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[Music] thank you [Music] there are a few things more terrifying than a tornado when the sirens go off
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and the clamoring whale warns of an impending force of nature strong enough to lift a home off of its foundation the
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human instinct is to run take cover and pray we are all taught at a young age to
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love Mother Nature but but to fear her wrath as well when it comes to a tornado our parents
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taught us to take shelter in our basements at school we would take cover under desk but what
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about a two-year-old little kids have to rely on the protection of a parent or the help of a caring adult
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the southern states are typically more prone to experienced tornadoes due to atmospheric conditions and other
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meteorological forces we won't pretend to understand the state of Georgia suffers its share averaging about 20
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tornadoes a year the storms cause a range of damage some result in minor damage to property taking down trees and
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power lines and others are more destructive buying waste to entire buildings but even in those cases rarely
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are people killed Warning Systems are in place notifying all to seek shelter in a
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bunker or basement to wait out the twists are above usually at least 20 minutes notice is given and is
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sufficient to allow everyone to find a safe place to ride the storm out but in Georgia on January 21st and 22nd of 2017
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40 tornadoes touched down in just under 48 hours strongest was an ef-3 with Winds of 150
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miles per hour and a mild wide path the damage was Indescribable in the wake of the storms the state resembled A
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Wasteland and was declared a state of emergency FEMA and the National Guard were called
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in damage estimates were around 100 million dollars but even more important than the destruction of homes farm
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houses Barns and buildings was the loss of life 15 people died in the state of Georgia and five others in other
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Southern States as a result of these Twisters which left total devastation in their wake entire neighborhoods were
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flattened by the storm one of the areas hit in Dougherty County was a mobile home park located in Albany this was
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Piney Woods estate's mobile home park occupying the 3500 block of Sylvester Road
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as you can imagine the combination of a powerful tornado and mobile homes many of which are not permanently attached to
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a foundation is deadly around 3 15 p.m on Sunday January 22nd the tornado directly hit the mobile home
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park according to the Albany Herald it stayed on the ground for 71 miles ripping
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across the county and within minutes most of the mobile home park was pretty much wiped out some of the trailers were
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reduced to match stick size pieces of debris trees from the woods surrounding the park were everywhere sinks toilets
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grills and Furniture were stuck in trees and cars were overturned it looked like
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a zombie apocalypse with disoriented people staggering for help one CNN reporter described it as looking
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like a nuclear bomb went off 145 people who were displaced by the storm sought shelter at the Albany Civic
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Center turned into a makeshift hostel for the newly homeless it was chaos and displaced residents despaired at the
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total loss of their homes and their belongings this week's True Crime Story is less
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about those terrible storms that affected so many people and more about what was brewing behind closed doors
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this is true crime garage and this is the case of the Tres green foreign [Music]
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homes in the park located at 3527 Sylvester Road Lot Number Eight was occupied by a family of five on Sunday
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January 22nd young parents Kevin Greene and adasia Rainey and their three young children two boys and a newborn girl
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weathered the storm in their mobile home they had decided not to heed the evacuation warnings that had blared
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throughout the park although their trailer still stood After the Storm passed through it was declared a total
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loss because of a large oak tree that fell through the roof into the kitchen area of the home as described by the
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Albany Herald rainey's home like the rest of Piney Woods estate was a disaster area after the storm
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photos of the wrecked trailer show dirt litter shoes and toys amid piles of debris and as they pick themselves up
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and came to their senses in the new quiet After the Storm Kavanaugh and adasia noted the absence of their
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two-year-old son detrez so we have here Captain the Green family it's going to be a family of five
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we have Kevin a green and his partner adasia Rainey often I want to point out that in a lot of these news articles and
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new summaries of this story that we're going to be quoting and mentioning throughout our story and our timeline of
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this case they will often refer to adasia Rainey as simply by her last name Rainey and often Kevin Greene by his
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last name green so I don't want anybody to get confused as we move our way through this uh this story here standing
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outside of what was the left of his home Kevin green described for a CNN reporter
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the last time he saw his son detrez now keep in mind to trez is two years old quote last time I saw him he was playing
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with the toy I just hope they can find him you know I've been crying man but I don't want to cry in front of the
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cameras you know this is what kavana tells the reporter he goes on speaking with the reporter to say see that tree
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right here it kind of divided me and then he's asked were you with your two-year-old when this happened he
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responds no sir well we were in the same area but we weren't together Kevin explained the last time I saw him he was
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right by that door I was cooking and he was kind of right by me kind of it's real difficult I can't find my son don't
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got a place to stay those were his statements to CNN Jerry green Kevin's brother he told the following story to
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the Atlanta Journal Constitution according to Jerry green Kevin had told him later they were watching TV when the
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storm hit and the trez was playing with a remote control car on the kitchen floor quote he said he could hear the
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storm and strong winds and everything blowing detrez was near the kitchen door when it flung open
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about the same time a massive tree fell and split the trailer separating parents
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from the child on the other side adasia started toward detrez but Kavanaugh was afraid should get hurt and threw her
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down with the kitchen door open the wind pounded the parents screamed in the darkened afternoon and wondered how they
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would save their boy until quote it snatched my nephew out of the trailer Jerry green said the treze's mother
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adasia never spoke to the media it sounds to me Captain like did she not speak to the media on that day
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I don't think nor could I find anywhere that she ever spoke with the media in regards to this situation we have a lot
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of her statements that are coming second hand through people that know her yes she could be just too heartbroken to
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speak on the matter she's reportedly to have told investigators that detrez slipped away from her and walked into
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the kitchen area toward the back door of the trailer just before the massive oak
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tree crashed through the roof nowadaysia told emergency responders that she did not see the Child leave the home or get
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swept away but believe that indeed he had been carried off by the storm and this is what she told her family well
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same kind of story but sort of so Willie Rainey this is adasia's Grandfather he tells the media quote adasia told me
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that he meaning detrez kind of got spooked from the storm and that he ran toward the kitchen the tree hit the
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house and the back door flew open and the storm pulled him out of the house end quote this was theoretically
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possible of course after all the average two-year-old weighs about 27 pounds literally nothing too powerful for an
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ef-3 tornado everyone agreed that the storm that powerful a storm that powerful could take a trailer off the
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ground so it certainly could have taken a two-year-old child well think about the pounds of pressure would take just
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to open up the door we don't know if that door was locked or or unlocked but or latched yeah and then
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also the pounds of pressure and the force that would have to to rip a tree out and smash into the mobile home and I
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want to be clear about something before we move on here Captain when we say adasia told emergency responders
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emergency responders are responding to that area immediately after the tornado leaves the area these are not statements
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that she gave to those responders when they are arriving on scene and we'll see how that breaks down as we go through
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our timeline here now Captain here's a breakdown of day one of the search for little detrez green So within an hour
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this is exactly what I'm talking about right here within an hour after the storm hit the park Emergency Management
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officials convened on Dougherty County to survey the damage and to assist people who were injured stranded or
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otherwise although first responders were swamped and overwhelmed by the number of
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people needing Aid after the storms passed through on Sunday Afternoon Of course a missing toddler swept up by the
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storm will take top priority Sunday night note the times here the tornado rolls through there about 3 15 that
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afternoon within an hour emergency services are in the area they're at this mobile home park it's not until that
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night that they're searching for detress and we'll find out why here in a bit but
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by Sunday night Captain it was all hands on deck in the search for detrez green we have dozens of Albany search and
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rescue Personnel members of state agencies we have Civil Air Patrol and specially trained search and rescue
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firefighters descending on that Piney Woods estates Mobile Home Park and mobilize to scour the area for Detroit's
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but I'm also guessing at this time there's no electricity in that area no but the personnel that we're describing
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here would be used to that type of situation and given the area you know the the southern states are more prone
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to these types of Storms and tornadoes than up in the north and other parts of our country this is not their first
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rodeo and so they know what they're doing and they're experienced right they know where to look and we have this
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statement that kind of backs this up this comes from the Dougherty County search and rescue team member Lan Scala
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who told wtxl quote we started working this area based on the rotation of the Winds If the child was taken out of the
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home and sucked over to the side where we thought he might have landed so we took all these debris Fields apart and
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the Georgia search and rescue team came in and went back to the house the child was supposedly living in and took that
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debris field and house apart we covered out to the Northwest going out to the bypass just to make sure that the child
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was not carried out in that direction of the storm so what he's saying here is based off of the information that we had
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based off of the information and of the storm itself right in the direction that
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it was traveling and what we've seen in from previous storms and previous Damage
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Done by these types of tornadoes we had a good idea of what area to prioritize when looking for this little boy and so
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he's saying we started with this area we didn't find a treze we didn't find any trace of him right we're not finding
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clothing or shoes or anything belonging to the boy or anything to indicate to us
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that he ended up in this area so then we're moving on to the next most likely area that he would be to the point where
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eventually they're finding themselves at the next prioritized area being the trailer itself being his home itself to
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make sure hey he's not under the tree he's not you know he's not remaining in that area
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so the Searchers basically dismantled what was left of the family's destroyed mobile home making sure that detrez
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wasn't under that fallen tree or in the rubble of the home itself either injured
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scared and hiding or otherwise now per w-a-l-b rescue crews searched through every inch of that home and both cadaver
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and search dogs were brought into Aid in the search for detrez green but a very difficult situation because like you
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said he's under 30 pounds he's a small little child we have big pieces of debris that are have fallen all over the
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place have been moved all around this is a very difficult search extremely difficult
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you're absolutely right now let's go through days two and three because day one unsuccessful now they didn't get
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started until Sunday night but let's see what happens with days two and three as
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the intense searches continued for detrez green so we have Searchers combing through what was left of the
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surrounding homes the surrounding homes next to Green's parents home and the woods that is
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around the park itself the mobile home park itself in total the search parameter was a half mile in diameter
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quote we are doing everything we can to try to find this child and hopefully alive stated Dougherty County Emergency
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Management agency officials on Tuesday helicopters hovered over Piney Woods Estates and the surrounding woodlands
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and swamps searching for any sign of the boy now Captain Bobby Spargo of the Albany fire department told the Albany
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Herald quote we have our Georgia search and rescue teams in here today they have
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gritted off the search area and they are taking it inch by inch they're not moving a foot forward until they see
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dirt it is going to be a long drawn out process as far as we know the boy is the
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only missing person from this area it was tough going because this area is swampy with areas covered in thickets
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and brush as you said Captain debris was everywhere and parts of the surrounding
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landscape were actually flooded with storm Waters from four inches of rain that the area received over that weekend
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now search Crews had to hack their way through the brush and cut through downed trees it was basically like searching
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for a needle in a very complex dangerous Haystack Lane Scala the Dougherty County
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search and rescue team member told Fox 31 we ran some time grid searches this morning my understanding is that
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Georgia's search and rescue is getting ready to start taking debris Fields apart we're going to cut them up pull
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them apart piece by piece to make sure we get a thorough search of this area the search and rescue teams had to cut
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paths into the debris field to clear a way for cadaver and live search dogs into these areas all to look for this
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missing little boy with their standing water around this area right in Parts yeah in parts so they received four
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inches of rain over the course of that weekend in our search we're now to Tuesday so there's been some time for
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the earth to absorb some of that rain for it to run off so yeah they have parts that are still
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holding some water we're not talking you know feet of water we would be talking inches of water and as said there are
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some swamp areas that are would be in the Woodland area that surrounds this mobile home park so
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those areas are always very difficult and as you pointed out I mean it's it's just a really incredibly difficult
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situation number one you're looking for a small boy that's a different kind of search than if you were looking for an
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adult and then compound that with the storm that came through and you know when you see these
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when you see these mobile home parks and the devastation that a ef3 tornado can cause anywhere but especially in these
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mobile home parks you see it on CNN or Fox News or your local channel and you go wow I mean it's just it's incredibly
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shocking and I think it also kind of reminds us just how small we are individually right that that we aren't
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that powerful and that when mother nature comes in man she can make a big mess and she certainly did hear in this
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situation at that mobile home come on looks with some of the overviews that I'm I'm looking at here it does look
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like there are some deeper areas of water almost like a like ponds yes there is a pond that is in that same area the
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other thing though too you know we talk about these dogs coming in be it cadaver
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dogs or live search and rescue dogs and you have already this complex situation but now you have a situation
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where you're being told that the boy was in his mobile home he's near the door the door gets kicked open by the storm
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somehow and then either he depending on which story you want to give more weight to Dad's story or the
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mom story either he sucked out of the trailer or he made his way to the door and then got lifted by the tornado we
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have to take into consideration here you've brought in these dogs to look for a scent or to find this boy they're
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having to clear Pathways for the dogs to have something to smell to have something to kind of Trace to look for
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the trash right and this is not going to be a quick process this is going to be a
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a long time consuming process top that off with we've covered plenty of cases where
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you have a person that goes missing and they bring in Scent dogs or you know somebody may have been abducted and they
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bring in dogs to try to track the person or track what happened to them and they
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have a scent to follow they have somebody who walked on the ground to to get to where they were going or even a
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child being lifted by an adult and carried away you still have something to trace
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and here if if you have a boy that's been lifted up off of the ground and carried away by a tornado I don't know
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what there would be to to trace for these dogs to track I guess with a cadaver dog they're trained to find a
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cadaver so if that were the situation they don't technically need a scent to follow
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they're going to be looking for sense of human remains you know someone that that
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has expired but again like you said there's so much debris on some level that has to throw off their proficiency
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the other difficult thing too is and we'll get into the details of this as we go through our timeline and through the
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details of the case but what were they using to give to the dogs to have them track the boy there's
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no mention of that and I think that there's probably pretty good reason for that and I think we'll see that as we go
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on yeah because overhead view of this area goes from a mobile park home neighborhood to it basically looks like
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a trash dump yeah it's like looking for looking for a small person in a junkyard
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and it's a junkyard that was just created hours ago and he could be under any of that Rubble now I want to mention
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something here because we kind of Breeze through it a little bit and I think that
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it it would be a disservice to not really underline and Echo and point this this fact out we have the search and
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rescue expert the the teams that were brought in the face of that search and rescue effort the media person is
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telling the media the Tres is the only person in this storm that has not been found now that was on Tuesday right the
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storms went took place on Sunday on Tuesday this person is telling the media he's the only person that's not
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been found this storm wreaked havoc on the area there were people that lost their lives uh maybe not in this
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immediate area but in the in the overall spectrum of where this tornado hit there
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were people that lost their lives basically without going into too much information here what that person is
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telling us is we found all of the other people that were carried away or affected by the storm be it dead or
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alive we've located everybody else this is the only person that we have not been
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able to locate number one and number two we don't have any trace of this boy as well it's very bizarre and we're going
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to see some more bizarre activity as we continue on death by tornado is is kind of all over the map uh 2021 we have 73
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deaths in 2000 2020 we have a 7 26 people that perished in tornadoes compared to
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42 and 2019 so they're kind of all over the map but it's obviously very rare rare and it's going to be completely
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based off of you know how many tornadoes you have and then the severity of those
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storms themselves right because if you know we have statistics on car accidents and people that die in vehicle-related
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incidents right if nobody drove Vehicles then that number would go to zero you know so it's it's a very it's it's a
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difficult thing to put a number on right to say that there's an average number for that because it's all based off of
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weather and storms that we all hope don't happen well again the fluctuation varies just in the amount of tornadoes
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that we have a thousand one year to 1500 the next year wow I mean that's a significant jump you know it's not like
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we can say well we know for certain there's going to be 1500 tornadoes every year I've been very lucky I've
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experienced a lot of tornado warnings and really only two real tornadoes that hit my immediate area that I can recall
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you know I couldn't imagine that's that's one of those things I love those Southern States man in the summertime
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I'm reminded when I when you flip on the news it's just heartbreaking you hear of
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some some years you know you you referenced 1500 tornadoes one year some years it feels like you turn on the
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TV and it's those storms are too frequent and too devastating yeah or people that have to also experience
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hurricanes on to days four and five the searches for detrez resumed at dawn with even more hands on deck civilian
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volunteers who turned out in droves to help look for the missing toddler after hearing about him on the news we're
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permitted to help at this time days four and five Crews searched through the debris and demolished homes looking for
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any sign of detrez video is available of Rescuers in fatigues chopping through dense brush and downed branches
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to look for him I mean it was a mess Wednesday's search was described by the Dayton Daily News as search and rescue
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workers in Albany were looking for the missing toddler from dawn until dusk rescue crews had combed through the
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rubble of the boy's home but found nothing on Wednesday they were still sifting through debris of neighboring
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homes Albany fire Captain Bobby Spargo said that Searchers were trying to maintain a positive attitude but it was
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not easy according to wfxl search dogs reacted to a pod this is the the water area that you were talking about reacted
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to a pond behind the trailer park so they decided to go ahead and drain this pond pumps were brought in and ran all
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night long dropping the water level by eight feet then the Lowndes County dive team was
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brought in to comb the depths of the shallow murky water searches continued for five full days and during these five
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full days of searching for little detrez green there was no sign of the missing child well if you just do a simple
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Google search on the power of tornadoes tornadoes have picked people and items up carried them some distance and set
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them down sometimes without injury but they also have been known to pick up people and animals and have transported
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them up to a quarter mile with more serious injuries I couldn't imagine being carried a quarter of a mile
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away I mean just just insane now Searchers for detres found nothing as we said there was some evidence of him or
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of a child anyway inside the home that he lived in photos of the wreckage show children's
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shoes and such but detrez was nowhere to be seen and as we pointed out he's supposed to be one of three children
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living in that trailer so to say that they found evidence of him I think they're going out of their way here to
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tell us Captain we found evidence of a child not specifically detrez green right Lon Scala told wtxl that there was
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very that it was very rare for a person to vanish Without a Trace during a tornado saying in a search situation
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usually we find some clothing we find some human articles we can tie to the victim in this case we didn't find
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anything do we have a report on what he was wearing though because he's a toddler so it's like you know how many
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times you go to your friend's house when they have a little one and and he's just kind
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of walking around in diapers or maybe a onesie right and that's I mean again we're going to see the
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complexities of this case get even more complex as we go because what we don't have here captain
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is we don't have parents in the area helping with the search we don't have parents
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speaking with law enforcement and search and rescue to help in any way with the search
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right so we have this incredibly difficult search going on and Mom and Dad are M.I.A right what are
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search expert is saying here basically what he means is that normally things belonging to the missing person be it an
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adult or a child or what have you clothes and so on should have been found in the search area somewhere but they
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these weren't found nothing was located in this situation and yes it's a complex
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area it's a needle in a haystack situation but again this is not these people's first rodeo when it comes to
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these types of searches they're familiar with tornadoes they're familiar with the
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damage that they do and they're familiar with how to find people as quick and as
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soon as possible and they've spent a lot of time building strategies to conduct these types of search and rescue efforts
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yeah and it's not like these experts are coming to the parents and saying hey look there's no hope don't worry about
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searching for them there's there's no hope there's no sign of him and there's no hope when you have experienced like
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like you said train experts it's it's hard to know how one would react especially if you saw him or look
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like you said this is a traumatic situation there could be things that they they maybe they did see him get
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Swept Away by the tornado and they just can't remember it with details because it's a traumatic thing but so maybe
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subconsciously they know that they're child is gone and we don't have to there's no point of
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searching for him but if it was me I'm I'm looking as long as I can stand as long as I can
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move as long as I can keep walking I am looking for this child everybody out there in Parts Unknown please make note
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of this if I go missing I want the captain in charge of the search and rescue efforts he's not stopping until
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the colonel or whoever he's looking for is located and that's what these search and rescue Personnel were attempting to
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do with the Tres green but don't you find it strange that these strangers are willing to put more effort into
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searching for this child than his own family members well and of course and that caused that will lead to all kinds
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of questions in regards to the family the family Dynamic the Tres green what was going on with the family are we
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to believe any of these stories that we're hearing of him being Swept Away in the storm
00:34:26
because after more than five days of intense costly and frantic searching officials felt that they had exhausted
00:34:32
all search Avenues Dougherty County Emergency Management agency director Ron Rowe said in his Friday daily press
00:34:42
conference this is to update the public about the storm cleanup and search Endeavors for detrez that they had done
00:34:49
all that they could possibly do and said that the case of missing detrez green was being remanded to the
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Dougherty County Police Department [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] all right we are back cheers mates
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cheers to everybody in the front there to the sides especially the sides cheers how'd you all get in the sides yeah
00:35:45
Standing Room on cheers to you Mr captain now we have a statement here in regards to where we left off right where
00:35:53
we have the emergency agency director Ron Rowe telling us you know we've done all we could and now we're handing this
00:36:03
over to the police department to the Dougherty County Police Department and his statement is as such we've had over
00:36:12
200 Personnel here in town including Georgia's search and rescue teams working hours and hours doing a search
00:36:19
and rescue operation we've cleared all three areas a b and c divisions that were gridded off we have cleared an area
00:36:28
to ground level and Below at least 150 yards away from the site we've drained a pond to where you could walk through it
00:36:38
we have put dive teams in other sections of it we have been a mile and a half Downstream
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we have been hundreds of yards past this Pond area we've literally cleared the ground to dirt
00:36:54
we have completed this and we've officially ended our search for the missing child we have completed our
00:37:00
mission it is in our best expert judgment that in this area the missing person is not there at this time again
00:37:09
that last line was the missing person is not there at this time so this statement
00:37:15
is pretty unequivocal right now per the Albany Herald Dougherty County police chief Jackie Battle
00:37:24
said that going forward to treze's case would be handled by the dcpd as a missing person's case saying quote the
00:37:33
information we were given is that this child was lost in the storm and of course we called in search and rescue
00:37:39
and as you've heard they've exhausted Everything Chief battle said that the dcpd investigation would continue and
00:37:47
that they were in the process of conducting interviews about detrez so now Captain after the official searches
00:37:54
for detrez were called off investigators began to question what they had been told about detreza's disappearance
00:38:01
itself there were some red flags they told the media and Sergeant David McVeigh who was
00:38:08
the chief dcpd detective on the case said they pulled out all the stops in the searches for detrez which went on
00:38:16
for five days involved hundreds of personnel and cost several millions in Manpower and Equipment we're pretty
00:38:23
confident we would have come across his remains he said but the Oddity of the child Vanishing Into Thin Air wasn't the
00:38:29
only thing that raised investigators eyebrows something was wrong here and it started
00:38:35
it started with the parents kavana and adasia right and now in our timeline the media starts to read between the lines
00:38:43
and the official statements about the boy right which hinted that all was not right and so some members of the media
00:38:51
started to do some digging of their own here's an excerpt from the Atlanta Journal Constitution when the wind died
00:38:59
down residents emerged to see the devastation Chris Tyrell 33 who lived near Detroit's family told the Atlanta
00:39:08
Journal Constitution he went to help Neighbors at rainy and grain's trailer so he's at
00:39:15
Detroit's family's trailer he says that there he helped extract a baby girl who was apparently unharmed
00:39:24
between a fallen dresser and the wall Terrell said he then asked two men in front of the trailer if they needed more
00:39:33
help one of those men was Kevin Greene the other a neighbor to which both said no okay so to be
00:39:43
clear what this statement means is we have parents right we have one of the parents is there with another person
00:39:50
standing in front of the trailer this man just pulled your little girl your baby girl from the trailer who was
00:39:58
lodged under debris inside the home this is immediately after the storm Kevin a green supposedly has a missing
00:40:05
two-year-old at this time immediately after the storm the storm that supposedly took the child
00:40:11
according to his statements and his eyeballs what he says he saw with those eyeballs and he's asked if he needed any
00:40:18
help and apparently nope we're all good right what parent in their right mind who could not find their child would say
00:40:27
no to an immediate offering of help he saw it with his own balls but he doesn't need help he when he says
00:40:34
hey I'm all good here we're all good we don't need no help it's because they ain't looking
00:40:41
so if you ain't looking then why would you need help looking they ain't looking and part of me wonders have they not
00:40:47
come up with this scenario yet right have they not come up with the idea that their child was taken by the
00:40:56
storm because it was too fresh it was too new and old dad ain't that quick then we have others who also noted the
00:41:03
disinterested reaction of both of dutrez's parents they go on the record to tell us what
00:41:10
they were witnessing now the following is all from the Atlanta Journal Constitution so we have Lisa Cooley this
00:41:19
is a deja's aunt these two were very close with Lisa being a mother figure to the young woman
00:41:26
Lisa told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that her niece and Kevin's Behavior after the tornado was awed Lisa
00:41:34
said she never saw a Deja cry and she was shocked by how soon her niece referred to detrez in the past tense
00:41:43
and Lisa's sister Whitney Rainey said she confronted their niece about the tres they were having a video chat and a Deja
00:41:53
wouldn't look her in the eye while telling those last moments talking about those last moments in the trailer well I
00:42:00
was just going to say I mean the these are major red flags you you're not asking for help you're not even looking
00:42:07
you don't seem to be concerned you seem to have no emotion and now when you're talking to a family member you can't
00:42:14
even look at them straight into the to the eyes and what I find so interesting about this here Captain is in regards to
00:42:23
caveat but more importantly here with adasia is that we have people saying look this doesn't feel right
00:42:32
something's wrong here and that's not just law enforcement or the search and rescue teams now it's her
00:42:40
own family people that she was close with people that would have her back they're the ones saying there's
00:42:47
something off here there's something strange going on yeah I think the first question for law enforcement is is it
00:42:54
possible for this child to be swept away by the tornado and you go yes and then even with the expertise of the
00:43:05
search team you start going is it possible that that this child was picked up moved we
00:43:13
know that the actual like adults have been picked up by tornadoes and moved a quarter of a mile you if you have this
00:43:22
child move to to actual moving body of water if he hits that water you know then he could even travel
00:43:30
further and he just would never find them so is that possible yes is this possible it's so it's possible the
00:43:37
tornado took him away it's possible that the tornado took him into a situation that these these expert Searchers were
00:43:46
not able to find him that is all possible but why doesn't the parents care why does it seem like this child
00:43:52
wasn't even in the trailer exactly and that's where we have to call everything into question you're 100 right it is
00:44:00
possible that he was swept away and they just couldn't find him doesn't seem to be likely from what the experts are
00:44:07
telling us but possible and then you have not just law enforcement questioning the parents themselves
00:44:15
neighbors questioning the parents but you have adasia's family right like I mean if somebody if somebody walked up
00:44:23
to you on the street some person you never met in in your life walks up smacked him in the face walks
00:44:29
up to you and says so and so is a real a a real turd burglar or Turd Ferguson or somebody that you've
00:44:38
known forever right you've known me forever if I walk up to you and say so and so is a real a real Turd Ferguson
00:44:45
aren't you going to believe me like doesn't my statement carry a lot more weight than just some stranger or some
00:44:50
Rando person that you've met with in the last day this is her family saying something's not right here we don't
00:44:57
believe her we have Sergeant McVeigh the detective he said he was concerned because in his assessment the parents
00:45:04
emotions weren't in it he also noted that Kevin and adasia gave conflicting statements about what happened to detrez
00:45:14
then we have Willie Rainey a Deja rainey's Grandfather said that what he noted was Kevin complaining
00:45:21
about a missing cell phone After the Storm saying that Kevin was intent on looking
00:45:28
for the phone but not his missing son and here's where it gets really interesting this is per the Atlanta
00:45:36
Journal Constitution Article six days after the tornado a child welfare worker took custody of Detroit's three-year-old
00:45:44
brother and infant sister asked why the kids were taken the DFCS spokeswoman would simply say that the
00:45:54
agency listens to police seems like a pretty simple and forward answer maybe we have to read between the
00:46:02
lines a little bit but sounds to me like they have caused to believe that the other children could be in danger based
00:46:10
off of what police are telling them so someone had alerted DFCS that the remaining children of Kevin and adasia
00:46:18
might be could be in possible danger in the care of their parents yeah could you
00:46:25
imagine being that grandfather and hearing that you're caveat or however you want to say a stupid name
00:46:33
is looking for a cell phone and it's upsell said about a cell phone but doesn't seem
00:46:40
to be upset about his two-year-old son we do have Kevin's brother Jerry green who refutes all of this he kind of goes
00:46:48
to Kevin's defense saying that he remembers his brother and the deja crying inconsolably after detrez's
00:46:55
disappearance he told the newspaper don't anybody know my brother like I do he ain't lying but I don't know
00:47:03
regardless to me Captain it seems like that there's so much more than just the lack of emotion on the part of the
00:47:10
parents that raises suspicion to me and obviously to many others out there well what do they say you know hurt me once
00:47:18
shame on me hurt me twice you're dead to me hurt me three times your family maybe
00:47:23
there's some riffs between son and father and and he's not and the grandfather is not giving an accurate
00:47:31
depiction of actually what happened yeah I mean it's a tricky situation you have
00:47:35
like you were saying the the police have a hunch the neighbors have a hunch and now family members have a hunch yeah and
00:47:42
basically what I see here is you like you just said everybody has a hunch the only one that seems to be coming to the
00:47:49
defense of of these two of the parents is Kevin's brother Jerry green everybody else is calling it everything into
00:47:55
question the you know her grandfather uh her her Aunt her other family members everybody else is saying
00:48:04
again that there's just something that's suspicious here incredibly suspicious let's take that suspicion a step further
00:48:11
because detrez's parents they stopped talking to the media after that one initial clip in which Kevin
00:48:19
told them that he hoped they would find his son so that that brief little CNN spot is the only time that I could find
00:48:28
that either parents spoke with the media in regards to their missing son which is
00:48:33
right we've been doing this long enough to know that that's an incredibly bizarre behavior
00:48:38
we have the statements of law enforcement saying that this is the only time that any of them spoke with yeah I
00:48:44
don't I don't really have a problem with that because I think if my child went missing
00:48:50
especially a two-year-old I I don't think I'd want to talk to anybody other than search teams
00:48:58
law enforcement family members that would be the only people that I'd be talking to right uh I and it's not a
00:49:06
situation that I'm thinking that my child was abducted if I thought my child was
00:49:12
abducted now of course I'm talking to the media and I'm and I'm talking I'm doing press conferences to talk to that
00:49:20
individual that I think maybe abducted my child but that it's this is a different situation I agree but wouldn't
00:49:27
you agree that it starts off as a different situation than after six or seven days and search and rescue
00:49:34
Personnel telling you we should have found him or a trace of him by now right as a parent aren't you going okay
00:49:41
well anything's possible maybe maybe the storm took him and somebody found him a
00:49:46
bad person found him I mean wouldn't you be willing to shift gears make adjustments and do anything pull out all
00:49:53
the stops after I mean I I get it after day one and day two maybe day three but at some point I'm going this [ __ ] ain't
00:50:00
working let's try something new here and I mean let's take it a step further as from a law enforcement perspective
00:50:07
they're hoping and praying that the parents will speak with media why because they ain't talking to law
00:50:12
enforcement so if if they're going to get any statements at all they're hoping that it will come by way of media and
00:50:19
despite the news media TV cameras and Crews and reporters being all over the mobile home park staking out the
00:50:26
families destroyed residents and talking to neighbors no one was found this is the other bizarre thing no one was found
00:50:34
at the Piney Woods Estates where they lived whoever recalled seeing detrez ever no one ever recalled seeing him at
00:50:43
any point any of the neighbors so one network Fox 31 did back up a second I'm trying to
00:50:49
follow what you're saying there they've never seen the child ever so the place where they lived now they didn't live
00:50:57
there for the entirety of detrez Green's life but they lived there for a long time
00:51:02
the media reporters are going around and asking neighbors questions because again the
00:51:08
parents aren't speaking with the media either so they the media wants to tell this story this is a story of interest
00:51:15
it's a missing toddler and a storm is to blame it's a rare situation they're in the business of telling stories
00:51:23
fascinating stories that are rare stories and this here that's what you have so it was of interest to the media
00:51:31
they're begging the parents for a statement or to do an interview and outside of that one interview that the
00:51:37
father does with CNN they got nothing so they're interviewing neighbors that lived in this trailer
00:51:43
park in this mobile home park and saying tell us about the family tell us what you think happened uh tell us about the
00:51:50
concern in the community for this little boy and every person after person after
00:51:54
person neighbor after neighbor after neighbor are all saying the same thing all the time that they lived here I
00:51:59
never saw that little boy I've never once seen him they couldn't find anybody that lived in that mobile park to go on
00:52:06
record or camera saying that they had seen the kid at any time ever well it also becomes a tricky situation because
00:52:12
they had two other children that were taken away from them a toddler an infant and a three-year-old was that correct so
00:52:21
detrez was the middle child there was an there was an older child slightly older
00:52:26
and then we have the little baby girl that after detrez is missing and the parents are not cooperating with the
00:52:34
search and rescue effort right supposedly according to Child Services they're told something by police and
00:52:40
they make a determination that look these other kids could be in danger based off of what could have happened to
00:52:45
detrez so let's go in there and take these kids and but I also wonder if they use that as a a tactic if we take their
00:52:54
other kids maybe they'll start trying to cooperate with us maybe they'll start trying to talk to us so here's a
00:53:01
breakdown of what I could find in regards to people saying that they've seen detres or have not right so the oh
00:53:07
so we have one person right I did find a comment from detrez's Aunt kashada Griffin she told a news station that the
00:53:16
Tres was friendly and he would walk up to you and hold on to you but then we have the search and rescue worker who
00:53:25
tells a different news station quote we talk to people in the mobile home park nobody
00:53:30
said they had ever seen either parent with the child although they had seen the parents buying diapers nobody in the
00:53:37
mobile home park had ever come up and said yes we saw that child here that day so that made it difficult for us end
00:53:45
quote now so what they're buying diapers we just went through who lives in the family we
00:53:50
have two other small children hopefully they're buying diapers yeah they had three children
00:53:56
that would all be in Diapers at that time so I think Captain we can just outwardly say here right like so again
00:54:03
despite the news media TV cameras and Crews and reporters being all over the the the park can't find anybody to say
00:54:11
that we saw him and then we have the actions or reactions of the parents themselves
00:54:18
they stopped talking to the media after that one interview by CNN with the father
00:54:24
and then you start to you start to remind yourself this is not how concerned parents act and therefore you
00:54:32
know we don't have the parents out creating publicity we don't have them handing out flyers we don't have them
00:54:38
posting on social media or doing anything at all to spread awareness of their missing little boy it's almost
00:54:44
like if it went down the way they said it went down it seems to me like they're fine with it or they're just going to
00:54:51
sit back and do nothing and allow everybody else to search but they're not going to do anything not actively anyway
00:54:56
so I think we can just say what everybody listening at work and in their cars is thinking right because as you
00:55:02
can see this boy is missing no doubt about that but just six days or so into the search for two-year-old detrez green
00:55:10
people started to wonder when was detrez really seen last [Music] thank you so much for joining us and
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