Browne Claims It As A Hit!!!
:Shakes head:
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September 15, 2004 Wednesday
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(Excerpts from video)
WILLIAMS: Six years ago, Sylvia said that they would end up finding her father somewhere near a military base.
Ms. BROWNE: Right.
TERRY (Appeared In 1997 To Ask About Their Father's Disappearance): Right.
WILLIAMS: And that it was foul play; he was not AWOL.
Ms. BROWNE: No.
WILLIAMS: And now, 13 years later, military's extraditing somebody back for the murder of her father.
(End of excerpts)
(Announcements)
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WILLIAMS: Well, Shauna and her sister Terryrey came to Sylvia in 1997 to ask about their missing father. I want you to take a look at this.
(Excerpts from previous show, 10/20/97, "Families Facing Tragedies")
WILLIAMS: Six years ago in North Carolina, your father disappeared, and he was in the military, active duty. Couple months away from retiring, is that correct?
TERRY (Want Sylvia To Tell Them Why Their Father Vanished In 1991): Yeah.
SHAUNA (Want Sylvia To Tell Them Why Their Father Vanished In 1991): That's right.
Ms. BROWNE: But can I just say one thing before they say anything?
WILLIAMS: OK.
Ms. BROWNE: Because I--this is a case I don't know about.
WILLIAMS: OK.
Ms. BROWNE: I mean, I knew a little bit about the first cases.
I don't know whether you know this, but before you tell me anything, let me just say this to you. Your father knew something about somebody in the military. And the reason that he knew something about somebody in the military is that he was going--because he was honest--he was going to go and tell the chief-whatever officer. And that's why he never showed up again. Do you see what I'm saying?
SHAUNA: Yeah.
Ms. BROWNE: Now you can go ahead and tell me anything that you want to tell me, but I had to get that out...
SHAUNA: OK.
Ms. BROWNE: ...because I was afraid I'd drop it.
WILLIAMS: All right. Let me--let me back up. Why don't you tell everybody what happened. Your father called you one night, correct? Called everyone.
SHAUNA: My father called me in 1991, it was in July, on July 12th. We were supposed to be going to a family reunion. Well, he called me and said that he couldn't make it. They wouldn't give him a leave onab--of absence. So, you know, we said, `OK, that's fine,' you know. We knew we would be talking to him again. He hung up the phone, and he called back and said, `I just wanted you to know that I love you.' OK? I said, `OK,' you know? Usually we never hang up the phone without saying we love each other, you know, and we never heard from him again. This is someone who had been in the Army for over 19 years, you know? I mean, there's no way that he's just going to pick up and just disappear.
Ms. BROWNE: No, and go A-W-O-L.
SHAUNA: Yeah. And they have him as a deserter. I just knew then that something had happened. There was something weird that had happened.
Ms. BROWNE: So, the whole thing stinks.
WILLIAMS: Is he OK or is he not?
Ms. BROWNE: He's not OK.
SHAUNA: He's not.
Ms. BROWNE: No, he's not OK. He wasn't OK, I'd say six months--maybe shorter, but six months into this he wasn't OK.
WILLIAMS: Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I think maybe after the show I'll let you talk to Sylvia for a little bit. She may be able to...
Ms. BROWNE: Because I agree with you. Your dad wasn't the kind to run away.
SHAUNA: No, he wasn't.
TERRY: No.
Ms. BROWNE: He was so for, you know, the flag, mother, apple pie.
SHAUNA: He was.
Ms. BROWNE: I mean, he was like a John Wayne.
(End of excerpts)
WILLIAMS: Well, please welcome
Terry back to the show.
Terry, I know your sister wanted to be here.
TERRY: Yeah.
WILLIAMS: But could not make the trip. And let's talk about this for a second. At the time of your father's disappearance, the military called this, `He went AWOL'...
TERRY: Yes.
WILLIAMS: ...or "unauthorized absence," UA. Most people said that, what, he was still alive, running around somewhere spending money.
TERRY: Pretty much, that's what everyone was saying. But we--we pretty much knew, you know? And I--I would like to thank Sylvia for helping my sister and I know that. She said that he was deceased, and which he was, you know, at that time. We re--we really didn't know that he was deceased at that time, but she gave us a little bit of closure when she did tell us that, because...
WILLIAMS: Now, the military didn't give you any closure.
TERRY: No, not at all.
WILLIAMS: When did you finally found out--there was something else. Did Sylvia whisper something or say something to you off camera? A lot of times, when we shoot this show, just so you know, maybe we go to commercial break, Sylvia keeps talking. Did she say something to you off camera?
TERRY: You did state that he was buried--he was buried and near the military base. And which, when they found him, in March--they found his body after 13 years...
WILLIAMS: They just found his body after 13 years.
TERRY: Thirteen years. Right. And he was buried. And it was close to the military base.
WILLIAMS: Close to the base.
TERRY: Right.
WILLIAMS: And Sylvia said at the time of the show that she thought this was messed up. She even kind of intimated she thought it was murder.
TERRY: Right.
WILLIAMS: Now there is someone allegedly charged with this crime now?
TERRY: Yes. The--they're allegedly charged. They were extradited from Afghanistan. The pers--they were just recently joined the military themselves, and at the time, we just don't know why--why this person would have took our father from us, and we have a lot of questions that are unanswered still.
WILLIAMS: And that trial and case will start when, do you know?
TERRY: From our understanding, we're told that it may start--it may take a year because it's--it's been such an old case. It's been 13 years.
Ms. BROWNE: But I'm telling you, you father knew a lot of stuff that he wasn't supposed to know, do you see what I mean. That's what I was trying to tell you.
WILLIAMS: And I got to say, now this was over six--how long ago was that? That was seven years ago when you were on the show.
TERRY: Yes, it was.
WILLIAMS: And it had been six years that he was missing at that point in time, and six years ago Sylvia said that they will end up finding her father somewhere near a military base.
Ms. BROWNE: Right.
TERRY: Right.
WILLIAMS: And that there was foul play, and he was not AWOL.
Ms. BROWNE: No.
WILLIAMS: And now, 13 years later, the military's extraditing somebody back for the murder of her father.
TERRY: Exactly.
WILLIAMS: There are a lot of people telling me that you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know a thing about what they're talking about.
Well, but you know what? Now I'll give you another chance, though, with the same story. Will there be justice in this case?
Ms. BROWNE: Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.
WILLIAMS: And we'll find out why this happened.
Ms. BROWNE: Yeah. You're going to find out why this happened.
WILLIAMS: OK.
Ms. BROWNE: Because he just knew a lot of secret stuff that he shouldn't have known.
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This is prime SSB article material, don't you think? "Montel: Browne Claims to Have Solved a Missing Person's Case. Did she?"
And isn't it hilarious that something we pegged as a complete disaster at first glance, her camp claims as a hit?
