WEBVTT - D.C.'s Missing Voice with Henderson Long [bonus] 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.800 You're listening to the Freeway Fanom, a production of iHeartRadio, 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.119 Tenderfoot TV, and Black Bar METSVHAH. The views and opinions 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.680 expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcast 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.200 author or individuals participating in the podcast, and do not 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.960 represent those of iHeartMedia, Tenderfoot TV, Black Bar, MITZVAH, or 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.200 their employees. This podcast also contains subject matter that may 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.760 not be suitable for everyone. Listener discretion is advised. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.760 I'm just a guy who grew up in DC saw 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.760 a lot of things. I wanted to make a difference. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.839 I wanted to do better. I wanted to help families. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.080 I know how I feel to be out there, you know, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.240 searching for your loved one. It's heartbreaking, especially when the 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.800 little girls go missing and daddy looking for him, and 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.560 you know, mama looking for him, and you know, they 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.400 feel like the police ain't doing nothing. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.360 You know what are y'all doing? Because they don't see anything. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:03.240 It's heartbreaking. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.640 The homicide detectives termed the cases the little Girl case. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.720 This child was laying on the side of the road. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.920 I wouldn't go no way. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.479 I would call my house. Those first five murders should 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.360 have been a huge warning bell for the police. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.480 We just want to know what happened. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.399 This person must have saw that. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.679 They were thinking that maybe it's just one person, and 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.160 he says, they need to know. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:34.480 This is me. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.440 I thought that they would catch him. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.560 I thought it was just a matter of time. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:48.520 I'm Celeste Headley and this is Freeway Phantom. In the 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.440 early stages of our Freeway Phantom investigation, we consulted Henderson, 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.680 long of DC's Missing Voice. Henderson helped us understand the 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.920 systemic and regional issues that affected the Freeway fantas investigations 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.560 in the nineteen seventies and current cases of missing and 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.400 murdered children. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.720 The foundation never changes with any kind of investigative work 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.840 through roots of it and. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.880 What it's about, the core stuff. Never it's still it'll 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:16.720 never changed. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.080 As a DC native with deep roots in the community 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:26.360 and years spent building relationships, Henderson is an invaluable source 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.720 of support and expertise for the families who are searching 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.000 for answers or coping with loss. For this bonus episode, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.120 we dig into his story to learn more about what 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.400 led him to the work he does today and the 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.920 hard fought battle for change in DC's justice system. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.920 Basically, what I do is I work right alongside with 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.000 the lead detective that's working to find a missing person 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.399 here in DC. I'm actually going behind him or sometimes 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.760 ahead of him to interview witnesses. Is to do self 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:07.200 owned traces, to do surveillance, to take singer friends and 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.520 DNA and all this kind of stuff to make sure 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.280 it's submitted. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.079 It's very rewarding. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.359 Whatever the case may be, whatever we're looking for, that's 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.919 our number one objective is to stay on that track 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.560 to look for missing people. So what I'm learning about 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.040 investigating cases, you have to have a certain character to 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.880 do this work because it can be very frustrating. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.600 You have to kiss a little bit of behind sometime 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.040 to get the information you want. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.600 Henderson's nonprofit works on missing persons cases in Washington, DC, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.680 and he often acts as a liaison between the Metropolitan 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.720 Police and black communities. The work is hard. It's taken 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.600 years of emotional and physical labor to establish the trust 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.520 Henderson now enjoys. But this work is personal. It's directly 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:00.160 connected to his upbringing in DC and tragedies within his family. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.480 I was born in nineteen sixty eight open Southeast Washington, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.520 d C. The Warding sector of Washington, d C. We 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.880 all lived in a like a little one bedroom apartment 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.920 with my grandmother, my mother's mother, and my father got 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.320 a good job and we moved over to ward Fire, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.520 which is another northeast sector of DC, and that's where 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.679 I grew up. My father still lives in the same house. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.800 As a kid, I grew up in the crack era 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.080 of d C. I grew up here where crackhead came 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.720 into our communities in the eighties and the. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.680 Late seventies is when it was starting. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.800 So as a kid, I got a chance to kind 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.440 of see all that at a low level, you know, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.039 just from my eyes seeing it. I never was involved 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.600 in it, never got involved with nothing like that as 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.000 far as no homicide or nothing, but I saw it. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.440 I saw my friends get involved growing up. I saw 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.800 a lot of my friends who are dead now or 0:04:58.839 --> 0:04:59.960 most of them are in car. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.400 I just saw a lot of death here in DC. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.120 I'll be quite frankly, quite honest with if you was 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.599 a lot of violence here in DC trying to control 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.600 the drug trade. Everybody wanted to get a piece of it, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.839 and as a result, we saw a rise in homicides. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.680 As a kid growing up, I got a chance to 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.520 lose loved ones. I'm probably a seven time loser. I've 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.080 lost seven or eight people to homicide. And when I 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.479 tell you I seen violence, I saw it with my 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.680 own eyes. I lost my kid, my oldest son. His 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.599 mother was murdered by a fifteen year old back in 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:41.400 nineteen ninety two, ninety three. I know about death's firsthand 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.440 and violent crimes. I know how I feel for the 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.960 community to have information on your homicide, but won't nobody 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:53.280 come forward. So as a person, this kind of motivated 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:54.760 me to do the work I'm doing. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.920 And also being in the military. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.239 Growing up surrounded by violence, and Henderson wasn't always sure 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.200 he would make it out. He thanks his father for 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.480 emphasizing the importance of structure and discipline. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:10.360 He was tough. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.039 My father was really tough, and he laid the law 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.640 down in the house. Immediately after high school, after graduating, 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.320 you know, my father told me I had to get out. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.240 I had to either go to work or I had 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.200 to go to school. And I didn't really want to 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.680 go to college. So I went to the military and 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.040 I did about seven years, and I came back home 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.640 I got a chance to work with different people and 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.760 meet different people and see the goodness in people, because 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.039 most people are good people, you know. For the most part, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.720 my main aspect of my story was the core was 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.200 my father and my grandmother. They were at the core 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.520 of me growing up because you know, sometimes you need 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.960 a man to tell a man how to be a man, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.960 and so my father was probably the biggest example that 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.719 I had growing up and the reason why I was 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.520 able to make the decisions that I made. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.240 Henderson decided he wanted to be that kind of example 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.920 for his community too. He eventually established DC's Missing Voice 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.920 with a focus on finding missing and exploited persons, another 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.480 issue that hits painfully close to home. In nineteen ninety nine, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.480 his aunt Aileen went missing. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.760 My aunt was last seeing September fifteenth, nineteen ninety nine. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.920 Family couldn't reach her, you know, they kept calling her 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.200 and calling her and calling her with no answer. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:34.840 So we called. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.000 We got the rental office to do a wellness check, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.080 and when we got to the apartment, my little cousin 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.160 was there in the apartment alone, Drone and his baby 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.920 Sea because he was a baby at the time and 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.720 he was strapped in. He had been there for a 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.640 couple of hours, and you know, my family knew something 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.960 was wrong. We called the police, and the police got 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.800 involved to no avail, researched her, search and search, and 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.960 at the time, we weren't where we are now with 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.280 missing persons. In nineteen ninety nine, we didn't have social 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.200 media like we have social media now. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.640 We didn't have some of the tools we have now. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.320 My family was they just thought that the police was 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.280 gonna take care of it. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.240 The police know, the police got you to allow on. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.760 The police come to find out a lot of things 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.160 probably could have been done better by the police department. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.880 They never asked them for DNA, never asked. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.520 All this time, my family told me, look, don't talk 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.520 about this no more. We're not getting no answers. Just 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.800 don't talk about it. It was just so painful. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.600 When Aileen went missing in the nineties, the federally funded 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.679 databased National Missing and Unidentified Person System or NEMUS had 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.440 not yet been established, and the Combined DNA Index System 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.680 or CODIS was brand new. Henderson uses both systems in 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.760 his work today. He said that had they been available 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.080 earlier on, it could have saved his family years of 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.319 pain and uncertainty. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.640 We had three unidentified remains found here in DC, and 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.559 we just knew one of them probably was a Leen 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.920 because it was in the same street that she would 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.240 frequent I told my family, you know, we got to 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.240 get our DNA and if we're going to have approve 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.520 that that's her and get some kind of closure. Well, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.240 in the process when we put our DNA in, we 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.600 got a hit on a body that was found in 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.520 two thousand, So she had been in the Moore from 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.360 two thousand to twenty and nineteen before she was identified. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.600 Now we tell you about good detective work. My detective 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.199 took a shot in the dark. He had some remains 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.640 up there at the Maryland Cortner's office. They kind of 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.040 fit the same description height of her. He asked them 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:56.079 test those bones. Went and test the bones. It turned 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:56.520 up a snake. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:57.319 It was her. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.680 So my family went through a lot of hearted because 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.480 we didn't know about all the different technology that was 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.080 available and what we should be using to solve her case. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.559 And they quite frankly didn't want to talk about it. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.960 They didn't even want This woe was so deep and 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.560 so painful. It was still wide open, but we just 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:22.400 ignored it. We still wanted answers. We still we was 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.880 the more desperate for the answers. So they had to 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.199 go ahead and they went on and they put their 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.040 DNA in. They got a match, and then we convinced 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.560 the sun drone to put his in and that was 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.240 a real match. Then they were positive that it was her, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:11:00.000 and that's how we got the answers. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.000 Even though Henderson found an answer to his ant's mystery, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.600 his personal tragedies didn't end there. His niece went missing 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.520 around twenty twelve, and at that point Henderson was fed 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.720 up with the cycle of searching and waiting for answers. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.000 He decided to get involved with the investigation. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.160 I had a niece twelve years old. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.000 She kept running away from home, and you know, the 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.040 police were working on it, and you know, they got 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.760 eighty million kids that's missing. So I was out there 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.800 on the ground talking with dope dealers. What was going 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.959 through my head was that this is what the police 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.600 go through, and they probably go through it worse than 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:44.480 what I'm saying. She was missing off and on, I say, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.360 about three or four years. She's twenty one now. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.040 She got four kids. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:54.199 But the trauma that she went through, the domestic violence, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.079 you know, leaving names out, the domestic violence and all 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.440 that stuff that she went through. You know, did they suffer? 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.080 They suffer? It changed. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.880 After this his mission was clear. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:11.800 Looking for her. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.960 Is what got me involved in is I saw how 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:18.119 hard it was for investigators to acquire and get information, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.040 to get information that they need to solve these cases. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.720 And it really drove me to do more and to 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.240 want to do more to assist them. So I realized 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.480 I had to learn more about the logistics of investigating cases, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.200 and I had to know. You got to know what 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.360 you're doing because sometimes you really can mess up a 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.120 case unintentionally. So I had to learn. I had to 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.439 I had to ask a lot of questions from to 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.720 on law enforcement officers that are investigators and sit down 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.600 with them talk with them. I had to do my 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.040 own study, and I had to go through various courses 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:51.800 to learn how. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.320 To do this in a professional man and not just 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:55.199 as a citizen. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.320 Henderson began working part time as a Trace investigator. He 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.360 now offers his services to families at no cost. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.400 You don't want any money. This is all pro bona 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.120 work I did, and all the materials and stuff. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.960 Some of the stuff is from the police department, some 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.400 of us from But you do all this out of 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:18.720 your own pocket, because you know what it's like. I 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.200 don't really want to work by contract because I don't 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.520 want to charge no family to look for a missing person. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.200 Unless they're rich, they can pay. 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:32.400 But nobody's test driving me. I'm doing this without funding. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.360 Part of his work includes running platforms to publicize cases 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:40.840 in DC. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.720 Platforms are important when they come to missing people. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.040 I have DC's Missing Boys and Missing expl the East 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.360 of the River Missing ex for the East of the 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.080 River gives focus to East of the River residents where 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.640 they can just focus on they missing people because they 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.480 hit me up when they told me, look, we getting 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.280 tired of here about all these missing people. It's happened 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.960 all over here when we got the highest number of 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.080 missing people east of the River. So I created that 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.679 page to get more eyes on the street in that area. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.559 The more eyes you have, the more you can get 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.640 that call. Then now DC's missing voice is all of 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.560 the missing people in DC. When you talk about an 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:28.000 investigative tool, we're in the modern world now in this 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.720 Internet is something It can be very powerful when you're 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.640 doing these public inquiries. When you're asking the public, the 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:41.120 Metropolitan Police Department is seeking the public's assistance locating so 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.600 and so, so and so. Eighty million people may see that. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.200 So that's now a public inquiry and we get a 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.320 lot of chips. We have a lot of chips that 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.480 we follow up on. That's why we have them. For 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.280 the main reason, that's to promote and to publicize and 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.920 to give MPD a greater reach in terms of audience 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.520 to their missing people in Washington DC. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.920 As we've talked about throughout the season, an investigation has 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.320 many moving parts. It's complicated and constantly moving, like a 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:21.800 clockwork mechanism. Details can get lost or overlooked. Henderson wanted 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.720 to get the best training he could to make sure 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.320 he was on top of his game. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.960 A god named that name is Palmer and Great Britain 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.640 created a professional course for regular people to go through 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.200 to learn how to operate within the private sector to 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.600 do trace investigation. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.480 All the necessary paperwork that you need to fill out. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.880 Like if you're my client, I need to know what 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.720 paperwork to fill out, because that's what separate the regular 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:55.640 citizen from the private professional investigator. He has documentation meaning 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.480 he has an intake for him, he has a contract, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.400 he knows all the lead considerations when he's doing surveillance, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:07.160 so he doesn't violate anybody's constitutional rights. If you out 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.400 to investigating the case, and let's just say it's a 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.720 case that this criminal malice involved, if you know the 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.800 aspects of the law, you can protect that data from 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.280 being disqualified and thrown out. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.200 If you know what you're doing. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.280 You know, so certain things you have to know in 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.080 terms of the legal considerations. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.640 And these are just some of the things you learn. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.720 How to promptly interview people, what questions to ask, you know, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.480 the theory behind an interview, for example, when you go 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.400 into before you even go in the door, you got 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.080 to have an objective. You got if you want a confession, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.360 if you want to just build some rapport with him 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:47.920 and hit him up back up later again. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.120 Knowing all this before. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.000 You go in, it's a part of your preparation to 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:54.200 be an investigator. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.120 You know, there's certain principles that we operate off of. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.240 You know, before we go in, we've tried to learn 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.880 all these different things before we go and start formally 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:05.919 interviewing people. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.160 Much of Henderson's work as a trace investigator involves gathering 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.879 information and he's had to hone his skills in interviewing 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.639 and note taking, even organizing data. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.560 You can't just jump out and these are some of 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.800 the things you learn when you go through this certification. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.080 How to document your paperwork. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.680 You know, how to make sure it's in order, how 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.160 to write up a report to submit the law enforcement. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.280 What's the fabric of it would that sworn officer need 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:36.600 to have? 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:38.440 What is he looking for? 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.199 You're supposed to know the basic stuff so there's something 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:48.400 useful when it comes in. You learn all this going 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.680 through this certification, and it's an international certification, meaning all 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.679 the trades investigators got together and they started compowering methods 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.560 and stuff like that. For the guy who may not 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.879 be working in law enforcementer who may want to go 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.040 into the private sector. He can understand how to do 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.520 it and they can't with a manual. You know, you 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.879 have online tutoring, you can call it, you can ask questions. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.679 Your gold mine when you're any investigator, it's staying in 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.879 contact with senior investigators. I've learned that you want to 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.640 call them, you want to say hey, I got this, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.920 and they usually not going to give you the answer, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.919 but they'll point you in the right direction. They'll help you. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.000 They've been there before, they've already done it. Your case 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.560 ain't the first case under the sun. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.320 He got into this work because of his passion for 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:43.000 service and its emotional work. But after a decade of experience, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.560 there's also a familiar pattern. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:45.840 To the job. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.120 Well, I might get off from work, i might get 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.840 a call and I might go in through a general 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.120 intake with a family. It may be over the internet, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.560 it might be over the phone. They'll throw me some 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.800 known location with the person frequent We'll go there with 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.240 set surveillance because we're all creatures, are habit and we 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.600 may head out. I might do some reverse phone checks. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.160 They may be getting calls from their loved one from 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.600 a given number, and they may want me to find 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.440 out what's the location, where are they at? So we'll 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.440 go and try to figure out where they are. We'll 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.920 use social media to look at the background or where 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.679 they took a picture at, and we'll try to figure 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.840 out where they are, where they may be hanging out 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.480 at a lot of my work involves surveillance. Because you 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.240 got the lead detective to sworn law enforce an officer. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.240 He's lived doing the heavy lifting in the office. I 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.200 might go out there day to day and I might 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.240 just be sitting at a location and our positivity ID 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.479 to missing person. They never see me or know anything 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:56.240 about I'm there. I call nine one one MPD Patrol Services, 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:00.879 come contact the missing person, bring them back in if 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.879 they're under eighteen. If they're over eighteen, they'll notify the 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.200 family and missing person has been located. So a lot 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.800 of it is surveillance and and light investigating work. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.760 Henderson took us on a ride along through his patrol routine. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.719 My producer Jamie and I sat in his suv as 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.959 Henderson drove around the neighborhoods doing standard surveillance. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.399 So we're just gonna ride there and you know, you 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.399 guys can take a look. This is every day what 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.200 you're gonna see every single day, sun up the sundown. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.520 This is what's going on in the community, and it's perpetuating. 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.040 Our most severe cases. 0:20:40.680 --> 0:21:01.439 Are, Henderson long says, the tasks and become routine, but 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.480 every case is different. There are abductions like the case 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.120 of Relitia Rudd, an eight year old girl who went 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:13.560 missing in twenty fourteen and runaways like Henderson's niece. On 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.439 our ride along, he talked about other cases he's worked on. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.080 Right now, we at nineteenth and Benning Road. Between nineteenth 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.760 and Benning Road and fifteenth and Benning Road, it's kind 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.320 of like an area where we have a lot of 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.159 missing persons that we find In this area, there's a 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.960 lot of drugs, a lot of heroin. I don't know 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:37.240 whether you guys know about K two and PCP. K 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.520 two is a drug that's killing. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:41.919 A lot of people. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.480 When I know you might know about PCP, it makes 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:48.760 you hallucinate, and so it's a lot of the usage 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:53.800 of that drug here and that's prompting some of the 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.080 missing person's cases. It's prompting some of the violence assaults 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.840 because sometimes they think things are happening that are not 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.560 happening because they're hallucinating. Just the fact that they're out 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:09.040 here unsupervised. It's a big can of worms. You never know, 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.159 snake eyes. It could turn up snake eyes and we 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.919 find a young person either in jail or dead. I 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:18.720 had another missing person's case, Dominique Franklin. He was murdered, 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.600 he was missing, and he was located. He went before 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.919 the judge and judged gave him some orders to do something. 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.800 He said, screw the judge and screw everybody and walked off. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.600 And the day later he was found dead, shot in 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:36.680 the head. He left on his own. 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:40.119 Nobody targeted him, but in the end he still wound 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:41.520 up losing and he was sixteen. 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:44.680 So Dominique Franklin is another. 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.199 Case that I kind of worked in the end of it, 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.040 the last part of it. I kind of got involved 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.200 with it a little bit. But missing persons can lead 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.720