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He had left their Washington, DC apartment to take out the trash, she thought.
Then he sent her a text message that scared her.
Chelsea Van Thof called the police, a friend, and then set out to find him on that warm Wednesday night in April 2022.
She stood on the nearby Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge, peering through an 8-foot-high light green wrought iron fence.
