What Happened to Ali Lowitzer?

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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2010, a Texas teamager got off the school bus and decided to walk to work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She is not in scene sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nearly two decades later, her family is still searching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Join me, John Connor, as I discussed the disappearance of Allie Loitzer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Check The Locks Podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, thank you for joining me as I dive into yet another truly terrifying true crime case.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But before we get started, hope you're having a great week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope everybody's feeling good and feeling healthy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This week was a little rough for the family here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Millie woke up Tuesday of last week and was not feeling well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it turns out that she tested positive for the flu.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Specifically flu B.

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[SPEAKER_00]: which my daughter affectionately refers to as flu-be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So all week she's been like, Dad, I got the flu-be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my flu-be's really acting up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I had to tell her there's flu-e and flu-be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have flu-be not flu-be, but she's finally doing better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a about five-day stretch of a high fever and

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, getting sick and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're a parent and you've got kids, you know, when they get sick like that and get so pitiful, kind of breaks your heart a little bit there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So she's finally doing better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I really do hope that this plague has not visited your home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're listening, again, hopefully everybody is feeling happy and healthy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're a parent with a kid out on spring break, definitely hope that you are keeping your sanity because I know it

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, hopefully everybody's healthy, happy, and I just want to say thank you for letting me tag along with you with whatever you're doing today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening and letting me hang out with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of family, this recent case was actually brought to my attention by an amazing member of our community, longtime listener, somebody who has supported the show for very long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just wanted to give a huge shout out to Amanda in our Facebook group.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She

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[SPEAKER_00]: And normally these aren't the kind of cases that we cover, and I don't know if it's because again I had a sick kid, you know, as a parent when I started looking into this, this is something that it just really touched me and I wanted to to share with the audience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So again, this is not the normal kind of case that we do and I think you'll understand why as we go through it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But definitely wanted to get the story out there, and again, I think you'll understand at the end why it's something that I touched on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think if you are a parent, this will definitely resonate with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and be quiet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll jump into this week's case.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go ahead and get started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, a huge thank you to Amanda for bringing this to my attention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go ahead and get into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was Monday, April 26, 2010.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alexandria Joy-Lowitzer, or Allie to her friends and family, had recently turned 16.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allie was born on February 3, 1994.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The youngest of two children to her parents, Joanne and John Loitzer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ali was artistic and loved to sing performing in the school's choir.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She also kept busy by playing girl's softball, and like many other 16-year-old girls she was interested in boys, sparking a relationship with a classmate named DJ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ali had also just started her first job, working at the burger barn in spring Texas, only about a quarter mile away from her family's home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, on this Monday afternoon, Alley stood in line outside of her high school, waiting to climb onto the bus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like every other day before it, Alley's friends have Anna shouted from another line, I love you, I'll see you tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And with that, Alley climbed on the bus and headed home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, during the ride, she called her mom, who was at work at the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the teenager asked if she can make the short walk to the burger barn, hoping to pick up her paycheck and possibly work an extra shift.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, at first, Joanne was hesitant.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ali had never made that walk before, but it wasn't main road and Ali was persistent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So her mother agreed, but there were conditions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allie was to walk straight there and text when she arrived.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was also to text if she planned on staying and working, and Allie agreed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Images from the bus showed Allie exiting at her normal stop in around 225 p.m. then heading out for the burger barn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Joanne never received a text, and when she returned home from work at about 530, Allie was nowhere to be found.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, at first, Joanne wasn't concerned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She assumed the alley had picked up a shift and was busy working, so she texted her daughter and asked what time she would need to be picked up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But still, no response.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So at 9 p.m., Joanne drove to the burger barn, but when she arrived, the restaurant was closed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Chairs were flipped up on tables and all the lights were out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Panics, Joanne called her husband.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, John tried to call him as wife's nerves, telling her not to worry, and believing that Ali was probably at a friend's house and had simply forgotten to call.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when the couple called her round, none of their daughter's friends had seen her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Joanne drove to DJs, hoping that Ali may have been with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But like her other friends, DJ had not seen or heard from her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Joanne continued to drive around the neighborhood, looking for her daughter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there was nothing, no sign of the 16-year-old, and at 11 p.m., Joanne called the police reporting alley missing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, unfortunately, they weren't much help.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sheriff's deputies were dispatched, but they didn't believe there was any signs of foul play, believing that Ali was just out with their friends and would probably return soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they told Joanne to stay home and wait for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ali's brother Mason and his friend, scour the neighborhood that night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But by 9 a.m., the following morning, there was still no sign of the missing teenager.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The family then reached out to the police again, but they insisted that Ali was a runaway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the family strongly disagreed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ali had no history of running away before, and she had also left her makeup, money, and phone charger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But deputies seem to have their minds made up, and because of this, they did not issue any kind of amber alert.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the family decided to take matters into their own hands.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They checked the GPS tracking on Ali's phone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And unfortunately, it seemed that the device had either lost power or been turned off at the edge of their neighborhood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Joanne combed through their phone records, and she found that on the day that Ali went missing, she had text on one name J, asking if you wanted to come by the house and hang out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jay had text her back and told Ali that he couldn't, but he was still interviewed by the police and was ultimately cleared.

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[SPEAKER_00]: John was able to obtain the school bus security camera footage, which, again, showed Ali exiting at her normal stop, but he also visited the burger barn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The owner there told her father that Ali had never come by the restaurant on the day that she disappeared and her paycheck had never been picked up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were also able to check security footage from a nearby gas station, and this too confirmed that Ali was never in the area on that day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On May 3rd, 2010, the lowitzers went back to the police, armed with the information that they had been able to collect on their own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was at this point that Ali was upgraded from a runaway to an endangered runaway, but they still believed that she had left on her own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is because detectives had located journals that Ali kept, and in which she wrote about being unhappy and wanting to run away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the investigation continued, and sadly there were few leads, and Ali's case would grow cold over time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, all the while, Joanne would text her daughter every night, praying that she received response.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now hoping to rejuvenate the investigation, the loatheers reached out to the Laura Recovery Center, an organization that helps families locate missing and abducted children, and they actually provided a great help, assisting in creating missing persons flyers and conducting door-to-door interviews.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They also coordinated ground searches for alley, using scent dogs, ATVs, and even searching by horseback.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They also helped Ali's disappearance gain national attention, and a $25,000 reward was offered for any information that led to Ali's return.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then, in late May of 2010, the case would be handed over to homicide detectives at the Harris County Sheriff's Office, with hopes of finding new leads in gaining traction in the case.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, the lowitzer family shared all of the information that they had collected with detectives who began their investigation by focusing on the family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, Ali's father, John, and her brother, Mason.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Both were subjected to polygraph tests and both would pass, but again, the case would grow cold.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and as happens in most cases like this, the media eventually moved on, but John and Joanne were not giving up on their daughter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2012, the family hired a private investigator with what seemed to be a sound theory.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She believed that a convicted killer may have been involved in

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Leverem was accused of killing two women, Mickey Schunick and Lisa Pate in Louisiana.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Additionally, Leverem's white pickup truck had been seen in the area on the day that Alley went missing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, a witness had called and claimed that they had seen a teenage girl talking to someone in a truck that matched the description near the burger bar in that day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The witness also managed to grab a few numbers off the truck's license plate, and when those numbers were run, they were a match to LeVerns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed to be plausible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, LeVern had ties to the area with family members living in spring, and shortly after the disappearance, his white truck was found burnt out only 50 miles outside of town.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when police questioned him about Ali's disappearance, Laverne had nullified, and it was able to be corroborated by his former employer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, the case was at a standstill, so a new private investigator was brought on, Amber Kamak.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, she believed that Ali could have potentially been the victim of human trafficking, which meant that Ali could be anywhere in the United States.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, this theory also felt plausible, and it became even more realistic in 2012.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When Joanne received a phone call from a woman in Columbus, Ohio, this woman claimed that she had seen Ali listed on a missing person's website, telling Joanne that she saw someone who strongly resembled her daughter at a local church function for the homeless.

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[SPEAKER_00]: According to the caller, the girl was quiet and would not make eye contact with anyone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: leading her to believe that someone may be forcing her to follow some type of instruction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But now this particular area of Ohio has a problem with rampant drug use and human trafficking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in 2024, law enforcement agencies identified 713 people as suspected consumers of sex trafficking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Amber Command traveled to Columbus, working undercover with the police to try to find Ali.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Amber visited several crackhouses and brothels, and four weeks into her investigation, she made contact with an undercover officer who was not aware of her search.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this officer told Amber that he had seen Ali, who was now going by the name, Ali Cat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: According to the officer, the girl claimed to have been from Texas, but he was not aware that she was a missing person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This informant was shown a photo of the missing teenager and she immediately recognized the girl, specifically calling out a chicken-pock scar on her forehead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The informant also referred to the person in the picture as Alleycat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The woman brought Amber to a house where Ali was believed to be held, and while investigating, Amber saw a girl who strongly resembled Ali, but she was unable to make contact with her without blowing her cover.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So at that point, the private investigator flew back to Texas and immediately updated the lowitzers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in December of 2012, John and Joanne flew to Columbus, hoping to bring their missing daughter home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The couple was introduced to the confidential informant and they began planning a way to find Alley.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In January of 2013, Amber come back, entered the home where they believed Alley was being held.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She wore a wire with the SWAT team located nearby.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Police went enter the home and several arrests would be made, and thankfully eight girls would be rescued.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But tragically, Alley was nowhere to be found.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and the police believe that if Ali had been there, her captors may have been tipped off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as of this recording, March 30th, 2026, Ali's still not been found.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it seems that there are three plausible theories about what could have happened to the missing girl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First, Ali simply ran away from home and doesn't want to be found.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The police are originally classified as a runaway, and as of today, it seems that that still may be the case.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Primarily due to those entries found in their journal, and the lack of evidence pointing to a possible abduction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but the loats are strongly denied this theory, especially because Ali again had never run away before, and she had left behind so many important possessions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which brings us to theory number two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ali's family believed that she was abducted, most likely by a stranger, which is heartbreaking as they have no way of knowing if Ali is alive and being held against her will, or if she's deceased.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, Amber Kamak still believes that the teenager was a victim of human trafficking, believing that the Ali-Cat and Columbus wasn't fact, Ali-Lowitzer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, investigators and Texas seemed to doubt this theory, and that's because Ali's fingerprints have yet to flag in any of their databases.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Believing that if Ali had been trafficked, she would have made some kind of contact with law enforcement over the last 16 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2019, investigators with the Harris County Sheriff's Office said that Ali's case was still a top priority, being moved from the missing person's division to homicide, with a new cold case deputy being assigned, and Joey and still holds out hope, praying that one day her daughter may return home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If Adley Loitzer is alive today, she would be 32 years old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was last seen wearing a white skirt, a gray-hooded sweatshirt, black and white checkered skinny jeans, black sneakers, and multi-colored backpack with dark straps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At the time of her disappearance, Adley was five-two and a hundred and forty-five pounds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She has naturally brown hair, which, at the time, had been dyed red.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have any information about Allie Loitzer, please call the Harris County Sheriff's Office at 713-216,000.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, that's 713-216,000.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or you can also call the National Center for missing and exploited children at 1-800-the-Lost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, that's 1-800-843-5678.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've also included links to Ali's missing persons poster, as well as the family's Facebook page in the show notes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's this week's case, and as I had mentioned at the beginning of the podcast, this is not normally the kind of case that I would cover.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Normally, we check the locks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is, there's a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a full story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And sadly, for John and Joanne, they have not got their ending to the story yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's because I've been home with Millie all week and she's been sick and so small and obviously needing her parents there to like take care of her and to be there for as she tried to get better and

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[SPEAKER_00]: as I was researching it, just click that these things that these children need and the way that we care for our kids and the way that these relationship grows, there are some things that don't change and needing to be there for your children, needing to be someone that they can rely on, needing to

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[SPEAKER_00]: know that they're okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and they're well-being is so important to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't feel at least at this point in my parenting journey that that is ever anything that is going to change.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I really felt for John and Joanne and Mason as I went through this research.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if again, huge thank you to Amanda for tagging me in this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it just hit me at the right

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[SPEAKER_00]: but something about this case really made me want to cover it and make sure that Ali's story is out there because maybe there's somebody listening who has seen something or you know you never know the universe works in crazy ways maybe you know somebody will look up the story and see her face and be like oh I see her at the grocery store all the time you know I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen but it felt like a story

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[SPEAKER_00]: that deserved to be told for Ali and for her family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So again, when I think about this from a parent's perspective, you know, this is my worst fear, you know, losing my child in any way shape or form is something that, you know, keeps me up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember this week, there was a point where, you know, kids get the flu and they're all stuffed up and they're having a hard time breathing

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there was a point where it just seemed like Millie's breathing was really shallow and that you get scared, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I took all the couch cushions and I made a little just a little pallet bed next to the couch where she was sleeping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted to be close so I could reach up and put my hand on her back and do point and make sure that she was breathing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think I slept for maybe 15 minutes that night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I just kept waking up and being like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: thinking about John and Joanne and thinking about the fact that for, you know, 16 years now, they've just been like, I want to know if she's okay, whatever that that may look like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I can imagine that, you know, this is very much, I don't, in some aspects, it feels like

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, for me, this would definitely be a 10 on the debolt test and I really do hope that John and Joanne eventually get the answers that they're looking for and if somebody is responsible for this, that they're held accountable for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So please, if you know anything,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, or this just happens to come across your ears somehow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know the chances are small, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not a huge podcast or anything like that, but you just never know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I again, something about this case just compelled me to want to cover it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, who knows what will come of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I just really do pray that John and Joanne get the answers that they're looking for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and this is one of those cases, too, where I feel like I'm, I'm just kind of rambling right now because There's so much in my head and in my heart around it that it's hard to put it into words exactly the way that I would like to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for me, this is definitely a 10 out of 10 on the deadbolt test, but as always, I want to hear from the listeners, the locksmiths.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Where does the disappearance of Ali-Lowitz or a fall on your devil test?

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[SPEAKER_00]: As always, you can let me know reach out on Instagram, a check for locks pod, confirm me on Twitter, check the locks, and if you're not in our Facebook group, what's that you're doing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coming out with us, we would love to have you as part of our amazing community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, this case came from a member of our community and awesome member of our community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to hear from you, love to hear what you think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're interested in joining, there is a link in the description of the episode that you're listening to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, just as a reminder, you can find Ali's missing persons poster and the link to the family's Facebook page in the show notes of this episode as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So please check those out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, we got a lot of great tier stickers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as always, if you can't financially support the show, just listen in and share in this show, especially this episode share this episode with anybody that you can because all it does is increase the chances that, you know, maybe somebody will hear it and may know something that could help bring Ali home, but.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anything that you do to share the show or this podcast, just know that I appreciate it so much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, this is a little podcast, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just one dude in a bedroom, put it now to have a sound.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you share this, it really does help bring new members of the community, it helps new listeners find the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And really, again, it's all about the community around it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's that grassroots growth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you were sharing the show in any way, shape or form, just know that I appreciate you more than I could ever tell you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all that I have for you for this week's case, but please make sure that you're subscribed to check the locks in your favorite podcast app so that you never miss an episode.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will see you again next week, but until then remember, monsters are real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So stay safe, stay ready, and don't forget to check the locks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: See you next week.