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i mm . ah, excuse me. i my grandfather came to this country in the early 19 hundreds. he ended up buying this piece of land in the early twenties and the homestead at this area. mm winters can be very brutal. summers can be very hard. it's hard work. i

we live right on the lake here, so we did a lot of fishing and hunting, and as i got older, i realized how incredible this was where most kids growing up didn't get this. i really wanted to keep it in the main me. ah ah, andrew was really proud of his car and it was his baby. ah, i feel when i hear that he's still around me. it can kind of feel the or of how we felt when his drive in the car, even just sit and it makes

me cry came just feeling how much i miss him. i me the birthday today it was one of the 1st time. so i'm actually seeing the footage of that happening and watched it happen. the way that andrew was approached was quick, silent without warning relate, well yeah, i think he was a bowie college kids party, their smoke pot,

they drink beer. i think that he was an easy target for them. you can't tell anybody or more people that know if that where it gets out, you know, was, i do know is going to work with you. you can't tell anybody you can't tell your parents. you can't tell your friends, you can't talk to an attorney, you just need to come and talk to me, ah, actually the max was 40 years for 40 years, and that's where we are. you have to go by marijuana for individuals and then, you know, depending upon how you do and so forth, you know, a lot of this can go away. i was scandalous. i was, i never seen anything is bad. it is a good possibility that your, your personal time, if you don't. yeah, they're just, once you learn more of the background,

you can understand why someone who had never really been in trouble and was only 20 and trying to get through college would be scared to death. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. surely they put him in harm's way fast. we cleared up fast, but this wasn't right, this is corrupt. they believed him. so i'm not going to be there. i know that i read them off me on the life on the farm. you learn the circle of life,

cattle or morn and cattle die and you're always hoping for a good crop. it's very calming and stressful at the same time. me, north dakota, it's a wonderful place to raise kids and we knew that we want to be parents at some point ah, right on top of this hills where they shoot the fireworks off. usually it's on the 5th of july and there's hundreds of boats out there. and it's beautiful. and we like to take the jet ski and come up the creek here. there's, i don't know a group of 4 or 5 of us that come up here. ah, son nicholas came to live with us and the situation entailed that we

adopt nicholas. then in there, my sister was having a really bad part of her life. it just wasn't good. and then my parents came up with the idea that we should adopt him. so we said, yeah, we would, you know, pay can and so that's how we came up with a flag else. he was, i'm on a year old. i think when we got him and that was in like 89. so it was pretty early in our, in our marriage, 7 years after we were married, andrew came along. ah, nick,

welcome to my little brother. all he was such a proud, big brother. even though they were 7 years apart actually, i think that was really a good spread. you gave me, i thought it for sure. it's not something to ride on me. nick, when he was a country boy, a good hard worker. wasn't really all going at all. you know, quiet boy, the nick was working at the store that day and i left at noon to be in a golf tournament and it was during the summer. so he was working. and i'll never

forget. as i walked out the door, he was leaning on a carry out, a grocery carry a cart said, good luck to day mom, marcia, to night and i said yeah, around midnight and he goes yup. help. oh, he got involved with his local gallagher lived a couple miles from here. just got to there one year anniversary and he was gonna be separate from us. oh. ready ready ready on. ready ready the me years where my son lost his life. right here.

or is tabitha in a car together? oh, i don't know exactly what happened for sure. you know, he's got broad sighted by a train on 5060 miles an hour. i don't know if they were moving around or something and you know, they were teenage kids. exactly what happened but it was terrific or. ready are we just kinda relied on him up for a lot. so it wasn't just losing my son, like lucian kept my farming operation. i don't know.

3 time i shut down. i didn't work for 6 months. andrew and i went to grief counseling just it was because of andrew that i found back because i'm like, somebody's gotta take care of this kid. oh yeah. oh, i was in small town, people know each other and pretty close knit community. i would say there's not

a lot of crime, you know, that was a lot of the cell, you know, to mom and dad bringing their, their, their, their young adults to their campus. this is a brand new experience for a lot of them treating. i president john richmond and i want to welcome you for the north dakota state college of science. we hope that you are the heart and soul of washington is the north dakota state college of science. it is where north dakota and the region come shopping for trade and tech. it is this melting pot of ranchers, of farmers, you've got nurses, you've got dental, you've got diesel mechanics, you've got electricians. i mean, you can come out and make a very good living. right away, but then there was the 99.8 or some crazy big job placement afterwards and that really caught my attention. so looks like a good place to go. like wow. as where you meet your friends,

you're around forever. this is where you is, where you're, everything happens, you're 4 years that every person gets the lives and it's going to be the best use your life. oh, i had no idea. what i want to do is have a teacher that says i want to be a truck driver. ironically, the ah ah, is your media a reflection of reality? the in a world transformed what will make you feel safer?

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back either a financial saliva. no. my girl, i want to be packed before going a problem. i know they stopped the me we thought fairly casually. we would more often and i go out in the car and just go for a little cruise because more times it out there was a top driving around the parking lot for the college. so that's what they're looking for. so we can not very smart just to sit in the car and there. so we'd just go and drive around a bit and come back. nothing didn't hurt anybody saw in the words that did to us or

just put us on the couch, watch movies, those are camera blazing. will all be doing joy. that video will help you with the is there individual that you know on campus or our whatever they can buy from probably about else that would be more reasonable. that would be maurice. well there's a trend. so makes money a campus new, more just to people to get the, you know, the level. so tell me

public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. drugs are menacing. our society substance abuse is a serious challenge for our nation addiction breaks. hearts destroys families and keeps our citizens from fulfilling their god given potential. what's the war on drugs? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of, of north dakota. war on drugs were on drugs. and it got to be something that you could get elected with you know, you had to be tough on crime tough. find crime tough. find crime. well, selling marijuana north dakota is a crime. and so, you know, you start seeing the feds put out more and more money to empower that. and so

what happens is, it's like, you know, there's the money, go get the money. we can have another officer too if we have the money. and so therefore we're dealing with this and we're part of the world. ah, we had done a couple of stories about them making drug laws stiffer. they had this enhanced campus related drug lot. so basically if you have a little bit of weed that would maybe be a misdemeanor, if you're on a school campus that could be a felony. and so i think that their thought process and that was ok. let's prosecute people who are selling to students, or let's prosecute people that are doing something that is going to impact young kids. rather than just the average adult out on the street. the local law enforcement was able to go onto a campus where they're that has its own law enforcement agency. they had

essentially unfettered access to the dormitories on the dfcs campus. and they could go into the hallways. and to the end to the dorm rooms, this just seems like a, an unconstitutional situation. moving off in the number of police blew me away. i was the 1st thing i thought was like, there's a car. they get every block is kinda he used to the imminent danger of the police coming and knocking and find you and you just kind of don't care me. i think we had a long night before, and i know we were both sleeping viper off and we had a knock on the door and the heck is not anything. somebody call me if they're coming over something. so i got up and i open the door mind whereas 2 policemen,

what the heck is going on here? they asked me, you can search the room really? yeah. i guess you're here. so we just, we opened up the door and they came in and i sat on my bed and sat on his bed and they searched the room for a while and they turned on finding a little tiny grinder. i didn't even know isn't there neither sadder i knew when they found that they looked at me and you can go to class. they shoot me away right away. it's kind of odd that i went to class and came back from class. and i asked him via was andrew, what happened? whatever happened about days, like almost nothing, just don't tell anybody about it. and just a hushed mirror in a way that i didn't tell me not tell anybody. i did mention something to eric just briefly afterwards because i was in shock that i happened as wasn't ready for it for sure. ah, drew had whispered something to mad in private with just the 2 of us. something by

the cops. they came in search to our room and i think it's weird, like, you know, but that was something i felt like have happened to anybody threw into classes like i didn't, i didn't know and i just assumed it was fine. more of every day was in campus, police force me i i gave them a big hug and thanked him for helping me. and he says, and i ask money is going to do. and he says, i gotta, i gotta go down. i gotta date. oh so

hard women said i told him i loved him and he told me last me and his current away last last time i seen him. ah, i never was after class we start adding back to norms. lan, static got a call and he's like a party later nosing now, i guess walked up the stairs and he said, i'll come get you when i'm ready. and i said, see later, man, $11.00 flight of stairs and i was it to progress towards the end of the night as

nightcap. take sad, i cannot have you want to. so you say grad or something. so got me. and then drew is up in the room and we went up and met drew, and andrew had a movie. so he just put it on and kind of bought the movie and sat there and nothing seemed weird. all like just hanging out like every other day ever when the movie is over, i remember i was pretty ready for bed. and then eric america went back to his room and static was ready for bed. and then he got up and he's like, i had to go in. sometimes he'd go out and tardy was the girl. ah, he asked me even if i wanted to come with i'm already have asleep, man, you gotta do it. i'll be, i'll be here when you get back. when he wasn't there, i woke up and looked over and i wasn't in bed or go see him in class in the morning . so nothing on me.

injury class from static wasn't a class. i mean, he's late, sometimes there was like, wasn't like alarming. maybe he's, you know, what is some girl or something, you know, no big deal. go to launch the throughout the day. you didn't find any of our tags or me and all the friends coverage constantly kind of pestering them all day, try and send them snaps, attached to them and stuff throughout the day. it is sufficient for reply trying to see where a friend is as a day went on, we got a class where to supper with paul marsh. and i remember him specifically making more of a big deal about it than either of us. it just wasn't like us to not tax back, not and sorry, snapshots that's back on the stamps. i still have the whole they can, you can see if they opened it thing and i don't think he was opening anything. were like that's weird. i think we weren't connecting dotson or like, this is not right. the next day we're like, dude. yeah,

call someone i guess for lunch or i will go see if we can get his mom parents, phone number from the college. so we went over there and we just asked to take, can we get statics, parents, phone numbers, so we can get ahold of them and just see if he's at home or something. so they kind of freaked out right away. they're like, well, you don't know where your friend is. you don't know like what worries out like, what was that song? we were like, do we just got him in so much trouble? ah, friday at noon the phone rang and they asked for andrew and they didn't identify themselves. and i, and i'm like andrews way at school and they're like, this is a school and said that he was missing. and i'm like, when you mean missing his on campus, he lives on campus. how can you be missing?

and she said he's missing and i want to put it on the news and i'm like put it on the news if he is missing. oh, word has gotten to us at the mighty $790.00 camp geo into our newsroom that a young man named andrew static has gone missing. andrew is a student at the north dakota state college of science. now, if you're wondering how andrew static looks, please go to k of g o dot com for that. let's help find out. i had the feeling who's bad. instantly news, bad news and of course we tried calling them and texting. and ah, i mean, maybe you skip a class or 2, but missing for a day without letting us know what's going on. that wasn't, that wasn't andrew. and one of the never happened. so then right in there i,

i knew there was some, some good. ah, we decided to drive down there and see what's going on because we knew it was more serious than jim just taken off. all friends gathered on the campus of dfcs today baffled why. why would you just do this so close to graduation? you know countless searches and still nothing. we've never had a student missed this long term. most of them we find within 24 hours. so it's been very, very frustrating. we're in campus, police sergeant halligan's office in jason webber came in all hell and said that jason webber was the one in charge. and that andrew was in a lot of trouble with drugs. and i was like, trouble with drugs,

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