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This is the true crime story of a still very much ongoing case. Crimes that took
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place in northern Ohio. And the story starts with a series of events and horrific crimes that started
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in early 2011. Now, the name of the road, Longacre Lane, makes it sound like this road is a long
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winding road out somewhere in the countryside, but it is not. Longacre Lane, which is the location at
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the very center of this week's case, is not a very large street at all. Longacre Lane is in the near center of a
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really cool-looking neighborhood. It's located in Holland, Ohio, which is best described as the greater Toledo
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area, a suburb of Toledo. And for those of you outside of the great state of Ohio, Toledo is in the
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northern part of our state, right up there by the old Michigan-Ohio border. Longacre Lane is a pretty average-sized
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street with only nine houses. It's a unique-looking neighborhood because there's everything here, from
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average-sized homes and lots to very large homes and properties. Some of the homes have swimming pools, a
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couple have both a swimming pool and a tennis court, and there is one property that features a very large pond.
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The nine houses on Longacre Lane are somewhere in between the two ends of this spectrum.
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The homes are a little larger than average, and the properties appear to be a little more than an acre for each lot.
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But these are not McMansions, but just very nice, larger homes and lots. The property that we will be discussing
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this week is 2161 Longacre Lane. It's a home located in the middle of the street, surrounded by other homes on all
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sides. >> individuals that are at the center of this case are Johnny Clark and Lisa Straub.
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>> Yeah, we're going to be talking a lot about Johnny Clark and Lisa Strob. Johnny Clark and his mother and father
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are Mayte and John Clark. And we are also going to be talking about Johnny Clark's girlfriend, Lisa
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Strob, and her parents Jeff and Mary Beth Strob. So, let's start with Johnny. I've always really liked the name
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Johnny, but his given name is John S. Clark. But almost always known as Johnny. Now, back in 2011, where we pick up the
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story, Johnny is 21 years old. Johnny was always a popular guy. He had a lot of friends.
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Johnny's mother, Mayte, characterizes her son as an unapologetic mama's boy. And Johnny was proud of that title.
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The Clark family was very close. His mother, Mayte, says between her and her husband, they would regularly talk to
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their son about a dozen or so times a day. He is the oldest of their children. Johnny had recently enrolled in barber
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school to pursue a dream of being a small business owner. Now, remember he is an adult at this
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time, 21 years of age, and he frequently lived with either his folks or his girlfriend Lisa's parents.
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Johnny was saving money for school and some words of wisdom to the younger listeners out there, if mom and dad
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don't say you got to leave, then stay. But of course, don't be afraid to buy them dinner once in a while or pay the
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internet bill. So, Johnny is enrolled to go to the school and saving money to pay for the school.
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So, in January of 2011, Johnny is living with his girlfriend Lisa Strob at Lisa's
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parents' place on Long Acre Lane in Holland, Ohio. Lisa Ann Strob is a kind and this she's kind of this
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fun-loving, maybe a little goofy even at times personality. She is the outdoorsy type.
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She's an animal lover and photography is a long-time hobby of hers. The Strob family is very close as well.
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Lisa enjoyed hanging out with her sisters. They were popular and the Strob sisters
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would often go to parties together. Lisa was the youngest in this family. In fact,
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it's at one of those parties with her sisters that Lisa in fact meets Johnny Clark. The two of them eventually start
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dating and become an official couple in 2009. Then in late 2010, Johnny and Lisa take
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the relationship to the next level. And they decide to live together. So, Johnny moved in at Lisa's parents'
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home. So, in January of 2011, where we pick up this story, Lisa is 20 years old and
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she's working at a local TGI Fridays restaurant as a server. She has her future mapped out as well, wanting to be
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a nurse. She was all set to begin classes as a nursing student. >> There's a lot of moving pieces and parts
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to this case, so make sure you pay attention. Let's dive into the timeline. >> Yeah, let's go through the day in
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question here, Captain. This is Sunday, January 30th, 2011. We have Johnny Clark and his mother,
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Mayte, who, as said, were close, so they're in constant contact with one another, touching base
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with each other daily and multiple times throughout each day. This day would be no different.
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We'll start our timeline at approximately 8:00 p.m. that night. This is when Mayte, the mother, calls her son
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and it's not for the first time that day. Now, while sometimes the constant checking in from mom would annoy the
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young man, Johnny did not dare to not pick up mom's calls. You pick up mom's call.
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So, Johnny, slightly annoyed by another phone call from mom, picks up his cell phone and they have a brief conversation
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and then at some point she asks if he's okay and he says in a sarcastic manner, jokingly,
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"Yes, Mom, I'm still alive." And she says, you know, "Don't say that. Don't joke around like that." Mayte's just
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checking in with her son, who, as we said, is staying at Lisa's parents' house. Johnny tells his mom that
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his plans, his current plans for the evening, are that he's going to be watching the
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Pro Bowl or is already at a friend's house watching the Pro Bowl, the NFL Pro Bowl, on TV.
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And that he would later be picking up his girlfriend from her work and that they were going
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to stay in that night and just kind of chill out. So, let's be perfectly clear here.
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This is what he tells mom. He's 21, so we cannot say with 100% certainty that this is what he actually
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intended to do that night. >> Johnny also considered considered himself a a mama's boy, so he he might
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alter the the stories he tells to his mom for her protection. >> There's been multiple sources out there
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that have said that Johnny wouldn't lie to his mom. And I have no reason not to believe
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them. But, again, we we don't know everything 100%. We can only report it as what our findings were. So, he tells mom
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that he is at a friend's house and there are three other persons there with him. He
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He names them on the phone with mom and says, "We're watching the Pro Bowl on TV, and then
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when Lisa gets off from work, when her shift ends at TGI Fridays, I'm going to go pick her up. We're going back to her
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house and we're just going to hang out." Now, there is something that is key here, Captain, and we can get into that
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later. We can get into this later, but I do not think that this is purely coincidence.
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But, the Strobs, Lisa's parents, Jeff and Mary Strob, are out of town this weekend. The two are off on a Caribbean
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cruise celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. So, that is important to the story as
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well. So, now this will take us to 10:00 p.m. approximately, Saturday, January 30th,
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2011 on our timeline. At 10:00 p.m. approximately, Johnny picks up his girlfriend, Lisa Strob.
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She's working that night at TGI Fridays in nearby Toledo. Her shift ends at approximately 10:00
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p.m. He picks her up afterward, and there are three major routes that one could take from the Fridays restaurant
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to the Strob house. And this is a short drive. 8 to 11 minutes, depending on route.
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So, the couple head back to Lisa's parents' house on Long Acre Lane, where they both are staying.
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>> And so, just a little after 10:30, Johnny calls a friend. >> During this call, Johnny mentions that
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one of his other friends, a guy by the name of Anthony Watson, who also goes by Tony or Tone, is supposed to be stopping
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by the Strob house sometime that night. Now, during another phone This is where things get a little wonky in our
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timeline. So, he's either on the phone with the same friend having that conversation or
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there's another call that he's on. But, what we do know that happens is Johnny, shortly after this,
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gets an incoming call on his cell phone. So, Johnny clicks over to the incoming call.
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The caller is a friend or someone who is always being listed as a friend of both Johnny and Lisa's. This
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person's name is Tiffany Williams. Tiffany Williams is a couple of years older than that of Johnny and Lisa.
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So, she's calling Johnny and according to what Tiffany Williams says, she's calling Johnny to firm up plans that the
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two had made earlier. The original plan was that Johnny and Lisa would leave the Straub home at some
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point late that night, go pick up Tiffany and this other friend, Zach Burkett. And sometimes Zach, a lot of these
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people in our story have nicknames. >> Right. >> And we're going to see that that will
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add confusion to the investigation. Now, Zach Burkett, his nickname doesn't add much confusion to the investigation
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because his real name is included in that nickname. And you're going to like this one, Captain. His nickname is Fat
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Zach. >> Ooh. >> So, that either might means he's a larger person or sometimes you get a
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really thin person that ends up with the fat [laughter] Fat Zach name. Key thing though is this is Zach
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Burkett. Now, despite the fact that they are strictly instructed not to have parties
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or have people over at the Straubs home, especially in their absence, the plan was, according to Tiffany
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Williams, that the four of them, after Johnny and Lisa picked them up, would return to the Straub home to shoot
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some pool. >> Yeah. And again, the definition of party depends on who you're talking to.
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>> Everybody says we're just going to be hanging out shooting some pool. And from my understanding, I viewed the
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layout of the Strob home in great detail. They do have a very nice billiard area in the basement of this
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home. Tiffany was calling at this time to let them know that she decided that she needed to run a few errands first.
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So, she's kind of pushing back the start time for this hangout session at the Strob house.
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And she wanted to tell Johnny that we're going to run some errands and then we will be ready to go
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around midnight. However, Tiffany says she never got to explain any of that information or tell Johnny why she was
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calling in the first place because when Johnny clicks over and picks up her call,
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instead of greeting her, she heard Johnny and most of the time the way this is described,
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she says that she heard Johnny shout in a very angry tone, "Bro, what are you doing? Who are you? What do you want?"
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>> So, it sounds like there's an intruder in the house. >> Something's going on on the other end
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according to Tiffany Williams. >> Right. >> And she says that he did repeat some of
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these lines multiple times as if speaking to someone in person and not Tiffany on the phone, obviously. But
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then Johnny in a much more calm manner then tells Tiffany that he will call her back.
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And I believe Tiffany Williams says that his exact words or something similar would be, "Tiff, I'll call you back."
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He doesn't. He never calls Tiffany back. Now, let's go to Monday, January 31st, 2011. We're already pretty late in the
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night on the 30th. So, now I want to be very clear here. We say that we flipped over to Sunday on
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our timeline, but we are talking about very early Sunday morning, in the small hours, if you will.
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Tiffany Williams is now concerned that her friends, Johnny and Lisa, has not called back.
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She completed her errands and now she's more focused on the idea that Johnny, Lisa, her and Zach would be hanging out
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late that night shooting pool at Lisa's parents' home. And here it is now a little after
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midnight. This is right around the time that she wanted to hang out and she's not heard
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from Johnny. In fact, she says that she's tried to reach out to Johnny. She's tried to get in communication with
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Lisa and that Zach is doing the same thing periodically. Sometime after that call was received.
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>> Tiffany calls Johnny. >> Mhm. >> Johnny picks up the phone. It sounds like he's talking
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to possibly like an intruder or somebody in person. And then tells Tiffany that he'll call her back.
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>> Correct. So, this is a very short call. Now, I I'm glad you are honing in on this because this is a huge
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part of this case. And what this could mean for the events that are to come and who may be responsible for what in
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this case. >> you said, there's a lot of moving pieces. So, my question for you is at
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this time that Johnny gets this phone call is Lisa present with him at the time?
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>> So, in the home at this time, it would be Johnny, Lisa, and then there's a there's a puppy dog there as well.
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And from every source out there, from all of the information in the case, this should they should be the this
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should be the only presence in the home at that time. Johnny, Lisa, little dog. >> Right.
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>> Now, I'm glad you're honing in on this call, not just because of its significance to the case,
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but also let's focus in on this for just a second. Because one thing that is not in
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dispute, this is proven by phone records. Tiffany Williams 100% without a doubt,
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her cell phone calls Johnny Clark's cell phone at 10:41 p.m. January 30th, 2011. That is there is no
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doubt about that. That happened. >> Right. >> What I think we need to speculate on later and make mental note
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of now in our timeline is what was said on that on that phone call. Because unfortunately,
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Johnny will not be around to tell us his version of that conversation. All we will have is Tiffany Williams'
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version of that conversation. So, we know that a short call took place from Tiffany Williams' phone at 10:41
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p.m. that night. And Johnny Clark's cell phone picked it up. They were on their phones communicated together for
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several seconds, maybe even a minute. It's a very short call. And then according to Tiffany Williams,
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Johnny says, "I'll call you back." But never does. And we've already covered that Tiffany
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Williams and her friend, I'm a little uncertain of their relationship is Zach Burkett, cuz he's a little bit younger
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than than the rest of them. So, Tiffany is about 24 at this time. Johnny is 21, Lisa is 20, and from my understanding,
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Captain, Zach may be as young as 17. I'm not able to fully verify that, but he's younger. I do know 100% certain
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he's younger than Johnny. As said, Tiffany Williams did try to get in contact with Johnny
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and Lisa periodically leading up to this point in our timeline, which is 12:30 a.m.
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Zach did so as well. Now, at 12:30 a.m. This is when Tiffany becomes so concerned
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that she and Zach drive over to Lisa Straub's home. >> And again, just to be clear
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they're supposed to get picked up by Johnny. >> Correct. >> So, they are so concerned by what she
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heard on the phone and the fact that they're not answering, they're not coming to pick them up that they make
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arrangements and and they actually travel over to Lisa's house. >> And everything out there suggests that
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they would have had to borrow a vehicle to do so. Zach doesn't have a car and neither does Tiffany at this time.
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So, they go over to the home and according to Tiffany, they ring the doorbell, knock on the door, front door.
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Nice neighborhood. Again, that's what's weird about this neighborhood. I I would encourage
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everyone to look it up on Google Maps or on Apple Maps. It's a really interesting neighborhood
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because you have very average size homes, but you also have very large homes and then some that are somewhere
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in between. And this home is a very nice home and it's on a larger lot. And so, she's ringing the doorbell, knocking
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on the door. She says that she peers inside the the the windows, trying to look into the
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windows to see what's going on. And here's where things get a little more wonky.
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Right? We have We have some questions in our timeline, but we're also going to have some questions with individual
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statements because they gave more than one statement, and this is coming from multiple sources.
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And so, I want to be very clear here. Some of the sources cite that Tiffany Williams says that there was no answer
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at the door. She tried a couple times, and so her and Zach left. Other sources say that she
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saw and noticed that there were lights on in the home. And this caused her even greater concern
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because of some kind of rule that she was aware of in the home that you you know, the Straubs have this rule that
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you always close the door behind you, always turn off the light behind you. So, she was concerned that well, they're
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here, but nobody's answering the door for whatever reason. We're supposed to be friends.
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>> Right. And again, it's not like she's overly concerned for no reason. She hears what she believes is a
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confrontation on the phone when she called Johnny. >> Correct. But, let's keep in mind that's
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about 2 hours earlier. >> Right. >> So, she yes, she's concerned, she says, but let's factor in she doesn't seem to
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be overly concerned to the point that she allows 2 hours to elapse before she goes to physically check on her friends.
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>> Right. >> Now, the third version from other sources. And I'm not This is not yours truly, the crispy colonel, telling
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you that she gave three different statements. I'm telling you that these are different words that are coming from
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different sources. The third version is that when she looked inside the home that she
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that the home appeared to have been ransacked. And this caused great concern, of
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course. It should cause great concern for anyone if they witness anything like this.
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The pair then exits the property. Now we are a little after or about 1:00 a.m. on our timeline.
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>> At this point she is going to call her friend Sherita Crumby. >> She calls Sherita to tell her what has
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happened. Her version of the events. Crumby then calls Johnny's mother Myte to alert her that no one is able to
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reach Johnny. And that now we got a handful of people that are concerned. And on top of that
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Tiffany is relayed to Sherita "Look, when I spoke to him at 10:41 there was this weird business going on.
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He picked up. It sounded like there was some kind of commotion, some kind of confrontation. I'm not really sure what
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it was. But it sounds like he was getting into it with somebody." And of course Myte is going to be extremely concerned.
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She She loves her son. And as said, they were very close. And she's a bit of a helicopter mom, right?
00:28:12
Always checking in on the kids. >> Well, let's be clear though, too. It's not just this confrontation call. It's
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he's not answering the phone now. And then when we go over to the house, we don't see signs of Johnny or Lisa. So
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more. >> [music] >> All right, we are back. Cheers, mates. Onward and upward. Cheers to [music]
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you, Colonel. >> Onward and upward. Cheers to the people in the back. Now, as we said, we have
00:31:23
Johnny's parents who are now been alerted that that friends are concerned about Johnny and they're concerned about
00:31:29
his girlfriend, Lisa. No one's able to get a hold of them, so we have Maite who's going to to begin calling her
00:31:36
son's phone, texting, trying to get a hold of him. And Father John is doing the same thing.
00:31:43
However, Johnny's not responding to Mom's calls or texts. And what did we say earlier?
00:31:51
Johnny always answers Mom's calls. >> And you also have to be a little more concerned because it's getting later and
00:31:58
later. >> It's in the middle of the night, right? And these parents have been woke up in the middle of the
00:32:05
night by To be honest with you, it sounds to me like they don't know They know Sherita,
00:32:11
but they don't know her. I I'm I'm not 100% on how well they know this individual because Sherita is more of
00:32:20
Johnny's peer than Maite's. >> Well, she's been given the task to contact the parents.
00:32:29
And so, if if I'm Johnny's father, I'm very [clears throat] concerned because somebody I don't really know
00:32:37
that well is contacting me going, "Hey, look, uh we can't get a hold of your son."
00:32:42
>> Yeah. She She knows them well enough to have their phone numbers. Um the the thing that we should mention
00:32:49
here, too, around the same time that Tiffany called Sherita, we have Zach, who's with Tiffany. There's no doubt
00:32:57
about that. Zach's with Tiffany, and he he has attempted to reach out to Johnny's like life time lifelong best
00:33:06
friend who you know, some of us are lucky enough to when we are best friends with somebody
00:33:13
that we know their families very well as as well. >> Right. Right. They become a most second
00:33:18
parent. >> Correct. And so Johnny's best friend would have had the ability to get in
00:33:23
contact with the parents as well. >> Yeah, and if you're his parents, you're also more concerned, too, because you're
00:33:30
not in the same town, right? >> Yeah, they're not very far away. Um I want to be clear about something here
00:33:38
that they are uh they are in the suburb of Toledo. And so they they're not very far from
00:33:49
the Strobs' home because they all live in this suburb of Toledo, which is not a very
00:33:54
big area. Um we're talking about I think 1,200 people in this suburb. Um don't quote me on that, Captain. I it's
00:34:06
>> Well, it's on record now, so >> Yeah, so yep, you can you can hold me. Put it on my permanent record.
00:34:12
>> Yeah. >> Uh so >> Strike. Strike 98. >> Mom has decided a couple things are going on here.
00:34:18
>> Yeah. >> Tiffany says, "Look, I can I'll come and get you guys and take you over to the
00:34:23
Strob house." So she comes over, she grabs Johnny's father, John. Johnny John hops in the car, rides over,
00:34:31
and because my take can't leave, remember Johnny's not their only child. And they got a couple of people in the
00:34:37
house. And so Maite's thinking, well, he'll pick up the phone eventually. Johnny will pick up the
00:34:44
phone eventually. It's all just a misunderstanding and everything will be fine. Well, that
00:34:49
doesn't happen. And when John gets to the house with Tiffany, he's now on the phone with his wife saying, look,
00:34:56
I think we got to call the cops. So, Maite then is in the process of trying to do a
00:35:04
couple things. She's still trying to get a hold of her son. She's trying to get the police on
00:35:10
the line to request a welfare check for her son and his girlfriend. And she's also in
00:35:16
the process of trying to get over to the property herself. >> So, let's take a listen to the first 911
00:35:22
call from Johnny's mother. >> Hello. >> Toledo 911. >> Ma'am, >> Mhm. >> my heart is beating out of my chest. I
00:35:31
just got a call from one of my son's friends. >> Okay. >> Her phone number, I have it right here.
00:35:36
She just picked my husband up, too. My son and his girlfriend live out at 2161 Lawn Acre Lane.
00:35:44
>> Mhm. >> I believe that's Holland. This girl says she was on the phone with my son and his
00:35:49
girlfriend and he was supposed to go pick her up. He was telling her he was going out the door and all she heard was
00:35:54
the phone drop and heard my son saying in the background, who are you? What do you want? What are you doing here? And
00:36:01
she said she just drove by the house and the house looks ransacked. All the lights are on. My son's not answering
00:36:07
and neither is the girlfriend. >> Okay, you said it was 2161 Lawn Acre? >> Yes, Lane.
00:36:14
>> Okay. >> Oh my god. >> Uh >> I got heart problems and my heart's beating out of my chest right now.
00:36:19
>> All right, I understand. Do you know if if that's all one word or is it two separate?
00:36:23
>> It's No, it's separate words. >> Lawn Acre? >> Yes, long. >> Long? >> L O O N G Acre, A C R E Lane.
00:36:33
Oh my god. >> Is she still there? >> No, she just came by here to pick up my husband,
00:36:39
my son's dad, and I'm here with the other two younger kids. >> All right, what is your name?
00:36:45
>> My name is Maite Vasquez Clark. Oh my god. I have the girl's phone number that he was talking to
00:36:56
that heard all this going on in the background. >> Okay. Her parents She said >> My girlfriend's
00:37:04
My son's girlfriend's parents are out of town. They left for uh Puerto Rico 2 days ago.
00:37:11
I don't know how to calm myself down. My heart's beating out of my chest. >> Okay, what did What did your son tell
00:37:17
her? >> My son was like, "Hey, Tess, we're on our way out the door. We're coming to
00:37:22
get you." And then all she hears is the phone drop and my son Johnny saying, "Who are you? What do you want? What are
00:37:28
you doing here? Who are you?" And no more no more answers. That's all she hears.
00:37:35
And then she says that she starts getting worried cuz neither of them are answering the phone, and she goes out
00:37:41
there by the house and she sees all the lights are on and the cabinets look ransacked.
00:37:46
>> Okay, but you don't have any idea where your son's at? >> He was there at the house with his
00:37:51
girlfriend. That's where they're house sitting for her parents. >> Okay, but but she doesn't He wasn't
00:37:57
there when she went over there? >> No. No, she rang the doorbell and nobody came to the door and nothing.
00:38:03
Oh my god, ma'am, I'm so afraid something happened bad. >> Okay. >> Oh my god. >> Okay, what's your son's name?
00:38:16
>> John S. Clark. Clark just with the E at the end. >> Is he white or >> He's white and Hispanic. He looks more
00:38:25
white than anything. >> How old is he? >> He's 21. Date of birth is 4/15/89. And the girlfriend is Lisa
00:38:34
>> somebody going to meet us over there? >> Uh yeah, my husband's on his way there
00:38:38
right now. Oh my god, my hands are ice cold. My heart's beating out of my chest like
00:38:44
>> Do I need to send you medical, ma'am? >> Please do. >> Okay, let me get this call in real quick
00:38:49
and I'll send you medical, okay? >> But I have these kids, okay? Please make the call The girlfriend's name is Lisa
00:38:54
Straub. >> Okay, what's your husband's name? >> John P. Clark. >> What kind of car is he driving?
00:39:02
>> I don't know what the girl's car is that picked him up. I'll give you the girl's
00:39:06
phone number. The girl Tiffany >> know how long it's going to take him to get over there?
00:39:12
>> Probably 10 minutes. Oh my heart, my god, I can't take this. >> What's What's his girlfriend's name?
00:39:22
>> Lisa Straub. S T R A U B. >> What's her cell number? >> Um This is his girlfriend. This is not the
00:39:31
girl that called me from the cell number. >> Okay. >> The girl that called me is Tiffany. I
00:39:36
don't know her last name and her cell number is >> Okay, but we can get a hold of Lisa on
00:39:41
that number? >> No, Lisa's with Johnny. That's what I'm telling you. Lisa and Johnny are
00:39:46
boyfriend and girlfriend. They were leaving her mom's house. They were on the phone with this girl named Tiffany.
00:39:51
The number I'm going to give you the cell phone number that I'm going to give you. They were talking to her on the
00:39:56
phone when all this commotion went down. >> I thought the I thought it's the girlfriend called you saying that she
00:40:01
was on >> No. No, not the girlfriend. Her friend. The girlfriend's friend called me.
00:40:08
And she's the one that just came here now to pick my husband. I'm sorry, I can't take this.
00:40:15
>> All right, well they're already en route. I'm just getting all this information, okay?
00:40:18
>> Okay, let me give you Tiffany's cell phone number, okay? >> Hang on. >> Oh, Lord.
00:40:26
Oh my god, please. I'm praying that my son is okay. Oh, Lord. >> All right, what's Tiffany's cell?
00:40:43
Okay. >> Oh, ma'am, my heart is beating out of my chest. >> Oh my god. Giovanni,
00:40:55
open the doors so when the rescue squad gets here, you can let them in. I have to sit down on the back, son.
00:41:07
Oh my god. Oh my god, my >> what's your address, ma'am? What is your name? >> Maite.
00:41:18
>> Oh, Maite. Yes, hang on. Maite, your home number >> Yes. >> All right, stay on the line and talk to
00:41:26
medical while they're on their way there, okay? >> Okay. >> Hang on. >> So, you hear it there, Captain. Maite
00:41:31
calls 911. That call took place at 1:21 a.m. that night. And we have Maite begging
00:41:41
for emergency services to send out the police to the Stroh home for a welfare check on her son and her
00:41:51
son's girlfriend, Lisa. She's calling from her home, and as you hear, her husband's en route with
00:41:57
Tiffany Williams to the Stroh home. And poor Maite has this heart condition, and
00:42:03
now she's up at the middle of the night frantically worried about her son. One thing that I want to point out here,
00:42:13
we were talking about different sources reporting what Tiffany's report was when she arrived at the Strob
00:42:22
home without any of Johnny's parents. >> Right. >> She is there by her own words with Zach.
00:42:30
They go there because they are worried about their friends. We had the different sources some saying that she
00:42:36
knocks on the door, they tried the door a few times, nobody answers, they leave.
00:42:40
Other sources say that they see lights on and this was of a concern to Tiffany and that's why she alerted the friends.
00:42:46
The other sources say that she saw that the home was ransacked, looked through the windows, could see that something
00:42:53
had taken place, maybe a struggle or a robbery or something of that nature. That caused her enough concern to track
00:43:00
down Johnny's parents and get them involved that night. >> Well, because they have options at that
00:43:08
moment, do we keep ringing the doorbell and possibly run into the individuals that did this ransacking or do we keep
00:43:20
trying to find a way into to enter this house? And I think they did the smart thing by
00:43:25
going, let's try to contact >> But I want to point out a very key part of that 911 call.
00:43:33
We have those different sources saying different things, different observations were made by Tiffany Williams when she
00:43:39
arrives without Johnny's parents. >> Right. >> We have confirmation that she says ransacking because at 1:21
00:43:51
a.m. Maite, who's not been to the property yet, >> Correct. >> her husband's not been to the property
00:43:56
yet, >> Correct. >> he's not on the phone with 911, Maite is at her own home, she is reporting to 911
00:44:03
what was told to her and her husband by Tiffany Williams who sparked and ignited this whole thing
00:44:11
to get them involved and bring one of them to the scene. So, ransacking regardless of what the sources were
00:44:20
saying, this 911 call at 1:21 a.m. that night confirms that Tiffany Williams told them
00:44:28
she witnessed saw with her own two eyeballs through the windows of the Strob home that ransacking or burglary
00:44:35
or robbery, something of that nature has taken place. Now, unfortunately after this 911 call
00:44:44
Maite, still concerned, still hasn't heard from her son. She's unable to reach her son Johnny. She again calls
00:44:51
police and emergency services at 2:27 a.m. Um some sources report that it is 2:07 a.m.
00:45:00
>> But still roughly at what? An hour later? >> I've I have spoke to people very close to the
00:45:06
case and they are confirming that the correct time is 2:07, 207 a.m. So, the earlier time that's
00:45:14
been reported in the papers and on the news. She is at this time requesting another
00:45:20
welfare check or for at least police to come back to the scene and we have that call as well.
00:45:27
>> Police service. Listen, ma'am. I am a concerned mother. My son was at 2161 Long Acre Lane with
00:45:35
his girlfriend house sitting. Lisa Strob lives there cuz her parents went to Puerto Rico 2 days ago.
00:45:42
I get a phone call about a half an hour ago from his friend Sherita that some girl named Tiffany called her saying
00:45:49
that Johnny and Lisa were supposed to pick her up at 11:00 and she was on the phone with Johnny, my son, when he was
00:45:57
walking out of his house, his girlfriend's house with his girlfriend to come get her and supposedly she heard
00:46:03
a guy in the background screaming at my son, and my son saying, "What do you want? Who are you? Get away from us."
00:46:09
and what have you. Okay, four cop cars were already out at this residence. They're not there, and her car is in the
00:46:16
driveway. I want to know where my son's at. >> Okay. >> I want to know where my son and his
00:46:21
girlfriend are at. I want to know if they got abducted by whoever tried to assault them and rob them. And it's
00:46:27
pretty funny that this girl, named Tiffany, which is there right now by the residence, waits 2 hours to call
00:46:34
somebody and report this. >> Okay. Well, like I said, we were out there. There was nothing going on there.
00:46:42
>> Okay, where is my son and his girlfriend, and her car is in the driveway? >> How would I know that, ma'am?
00:46:48
>> I need to report my son missing. >> Okay. Um where are you at? >> I'm coming to up to the residence right
00:46:55
now. >> Well, which which residence? >> Uh Lisa's house. >> Okay. I need an address.
00:47:01
>> 2161 Longacre Lane. Did I go too far, Jen? >> And what's your name? >> My name is Maite Vasquez Clark.
00:47:11
This is the street, I think, Mama. Longacre, this is it. This is it. >> Okay, I'm with
00:47:16
>> cousin right now that's in the military. >> Okay. What's your phone number? >> My phone number is
00:47:21
I want this girl's plate number before we go anywhere so I can give it to the sheriff on the phone.
00:47:29
And they're back pulling in the driveway. I want this plate number. Ma'am, I'm going to give you this plate
00:47:33
number, okay? That this girl's car is driving. I'm going to stay calm. I am Will you stay
00:47:39
on the phone with me, ma'am, while I talk to this girl? >> Okay, who do you want to talk to?
00:47:45
>> Ask the Okay, listen, here's the plate number. That is the girl's the plate number of the car that this
00:47:52
girl was driving that my son was supposed to supposedly pick up. Now, these two people right here,
00:47:59
um That's Johnny's phone? Oh. I don't know. It's my parents probably. Call them back.
00:48:12
Oh my god, ma'am. >> Okay, is it What kind of vehicle is it? >> Um What kind of vehicle is that you're driving?
00:48:25
What is it? A Corolla? I have a feeling you set up my son. My son is missing. He's nowhere to be
00:48:32
found. Do you want to tell the police what you just got done telling me on the phone? Okay, come here. Ma'am, I'm going
00:48:37
to let you talk to her because I have her blocked in Lisa's house driveway. Okay?
00:48:41
>> Okay. >> Here. You tell them what you tell >> I will. Hello. >> Okay, what's what's going on?
00:48:47
>> Okay, um my friend Johnny and Lisa, they were supposed to come pick me up, me and
00:48:52
my friend from our house, and this was like 11:00 and um he um I was on the phone with his
00:49:02
girlfriend Lisa, and then he hung up. And um we all hung up. He said they were on
00:49:08
their way. And then he I called Johnny right back cuz I was going to tell him that um I was going to run to the store
00:49:16
and then I would I would meet them at the house. Well, um he was yelling at somebody like
00:49:23
um on my He go He goes, "Bro, who Who are you?" And then um I I called He called him right back and
00:49:33
he didn't answer. So, I text my friend Lisa's phone and I was like, "Um where are you? Are you guys okay?" And
00:49:41
they have not answered to me or nothing. They have not answered the phone and I've been calling and calling and
00:49:45
calling. So, I drove out to their house after um my friend's mom got home and um
00:49:52
nobody answered the door, so I drove back by our house to see maybe they went to his mom's house
00:49:58
and um he wasn't there, so his dad called my phone and I was like, "Do you want to
00:50:03
ride out there?" And he said, "Yeah." And I brought him out here. And now his mom's arguing with me saying I set him
00:50:08
up. And you know, they're my friends and I'm worried about them and I don't have
00:50:13
you know, I'm worried about my friends cuz they were supposed to come pick me up and they never showed up.
00:50:18
>> Okay, does anyone have What's What's the son's name? What's her son's name? Is
00:50:22
Johnny? Is that his name? >> Yeah, Johnny Clark. >> Does anyone have have his phone number?
00:50:26
>> Yeah, I do, but his phone's shut off. >> Okay. >> Um she and we was calling and it was
00:50:32
ringing and then it was shut off all of a sudden. And then I was calling my friend's phone
00:50:38
and I've been texting her asking her if she's okay, are they okay cuz they wasn't answering. And then I text her
00:50:44
like, "Last I talked to you, um I heard him arguing and then now all of a sudden they haven't picked up the
00:50:51
phone or nothing." >> Okay. Are you all Are there Is there a couple officers where you guys are?
00:50:55
>> Yeah, there are some Yeah, there are some officers out here. >> Okay, why don't you go talk to them and
00:50:59
they can help you, okay? >> Okay, I'll put his mother back on the phone. >> Okay, actually I don't need to talk to
00:51:03
her. She can talk to the officers. >> Okay. >> Okay? >> All right. >> Bye-bye. >> So what we hear there, Captain, we have
00:51:11
Mayte, Johnny's mother, on the call with emergency services again for the second time. This is after
00:51:20
This is after her husband has arrived on the scene. She's on her way pulling into
00:51:25
the property while on the phone. She's got a couple people in the vehicle with her.
00:51:30
They arrive in a Ford F-150. Mom is already suspicious, as you can hear on that call, of this Tiffany
00:51:37
Williams individual. So much so that she's trying to feed information about this person even
00:51:42
though she knows little about her. >> Right. >> Of what kind of car she's in, the
00:51:47
license plate, and trying to get Tiffany to speak with emergency services as well. So, they pull up in an F-150, and
00:51:56
they actually block the driveway because mom and the family members do not want this person leaving
00:52:05
until police are there. So, police have already been to the scene once. They knock on the doors,
00:52:11
too. There was like four cars out there, police cars. They look around, they don't see anything suspicious.
00:52:18
They leave. Now, they're calling for a second visit, and when they arrive, when police arrive
00:52:24
this time, it's more of the same. They check, they knock on the door, they shine their flashlights around, they're
00:52:31
looking around. They don't see anything that gives them probable cause to enter the home.
00:52:38
And keep in mind, this is not We don't have nobody there that is present who's called
00:52:45
for police can authorize the police to enter the home. Right. The Strobs are gone. Nobody's answering the door.
00:52:53
Nobody's answering the phones. The Strobs, Lisa's parents, are gone. They're out of the country. They're
00:52:58
They're Caribbean cruise or Portugal, somewhere off celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.
00:53:06
>> Yeah, and if they're on a cruise, their cell phones probably don't work at all.
00:53:10
>> And on top of that, it's really a whole lot of the same. Where police they snoop around for a
00:53:17
little bit, they talk to Maite and John, and they speak with Tiffany Williams, and they they again leave the scene and
00:53:26
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