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she arrived at her apartment she could not find her daughters but instead she found a note and she says that
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10-year-old Tiana wrote this note and had left it for her Tracy says when she gets to the apartment on Friday she
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finds this this note sitting on the back of her couch she was able to produce this note for investigators and hand it
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over to the Chicago Police the note in childish handwriting said TI and Diamond were leaving the apartment to walk to a
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nearby School playground and the juwel Osco store in the Lake Meadows Shopping Center Tiana was enrolled in a summer
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school program at a nearby elementary school but remember her mom told her that she could not go to school that day
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because she had to stay home in babysit three-year-old Diamond summer school ran
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every day from breakfast time at 8:30 a.m. until classes ended at 12:30 p.m. TI was marked absent that day for the
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first time ever according to records so this was not a typical thing that she's making Tiana stay home to watch diamond
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the note said that she was bringing Diamond along with her to head over to the playground
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so they did not know Tracy Bradley the mom and friends and family did not know exactly which playground it didn't
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specify the note didn't clarify what playground this was just that it was a school playground and so she made the
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assumption that it was the playground of the elementary school where Tia was going to the summer program that makes
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the most sense according to the Personnel working at that school they say that they had not
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seen TI obviously at the school because she's marked absent but also never saw her at
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any time that day on their playground we do know that the school called the Bradley apartment at 1010 a.m. am and
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they received no answer as well so this is where you start to think all right okay Mom produces this note we know that
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Mom goes off to work at A4 to 7 we have the school calling at 1010 a.m. we're starting to shrink our window a little
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bit right Captain if something happened to the girls if they left that apartment
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by themselves or if they left with somebody else it would seem to stand to reason that they probably left before
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this 1010 a.m. call yeah I think that makes the most sense now we do know this that there was no time written on the
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Note Tracy said that she immediately went to the juwel Osco store and immediately to the playground looking
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for her girls once she found the note she checked with neighbors and called family her sister Faith helped her
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search the neighborhood and then finally she called the police at 6ish or maybe 7ish depending on what report you you
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read note again we keep circling back to this that Tracy took about five maybe 6
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and a half hours to summon the police yeah but once she starts talking to police she's not being truthful do we
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have any indication from law enforcement that the mother turned this note over to
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law 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 end 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 said that yes the note is legit
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however we got to question how legit the note is because the the family is saying
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look law enforce ment yeah here's this note we believe that TI the 10-year-old did write the note this is her
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handwriting right however we don't think that she wrote this note by herself we think that somebody told her what to
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write somebody was coaching her what to write right because the families these are grown-ups they're telling the police
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and the investigators look all of the spelling is correct and the grammar is not that of 10-year-old ti so
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basically what they're saying is she wouldn't been able to spell these words without some help probably some of the
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words in fact we have a direct quote from one of the family members saying her writing a full letter with correct
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grammar question mark it's not appropriate for her keep in mind she's only 10 years old and the family member
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went on to say I'm quite sure whoever took them she was very comfortable with them that's so sad that's interesting
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because Tiana is 10 years old she's in charge of little three-year-old Diamond if you are going to take these girls
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you're either going to have to fight TI or you're going to have to convince her that it's okay to leave with me or
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leave with us and oh by the way I need you to write this note we we should probably leave a
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note for for mom when she gets home and she doesn't find you uh in case she gets
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worried so she won't worry I'll have you back to the apartment in no time at all
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but just in case mom comes home let's write her out a nice little note but their aunt had more to say about this
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note right correct remember she's on the Nancy Grace show talking about the note
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Sheila says I had told the investigators early on when I first arrived on the scene that if that note was written that
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it was coached she was coerced meaning TI and she was told exactly what to write Nancy Grace says why do you say
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that Sheila Sheila responds well because Tiana had access to her mom's cell phone
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remember Tracy's at work with her cell phone and Sheila goes on to say Tiana had access to her grandmother's phone
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number and other fam's phone numbers and we also found a letter that Tiana had written about 6 months prior to that
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saying that grammatically the structure of the previous note previous letter was
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nothing like the one that was left that day on the couch we have a family member
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and this is backed up later by other family members and all the while Tracy is saying the same thing my kids don't
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leave notes for me if they need to get a hold of me they call me on my cell phone
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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 10-year-old why would we if if I'm
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abducting them why am I leaving a note anyways buy time if you're I mean I understand why you wouldn't want them to
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call their mother because you can't control what that 10-year-old's going to say you can't say call your mom and oh
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by the way don't tell her it's me that here right don't call your grandma uh because you know I can't control what
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you're going to tell your grandma on the phone I get why there's no call made to
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the mom or the grandmother but it seems odd to me that somebody would coach them into coach them into
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writing a letter that I don't I don't see how it buys you much time you're not thinking like a criminal you're not
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thinking like somebody that needs to hide something that would be very bad for them to be caught with so if the
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child writes a note instinctively most parents are going to go darn kid left the house told
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him not to 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 play ground 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 time and you're
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probably wanting to get those kids as far away from that apartment as you can or conceal them because you do know at
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some point that people will be looking for these children and it won't just be mom anymore it will be law enforcement
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the people that you do not want to find you with these kids well it makes more sense because like you were saying the
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two locations exactly yeah I mean but that's a pretty high level of sophistication
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don't you think I don't know I I I don't know because it's it's rather the two locations hey if I put multiple
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locations they're going to go look at the playground then they might go to the convenience store and then if they're at
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the playground or if they're at the convenience store and they can't find them they might be going oh well maybe
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they're back at the playground I think that what happened here is that we either have somebody that planned to
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take the little girls because they may have known in advance that they were going to be alone that day and if in
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fact they knew in advance then that means they are very close to this family very close to this
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mother could even be working in cahoots with the mother the other thing you have here is
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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 and knew the family well
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enough to say that these are the places that the kids went because they were places that this person knew that they
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had gone before and keep in mind if you are abducted children from a we already talk talked about the
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population in this area this is the middle of the day you are likely to be seen leaving with these
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girls you do not want to be seen running out of the building with them in your arms Kicking and
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Screaming no you want them to think that you're taking them somewhere that they enjoy going you're here all day by
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yourself well 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 want
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her to worry and of course Tiana is 10 years old she's smart enough to know I can't be writing 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 that's not registering that doesn't make any sense that raises flags so I think what you have here
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Captain is a situation somebody's covering their tracks somebody's buying time and I think that that you have one
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of two situations either this person knew in advance that they were going to be alone that day or figured it out on
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that day and came up with a plan but if I'm reading you right you're also saying
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that this isn't excluding the possibility of the involvement that their mother or the
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boyfriend has something to do with it correct because those two would have known for certain that the two girls
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would be home alone that day they likely knew in advance the night before that the two girls would be home alone that
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day that's when you got to start narrowing this down okay was it somebody that spotted the mom and the boyfriend
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leaving and figured out oh there's kids alone in that apartment I don't know if it's four 3 two or one kids but there's
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kids alone in that apartment and I'm interested in that or there's very few people very few
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people on this list that would have known prior to that morning that there would be kids left alone in that
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apartment and if there was some plan put in place in advance then you you have to
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believe it can be traced back to one or multiple people in that small group that
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knew the day before or even days before that the girls might be home alone that day
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the police very astutely Captain made Tracy write this message the same little note
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over and over and over again because they wanted to decide if Tracy had wrote this note and tried to
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pass it off as tiand wrote the note eventually the note is sent to the FBI for analysis in comparison to other
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writings by the little girl now I know how suspicious everybody probably is of Tracy at this point but
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this is just fact people the FBI came back and according to their experts They concluded that TI did in fact did in
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fact write that note further they concluded that Tiana's fingerprints were on the Note as well so
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the note is legit iide with Sheila our champion and the extended family that say that this this note was probably
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coerced and coached by somebody else so it was beginning to look like Tracy's story might have been spot
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on TI decided to take her little sister with her and left her mom a note but again you have to say was this coerced
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and I think that it was based off of everything everything that all of the other family members are saying I think
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one of the reasons why this case has been covered like you said it was covered in the Oprah
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Magazine or the Oprah publication is the more you learn about the events the more you learn about the
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people involved the more questions you have it feels like you just you don't come to like
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a dead end where you where a question is solved in perfect scenario is okay law enforcement is telling us that the
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10-year-old wrote the note but that doesn't tell us if somebody helped her somebody coached her we know from
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family 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
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mom 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
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what she told law enforcement she said to law enforcement look I yes I left my little ones home alone that day but I
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told them don't open the door for anybody and if something comes up call call me just call
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me well something must have come up because later in the investigation we find out that TI did call Tracy Bradley
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while she was at work however Tracy didn't pick up the phone it goes to voicemail so a few days after the girl's
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vanish Captain Tracy gave her cell phone to her mother her mother's name is Mary
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Bradley it's unclear why she gave the phone to her mother but her mom had the phone a few days after the girls were
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missing and according to the family there's 10 of them that are sitting around trying to figure out how to find
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the girls they're having a a family meeting how do we find these little girls right that makes sense one of the
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family members looks at Tracy's phone and notices that she has a voicemail that has not been listened to
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yet 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
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by 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 heard this voicemail all together
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it was played out loud all 10 of them that were in their family meeting that day trying to find the girls come up
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with a way how to find the girls heard this voicemail together Sheila summed it up on her appearance on Nancy Grace and
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she says the message said Mama this is Tiana mom pick up the phone George is at the door can I open the door he said
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that we are going to jewels to pick up the cake there we're coming to pick you up from
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work here's the problem there's many problems this story makes some sense yeah the one of the other sisters
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Victoria her birthday was the next day so was 10-year-old TI talking about George Washington who had just dropped
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Mom off at work at a quarter to 7 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 juwes that convenience store that store nearby store to pick up a cake makes
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sense to the 10-year-old her sister's birthdays the next day yeah and if George is saying hey we're going to go
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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 and then
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she goes I'll just write a note I'll make sure I write a note according to the media Captain this voicemail somehow
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got erased so the Chicago Police Department has never addressed how this happened uh according
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to the family and according to police they said they did hear the voicemail and somehow it got erased if 10 members
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of a family all tell the same story I have no reason to believe that lying well we don't have to question them
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because we do have the Chicago Police Department saying we heard the voicemail they heard it as well it sounds to me
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like the voicemail got erased once the phone was given to the police department you know sometimes when you're talking I
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should pay a little bit more attention hey you don't know how you missed that and apparently the Chicago Police
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Department does not know how the voicemail got erased they they never address this public publicly other than
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to say that they heard the voicemail yeah but I wonder if if it's one of those things if it was played so many
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times and you don't hit save every time you know if it just goes away who who knows you got to get one of these uh
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digital forensic people in your big giant Police Department there in 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 if 10 people from the family know what it says and law
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enforcement knows what it says then George has a lot of answering to do as a wise man once said you are absolutely
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think is evidence of who we should be going after however we learn that there are in fact two George
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as we heard in Tracy's fourth story to the police her on again off again boyfriend George Washington came over
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sometime around 3:00 a.m. maybe 4:00 a.m. that morning on that Friday the two spent some time together and then Tracy
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got ready for work George drove her to her job and dropped her off at work at about 6:30 6:45 a.m. that morning now we
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do need to tell all of the wonderful listeners out there that yes in fact George Washington is was Diamond's
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father so we hear this voicemail evidence did George head right back to the apartment to take care of his little
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girl for the day while Mom was at work remember the voicemail right George is here should I let him in was George
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playing the good responsible father taking care of his child nope not a according to Mr George George agreed to
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come in for questioning with police sat down for a series of interviews with police he spent two entire days being
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questioned George told police that he never went back to the apartment never saw the girls that day nor did he
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participate in the searches for the girls when Tracy discovered that they were missing he said it wasn't his
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problem because he did not believe that diamond was his child in fact he said that he and Tracy had argued about who
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the father was and he insisted on taking a paternity test so it sounds to me Captain like we may have found out after
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the girls are missing that he is in fact the father of three-year-old Diamond well congratulations George that you
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didn't come back to watch your daughter or the daughter that you weren't claiming but where were you did somebody
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see you do you have an alibi what where did you go well and as said he was questioned for two days and
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then George lawyered up after that and we had said earlier that there I think it's hilarious can't pay for their own
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kids but hey I could pay for a lawyer well and I know something that you're worried about here Captain it's
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unclear whether George had any legit kind of Alibi for the morning in question this is from the Nancy Grace
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interview with a James Miller he's a former Detective Ive who worked the case as a private investigator Miller told
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Nancy Grace The Story Goes that George Washington came about 4:30 in the morning to see Tracy and they left
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together for about an hour and a half they had about 6:00 in the morning he had drove Tracy to work and then he went
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to his girlfriend's at around 97th Street and then he went and visited his mother then
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approximately around noon reading from the transcript so forgive me everybody out there Grace Nancy Grace interrupts
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Mr Miller saying wait wait wait what girlfriend top mom you're talking about the boyfriend George Washington the
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boyfriend of the mom right Miller responds you know Tracy and George were boyfriend and girlfriend but you know I
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don't know if they had a serious relationship or not he says the detective goes on to say after Tracy's
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shift he picked up Tracy with two co-workers he then dropped them off at their various locations around 47th
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Street then he and Tracy drove back to the apartment and there's more this from the Oprah article police
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pulled George's cell phone records he was on his phone a lot but there were some spots some time periods that he's
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not on the phone at all so beginning at 4:30 a.m. on July 6th he made at least 4
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40 phone calls hot damn over a period of 24 hours that's a lot so from 4:30 a.m.
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on the 6 when the girls go missing to 4:30 a.m. on the 7th he makes 40 phone calls in that 24-hour time period there
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are two stretches during which he called no one this is from 700 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. remember what time did Tana call
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her mother and leave a voicemail a little after 8: a.m. then from 5:00 p.m. p.m. to 6:30
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p.m. he's not calling anyone but his phone is actively pinging off of cell towers on the far south side of the city
00:34:07
near multiple forest preserves and a river which makes no sense on why he would be there unless
00:34:18
he did something to these girls I mean think about it you have all these arguments whether or not that your
00:34:23
daughter or not MH and if you don't want a daughter well guess what I'll just kill her dispose of the body we won't
00:34:31
have to have that argument ever again especially if we're talking about just the month prior captain that we have the
00:34:39
mother saying look this is your daughter and she's filed paternity lawsuit against you yeah because if you don't
00:34:45
stick with her you're going to be paying child support or in some cases you just
00:34:50
pay child support anyways cuz you're not married and so what are you doing in these Woods
00:34:57
Mr George you chopping down a cherry tree well and I know that all the listeners are saying but guys you said
00:35:04
that there are two Georges who is this other George we need to consider him as a possible suspect as well well you're
00:35:12
exactly right so this guy's name we got George Washington who we've talked about
00:35:17
at length the problem with this other George he's referred to and described as a close family friend
00:35:27
and this is a guy that the girls and their sisters the older sisters had routinely gone over to this
00:35:35
man's apartment this for to be babysat or a very brief period of time if Tracy had to run out and grab
00:35:44
something the problem with this other George is that he was known to the family A by a
00:35:53
nickname and the family Trac family says the girls and remember we have the two older sisters that that that can tell us
00:36:04
the same story and back all of this up they all say we never called him George some of the family didn't even
00:36:11
know that that was his name his first name they all refer to him as by his nickname so where you have to go okay
00:36:20
well we got two georgees here and we got to question both of them got to be concerned about both of them one of the
00:36:26
georgees is not looking so good right now uh based off of his cell phone records the other one is not looking so
00:36:33
good as a suspect because everybody in the family is saying we never called him George Tia would not have said George is
00:36:40
here well and think about that I mean even even when you're 10 years old when you hear
00:36:46
somebody not call your mom mom but they call her by her real name it freaks you out a little bit like oh yeah my mom's
00:36:57
name isn't mom you know what I mean so if you have a family friend that you've been
00:37:04
calling we have no way of knowing if she even knew this individual's name was George other than his nickname and then
00:37:13
listen to this this is all from the Chicago Sun Times summarizing a wicked long piece in the USA
00:37:23
Today in this piece they did not name George Washington they just left it as we got a suspect here they don't name
00:37:33
him but of course we call it like it is here in the garage so we will name George Washington and the article reads
00:37:40
as follows several pieces of evidence this is actual evidence Captain several pieces of evidence have
00:37:47
pointed investigators in George's direction for one investigators found a hair matching
00:37:55
TI and Tracy's DNA in his vehicle's trunk he tells police that he would sneak the girls
00:38:04
into the drive-in theater in the city you know put them in the trunk sneak them in whole family goes and watches a
00:38:12
movie with in George's car uh we do that so we don't have to pay for the two little ones it sounds a little
00:38:19
bullshitty well the problem with this statement is not does it just sound like [ __ ] it smells like [ __ ] too
00:38:26
there because the investigators are pointing out look the closest drive-in at the time is in the suburbs
00:38:33
it's not in the city yeah and then to back that up Tracy's family saying we've never heard of Tracy and the girls ever
00:38:42
going to a drive-in movie theater yeah so that story doesn't seem to hold a lot of water ohshit then George offered up
00:38:51
to law enforcement conflicting stories about his actions on the day that the girls went missing more [ __ ] four
00:38:58
teenagers and three Neighbors on that day said that they saw him setting fire to something in a 55
00:39:06
gallon drum in his backyard garage so he's got an unattached garage to his home he lives about 10
00:39:15
miles south of the girl's apartment we have according to this report seven people that say on that day
00:39:24
they saw him burning something in a 5G drum not in his backyard in the garage that's located in his
00:39:33
backyard then we have some of those people saying that they saw him at some point putting a barrel into the trunk of
00:39:41
his car and driving away with this Barrel now George as we said earlier is a welder and a machinist he claimed that
00:39:51
he had never burned anything in a drum or even had had a drum Barrel but again police are saying that they have persons
00:40:02
that are saying that there was a barrel and now after the girls are missing this
00:40:07
Barrel is missing from his property as well well I'd really love to know his explanation for the cell phone
00:40:16
pings here's some other things you're going to want to know explanations for here Captain yeah just you know just um
00:40:24
why you just punched me in my goddamn face cuz you're really pissing me off so armed with this information police are
00:40:30
going to search George's home and his property and his vehicle and George said that he gave the investigators and
00:40:39
surrendered the keys to his car and his house now investigators are saying in his
00:40:45
garage they found recently purchased rubber gloves contractor trash bags and bleach all from a Home Depot that
00:40:55
investigators think could have have been a way of cleaning up after the girls went missing police have the receipt for
00:41:02
the purchase so they go missing on the 6th on the 7th George bought contractor trash bags gardening gloves and
00:41:11
protective neoprene gloves when police searched his home several days later they find the receipt and there are five
00:41:18
bags missing from the roll and the gardening gloves were not found at all remember we have reports that say
00:41:27
that he burned something in a 55g drum which then other Witnesses say that they saw him loading this drum into his car
00:41:35
and that he left for about 45 minutes and he and his car come back to his home about 45 minutes after leaving with this
00:41:44
55 gon drum I have a big issue with George when he says I didn't even own this Barrel so these eyewitnesses are just
00:41:55
making that up you see what I'm saying like it's it becomes way more suspicious because it's
00:42:04
like right I would even buy I don't really know what they're talking about maybe I own
00:42:11
one I I don't remember what I did with it anything other than that never existed I never had one of those I don't
00:42:21
know what you're talking about well and there's other proof too to back up some of these eyewitnesses stories and
00:42:26
statements police found burn marks at the top of his garage right smoke heat Fire Rises and the witnesses say he was
00:42:38
burning something not in the backyard but inside the garage of his backyard and later police find burn marks on the
00:42:47
Rafters in the ceiling of that garage and why would you do that because you'd want to
00:42:54
conceal what was in that bar and remember His prior statements to law enforcement I did not have a 55g drum I
00:43:01
did not burn anything um somebody burnt something in this garage well there's a lot of other
00:43:09
people that police look into but it's hard to turn away from George Washington and then the other issue
00:43:17
becomes because the mother isn't being that honest with anybody let alone law enforcement it makes you wonder is
00:43:27
she a part of this or or is she just dumb and and and kind of covering up for him or
00:43:38
trying to protect him in in some way or some of this stuff too you wonder Captain is she is she smart and just
00:43:46
preoccupied with the fact that her kids are missing and might be an emotional wreck very distracted so but let's kind
00:43:53
of piece all this together what we do have here is suspicious behavior and movements by George Washington TI
00:44:00
leaving a voicemail for her mother saying that George is at the door so this is somebody that either through the
00:44:09
door vocally identifies himself as George to the kids or I don't know if there's a peephole or if there's a way
00:44:17
for the children to see outside of the front door to the apartment and she is Vis visibly identifying this person as
00:44:27
George to her mother on the voicemail there's a if it's not George Washington there's a lot of coincidences here
00:44:34
pointing to him right and too many so that I think that that this has got to be the number one suspect and we do know
00:44:43
that at some point there were several people that pushed and pushed and pushed for prosecutors to charged George with
00:44:51
the kidnappings and they decided that there was not enough concrete evidence to charge George Washington with anything
00:45:03
but then I want to point out a few things that we've already kind of circled around before I'm a little
00:45:08
suspicious of anyone that would have known that the girls would have been alone in the apartment prior to the day
00:45:15
that they went missing yeah the sisters aren't there the older sisters are conveniently not there and they're at
00:45:22
Grandma's house friends are over the night before to confirm that TI and Diamond are alive
00:45:30
and well at 10 p.m. Thursday night then we have Tracy who goes off to work and tells four different
00:45:39
stories when she comes home and does not find her kids four different stories to
00:45:45
police and the thing is it's I feel like the best person the best suspect is probably hiding right there in the
00:45:52
shadows of one of these stories when one of Mom's four stories to police so who is missing from three of those stories
00:46:04
George she tells three different stories before getting to the fourth story that
00:46:09
includes George Washington's name to police and then TI calls saying that George is at the door George has
00:46:17
suspicious Behavior his cell phone record activity looks strange does Mom know is she covering
00:46:24
for George is she purposely leaving George's name out of the equation early on in the investigation the other thing
00:46:31
who else's name is missing from some of those stories in fact this person's name
00:46:36
is missing from all of the stories Sheila tells Nancy Grace why would Tracy lie well it's
00:46:46
simple Nancy and I know and I believe in my heart of hearts that Sheila believes
00:46:52
this I believe in my heart of hearts that Tracy told her this Sheila tells Nancy
00:46:58
Grace Tracy lied because a family friend somebody close to our family who has had
00:47:04
run-ins with Illinois Department of Child and Family Services told her just go look for your
00:47:13
kids don't call it in because if you tell them that you left your kids your 10-year-old your three-year-old Home
00:47:20
Alone that day while you went off to work they're going to throw you in jail and or they're going to take your kids
00:47:26
from you right well that person is not mentioned by Tracy to police that portion of the story of why
00:47:36
she lied is not mentioned to police who is that person's name is that person George
00:47:44
Washington who could that person be why would a person tell Mom don't call the police for the same reason that somebody
00:47:54
would coers and Co a 10-year-old to write a note and leave a note for mom the other thing too that we know
00:48:03
that happened in this case there Captain is Wolf Lake Memorial Park was searched
00:48:10
extensively on more than one occasion we have witnesses that say that they saw George Washington burning
00:48:18
something in a 55g drum in his garage and then loading that drum up into the back of his car and driving off and then
00:48:27
coming back without the drum 45 minutes later guess where Wolf Lake Memorial Park is 22 to 24 minute drive from
00:48:39
George's home I think that police were on to something I think that there's a chance that they were in the right
00:48:46
location this area is huge this area is huge and maybe it's just too big maybe they didn't find what they were looking
00:48:54
for and oh by the way Wolf Lake is huge itself it's an 84 acre large lake I would not be surprised that if
00:49:05
George Washington dumped and disposed of a drum that contains significant evidence to
00:49:12
this case I would not be surprised if it's eventually found and recovered in that
00:49:19
Wolf Lake Memorial Park but I like to go back as as if I'm law enforcement if if
00:49:23
I'm law enforcement I have all these things pointing to this bag of [ __ ] right cadaver dogs do they did they use
00:49:34
them scent dogs did they use them M well I don't know if they use them but they use they use can9 units
00:49:41
looking for the girls that night and during the yeah but I'm I'm guessing they're not looking for their bodies in
00:49:47
those parks and and I wish they would and again I think this is one of those situations and that's why a lot of these
00:49:54
other persons of interest you know this other George there was kind of Fall by the wayside because I think law
00:50:00
enforcement once they got on the scent of George Washington and it's like here here's a situation
00:50:09
where the victim by leaving that voicemail is giving you the information that you need to point you in the right
00:50:18
direction now all you have to do is collect enough evidence to charge this monster and he's a monster
00:50:27
to to to destroy a three-year-old to destroy a 10-year-old I mean I I think it's one of
00:50:37
those cases where all the evidence points in this direction but can we prosecute him you have to hope if in
00:50:45
fact that that somebody wanted to get rid of the two girls that maybe they gave them away rather than got rid of
00:50:54
them you you have to hope and pray that that could be a possible scenario here and that maybe if George is the best
00:51:02
suspect that he was burning evidence rather than something else FBI profiler Pat Brown spoke to Nancy Grace about
00:51:13
this case and before we get into what she said we should point out that Tracy and George Washington said that they
00:51:21
were going to be taking the two little girls on a camping trip a lot of the family found this to be weird
00:51:28
because it's my understanding that this was not a regular activity and that it may have never have happened before at
00:51:37
least with George and the two little girls and George's defense police did find evidence proof positive that he did
00:51:46
in fact either purchase or borrow some camping equipment this would indicate that maybe that there is some truth to
00:51:55
that story that that weekend we were going to go camping however what police also did not uncover was any prior
00:52:03
arrangements they didn't reserve a campsite even though it's near Fourth of July weekend which Fourth of July that
00:52:12
that year was on a Wednesday so the weekend prior and the weekend after are going to be very busy camping weekends
00:52:20
now maybe George Washington is not a camper and would not know if it's in our best interest to reserve a site before
00:52:28
we drive out there but listen to this where they were supposedly going to go camping or
00:52:37
according to George where they were going to go camping was Indi in Indiana Wolf Lake Memorial
00:52:44
Park sits right on the state line it's about half in Indiana and half in Illinois and we already pointed out the
00:52:52
proximity to George George's home to that Park to that large outdoor Nature Preserve Pat Brown on Nancy Grace says
00:53:06
that she believes that the aunt who has taken up the fight for these girls Sheila she says Sheila is
00:53:15
exactly right Sheila is right on the money she believes this is not a stranger abduction Pat Brown says I
00:53:23
believe it's not a stranger abduction C I believe that it goes right back to those Georges Pat Brown says my guess is
00:53:33
George Washington the father of diamond they ought to be looking there at him and they also ought to be looking in
00:53:40
Indiana where they supposedly were going camping why would that state come up into somebody's mind if they had never
00:53:48
camped before Indiana look over there and they're not going to be alive sadly Pat Brown says Brown pointed out that if
00:53:58
the girls were abducted by a random stranger they would have been dumped within hours and the killer would not
00:54:05
have been afraid to discard them in a public place because he had no link to them we've talked about that plenty of
00:54:13
times on this show The closer the per to the victim the more effort that they put
00:54:20
into concealing the body she goes on to say someone took great care to hide these bodies someone who knew those
00:54:28
girls were home alone someone who the girls were comfortable with someone who either knew to pose as a guy named
00:54:36
George or who was a guy named George as the captain pointed out the FBI is still
00:54:44
offering a $110,000 reward for information about the Bradley sisters and their disappearance a statement to
00:54:52
Oprah daily reads the FBI is still actively providing investigative assistance to the Chicago Police
00:54:58
Department with respect to The Disappearance of diamond and TI Bradley there have been Personnel changes at the
00:55:06
Cook County State's Attorney's Office since the girls vanished and many hope that a new regime will mean charges will
00:55:15
be brought in this case according to our friends at the Charlie Project based off
00:55:21
of information of when the girls went missing diamond is 3 40 lb black hair brown eyes she has a scar
00:55:33
on the left side of her hairline she normally wears her hair braided in the back with four ponytails Diamond has
00:55:41
deep set eyes 10-year-old TI 4 fo2 70 lb TI has brown hair brown eyes has a quarter siiz burn scar on her left
00:55:54
forearm she had a scrape on her left calf at the time of her Disappearance in July of 2001 and she normally wears her
00:56:02
hair in Long ponytails she loved to dance and loved gymnastics in 2021 to Mark the 20th anniversary of TI
00:56:13
and Diamond's disappearance the national Center for missing and exploited Children released new AG progressed
00:56:20
images of the girls they have TI seen at 30 years of age and Diamond at 23 age-enhanced images can be seen on our
00:56:30
true crime garage National Center for missing and exploited children fundraising page again that web address
00:56:37
is give. missingkids.org True Crime garage the FBI ask anyone with information about The Disappearance of
00:56:46
these girls to contact Chicago Police Department detectives at 312 747 838 Z or your local FBI office in a Twist in a
00:56:59
update there has been a female that has come forward on Tik Tok claiming that it's possible that she is the
00:57:08
three-year-old girl that was missing and she has contacted the FBI to try to get
00:57:15
DNA testing done now the family came out and said well we've actually had at least a dozen girls come forward and say
00:57:25
I might have been one of the abducted girls or kidnapped girls but none of them have gone as far as to contact the
00:57:34
FBI to get DNA testing done that just happened 2 days ago so we will stay on that with any updates as far as if she
00:57:47
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00:58:07
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