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[Music] crime [Music] recent analysis of missing children cases over the course of a 2-year period
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tells us that there is hope out there 3,147 children were recovered after being missing for 6 months or longer 151
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children were recovered after having been missing for a decade or longer while those numbers are
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delightfully surprising please keep in mind that 98% of these cases involve children who either ran away from home
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got to come home family abduction cases have the longest average time missing with an average time of 326 days versus
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missing and exploited children or Nick Mech every child deserves a safe childhood on the evening of July 6 2001
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a 911 call came in to the Chicago Police the caller was a woman and she was calling to report that her two young
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daughters were missing Chicago PD Cedric Bailey Special Victims Unit detective was working the
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night 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 the apartment was located
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in the lak Grobe Village complex the mother of the two girls Tracy Bradley said that her daughters ages 10 and
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three were missing for several hours the last time she had seen them according to her statement the two were
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at home safe in the apartment when Tracy returned she found the apartment empty no girls just a
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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 tiand and Diamond Bradley are still missing and this is true crime
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garage [Music] this is from the Chicago Sun Times article dated October 23 2007 Cedric Bailey Special Victims Unit
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detective got a call from downtown on the night of July 6 2001 that's a call that he will never
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forget two little girls were missing but that's not the only problem that Cedric
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had with the information that was coming to him that night it was 900 p.m. on that Friday night when he got the call
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at minimum the call came into Chicago PD 2 hours prior maybe more depending on which report you choose to believe even
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more disturbingly the two girls were missing for several hours before the call was even placed for detective
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Bailey right out of the gate there was going to be a lot of horeshit to sift through the detective was angry at all
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of the time that had passed the search for the two missing girls was going to be a battle the uphill kind and he was
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not sure who was trying to help the search or who was trying to hide something the girls were missing and
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there was no doubt about that their mother Tracy had been looking for them for several hours and even Enlisted the
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help of family friends and neighbors the search was officially on according to the police a search of the apartment in
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the surrounding areas proved that this was a legit call and there was solid reason for great
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concern one of the biggest problems Tiana age 10 and her little sister Diamond age3 were last seen at
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approximately 6 a.m. that morning they were reportedly left alone by their mother as she went off to work
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Tracy Bradley's initial call to police came in about 6:00 p.m. or 700 p.m. again depending on which report you
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listen to some of this time could be accounted for because Tracy along with some family and friends were looking for
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the girls and for some of that time probably believed that they would find them this in part due to a note left by
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the oldest girl Tiana the note said that the two sisters went to a nearby Elementary School playground and then to
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a nearby store however no one could find them at either location well the detective knows as well as we know that
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no matter how small you are no matter what age you're at you don't just disappear Into Thin Air police According
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to some treated Tracy the mother almost like a suspect from the beginning she was questioned four times
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in the first few days of this investigation for a total of 22 hours so that night that she is there to answer
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the detectives questions while they are searching for the girls on that Friday night the detectives talked to Tracy
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Bradley for two hours that night the initial story that Tracy told police well captain and we don't like to hear
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this it changed several times well that's fishy Tracy does not hide from this fact in fact she admits this that
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she changed her story saying that she 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
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victim we have a smaller Circle they have a smaller Social Circle than what me or the colonel would have so it's not
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out of line to start questioning people close to them especially their mother but it's the mother's job it's the
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parents's job to protect their child and so when you're being questioned by law enforcement you want to be honest you
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want to be honest in a situation like this because it's an emergency situation so what are some of the other stories
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that their mother was was telling law enforcement real quick Captain before we get into that I should clear one thing
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up here that this apartment where Tracy and her children lived together there are supposed to be five people living in
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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 story that Tia and Diamond
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they were at her house on that Thursday night they went to bed as usual on July 5th the other two girls again staying at
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their Grandma's house she says that on that Friday she slept until 1100 a.m. and when she got up diamond and TI were
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gone so she looked for them and then called the police Again part of the problem with that story is she saying
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that she got up at 11:00 a.m. this phone call is made at 6:00 p.m. or 700 p.m. according to different reports so
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that's a lot of time to go by if she wakes up and they are gone yeah if I woke up in the morning and my children
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are not there especially young children you're calling police right away her revised story Tracy admitted that she
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got up and left for work at 6:00 a.m. and and diamond and TI were asleep at this time Tia was enrolled in a summer
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school program at a nearby elementary school but she was not going to be going to that program that day because she had
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to stay home to watch her little sister the three-year-old Diamond Tracy says that she got home sometime between 11:
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and 11:30 a.m. and when she came home the girls were gone that leads us to Story number three in her third story
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she said said essentially the following and this is taken from an actual media interview quote I was at home during the
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time when they and this I'm going to struggle with this because these are her words quote I was at home during the
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time when they was there I had to be at work at 6:30 or A4 to 7 so I left the house about 6:30 to make it to work to
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A4 to 7 to meet The Troop that I have to put that I have to put out for to feed the kids at the program that I worked at
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so my work schedule is from 7:00 a.m. to noon so I get off at 12:00 and I'd say I made it home about
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12:00 12:30 something like in between that time so when I got in come in from work I put my key in the door and I
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unlocked my door and I called for TI and Diamond so I didn't get no response so that was a story that's Story number
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three that she said to the media to clear some things up here Captain Tracy Bradley Works nearby in fact she works
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at the large apartment complex where her mother lives and they run like a summer program
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because remember at summertime the kids are home from school they run a summer program where they have workers come in
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that oversee some of these kids it's kind of like a summer camp one of her job duties is to get there a little
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early quar to 7 and she prepares lunches and S such for the kids that attend this
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summer program and she watches these children and stays till noon so when you hear these times right
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she's saying a lot of times that are very close in proximity you know I I left at 6:30 to be there at a quar till
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7: I get off work at noon so I got home at noon or 12:30 then 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
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founder of our country was there at her home her apartment that morning he came over between 3 and 4:30 a.m. according
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to Tracy and drove her to work after 6:00 a.m. this raises all kinds of questions
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right we have a bunch of questions and I'm sure that police have the same question as we do first off why did she
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lie I in 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 she's telling
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different stories but we're going to get into that here in just a second but for
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law enforcement to do a proper investigation they need to know the truth because if she has gone to work
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multiple times with leaving her children at home that is a a schedule or that's a
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routine that other individuals would know in the family so or people that were close to them so those individuals
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that know that schedule know that pattern become people of interest that law enforcement would want to talk to
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exactly and we have all all kinds of questions here Captain one why do we have two daughters staying at Grandma's
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and not the other two the one girl the oldest one TI 10 years old is supposed to be going to a summer program or to a
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summer school class that day so in that equation you really only need a sitter for one child the three-year-old but it
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sounds like she made a decision to have the 10-year-old watch the three-year-old
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leave them both home alone my head if if if she's working this summer program at a nearby
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apartment complex that her grandmother lives at my head goes to why not just bring the two kids with you or let Tiana
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go to her class or her summer school program that day and take the little three-year-old with you I'm sure it
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wouldn't be the first time that a mother or a father got stuck with a tiny little
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kid and had to bring them with them to work on a on a single day let's introduce Sheila
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Bradley here's Sheila Bradley she's our champion here Captain she's the missing girl's great aunt and she has been
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extremely vocal and a wonderful advocate for both of these girls since day one Sheila went on Nancy Grace's TV show
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while there Nancy Grace asked Sheila why would Tracy lie to the police why did she lie to the police and Sheila's
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answer quote well first of all Tracy was told by another family member who had some previous run-ins with
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DCFS that's the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services this family member tells Tracy that you should just
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look for the girls because if you call the police the Department of Child and Family Services they are going to
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probably put you in jail and or take your kids totally so that's the explanation that Sheila says that she
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got from her relative Tracy as to why she changed her stories but not only had Tracy
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lied but as the captain points out and as we've already said she waited more than 5 hours to call police about her
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missing daughters possibly more than 6 hours if the reports that she called 911 are closer to 7 p.m. if those reports
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are true right so Tracy was considered suspicious right from Jump Street the police stated publicly that she was
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initially Cooperative but then had stopped being cooperative with their investigation however multiple reliable
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sources have reported that regardless of her her inconsistent statements that Tracy Bradley passed a polygraph exam
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well 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
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do feel 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 so
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let's bring in a air quotes X expert to help us make an educated decision on that aspect of our investigation now
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proof of her passing the polygraph comes from the Chicago Sun Times this is a July 12th 2001 article this says quote
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the mother Tracy Bradley has been interviewed at least four times and submitted to a polygraph test which she
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passed according to a police Source after that Tracy obtained an attorney and police contact with her was required
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to go through that attorney so let's talk about that for a second here Captain what we have here is exactly
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what you said earlier it's a double edge sword for law enforcement yep I'm right
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again they need to know all of the details they need to know who is responsible for the girls having gone
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missing and you very quickly learn after talking to the mother that she's telling
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you multiple stories so what is she hiding then on then let's take a look at across
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the table from that detective across the table we have a mother who if she is innocent if she has no knowledge as to
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where her children are or where they've gone or who has taken them or why they are missing then we have across the
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table from us a victim who is sitting there going why are you spending so much time on me you should be out looking for
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my kids she was questioned for 22 hours total over the course of the first 4 days of
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this investigation 2 hours that Friday night and then on one occasion on uh the following day 6 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 her now keep in
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mind they are out actively looking for these girls on the streets in the Parks and everywhere they can think of why
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while they are talking to the mother now we should also point out too captain that not only did Tracy pass the
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polygraph but what about an alibi Tracy was underline that word was verified to be at work on the morning in question
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but let's keep in mind that that alibi only covers Tracy for that morning when she is working from a quarter to 7 till
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noon her own words yeah yeah cuz it's possible that the girls were still at home and she comes home and an accident
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happens or she does something to the girls and during that noon to 6: p.m. window she's responsible for them going
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missing not just that I think the problem that we need to truly be looking at as well as the problem you just
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pointed out let's know let's open up the window a little bit here Captain because
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the way I see it no one but Tracy and her so-called boyf friend George had seen the girls since 1 p.m. the night
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before on Thursday Tracy has consistently maintained that she had nothing to do with her girl's disappearance but her
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shifting stories and some other interesting behaviors gave her a reputation as a non-cooperative parent
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and people in the neighborhood who initially rallied around her started to turn we have roughly a timeline of the
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night before that they went missing like you said the mother and the the boyfriend of the mother didn't see the
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children after 10 p.m. yes so police learned that friends of Tracy's had come over to watch the Cubs game on Thursday
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night so this is very interesting to our investigation now we have other people with not really a dog in the fight other
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other than to find the little girls and to hope that the little girls are found safe and sound who are confirming to
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police and telling police the following we went over to Tracy's home we watched the Cubs game that Thursday night and
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most of them are saying we you know we left around 10 p.m. so that gives us that solid time of the girls are alive
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and well and everything's fine at 10 p.m. Thursday night the friends were questioned and reported that they saw
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both diamond and TI there at the apartment and reporting that both were fine and acting normal at that time now
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to further back that up the Cubs finished the 2001 season 88-74 not terrible and on that Thursday
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night they beat the Mets 13-4 this according to backt toe.com which is amazing website by the way the
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game lasted 3 hours and 10 minutes the game was played at sha Stadium in New York city so keep in mind the time
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change from New York to Chicago that night it was a s 10 pitch New York time so the game was over at
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9:20 Chicago time which makes perfect sense that the friends would be ushering out of Tracy's apartment around the
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people uh a one miss Oprah Winfrey uh but before we get dated a little bit in high school well you should have locked
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that up because I think that she's worth quite a good deal of coin my friend my grandma used to say you could love a
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rich one as much as you can a poor one this next part Captain let's call it phone records but put a nice bold
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question mark after the word records right Tracy told investigators that while she was at work on that Friday the
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the morning in question that she called her own apartment three times in the early morning hours but never got an
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answer so she's calling home she knows she left her girls alone at home nobody's picking up the
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phone it's unknown whether police verified that these calls actually happened but if they did verify that
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these calls happened it makes it even all the more alarming that Tracy didn't go home to see what was going on or what
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was wrong with her girls that they're not answering the phone now according to a
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2021 article in Oprah daily police pulled the phone records at Tracy's apartment and they indicated quote that
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several calls from other numbers to Tracy's apartment went unanswered over the course of the morning and there were
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two Hang-Ups end quote so Tracy Bradley has a cell phone we know that they pulled the records based off of this
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Oprah daily article no where does it State 100% that they verified the three calls coming from Tracy's cell phone to
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her own apartment but we know they were looking into the phone calls there was an incredibly huge an
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extensive search a huge search effort for these two little girls was underway during the whole course of the early
00:32:21
parts of this investigation and in fact at first at the very first the Bradley girls were considered quote missing by
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the police the police who felt with some evidence that they had walked off that the girls had walked off and perhaps
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just gotten lost or distracted this again from Oprah daily which of course is not usually one of
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our go-to sources but reporter Lee kungle did a very informative and lengthy article in 2021 Gang Busters
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work as we say here in the garage so we relied on that article quite a bit well this was a huge story out of Chicago and
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where is my ex-girlfriend from Chicago and look I tried to lock it down but the problem was we were we were so uh there
00:33:09
was too much passion that we that we had to separate it so uh we had to separate so Oprah
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could go on to have a good career according to Lee's article the Chicago Police responded immediately and again
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according to Lee's article he says this statistically is unusual for a case involving missing black children the
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initial search for the girls involved three police cars two supervisors and two K9 units which combed the
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neighborhood which included dumpsters yards vacant Lots businesses and the lakefront that is there on July 10th
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this is with the girls now missing for 4 days an FBI spokesman this is Ross rice
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told the Chicago Tribune quote we're still trying to find out what happened and we don't know the family pushed back
00:34:03
arguing that the girls had been abducted the FBI agent goes on to say I didn't want the community to overlook it
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like oh it's two kids who ran away Sheila the aunt the great aunt told USA Today no these kids were taken
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Sheila has become she went on to become uh the most present and vocal advocate for the two girls keeping their case in
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the spotlight and successfully getting the Chicago PD and the FBI to reclassify the investigation just after
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a few days as missing SL endangered and unfortunately that is the status still the status of this case to
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this day by July 12th it was officially termed a criminal missing person's investigation detective Ed Carroll who
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worked the case for several years years said to the Chicago Tribune State Police
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FBI Chicago they threw everything they had at it they set up a hotline they set up a command post as far as I know there
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were entire tactical teams and detectives detailed to this investigation at least for the first
00:35:17
month if not longer well one of the things that we like to do and one of the things I've learned from your expertise
00:35:24
throughout these last seven years is trying to break down the timeline and make it shorter make our window shorter
00:35:32
and so but there's no signs of force entry there's no signs of breaking in right are we to assume that when the the
00:35:41
mother and the boyfriend wake up that they just didn't check on the daughters or do they just not remember
00:35:48
checking on them no according to the mom she spoke with both of the girls especially the 10-year-old before
00:35:55
leaving for work that day so then that would put our window at about 6:30 a.m. correct if again though we're sitting
00:36:03
here yes she passed the polygraph but it it Still Remains difficult to believe her every word or any word right
00:36:12
and so all we have is the window remains wide open and and a big window at this point because
00:36:20
truly the last confirmed sighting by somebody other than George or other than their mother is roughly 10: p.m. the
00:36:27
night before and there's no 100% confirmed sightings other than George and Tracy after that 1 pm. time after the
00:36:39
Cubs game that night and here's look here's another thing that always aggravates us right surveillance cameras
00:36:47
at the apartment complex they're not working they're not working again it's the it's the false sense of security
00:36:55
that you give to your residence you have security cameras you just choose to not
00:37:01
use them but this is another reason why you might want to look into the parents because they would have known that the
00:37:08
cameras of the apartment complex or possibly would have known that the cameras at the apartment complex didn't
00:37:15
work it's it's aggravating as hell there's a chance that we could have saved two little girls lives or at least
00:37:25
know where they are bring them home had you just bothered to make sure that your
00:37:30
security cameras your surveillance cameras at your apartment complex were working and guess what they don't do at
00:37:37
the apartment complex Captain they don't do it anywhere when the cameras stop working they leave them up false sense
00:37:43
of security they don't go around to every resident and say oh by the way those cameras stop working or we ain't
00:37:49
changing the tapes no more we ain't paying for digital recording no more they don't tell anybody that they leave
00:37:55
you with feeling feeling a false sense of security investigators canvased the playground so we mentioned this in at
00:38:05
the top of the show there was a note that was left when Tracy Bradley comes home and does not
00:38:12
find her girls she finds a note and this note is saying that the notes written from TI saying me and Diamond we are
00:38:23
going to a playground and then we're going to go to the store and they never come home they
00:38:31
never return and of course Tracy and her family and friends checked the playground the nearest playground or or
00:38:37
the playground they believe that Tiana was talking about and the store that they believe that she was talking about
00:38:44
we get some conflicting reports when police start going around and canvasing the neighborhood and talking to people
00:38:51
they couldn't from my understand find anybody at the store that had ever said that they had seen the girls they did
00:38:57
find one or two people most of them children that said that they saw the kids saw the girls at the
00:39:04
playground but as we all know kids can be easily confused especially when you start asking about dates and about times
00:39:13
I can't say I can't sit here and say captain that the kids that were interviewed were interviewed at 9:00
00:39:20
p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m. that Friday night they likely couldn't track down these kids who were at this
00:39:27
playground this local playground that is shared by everybody in the community they wouldn't know who to ask that night
00:39:34
so these children that are saying yeah we saw the girls at the playground this could be the following day two days
00:39:40
later three or four days later I'm sure they saw the girls at a playground at the playground at one
00:39:47
time I just can't say that they were actually seen on the day in question and we know that adults can confuse dates
00:39:54
and times as well in fact the neighbor of of the Bradley's this is Fred Ramsey told the press that Tiana knocked on his
00:40:01
door around 10:00 a.m. asking if his daughter could come out and play and he told her it was too early another
00:40:08
neighbor Sheila Adams no relation different Sheila said that she saw both girls playing with other children in the
00:40:15
in the complex between 2:30 and 3:00 on that Friday the girls had asked her if if she had any candy or
00:40:25
juice again none of these sightings including the two neighbors that we just discussed have ever been confirmed so
00:40:33
there is and there is not 100% verified sightings of the girl since 10 p.m. on Thursday
00:40:41
night it was if they had completely evaporated well if we buy what the mother is telling us that she saw her
00:40:48
daughter she left for work if we buy maybe even the neighbor hey one of the girls came by to see if
00:40:55
my daughter can play now they're out into the world at this complex with how many
00:41:02
people are connected to this apartment complex it's a big apartment complex and more importantly the apartment complex
00:41:10
where Tracy's mother the girl's grandmother lives at is I believe it's said to be one of the largest if not the
00:41:17
largest complex in the United States so yeah then we get like you said Chicago is not a small City my friend it's a
00:41:26
heavily populated area and this is the south side of Chicago so yeah we have now one large apartment
00:41:34
unit the space between that unit and the next unit and then maybe the one of the
00:41:40
largest apartment complexes in the world in the United States yeah and and now you have to deal with all those people
00:41:47
because the proximity become people of Interest well and what we do know Captain is that according to reports
00:41:55
over five 500 officers searched a massive area and interviewed more than 1,000 people this including 30 relatives
00:42:05
of the two girls 100 detectives worked the case around the clock 20 Agents from the FBI's violent crimes task force
00:42:14
joined in the investigation and the FBI handled all of the evidence so FBI is in
00:42:20
charge of all the physical evidence but one thing that's missing from these reports speaking of evidence one thing
00:42:27
that I have not seen not heard anything about is whether Tracy's apartment was searched for any signs of
00:42:35
blood or whether anything other than the little girls were missing from the apartment well like I was saying before
00:42:42
if she came home and there was some kind of accident that maybe she's responsible
00:42:47
for or the younger girls responsible for or the boyfriend is responsible for does
00:42:55
it become a cover up situation they could have detected that if they had searched the apartment from top to
00:43:02
bottom 824 tips Captain came in the first week in the first few weeks of this investigation and according to
00:43:10
reports every one of those 824 tips were followed up on the national Center for missing and exploited children published
00:43:18
in circulated flyers for each of the girls the girls were featured on America's Most Wanted on Saturday July
00:43:26
14th 2001 so they go missing on the 6th their story their images their faces are
00:43:34
on America's Most Wanted on July 14th 8 days later and what we learn is fewer than
00:43:45
one dozen tips actually come in after the Airing of that episode so where they were hoping for this to lead to
00:43:53
something good in the investigation it didn't pan out well it's so frustrating too because you can see
00:44:03
where the lies to law enforcement from the mother initially make the case way more
00:44:13
complex because like you said if you can believe what the mother says then you're
00:44:19
shortening that time period and you're shortening your suspects and and where to look mhm there
00:44:27
is a reward that's still available in this case yeah very quickly Captain we have
00:44:34
$17,500 that was put up as reward money for information in the case and that money came from $10,000 from the
00:44:44
FBI $5,000 from the Chicago public school system and $2500 from the apartment building management company
00:44:54
itself now we have the FBI very quickly in this investigation going on record this is
00:45:02
Late July saying our speculation is that someone out there knows something but perhaps they have not come forward
00:45:10
because they're afraid that their information will not be confidential what we're saying is the
00:45:17
information will be confidential we will offer money for it two little girls who
00:45:23
have gone missing in this way didn't just walk down the street and disappear someone saw something and the FBI
00:45:32
believes that someone will know where they are located this statement could not be more truthful could not be more
00:45:41
honest because the way I see it if in fact if the girls were left alone that day while Tracy Bradley went off to work
00:45:50
then very likely what we had happened if the girls left the apartment on their own some somebody should have seen them
00:45:57
if they left with an abductor or were carried out of the apartment with an abductor or
00:46:03
abductors somebody should have seen them hell if you would have had surveillance
00:46:07
cameras well oh wait you did but they weren't working you would have had some footage of what actually happened that
00:46:14
day yeah so initially law enforcement is thinking H these girls ran away or they went outside to
00:46:22
play but we're probably going to find them MH but when you start talking and you start asking questions to the mother
00:46:30
and she's being untruthful this I mean this just starts sparking red flags all over the place
00:46:42
there's a lot of red flags here interesting though that the Chicago Police 20 days after the girls go
00:46:48
missing they labeled the case a kidnapping they do say publicly that they found nothing specifically pointing
00:46:55
to f play but as far as their investigation went and along with the search and the
00:47:02
searches for the girls turning up nothing it's looking more and more to detectives and investigators like the
00:47:09
girls were taken away by someone possibly that they trusted that the two girls trusted and so at this point in
00:47:16
your investigation if you are labeling it a kidnapping you are hoping that the two are alive somewhere and in the care
00:47:25
of some someone who took them again someone that they knew and if I'm law enforcement I
00:47:32
am harping on the idea of was this a normal action was this a normal part of your routine did you leave your
00:47:43
daughter's home alone before did was there a schedule where you left them home and if so who knew about
00:47:52
this because there's no sign of breaking in energ mhm but if you know the girls mhm and you know this schedule and you
00:48:01
know that they're going to be alone and you're a horrible pile of [ __ ] you might use this as a
00:48:08
opportunity to do something horrible well think about the phone records that we discussed Captain according to police
00:48:15
what they're saying about the phone records was that there were several hang-up calls that were reported uh on
00:48:22
that record and think about that for a minute if you see if you live in the apartment complex and you see Mom going
00:48:31
off to work well then you go all right well there there could be four girls in that
00:48:36
apartment there could be three there could be two there could be one or zero um how about I call that number I know
00:48:43
them let's see if somebody picks up and if they do who picks up the phone and if
00:48:48
it ain't mom or a an adult I'm going to make my move because here's my window of opportunity you're
00:48:57
exactly right if somebody was watching them when we say somebody that they trusted it doesn't have to be a family
00:49:02
member it doesn't have to be a family friend it could be a neighbor or somebody that lives there that they know
00:49:09
that they've talked to before yeah or somebody that they might know posing as somebody that they would be
00:49:18
comfortable opening up the door for before we continue to flesh out this timeline a little bit more we should
00:49:27
make clear that the Department of Child and Family Services had never been called to Tracy's apartment before that
00:49:36
doesn't we don't know what was going on inside of that apartment we don't know the relationship or how the girls were
00:49:42
treated all we know at this point is they were missing and there's not been any speculation of any kind of abuse
00:49:50
leading up to this point there's been no zero zero reports of that leading up to
00:49:57
the girls going missing now we do know that Tracy said that her air quotes boyfriend George picked her up from work
00:50:05
on Friday and took her to get a cake this at a juel Osco store uhhuh and investigators located a receipt from the
00:50:17
store which was stamped timestamped 12:21 p.m. Tracy had said earlier that she tried to call TI at the apartment
00:50:28
several times and got no answer so it does seem a little weird to call home after leaving your
00:50:37
girl's Home Alone getting no answer and then deciding that you know what rather than going directly home rather than
00:50:45
leaving work and going home sometime during my workday let's stop off at the pastry
00:50:52
shop real quick at the uh juel Osco and go pastry shopping before coming home to
00:50:58
find the apartment empty and she does say that when she arrived at the apartment George was with her so George
00:51:04
goes into the apartment with her she says that immediately she started searching for the girls when asked why
00:51:10
she didn't call police immediately she said that she assumed that they were playing somewhere in the complex
00:51:15
remember we do have that note saying that they might be playing somewhere in the complex she and her sisters Tracy
00:51:22
and her sisters and other family members searched all over this including the Ida B Wells complex where the girls
00:51:33
had friends this is a nearby complex they also searched the shores of Lake Michigan which was just blocks away they
00:51:40
searched there because the girls like to go there and play sometimes in the water
00:51:45
police found footage of a pair of girls who actually looked like Tracy's daughters at the juel Osco store located
00:51:53
at 35th in King Drive the police said there's a resemblance it's close enough to Peak the interest of
00:52:02
investigators again though we don't have anybody saying that they saw the actual
00:52:07
girls there at that store that day well like you said this this case is getting attention and when you're getting
00:52:15
attention but there's not much information coming back to you there has to be a level of
00:52:23
frustration that's Rising for law enforcement and it if and if I was a detective in this case now I'm not so
00:52:31
worried about looking outward I'm looking at at looking inward at family and friends that are connected to these
00:52:40
two victims well and it's been said that the investigation was complicated by the
00:52:46
fact that each of Tracy's four daughters have different fathers it's believed that Tracy at the time may have had
00:52:55
multiple boyfriends herself we know of George Washington who is referred to as her
00:53:02
boyfriend per Tracy's words there is a man named Daniel Torres who is a security guard or was a security guard
00:53:10
at the time that the girls went missing he professed to be Tia's real father this in an interview but also said that
00:53:18
he and Tracy had not been in contact and he had not seen TI for S years leading up to the girl
00:53:25
disappearance she's 10 at the time that she goes missing he told the Tribune he I mean he's being honest he says quote I
00:53:32
ain't been around people look at me as a lowi but I love my daughter he goes on to say her name is tattooed on my right
00:53:40
arm congratulations sir you got a tattoo of your daughter's name instead of spending time with her or supporting her
00:53:48
yeah or maybe take that money that you're going to spend on the tattoo and uh support your daughter yeah put it in
00:53:53
an envelope drop it off at Mom's house that would be a step in the right direction according to the Tribune Tracy
00:54:00
Bradley had filed two paternity suits against two different men trying to establish who the father of diamond was
00:54:09
the youngest girl this is according to court records the first lawsuit was dismissed after DNA testing ruled one of
00:54:16
the men out the second lawsuit was filed in June against the man whose home was searched
00:54:22
on the second lawsuit was filed in June so the month or weeks or days before the
00:54:30
girls go missing and was filed against a man who you've heard his name before Captain
00:54:37
George Washington his job at the time He's listed as a welder he's the man the boyfriend if you want to call him that
00:54:46
who drove Tracy to work that morning and picked her up this on the day that the girls vanished but one thing I've
00:54:53
learned about you my friend is any case that involves a note your ears perk up that's exactly right and that's one
00:55:03
thing that we've not really dissected yet it's the note because remember that Mom Tracy Bradley says that when she
00:55:11
came home from work that day that she found a note that was to her from her girls explaining why they were not in
00:55:19
the apartment and where they would be and here's the deal Captain if this note is legit then that proves that could be
00:55:29
proof that when Tracy Bradley left that morning for work that her girls were in fact alive and well after she left the
00:55:37
apartment that day and we know that Tracy Bradley was at work that day that was verified by law enforcement with
00:55:46
multiple other people and sources Tracy Bradley comes home she doesn't find her girls she simp L finds
00:55:55
a note that says that TI and Diamond were leaving the apartment to go to a nearby School playground and to go to
00:56:04
the juwel Osco store but does the Note actually exist and if so who actually wrote that
00:56:17
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