Round 10 p.m. on August 4, 2021, a St. Louis man named Jeff cracked open his bed room window to smoke a joint. Wanting outdoors onto his road in Marine Villa, he observed his Jeep’s brake lights glowing at midnight.
Somebody was in his automobile.
He hustled outdoors, filming on his cellphone. The Jeep’s driver-side door was open and the lady standing subsequent to it wore a responsible look. A black masks lined her nostril and mouth, and a ball cap sat backwards atop her head. Her eyes went large with shock.
“What the fuck?” mentioned Jeff.
“My pal despatched me over right here and instructed me that I might use his automobile as a result of my automobile broke down,” mentioned the lady. “I am so sorry, is that this not my automobile?”
Incredulous, Jeff seemed right down to see {that a} screwdriver, hammer and different instruments he had saved in his Jeep have been strewn about on the bottom. “What’s all this?”
“These have been all in right here,” the lady replied.
“Yeah, in my fucking automobile.”
She walked round to the passenger facet door, earlier than starting to open it. “My purse is in there,” she defined.
“I do not give a fuck!” Jeff erupted.
After a quick confrontation that almost turned bodily, he let her have her purse, and she or he walked off into the evening, muttering about how every thing was a misunderstanding.
Jeff went via the automobile to see if something had been stolen. He discovered a bag with three orange tablet bottles, together with anti-anxiety treatment. They have been prescribed to somebody named William Overturf.
Jeff known as the quantity beneath Overturf’s identify. He instructed him the state of affairs, and threatened to inform regulation enforcement. Overturf mentioned he had simply gotten out of jail and did not need something to do with no matter was happening.
“Something that is in there that is mine you possibly can have,” mentioned Overturf, in accordance with Jeff.
Jeff requested him for the id of the lady who tried to steal his automobile. Overturf mentioned her identify was Elizabeth Cooke.
Thus started the saga of Elizabeth Cooke, which was in reality the lady’s actual identify. William Overturf is her real-life fiancé.
Jeff, nevertheless, shouldn’t be the true identify of the person who caught Cooke within the act. He agreed to talk with the Riverfront Occasions solely on the situation that we give him a pseudonym.
Within the coming months, the aftermath of this alleged tried carjacking would flip Cooke’s life the other way up, placing hundreds of true-crime obsessives and would-be gumshoes on her tail, and propelling her from an impoverished petty prison right into a tabloid-style superstar.
All of it occurred as a result of, when she left the scene, she forgot her smartphone.
Jeff bought the passcode from Overturf, the previous mentioned, and rapidly accessed the cellphone’s contents. He could not imagine what he discovered. Past lurid messages referring to medicine and intercourse, it appeared to indicate proof of an enormous, St. Louis-based prison ring.
And so Jeff determined to hunt vigilante justice. Over the following week and a half, he posted tons of content material from 35-year-old Cooke’s cellphone onto the web.
Hacking into Cooke’s Fb account, Jeff posted the video he took of her attempting to steal his automobile. Then he modified her account’s identify to “Elizabeth Cooke (Automotive Thief).”
Her new account description? “I steal automobiles.”
He found messages on her cellphone referring to different stolen cars and commenced posting them on Nextdoor. He needed to assist these whose automobiles had been stolen get them again, he mentioned.
On Fb, Jeff additionally posted considered one of Cooke’s non-public conversations with a meth vendor, one with a man who appeared to fence stolen electronics, and one a few plan to interrupt into storage lockers. Jeff additional uploaded what gave the impression to be her web-browsing historical past, which included a video titled “Find out how to hotwire a automobile rapidly and simply!”
Cooke’s Fb buddies numbered about 1,500 at that time, Jeff mentioned. They started sharing her web page, and it went viral.
“So I began posting increasingly more,” Jeff says. (He notes that he did not publish every thing, nevertheless, and set pictures of her younger son to personal.)
After going via Cooke’s now-public messages, one lady acknowledged her husband’s lacking Cadillac. “That is my volvo!!” one other lady posted, including: “I known as the cops instantly and the automobile got here again FULL of low-cost ladies’s flip flops!”
Cooke’s precise buddies had no concept what was happening. “Liz…What are you doing???!!!” one posted. “I can’t imagine that is you! It is very unhappy and I actually hope you get your life collectively!”
Jeff recorded Cooke’s display as he scrolled via her archived messages. He posted the movies to YouTube, creating about two hours of content material for anybody wanting a fair deeper dive.
Tens of hundreds of individuals throughout the web started tuning in, enthralled by this final doxxing. At a time when St. Louis automobile robberies have been rising — in 2021, some areas noticed catalytic converter theft rise 300% — metropolis residents cheered him on.
“Stick with it,” somebody wrote to Jeff on Cooke’s Fb web page. “You are a fucking hero.”
Individuals started posting Cooke-themed memes. There was Cooke stealing all the copper from a development website, and Cooke holding fingers with Child Rock. Somebody made a mock film poster of her in Ocean’s Eleven, and one other of an imaginary movie known as Home of a Thousand Key Fobs.
Others in Cooke’s circle started gaining fame and infamy as effectively, together with a pal who known as herself “Gypsy Jen,” and one other dubbed the “Meth Magician.” The latter was given this sobriquet after followers of Cooke’s story uncovered his TikTok account, by which he carried out magic tips. (The “Meth” half got here from his frequent references to “zips,” “ounces,” and “re-ups” in leaked textual content messages.)
Round August 9, Cooke lastly bought wind of what was taking place. “They’re posting every thing,” somebody texted her, on a distinct cellphone. “All of your drug offers and all that shit.”
“That was my private life,” Cooke later tells me, angrily. “The entire world is aware of who I’m.”
And so Cooke determined she wanted to get out of St. Louis. On August 10, she took off in a stolen automobile to see her fiancé Overturf, who was staying along with his mom in western Illinois.
However she by no means made it. When she pulled off Interstate 55, the automobile broke down. Somebody known as the police on the “suspicious car” and Cooke was arrested — and charged with possession of a stolen car, possession of methamphetamine and possession of housebreaking instruments.
However Cooke’s issues have been simply starting. Whereas all of this was taking place, a rising cadre of web detectives had come to the conclusion that she was responsible of a way more severe crime: homicide.
Elizabeth Cooke grew up within the Patch neighborhood in south St. Louis, in addition to components of St. Francois and Franklin counties in rural Missouri.
“I think about myself half from town, half from the nation,” she says. “My household would not do medicine. They do not get in hassle. They work. They deal with their youngsters.”
She describes herself because the black sheep, a troublemaker out of step along with her extra straight-laced members of the family. (Contemplating her affinity for tie-dye, nevertheless, she prefers “rainbow sheep.”)
Details about Cooke’s younger grownup life is tough to come back by, however by 2018 she had a job touring to music festivals all through the Midwest, placing on expansive artwork performances with a crew of “Astral Gypsies” from Astral Valley Artwork Park within the Ozarks.
As a part of a psychedelic mini-parade, Cooke roamed pageant grounds hoisting big marionettes, comparable to a 15-foot-tall Hunter S. Thompson or an area alien, with red-and-white mushroom caps following behind. “We simply needed to unfold pleasure, love, mild and artwork,” says considered one of Cooke’s former Astral Valley colleagues, Abby, who requested the RFT to not print her final identify.
However in accordance with Abby, she and Cooke shared darkish pasts, having every skilled abuse and habit. Their troubled backgrounds helped them bond instantly.
“Elizabeth provided me a spot to remain lease free until I might discover a job,” Abby mentioned, including that Cooke additionally provided to host her daughter. She added that Cooke typically spoke about opening a disaster heart and secure home, to assist ladies begin over.
With out Cooke, she “would have ended up … both lifeless due to an OD or worse,” Abby says. “This lady could be so charming, so uplifting. She shines when individuals want her.”
This description stands in stark distinction to the persona portrayed on Cooke’s hacked Fb web page. Certainly, within the years following her music pageant job, Cooke’s life started coming aside. A pal named Leslie Stevenson mentioned Cooke eked out an existence dumpster diving, doing what she might to show different individuals’s trash right into a dwelling.
Tony Callesis, the supervisor of the Storage of America facility in Dutchtown the place Cooke stashed lots of her dumpster finds, mentioned he as soon as seemed out the again window of his south-city condominium to see Cooke placing on goggles and a helmet with a light-weight affixed to it — like a coal miner. She proceeded to throw herself into his alley’s dumpster, after which closed the lid.
In keeping with Cooke, in Could 2020, she started staying on the St. Louis Eco Village, a north-city hippie-style commune that additionally serves as a nonprofit offering unhoused individuals with entry to showers, meals and different necessities. Eco Village additionally operates an Airbnb to assist fund their work.
In keeping with Yvonne “Jazz” Berry, who runs the Eco Village, Cooke rented the Airbnb for 3 weeks in November 2020, however afterwards refused to go away, citing squatter’s rights. (To the RFT, Cooke denied this, saying she moved in months earlier than that, by no means talked about squatter’s rights and that in lieu of lease she donated objects she’d salvaged from dumpsters.)
In keeping with Berry, round Christmas that yr a 62-year-old man named Bobby Phillips arrived at Eco Village, together with one other man. That they had each lately gotten out of jail, and took part within the nonprofit’s meals share and used the bathe.
“It is the center of winter,” Berry remembers telling them. “Yeah, you guys can crash on the sofa.”
Cooke says she met Phillips when her buddies introduced him alongside dumpster diving. One other evening, she got here again to Eco Village and located him sitting alone in a chilly, darkish room. She gave him blankets and meals.
The pair started to bond; he seems to have tried to impress the youthful lady by claiming cash was coming his means. Cooke says that, round Christmas, Phillips instructed her he was going to incorporate her in his will.
“[H]e made me … executor of estates and energy of lawyer,” Cooke wrote, in a leaked message. “He left me a lawsuit value $1.7 million it simply hasn’t settled but.”
On January 1, 2021, Phillips died from heart problems exacerbated by methamphetamine, in accordance with the St. Louis Metropolis Medical Examiner.
Cooke’s involvement, if any, was not instantly clear. Later that day, Cooke filmed a video of herself discussing Phillips. In it, she wore a T-shirt with astral designs. Behind her have been piles of garments and a large white teddy bear.
Phillips endured childhood abuse, Cooke says within the video, earlier than spending many years in jail. There he discovered the way to learn and write, and studied regulation.
“[Phillips] pulled my heartstrings,” she says.
Seven months later, when Jeff started sorting via the contents of Cooke’s cellphone, he discovered the video in addition to pictures of different objects belonging to Phillips, together with his social safety card, his start certificates, his ID, paperwork signing over Phillips’ energy of lawyer to Cooke, and paperwork naming Cooke as the only beneficiary in Phillips’ will.
Jeff posted all of them, and shortly obtained a message from a person named Mike Clingman, claiming that round Christmas Cooke and others gave “an outdated man” a “sizzling shot” of medicine. Cooke was beneath the impression the person had cash, mentioned Clingman.
Jeff quickly wrote on Cooke’s Fb account: “I believe I could have uncovered a homicide ya’ll.”
From this level ahead, the net Cooke sleuths have been now not simply attempting to assist victims get again their stolen property — they considered themselves as avenging a murdered man.
Their depth ramped up accordingly. They ran with the narrative that, not lengthy after Phillips wrote Cooke into his will, Cooke (or maybe an confederate) administered an deliberately deadly dose of illicit medicine, killing Phillips in an effort to hasten the windfall’s arrival.
Every week and a half after Jeff hacked Cooke’s cellphone, Fb lastly locked him out. However these excited about her case had already migrated to different boards, together with Fb teams devoted to investigating her, numbering some 80,000 members all instructed.
One group launched a ballot asking if Cooke killed Phillips.
“Sure! The proof is overwhelming” gained in a landslide.
I first turned conscious of Cooke in mid-August, across the identical time seemingly each different St. Louisan did. I got here to her story via Reddit, nevertheless it was already circulating within the nationwide media, lined by Fox and CBS associates throughout the nation, in addition to digital media shops just like the Every day Dot and The Younger Turks. Barstool Sports activities ran the prolonged headline, “The Most White Trash St. Louis Whodunit Of Our Time Is Unfolding On Fb And It Has Every little thing – Homicide, Medicine, Thefts, Junkies Doing Magic And Extra.”
I visited Eco Village, the place volunteers have been overwhelmed by the sudden swell of consideration, to not point out livid about on-line accusations that that they had one way or the other abetted a homicide.
I later spoke by cellphone to Cooke, who was locked up in Macoupin County Jail in western Illinois, about midway between St. Louis and Springfield. She remained upset concerning the doxxing, however acknowledged the veracity of the content material Jeff had spilled on-line.
“I used to be a drug addict,” she says. “If you’re texting somebody you are not sitting there pondering, ‘Someday is somebody going to get ahold of my cellphone and everybody’s going to see this?’ I am doing what I needed to do to outlive, whether or not it is discovering some strategy to get excessive or discovering a trip to get someplace.”
Although Jeff’s postings might have made her appear to be against the law kingpin, she resided on the far fringes of that world, she claims. “They made me out to be a ringleader,” she says. “I am no ringleader.”
Missing web entry in jail, Cooke’s solely mode of communication with the skin world was pay as you go cellphone calls and “Jail Chirp” textual content messages, working ten cents every. She sounded frantic and distraught throughout this time, overwhelmed by her sudden infamy. Somebody had known as the Division of Household Companies on her sister, she mentioned. It was meant as a prank, pulled for no motive aside from her sister’s relation to Elizabeth Cooke.
Cooke feared that, in jail, she could not make funds on her storage items in St. Louis and Illinois, risking every thing she owned, together with a Beanie Child with a misprint tag she says was value $80,000.
She wholeheartedly denies having something to do with Phillips’ demise. “I wasn’t even on the identical ground [of Eco Village] when he collapsed,” she says
St. Louis police additionally would not appear to have taken her significantly as a suspect. Cooke says she was by no means contacted by them about Phillips, and Jeff says his solely interactions with police have been once they confiscated Cooke’s cellphone. St. Louis police spokesperson Evita Caldwell says an investigation remains to be lively, however wouldn’t disclose additional particulars.
In keeping with St. Louis police Officer Sean Martini’s report on Phillips’ demise, medics arrived at Eco Village round 10 a.m. on January 1 final yr to search out Phillips on the ground, unconscious however with a slight pulse.
Medics have been prepared to begin procedures they hoped would save Phillips’ life when Cooke produced paperwork displaying he had lately signed over energy of lawyer to her. The paperwork said that Phillips didn’t want to be resuscitated. The medics ceased their efforts, and Phillips died quickly after.
Phillips’ physique was initially picked up from Eco Village by a funeral residence, however the St. Louis Metropolis Medical Examiner thought-about the demise suspicious and took possession of the physique. The medical expert later dominated the demise to be unintentional, and launched Phillips’ physique to a different funeral residence, in Illinois, the place he was cremated. His ashes got to Cooke.
Regardless of no smoking-gun proof towards Cooke, the hundreds of newbie sleuths investigating her continued bearing down.
On a sunny Sunday in August, a bunch of them emerged from the web right into a small vape store in Lemay to check notes. On the gross sales ground have been glass instances displaying bongs, vapes and Trailer Park Boys rolling trays.
A couple of dozen individuals arrived, together with Jeff. Cameras rolled as effectively; a manufacturing firm had provided Jeff a producer credit score to inform Cooke’s story, and so he was recording for a possible true-crime documentary.
Brock Schmittler, a big and boisterous man with tattooed arms who had been invited by Jeff to unfold phrase concerning the case, known as the assembly to order.
The group explored theories about what might need occurred to Bobby Phillips, discussing Cooke’s messages with a girl known as Gypsy Jen shortly after Phillips’ demise. Phillips was the proper mark for an elaborate honeypot scheme aiming to steal his incoming fortune, the group speculated. Cooke and Gypsy Jen might have been amongst these liable for his demise.
“Bobby falls in love simply with Elizabeth as a result of she’s younger, she’s enticing,” Schmittler theorized.
Schmittler, Jeff and the others have been significantly preoccupied with the whereabouts of Phillips’ ashes. They needed them returned to Phillips’ daughter.
Certainly, for a lot of on this group, and on the web, Phillips’ daughter was one other sufferer on this case. The RFT reached out to her, and she or he agreed to talk with us, as long as we did not use her identify.
Phillips was solely an adolescent when he first bought caught up within the justice system. “He spent the remainder of his life bouncing out and in of jail,” his daughter says. In his twenties, Phillips was working as a carny in Missouri when he was arrested for housebreaking. As a result of he’d beforehand dedicated many petty crimes, he drew a prolonged sentence. For years he wrote to his daughter each week, she says; the letters got here with elaborate doodles.
In jail, “Bobby learn and studied prison and civil regulation so much,” says Roderick Choisser, an inmate at Western Illinois Correctional Heart, who was beforehand incarcerated with Phillips. “He was at fixed warfare with totally different jail administrations. As a substitute of his fists, he used civil motion.”
Phillips was litigious. In a single lawsuit, he sued the Illinois jail system for forcing him to eat nonkosher meals, which, he mentioned, was an affront to his Orthodox Jewish religion. He even went on starvation strike.
The go well with was unsuccessful; Phillips’ daughter says that Phillips wasn’t truly Jewish. In one other go well with Phillips claimed he was at risk from varied jail gangs, in addition to from inmates named Snake and Shaky John.
Phillips additionally sued Wexford Well being Companies, the jail health-care supplier, over insufficient therapy for his hepatitis C. The go well with started in 2008 and remains to be crawling its means via the courts. The supposed impending $1.7 million settlement he talked about to Cooke referred to this case.
“After I heard there was an enormous lawsuit and cash was going to her, I needed to giggle,” Phillips’ daughter says. “I’ve heard that my total life. It is at all times been, ‘I’ve an enormous account put aside for you.'”
“Bobby lied to Cooke to impress her,” Jeff maintains. “It bought him killed.”
On October 14, Elizabeth Cooke was launched from Macoupin County Jail. For the stolen automobile and possession of meth prices she was given probation and time served.
Hoping to interview her, I provided her a trip from Macoupin County Jail again to St. Louis. She accepted.
By the point I arrived to the small city the place the jail is situated, Cooke had already walked to a neighborhood Walmart, utilizing a map hand-drawn by a fellow inmate. I met her within the checkout aisle. Carrying a purple Members Solely-style jacket, she purchased some new socks and a brand new cellphone to switch the one taken by Jeff. We headed again to the jail so Cooke might choose up the objects she’d been arrested with.
“Thanks,” Cooke mentioned to the jailer after signing for her possessions. “I hope to by no means see you once more.”
As we drove again to St. Louis, Cooke apologized for her scattered prepare of thought. She has ADHD, she says, and proceeded to speak at size about tarot playing cards, reincarnation and spirituality. Humanity was suppressed way back, she maintains, leaving us out of contact with our true potential.
After a protracted interval of sobriety, Cooke had resumed consuming lately, she says, and later stop consuming however began doing onerous medicine. Throughout this time interval she’d encountered a whirlwind of characters, all seeming to go by nicknames: Nature, Detroit, Bigfoot, Smoke.
She gave Phillips a tarot card studying shortly after they met. “He was blaming himself for lots of issues,” she says. “He wanted to forgive himself, in order that he might transfer on.”
Round Christmas, Cooke says, Phillips talked about the potential settlement cash, saying he would go away it to her so she might begin the ladies’s shelter she typically talked about. Signing over his energy of lawyer had been his concept, Cooke says.
On New Yr’s Eve they went dumpster diving. Phillips, she says, “was like a child in a sweet retailer.” Within the dumpster Cooke discovered a white teddy bear, the identical one within the background of the video she later recorded about Phillips.
The following day she and Phillips have been planning to take their dumpster objects to her storage unit. However when Cooke got here downstairs to gather him, she discovered him collapsed on the ground, she says.
She claims it was his true need to not be resuscitated. “Bobby instructed me that each time he went he was able to go,” Cooke says.
She instructed me this as we whizzed previous southern Illinois farmland, giving the account along with her typical manic depth. It appeared onerous to fathom that anybody mendacity might converse so quick whereas protecting their info straight.
Because the Arch got here into sight, Cooke turned her ideas to the person she thought-about her archenemy: Jeff.
It bothers her that he has maintained his anonymity, even after pouring each element of her life on-line. “He has fifteen years of my pictures,” she says. “I’ve not one picture of my baby.”
Again in south St. Louis, outdoors a publish workplace the place she picked up her mail, Cooke notes she’d been up and down each alley within the neighborhood, and maintained a psychological map of which dumpsters have been worthy of deep dives. She picks a couple of berries off a plant hanging over somebody’s fence. “That home at all times had the perfect backyard,” she says.
At one level, nevertheless, Cooke’s sense of course falters. She struggles to search out the pal’s home the place she deliberate to crash. She is aware of St. Louis by its alleys, she says, not by its streets.
Within the weeks following her return from jail, Cooke and William Overturf, her fiancé, clear vacant home development websites in change for being allowed to sleep within the homes. They normally go with out warmth or electrical energy.
Cooke texts and calls me infrequently, normally both asking for a couple of dollars or a trip. I solely give Cooke money as soon as, for cab fare after an interview.
In considered one of our conversations, she says somebody she did not know acknowledged her on the road, accosted her and shoved a cellphone in her face, recording video.
She additionally says she’s been attacked twice by acquaintances pissed that their messages along with her had gone public. One assailant wielded a baseball bat.
“Individuals learn what was posted on-line,” she says. “They’re pissed off about that shit. I would be pissed too.”
Cooke says she will’t get professional work due to her prison historical past, to not point out her Google search outcomes.
She spent a number of days cleansing somebody’s yard for $40. Slowly, she has come to grips that the $1.7 million shouldn’t be coming to her.
In January 2022, a storage unit Cooke had rented — however had missed funds on — was going up for public sale. Jeff deliberate to purchase it, hoping to search out Bobby Phillips’ ashes and return them to Phillips’ household.
On the final minute, nevertheless, Cooke produced the mandatory money to maintain the unit.
“I do not know the way she did it,” says Jeff.
And but Cooke claims she now not possesses Phillips’ ashes. She says they have been amongst contents she’d loaded onto a U-Haul truck, which U-Haul repossessed towards her will, disposing of the ashes and every thing else.
Phillips’ daughter tells me she would not know what to consider the “conspiracies” surrounding Cooke and her father. Getting Phillips’ ashes again, she says, is her most important precedence. Her mom died a couple of months earlier than Phillips, and she or he had hoped to maintain their stays collectively.
After I inform her that Cooke claims to not have the ashes, Phillips’ daughter sounds flummoxed. “It seems like [Cooke] did what she did finest and bought herself one other storage unit and …” she begins, earlier than trailing off.
I spoke to Mike Clingman when the Cooke story first broke, however hadn’t been in a position to observe up with him. He was a important character in her trajectory, having ignited the homicide conspiracy by alleging that Cooke and others had administered a “sizzling shot” to Phillips.
After weeks of texting, in mid-November I lastly obtained a message again from his cellphone, despatched by his fiancé. “Mike cannot contact you,” it learn. He had died every week earlier, from COVID-19 exacerbated by methamphetamine, in accordance with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Clingman and Cooke had met in the future when the latter’s automobile broke down in entrance of Clingman’s dad’s home. Clingman gave her rides infrequently.
Regardless that Clingman had stoked the net sleuths’ homicide theories, Cooke known as him a pal. “Mike has coronary heart,” she instructed me earlier than he died. “He actually does.”
In the summertime of 2020, earlier than Elizabeth Cooke met Bobby Phillips or Jeff, she made a video that now appears eerily prescient.
Talking at Eco Village into her cellphone’s digital camera, she mimics life as a star. “Has anyone seen my present but? It is known as Life with Liz. I’ll be fucking well-known.”
“I used to be [feeling] completely satisfied and goofy,” she remembers later, concerning the video.
She certainly bought well-known, but in probably the most harmful — and probably the most fleeting — methods doable. Six months after her story captivated true crime followers across the nation, the net pages devoted to her are actually ghost cities. “Once we realized that nobody was submitting tricks to us — it was extra like, ‘Let’s make this humorous meme’ — we realized this wasn’t going to go anyplace,” Jeff says.
However Cooke’s anger over her doxxing stays. “My life is shit proper now,” she says. “I am within the chilly, getting kicked out of vacant homes as a result of I’ve nowhere to go.”
One can perceive the general public’s need to resolve a homicide, and to carry the responsible celebration accountable. And but, after I drove Cooke again from jail, she did not come off as a conniving, prison mastermind. She appeared like a free spirit who sooner or later had turn out to be un-moored. She struck me as tragic.
After she instructed me she was crashing at a pal’s place in south St. Louis, I provided to drop her off on the home. She declined, nevertheless, not wanting me to know her precise location. And so, at her request, I let her off on the finish of an alley.
“Thanks for the trip,” she mentioned, departing.
I waved goodbye, and ready to drive away. After a beat, nevertheless, my curiosity bought the perfect of me.
I circled and peered down the alley, questioning the place she was headed. However I could not see her. Cooke had already disappeared.
Extra reporting by Daniel Hill and Doyle Murphy
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