more trouble than ever before. I had never seen her. So ej SHE .

was up at my parents house and he called me.

Kim Nelson is bethenny mother. Ki was living with her at the time, so bethenny calls to check in, but kim thought her daughter seemed distracted, distressed.

Know, the last thing he said to me is, mom, I love you ever.

Lin said when he wasn't talking on her phone, but and he seemed to be firing off a text every second, and then suddenly he said he had to leave right away.

I actually stopped her at the door. I blocked the front door, and I wouldn't .

let her leave that. He found a way around and drove off. And then SHE went silent.

I caught that any, every single day after that, and there is no water. I thought, well, SHE, you know, like she's got a walk going on sheet school SHE has a baby and choose twenty one years old.

My parents actually drove by her partner and saw her car park there. So we thought, OK, you know, maybe something was going on, but you still there. It's okay.

But when two weeks turned to three, nevland and her husband decided to go to best in his apartment again.

On the way down, my husband told me, he said, event, if we can't find her, we're calling the police .

later that day. That's just what they did. How did the police get involved in this?

So we didn't get notified until figure in sixth after bEthany SE grandmother and bEthany SE mother realized that neither wanted had any contact with her since that night. On generate twenty eighth.

mark bushes are detected with the louden county share of his office. He was part of a team called into look for bethinking, the team that included then sergeant Steve socia.

You know, you try to gather, is this a missing person? Is that a homicide? We don't know. You did did Better and just get fed up and leave .

a deputy model in the death in his apartment. When they went inside, IT was empty because best, and he was in the process of moving out. But everyone was surprised to find what .

was left behind when we went into the master bedroom in the closet, on the right inside, on the shelf was Better. This purse that SHE always brought to my house, her little wallet. And then there were keys to her car.

a purse with some keys. Yes, sir, the sort of thing a person would take if you've decided to go on the road voluntarily, absolutely never even showed the deputy business. His car was in the parking lot and look different than the last time you'd seen IT.

That car was covered in dust, completely covered, like I had never been moved.

What was in the car?

The trunk was completely packed with her persons begging clothing. And at the bottom we found a computer and three cellphones underneath of all of the junk.

Odd or yes, but evidence of a crime, the detectors weren't so sure.

There's no obvious bloodstains. There's no obvious pull, the holes in the walls. There's no weapon that's found inside of the apartment .

still at the apartment. The deputy got on the phone with kim.

He asked me the question, do you think your daughters and danger? And he asked me again, and i'm like, yes, I think she's in danger.

Danger from what or who?

IT had all been so confusing and frightening what happened? The best and the decor.

IT was just like this foreign world I could never even imagine.

For three weeks, her family had refused to dwell on awful possibilities. After all, they heard bEthany was still talking with friends on facebook.

Several messages get sent to her sister. Some friends came.

saw some of those direct messages from best in his facebook. And one of the best and he said, everything is fine. And later that SHE didn't want to talk was IT a relief to do think she's okay.

Yeah, maybe this is how she's like reaching out to us.

And so they had waited and tried very hard not to worry so long. He was always .

good about reaching out to somebody, the family, even if he was mad at her mom or her grandmother, SHE still reach out to her sister. And SHE wasn't ration out to her sister, SHE would be talking to friends. So I believe IT was situation where everybody thought that bEthany was just communicating with someone else.

The investigators, however, took a much less optimal stic approach.

Detectives back then search the wooded areas all around her apartment.

We moved down into using four whilst ers and dogs and bloodhounds into the fields around the apartment complex. We started using our dive team to search retaining pins that we're near the apartment complex.

but they had a big disadvantage. They were way behind best and have been missing for almost three weeks. By the time they were called in, who knew what evidence might have been lost?

There was a trash compactor. That trash compactor could have been a dumped three or four times or more before we got to surgeon.

But still, kim, her family desperately needed best way to be OK. In so many ways he was the beating heart of the family. They're the sweet and generous one that your mom the best. A lot of people.

when you're in a conversation, they're talking about themselves a bet. And he was always the kind that wanted to know about you and how you are doing.

Sh'd been born in hawaii and an island girl style seemed to sick, said her sister.

Sh'd wear the flip flops and she'd have just the the ten and the really gorgeous hair .

growing up. But then I was persisted to a three Younger siblings, but also a kind of mom assistant.

SHE really liked being the leader you of the kids. And you, whether it's cleaning house, doing chores.

always wanted to sort of do something to help somebody else. Is that the idea? Absolutely.

absolutely. Like I didn't have to ask her to make dinner or to do the dishes or to do things that, like you just did them.

It's pretty rare thing.

And IT is a rare thing.

I just loved everything that he did, everything, everything that SHE SHE wore, everything that he did everywhere that he went. I wanted to do .

the same thing. Who wouldn't want to be like bEthany? SHE made life look effortless. Less honor's program, marching band, lots of friends. When IT came time for college, SHE had her pic of schools.

SHE ended up going to George Mason university in fairfax, Virginia, and SHE saw there is a brand new major called global and environmental change. And he had always had a heart for the environment and making the world a Better place.

Best only visit at at home often. And during one particular visit, SHE shares a news.

SHE mentioned that he met somebody while doing laundry at school.

that someone was a meal decker. He was in a fortunate in R O, T, C. How does the two of them connect with each other, with they the same, where the opposite, they like, together .

complimented, they complimented each other.

I think there two personalities really about each other, because he was big and bold and law, and he was a very calm, but a very gentle personality and comparison.

In a little more than a year, they went from college, swearing to newly woods. And in a blink they were parents to, they named their little boy ky, did he take the motherhood prety easily?

Very natural. BEthany, like, loved him more than anything. Just know the way he would dress him and sing to him. And and you talk about, know his future.

The meal was in the national guard now, too, and his military work often took him away, sometimes far away. And family have been pitching in to help look after ki, well, best, and was at work or school. Eventually, ki moved in with four time. That's why this ominous feeling could no longer be denied, because bEthany would never go so long without seeing her. Boy IT kind .

of just sink in my chest like, I just steadily got this cold pit, and I just got worse and worse as I like, started realizing something. Something is really wrong. But they can. That only happens on TV. That couldn't happen here.

but IT was happening here. And IT was, all people were talking about best in a decorate her husband to meal. And what's this? Another man, the ultimate motive? exactly.

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By the time best and a decor had been missing for over a month, he was the focus of intense community speculation. And some of IT was about him. There's people .

out there cast in suspicion on a milk.

a meal, bathrooms, ese. Husband, as police had reviewed family and friends, they learned the couple was no longer living together. That detail fed the gossip machine you've .

got all these people believe that he must have had .

something to do with that. And there was more best. And he had been living with a new man before he went missing and was pregnant, presumably with the new man's child. And the me, you knew all this.

the ultimate mode of exactly. So he's been looked at. He's been tried in public.

But investigators started looking into IT. The meal was deployed. We often afghanistan, but then they discovered first from people who seen him, and then for military record and meal, was home on leave on best. And he was last seen alive.

So they had contacted the military and got permission to speak to a meal. And a meal got leave and was able to come back to loud county. He came back to the shares office.

came with an attorney who was by his side as he told detectives above the last time he best, which was at her grandmother's house that last day, when he fired off all those text messages and then left in a hurry, a meal said he rushed after her.

She's driving back home, and a meal attempts to follow her. And they stop at a local gas station. He has a conversation with bEthany, fills her tire up. Tire was going on air, try to convince her not to continue going .

back to ashen. I wouldn't listen, he said. I just took off, apparently back to her apartment, a good hours drive away.

And IT was late at night, he said. So he pulled off the road and slept for a bit in his car. He said I was .

little too embarrass to go back to the grandmother's residents. And bEthany continued back .

to ashbourne detect us, press to meal what happened to his marriage. And he blamed their problems on the very real demands of his military service.

His obligations with the guard took him away from their marriage of the extended periods of time. She's working as a waitress. SHE was going to school and he was raised in the sun.

That is tough. I mean, not only awful lot for one person of responsibility, for one person, one Young person to shoulder.

absolutely. And she's at the same time getting high high grades at school, taking high level courses. She's got a lot on her plate.

And although detectives discovered by then I had a new man, a meal hadn't given up on their marriage, in fact, the week before he disappeared, he took her to hawaii.

IT was a trip that he had planned in hopes of saving their marriage, knowing that beth ney was seen another guy, knowing that bEthany was pregnant more than likely with another man's child at that point.

and he was OK was continuing to try to make this relationship work.

He offered to raise this next child as if IT was his own and try to save their marriage best.

And his mother had heard that too. He was trying to repair the relationship.

Yes, sir, I mean, he had mentioned that to me, I think that time was very precious and that there was hope that the situation would be resolved.

IT was quite a story, and detectives are paying post attention, both to amuse words and his body language.

He had an open body power. He was forthcoming with information. His information didn't seem to change. He was accepting of his role and in a situation how he had made things harder on bEthany.

He wasn't angry. He said he still loved her. We recovered .

a whole bunch of videos from cell phone records that showed him sending love messages to to bathetic that he was upset that he wasn't going to be home for certain advance or wasn't going be home with her. And ki.

here's a holiday message to me. Al, recorded while stationed in the middle of a couple of a months before bEthany disappeared.

I just want to give a lovely shut out to my wife, who is in front per virgina, and to my son. Ki, I love you when I miss you very much. Have a merry Christmas.

Police let a meal go, knowing there was one of the side of this love triangle. The other man rono roll down, who seemed to be living quite a different life from best in his husbands.

We knew that he was a ladies man. He was very outgoing, that he had a lot of friends life of the party type.

They found him, of course, the pocket of ronal roll down a very curious man he would turn out to be, do you know what happened to N.

IT was a kind of hell, that awful time of unknowing. After bus evanished.

I can't even count how many fires .

I passed out. Her family knew IT was bad. Of course they did, but they would not, could not stop searching.

Here are kim in her husband on nbc station W. R. C.

I'm praying, and I have faith that she's safe.

I got the whole country talking about the .

day a Young pregnant mother has gone missing.

Detectives, meanwhile, occupy themselves with hard reality to them. The facts said, homicide. So they track down the other man in her life ronal road, and.

Twenty twenty fifth and we are.

Investigators found him at his mother's house, where he see more than willing to talk about bEthany.

He's very engaging. He's painting the entire relationship with a rosy picture.

He said they met at a restaurant where they were both waiter.

so much as when you met.

think you started working in.

much like to all that time the army had taken the medal away.

SHE was definitely alone in a way that I don't think even SHE was .

prepared for. You'd never been one before. yeah. So SHE and runs struck up a friendship tonic, apparently best only being best. Any SHE emphasized when he told her his sad story.

I remember her telling us that there was a coworker at her work that had kids, SHE said he was kicked out of the place where he was staying, and so SHE offered him a place to stay with her.

Is that border that he is nothing more until, apparently, IT was something more, at least according toronto.

when he wanted us to, like, live together. I thought about IT because, you know, was like, wild. We have been to that long and plus she's, you can know she's separated, but you know, like something for her.

something about this rosy picture didn't sit right with investigators, especially when wronged, told detectives he was the father of that and his unborn child. But you've been missing A M, and he seemed unphased. So detectives called him to the share of office for a second, more extensive interview.

The last day you saw her. Was that saturday, right?

Death, I had returned home sometime around two A M. After spending the day with her grandmother, said, seemed exhausted, went to bed, and then woke up in the morning and went out again.

I was in the kitchen and he said, you know, she's like, go and go. I go by as far as he knew.

said ronal band. He was driving back to her grandmother's house across the state border in maryland. So when he saw her car outside the apartment couple of days later. Did he adamantly deny that he was involved in her disappearance?

Yes, yes. He he continuously stated over and over again that SHE left on her own free, willing accord that he had no clue where he went.

But when the detectives asked best in his family about ronal road down, they got a nearly, I couldn't locate .

a single family member that had anything nice to say about around.

At first they said they thought rond was just a leach, taking advantage of best in his generous hospitality. But gradually IT seemed to them. He began to take her over as if he was somehow in control of her.

He had to know where he was. And I had heard at a time that he had installed some software on her cell phone to be able to track her.

And then this was alarming. Ky was about a year old and was dropped off at kim house with bruising around his eyes. Kim was told ki heard himself falling from a chair and found out later rond had been watching him.

The injury that he had with the black knight above his eyes was not aligned with him, climbing up on a chair and found backwards.

That's when I moved in with kim full time, with best in his blessing. And yet he could not seem to shake the guy off, even as he grew ever more controlling and threatening and even worse. But then they can fight IT IT become abusive.

IT was at that time where he started to realize that this was a troubled person, but he couldn't get out of IT. So SHE was in a relationship with somebody that was abusing her physical and emotionally and threatening her family was .

SHE afraid to kick him out or just leave him. SHE seemed petrified all the time. And so her family had a kind of intervention.

And we talked about restraining waters, which he was like, it's just a piece of paper, and it's not gna help. We call the domestic abuse hotlines. We were creating a plan for her to be able to escape from this situation.

I was worried about bini too, when he sneaked her after hawaii without ronal knowing he wasn't just about reconciling. IT was to get her away from that man. But the whole time they were gone, ronal texted incessantly, demanding SHE returned. So police had questions. Toronto.

were you abusive to her? Never do you know that he did tell people that you were physically abusive to her?

No, I not know.

never.

Later in, later in. We never. We never got some fights to the point where you do.

you want to know what happened? Yes, you do want to know. yes.

Do you know .

what happened to .

them a lot? If you, if you would agree to take a program.

I have no problem. You guys, hi guys, but I think, I think I need, I think I need to speak someone else.

okay?

Someone other than us.

yeah. I mean, I think I need speak. I need to speak to they .

had delete ronal leave because, besides their suspicions, they had very little, little to go on. No murder weapon, no crime scene, nobody. And as days piled up, a kind of limbo sit in, what would like to watch a case kind of gradually go cold?

frustrating. It's completely frustrating.

And IT stayed that way for years. But just one detective, mark bush, was about to give up hope. The phone rain.

My supervisor told me that I needed to head to pon her. North CarOlina a oh.

no. Now what?

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Keeps you up at night. You wake up in the morning. The first thing on your mind when you go to bed, it's the last thing on your mind.

Sergeant Steve sushi was convinced bEthany decor was dead and spent many days in this wooded area in just two hundred yards from a apartment searching for her remains.

This very special to me, because I used to drive around IT, not knowing where a bEthany decor was. But I said, maybe I could get some kind of hint from her. I'd take, come on, bEthany. Just give me some kind of sign, show me something, help me find you.

Thing was, all the detectives were convinced there was one guy who could tell them where he was ronal roll in. But he was busy.

We were paying attention to where role move, what jobs he took on, who was he invited into his life.

He found other women to date in a new restaurants to work in life for him. Went on as usual. Apparently, if rule was ready, their man police needed a big break. And then almost four years after best evanished, they got one, did they ever?

I got a phone call from my supervisor, who told me that I needed to pick up everything, had to pin her north CarOlina because roll, roll. Dan had shot his new girlfriend.

Detective mark bush worked the phone. Who was this new girlfriend? And how did he get mixed up with ronal roll down?

Vicky will be was a waitress, and he was working at stake house. And he just happened to be working with one of the new series named around world. And the two often struck up a friendship that LED to them, becoming romantically involved.

Apparently, vici thought I was casual. The tune rondo changed, began controlling and threatening, SHE said, and then physically abusive. Eventually, vicki a. And opening to leave .

in SHE finds out that a house that SHE had owned in north CarOlina, I believe, SHE was coming back into ownership of that house, or the renters of that house were leaving the house.

but ran to, followed her in north CarOlina, a SHE said, and refused to leave. So IT was a small miracle. The detective bush found her hospitalized, but the alive, thank goodness and talking, you were surprised that he was able to talk at all.

Yeah, SHE lost. And I had to undergo surgery in the fact that he could talk with even more amazing, and the fact that he was able to recount what occurred seemed kind of unreal.

Here is Vicky story, recorded right there in her hospital bed with a broken neck, bullet room bruises still hooked up to machines and tubes that made her voice force. But remarkably, SHE managed to tell police what happened when he refused to have sex with toronto.

Came in the little room, and I get in my face, and then I kicked the automation that I knew I was over. What he kicks the is good kick kill. He was driving me around the room rember there steam.

Don't get up. Don't get up. Hand the head. Pit me over and over. She's already .

been in fear for her life. And SHE hit a revolver under the couch. SHE grabs IT with her left hand backwards and putting her thumb .

in the trigger shoots ronal .

roll down two times in the chest.

But they need to get from me. Shut me. But of course.

ronal shot Vicky in her arms and her head, taking out her right eye.

Then once he shot me, just kept beat me. They had, the blood was flatter. And everywhere I tried to get away once, but he pulled me back, and then he was freaking out his life only out.

I'm gonna die. And he wanted to see his mother. He wanted .

to see his mother SHE fleece a house, bleeding bloody. Hardly any closed on .

that was scary. I couldn't see cause of my eye. Took me three neighbors, so I found somebody .

when the police arrived at her location, which is a neighbor house. They gather the evidence, they go back to her house and roll, then is dressed, had taken a shower, and he's on the phone with his mother. Two bullet holes. You tried that.

SHE had shot runlet above his heart and in his gut. So he was rest to the hospital too. Once he was healed enough, he was transferred to a holding facility and charges that included assault with a deadly weapon. Speaking from her hospital bit, Vicky was still terrified.

This stuff, you can be saying, this stuff, come get my kids already told me, if I, everyone to the authorities ever, ever will get my kids.

SHE told the detective SHE had lived under the threat of violence throughout her relationship with so .

I could kill you right now if I wanted to, but he always make sure that I know that I could kill me.

And then Vicky said the most extraordinary thing he .

killed her got away with that.

Her, the her Vicky was referring to was bEthany.

I just know my heart to killed her.

His statement to her was, i've made one girlfriend disappear. I can do IT again.

That sounded a lot like a confession. Would IT finally be enough?

Rono rodan had a problem, a vickie ili problem. You've been brave enough to tell the decor is all about Ronalds violent behavior. Giving north CarOlina a prosecuted solid evidence against him really wouldn't be able to skate by with a denial the way he'd done on the bed and decor case.

I think they knew that he was a danger. They had to put him away for as long as they possibly could.

But it's always a role of the dice with a jury. And so the prosecutor ended the uncertainty and made a deal with. He pleaded guilty to assaulting and shooting Vicky in exchange for a minimum sense of six years behind bars in north CarOlina. Vicki's courage had breathe new life in the beth's case, but IT also gave detectives and Virginia a deadline find usable evidence to prove he killed bEthany. Watch him get away with murder.

We had a twenty twenty deadline that he was gonna released and deported.

deported to his native bOlivia, making any future arrest in finally more difficult. So one more time, detective bush comes through the case file at this time. Notice something in the facebook messages apparently sent by bEthany, but after he vanished.

I was able to put together almost a separate spread sheet of I P addresses.

Nothing wrong with those I P addresses if they are belong ged to bathin his devices. But they didn't.

every time round roll down, was checking his email, or he was on his password protected facebook account. He was checking her email and sending facebook messages, posing as her.

What would you would like to find that IT was .

in our hard moment.

was IT enough? IT was now or never. And so they took a chance and charged rhne l was second degree murder shene q Clark Nelson and her colleagues would prosecute. Had you ever tried to nobody case before?

I ve never tried to nobody case. I've tried homicides, but but never .

a nobody without the body. Any good defense tourney could say there wasn't even proof of a homicide, let alone any evidence of what ronal allegedly did. The betony.

Even if we're able to get this past twelve jars and they agree with us that he's our murder and we get our conviction, we still cannot go back to kimberley Nelson and tell her what happened to her daughter.

And so the state made a deal. Ronal rolled down would plead guilty to second degree murder in exchange for a twelve and a half year sentence. There was one condition runner had to tell them what he did to bEthany in january twenty twenty three, almost twelve years after best, and he disappeared. Clark Nelson, a detective bush, when I eye with her killer who SAT next to his attorneys.

i'm ready for .

for whatever .

question you have to.

such as, of course, what happened.

He said that they were in the apartment that they shared, and there was an argument about mEthane going to work. SHE had actually called in to her job to take .

on a shift.

He was trying to walk away. The conversation I pushed when I posted red SHE tripped over, over like her feet, the wind so .

SHE bleeding.

No any bruises, swelling going on .

at that point.

i'm sure. But I have .

always said he put his fingers under death and his nose, and SHE wasn't breathing.

Why did you not on that?

Just because I I, I think that they would believe I have to say.

what did you think was gonna .

en if you called them?

I was going right.

When do you believe really happened?

I think he finally got confronted with the hawaii trip with a meal. And when he admitted that he had been hawaii with her husband, I think that flew him into a fit of rage. He choked her to death.

The next part of an old story, though, felt true to detect the bush.

When you start talking to you about the disposal is very matter of fact, it's very step one, step two.

step three. There was in the vironment for for Christmas, for Christmas removal. And I supporter, as I would be.

then ronal took best day to the apartment complex trash compactor.

Which part of the dumb s without you clearing?

IT is just like a sliding door.

When you put her inside up there, what, if anything, did you do?

After that and closer just .

want Better.

He's very much that sociopaths feels no remorse.

Rono rodan will serve roughly seventeen years for killing bEthany and assaulting Vicky is scheduled to be released in thirty one, and then he'll be deported after spending years searching for bEthany, investigators could at least finally tell her family where her body likely was. When the .

trash compactor got dumped, IT went to a landfill.

but recovering her remains probably impossible. IT would .

proximately be five million dollars to try to recover her if we could recover her.

Detectives played the video of Ronald's confession for .

best and his family. IT was very hard to hear the disregard for human life.

You're in a state of shock when you're hearing such things that you can't even believe that a human being would be capable of such violence and such horrific, heinous acts. And I can't allow myself to go there because that I do. I won't be able to survive. I can't. So I do.

There was some sollum that's son ki now lives happily with his dad and meal. And any lingering suspicion that a meal had something to do with what happened to that, any went away for good. Finally, he must have gone through a lot of, well, hell in the period of time between the murder and finally being absolved forever in the face of grieving for .

her and not knowing what happened to her. I don't know how we did IT. He's incredibly strong.

four years best. And his family had kept looking and looking and hoping, and they couldn't save her, which is why they wanted to tell her story to save the next beta. So what do you want people to take away from her story?

But I would probably says, if you are in a bad situation, then get help. Don't believe lies that there is no hope and that there isn't a way out. There is.

That's all for this edition of deadline. I'll see you again friday at nine eight central that, of course, i'll see you next week night for nbc nightly news. I'm less to hold for all of us at nbc news. Good night.

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