Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in Calfornia

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November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been hitchhiking. First she caught a ride with a trucker, then with a West German soldier. Maybe she was trying to visit a young professor she had met on the boat over from New York. On that trip, he had heard her say she might throw herself overboard.April 28, 1972Another girl, just turned three, lives with her parents in a house in Laurel Canyon that lets the California rain in. Her biggest fear is of the brown snails in the garden; she will not cross the brick path if one is there. It is her father's twenty-sixth birthday; on this day his sister Jenny's rem…

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Episodes

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    Nobody's Property 15

    Hidden gem

    Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California ends Episode 15, "Rose," with Emily Kathleen Cook and her father Jim Cook ordering a grave marker for Jenny and Edith in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

    Apr 28, 2011·31m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 14

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    Emily Kathleen Cook opens Nobody's Property 14 with the claim that life is not about keeping yourself safe, then links that idea to Jenny's photo and the phrase "the effortless art of being happy." The episode follows Jenny in Germany, where she leaves Schiller College, packs jeans, a blouse, and a green blanket, and hitchhikes toward Bietigheim and her mother.

    Apr 22, 2011·32m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 13

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    ["Episode 13 of Nobody's Property centers on the 5 November 1971 hitchhike from Tauberbischofsheim to Hardheim, where a German Army staff sergeant says he picked up Jennifer Cook on the B27.", "He says she asked for Bietigheim, called him \"Frank,\" asked for her mother in California, and got out near Hardheim after he told her he had no time.", "The episode then moves through Mosbach and Buchen court papers from 1972, 1974, and 1975, including a call to the American Consulate in Stuttgart, missing file pages, and Ms.

    Apr 15, 2011·42m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 12

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    Emily Kathleen Cook examines the discovery near Hartheim of remains believed to be those of Jennifer Cook, who had been missing since November 1971.

    Apr 8, 2011·30m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 11

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    Nobody's Property episode 11, What Time It Was, follows Emily Kathleen Cook and her father through Tupigin and Mosbach as they chase Jenny's case files.

    Apr 1, 2011·34m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 10

    Mar 26, 2011·26m
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    Nobody's Property 09

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    Emily Kathleen Cook and her father travel from Frankfurt to Bönnigheim, Germany, following the trail of Jenny, a California woman connected to the family’s past.

    Mar 17, 2011·28m·1 clip
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    Nobody's Property 08

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    Emily Kathleen Cook begins part two of Nobody's Property with her father's plan to return to Germany and investigate Jenny's 1971 disappearance.

    Mar 10, 2011·39m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 07

    Mar 3, 2011·28m
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    Nobody's Property 06

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    Emily Kathleen Cook inventories Jenny Cook’s abandoned trunk, finding a 1965 half-franc, a 1973 penny, music books, drawings, and handwritten song lyrics.

    Mar 1, 2011·37m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 05

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    Emily Kathleen Cook’s “Nobody’s Property 05” traces Jenny’s remains from Oak Park Cemetery in Claremont to Oklahoma, alongside her father’s move away from California.

    Jan 27, 2011·29m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 04

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    Emily Kathleen Cook's “Nobody's Property 04” follows her childhood between her mother's 12th Street house and her father's fieldstone property on Baseline Road in Southern California.

    Jan 22, 2011·30m·2 clips
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    Nobody's Property 03

    A narrative true crime episode about the disappearance of Jennifer Rose Cooke in 1971 and its lingering impact.

    Jan 20, 2011·22m
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    Nobody's Property 02

    A personal memoir exploring the narrator's family history and the disappearance of her aunt in 1970s California, intertwined with reflections on cultural shifts.

    Jan 18, 2011·21m
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    Nobody's Property 01

    A memoir about a girl who goes missing in West Germany in 1971, exploring the remains of a life in California.

    Jan 14, 2011·29m