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[Music] nature reveals a truth about motherhood that crosses over all species most
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octopuses are known to only lay eggs once in their lifetime because they guard their eggs so closely they refuse
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to leave their side to get food slowly starving to death but hanging on until the eggs hatch after her babies are born
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and float away the mother octopus perishes one species of spiders feeds her young regurgitated meals until
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eventually signaling her babies to consume her which will give them the strength and growth to venture out on
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their own before giving birth Bears set out on their own to a secluded Frosty Den where
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they'll stay for winter but unlike the others they won't spend hibernation in a deep sleep mother bears stay awake to
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stand guard and breastfeed losing up to 30% of their body fat to feed their cubs
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once it's time for them to Journey out into the Wilderness the mother bear becomes a fierce protector against the
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constant looming Shadows of larger male Bears who will try to kill her Cubs nature shows us that mothers are
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biologically programmed to do whatever they have to in order to give their offspring the best chance of survival
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they'll protect them at all costs even if it means sacrificing themselves most human mothers never lose
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that drive to protect their child and if that ability to protect is ripped away from a mother in an instant nothing in
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their world is Right anymore just something very just very surreal about having children and not knowing where they are
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all of a sudden they're two and three years old and they're lost in the crowd again you know or that that fear of
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losing your kids in the mall or it's just it's just very visceral I'm Olivia Lavo and this is the
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Bakersfield [Music] 3 I remember feeling such a ress the first time I interviewed Micah's mom
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Cheryl she always knew deep down her son was no longer alive she knew Micah wouldn't disappear willingly and the
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thought that his body was discarded without love or care in a lonely Place only known to the killer was just too
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much in our first interview she told me if someone would just tell her where Micah's body was she'd go dig him up
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with her bare hands little did I know at that time how literal that statement was
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was Cheryl and her husband Lance had been given a tip early on from someone who knew Micah and the Social Circle
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he'd been spending time with and that man said his body was likely buried in the desert near the tiny rural town of
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Maricopa about 40 Mi outside of Bakersfield we were going every weekend and digging in the desert for for our
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son it it's an unbelievable an unbelievably horri iic thing to be doing I can't even express it I know at least
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one person in our family had a real emotional breakdown because of that take a minute to think about
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that literally digging in the dirt in a massive seemingly endless desert for your loved one's body that's what Cheryl
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her husband Lance and their other Sons spent that summer doing that will break you but so we
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sitting and waiting for someone to tell you no we haven't had time to go out and
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search yet that'll break you too you might be wondering why Micah's own family had to do this why not train
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professionals law enforcement to put it simply most law enforcement agencies cannot dedicate the time and resources
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to searching a huge area for a body without having a pretty solid tip and even so when an area is that vast it can
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seem impossible like looking for a needle and a hay stack we'd all later find out that law enforcement actually
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did search this area but quickly concluded it was Impractical without being able to narrow down a smaller
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section of terrain to comb through so Micah's loved ones did their own searches for months and during heat
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stroke and sheer trauma all the while Cheryl's mindset stayed the same it was something she and Bailey's Mom Jane
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connected on We're just trying to find out where they are just somebody tell me where they are and we will go get them
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and I know Jane has that same I will just go I have a shovel you know I think Jane still carries one in her trunk I I
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will go dig I will go dig and I will find her Jane would eventually take to what
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seemed like endless searches for Bailey's body often collecting animal bones and Fields and bringing them into
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the coroner's office just in case but in the summer of 2018 Bailey's disappearance was still fresh Jane had
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hope she could find her alive I couldn't fall apart I had to hold it together and
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I believe the Flyers now looking back help me not goes crazy I call it my flyer therapy Jane started hanging up Flyers
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that same week that Bailey went missing they were handmade handwritten that was before I knew how to do do them on the
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computer and I went all over and hung thousands of those up I thought surely if I hang these flyers up somebody's
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going to help me find her every day started the same waking up Before Sunrise filling her car with gas
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and hanging up flyers in the blistering heat until the sun went down some 12 hours later I lived off of crackers and
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hardboiled eggs and slim gems in my dur go at the time you know I couldn't stop to eat wallpapering the town wasn't
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enough Jane wanted to make sure she was reaching everyone so she began going to homeless encampments CD motels and other
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areas of town most Suburban moms would never dream of going willingly just in case someway somehow someone there knew
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something I couldn't think about it like being rough or scary because I was in my
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MO on mode I've got to do this so you can't fall apart and I'm going to have to go to these places to try to find
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information like I had my tear gas pepper spray and my fanny pack and a knife and I had my cell phone so
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sometimes if it got kind of bad I would like maybe I should put my phone on video or I would call and say okay I'm
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over here looking if something happens and then the other moms would be like Jane you can't be doing that Jane also
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made it a habit of hanging out outside of the jails she figured jail was a place where criminals talked maybe
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someone knew something sometimes I get lucky and the guys are just getting released or the
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girls out there she keep change on her to give to newly released inmates if they wanted to make a call on the pay
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phone and she'd hand out candy and snacks in exchange they'd take a flyer and promise to be on the lookout for her
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daughter everybody was really nice so I've learned a lot about outward appearances don't always mean it's a bad
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person like that old saying you can't judge a book by its cover Jane had been counting the months
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weeks days and hours since Bailey went missing day 100 felt particularly painful such a big number such an
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overwhelmingly long time to not know where her daughter was so she set out to do what she did best what gave her
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purpose her flyer therapy about halfway through the day I got a call from her she was shaken up my 17 News
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photographer and I went to meet her here's a clip from the interview we did with Jane that day in summer
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2018 it's very shocking to me I mean who would do something like that I'm sure it's aant
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me in rosale the quote nice part of town the area where Bailey was living when she disappeared someone had taken to
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taking down Bailey's missing flyers and replacing them with new flyers and greasing the utility poles so Jane
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couldn't hang hers back up the new Flyers were strange some had messages about sex trafficking mental illness and
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then there was one that read quote beware of perpetrators in Disguise some people set fires wherever they go and
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have mastered the art of playing the burn victim it seemed to me that someone was
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trying to suggest that Jane was pretending to be a victim when she was really a villain here's a clip from our
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interview that day no matter what you do or say about me or my family or how many
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polls you greas them I will find a way to find my daughter and I'm going to find her and I'm not going to stop it's
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the worst thing that could have ever happened to me in my life is to have um my daughter disappear and not know
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where she's at so anything they do to me or try to scare me isn't going to deter
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me from finding my daughter we ran a story focusing on the cruel mystery perpetrator destroying
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Jane's Flyers ending with a message I hoped would pull on people's heartstrings give me GPS points I'll go
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get her whether she's alive or dead I just fought my daughter and it seems it did the story
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got lots of shares on social media including someone who was friends with Sarah not to be confused with Sarah G
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the woman who was hanging out with Micah before he went missing and who was there
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the night James was killed the Sarah we're talking about now is Bailey's self-proclaimed close friend who was
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dating Matt vand Castile while Bailey was dating Matt Queen but after Bailey went missing and Matt vantile went to
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jail Sarah and Matt Queen started dating each other after that Sarah's Facebook friend shared the story about Jane and
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her destroyed Flyers a message popped up in their inbox from Sarah's Facebook account it read seeing you repost that
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stupid ass interview of Bailey's mom is annoying I know you don't know the real side of it but I was the one that took
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those down they're blasted up me and my boyfriend's neighborhood because she's constantly doing it to harass us we
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leave all the others alone but she's literally not doing it to find Bailey she's doing it out of spite she
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continued it was literally one street we took them down and it was just the neighborhood they only show one side of
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the story from a [ __ ] psycho [ __ ] she's twisting it to make it look like we're actually doing something wrong
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maybe we're tired of having to see it on every light post on every route to our home she's not doing it to find Bailey
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she's doing it to throw Bailey's missing poster in our faces because we're dating the problem for Sarah was the
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friend friends she sent these messages to just so happened to also be friends with Maddie Bailey's longtime best
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friend when my blood boiled instantly Maddie was sent a screenshot of the messages she then sent them to
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Jane who then sent them to me but no one had much time to focus on the supposed confession about the flyers as something
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else far more pressing and unsettling happened the investigation continues tonight after a human leg wash theore at
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Lake buav Vista the discovery Saturday morning sent shock waves through dozens of families who were there to enjoy a
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weekend of swimming skiing and camping people sent us a picture of it and before the news had it or anything and I
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remember telling charl and D I go this is Bailey's foot it looks just like how her feet
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look our 17 news crews were there that day to capture what quickly became a huge story I went over and ask what
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going on to the family and they said their 5-year-old daughter had found a body part on the beach oh my God it was
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it was scary I felt so traumatized for the girl it was smaller we thought may be a child but we it they said it had
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been in the water for a while while I was covering the story Jane called me horrified and sent me a
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photo of the leg that showed it was from the kneecap down someone at the lake had
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snaap the picture before investigators could get to it and and it had quickly found its way to Jane it seemed fairly
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obvious that it wouldn't belong to an adult male the leg was Slender Petit and had on a high
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sock um Jane was convinced by the sock on the foot of the leg that we had been sent the photo of that that it was
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Bailey she was just overwhelmed with wanting to get out there and finding the rest cuz we knew that there
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wasn't just a leg the rest of that person had to be in there James's mom D tried her best to
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comfort Jane but there was no changing how she felt from the moment Jane saw the photo of the leg she made a point to
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be at that Lake 24/7 desperate to find something a few days after the discovery Jane walked out of her house to her car
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to head back out to the lake when she discovered she forgot something so I ran back in the house and by the time I came
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out there was a Polaroid picture on my windshield of Bailey and Matt Queen and it said love you
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Mom and I'm like oh my God you know I'm starting to it's like why would somebody
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do that to make me think Bailey was alive like she put it there that that's not her in the
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lake naturally with it being a photo of her daughter with Matthew Queen he was a
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pretty good person to suspect of putting the Polaroid there but Jane also had other reasons to zero in on him about it
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every 30 days he would do something to torment me to just let me know he's watching me and I think he was trying to
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scare me away but he messed with the wrong Mom the first thing Queen had done was
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about a month after she disappeared he sent Jane this weird video of Bailey it's hard to make out the first few
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seconds did I I was like 16 and a hour if I left that's what I did when I was like 16 and I left if I left I left I
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still don't have a good relationship with my mom with my mom with my mom it's bizarre the way it was edited
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to have Bailey's words repeat over and over coupled with the fact that it actually isn't even a real video it's
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edited audio that plays over a blurry photo of Bailey looking at the ground and what appears Bailey is saying about
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leaving home at 16 and not having a good relationship with her mom is also baffling to her loved
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ones why is he doing this why does he you know it made me angry because I knew he
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did something otherwise he wouldn't be messing with me like that playing these head games you know every time he did
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something I would take it down to the Sheriff's look look what he left on my car look at these signs he put outside
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my house and up and down the street where I worked at look here's a big motorcycle burnout where he was in my
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front yard letting me know he was there you know in the middle of the night you know and it was always St like well you
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know you can't prove that was him and it's like I know it was him because that's what he did he watched
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people in a sense by the time the Polaroid was left on Jane's windshield she'd come to expect Queen to mess with
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her but this was different her emotions were more fragile than ever believing the leg found at the lake was Bailey's
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the Polaroid with the love you Mom message seemed especially cruel you know and I was very careful
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when I took it off the I I was just like freaking out because at that time I was
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going to the Sheriff's Office practically every day with new evidence they kept saying well you know we still
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think she could be in Mexico with Micah and I'm like she's not in Mexico mic is not in Mexico
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at this time Bailey's case was still being handled by the sheriff's department whereas Micah and James's
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cases were handled by the police department Jane found herself frustrated with the investigation and that
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frustration only deepened after the discovery of the leg at the lake of course she insisted on being there for
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the day volunteer search Crews set out to scour the water hoping to find the rest of the body she sat on the murky
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sandbed with the other moms there for support with a kind of panicked anxiety-ridden suspense that was all
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consuming wondering worrying waiting our news crews were there throughout the day
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as it started out hopeful before fizzling fast here's a clip from my news story now Crews went out early today to
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try to beat the heat the terer sheriff's department joined search and rescue volunteers to utilize specialized soner
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equipment to help see what's underneath the surface we think the rest of the body is
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probably somewhere in the lake as well we don't believe it flowed in from a river or a canal so we're out here to
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kind of give it the old callers try to see if we can find the rest of the the remains Sergeant Biddle says the biggest
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challenge is they really have no idea where to look he says searching the entire Lake essentially isn't an option
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due to its size after turning up nothing today Sergeant Biddle says there are no
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future plans to search the lake again uh it's it's really nothing more than thought in the dark at this
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point they gave it the old College try that's when we started like okay what kind of equipment did they use how could
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they not find somebody did they search the whole leg to some the old College try
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suggested that search and rescue crews thought looking was essentially pointless that it wouldn't result in
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anything anyways and that rubbed some people the wrong way but search and rescue crews weren't the enemy far from
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it they are volunteers who every year deal with numerous drownings in Kern County which is the county that
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Bakersfield is in you see Kar county is kind of Infamous for its River many refer to it as the killer Kar despite
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the name and a giant sign on the route to the water that says stay out stay alive with a tally of drowning victims
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underneath it the river attracts people from all over the state some parts of it
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are much more dangerous than others but what often makes it so deadly is on the surface it looks calm you don't know
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you're in danger until you've already been lured in and an undercurrent sucks you under within seconds so search and
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rescue crews do a lot they save lives and they also recover more bodies than anyone really wants to think
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about in the case of the leg and the lake they had some serious barriers here's a clip from a news story I did at
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the time the say there's zero visibility near the bottom essentially they have to
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use their hands to feel around now sonar equipment used to spot objects in the water has been borrowed from toer County
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and used to search approximately half of the lake without having the specialized
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equipment needed here in Kern County investigators and search and rescue volunteers are strategizing the best way
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to search the rest of the lake but if the search for the rest of the remains in the lake was difficult a new
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horrifying Discovery was about to make make their job significantly [Music] harder I thought we feared the
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worst I thought we feared that he was dead and now all of a sudden it became now we're worried that he's been
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chopped up that's next [Music] time for