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a country singer ufo occupants and men

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in black by charles lear

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one of the most famous early abduction

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cases is that of travis walton in late

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1975 which received a lot of attention

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and still fascinates many people to this

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day

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walton's case was investigated primarily

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by the aerial phenomena research

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organization in the midst of that

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investigation apro was contacted by

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johnny sands a country western singer

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who claimed he had encountered two

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humanoids in the desert outside of las

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vegas nevada it is perhaps because of

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the attention given to the walden case

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that sans case has all but been

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forgotten it might also be because it's

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seriously weird according to sans in his

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report to apro and in subsequent

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interviews with researcher timothy green

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beckley he was in las vegas to promote a

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new record in some live shows he had

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been visiting the town surrounding las

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vegas to see how much his record was

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being played on local radio and how many

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jukeboxes it was in and on january 29th

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1976 sands didn't recall the exact date

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with beckley he had been in par rump

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nevada

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sands left barramp at about 10 pm and

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was headed back to vegas on blue diamond

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road at around 10 30 p.m he noticed an

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object in the sky about 1000 feet above

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him that he described as being shaped

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like a goodyear blimp he said it was

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around 60 feet long and had a ring of

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portal-like windows in the middle that

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he estimated were 10 feet in diameter

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and 5 feet apart the light in the space

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between them the object was rusty brown

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and there were flashing red and white

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lights at each end as sans drove the

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object seemed to be following him then

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his car sputtered quit and drifted to a

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halt sans got out and walked to the back

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where the gas cap was he removed the cap

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shook the car and determined that he

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still had gas by it sloshing around

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sands then walked to the front of the

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car opened the hood and removed the

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filter as he was doing so he was aware

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of the object hovering over him there

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was a flash of light and then he saw two

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figures walking towards him he tried to

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move but couldn't and attributed this to

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either shock or something the creatures

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might have done to him one of the

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creatures stopped three feet in front of

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him and the other remained five feet

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beyond sands described the creatures as

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wearing black uniforms with silver belts

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and shoulder straps colors and artist

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rendition are reversed according to

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sands they were 5 foot 7 to 5 foot 8

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inches tall and about 140 pounds they

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were pale skinned hairless had small

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mouths flattened noses and black eyes

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with white pupils giving them a

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distinctly non-human appearance were

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what looked like gills sticking out just

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above their jawlines in contrast to

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their youthful fit looking bodies their

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faces looked old and sans got the

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impression that the beings were between

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300 and 400 years old the creature

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closest to sands began asking questions

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and as it did so sans tried to figure

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out where its voice was coming from

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because it didn't move its mouth the

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creature asked him what he was doing in

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the area and sans answered that he was

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an entertainer who was in las vegas to

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do a show the creature asked why there

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were so many people in las vegas and

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sans explained that it was a place where

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tourists came from all over for

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entertainment the creature asked by what

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means sans communicated and sand said he

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didn't understand the question the

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creature became irritated and said

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answer the question and sand said again

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that he didn't understand

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the creatures looked at each other for

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what seemed like two or three minutes

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and then the creature in front of sans

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brushed sam's left hand with its left

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hand and said don't say anything about

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this meaning we know where you are and

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we'll see you again when he got back to

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las vegas sans called the police to make

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a report the police gave him the phone

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number for the air force office of

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special investigations at nellis air

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force base he called and was told that

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the air force no longer investigated

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ufos and that he should call apro sans

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did so and spoke with apro director jim

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lorenson who listened to sam's story and

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put him in touch with april field

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investigator john romero what happened

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after that is described briefly in the

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march 1976 apro bulletin but sans goes

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into detail in the video and audio

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interviews over 30 years after the

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events with beckley who had interviewed

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sands earlier in 1976

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according to sands in his interview with

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beckley he was in a roped off public

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area at the sahara hotel where romero

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was the director sans was describing the

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creatures to a sketch artist romero had

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brought in and the artist asked why the

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creatures would have both noses and

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gills sans says that at that point two

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men dressed in not up to date black

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suits and with slick back black hair

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walked up and one of them explained that

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the creatures came from a planet near

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the planet sirius that was an aquarimous

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type planet the planet was very hot so

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the creatures lived part-time on land

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breathing through the nose and part time

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underwater breathing through the gills

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the man then said that he had to leave

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and added we'll see you soon sans sets

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that he had a friend who was an ex-cop

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john along for protection john noted

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that what the man had said was similar

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to what the creature had said and

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suggested that the two men should be

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followed according to sans a security

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guard walked out behind the men as they

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left the building and when he came out

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to an empty street they were nowhere to

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be seen

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sans describes being driven back to

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john's house where he was staying by

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john who took a circuitous route to

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avoid being followed in spite of this

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when they arrived a black limo pulled up

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with the two men from the hotel in the

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back seat and another man driving the

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windows on the driver's side were open

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and the two men from the hotel leaned

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out their window looked at sans and his

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friend and then all the windows were

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rolled up and the limo drove off

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sans then tells of being contacted by

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dave dunn who said he was with a

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production company dunn said that he

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wanted to make a documentary about sam's

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encounter and a meeting was arranged the

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apro report describes what followed as

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serving to muddy the waters considerably

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according to sands after a week of

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meetings with dunn and others in a

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lavishly furnished apartment he and john

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went to a hotel where they were to meet

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with dunn and his people to be taken to

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the site of sand's encounter the parking

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lot was crowded and they were forced to

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park far away from the hotel just as

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they were worried about being late for

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their meeting a limo that somehow

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managed to find them pulled up with dunn

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and others inside sans and john were

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given cocktails as they got into the car

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and were then driven towards the site

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they passed the site and sans alerted

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dunn and the others but no one spoke the

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car then did a u-turn and stopped the

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men from the production company got out

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a large number of lights came on and

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between 25 and 30 figures dressed in

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black stepped forward an argument ensued

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between the men from the car and someone

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who seemed to be the leader of the group

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in the desert and in the course of it

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sans heard the leader say he knows too

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much

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sans went to get out of the car and he

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saw what he described as a fuzzy

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creature like cousin it from the addams

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family the creature ran at him and he

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shut the door and went to get out of the

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other side where another similar

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creature ran at him forcing him to stay

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in the car

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sans and john were then driven back in

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silence the next day they went to the

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apartment and found that there was no

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one living in it and that the furniture

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was gone according to sands there was

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not enough time for them to have been

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able to get it out sans said his friend

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john was killed during a robbery so this

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case comes down to whether or not one

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believes sam's story as strange as his

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story may seem apra reported that sans