Missing Pieces (Radio) Transcript: Alan Tate Interview

Originally aired: December 26, 2006

(Introduction to show begins)

ERIC MEADOWS (WCAN Co-Host): You have joined us for another episode of Missing Pieces, hosted by Todd Matthews and myself, Eric Meadows. Todd, how are you tonight?

TODD MATTHEWS (Missing Pieces Host): Doing great, we survived the holiday.

ERIC: Oh yeah, we all did.

TODD: Well we're mid way through the holiday.

ERIC: Yeah we've got what? New Years is coming up.

TODD: Yes, it is coming up on us fast. This is the last show of the year, seventeenth episode. Can you believe it?

ERIC: Yeah, we have come quite a ways, haven't we?

TODD: Seventeen on-earth hours.

ERIC: Well that's excellent. Listen, who did you bring with you tonight?

TODD: Tonight I have an old friend, Alan Tate. Alan. Welcome.

ALAN TATE (Guest): Hi, how's it going?

ERIC: Doing pretty good Alan, how are you?

ALAN: Doing pretty good.

ERIC: Well I met Alan a few years ago. Originally I got a phone call from the Overton County Library and I live here in Overton County. She said a young man had come to the library, searching for information on his siblings. They had been separated because of a crime. I ended up talking to him, he had an incredible story. I think eleven of you guys.

ALAN: Twelve

TODD: Twelve yes, because of Alan Ray.

ALAN: Thirteen with Alan Ray.

TODD: Yeah, including you. There is a lot of children. They lived in an Amish community called Muddy Pond, here in Overton County. The Department of Children's Services had to intervene in this family because of something that had happened. The family was separated, put into foster homes and they were not allowed contact. Well in the mean time, Alan had become a man. He was wanting to reconnect with his family. Alan can you tell us about what you were looking for when you came to the Overton County Library?

ALAN: That is where all the court proceedings took place and I was trying to locate any documents I could use to find my brother's and sister's with.

TODD: And that's not easy, trying to open Department of Children's Services files. And this is the original, very short letter that I have got.

LETTER:

To Whom It May Concern,

MP

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