2/22/17
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/22/ptab.01.html
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"CASAREZ: Now, I know that you had also gone into today about whether this was someone that they were intending to meet or a stranger crime or someone
that knew the girls. But it appeared as though you were leaning upon a chance encounter was unlikely, but that they knew -- that maybe he knew
that those girls would be there.
SLOCUM: Well, we`re not quite sure if it was a chance encounter or --
evidence indicates at this time that we don`t have any leading us to they
were meeting. We believe it was two teenage girls going out on a nice day and enjoying a beautiful trail."
2/21/17
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/21/ptab.01.html
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"CASAREZ: Do you believe that these young girls at all could have been innocently communicating with someone who may have even not led to his real
identity, to meet that person at this trail for a couple of hours?
SLOCUM:
Well, anything`s possible, but the evidence we have thus far has not revealed that to be true. Unfortunately, these young ladies were just
doing what teenage girls do. They were -- they were enjoying a beautiful day on a beautiful trail in a beautiful part of Indiana, and these crimes
occurred.