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Cruz:
It wasn’t there.
Det. Sudler:
Okay.
Det. Jewett:
Had she left you a note?
Cruz:
‘ , Uh Uh.
Det. Jewett:
Where did you think she might have been?
Cruz:
I didn’t really think anything. 11mm.. .you know...
for all I knew, she was out with a friend or she could’ve been at the office.. .she could’ve been anywhere.
Det. Jewett:
Did she work on weekends?
Cruz:
Umm. . .around that time, if anything, we were
concentrating on.. .on a Christmas project. But yeah, we occasionally...
Det. Jewett:
A work related Christmas project or a fund raising...
Cruz:
Fund raising.. .it’s more like a fund community
activity.
Det. Sudler:
When. . .when did you first find out that she’d
been involved in an accident?
Cruz:
Well, when I saw her car there.
Det. Sudler: Okay. So when you came home Sunday and got the answering machine, the male caller said that they
were’ sorry about what had happened?
Cruz:
Right.
Det. Sudler:
What did you think about that?
Cruz:
Well, I didn’t.. .1 didn’t really... like I ‘said, I
didn’t really know what it was related to. And then I.. .of course I.. .1 was a little bit worried. And then I called Benetta and. . .you know. . .and asked her if. . .what. . . if she knew. . .you know. . .where. . .what had occurred. And basically she. . I.. .1 don’t ,think at that point that she told me about the accident but
she just said that Lisa. . .you know. . .had gone back to
.to 210 Ft. Harrison to take care of some stuff.

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