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Oct 2022
9m 30s

"She did not disappear on purpose"

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Two years after 41-year-old Laynee Westbrook went missing from Anacortes, Wash., her family is still fighting to figure out what happened. Reporter Julie Calhoun has been covering the case for KING 5 in Seattle.

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