Taken Away
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I remember having a nightmare that something was terribly wrong. When Jesse was killed, and when I woke up, it was just a dream. My name is Gary Bardwell. Jesse Bardwell is my daughter. Go on this one, you and Jesse, do it! I called her my beautiful daughter and I still do. A beautiful Jesse. She lives in Orange Beach, Alabama. She just loved being around water. She would be in the water, fighting the waves and having fun. She worked at a place called Cobalt the Restaurant, it's a beautiful place. I don't know why she decided to move. She's just up and moved to Texas. And she said, "I'm just going out there to clear my head, I'll be back, I'm just going for a couple weeks and I'll be back." My name is Kimberly Azbury. I was friends with Jesse, it just went from hearing from her a lot, talking to her to nothing. I knew something was wrong. As the father of three girls, I was very determined to get to the bottom of what had happened to Jesse Bardwell. My name is Kiran Hale, I was the lead detective on Jesse's case. Jesse was nowhere to be found when we got to Texas. I had the fear that we would never find her. Tell me what it felt like then to go two days, three days, four days. It was Hale. After so many days, it's kind of hard to believe that she's just going to come back with shopping bags in her arms. It was just like brace for impact. I knew she was dead. How did you know? I had that nightmare and I felt it. She was not on this earth anymore. This story is about a young girl, I think she finds love and it turns out he's pure evil. Yesterday, I went down to the river and just sat there and watched the boats go by and took some deep breaths and said I don't know how much of this I can take any longer. There are days when it's hard for Gary Bardwell to get out of bed, but he always does. Determined to get justice for Jesse, his 27-year-old daughter who went missing from Richardson, Texas in May of 2016. I'm doing it for Jesse, taking one day at a time, one step at a time. Gary knew something was wrong before he even knew Jesse had gone missing. Something from my soul was gone and I was afraid that it was her. That connection that bond deeper than words formed the moment Jesse was born, says Gary. As soon as she was born, immediately started crying, it was just such a happy moment, such a happy moment. Jesse grew up alongside her older brother Brandon. Me and Jesse have been two peas in the pod since we were young. There's Brandon and Jesse. Gary, a now-retired firefighter with the Pascagoula, Mississippi Fire Department, loved being a dad.
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A father dreams his daughter's been killed.