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According to Orell, Cho had gotten upset and walked away from the converted bus without her phone, food, or water, when he had gone inside the bus around 3 pm. He called the local sheriff's office around 5:13 pm for additional help after searching with some friends for Cho. The original search party
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Prior to her disappearance, Cho had quit her job as a high school music teacher over the winter of 2020, and joined her friend, Cody Orell, on a cross-country road trip. She had met Orell on
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reportedly never found any of Cho's tracks, and responding law enforcement only found the tracks of the search party. This led Orell to believe that Cho got into a vehicle with someone, as she had been planning on meeting an unknown individual later in the week.
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expressed about how and why certain cases receive national coverage. Ultimately, these two cases are NOT the same and the differences run deeper than what meets the public eye."
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