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That's why crime-stoppers just handed out its latest edition of playing cards to inmates in Southwest Florida jails.
Each deck is full of cold cases, missing people and fugitives.
So when inmates play cards, Crime Stoppers hopes they'll talk.
"As they're sitting there playing cards- they're looking at these different cases and looking at the faces of people who were murdered," said Routte.
This year's deck features 13 new cold cases, including the case of Adji Desir, the Collier County child who vanished from Immokalee Village more than a year ago.
Lytle: One more question: Adji Desir. Does the community have hope that theyll ever find that child alive? Do you have a sense?
Thomas: I dont know what happened to that young boy. I was a little upset with the way we handled it on the front end because the boy was slightly autistic, and he couldnt have done what they thought he had done when they were looking for him climbing over fences and what-not. Somebody had to take him somewhere.
They should have done the spread much larger, much quicker, to try to find out where that boy was.
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Lytle: Hes been gone now for over a year.
Thomas: Over a year. But then again, in this country we dont treat everybody the same when it comes to that.
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Lytle: Fred, what are you saying?
Thomas: Two boys disappeared within the last two months in this country. One little freckle-face kid with glasses and another little brown skin boy. You hear about the freckle-face kid with the glasses regularly. You heard about the brown-skinned boy once when it first came out.
Im telling you we have still this kind of a problem in this country that we all need to work out. Because this country is great because of all of the best of every other country we have been able to bring to this country. And we need to respect that.
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Lytle: Are you talking about racial prejudice and for that reason Adjis case didnt get as much attention as perhaps a white boys case would have been?
Thomas: Exactly.
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Lytle: Have you shared that with the sheriff?
Thomas: What I told the sheriff is, rather than think he ran away, you all need to spread out quickly and assume that somebody picked him up and then come back that way. Because he couldnt have run away. He couldnt have gotten over the fences. He wasnt going to survive out the swamps behind Farmworkers Village. So they should have thought that somebody tried to take him and work that way and work their way back in.