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crime there are few things more terrifying than a tornado when the sirens go off
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and the clamoring whale warns of an impending force of nature strong enough to lift a home off of its foundation the
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human instinct is to run take cover and pray we are all taught at a young age to
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love Mother Nature but to fear her wrath as well when it comes to a tornado our parents taught us to take shelter in our
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basements at school we would take cover under desk but what about a 2-year-old little kids
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have to rely on the protection of a parent or the help of a caring adult the southern states are typically more prone
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to experience tornadoes due to atmospheric conditions and other meteorological forces we won't pretend
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to understand the state of Georgia suffers its share averaging about 20 tornadoes a year the storms cause a
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range of damage some result in minor damage to property taking down trees and power lines and others are more
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destructive lying waste to entire buildings but even in those cases rarely are people killed Warning Systems are in
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place notifying all to seek shelter in a bunker or basement to wait out the Twister above usually at least 20
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minutes notice is given and is sufficient to allow everyone to find a safe place to ride the storm out but in
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Georgia on January 21st and 22nd of 2017 40 tornadoes touched down in just under 48 Hours the strongest was an
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ef3 with Winds of 150 M hour and a mild wide path the damage was Indescribable in the wake of the storms the state
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resembled a Wast land and was declared a state of emergency FEMA and the National
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Guard were called in damage estimates were around $100 million but even more important than the destruction of homes
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farmhouses Barns and buildings was the loss of life 15 people died in the state of Georgia and five others and other
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Southern States as a result of these Twisters which left total devastation in their wake entire neighborhoods were
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flattened by the storm one of the areas hit in dowy County was a mobile home park located in Albany this was Piney
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Woods estates Mobile Home Park occupying the 3500 block of Sylvester Road as you
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can imagine the combination of a powerful tornado and mobile homes many of which are not permanently attached to
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a foundation is deadly around 3:15 p.m. on Sunday January 22nd the tornado directly hit the mobile home park
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according to the Albany heral it stayed on the ground for 71 miles ripping across the county and within minutes
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most of the mobile home park was pretty much wiped out some of the trailers were
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reduced reduced to match stick siiz pieces of debris trees from the woods surrounding the park were everywhere
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sinks toilets grills and Furniture were stuck in trees and cars were overturned it looked like a zombie apocalypse with
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disoriented people staggering for help one CNN reporter described it as looking like a nuclear bomb went off 145 people
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who were displaced by the storm sought shelter at the Albany civic center turning into a makeshift hostile for the
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newly homeless it was chaos and displaced residents despaired at the total loss of their homes and their
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belongings this week's True Crime Story is less about those terrible storms that
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affected so many people and more about what was brewing behind closed doors this is true crime garage and this is
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the case of detres [Music] green [Music] one of the mobile homes in the park located at 3527 Sylvester Road Lot
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Number 8 was occupied by a family of five on Sunday January 22nd young parents Kev green and adja rainy and
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their three young children two boys and a newborn girl weathered the storm in their mobile home they had decided not
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to heed the evacuation warnings that had blared throughout the park although their trailer still stood After the
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Storm passed through it was declared a total loss because of a large oak tree that fell through the roof into the
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kitchen area of the home as described by the Albany heral rainey's home like the
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rest of Piney Woods estate was a disaster area after the storm photos of the wrecked trailer show dirt litter
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shoes and toys amid piles of debris and as they picked themselves up and came to
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their senses in the new quiet After the Storm Kev and adasia noted the absence of their 2-year-old son detres so we
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have here Captain the Green family it's going to be a family of five we have Kevin a green and his partner Adia
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Rainey often I want to point out that in a lot of these news articles and news summaries of this story that we're going
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to be quoting and mentioning throughout our story and our timeline of this case they will often refer to adasia Rainey
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as simply by her last name rainy and often Uh Kevin a green by his last name green so I don't want anybody to get
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confused as we move our way through this uh this story here standing outside of what was the left of his home Kevin a
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green described for a CNN reporter the last time he saw his son detres now keep in mind detres is two years old quote
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last time I saw him he was playing with a toy I just hope they can find him you know I've been crying man but I don't
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want to cry in front of the cameras you know this is what kevina tells the reporter he goes on speaking with the
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reporter to say see that tree right here it kind of divided me and then he's asked were you with your two year old
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when this happened he responds no sir well we were in the same area but we weren't together kevina explained the
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last time I saw him he was right by that door I was cooking and he was kind of right by me kind of it's real difficult
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I can't find my son don't got a place to stay those were his statements to CNN Jerry green Kevin's brother he told the
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following story to the Atlanta Journal Constitution according to J green Kev had told him later they were watching TV
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when the storm hit and detres was playing with a remote control car on the kitchen floor quote he said he could
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hear the storm and strong winds and everything blowing detres was near the kitchen door when it flung open about
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the same time a massive tree fell and split the trailer separating parents from the child on the other side adasia
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started toward detres but Kev was afraid should get hurt and threw her down with
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the kitchen door open the wind pounded the parents screamed in the darkened afternoon and wondered how they would
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save their boy until quote it snatched my nephew out of the trailer Jerry green said DET trees's mother adasia never
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spoke to the media it sounds to me Captain like did she not speak to the media on that day I don't think nor
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could I find anywhere that she ever spoke with the media in regards to this situation we have a lot of her
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statements that are coming secondhand through people that know her yeah she could be just too heartbroken to speak
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on the matter she's reportedly to have told investigators that detres slipped away from her and walked into the
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kitchen area toward the back door of the trailer just before the massive oak tree
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crashed through the roof now adasia told emergency responders that she did not see the Child leave the home or get
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swept away but believed that indeed he had been carried off by the storm and this is what she told her family well
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same kind of story but sort of so Willie Rainey this is AD deia's grandfather he
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tells the media quote adasia told me that he meaning detres kind of got spooked from the storm and that he ran
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toward the kitchen the tree hit the house and the back door flew open and the storm pulled him out of the house
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end quote this was theoretically possible of course after all the average 2-year-old weighs about
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27bs literally nothing too powerful for an ef3 tornado everyone agreed that the storm that powerful a storm that
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powerful could take a trailer off the ground so it certainly could have taken a 2-year-old child well think about the
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pounds of pressure would take just to open up the door we don't know if that door was locked or or unlocked but or
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latched yeah and then also the pounds of pressure and the force that would have to to rip a tree out and smash into the
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mobile home and I want to be clear about something before we move on here Captain
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when we say adasia told emergency responders emergency responders are responding to that area immediately
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after the tornado leaves the area these are not statements that she gave to those responders when they are arriving
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on scene and we'll see how that breaks down as we go through our timeline here now Captain here's a breakdown of day
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one of the search for little detres green So within an hour this is exactly what I'm talking about right here within
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an hour after the storm hit the park Emergency Management officials convened on dowy County to survey the damage and
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to assist people who were injured stranded or otherwise although First Responders were swamped and overwhelmed
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by the number of people needing Aid after the storms passed through on Sunday Afternoon Of course a missing
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toddler swept up by the storm will take top priority Sunday night note the times
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here the tornado rolls through there about 3:15 that afternoon within an hour emergency services are in the area
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they're at this mobile home park it's not until that night that they're searching for detres and we'll find out
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why here in a bit but by Sunday night Captain it was all Hands-On deck in the search for detres green we have dozens
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of of Albany search and rescue Personnel members of state agencies we have Civil
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Air Patrol and specially trained search and rescue firefighters descending on that Piney Woods estates Mobile Home
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Park and mobilized to scour the area for detres but I'm also guessing at this time there's no electricity in that area
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no but the Personnel that we're describing here would be used to that type of situation and given the area you
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know the the southern states are more prone to these types of Storms and tornadoes than up in the north and other
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parts of our country this is not their first rodeo and so they know what they're doing and they're experienced
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right they know where to look and we have this statement that kind of backs this up this comes from the dowy county
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search and rescue team member Lan Scala who told wtxl quote we started working this area
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B based on the rotation of the Winds If the child was taken out of the home and sucked over to the side where we thought
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he might have landed so we took all these debris Fields apart and the Georgia search and rescue team came in
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and went back to the house the child was supposedly living in and took that debris field and house apart we covered
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out to the Northwest going out to the bypass just to make sure that the child was not carried out in that direction of
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the storm so what he's saying here is based off of the information that we had based off of the information and of the
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storm itself right in the direction that it was traveling and what we've seen in
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from previous storms and previous Damage Done by these types of tornadoes we had
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a good idea of what area to prioritize when looking for this little boy and so he's saying we started with this area we
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didn't find a trees we didn't find any trace of him right we're not finding clothing or shoes or anything belonging
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to the boy or anything to indicate to us that he ended up in this area so then we're moving on to the next most likely
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area that he would be to the point where eventually they're finding themselves at
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the next prioritized area being the trailer itself being his home itself to make sure hey he's not under the tree
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he's not you know he's not remaining in that area so The Searchers basically dismantled what was left of the family's
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destroyed mobile home making sure that detres wasn't under that fallen tree or in the rubble of the home itself either
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injured scared in hiding or otherwise now per WB rescue crews searched through every
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inch of that home and both kadav and search dogs were brought into Aid in the search for detres green but a very
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difficult situation cuz like who said he's under 30 lb he's a small little child we have big pieces of debris that
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are have fallen all over the place have been moved all around this is a very difficult search extremely difficult
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you're absolutely right now let's go through days two and three because day one unsuccessful now they didn't get
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started until Sunday night but let's see what happens with days two and three as
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the intense searches continued for Detroit is green so we have Searchers combing through what was left of the
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surrounding homes the surrounding homes next to Green's parents home and the woods that is around the park itself the
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mobile home park itself in total the search parameter was a half mile in diameter quote we are doing everything
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we can to try to find this child and hopefully alive stated dowy County Emergency Management agency officials on
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Tuesday helic opss hovered over piny Woods Estates and the surrounding woodlands and swamps searching for any
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sign of the boy now Captain Bobby Spargo of the Albany fire department told the Albany heral quote we have our Georgia
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search and rescue teams in here today they have gritted off the search area and they are taking it inch by inch
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they're not moving a foot forward until they see dirt it is going to be a long drawn out process as far as we know the
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boy is the only missing person from this area it was tough going because this area is swampy with areas covered in
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thickets and brush as you said Captain debris was everywhere and parts of the surrounding landscape were actually
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flooded with storm Waters from 4 in of rain that the area received over that weekend now search Crews had to hack
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their way through the brush and cut through down trees it was basically like searching for a needle and a very
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complex dangerous Hast stack Lan Scala the dowy county search and rescue team member told Fox 31 we ran some time grid
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searches this morning my understanding is that Georgia's search and rescue is getting ready to start taking debris
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Fields apart we're going to cut them up pull them apart piece by piece to make sure we get a thorough search of this
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area the search and rescue teams had to cut paths into the debris field to clear
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a way for kadav and live search dogs into these areas all to look for this missing little boy but there're standing
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water around this area right in Parts yeah in parts so they received 4 Ines of rain over the course of that weekend in
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our search we're now to Tuesday so there's been some time for uh the Earth to absorb some of that rain for it to
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run off so yeah they have parts that are still holding some water we're not talking you know feet of water we would
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be talking inches of water and as said there are some swamp areas that are would be in the Woodland area that
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surrounds this mobile home park so those areas are always very difficult and as you pointed out I mean it's it's just a
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really incredibly difficult situ a number one you're looking for a small boy that's a different kind of search
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than if you were looking for an adult and then compound that with the storm that came through and you know when you
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see these when you see these mobile home parks and the devastation that a ef3 tornado can cause anywhere but
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especially in these mobile home parks you see it on CNN or Fox News or your local channel and you go wow I mean it's
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just it's incredibly shocking and I think it also kind of reminds us just how small we are
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individually right that that we aren't that powerful and that when mother nature comes in man she can make a big
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mess and she certainly did here in this situation at that mobile home par well it looks with some of the overviews that
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I'm I'm looking at here it does look like there are some deeper areas of water almost like a like ponds yes there
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is a pond that is in that same area the other thing though too you know we talk about these dogs coming in be it kadav
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dogs or live search and rescue dogs and you have already this complex situation but now you have a situation where
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you're being told that the boy was in his mobile home he's near the door the door gets kicked open by the storm
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somehow and then either he depending on which which story you want to give more weight to Dad's story or the mom's story
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either he sucked out of the trailer or he made his way to the door and then got lifted by the tornado we have to take
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into consideration here you've brought in these dogs to look for a scent or to find this boy they're having to clear
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Pathways for the dogs to have something to smell to have something to kind of Trace to look for the TR
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right and this is not going to be a quick process this is going to be a a long time consuming process top that off
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with we've covered plenty of cases where you have a person that goes missing and
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they bring in Scent dogs or you know somebody may have been abducted and they bring in dogs to try to track the person
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or track what happened to them and they have a scent to follow they have somebody who walked on the ground to to
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get to where they were going or even a child being lifted by an adult and carried away you still have something to
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trace and here if if you have a boy that's been lifted up off of the ground and carried away by a tornado I don't
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know what there would be to to trace for these dogs to track I guess with a kadaver dog they're trained to find a
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kadav so if that were the situation they don't technically need a scent to follow
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they're going to be looking for scent of human remains you know someone that that
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has expired but again like you said there was so much debris on some level that has to throw off their proficiency
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the other difficult thing too is and we'll get into the details of this as we go through our timeline and through the
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details of the case but what were they using to give to the dogs to have them track the boy there's no mention of that
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and I think that there's probably pretty good reason for that and I think we'll see that as we go on yeah because
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overhead view of this area goes from a mobile park home neighborhood to it basically looks like a trash dump yeah
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it's like looking for looking for a small person in a junkyard and it it's a junkyard that was just created hours ago
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and he could be under any of that Rubble now I want to mention something here because we kind of breeed through it a
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little bit and I think that it it would be a disservice to not really underline and Echo and point this this fact out we
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have the search and rescue expert the the teams that were brought in the face of that search and rescue effort the
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media person is telling the media the Tres is the only person in the storm that has not been found now that was on
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Tuesday right the storms went took place on Sunday on Tuesday this person is telling the media he's the only person
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that's not been found this storm wreaked havoc on the area there were people that
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lost their lives uh maybe not in this imediate area but in the in the overall spectrum of where this tornado hit there
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were people that lost their lives basically without going into too much information here what that person is
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telling us is we found all of the other people that were carried away or affected by the storm be it dead or
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alive we've located everybody else this is the only person that we have not been
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able to locate number one and number two we don't have any trace of this boy as well it's very bizarre and we're going
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to see some more bizarre activity as we continue on death by tornado is is kind of all over the map uh
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2021 we have 73 deaths and 20 2020 we have 76 people that perished in tornadoes compared to 42 in 2019 so
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they're kind of all over the map but it's obviously very rare rare and it's going to be completely based off of you
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know how many tornadoes you have and then the severity of those storms themselves right because if you know we
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have statistics on on car accidents and people that die in vehicle related incidents right if nobody drove Vehicles
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then that number would go to zero you know so it's it's a very it's it's a difficult thing to put a number on right
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to say that there's an average number for that because it's all based off of weather and storms that we all hope
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don't happen well and again the fluctuation varies just in the amount of tornadoes that we have a, one year to,
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1500 the next year wow I mean that's a significant jump you know it's not like we can say well we know for certain
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there's going to be 1,500 tornadoes every year I've been very lucky I've experienced a lot of tornado warnings
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and really only two real tornadoes that hit my immediate area that I can recall you know I couldn't imagine that's
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that's one of those things I love those Southern States man in the summertime I'm remind when I when you flip on the
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news it's just heartbreaking you hear of some some years you know you you referenced 1500 tornadoes one year some
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years it feels like you turn on the TV and it's those storms are too frequent and too devastating yeah or or people
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that have to also experience hurricanes on to days four and five the searches for detres resumed at dawn with even
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more hands on deck civilian volunteers who turned out in droves to help look for the missing toddler after hearing
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about him on the news were permitted to help at this time days four and five Crews searched through the debris and
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demolished homes looking for any sign of detres video is available of Rescuers in
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fatigues chopping through dense brush and downed branches to look for him I mean it was a mess Wednesday's search
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was described by the Dayton Daily News as search and rescue workers in Albany were looking for the missing toddler
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from dawn until dusk rescue crews had combed through the rubble of the boy's home but found nothing on Wednesday they
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were still sifting through debris of neighboring homes Albany fire Captain Bobby Spargo said that Searchers were
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trying to maintain a positive attitude but it was not easy according to wfxl search dogs reacted to to a pond
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this is the the water area that you were talking about reacted to a pond behind the trailer park so they decided to go
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ahead and drain this Pawn pumps were brought in and ran all night long dropping the water level by 8 feet then
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the Lou County dive team was brought into comb the depths of the shallow murky water searches continued for five
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full days and during these five full days of searching for little detres green there was no sign of the missing
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child well if you just do a simple Google search on the power of tornadoes tornadoes have picked people and items
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up carried them some distance and set them down sometimes without injury but they also have been known to pick up
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people and animals and have transported them up to a quarter mile with more serious injuries I couldn't imagine
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being carried a quarter of a mile away I mean just just insane now Searchers for detres found nothing as we
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said there was some evidence of him or of a child anyway inside the home that he lived in photos of the wreckage show
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children's shoes and such but detres was nowhere to be seen and as we pointed out
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he's supposed to be one of three children living in that trailer so to say that they found evidence of him I
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think they're going out of their way here to tell us Captain we found evidence of a child not specifically
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detres green right Lon Scala told wtxl that there was very that it was very rare for a person to vanish Without a
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Trace during a tornado saying in a search situation usually we find some clothing we find some human articles we
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can tie to the victim in this case we didn't find anything do we have a report on what he was wearing though because
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he's a toddler so it's like you know how many times you go to your friend's house
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when they have a little one and and he's just kind of walking around in diapers or maybe a onesie right and
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that's I mean again we're we're going to see the complexities of this case get even more complex as we go because what
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we don't have here Captain is we don't have parents in the area helping with this search we don't have parents
00:32:38
speaking with law enforcement and search and rescue to help in any way with the search right so we have this incredibly
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difficult search going on and Mom and Dad are Mia right what our search expert is saying here basically what he means
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is that normally things belonging to the missing person be it an adult or a child
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or what have you clothes and so on should have been found in the search area somewhere but they these weren't
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found nothing was located in this situation and yes it's a complex area it's a needle in a hstack situation but
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again this is not these people's first rodeo when it comes to these types of searches they're familiar with tornadoes
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they're familiar with the damage that they do and they're familiar with how to find
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people as quick and as soon as possible and they've spent a lot of time building
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strategies to conduct these types of search and rescue efforts yeah and it's not like these experts are coming to the
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parents and saying hey look there's no hope don't worry about searching for him there's there's no hope there's no sign
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of him and there's no hope when you have experienced like like you said train experts it's it's hard to know how one
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would react especially if you saw him or look like you said this is a traumatic situation there could be things that
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they they maybe they did see him get Swept Away by the tornado and they just can't remember it with details because
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it it's a traumatic thing but so maybe subconsciously they know that their child is gone and and we don't have to
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there's no point of searching for him but if it was me I'm I'm looking as long as I can stand as long
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as I can move as long as I can keep walking I am looking for this child everybody out there in Parts Unknown
00:34:39
please make note of this if I go missing I want the captain in charge of the search and rescue efforts he's not
00:34:46
stopping until the colonel or whoever he's looking for is located and that's what these search and rescue Personnel
00:34:55
were attempting to do with the Tre green but don't you find it strange that these
00:34:59
strangers are willing to put more effort into searching for this child than his own family members well and of course
00:35:07
and that caus that will lead to all kinds of questions in regards to the family the family Dynamic D Tres
00:35:16
green what was going on with the family are we to believe any of these stories that we're hearing of him being Swept
00:35:23
Away in the storm because after more than 5 days of intense costly and frantic searching officials felt that
00:35:31
they had exhausted all search Avenues dowy County Emergency Management agency director Ron row said in his Friday
00:35:40
daily press conference this is to update the public about the storm cleanup and search Endeavors for detres that they
00:35:48
had done all that they could possibly do and said that the case of missing detres
00:35:54
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the sides especially the sides cheers how'd you all get in the sides yeah standing room only cheers to you Mr
00:38:43
captain now we have a statement here in regards to where we left off right where
00:38:49
we have the emergency agency director Ron row telling us you know we've done all we could and now we're handing this
00:38:59
over to the police department to the dowy County Police Department and his statement is as such we've had over 200
00:39:09
Personnel here in town including Georgia search and rescue teams working hours and hours doing a search and rescue
00:39:16
operation we've cleared all three areas a b and c divisions that were gritted off we have cleared an area to ground
00:39:25
level and below at least 150 yard away from the site we've drained a pond to where you could walk through it we have
00:39:35
put dive teams in other sections of it we have been a mile and a half Downstream we've have been hundreds of
00:39:44
yards past this Pond area we've literally cleared the ground to dirt we have completed this and we've officially
00:39:52
ended our search for the missing child we've completed our Mission it is in our best expert judgment that in this area
00:40:01
the missing person is not there at this time again that last line was the missing person is not there at this time
00:40:10
so this statement is pretty unequivocal right now per the Albany Herold dowy County police chief Jackie Battle said
00:40:20
that going forward D trees's case would be handled by the dcpd at a missing person's case saying quote the
00:40:29
information we were given is that this child was lost in the storm and of course we called in search and rescue
00:40:35
and as you've heard they've exhausted Everything Chief battle said that the dcpd investigation would continue and
00:40:43
that they were in the process of conducting interviews about detres so now Captain after the official searches
00:40:50
for detres were called off investigators began to question what they had been told about D trees's disappearance
00:40:57
itself there were some red flags they told the media and Sergeant David McVey who was the chief dcpd detective on the
00:41:07
case said they pulled out all the stops in the searches for detres which went on
00:41:12
for 5 days involved hundreds of personnel and cost several millions in Manpower and Equipment we're pretty
00:41:18
confident we would have come across his remains he said but the Oddity of the child Vanishing Into Thin Air wasn't the
00:41:25
only thing that raised investigators eyebrows something was wrong here and it started it started with the parents
00:41:33
kevina and Adia right and now in our timeline the media starts to read between the lines and the official
00:41:40
statements about the boy right which hinted that all was not right and so some members of the media started to do
00:41:48
some digging of their own here's an excerpt from the Atlanta Journal Constitution when the wind died down
00:41:55
residents emerged to see the devastation Chris Terell 33 who lived near D trees's
00:42:02
family told the Atlanta Journal Constitution he went to help Neighbors at rainy and grain's trailer
00:42:10
so he's at D trees's family's trailer he says that there he helped extract a baby
00:42:17
girl who was apparently unharmed between a fallen dresser and the wall Terell said he then asked two men in front of
00:42:26
the trailer if they needed more help one of those men was Kevin a green the other
00:42:34
a neighbor to which both said no okay so to be clear what this statement means is
00:42:41
we have parents right we have one of the parents is there with another person standing in front of the trailer this
00:42:48
man just pulled your little girl your baby girl from the trailer who was lodged under debris inside the home this
00:42:57
is immediately after the storm Kevin a green supposedly has a missing 2-year-old at this time immediately
00:43:03
after the storm the storm that supposedly took the child according to his statements and his eyeballs what he
00:43:10
says he saw with those eyeballs and he's asked if he needed any help and apparently nope we're all good right
00:43:17
what parent in their right mind who could not find their child would say no to an immediate offering of help he saw
00:43:25
it with his own balls but he doesn't need help he when he says hey I'm all good here we're all
00:43:32
good we don't need no help it's cuz they ain't looking so if you ain't looking then why
00:43:38
would you need help looking they ain't looking and part of me wonders have they not come up with the scenario yet right
00:43:48
have they not come up with the idea that their child was taken by the storm because it was too fresh it was too new
00:43:54
and old dad ain't that quick then we have others who also noted the disinterested reaction of both of D
00:44:02
trees's parents they go on the record to tell us what they were witnessing now the
00:44:08
following is all from the Atlanta Journal Constitution so we have Lisa kie this is ad's Aunt these two were very
00:44:18
close with Lisa being a mother figure to the young woman Lisa told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that her niece and
00:44:26
cevian's behavior after the tornado was odd Lisa said she never saw ad Deja cry and she was shocked by how soon her
00:44:35
niece referred to detres in the past tense and Lisa's sister Whitney Rainey said she confronted their niece about
00:44:45
the Tres they were having a video chat and adasia wouldn't look her in the eye while telling those last moments talking
00:44:54
about those last moments in the trailer well I was just going to say I mean the these are major red flags you you're not
00:45:00
asking for help you're not even looking you don't seem to be concerned you seem to have no emotion and now when you're
00:45:09
talking to a family member you can't even look at them straight into the into the eyes and what I find so interesting
00:45:15
about this year Captain is in regards to Kevan but more importantly here with adasia is that we have people saying
00:45:25
look this doesn't feel right something's wrong here and that's not just law enforcement or the search and rescue
00:45:34
teams now it's her own family people that she was close with people that would have her back they're the ones
00:45:41
saying there's something off here there's something strange going on yeah I think the first question for law
00:45:48
enforcement is is it possible for this child to be swept away by the tornado and you go yes and then even with the
00:45:59
expertise of the search team you start going is it possible that that this child was picked up moved we know that
00:46:10
that actual like adults have been picked up by tornadoes and moved a quarter of a
00:46:15
mile you if you have this child moved to to actual moving body of water if he hits that water you know then he could
00:46:25
even travel further and you just would never find them so is that possible yes it is possible so it's possible the
00:46:33
tornado took him away it's possible that the tornado took him into a situation that these these expert Searchers were
00:46:41
not able to find him that is all possible but why doesn't the parents care why does it seem like this child
00:46:48
wasn't even in the trailer exactly and that's where we have to call everything into question you're 100% right it is
00:46:56
possible that he was swept away and they just couldn't find him doesn't seem to be likely from what the experts are
00:47:02
telling us but possible and then you have not just law enforcement questioning the parents themselves
00:47:11
neighbors questioning the parents but you have ad deia's family right like I mean if somebody if somebody walked up
00:47:18
to you on the street some person you never met in in your life walks up smacked him in the face walks up to you
00:47:25
and says so and so is a real a real turd burglar or Turd Ferguson or somebody that you've known forever like you've
00:47:35
known me forever if I walk up to you and say so and so is a real a real Turd Ferguson aren't you going to believe me
00:47:42
like doesn't my statement carry a lot more weight than just some stranger or some Rando person that you've met within
00:47:48
the last day this is her family saying something's not right here we don't believe her we have Sergeant mcve the
00:47:56
detective he said he was concerned because in his assessment the parents emotions weren't in it he also noted
00:48:03
that Kevan and adasia gave conflicting statements about what happened to detres then we have Willie Rainey Adia rainey's
00:48:12
Grandfather said that what he noted was Kevan complaining about a missing cell phone after the storm saying that Kevan
00:48:23
was intent on looking for the phone but not his missing son and here's where it gets really interesting this is per
00:48:31
the Atlanta Journal Constitution Article six days after the tornado a child welfare worker took custody of D trees's
00:48:39
three-year-old brother an infant sister asked why the kids were taken the DFCS spokeswoman would simply say that
00:48:49
the agency listens to police seems like a pretty simple and forward answer maybe we have to read between the
00:48:58
lines a little bit but sounds to me like they have cause to believe that the other children could be in danger based
00:49:05
off of what police are telling them so someone had alerted DFCS that the remaining children of
00:49:12
Kevan and adasia might be could be in possible danger in the care of their parents yeah but could you imagine being
00:49:22
that grandfather and hearing that you're Kevon or however you want to say his stupid name is looking for a cell phone
00:49:32
and it's ups said about a cell phone but doesn't seem to be upset about his 2-year-old son we do have cevian's
00:49:39
brother Jerry green who refutes all of this he kind of goes to cevian's defense saying that he remembers his brother and
00:49:47
Deasia crying inconsolably after d trees's disappearance he told the newspaper don't anybody know my brother
00:49:55
like I do he ain't lying but I don't know regardless to me Captain it seems like that there's so much more than just
00:50:03
the lack of emotion on the part of the parents that raises suspicion to me and obviously to many others out there well
00:50:11
what do they say sh you know hurt me once shame on me hurt me twice you're dead to me hurt me three times your
00:50:18
family maybe there's some riffs between son and father and and and he's not and The Grandfather's not giving an accurate
00:50:26
depiction of actually what happened yeah I mean it's a tricky situation you have
00:50:31
like you were saying the the police have a hunch the neighbors have a hunch and now family members have a hunch yeah and
00:50:38
basically what I see here is you like you just said everybody has a hunch the only one that seems to be coming to the
00:50:45
defense of of these two of the parents is kavan's brother Jerry green everybody else is calling everything into question
00:50:52
the you know her grandfather uh her her Aunt her other family members everybody else is saying again that there's just
00:51:01
something that's suspicious here incredibly suspicious let's take that suspicion a step further because D
00:51:07
trees's parents they stopped talking to the media after that one initial clip in which
00:51:14
Kevan told them that he hoped they would find his son so that that brief little CNN spot is the only time that I could
00:51:23
find that either parent spoke with the media in regards to their missing son which is right we've been doing this
00:51:30
long enough to know that that's incredibly bizarre behavior we have the statements of law enforcement saying
00:51:36
that this is the only time that that any of them spoke with the yeah I don't I don't really have a problem with that
00:51:42
because I think if my child went missing especially a 2-year-old I I don't think
00:51:49
I'd want to talk to anybody other than search team law enforce M family members that would be the only people that I'd
00:51:58
be talking to right uh I and it's not a situation that I'm thinking that my child was abducted if I thought my child
00:52:08
was abducted now of course I'm talking to the media and I'm and and I'm talking I'm doing press conferences to talk to
00:52:16
that individual that I think maybe abducted my child but that it's this is a different situation I agree but
00:52:23
wouldn't you agree that it starts off as a different situation than after six or
00:52:27
seven days in search and rescue Personnel telling you we should have found him or a trace of him by now right
00:52:35
as a parent aren't you going okay well anything's possible maybe maybe the storm took him and somebody found him a
00:52:42
bad person found him I mean wouldn't you be willing to shift gears make adjustments and do anything pull out all
00:52:49
the stops after I mean I I get it after day one and day two maybe day three but at some point I'm going this this [ __ ]
00:52:55
ain't working let's try something new here and I mean let's take it a step further as from a law enforcement
00:53:02
perspective they're hoping and praying that the parents will speak with media why because they ain't talking to law
00:53:08
enforcement so if if they're going to get any statements at all they're hoping that it will come by way of media and
00:53:15
despite the news media TV cameras and Crews and reporters being all over the mobile home park staking out the
00:53:22
family's destroyed residents and talking to no one was found this is the other bizarre thing no one was found at the
00:53:30
piny woods Estates where they lived whoever recalled seeing detr ever no one ever recalled seeing him at any point
00:53:39
any of the neighbors so one network Fox 31 did wait back up a second I'm trying to follow out what you're saying there
00:53:47
they've never seen the child ever so the place where they lived now they didn't live there for the entirety of detres
00:53:54
green life but they lived there for a long time the media reporters are going around and asking neighbors questions
00:54:03
because again the the parents aren't speaking with the media either so they the media wants to tell this story this
00:54:10
is a story of interest it's a missing toddler and a storm is to blame it's a rare situation you they're in the
00:54:17
business of telling stories fascinating stories that are rare stories and this here that's what you have so it was of
00:54:25
interest to the media they're begging the parents for a statement or to do an interview and outside of that one
00:54:32
interview that the father does with CNN they got nothing so they're interviewing
00:54:37
neighbors that lived in this trailer park in this mobile home park and saying tell us about the family tell us what
00:54:43
you think happened uh tell us about the concern in the community for this little
00:54:47
boy and every person after person after person neighbor after neighbor after neighbor are all saying the same thing
00:54:53
all the time that they lived here I never saw that little boy I've never once seen him they couldn't find anybody
00:54:59
that lived in that mobile park to go on record or camera saying that they had seen the kid at any time ever well it
00:55:06
also becomes a tricky situation because they had two other children that were taken away from a toddler an infant and
00:55:14
a three-year-old was that correct so detres was the middle child there was an there was an older child slightly older
00:55:22
and then we have the little baby girl that after detres is missing and the parents are not cooperating with the
00:55:29
search and rescue effort right supposedly according to Child Services they're told something by police and
00:55:35
they make a determination that look these other kids could be in danger based off of what could have happened to
00:55:41
detres so let's go in there and take these kids and well I also wonder if they use that as a a tactic if we take
00:55:49
their other kids maybe they'll start trying to cooperate with us mhm maybe they'll start trying to talk to us so
00:55:56
here's a breakdown of what I could find in regards to people saying that they've
00:56:01
seen detes or have not right so the O so we have one person right I did find a comment from D trees's Aunt kashada
00:56:09
Griffin she told a news station that thees was friendly and he would walk up to you and hold on to you but then we
00:56:17
have the search and rescue worker who tells a different news station quote we talk to people in the mobile home park
00:56:26
nobody said they had ever seen either parent with the child although they had seen the parents buying diapers nobody
00:56:33
in the mobile home park had ever come up and said yes we saw that child here that
00:56:38
day so that made it difficult for us end quote now so what they're buying diapers
00:56:44
we just went through who lives in the family we have two other small children hopefully they're buying diapers yeah
00:56:50
they had three children that would all be in Diapers at that time so I think Captain we can just outwardly say here
00:56:58
right like so again despite the news media TV cameras and Crews and reporters being all over the the the park can't
00:57:06
find anybody to say that we saw him and then we have the actions or reactions of
00:57:12
the parents themselves they stopped talking to the media after that one interview by CNN with the father and
00:57:21
then you start to you start to remind yourself this is not how concerned parents act and therefore you know we
00:57:28
don't have the parents out creating publicity we don't have them handing out flyers we don't have them posting on
00:57:35
social media or doing anything at all to spread awareness of their missing little
00:57:39
boy it's almost like if it went down the way they said it went down it seems to me like they're fine with it or they're
00:57:46
just going to sit back and do nothing and allow everybody else to search but they're not going to do anything not
00:57:51
actively anyway so I think we can just say what everybody listen in at work and in their cars is thinking right CU as
00:57:57
you can see this boy is missing no doubt about that but just 6 days or so into the search for 2-year-old detres green
00:58:07
people started to wonder when was detres really seen [Music] last [Music] thank you so much for joining us and
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