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decades before she was arrested in the disappearance of her two Children, J.
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Entirely.
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Lori Dave L.
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Was a sweet, quiet cheerleader from a developed, warm and family.
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Bernadette Flores Lopez says she met Lori when they were 15 years old and trying out for the Cheer squad at their Southern California high school.
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My first impressions of her was Man, I just thought she was just a Barbie doll.
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She was a doll.
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She was really sweet.
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That's why it hurts so much.
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Right now, I'm in disbelief.
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Bernadette has asked us to blur her face to protect her privacy back then.
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Laurie, Please.
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Laurie Context.
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She would attend religious classes before school.
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That takes a lot of dedication to go in high school and go before school.
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Started to seminary.
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She never spoke about what it meant to be a Mormon.
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I just know in her house it was a giant book of the book of Mormon.
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Laurie was quiet but also hilarious.
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She's hilarious.
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He was never the type a person to come up to anybody and confront them negatively.
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But man, she had us laughing hysterically all the time, Bernadette says.
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Laurie's good looks were hard to miss here.
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She is competing in a 2000 for beauty pageant after having two kids.
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But in high school, Laurie mostly hung out with the girls while she was a bombshell.
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In my opinion, she still is, but it's weird because it wasn't until our senior year that she even had a boyfriend.
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Laurie married a boy from her high school, but the marriage was short lived.
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I know the boy was not a Mormon, so that might have been a cause of Bernadette, says.
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Lori got good grades.
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But when it came time to talk about life after graduation, Laurie's path seems set by her faith.
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Being a Mormon, this is what I got from her that they already knew she was going to go be a missionary for a couple years served.
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And after high school, Bernadette says she lost touch with Lori, but she always thought about her friend.
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I just want to say hi to her pretty much have been in contact with all my other friends that I had on my chair spot, except turn that she was just kind of a mystery.
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You have nothing to say.
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Bernadette was shocked when she saw her friend in the news for allegedly refusing to help police find her Children.
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J J Entirely Siblings have been missing since September.
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Florrie was arrested in Hawaii and charged with two counts of felony desertion of a child.
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She's now awaiting extradition back to Idaho.
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Bernadette, a mother of two.
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I can't fathom that Laurie hasn't seen her kids for more than five months.
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I think she's so brainwashed.
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So far gone.
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This person that she's married to is writing books about doomsday and end of the world.
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You know, I know her book hurt her Mormon religion.
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Don't teach that.
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Laurie's fifth husband, Chad A Bell, has not been charged with any crime Wolf.
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He and Laurie deny any wrongdoing.
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Bernadette says if Lori did harm her kids, she should face justice.
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But if they are alive, they it say, where your kids are, let them have a fair chance in life.
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Let I don't know the healing process.
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Start with them.
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Bernadette also has a message for the friend.
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She once felt so close to Lori.
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Look, you're not too far gone.
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That Raiders can't touch you.
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She just needs our prayers right now.
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She isn't.
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That's what she needs.
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Regardless, she's she's not.
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Well, she's not.
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Well, if this is, if she did something like this for inside edition dot com I'm Caitlin Ford.