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[Music] foreign [Music] [Music] recent analysis of missing children cases over the course of a two-year
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period tells us that there is hope out there 3147 children were recovered after being
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missing for six months or longer 151 children were recovered after having been missing for a decade or longer
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while those numbers are delightfully surprising please keep in mind that 98 of these
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cases involve children who either ran away from home or were abducted by a family member
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but that still leaves two percent two percent of the missing kids who were abducted by a non-family member who were
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recovered return to their home and to their families that's over 60 kids who got to come home
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family abduction cases have the longest average time missing with an average time of 326 days
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versus cases of runaways which average the shortest time missing at 61 days and then
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there are the cases that we talk about here in the garage cases that don't exactly fit either of
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those descriptions maybe a case like today's there is help out there for parents and
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families of missing kids and equally important there is assistance and Educational Tools out there to help
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parents and families prevent this sort of thing organizations that truly only exist due
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to the effort to keep our kids safe one of the best organizations I know of is the national Center for missing and
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exploited children or knick-knack every child deserves a safe childhood on the evening of July 6 2001 a 9-1-1
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call came into the Chicago Police the caller was a woman and she was calling to report that her
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two young daughters were missing Chicago PD Cedric Bailey Special Victims Unit detective was working the night
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shift Cedric caught the call and was sent to the mother's apartment Bailey headed out to the 3500 block of
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South Cottage Grove on the south side of Chicago once there he met with the female caller
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the apartment was located in the Lake Grove Village complex the mother of the two girls Tracy Bradley
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said that her daughters ages 10 and 3 were missing for several hours the last time she had seen them
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according to her statement the two were at home safe in the apartment when Tracy returned she found the
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apartment empty no girls just a note and this ignited one of the largest missing child cases in the windy City's
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history two beautiful little girls Two Loving sisters tianda and Diamond Bradley are still
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missing and this is true crime garage foreign [Music] this is from the Chicago Sun Times
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article dated October 23 2007. Cedric Bailey Special Victims Unit detective got a call from downtown on
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the night of July 6 2001. that's a call that he will never forget two little girls were missing but that's
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not the only problem that Cedric had with the information that was coming to him that night
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it was 9 p.m on that Friday night when he got the call at minimum the call came into Chicago PD two hours prior maybe
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more depending on which report you choose to believe even more disturbingly the two girls
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were missing for several hours before the call was even placed for detective Bailey right out of the gate there was
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going to be a lot of horseshit to sift through the detective was angry and all of the time that had passed the search
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for the two missing girls was going to be a battle the uphill kind and he was not sure who was trying to help the
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search or who was trying to hide something the girls were missing and there was no
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doubt about that their mother Tracy had been looking for them for several hours and even Enlisted the help of family
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friends and neighbors the search was officially on according to the police a search of the apartment in the
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surrounding areas proved that this was a legit call and there was a solid reason
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for great concern one of the biggest problems Tiana age 10 and her little sister Diamond age three
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were last seen at approximately 6 a.m that morning they were reportedly left alone by their
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mother as she went off to work Tracy Bradley's initial call to police came in about 6 PM or 7 P.M again depending on
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which report you listen to some of this time could be accounted for because Tracy along with some family and
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friends were looking for the girls and for some of that time probably believed that they would find them
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this in part due to a note left by the oldest girl tianda the note said that the two sisters went
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to a nearby Elementary School playground and then to a nearby store however no one could find them at either location
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well the detective knows as well as we know that no matter how small you are no matter what age you're at you don't just
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disappear Into Thin Air police According to some treated Tracy the mother almost
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like a suspect from the beginning she was questioned four times in the first few days of this investigation for
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a total of 22 hours so that night that she is there to answer the detective's questions while they are searching for
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the girls on that Friday night the detectives talk to Tracy Bradley for two hours that night the initial story
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that Tracy told police well captain and we don't like to hear this it changed several times well
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that's fishy Tracy does not hide from this fact in fact she admits this that she changed her story saying that she
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was worried that she would lose her kids if she told the truth right out the gate
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and the truth was that she left them home alone while she went to work that day well these investigations to me are
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a double-edged sword because we know statistically the younger the victim the more likelihood that somebody in the
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family or somebody close to them and we have to remind ourselves when we have a young victim we have a smaller Circle
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they have a smaller Social Circle than what me or the colonel would have so it's not out of line to start
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questioning people close to them especially their mother but it's the mother's job it's the parents job to
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protect their child and so when you're being questioned by law enforcement you want to be
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honest you want to be honest in a situation like this because it's an emergency situation so what are some of
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the other stories that their mother was was telling law enforcement real quick Captain before we get into that I should
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clear one thing up here that this apartment where Tracy and her children lived together there are
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supposed to be five people living in this apartment so it's Tracy Bradley and her four daughters she actually has two
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daughters that are older than Tiana and Diamond now on that Thursday night her two older daughters were staying at her
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mother's apartment which is very nearby but Tracy tells police and this is her first
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story that Tiana and Diamond they were at her house on that Thursday night they went to bed as usual on July 5th the
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other two girls again staying at their Grandma's house she says that on that Friday she slept until 11 A.M and when
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she got up diamond and Tiana were gone so she'd look for them and then called the police
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Again part of the problem with that story is she's saying that she got up at 11 A.M this phone call is made at 6 PM
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or 7 P.M according to different reports so that's a lot of time to go by if she wakes up
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and they are gone yeah if I woke up in the morning and my children are not there and especially young children
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you're calling police right away her revised story Tracy admitted that she got up and left for work at 6 00 a.m
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and diamond and Tiana were asleep at this time Tiana was enrolled in a summer school
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program at a nearby elementary school but she was not going to be going to that program that day because she had to
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stay home to watch her little sister the three-year-old diamond Tracy says that she got home sometime
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between 11 and 11 30 a.m and when she came home the girls were gone that leads us to Story number three in
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her third story she said essentially the following and this is taken from an actual media interview quote I was at
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home during the time when they were in this I'm going to struggle with this because these are her words quote I was
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at home during the time when they was there I had to be at work at 6 30 or a quarter to seven so I left the house
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about 6 30 to make it to work to a quarter to seven to meet The Troop that I have to put that I have to put out for
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to feed the kids at the program that I worked at so my work schedule is from 7am to noon
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so I get off at 12 o'clock and I'd say I made it home about 12 o'clock 12 30 something like in between that time so
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when I got in come in from work I put my key in the door and I unlocked my door and I called for Tiana and diamond
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so I didn't get no response so that was the story that story number three that she said to the media to
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clear some things up here captain Tracy Bradley Works nearby in fact she works at the large apartment complex
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where her mother lives and they run like a summer program because remember it's summertime the
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kids are home from school they run a summer program where they have workers come in that oversee some
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of these kids it's kind of like a summer camp one of her job duties is to get there a little early quarter to seven
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and she prepares lunches and such for the kids that attend this summer program and she watches these children and stays
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till noon so when you hear these times right she's saying a lot of times that are very
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close in proximity you know I I left at 6 30 to be there at a quarter till seven
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I get off work at noon so I got home at noon or 12 30. that's because this her work is very close by it's it's
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practically walking distance from where her apartment is yeah but even if you take all three of her stories don't you
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find it odd that it's taken her hours to contact law enforcement yes I do uh number one but number two that's a poop
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you also have to keep in mind I'm sure some of those minutes were gobbled up by her and her family trying to locate her
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girls and probably thinking that they might even be able to yeah that makes sense in the fourth story we get Story
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number four she admitted that her boyfriend George Washington um and this was not the founder of our
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country was there at her home her apartment that morning he came over between 3 and 4 30 a.m according to
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Tracy and drove her to work after 6 A.M this raises all kinds of questions right
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we have a bunch of questions and I'm sure that police have the same questions as we do first off why did she lie
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I am part believe captain that we have a scenario where maybe she thought my kids are missing it's legit I've not
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done anything wrong it doesn't necessarily matter exactly to the story of how they went missing where they may
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be as to what I was up to prior to calling the police it doesn't look favorable to her that
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she's telling different stories but we're going to get into that here in just a second but for law enforcement to
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do a proper investigation they need to know the truth because if she is going to work
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multiple times with leaving her children at home that is a schedule or that's a routine that other individuals would
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know in the family so or people that were close to them so those individuals that know that scheduled know that
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pattern become people of interest that law enforcement would want to talk to exactly and we have all all kinds of
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questions here captain one why do we have two daughters staying at Grandma's and not the other two
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the one girl the oldest one Tiana 10 years old is supposed to be going to a summer program or to a summer
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school class that day so in that equation you really only need a sitter for one child the three-year-old
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but it sounds like she made a decision to have the 10 year old watch the three-year-old leave them both home
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alone I my head if if she's working this summer program at a nearby apartment complex that her grandmother lives at
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My head goes to why not just bring the two kids with you or let Tiana go to her class or her summer school program that
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day and take the little three-year-old with you I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time
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that a mother or a father got stuck with a tiny little kid and had to bring him with them to work on a on a single day
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let's introduce Sheila Bradley here's Sheila Bradley she's our champion here Captain she's the missing girl's
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great aunt and she has been extremely vocal and a wonderful advocate for both of these girls since day one
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Sheila went on Nancy Grace's TV show while there Nancy Grace asked Sheila why would Tracy lie to the police why did
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she lie to the police and Sheila's answer quote well first of all Tracy was told by another family member who had
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some previous run-ins with DCFS that's the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services this family member tells
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Tracy that you should just look for the girls because if you called the police the Department of Child and Family
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Services they are going to probably put you in jail and or take your kids totally
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so that's the explanation that Sheila says that she got from her relative Tracy as to why she changed her stories
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but not only had Tracy lied but as the captain points out and as we've already said she waited more than
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five hours to call police about her missing daughters possibly more than six hours if the reports that she called
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9-1-1 are closer to 7 PM if those reports are true right so Tracy was considered suspicious right
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from Jump Street the police stated publicly that she was initially Cooperative but then had
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stopped being cooperative with their investigation however multiple reliable sources have
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reported that regardless of her inconsistent statements that Tracy Bradley passed a polygraph exam well
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every time a polygraph test gets brought up I feel like we're a broken record can't use them in court but I I do feel
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like it's a nice barometer for law enforcement well especially in this case where you're going she's told us
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multiple stories we have to figure out some way of can we believe this woman or not
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so let's bring in a air quotes expert to help us make an educated decision on that aspect of
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our investigation now proof of her passing the polygraph comes from the Chicago Sun Times this is a July 12
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2001 article that says quote the mother Tracy Bradley has been interviewed at least four times and submitted to a
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polygraph test which she passed according to a police source after that Tracy obtained an attorney and police
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contact with her was required to go through that attorney so let's talk about that for a second here captain
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what we have here is exactly what you said earlier it's a double-edged sword for law enforcement yep I'm right again
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they need to know all of the details they need to know who is responsible for the girls having gone missing and you
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very quickly learn after talking to the mother that she's telling you multiple stories so what is she hiding then on
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then let's take a look at across the table from that Detective across the table we have a mother who if she is
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innocent if she has no knowledge as to where her children are or where they've gone or who has taken them or why they
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are missing then we have across the table from us a victim who is sitting there going why
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are you spending so much time on me you should be out looking for my kids she was questioned
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for 22 hours total over the course of the first four days of this investigation two hours that Friday
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night and then on one occasion on uh the following day six hours then eight hours
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on Sunday and then another six hours on Monday so 22 hours that the detective talked to
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her now keep in mind they are out actively looking for these girls on the streets in the Parks and
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everywhere they can think of while they are talking to the mother now we should also point out too captain
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that not only did Tracy pass the polygraph but what about an alibi Tracy was underlined that word was verified to be
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at work on the morning in question but let's keep in mind that that alibi only covers Tracy for that morning when
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she is working from a quarter to seven till noon her own words yeah because it's possible
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that the girls were still at home and she comes home and an accident happens or she does something to the girls and
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during that noon to 6 PM window she's responsible for them going missing not just that I think the problem that we
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need to truly be looking at as well as the problem you just pointed out let's know let's open up the window a little
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bit here Captain because the way I see it no one but Tracy and her so-called boyfriend George
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had seen the girls since 10 pm the night before on Thursday has consistently maintained that she had
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nothing to do with her girl's disappearance but her shifting stories and some other interesting behaviors
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gave her a reputation as a non-cooperative parent and people in the neighborhood who initially rallied
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around her started to turn we have roughly a timeline of the night before that they went missing like you said
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the mother and the the boyfriend of the mother didn't see the children after 10 pm yes so police learned that friends of
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Tracy's had come over to watch the Cubs game on Thursday night so this is very interesting to our
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investigation now we have other people with not really a dog in the fight other other than to find the little girls and
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to hope that the little girls are found safe and sound who are confirming to police and telling
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police the following we went over to Tracy's home we watched the Cubs game that Thursday night and most of them are
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saying we you know we left around 10 p.m so that gives us that solid time of the
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girls are alive and well and everything's fine at 10 pm Thursday night the friends were questioned and
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reported that they saw both diamond and Tiana there at the apartment and reporting that both were fine and acting
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normal at that time now to further back that up the Cubs finished the 2001 season 88 and 74. not
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terrible and on that Thursday night they beat the Mets 13-4 this according to back to baseball.com which is an amazing
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website by the way the game lasted three hours and 10 minutes the game was played
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at Shea Stadium in New York city so keep in mind the time change from New York to
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Chicago that night it was a 7-10 pitch New York time so the game was over at 9 20
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Chicago time which makes perfect sense that the friends would be ushering out of Tracy's apartment around the 10
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o'clock hour [Music] [Music] all right we are back cheers mates to the windows to the walls to the people
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in the front and to the people in the back cheers colonel cheers to you Captain cheers to all of our wonderful
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listeners out there cheers to the people that have contributed to the Beer fund over the past couple of months and past
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couple of weeks I do want to send a request to all of you wonderful beer fund donators
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please check your spam box nobody puts True Crime Garage in their Spam box but I think that's where we are ending up
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Captain because when you donate to the Beer fund you get a nice little email from the captain in the colonel
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requesting your name and City and check that spam box let us know where you are so we can shout you out on a future show
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now we're going to give a shout out in a minute to one of the captain's favorite
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people uh a one miss Oprah Winfrey uh but before we get it we dated a little bit in high school well you should have
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locked that up because I think that she's worth quite a good deal a coin my friend my grandma used to say you could
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love a rich one as much as you can a poor one this next part Captain let's call it phone records but put a nice
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bold question mark after the word records right Tracy told investigators that while she
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was at work on that Friday the the morning in question that she called her own apartment three times in the early
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morning hours but never got an answer so she's calling home she knows she left her girls alone at
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home nobody's picking up the phone it's unknown whether police verified that these calls actually happened
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but if they did verify that these calls happened it makes it even all the more alarming
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that Tracy didn't go home to see what was going on or what was wrong with her girls that they're not answering the
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phone now according to a 2021 article in Oprah daily police pulled the phone records at
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Tracy's apartment and they indicated quote that several calls from other numbers to Tracy's
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apartment went unanswered over the course of the morning and there were two Hang-Ups end quote
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so Tracy Bradley has a cell phone we know that they pulled the records based off of this Oprah daily article
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nowhere does it State 100 percent that they verified the three calls coming from Tracy's cell phone to her own
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apartment but we know they were looking into the phone calls there was an incredibly huge and
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extensive search a huge search effort for these two little girls was underway during the whole course of the early
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parts of this investigation and in fact at first at the very first the Bradley girls were considered quote
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missing by the police the police who felt with some evidence that they had walked off that the girls
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had walked off and perhaps just gotten lost or distracted this again from Oprah daily which of
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course is not usually one of our go-to sources but reporter Lee Kunkel did a very
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informative and lengthy article in 2021 gangbusters work as we say here in the garage so we relied on that article
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quite a bit well this was a huge story out of Chicago and where is my ex-girlfriend from
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Chicago and look I try to lock it down but the problem was we were we were so uh there was too much passion
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that we that we had to separate it so uh we had to separate so Oprah could go on
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to have a good career according to Lee's article the Chicago Police responded immediately and again according to Lee's
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article he says this statistically is unusual for a case involving missing black children the initial search for
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the girls involved three police cars two supervisors and two K-9 units which combed the neighborhood
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which included dumpsters yards vacant Lots businesses and the lakefront that is there
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on July 10th this is with the girls now missing for four days and FBI spokesman this is Ross rice told
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the Chicago Tribune quote we're still trying to find out what happened and we don't know
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the family pushed back arguing that the girls had been abducted the FBI agent goes on to say
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I didn't want the community to overlook it like oh it's two kids who ran away Sheila the aunt the great aunt told USA
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Today no these kids were taken Sheila has become she went on to become the most present and vocal advocate for
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the two girls keeping their case in the spotlight and successfully getting the Chicago PD and the FBI to reclassify the
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investigation just after a few days as missing slash endangered and unfortunately that is the status
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still the status of this case to this day by July 12th it was officially termed a
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criminal missing person's investigation detective Ed Carroll who worked the case
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for several years said to the Chicago Tribune State Police FBI Chicago they threw everything they had at it they set
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up a hotline they set up a command post as far as I know there were entire tactical teams and detectives detailed
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to this investigation at least for the first month if not longer but one of the things that we like to do and one of the
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things I've learned from your expertise throughout these last seven years is trying to break down the timeline and
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make it shorter make our Windows shorter and so but there's no signs of force entry there's no signs of breaking in
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right are we to assume that when the the mother and the boyfriend wake up that they just didn't check on the
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daughters or do they just not remember checking on them no according to the mom she spoke with
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both of the girls especially the 10 year old before leaving for work that day so
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then that would put our window about 6 30 a.m correct if again though we're sitting here yes she passed the
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polygraph but it it Still Remains difficult to believe her every word or any word right and so
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all we have is the window remains wide open and in a big window at this point because truly
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the last confirmed sighting by somebody other than George or other than their mother is roughly 10 p.m the night
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before and there's no 100 percent confirmed sightings other than George and Tracy
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after that 10 p.m time after the Cubs game that night and here's look here's another thing that always aggravates us
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right surveillance cameras at the apartment complex they're not working they're not work again it's the it's the
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false sense of security that you give to your residents you have security cameras
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you just choose to not use them but this is another reason why you might want to
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look into the parents because they would have known that the cameras of the apartment complex are possibly would
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have known that the cameras at the apartment complex didn't work it's it's aggravating as hell
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there's a chance that we could have saved two little girls lives or at least know where they are bring them home had
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you just bothered to make sure that your security cameras your surveillance cameras at your apartment complex were
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working and guess what they don't do at the apartment complex Captain they don't
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do it anywhere when the cameras stop working they leave them up false sense of security they don't go around to
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every resident and say oh by the way those cameras stop working or we ain't changing the tapes no more we ain't
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paying for digital recording no more they don't tell anybody that they leave you with feeling a false sense of
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security investigators canvassed the playground so we mentioned this in at the top of the
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show there was a note that was left when Tracy Bradley comes home and does not find her girls
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she finds a note and this note is saying that the notes written from Tiana saying me and Diamond we are going to a
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playground and then we're going to go to the store and they never come home they never
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return and of course Tracy and her family and friends checked the playground the nearest playground or the
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playground they believe that Tiana was talking about and the store that they believed that
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she was talking about we get some conflicting reports when police start going around and canvassing the
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neighborhood and talking to people they couldn't from my understand find anybody at the store that had ever said
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that they had seen the girls they did find one or two people most of them children that said that they saw the
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kids saw the girls at the playground but as we all know kids can be easily confused especially when you start
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asking about dates and about times I can't say I can't sit here and say captain that the kids that were
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interviewed were interviewed at 9 00 PM 10 p.m 11 p.m that Friday night they likely couldn't track down these
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kids who were at this playground this local playground that is shared by everybody in the community they wouldn't
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know who to ask that night so these children that are saying yeah we saw the girls at the playground this could be
00:35:37
the following day two days later three or four days later I'm sure they saw the girls at a
00:35:43
playground at the playground at one time I just can't say that they were actually
00:35:48
seen on the day in question and we know that adults can confuse dates and times as well in fact the neighbor of the
00:35:55
Bradleys this is Fred Ramsey told the press that Tiana knocked on his door around 10 a.m asking if his daughter
00:36:01
could come out and play and he told her it was too early another neighbor Sheila Adams no
00:36:08
relation different Sheila said that she saw both girls playing with other children in the in the complex between 2
00:36:15
30 and 3 o'clock on that Friday the girls had asked her if if she had any candy or juice
00:36:24
again none of these sightings including the two neighbors that we just discussed
00:36:28
have ever been confirmed so there is and there is not 100 verified sightings of the girls
00:36:37
since 10 p.m on Thursday night it was if they had completely evaporated what if we buy what the mother is
00:36:45
telling us that she saw her daughter she left for work if we buy maybe even the neighbor hey
00:36:52
one of the girls came by to see if my daughter could play now they're out into the world
00:36:59
at this complex would how many people are connected to this apartment complex it's a big apartment
00:37:06
complex and more importantly the apartment complex where Tracy's mother the girl's grandmother lives at is I
00:37:13
believe it's said to be one of the largest if not the largest complex in the United States so yeah then we get it
00:37:21
like you said Chicago is not a small City my friend it's a heavily populated area and this is the south side of
00:37:28
Chicago so yeah we have now one large apartment unit the space between that unit and the next
00:37:36
unit and then maybe the one of the largest apartment complexes in the world in the United States yeah and and now
00:37:43
you have to deal with all those people because of the proximity become people of Interest
00:37:49
well and what we do know Captain is that according to reports over 500 officers searched a massive area
00:37:58
and interviewed more than one thousand people this including 30 relatives of the two girls 100 detectives worked the
00:38:07
case around the clock 20 Agents from the FBI's violent crimes task force joined in the investigation and the FBI handled
00:38:15
all of the evidence so the FBI is in charge of all the physical evidence but one thing that's missing from these
00:38:23
reports speaking of evidence one thing that I have not seen not heard anything about is whether Tracy's
00:38:32
apartment was searched for any signs of blood or whether anything other than the
00:38:36
little girls were missing from the apartment well like I was saying before if she came home and there was some kind
00:38:43
of accident that maybe she's responsible for or the younger girls responsible for or the
00:38:50
boyfriend is responsible for does it become a cover-up situation they could have detected that if
00:38:58
they had searched the apartment from top to bottom 824 tips Captain came in the first week
00:39:05
in the first few weeks of this investigation and according to reports every one of those 824 tips were
00:39:12
followed up on the national Center for missing and exploited children published in circulated flyers for each of the
00:39:19
girls the girls were featured on America's Most Wanted on Saturday July 14 2001. so they go missing on the sixth
00:39:29
their story their images their faces are on America's Most Wanted on July 14th eight days later
00:39:40
and what we learn is fewer than one dozen tips actually come in after the Airing of that episode so where they
00:39:50
were hoping for this to lead to something good in the investigation it didn't pan out well it's so frustrating
00:39:59
too because you can see where the lies to law enforcement from the mother initially
00:40:09
make the case way more complex because like you said if you can believe what the mother says then you're
00:40:18
shortening that time period and you're shortening your suspects and and where to look there is a reward
00:40:26
that's still available in this case yeah very quickly Captain we have 17 500 that
00:40:34
was put up as reward money for information in the case and that money came from ten thousand dollars from the
00:40:42
FBI five thousand dollars from the Chicago public school system and twenty five hundred dollars from the apartment
00:40:51
building management company itself now we have the FBI very quickly in this investigation going on record this is
00:41:00
Late July saying our speculation is that someone out there knows something but perhaps they have not come forward
00:41:08
because they're afraid that their information will not be confidential what we are saying is the information
00:41:16
will be confidential we will offer money for it two little girls who have gone missing in this way didn't just walk
00:41:25
down the street and disappear someone saw something and the FBI believes that someone will know where they are located
00:41:34
this statement could not be more truthful could not be more honest because the way I see it if in fact if
00:41:44
the girls were left alone that day while Tracy Bradley went off to work then very
00:41:50
likely what we had happen if the girls left the apartment on their own somebody should have seen them
00:41:55
if they left with an abductor or were carried out of the apartment with an abductor or abductors
00:42:03
somebody should have seen them hell if you would have had surveillance cameras well oh wait you did but they weren't
00:42:08
working you would have had some footage of what actually happened that day so initially law enforcement is thinking uh
00:42:16
these girls ran away or they went outside to play but we're probably going to find them
00:42:25
but when you start talking and you start asking questions to the mother and she's
00:42:30
being untruthful this I mean this just starts sparking red flags all over the place there's a
00:42:41
lot of red flags here interesting though that the Chicago Police 20 days after the girls go missing they labeled the
00:42:48
case a kidnapping they do say publicly that they found nothing specifically pointing to Foul Play
00:42:55
but as far as their investigation went and along with the search and the searches for the girls turning up
00:43:02
nothing it's looking more and more to detectives and investigators like the girls were taken away by someone
00:43:09
possibly that they trusted that the two girls trusted and so at this point in your investigation if you are labeling
00:43:17
it a kidnapping you are hoping that the two are alive somewhere and in the care of someone who took them again someone
00:43:26
that they knew and if I'm law enforcement I am harping on the idea of was this a normal
00:43:36
action was this a normal part of your routine did you leave your daughter's home alone
00:43:43
before did was there a schedule where you left them home and if so who knew about this
00:43:51
because there's no sign of breaking and entering but if you know the girls and you know the schedule and you know
00:44:00
that they're going to be alone and you're a horrible pile of [ __ ] you might use this as an opportunity
00:44:07
to do something horrible well think about the phone records that we discussed Captain according to police
00:44:13
what they're saying about the phone records was that there were several hang-up calls that were reported on that
00:44:20
record and think about that for a minute if you see if you live in the apartment complex
00:44:27
and you see Mom going off to work well then you go all right well there could be four girls in that apartment
00:44:35
there could be three there could be two there could be one or zero um how about I call that number I know
00:44:42
them let's see if somebody picks up and if they do who picks up the phone and if
00:44:46
it ain't mom or a an adult I'm gonna make my move because here's my window of opportunity you're exactly
00:44:56
right if somebody was watching them when we say somebody that they trusted it doesn't have to be a family member
00:45:01
it doesn't have to be a family friend it could be a neighbor or somebody that lives there that they know that they've
00:45:07
talked to before yeah or somebody that they might know posing as somebody that they would be
00:45:16
comfortable opening up the door for before we continue to flesh out this timeline a little bit more
00:45:24
we should make clear that the Department of Child and Family Services had never been called to
00:45:32
Tracy's apartment before that doesn't we don't know what was going on inside of that apartment we don't know the
00:45:39
relationship or how the girls were treated all we know at this point is they were missing and there's not been
00:45:45
any speculation of any kind of abuse leading up to this point there's been no zero
00:45:53
zero reports of that leading up to the girls gone missing now we do know that Tracy said that her air quotes boyfriend
00:46:01
George picked her up from work on Friday and took her to get a cake this at a Jewel Osco
00:46:10
store uh-huh and investigators located a receipt from the store which was stamped
00:46:17
time stamped 12 21 pm Tracy had said earlier that she tried to call tianda at the apartment several
00:46:26
times and got no answer so it does seem a little weird to call home after leaving your girls
00:46:36
home alone getting no answer and then deciding that you know what rather than going directly home
00:46:43
rather than leaving work and going home sometime during my work day let's stop off at the pastry shop real
00:46:51
quick at the uh Jewel Osco and go pastry shopping before coming home to find the
00:46:57
apartment empty and she does say that when she arrived at the apartment George was with her so
00:47:02
George goes into the apartment with her she says that immediately she started searching for the girls when asked why
00:47:08
she didn't call police immediately she said that she assumed that they were playing somewhere in the complex
00:47:13
remember we do have that note saying that they might be playing somewhere in the complex
00:47:18
she and her sisters Tracy and her sisters and other family members searched all over
00:47:25
this including the Ida B Wells complex where the girls had friends this is a nearby complex they
00:47:34
also searched the shores of Lake Michigan which was just blocks away they searched there because the girls like to
00:47:40
go there and play sometimes in the water police found footage of a pair of girls
00:47:45
who actually looked like Tracy's daughters at the Jewel Osco store located at 35th and King Drive
00:47:54
the police said there's a resemblance it's close enough to Peak the interest of investigators
00:48:01
again though we don't have anybody saying that they saw the actual girls there at that store that day well like
00:48:08
you said this this case is getting attention and when you're getting attention but
00:48:14
there's not much information coming back to you there has to be a level of frustration
00:48:22
that's Rising for law enforcement and it would if and if I was a detective in this case now I'm not so worried about
00:48:30
looking outward I'm looking at at looking inward at family and friends that are connected to these two victims
00:48:40
well and it's been said that the investigation was complicated by the fact that each of Tracy's four daughters have
00:48:48
different fathers it's believed that Tracy at the time may have had multiple boyfriends herself we
00:48:55
know of George Washington who is referred to as her boyfriend per Tracy's words there is a man named
00:49:04
Daniel Torres who is a security guard or was a security guard at the time that the girls went missing he professed to
00:49:12
be Tiana's real father this in an interview but also said that he and Tracy had not been in contact and he had
00:49:19
not seen Tiana for seven years leading up to the girls disappearance she's 10 at the time that she goes missing he
00:49:28
told the Tribune he was I mean he's being honest he says quote I ain't been around
00:49:32
people look at me as a low life but I love my daughter he goes on to say her name is tattooed on my right arm
00:49:39
congratulations sir you got a tattoo of your daughter's name instead of spending
00:49:44
time with her or supporting her yeah or maybe take that money that you're going to spend on the tattoo and uh support
00:49:50
your dog yeah put it in an envelope drop it off at Mom's house that'd be a step in the right direction
00:49:55
according to the Tribune Tracy Bradley had filed two paternity suits against two different men trying to establish
00:50:04
who the father of diamond was the youngest girl this is according to court records the first lawsuit was dismissed
00:50:12
after DNA testing ruled one of the men out the second lawsuit was filed in June against the man whose home was searched
00:50:20
on the second lawsuit was filed in June so the month or weeks or days before the
00:50:29
girls go missing and was filed against a man who you've heard his name before Captain George
00:50:36
Washington his job at the time He's listed as a welder he's the man the boyfriend if you
00:50:43
want to call him that who drove Tracy to work that morning and picked her up this
00:50:49
on the day that the girls vanished but one thing I've learned about you my friend
00:50:54
is there any case that involves a note your ears perk up that's exactly right and that's one
00:51:02
thing that we've not really dissected yet it's the note because remember that Mom Tracy Bradley says that when she
00:51:10
came home from work that day that she found a note that was to her from her girls explaining why they were not in
00:51:18
the apartment and where they would be and here's the deal Captain if this note is legit then that proves that could be
00:51:27
proof that when Tracy Bradley left that morning for work that her girls were in fact alive and well after she left the
00:51:36
apartment that day and we know that Tracy Bradley was at work that day that was verified by law enforcement with
00:51:44
multiple other people and sources Tracy Bradley comes home she doesn't find her girls she simply
00:51:53
finds a note that says that Tiana and Diamond were leaving the apartment to go to a nearby School playground and to go
00:52:03
to the Jewel Osco store but does the Note actually exist and if so who actually wrote that noob
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