June 6, 2025 • 32 mins
🚨Jax Gratton is currently missing a 34-year-old well known and admired hair stylist in Denver, Colorado🚨
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She went missing on April 15th and was last seen leaving her apartment near the 4200 block of E Iliff Avenue around 10:00PM. She left with a couple small bags and was wearing striped, paisly patterned pants, a black and white striped shirt and a greenish-gray, blotched coat. She also left behind her medication and her cat, Madame Francesca, which is a big red flag to those who are close to her, according to this PEOPLE Magazine exclusive.
Jax's family and friends are worried for her safety and ask that you please continue to check in to THIS WEBSITE so you know how to best support us in our efforts to Bring Jax Home!
Jax is about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and could have a range of hair colors because she often dyed it (PICS OF FORMER AND LIKELY CURRENT COLOR AS WELL AS TATTOOS ON WEBSITE)
Authorities urge anyone with information about Jax to call 720-913-2000. The TSFU team urges you to share this info as much as possible!
📸🔗LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE ON PATREON FOR FREE - NO ADS, AND PICTURES AND LINKS NOT INCLUDED HERE🔗📸
She went missing on April 15th and was last seen leaving her apartment near the 4200 block of E Iliff Avenue around 10:00PM. She left with a couple small bags and was wearing striped, paisly patterned pants, a black and white striped shirt and a greenish-gray, blotched coat. She also left behind her medication and her cat, Madame Francesca, which is a big red flag to those who are close to her, according to this PEOPLE Magazine exclusive.
Jax's family and friends are worried for her safety and ask that you please continue to check in to THIS WEBSITE so you know how to best support us in our efforts to Bring Jax Home!
Jax is about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and could have a range of hair colors because she often dyed it (PICS OF FORMER AND LIKELY CURRENT COLOR AS WELL AS TATTOOS ON WEBSITE)
Authorities urge anyone with information about Jax to call 720-913-2000. The TSFU team urges you to share this info as much as possible!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As y'all know, it's June, and that means it is
Pride month. Happy Pride Month to all of our lgbtq
AI plus listeners and advocates and friends. This is Jackson's
favorite month, so please, please, please take this opportunity to
(00:20):
share this episode far and wide and utilize the resources
provided at bring home jascratton dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know it was during COVID, so we're wearing masks.
I didn't know what she looked like from here. Now
I knew her by her strikingly beautiful eyes and that
was the first thing that I knew about Jackson's. Those
eyes and how loving and caring they are are a
gorgeous bright blue. I need you look at any of
her pictures and that's the first thing that you noticed
(00:51):
about Jackson's, her beautiful eyes, and she has a beautiful
smile as well.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You might notice that the song is missing. That was intentional.
It felt a little bit inappropriate for this episode. You
may also notice that the audio is a little bit
wonkier than our normal standard or preference, but we wanted
to get this episode out as soon as possible. Hello, everybody,
Welcome back to the podcast. This is that's so fucked up.
(01:21):
My name is Ashley Love Richards. And today I am
here with Brandy Carrey, friend and colleague of Jack Scratton,
who has been missing from Denver, Colorado since April fifteenth,
twenty twenty five. And today I am here with Brandy
in kind of a special episode that we're trying to
get out as soon as possible because this is an
(01:44):
active case. Every day that goes by is you know, crucial. Brandy, Hi,
Hi to the show. Thank you, yeah, thank you so
much for being here. So I think today is the
day of recording, Monday, June second. I'm sure you know
how many days is that Jackson's been gone.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We are coming close to two months exactly, so we're
looking at month and three weeks, a month to two
and a half weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Jacks went missing from Denver, Colorado on April fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
April fifteen, right yea JACKX is thirty four years old.
Jackson is a transgender woman living in the Denver area.
She is a hairstylist, and she's a very well known
hairstylist as well as being a well known mentor in
the LGBTQ community and an activist. She is also an
artist as well from different forms of art like painting
(02:40):
and photography. She has met a lot of people from
all of the different things that she participates in here
in the Denver area. Jacks went missing on April fourteenth.
The last time she was seen was between nine forty
and ten PM by her roommate that lived in the apartment.
She lives on the forty two hundred block of East
(03:02):
Isle of Avon, Denver. She's not been seen nor heard
from since then. We didn't initially know, as her friend's network,
nor coworkers or her family that she was missing right away.
I actually just started working back at that location the
week that this happened, and I went down to see
(03:22):
her because normally she's there on Tuesdays and she was
not in so Wednesday she's normally off. I didn't think
anything of it, and then Thursday and Friday I didn't
see her. But that doesn't always mean anything in our world,
especially in the salon suites. We are a salon suite concept,
so these hairstylists and these beauty professionals come into our
space and they rent a salon suite, so it's basically
(03:44):
their own office. We don't control their books. They are
one hundred percent business owners. They don't have to tell
us if they're not necessarily going to be in for
a few days. They may go on vacation, and only
one or two of us in the whole building knows
that they went on vacation, so wasn't unheard of to
not see her come in for a few days. It
was the beginning of the following week where we started
(04:05):
to be concerned at the salon because our particular set
of clients came in who she is very close to
outside of the salon, So when we realized she wasn't
there for them, we knew something was going on.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So all of us in the salon.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Tried calling her and texting her to see if we
could get a hold of her, and we couldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And that was on the twenty second.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
On the twenty third, one of our stylists had been
reached out to by Jackson's father stating that have you
guys seen her? We haven't heard from her. She may
be missing, so we let him know no, actually we
don't know where she is. We've been starting to get
concerned because we haven't seen or heard from her, and
she missed a couple important clients. And then later on
(04:49):
that day, Sherry Jackson's mom reached out to me through Facebook,
and that's when it really became apparent that something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
She didn't reach out to Sherry on.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
East her which she always gets a hold of her
mom on holidays and birthdays, so it was unlike Jocks
to do that. And then we figured out, Okay, something's
like massively wrong. All of a sudden, I got put
into about four different chat groups. There were twenty to
thirty people in each different chat group, and it was
just a bunch of people who know Jocks, between friends,
(05:21):
co workers, former co workers, clients, family members, all just
talking amongst ourselves in this stuff. When was the last
time that you talked to her? When was the last
time you talked to her? Everybody's coming out and saying that,
And then we realized we don't know her address because
she had just moved like a month and a half
before that, and she hadn't reported her new address to us. Yeah,
(05:42):
at the salon. So overnight that was a Wednesday night overnight.
The amount of messages that came up in all of
four of these groups was just out of control, and
it was so hard to keep track of.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
We started the group.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Someone figured out where she lived late that night and
they did go over there, but there was no one
home at all at the house, and it was a
male friend of Jax's that went and checked it. So
a couple of the girls were like, I'll go over,
but he stood up and he said, no, that's okay,
I'll go over, so that way it's safe. And then
the next morning I was given the address. I went
into work. First I checked brevo which is the door
(06:19):
access to see when the last time she accessed the door,
and then I went into her suite and her point
of sale was up, so I was able to go
in and see when the last like her last transaction
was actually on the twelve, The last time that she
had accessed our door system was on the twelve, and
then she had left and had not been back to
the salon, which kind of makes sense because one of
(06:40):
those days was a wed sis. Right, Yeah, I was
at the point, Okay, I called the police department. It
took me an hour to an hour and a half
to actually get put over to the right district, and
then when I finally got a hold of that, I
asked for them to do a wellness check at that address.
I was given a call by a deputy and he
(07:02):
said that the guy's not there. Nobody's home, but the
front desk told me he's probably at work. I can
come back later, and I was like, well, you can't.
Just like Jackie s I can't break the door down.
I'm like, all right, which I understand, but in the moment,
we're just like, really, this is urgent. Within two hours,
I had two detectives walk through the door at the
salon and they asked me what I knew about Jackson's disappearance.
(07:27):
I told them what I know, which is obviously not
a lot at that point, or really anything.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And that's when it all started.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And that was on the twenty fourth, and that was
the day that Jackson's mom put in.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
The missing person's report officially.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They had given us flyers right away when they came in.
They have been very respectful of Jackson's pronouns and the
fact that she's a trans woman in Denver, which is amazing.
And then honestly, there is a little bit we know.
I would like for Sherry to talk on that so
that way she knows everything that is allowed to be
(08:00):
spoken of, and I would rather keep that on her
end so we can get that information from her. In
the meantime, I can tell you that we've done several
different things. We have people all over the place canvassing.
It's amazing the amount of people who have stood up
and come behind Jack's and to support this effort and
to support Sherry.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We have flyers all over the metro area.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We have them in Boulder, we have them in we
have them in Colorado Springs, we have them in Wyoming.
They're in Kansas, They're in Nevada, they're in Florida. People
are taking it upon themselves to get the files from us,
even when they're not in state, and they're getting them posted,
they're sharing. A bunch of us have been trying to
(08:45):
do videos on TikTok to try to get it out
in that world as well. I currently have a video
that has When I looked earlier, I was like fifty
away from ten thousand views, which I have maybe a
handful of videos on TikTok. So for it actually to
get that many views off of my account is pretty
amazing because I don't really use TikTok. We have another
(09:06):
one that's got twenty thousand views, if not more, and
that was one that one of JAXA's friends had posted
like the day that she went missing, and that friend
actually had a few contacts with other influencers. We've had
several influencers repost the videos as well as make their
own videos for us and post them on their platforms,
(09:27):
which is extremely generous of them. We started to go
fund me Paige and currently it has over thirteen thousand
dollars in that account. We are working on getting it
set up to a bank account. We've come across a
few little problems with that, but we are trying to
do it so there's transparency on everything. So we're trying
(09:47):
actively to get it in the right kind of account
that way it's not hooked to anybody's personal bank accounts.
We've done a candlelight vigil. It was more like a
gathering and a lighting of candles. It wasn't like a
finalizing anything. It was more like a lighting of candles
to light her way home. We had a bunch of
guest speakers at that we had the donation going on there.
(10:09):
It was a very touching event because a lot of
us now have created bonds through this like.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
A salon people.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
We didn't know really her LGBTQ community, or her community
of all of her clients and her friends outside of here.
So it was almost like a gathering of a bunch
of strangers and we were just there to support each other,
love on each other, speak on Jack's and speak about
what type of person she is and you know the
impact that she does have on our communities here in Denver.
(10:40):
We a few days later we held a silent auction
where we raised about thirty eight hundred dollars in this
with the silent auction, which was amazing, and then we've
also had just people donating to the GoFundMe page we created.
Another great thing that we did was one of our
members had the idea to create nutritions. She created a
(11:01):
gift registry on Amazon and put a bunch of things
in like socks and handwarmers and water goodies, fruit cups, deodorants,
like a bunch of different little things. And what we
did was is we created these bags for our non
housed community because they know and see more than anything
we know and see in those streets. We don't know
(11:24):
what goes on in the city after hours. They know
what's going on. So we created these bags. Hannah had
printed off little flyers that were about this big. On
one side was her missing poster. On the other side
was pictures of her tattoos, because that's really important. She
is a hairdresser, so she knows how to change her
hair very quickly if she had to or needed to.
(11:47):
And we just want to make sure that people are
focusing on those tattoos because her tattoos are very significant
to her individuality.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And could you maybe list the tattoos and like maybe
just them and where they are, and then I can
put a description in the in the show notes as well.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So she has a lot of them, and I could
not name them all off to you right now, but
I can send you over the pictures.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So that way you have them. She's got tattoos everywhere.
I can tell you what I have.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I have down it looks like down the back of
her leg. What destroys me nourishes me, and what nourishes
me destroys me.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Then we've got on the right bicep outer bicep leopard print.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
She's got like a package going down one of her forearms.
She's got writing on her across all of her toes.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, says Fortello on her chest with stars around it.
Then we've got a large outline of a star on
the left hip on the front, some circular and gem
metric kind of looking patterns going down the spine, a
large pair of scissors on the front of the right thigh.
(13:04):
And yeah, you guys will get pictures of up Visa's
pictures of these up as well. Just wanted to give
a description here as well on the podcast. Next to
the patch of leopard print on the left arm is
the face of a woman in kind of a artistic
line style.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And then on the opposite arm, the right arm, in
the inside is some line work with some black triangles
and yellow shading. And yeah, so definitely. Sherry and Brandy
have both reiterated that focusing on the tattoos is really important. Yeah,
because somebody can change their hair super easily, especially Jacks
(13:45):
who was a hairstylist and knows how to do that
quickly if need be. And yeah, sorry, please continue. I
just wanted to make sure we got a description in there.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You can see all of those at Bring Home Jackscratton
dot com. That's b R I N G h O
M E j A X G R A T t
O N dot com and that information is in the
show notes.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
There are a group of us who are leading the
way on the search efforts for Jocks. It's Sherry Jacks's sister, Tara, myself.
We have three friends of Jax's who are our search organizers,
and that's Kayleie, Cyrus, and Alex. We have Elena, who
has known Jocks for a very long time is one
(14:35):
of them, and then Tink, she's known Jacks from childhood.
Basically all of us kind of form this group. We
all have different roles in the group. Like I said,
we have our three search crew. Tink is our media
website guru as well as Cyrus, who is one of
our organizers for the searches. He has worked so much
(14:58):
on our website WHI, which is Bring jack a Bring
Home jacksgraton dot com. This is going to be where
we're going to start focusing and sending questions. It's got pictures,
it's got a space where all of our flyers, our
approved flyers are. With these approved flyers, you are able
to go on there and download them, print them off yourself.
(15:19):
You can go to the local libraries here in the
Denver area and you can print off one hundred flyers per.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Day for free.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It will probably be about black and white, which it
is what it is, but at least they give them
to you for free. We don't know that some people
at the libraries have been nice and let a few
people do color prints of them. Bring home Jackscratton dot com.
There is a space in there for all of the
media that we have had help us, so like interviews, news, newspapers, magazines.
(15:50):
Is there any way that you can send Sherry a
new link? It looks like it won't let her in
right now.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We did have the opportunity to speak with Ax's mother,
Sherry Lynn. Unfortunately, the audio issues were pretty intense on
that track and we were only able to salvage part
of the interview. But here's Schary Lynn with some heartbreaking
and beautiful things to say about Jack's.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I hurt for her because she's my daughter, and of
course I see the beauty in her, but I didn't
have to walk the street in her body and see
myself in the mirror like she did. I did not
realize the hate that she faced every day when I
went back into my old phone that I had for years,
(16:40):
I think since like two thy eighteen or nineteen before that.
Even I sat there and I counted up all the
times that she was beat up on the bus or
at a grocery store, and there were tons of them.
I just I couldn't believe it. And as a parent,
(17:00):
I'm trying to parent my other child and work two
jobs and try to take that, so I don't think
I ever took all of them that serious. And then
there was one not pretty recently where she was beat
up and she was able to press charges on one
of them. It was a group of guys and just
one person. She could only charge one person, and that
(17:23):
just hurts my heart. I mean, that is so regretful
as a parent that you cannot protect your child, even
though she's thirty four. And I didn't grasp the seriousness
and how scared a transgender person must be every single
time they leave her house. And that's I think what
she was struggling for is she didn't want to be masculine.
(17:44):
She wanted to be feminine, and Jacks was born with
this feminine undertone. There was no huge transition for me.
She came out and said she'd always push the line
on clothing. She'd always tried on my nineties and love
them in my high held shoes, and she dressed up
in princess stuff. I bought her a life sized barbie
(18:08):
at five years old, and she started designing clothes for it.
So Jacks was born. Jack was born Jacks.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Throughout Jackson's struggles with substance abuse, she never stopped contacting
her family.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
And I do hope that she's in a drug house,
but I can't. The one thing that I can not
explain is why there's no movement on her bank account.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sherry says that the money in her daughter's bank account
hasn't been touched and she would not have left with
all the money behind.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
It should be zero zero zero if she's a drug addict.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Did she run away?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And also the fact that I think she would have
if even if she was to run away, I feel
like she would have taken all of her money, because
you have to have money to run away. But even
in her suite, she has things in there that if
she needed money, she could come into her salon suite
and so to make money off of. So she also
from her cat too, right, Yep, her medication, her makeup,
(19:07):
and her cat.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Is it public knowledge that it looked like it was
trash bags that she took with her when she left.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So it was trash bags behind her. It was not
trash bags that she took with her. The trash bags
were sitting behind her in that photo. And Sherry's mentioned
it several times that when Jackson's moved, that's how she.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Moves, is with trash bags.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The other bag that she had was like a little
toe bag. Occasionally, when you buy product at the salant
beauty supply supply places, when they have like promotions and
stuff going on, they'll upgrade their packing material.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
And to like cute little toe bags and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And that's what she The other bag looked like it
was one of the little toe bags that is from
a beauty supply place like Salon Center or something.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And Jack's was not dressed in what she would normally
wear if she was going on a date. Can we
actually get a description of jacks for people?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So when that picture with the they say red wasn't
actually red. That was the first like misnomer on that picture.
It was actually a pink, but it wasn't dyed pink.
It was she had used like a color depositing conditioner.
So if that's the case and you know she's been
if she's still alive and out there, her her hair
(20:27):
color would not be that pink anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It would have faded out and it would have washed out.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So she color yeah, like with lighter ends, so like darker,
like a medium to a light brown root with going
down to lighter ends. Okay, and five eleven, right, not
five eight.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Five ten, five eleven. I would say between their one.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Hundred and fifty pounds and that the outfit that they
were last wearing was glasses that were kind of high.
I think that kind of like seventies aviator vibe, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yep, they're clear.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And then so I have personally seen her wear every
single item that she was wearing that night. So the
pants are like a yoga pant material, except for they're
a little wider at the bottom. They're not like the
close leg ones. And it's like a snake print almost.
It's a black tank top with white stripe. And then
the jacket that she is wearing is a type of
(21:22):
camouflage jacket, but it's not the military style. It's like
the it looks like a birch tree almost, so they
wear it. It's like a hunting camouflage more than like
a military camouflage. And it's light in color, so it's
like light greens and grays and whites.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So those it looks like obviously could have been changed
by now. But that's the last outfit the Jacks was
seen wearing, which is not what she would have chosen
to wear on a date.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Correct. No, let me tell you, Jacks is a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You know. I saw a several different groups post about
Jacks on Facebook, so I think I thought it would also
be good maybe to kind of say some of the
communities that Jacks would be a part of, so that
if there are people in the Denver area who happen
to listen to EDM or are in any of the
circles that Jacks might have been in, those might be
(22:15):
worth mentioning.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, so absolutely, beauty industry is a big one, but
also the LGPTQ community in particular anyone who is attached
to the center on coldpat where the Rainbow Alley is.
Jacks grew up as one of the kids that was
a part of Rainbow Alley, and she also meant toward
(22:38):
those kids later on in life as an adult, So
that would definitely be a good community to mention. She
knows models from working at Denver Fashion weeks.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Several several several times.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
She knows models as actually you know, being she's done
editorials with her hair and makeup like for actual famous magazines.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
She's an artist, you know, she's an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
She just anybody who met Jacks, you instantly create like
a relationship and like some type of relationship with her
because she's just so genuine, you know, like she treats
people amazingly right from the beginning when she first meets them,
like you are important to her. Even though she may
only know you for five minutes, she will show you
how important you are to her, you know, And you
(23:27):
can't say that anymore for a lot of people, you know,
especially in our society right now. You know, even all
the adversity that she's been through, all the pain, the torments,
she is still an amazing person inside that has not
changed who she is.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
If anybody listening to this is in the recovery community
in Denver, they are definitely somebody who should keep their
eyes and ears open.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Right Yeah, yeah, I have lots of help though right now,
thank goodness, because it went from like like eighty people
to three hundred people to one thousand people and now
we're at almost five thousand people in our face group
book group, when originally it really just started for the
the you know, like one hundred to one hundred and
(24:12):
fifty of us that were in those four tex threads.
Once everybody has kind of found out what happened, they
everybody's just been like posting and sharing, canvassing the amount
of people who have just been so amazing just to
do this on their own. At first, it was like
we use the salon for like a little headquarters for
(24:34):
the flyers before we were able to get them approved
flyers into a format on a Google Drive where people
could just go in and start printing off themselves or
taking that file over to the library. We have one
person that's been making little stickers which we are working
on now. We have already made the designs, we're kind
(24:55):
of just waiting on pricing to actually kind of bull
produce certain stickers.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That one that has her face with a QR code.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That QR code automatically puts you to the website for
the tip line, and then we also have created another
new or updated flyer with some information as well. So
the amount of people that have just kind of come in,
came to the salon, grabbed flyers, grabbed the hydration slash
nutrition bags for the uncounced community, people who are just
(25:26):
donating to the GoFundMe to help reaching out to Chuck
if We're okay is just amazing. It's really heartwarming, and
it's almost like hauntingly beautiful, is how I feel. It
is because I don't think Jack's understood how many people.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Are really be hype her in this world.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And it's sad that it takes this type of situation
for us to realize that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
But even me, I'm always the.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
One that jokes around and says, I'll have my kids
at my muneral and maybe two people, you know what
I mean. But in all read actuality, we'd ever know
how many people really are behind usn't really care, you know.
I think in the moment of things, we we kind
of forget. We all have lives, We're all busy, you
know what I mean. And like one thing is, over
(26:15):
the past year, I have been busy and I haven't
reached out to Jacks as much as I have wanted to,
So I hold a lot of guilt for that.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Right now, I signed Jock Jocks.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
She was my fifth person that I signed at that
location when we first open, and it was right when
she was really starting to transition, and she, you know,
it was during COVID, so we were wearing masks. I
didn't know what she looked like from here down. I
knew her by her strikingly beautiful eyes and that was
the first thing that I knew about Jackson's those eyes
(26:45):
and how loving and caring they are.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And then what color are those strikingly beautiful eyes, by
the way, are.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
A gorgeous bright blue. I mean, you look at any of.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Her pictures and that's the first thing that you noticed
about Jocks's her beautiful eyes. And she has a beautiful
smile as well. So like when I met her, she
was really just starting to go through her transition, and
she had brought it up to me and was like,
you know, I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable
or anything.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Like that, and I'm like, I am not uncomfortable in
any way.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I am happy to support you in this journey, and
I am happy to support you in your new journey,
you know, taking care of your own speed and running
your own business. And we were like instant friends. But
Jackson was the first person other than my husband that
I came out to as bisexual. So we also have
(27:39):
that connection where she made me feel comfortable enough to
be able to say that, because I grew up in
a small.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Town in Maine for the second half of my childhood,
and they're very prejudiced up there, you know, like for
several different things, not just like you know, being gay
or lesbian, er, trance or anything like that, but also
unfortunately there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Of racism that runs up there because we don't have
large communities of people.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Of color there or you know, I.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Mean now it's becoming you know, or colepted, especially down
in the southern part of this of.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
The state because there's a larger population.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But even like in our little town, we're starting to
see drag shows pop up and will be supportive of that,
and it's it's really heartwarming because it was not like.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That when I want it was just it was not
like that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
As most of us are aware, right now is a
deeply challenging and often frightening time for many in the
lgbtq AI plus community. With the recent rise in hateful
rhetoric and legislation, it's more important than ever to stand
in solidarity, amplifying queer voices and defending the rights of
those targeted by hate. Jack Scratton is a thirty four
(28:58):
year old well known and admired hair stylist in Denver, Colorado.
She went missing on April fifteenth, and was last seen
leaving her apartment near the forty two hundred block of
East elif Avenue around ten pm. She left with a
couple small bags and was wearing striped Paisley patterned pants,
a black and white striped shirt, and greenish gray blotched coat.
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She also left behind her medication and her cat, Madame Francesca,
which was a huge red flag to those who are
close to her. Jack's friends and family are extremely worried
for her safety and hope that you support them in
their efforts to help bring Jack's home. An article came
out yesterday, June fourth, on peoplemagazine dot com called Denver
(29:40):
hair stylist left her apartment and vanished over a month later.
Mom fears the worst quote. I am terrified. I am
terrified for my daughter. Sheri Lynn Grattoncamus, sixty, tells people,
I just need to keep her face and her beautiful
self out there until we find her. Gratton has been
actively searching for Jack's thirty four, since she was last
(30:02):
seen leaving her Denver apartment on Tuesday, April fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
My fear is that somebody killed her, says Gratton Camus,
who alleges that her daughter has been an abuse of
relationships in the past. That is my fear. A Denver
Police Department spokesperson says that they are actively looking into
Jackx's whereabouts at this time, but nothing has been recovered
indicating that she has been harmed yet. Jackson's case is
a priority for their Missing and Exploited Persons Unit, and
(30:29):
they are working with Jax's family on the case. Sherry,
who lives out of state, last talked with JACKX on Friday,
April eleventh, when Jacks called to get the address of
her nineteen year old sister Monroe.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
She was absolutely beautiful, full makeup and happy. She said
she'd been super busy, but she would talk to me
on Easter. The promised call never came, and that's when
she became concerned. On Easter morning, she called Jackson, left
a message, and text her, and face timed her later
that day. Quote I did sleep that night, says Gratton Camus,
(31:03):
who woke up early the next morning and learned Pope
Francis had died. Jacks greatly admired the Pope, and this
clued in Sherry that something was definitely a miss. She
started frantically calling hospitals and jails in Colorado, still unable
to find out what had happened to her daughter. At first,
Sherry believed that Jackson's roommate, who had last seen her
(31:24):
as she was exiting their apartment, had filed the missing
persons report. While the roommate did contact police, a report
was not filed, and therefore Jackx's mother was left to
rush to get one submitted, and by Wednesday, April twenty fourth,
over a week after Jackson was last seen, she was
officially reported missing. There's been little movement in the case,
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and Jackx's mom says that investigators have eliminated the quote
short suspect list that she gave them.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
One missing person is one too many.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No one should ever experience the agony and heartbreak of
not knowing where their child is. We won't stop sharing
this information. We will not let Jax be forgotten. Liz
help bring Jacks home. If you have any information, called
Denver Metro Crime Stoppers at seven two zero nine one
three seven eight six seven or Denver Police non emergency
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at seven two zero nine one three two thousand
As y'all know, it's June, and that means it is
Pride month. Happy Pride Month to all of our lgbtq
AI plus listeners and advocates and friends. This is Jackson's
favorite month, so please, please, please take this opportunity to
(00:20):
share this episode far and wide and utilize the resources
provided at bring home jascratton dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know it was during COVID, so we're wearing masks.
I didn't know what she looked like from here. Now
I knew her by her strikingly beautiful eyes and that
was the first thing that I knew about Jackson's. Those
eyes and how loving and caring they are are a
gorgeous bright blue. I need you look at any of
her pictures and that's the first thing that you noticed
(00:51):
about Jackson's, her beautiful eyes, and she has a beautiful
smile as well.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You might notice that the song is missing. That was intentional.
It felt a little bit inappropriate for this episode. You
may also notice that the audio is a little bit
wonkier than our normal standard or preference, but we wanted
to get this episode out as soon as possible. Hello, everybody,
Welcome back to the podcast. This is that's so fucked up.
(01:21):
My name is Ashley Love Richards. And today I am
here with Brandy Carrey, friend and colleague of Jack Scratton,
who has been missing from Denver, Colorado since April fifteenth,
twenty twenty five. And today I am here with Brandy
in kind of a special episode that we're trying to
get out as soon as possible because this is an
(01:44):
active case. Every day that goes by is you know, crucial. Brandy, Hi,
Hi to the show. Thank you, yeah, thank you so
much for being here. So I think today is the
day of recording, Monday, June second. I'm sure you know
how many days is that Jackson's been gone.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We are coming close to two months exactly, so we're
looking at month and three weeks, a month to two
and a half weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Jacks went missing from Denver, Colorado on April fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
April fifteen, right yea JACKX is thirty four years old.
Jackson is a transgender woman living in the Denver area.
She is a hairstylist, and she's a very well known
hairstylist as well as being a well known mentor in
the LGBTQ community and an activist. She is also an
artist as well from different forms of art like painting
(02:40):
and photography. She has met a lot of people from
all of the different things that she participates in here
in the Denver area. Jacks went missing on April fourteenth.
The last time she was seen was between nine forty
and ten PM by her roommate that lived in the apartment.
She lives on the forty two hundred block of East
(03:02):
Isle of Avon, Denver. She's not been seen nor heard
from since then. We didn't initially know, as her friend's network,
nor coworkers or her family that she was missing right away.
I actually just started working back at that location the
week that this happened, and I went down to see
(03:22):
her because normally she's there on Tuesdays and she was
not in so Wednesday she's normally off. I didn't think
anything of it, and then Thursday and Friday I didn't
see her. But that doesn't always mean anything in our world,
especially in the salon suites. We are a salon suite concept,
so these hairstylists and these beauty professionals come into our
space and they rent a salon suite, so it's basically
(03:44):
their own office. We don't control their books. They are
one hundred percent business owners. They don't have to tell
us if they're not necessarily going to be in for
a few days. They may go on vacation, and only
one or two of us in the whole building knows
that they went on vacation, so wasn't unheard of to
not see her come in for a few days. It
was the beginning of the following week where we started
(04:05):
to be concerned at the salon because our particular set
of clients came in who she is very close to
outside of the salon, So when we realized she wasn't
there for them, we knew something was going on.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So all of us in the salon.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Tried calling her and texting her to see if we
could get a hold of her, and we couldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And that was on the twenty second.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
On the twenty third, one of our stylists had been
reached out to by Jackson's father stating that have you
guys seen her? We haven't heard from her. She may
be missing, so we let him know no, actually we
don't know where she is. We've been starting to get
concerned because we haven't seen or heard from her, and
she missed a couple important clients. And then later on
(04:49):
that day, Sherry Jackson's mom reached out to me through Facebook,
and that's when it really became apparent that something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
She didn't reach out to Sherry on.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
East her which she always gets a hold of her
mom on holidays and birthdays, so it was unlike Jocks
to do that. And then we figured out, Okay, something's
like massively wrong. All of a sudden, I got put
into about four different chat groups. There were twenty to
thirty people in each different chat group, and it was
just a bunch of people who know Jocks, between friends,
(05:21):
co workers, former co workers, clients, family members, all just
talking amongst ourselves in this stuff. When was the last
time that you talked to her? When was the last
time you talked to her? Everybody's coming out and saying that,
And then we realized we don't know her address because
she had just moved like a month and a half
before that, and she hadn't reported her new address to us. Yeah,
(05:42):
at the salon. So overnight that was a Wednesday night overnight.
The amount of messages that came up in all of
four of these groups was just out of control, and
it was so hard to keep track of.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
We started the group.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Someone figured out where she lived late that night and
they did go over there, but there was no one
home at all at the house, and it was a
male friend of Jax's that went and checked it. So
a couple of the girls were like, I'll go over,
but he stood up and he said, no, that's okay,
I'll go over, so that way it's safe. And then
the next morning I was given the address. I went
into work. First I checked brevo which is the door
(06:19):
access to see when the last time she accessed the door,
and then I went into her suite and her point
of sale was up, so I was able to go
in and see when the last like her last transaction
was actually on the twelve, The last time that she
had accessed our door system was on the twelve, and
then she had left and had not been back to
the salon, which kind of makes sense because one of
(06:40):
those days was a wed sis. Right, Yeah, I was
at the point, Okay, I called the police department. It
took me an hour to an hour and a half
to actually get put over to the right district, and
then when I finally got a hold of that, I
asked for them to do a wellness check at that address.
I was given a call by a deputy and he
(07:02):
said that the guy's not there. Nobody's home, but the
front desk told me he's probably at work. I can
come back later, and I was like, well, you can't.
Just like Jackie s I can't break the door down.
I'm like, all right, which I understand, but in the moment,
we're just like, really, this is urgent. Within two hours,
I had two detectives walk through the door at the
salon and they asked me what I knew about Jackson's disappearance.
(07:27):
I told them what I know, which is obviously not
a lot at that point, or really anything.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And that's when it all started.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And that was on the twenty fourth, and that was
the day that Jackson's mom put in.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
The missing person's report officially.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They had given us flyers right away when they came in.
They have been very respectful of Jackson's pronouns and the
fact that she's a trans woman in Denver, which is amazing.
And then honestly, there is a little bit we know.
I would like for Sherry to talk on that so
that way she knows everything that is allowed to be
(08:00):
spoken of, and I would rather keep that on her
end so we can get that information from her. In
the meantime, I can tell you that we've done several
different things. We have people all over the place canvassing.
It's amazing the amount of people who have stood up
and come behind Jack's and to support this effort and
to support Sherry.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We have flyers all over the metro area.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We have them in Boulder, we have them in we
have them in Colorado Springs, we have them in Wyoming.
They're in Kansas, They're in Nevada, they're in Florida. People
are taking it upon themselves to get the files from us,
even when they're not in state, and they're getting them posted,
they're sharing. A bunch of us have been trying to
(08:45):
do videos on TikTok to try to get it out
in that world as well. I currently have a video
that has When I looked earlier, I was like fifty
away from ten thousand views, which I have maybe a
handful of videos on TikTok. So for it actually to
get that many views off of my account is pretty
amazing because I don't really use TikTok. We have another
(09:06):
one that's got twenty thousand views, if not more, and
that was one that one of JAXA's friends had posted
like the day that she went missing, and that friend
actually had a few contacts with other influencers. We've had
several influencers repost the videos as well as make their
own videos for us and post them on their platforms,
(09:27):
which is extremely generous of them. We started to go
fund me Paige and currently it has over thirteen thousand
dollars in that account. We are working on getting it
set up to a bank account. We've come across a
few little problems with that, but we are trying to
do it so there's transparency on everything. So we're trying
(09:47):
actively to get it in the right kind of account
that way it's not hooked to anybody's personal bank accounts.
We've done a candlelight vigil. It was more like a
gathering and a lighting of candles. It wasn't like a
finalizing anything. It was more like a lighting of candles
to light her way home. We had a bunch of
guest speakers at that we had the donation going on there.
(10:09):
It was a very touching event because a lot of
us now have created bonds through this like.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
A salon people.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
We didn't know really her LGBTQ community, or her community
of all of her clients and her friends outside of here.
So it was almost like a gathering of a bunch
of strangers and we were just there to support each other,
love on each other, speak on Jack's and speak about
what type of person she is and you know the
impact that she does have on our communities here in Denver.
(10:40):
We a few days later we held a silent auction
where we raised about thirty eight hundred dollars in this
with the silent auction, which was amazing, and then we've
also had just people donating to the GoFundMe page we created.
Another great thing that we did was one of our
members had the idea to create nutritions. She created a
(11:01):
gift registry on Amazon and put a bunch of things
in like socks and handwarmers and water goodies, fruit cups, deodorants,
like a bunch of different little things. And what we
did was is we created these bags for our non
housed community because they know and see more than anything
we know and see in those streets. We don't know
(11:24):
what goes on in the city after hours. They know
what's going on. So we created these bags. Hannah had
printed off little flyers that were about this big. On
one side was her missing poster. On the other side
was pictures of her tattoos, because that's really important. She
is a hairdresser, so she knows how to change her
hair very quickly if she had to or needed to.
(11:47):
And we just want to make sure that people are
focusing on those tattoos because her tattoos are very significant
to her individuality.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And could you maybe list the tattoos and like maybe
just them and where they are, and then I can
put a description in the in the show notes as well.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So she has a lot of them, and I could
not name them all off to you right now, but
I can send you over the pictures.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So that way you have them. She's got tattoos everywhere.
I can tell you what I have.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I have down it looks like down the back of
her leg. What destroys me nourishes me, and what nourishes
me destroys me.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Then we've got on the right bicep outer bicep leopard print.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
She's got like a package going down one of her forearms.
She's got writing on her across all of her toes.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, says Fortello on her chest with stars around it.
Then we've got a large outline of a star on
the left hip on the front, some circular and gem
metric kind of looking patterns going down the spine, a
large pair of scissors on the front of the right thigh.
(13:04):
And yeah, you guys will get pictures of up Visa's
pictures of these up as well. Just wanted to give
a description here as well on the podcast. Next to
the patch of leopard print on the left arm is
the face of a woman in kind of a artistic
line style.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And then on the opposite arm, the right arm, in
the inside is some line work with some black triangles
and yellow shading. And yeah, so definitely. Sherry and Brandy
have both reiterated that focusing on the tattoos is really important. Yeah,
because somebody can change their hair super easily, especially Jacks
(13:45):
who was a hairstylist and knows how to do that
quickly if need be. And yeah, sorry, please continue. I
just wanted to make sure we got a description in there.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You can see all of those at Bring Home Jackscratton
dot com. That's b R I N G h O
M E j A X G R A T t
O N dot com and that information is in the
show notes.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
There are a group of us who are leading the
way on the search efforts for Jocks. It's Sherry Jacks's sister, Tara, myself.
We have three friends of Jax's who are our search organizers,
and that's Kayleie, Cyrus, and Alex. We have Elena, who
has known Jocks for a very long time is one
(14:35):
of them, and then Tink, she's known Jacks from childhood.
Basically all of us kind of form this group. We
all have different roles in the group. Like I said,
we have our three search crew. Tink is our media
website guru as well as Cyrus, who is one of
our organizers for the searches. He has worked so much
(14:58):
on our website WHI, which is Bring jack a Bring
Home jacksgraton dot com. This is going to be where
we're going to start focusing and sending questions. It's got pictures,
it's got a space where all of our flyers, our
approved flyers are. With these approved flyers, you are able
to go on there and download them, print them off yourself.
(15:19):
You can go to the local libraries here in the
Denver area and you can print off one hundred flyers per.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Day for free.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It will probably be about black and white, which it
is what it is, but at least they give them
to you for free. We don't know that some people
at the libraries have been nice and let a few
people do color prints of them. Bring home Jackscratton dot com.
There is a space in there for all of the
media that we have had help us, so like interviews, news, newspapers, magazines.
(15:50):
Is there any way that you can send Sherry a
new link? It looks like it won't let her in
right now.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We did have the opportunity to speak with Ax's mother,
Sherry Lynn. Unfortunately, the audio issues were pretty intense on
that track and we were only able to salvage part
of the interview. But here's Schary Lynn with some heartbreaking
and beautiful things to say about Jack's.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I hurt for her because she's my daughter, and of
course I see the beauty in her, but I didn't
have to walk the street in her body and see
myself in the mirror like she did. I did not
realize the hate that she faced every day when I
went back into my old phone that I had for years,
(16:40):
I think since like two thy eighteen or nineteen before that.
Even I sat there and I counted up all the
times that she was beat up on the bus or
at a grocery store, and there were tons of them.
I just I couldn't believe it. And as a parent,
(17:00):
I'm trying to parent my other child and work two
jobs and try to take that, so I don't think
I ever took all of them that serious. And then
there was one not pretty recently where she was beat
up and she was able to press charges on one
of them. It was a group of guys and just
one person. She could only charge one person, and that
(17:23):
just hurts my heart. I mean, that is so regretful
as a parent that you cannot protect your child, even
though she's thirty four. And I didn't grasp the seriousness
and how scared a transgender person must be every single
time they leave her house. And that's I think what
she was struggling for is she didn't want to be masculine.
(17:44):
She wanted to be feminine, and Jacks was born with
this feminine undertone. There was no huge transition for me.
She came out and said she'd always push the line
on clothing. She'd always tried on my nineties and love
them in my high held shoes, and she dressed up
in princess stuff. I bought her a life sized barbie
(18:08):
at five years old, and she started designing clothes for it.
So Jacks was born. Jack was born Jacks.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Throughout Jackson's struggles with substance abuse, she never stopped contacting
her family.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
And I do hope that she's in a drug house,
but I can't. The one thing that I can not
explain is why there's no movement on her bank account.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sherry says that the money in her daughter's bank account
hasn't been touched and she would not have left with
all the money behind.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
It should be zero zero zero if she's a drug addict.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Did she run away?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And also the fact that I think she would have
if even if she was to run away, I feel
like she would have taken all of her money, because
you have to have money to run away. But even
in her suite, she has things in there that if
she needed money, she could come into her salon suite
and so to make money off of. So she also
from her cat too, right, Yep, her medication, her makeup,
(19:07):
and her cat.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Is it public knowledge that it looked like it was
trash bags that she took with her when she left.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So it was trash bags behind her. It was not
trash bags that she took with her. The trash bags
were sitting behind her in that photo. And Sherry's mentioned
it several times that when Jackson's moved, that's how she.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Moves, is with trash bags.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The other bag that she had was like a little
toe bag. Occasionally, when you buy product at the salant
beauty supply supply places, when they have like promotions and
stuff going on, they'll upgrade their packing material.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
And to like cute little toe bags and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And that's what she The other bag looked like it
was one of the little toe bags that is from
a beauty supply place like Salon Center or something.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And Jack's was not dressed in what she would normally
wear if she was going on a date. Can we
actually get a description of jacks for people?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So when that picture with the they say red wasn't
actually red. That was the first like misnomer on that picture.
It was actually a pink, but it wasn't dyed pink.
It was she had used like a color depositing conditioner.
So if that's the case and you know she's been
if she's still alive and out there, her her hair
(20:27):
color would not be that pink anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It would have faded out and it would have washed out.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So she color yeah, like with lighter ends, so like darker,
like a medium to a light brown root with going
down to lighter ends. Okay, and five eleven, right, not
five eight.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Five ten, five eleven. I would say between their one.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Hundred and fifty pounds and that the outfit that they
were last wearing was glasses that were kind of high.
I think that kind of like seventies aviator vibe, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yep, they're clear.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And then so I have personally seen her wear every
single item that she was wearing that night. So the
pants are like a yoga pant material, except for they're
a little wider at the bottom. They're not like the
close leg ones. And it's like a snake print almost.
It's a black tank top with white stripe. And then
the jacket that she is wearing is a type of
(21:22):
camouflage jacket, but it's not the military style. It's like
the it looks like a birch tree almost, so they
wear it. It's like a hunting camouflage more than like
a military camouflage. And it's light in color, so it's
like light greens and grays and whites.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So those it looks like obviously could have been changed
by now. But that's the last outfit the Jacks was
seen wearing, which is not what she would have chosen
to wear on a date.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Correct. No, let me tell you, Jacks is a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You know. I saw a several different groups post about
Jacks on Facebook, so I think I thought it would also
be good maybe to kind of say some of the
communities that Jacks would be a part of, so that
if there are people in the Denver area who happen
to listen to EDM or are in any of the
circles that Jacks might have been in, those might be
(22:15):
worth mentioning.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, so absolutely, beauty industry is a big one, but
also the LGPTQ community in particular anyone who is attached
to the center on coldpat where the Rainbow Alley is.
Jacks grew up as one of the kids that was
a part of Rainbow Alley, and she also meant toward
(22:38):
those kids later on in life as an adult, So
that would definitely be a good community to mention. She
knows models from working at Denver Fashion weeks.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Several several several times.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
She knows models as actually you know, being she's done
editorials with her hair and makeup like for actual famous magazines.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
She's an artist, you know, she's an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
She just anybody who met Jacks, you instantly create like
a relationship and like some type of relationship with her
because she's just so genuine, you know, like she treats
people amazingly right from the beginning when she first meets them,
like you are important to her. Even though she may
only know you for five minutes, she will show you
how important you are to her, you know, And you
(23:27):
can't say that anymore for a lot of people, you know,
especially in our society right now. You know, even all
the adversity that she's been through, all the pain, the torments,
she is still an amazing person inside that has not
changed who she is.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
If anybody listening to this is in the recovery community
in Denver, they are definitely somebody who should keep their
eyes and ears open.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Right Yeah, yeah, I have lots of help though right now,
thank goodness, because it went from like like eighty people
to three hundred people to one thousand people and now
we're at almost five thousand people in our face group
book group, when originally it really just started for the
the you know, like one hundred to one hundred and
(24:12):
fifty of us that were in those four tex threads.
Once everybody has kind of found out what happened, they
everybody's just been like posting and sharing, canvassing the amount
of people who have just been so amazing just to
do this on their own. At first, it was like
we use the salon for like a little headquarters for
(24:34):
the flyers before we were able to get them approved
flyers into a format on a Google Drive where people
could just go in and start printing off themselves or
taking that file over to the library. We have one
person that's been making little stickers which we are working
on now. We have already made the designs, we're kind
(24:55):
of just waiting on pricing to actually kind of bull
produce certain stickers.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That one that has her face with a QR code.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That QR code automatically puts you to the website for
the tip line, and then we also have created another
new or updated flyer with some information as well. So
the amount of people that have just kind of come in,
came to the salon, grabbed flyers, grabbed the hydration slash
nutrition bags for the uncounced community, people who are just
(25:26):
donating to the GoFundMe to help reaching out to Chuck
if We're okay is just amazing. It's really heartwarming, and
it's almost like hauntingly beautiful, is how I feel. It
is because I don't think Jack's understood how many people.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Are really be hype her in this world.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And it's sad that it takes this type of situation
for us to realize that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
But even me, I'm always the.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
One that jokes around and says, I'll have my kids
at my muneral and maybe two people, you know what
I mean. But in all read actuality, we'd ever know
how many people really are behind usn't really care, you know.
I think in the moment of things, we we kind
of forget. We all have lives, We're all busy, you
know what I mean. And like one thing is, over
(26:15):
the past year, I have been busy and I haven't
reached out to Jacks as much as I have wanted to,
So I hold a lot of guilt for that.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Right now, I signed Jock Jocks.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
She was my fifth person that I signed at that
location when we first open, and it was right when
she was really starting to transition, and she, you know,
it was during COVID, so we were wearing masks. I
didn't know what she looked like from here down. I
knew her by her strikingly beautiful eyes and that was
the first thing that I knew about Jackson's those eyes
(26:45):
and how loving and caring they are.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And then what color are those strikingly beautiful eyes, by
the way, are.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
A gorgeous bright blue. I mean, you look at any of.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Her pictures and that's the first thing that you noticed
about Jocks's her beautiful eyes. And she has a beautiful
smile as well. So like when I met her, she
was really just starting to go through her transition, and
she had brought it up to me and was like,
you know, I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable
or anything.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Like that, and I'm like, I am not uncomfortable in
any way.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I am happy to support you in this journey, and
I am happy to support you in your new journey,
you know, taking care of your own speed and running
your own business. And we were like instant friends. But
Jackson was the first person other than my husband that
I came out to as bisexual. So we also have
(27:39):
that connection where she made me feel comfortable enough to
be able to say that, because I grew up in
a small.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Town in Maine for the second half of my childhood,
and they're very prejudiced up there, you know, like for
several different things, not just like you know, being gay
or lesbian, er, trance or anything like that, but also
unfortunately there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Of racism that runs up there because we don't have
large communities of people.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Of color there or you know, I.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Mean now it's becoming you know, or colepted, especially down
in the southern part of this of.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
The state because there's a larger population.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But even like in our little town, we're starting to
see drag shows pop up and will be supportive of that,
and it's it's really heartwarming because it was not like.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That when I want it was just it was not
like that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
As most of us are aware, right now is a
deeply challenging and often frightening time for many in the
lgbtq AI plus community. With the recent rise in hateful
rhetoric and legislation, it's more important than ever to stand
in solidarity, amplifying queer voices and defending the rights of
those targeted by hate. Jack Scratton is a thirty four
(28:58):
year old well known and admired hair stylist in Denver, Colorado.
She went missing on April fifteenth, and was last seen
leaving her apartment near the forty two hundred block of
East elif Avenue around ten pm. She left with a
couple small bags and was wearing striped Paisley patterned pants,
a black and white striped shirt, and greenish gray blotched coat.
(29:20):
She also left behind her medication and her cat, Madame Francesca,
which was a huge red flag to those who are
close to her. Jack's friends and family are extremely worried
for her safety and hope that you support them in
their efforts to help bring Jack's home. An article came
out yesterday, June fourth, on peoplemagazine dot com called Denver
(29:40):
hair stylist left her apartment and vanished over a month later.
Mom fears the worst quote. I am terrified. I am
terrified for my daughter. Sheri Lynn Grattoncamus, sixty, tells people,
I just need to keep her face and her beautiful
self out there until we find her. Gratton has been
actively searching for Jack's thirty four, since she was last
(30:02):
seen leaving her Denver apartment on Tuesday, April fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
My fear is that somebody killed her, says Gratton Camus,
who alleges that her daughter has been an abuse of
relationships in the past. That is my fear. A Denver
Police Department spokesperson says that they are actively looking into
Jackx's whereabouts at this time, but nothing has been recovered
indicating that she has been harmed yet. Jackson's case is
a priority for their Missing and Exploited Persons Unit, and
(30:29):
they are working with Jax's family on the case. Sherry,
who lives out of state, last talked with JACKX on Friday,
April eleventh, when Jacks called to get the address of
her nineteen year old sister Monroe.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
She was absolutely beautiful, full makeup and happy. She said
she'd been super busy, but she would talk to me
on Easter. The promised call never came, and that's when
she became concerned. On Easter morning, she called Jackson, left
a message, and text her, and face timed her later
that day. Quote I did sleep that night, says Gratton Camus,
(31:03):
who woke up early the next morning and learned Pope
Francis had died. Jacks greatly admired the Pope, and this
clued in Sherry that something was definitely a miss. She
started frantically calling hospitals and jails in Colorado, still unable
to find out what had happened to her daughter. At first,
Sherry believed that Jackson's roommate, who had last seen her
(31:24):
as she was exiting their apartment, had filed the missing
persons report. While the roommate did contact police, a report
was not filed, and therefore Jackx's mother was left to
rush to get one submitted, and by Wednesday, April twenty fourth,
over a week after Jackson was last seen, she was
officially reported missing. There's been little movement in the case,
(31:45):
and Jackx's mom says that investigators have eliminated the quote
short suspect list that she gave them.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
One missing person is one too many.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No one should ever experience the agony and heartbreak of
not knowing where their child is. We won't stop sharing
this information. We will not let Jax be forgotten. Liz
help bring Jacks home. If you have any information, called
Denver Metro Crime Stoppers at seven two zero nine one
three seven eight six seven or Denver Police non emergency
(32:19):
at seven two zero nine one three two thousand
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