She Said She Was Scared at 2 AM. By 11:46 AM, Hannah Toby-Dean Was Dead.

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Imagine this.
You are 25 years old, and you

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have already done more than most
people twice your age.

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You joined the United States
Navy.

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You served aboard the USS
Nimitz.

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You were one of the top students
in a school, the Navy's

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technical training program,
where sailors learn the job they

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will do in service.
Your instructor remembered you

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not because you demanded to be
remembered, but because you were

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the kind of person who left an
impression without trying.

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You came home from serving your
country with your whole life

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still in front of you.
You had a name, The Streets New

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You by Hannah Bands.
You had a style that turned

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heads.
You had a voice that could fill

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a room.
You had a mother who loved you

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so completely that she could
tell you the exact time of every

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phone call, every text message,
every moment she knew where you

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were in the days before
everything changed.

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You had thirteen siblings.
You had a faith you chose

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deliberately.
In May of 2021, you took your

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shahada, the declaration of
faith that marks a person's

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entry into Islam.
You embraced Islam on your own

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terms, and you were given the
name Khadijah, a name that means

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something, a name that belongs
to one of the most powerful

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women in Islamic history.
You wore it with intention.

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You were 5 feet tall and carried
the presence of a giant.

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You were 25 years old, a
veteran, a Muslim woman, a

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rapper, a daughter, a sister, a
believer, and you had come home

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with more life ahead of you than
anyone around you could have

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imagined.
On June 10th, 2025, your mother

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saw you for the last time.
You were in the company of a man

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named Sean Causey.
Your mother watched you leave.

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She did not know yet that she
was already counting down to the

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last time she would hear your
voice.

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This is no tears for black
girls.

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The cases they ignored.
I am Samantha Paul, Before we go

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any further, I need you to
understand what kind of story

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this is.
This is not a cold case from

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another era.
This is not a story that has

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been fully prosecuted, sentenced
and put away.

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This is a story that is still
open.

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The investigation is still
active.

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The questions Hannah's family
has been asking since June 13th,

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2025 have not been answered
publicly by the Greenville

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Police Department.
No charges directly tied to

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Hannah's death have been
publicly confirmed as of this

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recording.
What you are about to hear is a

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documented timeline provided by
her family, supported by the

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public record that exists, and
told because the family of

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Hannah Khadija Toby Dean asked
for her story to be told.

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Her mother, Charlie Dean, gave
her blessing for this episode to

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run.
This story is being told with

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their knowledge and their trust,
and it will be told with the

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seriousness and care that
Hannah's life deserves.

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This episode contains discussion
of suspicious death, potential

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foul play, possible concealment
of evidence, and systemic

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investigative failure.
Take care of yourself while you

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listen, but listen because
Hannah's name deserves to be in

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more rooms than it currently is,
and the people who should be

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answering questions about what
happened to her have been very,

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very quiet.
Hannah Khadija Toby Dean was

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from Willingboro, NJ, a Township
in Burlington County with more

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history than many people outside
the region know.

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Willingboro was originally built
in the 1950s as a plan suburban

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community called Levittown, one
of the post war developments

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that symbolize the American
Dream while quietly restricting

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who was allowed full access to
it.

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Over time, after white flight
and racist housing practices

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pushed Black families out of
other communities and into this

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one, Willingboro became one of
the most prominent majority

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black suburban communities in
New Jersey.

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It became a place where Black
families built homes, stability,

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memory, and legacy across
generations.

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That is where Hannah came from.
She came from a place where

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people show up for each other.
And when Hannah died, that

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community did exactly that.
A candlelight memorial was held

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on June 26th, 2025 at the
Burlington Riverfront.

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The following morning, a
celebration of life brought

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people together from across the
years of Hannah's life.

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Her fellow veterans showed up.
Members of the fitness and

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military community she was
connected to showed up.

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Her kindergarten teacher left a
tribute.

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People who had not seen her in
years came to say goodbye to a

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woman who had left an impression
on every room she ever walked

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into.
In Greenville, NC, where Hannah

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had traveled and where she died.
The investigation into how she

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died had already slowed before
her community in New Jersey had

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even finished mourning her.
Greenville sits in Pitt County

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in the eastern part of North
Carolina.

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It is home to East Carolina
University.

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It is a mid sized city with a
Police Department and public

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institutions that cannot
credibly point to a lack of

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resources as the reason a case
did not move with urgency.

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It is the kind of place where
things are supposed to work.

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But eastern North Carolina also
has a history Black families

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know too well.
About 40 minutes from Greenville

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in Edgecombe County, the region
lived through what became known

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as the Seven Bridges Rd.
killings, a series of murders in

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which Black women were found
dead over a span of years.

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While law enforcement was slow
to fully confront what was

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happening, a man was ultimately
convicted of 1 murder, while the

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families of the other women were
left with what?

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Families of black women in this
country are too often left with

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partial answers, incomplete
justice, and the sickening

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feeling that if the victims had
looked different, the response

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might have too.
That history matters here, not

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because Hannah's case is the
same case, but because it

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happened in the same region and
inside the same broader culture

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of neglect.
That pattern shows up in other

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ways, too.
In 2022, local reporting on

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traffic stop data in eastern
North Carolina found that Black

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people in Greenville were being
searched during traffic stops at

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rates that did not match their
share of the local population.

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Public police accountability
data has also shown sharp racial

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disparities in low level
arrests.

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Community groups in Greenville
spent years pushing the city to

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acknowledge the gap between how
Black residents and white

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residents experience law
enforcement.

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And then in June of 2025, the
same month Hannah died in

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Greenville, the city's Racial
Equity and Economic Mobility

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Commission, created to address
those disparities, disbanded.

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This is the city where Hannah
died.

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This is the Police Department
that was supposed to find out

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what happened to her.
Here is the timeline as Hannah's

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family has documented it.
On June 10th, 2025, Hannah's

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mother saw her daughter for the
last time.

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Hannah was in the company of
Sean Causey.

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She left on June 11th at 5:30 in
the morning.

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Hannah contacted her mother and
said she had arrived safely in

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Greenville, NC.
Her mother noted the time.

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She always noted the time that
is what mothers do when love has

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made them attentive in ways the
world often underestimates.

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On June 12th, at 4:00 in the
afternoon, Hannah called her

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mother again.
She said she was preparing

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dinner.
At that time, she was at the

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residence of a woman named
Vanessa Barber in Greenville.

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This was the last time Hannah's
mother heard her daughter's

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voice in a normal conversation.
The last time she got to tell

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herself everything was fine, the
last 4:00 PM that would ever

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feel ordinary.
Then June 13th came.

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At approximately 2:00 in the
morning.

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Hannah spoke with a family
member and expressed fear for

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her safety.
Not discomfort, not uncertainty.

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Fear.
A documented communication in

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the early hours of the morning
from a young woman telling

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family that she was scared.
At 11:46 that same morning, less

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than 10 hours later, the
Willingboro Police Department

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notified Charlie Dean that her
daughter had been pronounced

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dead. 9 hours and 46 minutes.
That is the distance between

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Hannah telling family she was
afraid and Hannah's mother

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getting the call that her
daughter was gone.

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When police notified Charlie
Dean, they also gave her Shawn

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Causey's phone number.
So Hannah's mother did what

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mothers do when the world stops
making sense.

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She started calling people, she
called Shawn Causey, she called

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Vanessa Barber.
According to the family's

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account, Shawn Causey's response
to the mother of the woman who

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had just died was not sorrow,
not explanation, not help.

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It was a warning repeated more
than once.

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Do not blame me, do not blame
me, do not blame me.

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Vanessa Barber told Charlie Dean
that she and Shawn Causey were

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cousins.
It was later discovered that

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they also share a child
together.

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They were not simply distant
relatives passing through the

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same story.
Their lives were tied together

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and Hannah died inside that
world.

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Then came what happened next.
On June 24th, 11 days after

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Hannah was pronounced dead, her
vehicle was returned to the

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family.
The GPS tracker had been

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deliberately disabled.
Her suitcase was returned too.

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When the family opened it, it
was empty.

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The belongings Hannah had
travelled with were gone.

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Her credit cards were later
found in the trunk of her car,

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hidden beneath the spare tire.
A disabled GPS tracker.

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An empty suitcase.
Credit cards concealed under a

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spare tire.
Those are not the kinds of

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details that calm a case down.
Those are the kinds of details

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that demand deeper scrutiny.
The family brought those

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concerns to law enforcement, but
according to the family, the

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initial investigation moved
slowly.

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One of the explanations that
surfaced was that Vanessa Barber

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had described Hannah as her God
sister, and that claim appears

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to have shaped how seriously the
situation was initially

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approached.
A word like family was allowed

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to soften a set of facts that
should have done the opposite.

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Because if a woman is found dead
after saying she is afraid and

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her GPS is disabled and her
belongings are missing and her

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financial items are hidden in
her own trunk, then we were

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like, family is not a reason to
relax.

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It is a reason to ask harder
questions.

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Instead, Hannah's family was
left watching the investigation

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stall in real time.
Then, on August 1st, 2025, a

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family member did the work the
police should have already been

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doing.
They gathered evidence and

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submitted it directly to the
Greenville Police Department.

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After that, the investigation
was reopened.

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As of this recording, the
Greenville Police Department has

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made no public statement
confirming arrests directly tied

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to Hannah's death.
The official cause of death has

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not been publicly released.
The family is still waiting for

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answers.
The system has not yet chosen to

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provide.
And here is what we know.

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A 25 year Old Navy veteran
traveled to Greenville, NC in

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the company of a man.
She called her mother to say she

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had arrived safely.
She called again the next day

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and said she was making dinner.
In the early hours of the

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following morning.
She told a family member she was

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afraid.
Less than 10 hours later, she

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was dead.
Her GPS tracker had been

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disabled.
Her belongings were missing.

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Her credit cards were hidden in
her trunk.

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The initial investigation
appears to have slowed under

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explanations that should have
triggered more urgency, not

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less.
And the family had to bring

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forward their own evidence to
get the case reopened.

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Now I need to speak directly to
you, Hannah Khadijah.

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Toby Dean served this country.
She put on a uniform.

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She served aboard a United
States Navy vessel.

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She came home with an honorable
record and with people who

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remembered her as somebody
exceptional.

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She chose her faith.
She carried a new name with

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intention.
She was a veteran.

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She was a Muslim woman.
She was a rapper.

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She was somebody's daughter and
somebody's sister and somebody's

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friend and somebody's student
and somebody who's absent still

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has weight in every room her
family walks into.

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She was 25 years old.
She called her mother to say she

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got there safely.
She called again to say she was

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making dinner.
Then she called in the dark

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because she was afraid.
That is who this story is about.

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And the reason this story
matters is not only because one

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family is still waiting for
answers.

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It matters because too many
black families know this shape

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by heart.
The waiting, the silence, the

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sense that if they do not push,
nothing moves.

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The feeling that they are being
asked to prove the value of a

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life that should have been
protected on site.

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That is why the regional context
matters.

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That is why Greenville matters.
That is why Eastern North

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Carolina matters.
Because Hannah did not die in a

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vacuum.
She died in a place with a

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documented history of racial
disparity in policing, in a

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region where black women's
deaths have too often been

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answered slowly, partially, or
not at all.

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Hannah's case is still open.
That means the people

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responsible for what happened to
her have not been held publicly

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accountable as of this
recording.

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It means the Greenville Police
Department still owes this

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family answers.
It means Charlie Dean is still

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living inside a question no
mother should have to carry for

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this long.
We are watching, her family is

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watching, and Hannah's name is
not going anywhere.

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If you know anything about what
happened to Hannah Khadija Toby

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Dean in Greenville, NC between
June 10th and June 13th, 2025,

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contact the Greenville Police
Department directly.

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The family has been fighting for
answers since the morning they

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got that call.
If you have information that can

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move this case forward, now is
the time to use it.

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Follow the Justice for Hannah
Ban's campaign on Instagram and

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TikTok.
Share this episode put Hannah's

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name in rooms it has not been in
yet.

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Every share increases pressure.
Every new listener is another

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person who now knows this case
is still open and a mother is

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still waiting.
Before I let you go, I want to

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point you toward two things that
come from the same commitment

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this episode comes from.
The first is Flowers for the

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Living, the latest EP from the
No Tears for Black Girls

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soundtrack, performed by Jada
Truth.

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It is for the women still here,
for the ones still carrying

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weight the world pretended not
to see, for the mothers still

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waiting for answers, for the
sisters still saying her name

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out loud in rooms that would
rather forget.

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Search No Tears for Black Girls
soundtrack wherever you stream

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music and it will be there.
The second is Death Apnea by JC

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Reedberg, part of the No Tears
for Black Girls Case Files

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series.
If what you heard today about

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institutional erasure, black
women and systems that look the

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other way landed somewhere heavy
in your chest, death apnea is

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where that same weight lives.
In fiction, 19 year old Kiki

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Toussaint's mother dies on New
Year's Eve and is processed by a

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New Orleans hospital as Jane Doe
2026-001, despite having

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identification in her purse,
despite Kiki calling every

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hospital in the city, despite a
family doing everything right.

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What Kiki and investigative
journalist Samantha Paul uncover

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is not a mistake.
It is a pipeline, and it has

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been learning better paperwork
for over a century.

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If this episode moves something
in you, please share it.

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Leave a five star review
wherever you listen.

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Every review helps the algorithm
push these stories to more

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people.
More reviews mean more families

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get heard, more stories get
told, and more black women stop

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being treated like footnotes in
cases that should have begun

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with their names.
This is no tears for Black

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girls, the cases they ignored.
I am Samantha Paul, stay loved,

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stay safe, and remember whenever
you are trapped in a World of

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Darkness, never allow fear to
overwhelm you.

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Believe in your inner spirit and
remind yourself of God's first

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words.
Let there be light.