- [Narrator] This week on Arizona Illustrated
a special presentation of Arizona Illustrated's
2016 Emmy nominees and winners.
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Welcome to Arizona Illustrated.
I'm Tom McNamara.
In just a few weeks, Arizona Public Media
will hear if any of its programs
are nominated for 2017 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards,
so we thought this is a perfect time
to present last year's nominees and winners.
In 2016 Arizona Public Media was awarded
12 individual Emmys and the prestigious
2016 Governor's Award.
There were even more nominees, so let's get started.
First up, back in May of 2015
the Antiques Roadshow came to Tucson.
(jaunty music)
Watching the incredibly syncopated yet personal
process that is the Antiques Roadshow is like
watching an orchestra perform on a 90,000 square foot stage.
- [Woman] You're on this planet
because you were someone's dream,
and that's something that we all have in common.
- On January 11, 1996 a little girl
named Karen Grajeda vanished without a trace.
A detective named Kathy Rau set out to find her
and the search changed her life forever.
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- Sometimes in law enforcement
they talk about the ghosts that you carry.
I remember just driving home some nights,
or even in later years in patrol
when I would be in that area just looking around
and going where did she go?
Where was she taken, what happened?
By the end of the second day, we know statistically
if we don't find missing children within 24 hours
if it's not a family abduction
that we're usually looking at a homicide.
At the time of the Karen Grajeda disappearance,
I was a detective with the Tucson Police Department
with a newly formed sex offender
registration and tracking unit
that also had responsibility
for responding to missing children cases.
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Karen actually disappeared January 11 at about 5:45.
(children laughing)
This area was the last sighting of Karen
as far as the children were concerned.
Karen had been roller skating with her little sister
and she went inside to put her skates away
and her mom told her it was almost time for dinner
and Karen said can I just go out and play a little bit more?
She went out and that's the last time her mother saw her.
And at that time, I truly thought we were
going to find Karen within the next couple of hours,
as you always do with these cases you know?
She went over to a friend's house,
spent the night, forgot to tell mom.
Something happened, but Karen is going
to come walking up pretty soon.
I remember that night got very cold.
I was sitting with Rosalba, her mom,
you know kind of as a mom you start thinking
about your own kid out there and she didn't have a jacket
and you know I really remember that
because that was a time you know,
just two moms sitting out and this mom
not knowing where her child was.
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This was, there was no vegetation here.
This was just a dirt lot.
When I arrived here at the scene,
we asked for the command post
which is just that big trailer that you see
so that detectives and commanders
can have a place to meet and to get organized.
Karen's mother had come over to the command post
as she would at night I think just to
have someone to talk to and maybe have you know
have a little bit of hope.
'Cause she knew we were working
and I told her the end of that second night
I said you know don't, don't lose hope
and I told her that I would never stop looking for Karen.
You know you're a big, bad police officer
and the public's looking at you and the media's
looking at you so you gotta hold it together
and then you add not sleeping
a couple of days on top of that.
So I remember just going down the street
and couldn't think about how to get home
and just pulled over and just
had to let it out for a little while.
Starting in about 1993 we had had a series of
abductions in the last, of young girls
that looked just like Karen.
Same age, in this area.
There was a concern you know we have a serial child molester
who's now turned into a serial killer.
The DNA that was found in one of those cases
related to Karen's case had come back
with a DNA kit with a suspect
and that is the person that we,
most of us involved in the investigation
believe is responsible for Karen's disappearance.
However, we don't know that for sure
and Karen's body was never found.
I don't know, I don't know what it was about this case
'cause I've done
probably over 1,000, 1,500 child abuse cases.
I've done child death cases.
I've done death notifications to parents.
I don't know what it is about this case.
I just feel some type of connection to Karen.
Over the years, when you would hear a body's been found
or after a couple of years you know bones have been found
and that still brings back you know
could that be her, is it her?
I retired after 25 years.
I was walking out the door, and I remember the door closed
and my first thought was you never found Karen.
And you promised you would never stop looking,
so what are you going to do now?
So that really laid heavy on my heart.
So an opportunity came up to work with Pima County JTED.
They were starting a law and public safety program
for young high school kids that want to be police officers,
so kind of in a naive way I thought
well, if I could somehow influence young kids
to really take this job seriously
and know how to do these types of investigations correctly
maybe that's the way that I can honor
my promise to Karen's mom.
You learn in this job that there are
not nice people in the world
and that there are people who enjoy hurting children,
but I think this case
brought home to me that there's true evil in this world.
Because somebody that would take,
take this little girl from this parking lot
and do whatever they did to her
and deprive her mom and our community
of this little girl, it just instilled in me
that there's true evil.
And how are you gonna fight that?
What can you do to fight that
other than just get up every day
and do the best job that you can.
- I don't know of anyone who wakes up in the morning
and says oh, I guess I'll paint
a ho-hum average piece of art today.
- I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands--
- [Man] I think we as citizens of this country
have a responsibility to this country
and I think that includes to each other.
- [Woman] What our hope is is that Jay's story
will inspire decision makers so that
everyone has an opportunity to get better.
- I love it, it's all I eat, breathe, sleep
which I think is funny 'cause I used to
hate mariachi when I was little.
- Since StoryCorps was created more than 10 years ago,
thousands of people from around the world
have shared their stories in the form of a conversation
with someone they love.
In 2015 they visited the old Pueblo.
Next, we'll meet the StoryCorps team
and find out how and why they listened to Tucson.
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- When was the last time you had a 40 minute
conversation with someone that you care about,
even if you see them every day?
At StoryCorps we say that listening is an act of love.
It's the power of that moment together,
when people are stopping and listening.
You don't come in by yourself.
You're sitting across from someone that you care about.
And a StoryCorps facilitator is listening the whole time
to walk you through that experience
so that you can come and share what you'd like to share
and preserve with the people that you love.
We're collecting these recordings
there at the Library of Congress.
So there's a community and a nation of listeners
now and in the future.
I'm Emily Janssen the site manager
for StoryCorps mobile tour.
I'm here with our Airstream trailer, our mobile booth.
We're in Tucson for the last stop of our 2015 tour.
I just want to say we do tend
to bring rain everywhere we go, so.
I'm not surprised it was raining today.
My job is to make sure as we travel
around the country to 10 cities every year
to make sure that everything goes smoothly on the ground.
That Betty, our booth, as we like to call her,
that she's well taken care of.
So this is Erica and Danielle.
They're both facilitators for the mobile tour
and they have both been
traveling around the country for a year.
Since we just got to town today,
they're going to start setting us up
and getting everything ready.
And scrub it nice and clean so that
it's a great place for everyone to come.
It looks good, nice and shiny.
- I've always loved to travel
and so heading into this I thought oh my gosh,
this is going to be the greatest adventure I've ever been on
and it has been, but it's been
a lot different than I thought it would be.
Sometimes you come out of interviews
and they're really uplifting and they fill your heart
with joy and you're like oh my gosh
I need to spread that with you
and talk to you about it and then
other times they're really difficult
and having Emily and Erica is huge.
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- Opening day is incredibly exciting
because here we are, we're launching our time in Tucson.
And excited to meet you all in a moment
at the mobile booth and see you around Tucson this month.
- Not knowing what's going to walk through that door next
is so exciting.
- [Gulshan] I'm Gulshan Sethi.
I came to this country in 1964.
- [Neelam] I'm Neelam Sethi.
I've been in America for 45 years.
We were honored that we would be asked to share our story
and always love to give back
and share where we have come from.
Our heritage, our culture.
It's very important.
- [Gulshan] I wasn't sure that I wanted to do it,
but Neelam convinced me and she's very right about it
that we do need to share our story.
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- [Neelam] In those days we were
not allowed to date or go out
or write letters to boys at all
so when the parents approved of each other,
then they would contact the son and the daughter
and say why don't you meet?
And usually you met over tea.
- [Gulshan] And all of a sudden this curtain opens
and there this beautiful girl comes out
in a beautiful sari and I have one look at her
and I said my god, if this is true,
if this thing becomes a reality I'll be
the happiest man in the world
and I'm so happy after 45 years.
- [Neelam] I just felt your presence and your strength.
And I felt that it would be perfect, so.
- [Gulshan] I wasn't sure that
you would approve of me at that time.
(laughing)
You know I mean she was obviously beautiful.
A lot of boys wanted to get married to her.
She was very popular, and you know
I was kind of not a charming guy.
- [Neelam] No you were, you were.
- [Gulshan] So I kept on praying and praying
and I said hope that girl accepts me.
- Yeah. - Yeah so.
- [Neelam] That was a magical time.
Life is a mirror.
How you project that's the reflection you get back.
We make a great team.
- [Gulshan] We have a great team
and 45 years and many more to go.
I love you. - I love you too.
It was a beautiful experience sharing our story.
To be able to express so many things
that sometimes you take so much for granted
and it just made us focus back on our life together.
- It was a great experience and to have the CD available
for our children and grandchildren is awesome.
- It's awesome. - It's really awesome.
- Hi, welcome.
When people go in they often have butterflies.
They're a little bit nervous about talking together
and being recorded.
And when people come out on the other side,
we see people they kind of have a glow about them sometimes.
They're relaxed, they've just
I think it's just because they've taken part
in that talking and listening
and being listened to.
Listening to each other and recording what we have to say
and preserving that, that's a way
for us to tell each other that we matter.
And there's a lot of ways in this world
that we tell each other that we don't.
It's a great way
to honor each other.
- I got to a point where I was,
I had kind of had enough of
crying and feeling sorry for myself.
I said what can I do?
- I think my dad was an architect's architect.
He had a reason for all the things he did.
- At the end of the day if you can kind of look yourself
in the mirror and say you know, 80% of the day I was happy
I think you're living a pretty good life.
- The key word on this whole thing was collaboration.
Federal, state, and local entities
all combining resources.
- [Man] It's a visual representation of energy.
Energy controls so much in this world,
you know everything's fueled by energy.
- Mukhi Singh moved to the United States
from India 16 years ago along
with his wife Roop and daughter Shireen.
Together they launched the Twisted Tandoor,
an authentic Indian food truck
that rose to the top of the Tucson foodie scene.
After 2 1/2 years on the truck,
they planned to open their own
brick and mortar version of the Twisted Tandoor.
On the very day they were to open,
the unexpected happened.
- So every Friday we set up
our outside Dragoon Brewing Company.
We get along like a house on fire you know?
It's fun, you're working, it's hard.
There's smoke and there's heat.
- We'd forget how hot it was when we were
meeting people, talking to them, selling our food.
It was just fun when we had that interaction.
- 40 the tandoori chicken.
- It was almost like everyone's family.
You know?
- Chicken tikka masala is the best I had.
- [Woman] It's awesome.
- [Man] You can taste the grill flavor
but you also taste the spice that goes into it.
It's really good.
- It's easy to be around them I think.
As an only child maybe like I was always with them
so I didn't want any other job.
You know I kind of looked forward
to seeing them and being on the truck.
- Being that we're a taproom without a kitchen,
just seemed like the perfect mix.
He really kind of was one of the people
that helped us blossom into where we are today.
- In my opinion there's no better bond than curry,
spicy food, and a cold beer.
- I'm a big fan of the meatballs.
It's kind of an old favorite of mine.
- It's not just sitting and eating something,
it's the whole experience you know?
It's being with friends and family,
having a great evening out,
enjoying the whole experience.
You know we can talk to our customers
and tell them we care about you you know?
I mean in the little time that we have.
My name is Mukhi Singh.
I am 51 years old, and I'm a food truck owner
probably of the only Indian food truck in Arizona
from what I understand.
It's called the Twisted Tandoor,
and the logo that you see on the truck
is actually the colors of the Indian flag
but they're with a twist.
This is my daughter Shireen.
This is my lovely wife Roop,
and this is Taylor-- - Tyler.
- Tyler, sorry.
- Now you have to redo it, you have to redo the whole thing.
- And Tyler, our main man on the truck.
(laughing)
- He was I mean obviously a really smart guy
but he just couldn't spell and I think
English is like his fourth language.
And my mom and I would always make fun of him
and be like let's, we'll do it you know?
- [Narrator] In the morning hours on August 21,
Mukhi Singh died suddenly of an apparent heart attack.
He came from a line of farmers and soldiers
in the mountainous Punjab region of India
and went to school in New Delhi.
He first met Roop during a chance encounter
on his parents' farm in 1987.
- And then he I think liked me because I liked wildlife
and he had found few women who were
so interested in animals and you know?
Common interest, yes.
He knew that okay this is somebody
who will go out if I want to fish in the wild
and not be afraid because there's a little snake somewhere.
- [Narrator] That liaison led to love
and a 26 year marriage.
Their daughter Shireen,
a neuro and cognitive science student at the U of A,
says she was her father's child.
- He always called me chotu
which means like little one in Hindi.
I was always like hunting, fishing with him.
That kind of thing, that was he
you know I was like his boy child.
- [Narrator] When the Singh family came to America
15 years ago, they carried with them
cherished family recipes.
- It's really really hot.
- I think he really wanted to do something with food
because he loved to entertain people and feed them.
- So it's like an aromatic.
You know it's--
- My dad was always like an idea man, you know?
He had always these big ideas
and they were always fruitful
and they've always made really good food,
so they had faith in their food.
- [Narrator] And that faith was rewarded.
After 2 1/2 years on the Tucson food truck scene,
the Twisted Tandoor became a top money earner
and foodie favorite.
Coming in a close second to Pin-Up Pastry
in a citywide food truck competition
sponsored by the Arizona Daily Star.
32 trucks went head to head over the summer.
Tracy Santa Cruz of Pin-Up Pastry,
a truck dedicated to the sweet tooth, called it a draw.
- It was a real battle and like I told Mukhi in the end,
there wasn't a winner, it was both of us.
You had sweet and you had savory
and as far as I'm concerned,
that's where the contest should have ended.
- Both the Tracys who own Pin-Up Pastries,
they work really hard.
They have a fabulous product and you know we talked about
after the results came out and I said
I always knew Tucson was a kind town,
now we know that it's a sweet town.
I got to work on it being a spicy town now.
(laughs)
We're doing an event at the TMC on Grant and Craycroft.
- It's for the Children's Miracle Network.
- Children's Miracle Network.
Thank you, thank you!
- [Narrator] Fellow food truck owner Jason Scott
of Barbecue Rush was a fan and a friend.
- People love him, I mean wherever
he goes and sets up, he sells out.
- I'm having a chicken tikka masala from Twisted Tandoor.
- [Narrator] Dr. Gulshan Sethi
was a Twisted Tandoor regular.
- I just called my wife, I said
I'm going to bring lunch for you.
You know I grew up in India so this is an Indian dish.
This is one of the best Indian foods you can eat.
- [Narrator] Many Twisted Tandoor customers
shared the same sentiment.
With word of mouth and nearly 4,000 followers on Facebook,
their hard work was paying off.
- We are very fortunate.
We are so blessed that we got this opportunity.
We were scared like hell when we started,
but Tucson's, I think Tucson's more than just kind you know.
- [Narrator] Making food that people would embrace
and celebrate took a great deal of work.
And sustaining that effort
for 2 1/2 years required commitment.
- We didn't realize how much work it would be.
You know it seemed like oh we do a food truck you know?
- [Narrator] Over time they'd outgrown the truck
and were ready to take the next step.
They signed a lease to open their own
brick and mortar version of the Twisted Tandoor.
On that August morning, Roop and Mukhi Singh
were loading supplies into their new restaurant.
A couple of hours before their doors
would open to the public, Mukhi collapsed.
Emergency responders were unable to revive him.
- Maybe it was all the excitement
and hard work.
Something gave way.
- [Narrator] Eight days later, Roop and Shireen
invited friends, family, and the food truck community
to gather and celebrate his life here at
what would have been their new restaurant.
Hundreds of people showed up to remember him.
- Tough one today, outpouring of love
is a testament to the type of man that he was.
I think anyone that had you know an opportunity
and the pleasure of being around him for 10 seconds
knows everything that I could ever say.
- Today we are here just to celebrate his life
and live by his example.
God has given us life, let's live it
to the fullest and he did.
- You're expected to go to a food truck event,
and the Tandoor to be there and Mukhi to be there
and it's, I don't think it's sunk in to anyone.
I mean not just the food truck community.
Tucson has lost just a wonderful man.
- [Narrator] Gone too soon at age 52, Mukhi Singh
will be missed most by those closest to him.
- Him, his presence.
Everything about him, you know?
I guess when you've been together so long especially here
when there's no other family but just us, just the core.
Maybe he came to this earth just for this,
just to do this much and get over his trials
on this earth and then go, you know?
Leave and then maybe come back again for something new
and hopefully it'll be a better life for him
where he is right now.
- It's strange you know?
I feel like it's selfish of us to want him around you know?
It's easier.
We're still stuck on this material earth,
but it's fine.
I mean, the impact he's made and stuff is huge so.
I don't really have to do much you know?
Yeah I don't know.
- [Narrator] And as for the future of the Twisted Tandoor,
Roop Singh intends to carry on.
- I feel I owe it to him
and to the community in some form you know?
We have such a supportive community in Tucson now,
and I think I can't let that end
since it's you know, it's just beginning.
- We first aired this story in September of 2015.
Roop and Shireen Singh remained in Tucson
and Shireen continues her studies at the U of A
and Roop has just opened
a brick and mortar version of the Twisted Tandoor.
We wish them well.
Thank you for joining us here on Arizona Illustrated.
We'll be taking a short break over the next few weeks.
Then, back in September with all new stories.
I'm Tom McNamara, we'll see you then.
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