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chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] thank you [Music] Tracy Bradley told police that when she
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arrived at her apartment she could not find her daughters but instead she found a note and she says that 10 year old
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Tiana wrote this note and had left it for her Tracy says when she gets to the apartment on Friday she finds this note
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sitting on the back of her couch she was able to produce this note four investigators and hand it over to the
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Chicago Police the note in childish handwriting said Tiana and Diamond were leaving the apartment to walk to a
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nearby School playground and the Jewel-Osco store in the Lake Meadows Shopping Center Tiana was enrolled in a
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summer school program at a nearby elementary school but remember her mom told her that she could not go to school
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that day because she had to stay home and babysit three-year-old diamond summer school ran every day from
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breakfast time at 8 30 a.m until classes ended at 12 30 pm Tiana was marked absent
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that day for the first time ever according to records so this was not a typical thing
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that she's making Tiana to stay home to watch diamond the note said that she was bringing Diamond along with
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her to head over to the playground so they did not know Tracy Bradley the mom and friends and
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family did not know exactly which playground it didn't specify the note didn't clarify what playground this
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was just that it was a school playground and so she made the assumption that it was the playground of
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the elementary school where Tiana was going to the summer program that makes the most sense according to the
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Personnel working at that school they say that they had not seen Tiana obviously at the school because she's
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marked absent but also never saw her at any time that day on their playground we
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do know that the school called the Bradley apartment at 10 10 A.M and they received no answer as well so
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this is where you start to think all right okay Mom produces this note we know that Mom goes off to work at a
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quarter to seven we have the school calling at 10 10 a.m we're starting to shrink our window a little bit right
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Captain if something happened to the girls if they left that apartment by themselves or if they left with somebody
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else it would seem to stand to reason that they probably left before this 10 10 a.m call yeah I think that makes the
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most sense now we do know this that there was no time written on the Note Tracy said that she immediately went to
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the Jewel Osco store and immediately to the playground looking for her girls once she found the note she checked with
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neighbors and called family her sister Faith helped her search the neighborhood and then finally she called
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the police at six-ish or maybe sevenish depending on what report you read note again we keep circling back to this that
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Tracy took about five maybe six and a half hours to summon the police yeah but once she starts talking to police
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she's not being truthful do you have any indication from law enforcement that the mother turned this note over to law
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enforcement remember she did she produced the note and did in fact hand it over to law enforcement and in fact
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in a statement that she gave to the USA Today she says quote I taught my kids damn well and my kids wouldn't just up
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and leave and then leave a note and quote this is very interesting about this whole note thing and I think that
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this may point to something else going on in this situation so the extended family
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said that yes the note is legit however we got a question how legit the note is because the the family is saying look
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law enforcement yeah here's this note we believe that Tiana the 10 year old did write the note this is her handwriting
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however we don't think that she wrote this note by herself we think that somebody told her what to write
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somebody was coaching her what to write right because the families these are grown-ups they're telling the police and
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the investigators look all of the spelling is correct and the grammar is not that of 10 year
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old Tiana so basically what they're saying is she wouldn't have been able to spell these words without some help
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probably some of the words in fact we have a direct quote from one of the family members saying her writing a full
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letter with correct grammar question mark it's not appropriate for her keep in mind she's only 10 years old and the
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family member went on to say I'm quite sure whoever took them she was very comfortable with them that's so sad
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that's interesting because Tiana's 10 years old she's in charge of little three-year-old diamond
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if you are going to take these girls you're either going to have to fight Tiana or you're going to have to convince her
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that it's okay to leave with me or leave with us and oh by the way I need you to write
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this note we we should probably leave a note for for mom when she gets home and she doesn't find you
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uh in case she gets worried so she won't worry I'll have you back to the apartment in no time at all but just in
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case mom comes home let's write her out a nice little note but their aunt had more to say about this note right
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correct remember she's on the Nancy Grace show talking about the note Sheila says I had told the investigators
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early on when I first arrived on the scene that if that note was written that it was coached she was coerced meaning
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Tiana and she was told exactly what to write Nancy Grace says why do you say that Sheila Sheila responds well because
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Tiana had access to her mom's cell phone remember Tracy's at work with her cell phone
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and Sheila goes on to say Tiana had access to her grandmother's phone number and other families phone numbers and we
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also found a letter that Tiana had written about six months prior to that saying that grammatically the structure
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of the previous note previous letter was nothing like the one that was left that
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day on the couch we have a family member and this is backed up later by other family members and all the while Tracy
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is saying the same thing my kids don't leave notes for me if they need to get a hold of me they call me on
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my cell phone if they can't get a hold of me they call Grandma's number they call other family
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members phones this is the way that things went down in our apartment well let's unpack this for
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a second because if I have a three-year-old and a ten-year-old why would we if if I'm abducting them
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why am I leaving a note anyways to buy time if you're I mean I understand why you
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wouldn't want them to call their mother because you can't control what that 10 year old is going to say you can't say
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call your mom and oh by the way don't tell her it's me that's here right don't call your grandma uh because
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you know I can't control what you're going to tell your grandma on the phone I get why there's no call made to the
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mom or their grandmother but it seems odd to me that somebody would coach them into
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coach them into writing a letter that I don't I don't see how it buys you much time you're not thinking like a criminal
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you're not thinking like somebody that needs to hide something that would be very bad for them to be caught with
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so if the child writes a note instinctively most parents are going to go darn kid left the house told him not to
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leave the house they went to the playground makes sense kids go to the playground all the time went to the
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nearest convenience store makes sense kids go to the convenience store all the time guess what happens with most
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parents at this point in the ball game they don't pick up the phone and call police they go to the playground they
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don't pick up the phone and call police they go to the store now you've just bought yourself some
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time and you're probably wanting to get those kids as far away from that apartment as you can or conceal them
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because you do know at some point that people will be looking for these children and it won't just be mom
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anymore it will be law enforcement the people that you do not want to find you with these kids well that makes more
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sense because like you were saying the two locations exactly yeah I mean but that's a pretty
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high level of sophistication don't you think I don't know I I I don't know because it's it's because of the two
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locations hey if I put multiple locations they're gonna go look at the playground then they might go to the
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convenience store and then if they're at the playground or if they're at the convenience store and
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they can't find them they might be going oh well maybe they're back at the playground I think that what happened
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here is that we either have somebody that planned to take the little girls because they may have known in advance
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that they were going to be alone that day and if in fact they knew in advance and that means they are very close to
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this family very close to this mother could even be working in cahoots with the mother
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the other thing you have here is if somebody didn't plan it prior to that morning or prior to learning of that the
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girls would be alone that day on that day then what we have here is we have somebody that these girls knew well
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enough that they either let them into the apartment or had access to get into the apartment
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and knew the family well enough to say that these are the places that the kids went because they were places that this
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person knew that they had gone before and keep in mind if you are abducting children from a we
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already talked about talked about the population in this area this is the middle of the day you are
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likely to be seen leaving with these girls you do not want to be seen running out
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of the building with them in your arms kicking and screaming no you want them to think that you're
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taking them somewhere that they enjoy going you're here all day by yourself well
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that's got to be boring let's go down to the playground for a little bit let's go over to the store
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I'll get you some juice and some candy right we'll have a good old time we'll pass the time I'll have you back here
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before Mom even shows up but just in case kids let's write Mom a note and tell her where we're going we don't
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want her to worry and of course Tiana's 10 years old she's smart enough to know I can't be right mom a note saying we're
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going to X and Y while this dude or this lady already told me that we're going to
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a and b that's not registering that doesn't make any sense that raises flags so I think what you have here Captain is
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a situation somebody's covering their tracks somebody's buying time and I think that that you have one of two
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situations either this person knew in advance that they were going to be alone that day or figured it out on that day
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and came up with a plan but if I'm reading you right you're also saying that this isn't excluding
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the possibility of the involvement that their mother or the boyfriend has something to do with it correct because
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those two would have known for certain that the two girls would be home alone that day they likely knew in advance the
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night before that the two girls would be home alone that day that's when you got
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to start narrowing this down okay was it somebody that spotted the mom and the boyfriend leaving and figured out oh
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there's kids alone in that apartment I don't know if it's four three two or one kids but there's kids alone in that
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apartment and I'm interested in that or there's very few people very few people on this list that would have known prior
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to that morning that there would be kids left alone in that apartment and if there was some plan put in place in
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advance then you you have to believe it can be traced back to one or multiple people the in that small group that knew
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the day before or even days before that the girls might be home alone that day the police
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very astutely Captain made Tracy write this message the same little note over and over and over again because they
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wanted to decide if Tracy had wrote this note and try to pass it off as Tiana wrote the note
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eventually the note is sent to the FBI for analysis in comparison to other writings by the little girl
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now I know how suspicious everybody probably is of Tracy at this point but this is just fact people
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the FBI came back and according to their experts They concluded that tianda did in fact
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did in fact write that note further They concluded that Tiana's fingerprints were on the Note as well
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so the note is legit I side with Sheila our champion and the extended family that say that this note
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was probably coerced and coached by somebody else so it was beginning to look like Tracy's
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story might have been spot on Tiana decided to take her little sister with her and left
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her mom a note but again you have to say was this coerced and I think that it was based
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off of everything everything that all of the other family members are saying I think one of the reasons why this case
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has been covered like you said it was covered in the Oprah Magazine or the Oprah publication
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is the more you learn about the events the more you learn about the people involved the more questions you have
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it feels like you just you don't come to like a dead end where you where a question is
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solved in a perfect scenarios okay law enforcement has taught us that the 10 year old wrote the note
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but that doesn't tell us if somebody helped her somebody coached her we know from family
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members that the main line of communication would have been through cell phones not just to the mother but
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to also to the grandmother in that same Oprah daily article you have one of the older daughters slightly older daughter
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of Tracy's her name is Rita listen to this quote she says we never in our lives wrote a letter for our mom
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if we needed to get a hold of mom we called her on her phone now listen to this we know according to Tracy Bradley what
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she told law enforcement she said to law enforcement look yes I left my little ones home alone that day but I told them
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don't open the door for anybody and if something comes up call me just call me well something must have come up because
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later in the investigation we find out that Tiana did call Tracy Bradley while she was at work
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however Tracy didn't pick up the phone it goes to voicemail so a few days after the girls vanished
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Captain Tracy gave her cell phone to her mother her mother's name is Mary Bradley
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it's unclear why she gave the phone to her mother but her mom had the phone a few days after the girls were missing
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and according to the family there's 10 of them that are sitting around trying to figure out how to find the girls
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they're having a family meeting how do we find these little girls right that makes sense one of the family members
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looks at Tracy's phone and notices that she has a voicemail that has not been listened to yet
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now we're all guilty of this right we get a voicemail we fail to listen to it right away when we get it time goes by
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we kind of forget about it I have thousands of them maybe we didn't even notice that we missed a call that's what
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happens to me I set my phone down I don't even notice that I missed the call sometimes I don't even notice that I
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have a voicemail well what we have going on here though is the family says that they checked the
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voicemail and the voicemail was from Tiana the missing 10 year old girl and the call came in at 8 17 on the day that
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the two girls disappeared what did it say 10 extended family members say that they
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heard this voicemail altogether was played out loud all 10 of them that were in their family meeting that day trying
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to find the girls come up with a way how to find the girls heard this voicemail together Sheila summed it up on her
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appearance on Nancy Grace and she says the message said Mama this is Tiana mom pick up the phone George is at the door
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can I open the door he said that we are going to Jules to pick up the cake there
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we're coming to pick you up from work here's the problem there's many problems this story makes
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some sense yeah these one of the other sisters Victoria her birthday was the next day
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so was 10 year old Tiana talking about George Washington who had just dropped Mom off at work at
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a quarter to seven that he's outside the apartment at the door she's calling Mom can I open up the
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door George says that we're going to jewels that convenience store that store nearby store to pick up a cake
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makes sense to the 10 year old her sister's birthday is the next day yeah and if George is saying hey we're
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going to go to the play at the park and then we're going to go to the store and she tries to call Mom and nobody answers
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and then she goes I'll just write a note I'll make sure I write a note according to the media Captain this
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voicemail somehow got erased so the Chicago Police Department has never addressed
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how this happened uh according to the family and according to police they said they did hear the voicemail and somehow
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it got erased if 10 members of a family all tell the same story I have no reason to believe that they're
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lying well we don't have to question them because we do have the Chicago Police Department saying we heard the
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voicemail they heard it as well it sounds to me like the voicemail got erased once the phone was given to the
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police department you know sometimes when you're talking I should pay a little bit more attention hey you don't
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know how you missed that and apparently the Chicago Police Department does not know how the voicemail got erased they
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they never addressed this public publicly other than to say that they heard the voicemail yeah but I wonder if
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it's one of those things if it's played so many times and you don't hit save every time
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you know if it just goes away who who knows you got to get one of these uh digital forensic people in your big
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giant Police Department there and one of the largest cities in the United States
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to help you work a phone yeah but does it even matter if 10 people from the family know what it says right you're
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right and law enforcement knows what it says then George has a lot of answering to do as a wise man once said you are
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absolutely right now as you pointed out the problem with this case is that there
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are it's a large equation and there's a different argument for each item that we look at in this case
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and here we have what we think is evidence of who we should be going after however we learn
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that there are in fact Two Georges [Music] [Music] in New Orleans 2012 Bruce kachera drove
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to an address someone had given him that didn't exist as he stood in the parking
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lot where the address should have been he was shot and killed I'm Delia diambra join me for the newest season of
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counterclock as I dive into the motive behind Bruce's murder and a series of events that have never been fully
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cans in the air they're captured cheers now as we heard in Tracy's fourth story through the police her on again
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off-again boyfriend George Washington came over sometime around 3 A.M maybe 4 a.m that morning on that Friday the two
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spent some time together and then Tracy got ready for work George drove her to her job and dropped her off at work at
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about 6 30 6 45 a.m that morning now we do need to tell all the wonderful listeners out there that yes in fact
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George Washington is was Diamond's father so we hear this voicemail evidence did George head right back to the
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apartment to take care of his little girl for the day while Mom was at work remember the voicemail right George is
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here should I let him in was George playing the good responsible father taking care of his child nope not
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according to Mr George George agreed to come in for questioning with police sat down for a series of interviews with
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police he spent two entire days being questioned George told police that he never went back to the apartment never
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saw the girls that day nor did he participate in the searches for the girls when Tracy discovered that they
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were missing he said it wasn't his problem because he did not believe that diamond was his child in fact he said
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that he and Tracy had argued about who the father was and he insisted on taking a paternity test so it sounds to me
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Captain like we may have found out after the girls are missing that he is in fact
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the father of three-year-old Diamond well congratulations George that you didn't come back to watch your daughter
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or the daughter that you weren't claiming but where were you did somebody see you do you have an alibi
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what where did you go well and as said he was questioned for two days and then George lawyered up after that and we had
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said earlier that there I think it's hilarious can't pay for their own kids but hey I can pay for a lawyer well and
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I know something that you're worried about here Captain it's unclear whether George had any legit kind of
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Alibi for the morning in question this is from the Nancy Grace interview with a James Miller he's a former detective who
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worked the case as a private investigator Miller told Nancy Grace the story goes that George Washington came about 4
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30 in the morning to see Tracy and they left together for about an hour and a half they had about six in the morning
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he had drove Tracy to work and then he went to his girlfriends at around 97th Street and then he went and visited
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his mother then approximately around noon I'm reading from the transcript so forgive me everybody out there Grace
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Nancy Grace interrupts Mr Miller saying wait wait wait what girlfriend top mom you're talking about the boyfriend
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George Washington the boyfriend of the mom right Miller responds you know Tracy and
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George were boyfriend and girlfriend but you know I don't know if they had a serious relationship or not
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he says the detective goes on to say after Tracy's shift he picked up Tracy with two co-workers he then dropped them
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off at their various locations around 47th Street then he and Tracy drove back to the apartment
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and there's more this from the Oprah article police pulled George's cell phone records he
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was on his phone a lot but there were some spots some time periods that he's not on the phone at
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all so beginning at 4 30 a.m on July 6th he made at least 40 phone calls hot damn
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over a period of 24 hours that's a lot so from 4 30 a.m on the 6th when the girls go missing to 4 30 a.m on the 7th
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he makes 40 phone calls in that 24-hour time period there are two stretches during which he called no one this is
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from 7 A.M to 9 A.M remember what time did Tiana call her mother and leave a voicemail a little
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after 8 A.M then from 5 PM to 6 30 P.M he's not calling anyone but his phone is actively pinging off of cell towers on
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the far south side of the city near multiple forest preserves and a river which makes no sense on why
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he would be there unless he did something to these girls I mean think about you have all these arguments
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whether or not that's your daughter or not and if you don't want a daughter well guess what
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I'll just kill her suppose of the body we won't have to have that argument ever again especially
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if we're talking about just the month prior captain that we have the mother saying look this is your daughter and
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she's filed paternity lawsuit against you yeah because if you don't stick with her you're going to be paying child
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support or in some cases you just pay child support anyways because you're not married
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and so what are you doing in these Woods Mr George you chopping down a cherry tree
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well and I know that all the listeners are saying but guys you said that there are two Georges who is this other George
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we need to consider him as a possible suspect as well well you're exactly right so this guy's name we got George
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Washington who we've talked about at length the problem with this other George he's referred to and described as
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a close family friend and this is a guy that the girls and their sisters the older sisters had
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routinely gone over to this man's apartment this for to be babysat or a very brief period of time if Tracy
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had to run out and grab something the problem with this other George is that he was known to the family and
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by a nickname and the family Tracy's family says the girls and remember we have the two
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older sisters that that can tell us the same story and back all of this up they all say we never called him George
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some of the family didn't even know that that was his name his first name they all refer to him as by his nickname so
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where you have to go okay well we got Two Georges here and we gotta question both of them got to be concerned about
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both of them one of the Georges is not looking so good right now uh based off of his cell phone records the other one
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is not looking so good as a suspect because everybody in the family is saying we never called him George tianda
00:34:28
would not have said George is here well and think about that I mean even even when you're 10 years old
00:34:34
when you hear somebody not call your mom mom but they call her by her real name it freaks you out a little bit
00:34:44
like oh yeah my mom's name isn't mom you know I mean so if you have a family friend that
00:34:52
you've been calling we have no way of knowing if she even knew this individual's name was George
00:35:00
other than his nickname and then listen to this this is all from the Chicago Sun Times summarizing a
00:35:09
wicked long piece in the USA Today in this piece they did not name George Washington they just left it as we got a
00:35:21
suspect here they don't name him but of course we call it like it is here in the garage so
00:35:26
we will name George Washington and the article reads as follows several pieces of evidence this is actual evidence
00:35:34
captain several pieces of evidence have pointed investigators in George's direction for
00:35:40
one investigators found a hair matching Tiana and Tracy's DNA in his vehicle's trunk
00:35:51
he tells police that he would sneak the girls into the drive-in theater in the city you know put him in the
00:35:59
trunk sneak him in the whole family goes and watches a movie with in George's car
00:36:03
we do that so we don't have to pay for the two little ones that sounds a little bullshitty well the problem with this
00:36:11
statement is not does it just sound like [ __ ] it smells like [ __ ] too there because the investigators are
00:36:17
pointing out look the closest drive-in at the time is in the suburbs it's not in the city
00:36:24
yeah and then to back that up Tracy's family's saying we've never heard of Tracy and the girls ever going
00:36:32
to a drive-in movie theater yeah so that story doesn't seem to hold a lot of water [ __ ] then George offered
00:36:40
up to law enforcement conflicting stories about his actions on the day that the girls went missing more
00:36:46
[ __ ] four teenagers and three Neighbors on that day said that they saw him setting fire to something in a 55-gallon
00:36:56
drum in his backyard garage so he's got an unattached garage to his home he lives about 10 miles south of the
00:37:06
girl's apartment we have according to this report seven people that say on that day they saw him
00:37:15
burning something in a five gallon drum not in his backyard in the garage that's
00:37:21
located in his backyard then we have some of those people saying that they saw him at some point putting
00:37:29
a barrel into the trunk of his car and driving away with this Barrel now George as we said earlier is a
00:37:39
welder and a machinist he claimed that he had never burned anything in a drum or even had a drum Barrel but again
00:37:49
police are saying that they have persons that are saying that there was a barrel
00:37:53
and now after the girls are missing this Barrel is missing from his property as well well I'd really love to know his
00:38:02
explanation for the cell phone pings here's some other things you're going to want to know explanations for here
00:38:10
Captain yeah just you know just uh oh you just punched me in my goddamn face because you're really pissing me
00:38:17
off so armed with this information police are going to search George's home and his property and his vehicle and
00:38:25
George said that he gave the investigators and surrendered the keys to his car and his house
00:38:31
now investigators are saying in his garage they found recently purchased rubber gloves contractor trash bags and bleach
00:38:42
all from a Home Depot the investigators think could have been a way of cleaning up after the girls
00:38:48
went missing police have the receipt for the purchase so they go missing on the sixth on the
00:38:56
seventh George bot contractor trash bags gardening gloves and protective neoprene
00:39:02
gloves when police searched his home several days later they find the receipt and there are five bags missing from the
00:39:09
roll and the gardening gloves were not found at all remember we have reports that say that
00:39:17
he burned something in a 55 gallon drum which then other Witnesses say that they
00:39:22
saw him loading this drum into his car and that he left for about 45 minutes and he and his car come back to his home
00:39:30
about 45 minutes after leaving with this 55 gallon drum I have a big issue with George when he
00:39:39
says I didn't even own this Barrel so these eyewitnesses are just making that up
00:39:48
he you see what I'm saying like it becomes way more suspicious because it's like right I would even buy I don't
00:39:58
really know what they're talking about maybe I own one I I don't remember what I did with it
00:40:05
anything other than that never existed I never had one of those I don't know what
00:40:11
you're talking about well and there's other proof too to back up some of these eyewitnesses stories and statements
00:40:16
police found burn marks at the top of his garage right smoke heat Fire Rises and the witnesses say he was burning
00:40:28
something not in the backyard but inside the garage of his backyard and later police find burn marks
00:40:36
on the Rafters in the ceiling of that garage and why would you do that because you'd want to conceal
00:40:44
what was in that barrel and remember His prior statements to law enforcement I did not have a 55 gallon drum I did not
00:40:51
burn anything um somebody burnt something in this garage well there's a lot of other people that
00:40:59
please look into but it's hard to turn away from George Washington and then the other issue becomes
00:41:07
because the mother isn't being that honest with anybody let alone law enforcement it makes you wonder is she a
00:41:17
part of this or or is she just dumb and and kind of covering up for them or trying
00:41:28
to protect him in in some way or some of this stuff too you wonder Captain is she
00:41:33
is she smart and just preoccupied with the fact that her kids are missing and might be an emotional wreck very
00:41:41
distracted so but let's kind of piece all this together what we do have here is suspicious behavior and movements by
00:41:48
George Washington Tiana leaving a voicemail for her mother saying that George is at the door
00:41:55
so this is somebody that either through the door vocally identifies himself as George to the kids or
00:42:04
I don't know if there's a peephole or if there's a way for the children to see outside of the front door to the
00:42:10
apartment and she is Visa visibly identifying this person as George to her mother on the voicemail there's a if
00:42:21
it's not George Washington there's a lot of coincidences here pointing to him right and too many so that I think that
00:42:29
that this has got to be the number one suspect and we do know that at some point there were several people
00:42:36
that pushed and pushed and pushed for prosecutors to charge George with the kidnappings
00:42:43
and they decided that there was not enough concrete evidence to charge George Washington with anything
00:42:53
but then I want to point out a few things that we've already kind of circled around before
00:42:57
I'm a little suspicious of anyone that would have known that the girls would have been alone in the apartment prior
00:43:04
to the day that they went missing yeah the sisters aren't there the older sisters are conveniently not there and
00:43:12
they're at Grandma's house friends are over the night before to confirm that tianda and Diamond are
00:43:19
alive and well at 10 pm Thursday night then we have Tracy who goes off to work and tells four different stories
00:43:30
when she comes home and does not find her kids four different stories to police and the thing is it's I feel like the
00:43:38
best person the best suspect is probably hiding right there in the shadows of one
00:43:43
of these stories one of Mom's four stories to police so who is missing from three of those stories George
00:43:55
she tells three different stories before getting to the fourth story that includes George Washington's name to
00:44:02
police and then Tiana calls saying that George is at the door George has suspicious
00:44:07
Behavior his cell phone record activity looks strange does Mom know is she covering for George
00:44:14
is she purposely leaving George's name out of the equation early on in the investigation the other thing who else's
00:44:21
name is missing from some of those stories in fact this person's name is missing from all of the stories
00:44:29
Sheila tells Nancy Grace why would Tracy lie well it's simple Nancy and I know and I believe in my heart of
00:44:40
hearts that Sheila believes this I believe in my heart of hearts that Tracy told her this
00:44:46
Sheila tells Nancy Grace Tracy lied because a family friend somebody close to our family who has had
00:44:54
run-ins with Illinois Department of Child and Family Services told her just go look for your kids don't call it
00:45:04
in because if you tell them that you left your kids your 10 year old your three-year-old Home Alone that day while
00:45:10
you went off to work they're going to throw you in jail and or they're going to take your kids
00:45:15
from you right well that person is not mentioned by Tracy to police that portion of the story of why she
00:45:26
lied is not mentioned to police who is that person's name is that person George Washington
00:45:35
who could that person be why would a person tell Mom don't call the police for the same reason that somebody would
00:45:44
coerce and Coach a 10 year old to write a note and leave a note for Mom the other thing too that we know that
00:45:53
happened in this case there Captain is Wolf Lake Memorial Park was searched extensively on more than one occasion
00:46:03
we have witnesses that say that they saw George Washington burning something in a
00:46:09
55-gallon drum in his garage and then loading that drum up into the back of his car and driving off and then coming
00:46:17
back without the drum 45 minutes later guess where Wolf Lake Memorial Park is 22 to 24 minute drive from George's home
00:46:30
I think that police were on to something I think that there's a chance that they
00:46:34
were in the right location this area is huge this area is huge and maybe it's just
00:46:41
too big maybe they didn't find what they were looking for and oh by the way Wolf
00:46:45
Lake is huge itself it's an 804 acre large lake I would not be surprised that if George
00:46:55
Washington dumped and disposed of a drum that contains significant evidence to this
00:47:02
case I would not be surprised if it's eventually found and recovered in that Wolf Lake Memorial Park but I like to go
00:47:10
back as as if I'm law enforcement if if I'm law enforcement and I have all these
00:47:16
things pointing to this bag of [ __ ] right cadaver dogs do they do they use them scent dogs did
00:47:25
they use them well I don't know if they use them but they use they use canine units looking
00:47:31
for the girls that night and during the day yeah but I'm guessing they're not looking for their bodies in those parks
00:47:37
and and I wish they would and again I think this is one of those situations and that's why
00:47:43
a lot of these other Persons of Interest you know this other George those kind of
00:47:48
Fall by the wayside because I think law enforcement once they got on the scent of George Washington and
00:47:56
it's like here here's a situation where the victim by leaving that voicemail is giving you the information that you
00:48:05
need to point you in the right direction now all you have to do is collect enough
00:48:10
evidence to charge this monster and he's a monster to to destroy a three-year-old to just
00:48:20
destroy a 10 year old I mean I I think it's one of those cases where all the evidence points in this
00:48:30
direction but can we prosecute him you have to hope if in fact that that somebody wanted to get rid of the two
00:48:38
girls that maybe they gave them away rather than got rid of them you have to hope and pray that that
00:48:47
could be a possible scenario here and that maybe if George is the best suspect that he was burning evidence rather than
00:48:55
something else FBI profiler Pat Brown spoke to Nancy Grace about this case and before we get into
00:49:05
what she said we should point out that Tracy and George Washington said that they were going to be taking the two
00:49:13
little girls on a camping trip a lot of the family found this to be weird because
00:49:19
it's my understanding that this was not a regular activity and it may have never have happened
00:49:25
before at least with George and the two little girls in Georgia's defense police did find
00:49:33
evidence proof positive that he did in fact either purchase or borrow some camping equipment this would indicate
00:49:41
that maybe that there is some truth to that story that that weekend we were going to go camping however what police
00:49:50
also did not uncover was any prior arrangements they didn't preserve a campsite even though it's near
00:49:57
Fourth of July weekend which Fourth of July that that year was on a Wednesday so the weekend prior and the
00:50:06
weekend after are going to be very busy camping weekends now maybe George Washington is not a camper and would not
00:50:13
know it's in our best interest to reserve a site before we drive out there but listen to this where they were
00:50:23
supposedly going to go camping or according to George where they were going to go camping was ending in
00:50:30
Indiana Wolf Lake Memorial Park sits right on the state line it's about half in Indiana and half in Illinois and
00:50:40
we already pointed out the proximity to George George's home to that Park to that large outdoor
00:50:49
Nature Preserve Pat Brown on Nancy Grace says that she believes that the ant who has taken up the fight for these
00:51:03
girls Sheila she says Sheila is exactly right Sheila is right on the money she believes this is not a stranger
00:51:10
abduction Pat Brown says I believe it's not a stranger abduction I believe that it goes right back to
00:51:19
those Georges Pat Brown says my guess is George Washington the father of diamond
00:51:24
they ought to be looking there at him and they also ought to be looking in Indiana where they supposedly were going
00:51:33
camping why would that state come up into somebody's mind if they had never camped before Indiana look over there
00:51:41
and they're not going to be alive sadly Pat Brown says Brown pointed out that if
00:51:47
the girls were abducted by a random stranger they would have been dumped within hours
00:51:53
and the killer would not have been afraid to discard them in a public place because he had no link to them we've
00:52:01
talked about that plenty of times on this show The closer the perp to the victim the more effort that they put
00:52:10
into concealing the body she goes on to say someone took great care to hide these bodies someone who
00:52:18
knew those girls were home alone someone who the girls were comfortable with someone who either knew to pose as a guy
00:52:26
named George or who was a guy named George as the captain pointed out the FBI is still offering a ten thousand
00:52:36
dollar reward for information about the Bradley sisters and their disappearance a statement to Oprah daily reads the FBI
00:52:44
is still actively providing investigative assistance to the Chicago Police Department with respect to The
00:52:50
Disappearance of diamond and Tiana Bradley there have been Personnel changes at the Cook County State's
00:52:56
Attorney's Office since the girls vanished and many hope that a new regime will mean charges will be brought in
00:53:05
this case according to our friends at the Charlie project based off of information of when the
00:53:12
girls went missing diamond is three foot 40 pounds black hair brown eyes she has a scar on
00:53:23
the left side of her hairline she normally wears her hair braided in the back with four ponytails Diamond has
00:53:31
deep set eyes ten-year-old Tiana four foot two 70 pounds Tiana has brown hair brown eyes
00:53:40
has a quarter-sized burn scar on her left forearm she had a scrape on her left calf at the time of her
00:53:48
Disappearance in July of 2001 and she normally wears her hair in Long ponytails she loved to dance and loved
00:53:55
gymnastics in 2021 to Mark the 20th anniversary of tianda and Diamond's disappearance the
00:54:05
national Center for missing and exploited Children released new age progressed images of the girls they have
00:54:12
Tiana seen at 30 years of age in Diamond at 23. age enhanced images can be seen on our true crime garage National Center
00:54:22
for missing and exploited children fundraising page again that web address is give dot
00:54:29
missingkids.org True Crime garage the FBI asks anyone with information about The Disappearance of these girls to
00:54:37
contact Chicago Police Department detectives at 312-747-8380 or your local FBI office
00:54:47
and a Twist and an update there has been a female that has come forward on Tick Tock claiming that it's possible that
00:54:56
she is the three-year-old girl that was missing and she has contacted the FBI to
00:55:04
try to get DNA testing done now the family came out and said well we've actually had at least a dozen
00:55:13
girls come forward and say I might have been one of the abducted girls or kidnapped girls
00:55:19
but none of them have gone as far as to contact the FBI to get DNA testing done that just happened two days ago so we
00:55:30
will stay on that with any updates as far as if she is one of the missing girls or not
00:55:41
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