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Speaker 1: Police just releasing surveillance the video of Anaia, the missing

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Speaker 1: Harris here. Um. If you have any leads on where

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: what happened? Um? We just got a confirmation that you know,

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Speaker 1: out of Manhattan, Karen. She's a homebody, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I don't know that's true. Jeff Cortesi, you're a former

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Speaker 1: special agent with the FBI, for Pete's sake, help me out.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, I could. I really think that

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Speaker 1: one of the strong foxibilities is we're not hearing a

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Speaker 1: lot right now because they're working. The fact that they

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Speaker 1: haven't made mention of who that boy is is um significant.

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Speaker 1: The fact that they haven't said, you know, we ran

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Speaker 1: not related, or that this was not true information, or well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, Jeff, you know I always agree with you,

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Speaker 1: but how can it not be related? She meets a

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Speaker 1: guy that night and she goes missing, her car is

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Speaker 1: damaged that night. They are connected, Jeff. They have to

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Speaker 1: be connected in some way. And that's what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: And that's what I think. That's why I believe that.

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Speaker 1: Well why did I just have to say all that?

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Speaker 1: If that's what you're saying, say it, man. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: I think that the fact that we're not hearing a

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Speaker 1: lot about that is an indication that they're working those angles.

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Speaker 1: If there was nothing there, they would say there's nothing there.

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Speaker 1: The fact that the law enforcement has gone quiet generally

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Speaker 1: mean that they are working certain things, and to expose

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Speaker 1: certain information would leave them vulnerable to mishaps. Along the way.

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Speaker 1: They want to focus their attention on getting your daughter.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, Jeff, I hate that, I hated,

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Speaker 1: I hated, I hate it, but it's true. Sometimes you

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Speaker 1: cannot release information or it can screw everything up. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is what we know. The investigation is continuing. If

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Speaker 1: you have information and guarding a Nia's whereabouts, call Auburn Police.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the number the detective division is

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Speaker 1: three three four five zero one three one four zero

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Speaker 1: repeat three three four five zero one three one four zero.

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Speaker 1: There is an anonymous tip line three three four two

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Speaker 1: four six thirteen ninety one repeat three three four two

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Speaker 1: four six one three nine one. If you know something

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Speaker 1: about a Nia's disappearance, if you were in the convenience store,

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Speaker 1: if you saw what you thought was a car accident

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night, I asked Wednesday night between Auburn and Montgomery,

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Speaker 1: a black Honda, please help us. You can call anonymously

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Speaker 1: three three four two four six one three nine one.

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I want to circle back

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Speaker 1: to Angela Harris. They need our help. We have got

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Speaker 1: to help them find their teen girl. Anya. Take a

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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at w VT and the family

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Speaker 1: says that people need to continue to talk about this

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Speaker 1: to bring evidence forward and help police in this investigation.

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Speaker 1: And going back to that video, it's on this street

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Speaker 1: where police say that nineteen year old student was seen

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Speaker 1: before she was reported. I'm gonna saying this is the

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Speaker 1: last time nineteen year Oldanya Blanchard was seen. Auburn and

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Speaker 1: police releasing a new video of the team entering a

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Speaker 1: convenience store on South College Street shortly before I witness

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Speaker 1: accounts say her black twenty seventeen Honda CRV drove southbound

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Speaker 1: on South College Street Saturday. The vehicle found at an

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Speaker 1: apartment complex in Montgomery, almost an hour away from where

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Speaker 1: the surveillance video was taken with a certain person and

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Speaker 1: that she had just met him. Anaya's family still desperately

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Speaker 1: searching for the Southern Union State student. They say they

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Speaker 1: won't rest until they bring their loved one home. Is

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Speaker 1: definitely looking for her safe return and yeah, she's somebody

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Speaker 1: that she's a fun, loving and happy Say something something,

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Speaker 1: Say something, safe return. Montgomery Police and Auburn Police have

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Speaker 1: created a joint investigation along with the FBI, the Alabama

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Speaker 1: Law Enforcement Agency, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and other

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Speaker 1: agencies dedicated to the safe return of the nineteen year

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Speaker 1: old student to Angela Harris, what do you think, Angela,

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Speaker 1: because this sounds very unlike Anniah Blanchard to say at

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Speaker 1: eleven twenty at night, I just met a guy and

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Speaker 1: then I'm going out with him, right, and that that

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Speaker 1: is not I do not think that was in a

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Speaker 1: Nia's plan. Something has went wrong. I don't know. I've

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Speaker 1: ceculated everything that I could speculate. But what I do

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Speaker 1: know is, and let me say this, I know the

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Speaker 1: police are working. I know they are, but it is

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Speaker 1: so frustrating. But I'm We're trying to let them do

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Speaker 1: their job because we do not want to hinder anything

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Speaker 1: about bringing our baby home. So I don't you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to discredit him at all. But I

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Speaker 1: know that my daughter her phone was dying. Her brother

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Speaker 1: told us her phone was die when she dropped him

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Speaker 1: off at eleven and eleven o'clock at his house in Auburn,

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Speaker 1: and he she had not mentioned to him about going anywhere,

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Speaker 1: and he said, Mom, if I knew she was gonna

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Speaker 1: be going anywhere, I would have given her my charger.

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Speaker 1: They didn't she didn't have a car charger. And also

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Speaker 1: what tells me that I know ah Nia was planning

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Speaker 1: on going home. She was in the store, she had money,

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Speaker 1: She had money to buy a charger. Her walk just

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Speaker 1: gave her money when she left. She could have bought

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Speaker 1: a charger for her phone if she thought she was

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Speaker 1: gonna be out for any length of time. So I

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Speaker 1: just can't. I just cannot make any sense of this.

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Speaker 1: I just do not. I just don't know, Nancy what happened.

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Speaker 1: I just know that's not my daughter. Angela, Angela, Angela, Listen.

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Speaker 1: I know you're not attacking the police. I know you're

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Speaker 1: just at the end of your rope, right and you're

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Speaker 1: hanging on trying to find your girls. And every time

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Speaker 1: I look at her picture, I see my Lucy right right. Guys,

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Speaker 1: please help us. Three three, two, four, six, one, three

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Speaker 1: nine one. I've given you all the numbers. Ashley Gooden

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Speaker 1: WBMAABC thirty three forty joining me out of Birmingham. What

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Speaker 1: more can you tell us, Ashley? On the heels of

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Speaker 1: this community losing Camille Cocake McKinney, people are really on

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Speaker 1: high alert and fully invested in searching for Anaiah because

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Speaker 1: We aren't wanting to lose someone else in our community,

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Speaker 1: especially not someone so young with such a future ahead

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Speaker 1: of them. This girl is missing. There is time to

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Speaker 1: bring her home safely, and if you don't have a tip,

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Speaker 1: please join us and pray that Anaiah is brought home

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Speaker 1: to her family. We wait as just as unfolds C

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Speaker 1: Gray's crime story, signing off goodbye friend.