1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm missing five year old 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: girl presumably in danger, little Malia Davis, her stepfather, Darien Vince. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: His story to police details a violent attack and a 4 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: twenty four hour period where he was not conscious. It 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: begins Friday evening around nine. Vince tells police he was 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: headed to pick up Malia's mother from Bush Airport. He 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: says he pulled over near fifty nine and Greens to 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: check what he thought was a flat tire. Vince told 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: detectives three Hispanic men pulled up in a blue Chevy 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: pickup chuck to Hispanic males get out. One of them 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: makes a comment saying that Malia looks very nice, looks 12 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: very sweet. The other male hits Darien in the head. 13 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: Vince says he was knocked unconscious and the next twenty 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: four hours he recalls nothing you're hearing from our friends 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: at KATRKTV. That was Courtney Fisher describing the abduction of 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: a little girl, Malia Davis. I Meanancy Grace, this is 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. You know, 18 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: just right off the bat, I find that very very 19 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: difficult to take him that you're at a parking lot 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: and out of the blue. Two guys approach. I don't 21 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: really get a good description of them except you can 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: point out their ethnicity. And they hit you in the head. 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: How did you get in the position to be hitting 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: the head? How'd that happen? But anyway, hitting the head? 25 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: Wake up twenty four hours later and your baby is gone. 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: Let's just start right there. All star panel joining me today. 27 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: Doctor Chris Berry, chief medical examiner, former for State of Georgia. 28 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: Randy Kessler, renowned defense attorney and Emory Law School trial professor, 29 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: Doctor Jolie Silva clinical forensic psychologists working from the New 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: York Family Courts. John Limley, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. 31 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: And Joe Scott Morgan forensics expert, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, 32 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet. John Lemley, help me 33 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: out here, tell me exactly what he says happens. Well. 34 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: The stepfather, Darien Vince says that, as we've heard, around 35 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: nine pm on Friday, this is May third, he was 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: driving from his home in Sugarland, Texas to the Bush 37 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: Intercontinental Airport in Houston. In the car with him his stepdaughter, 38 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: Malia Davis, and his son Courtland. They were off to 39 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: pick up Malia's mom, who was arriving on a flight 40 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: from Massachusetts. The trip is right at one hour if 41 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: you take the Sam Houston Tollway from Sugarland. Darian says, okay, 42 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: stop right there, Limley. As much as I appreciate the 43 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: intricate detail of various airports, I'm trying to find out 44 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: about the little girl, all right, So just gimme the 45 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 1: nuts and bolts. Protests certainly well. Darion says they were 46 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: well on their way when he heard this popping sound. 47 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: He thought they might have a flat tire, so he 48 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: pulled over and got out of the car. This is 49 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: when he said. Two men in a blue pickup truck 50 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: rolled up, and while one was making comments about Malia 51 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: about how nice and sweet she was, the other guy 52 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: knocked him out, and when he opened his eyes, Darien says, 53 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: he was in the back of the truck with the 54 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: two children and three Okay, wait, wait, wait, he's in 55 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: the back of their truck. There's the children and three men. Correct, 56 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: so he's been put in somebody else's truck. Believe it's 57 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: the same truck, the same blue Chevy pickup truck. Let 58 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: me understand he's in their truck, no longer in his vehicle. Yes, no, yes, 59 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: his vehicle. He doesn't know where it is at this point. Okay, 60 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: So he wakes up and did he say twenty four 61 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: hours later? Twenty one hours to be specific. So he 62 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: was knocked out for almost a day, almost, he says. 63 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: He goes in and out of consciousness for hours and hours, 64 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: doesn't know where he is, and six pm on Saturday, Okay, 65 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: he must have been wearing a watch. To doctor Chris Sperry, 66 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: retired Chief Medical Examiner, doctor Sperry, what kind of a 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: blow to the head would cause you to be knocked 68 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: out for twenty one hours? Well, it's the kind of 69 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: blow to the head that is extremely severe. In other words, 70 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: I would expect elaceration of the scalp at least. Frankly, 71 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: I would expect a skull fracture and underlying brain injuries. 72 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: Something that is so severe that it would put you 73 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: in the hospital and it would be very noticeable. But 74 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: you know, without that kind of trauma, without that kind 75 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: of injury involving the scalp, the skull and the brain, 76 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: there is nothing that's going to render you an adult 77 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: mail unconscious for twenty one hours. And doctor Sperry, I 78 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: don't know if you remember this way way way when 79 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: I was still prosecuting felonies and my nephew was in 80 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: a crash, and you and I talked and talked and 81 00:04:55,240 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: talked and talked about skull fractures, swelling of the brain, 82 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: what does it mean? And I'm happy to report you 83 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: know you live through that dark, dark time with me. 84 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: And just so you know, he went on to get 85 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: a double major in IT and biology and now is 86 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: an IT troubleshooter for a big company. I mean, so 87 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: you can make a major comeback from a big blow 88 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: like that. But in this case, based on what Sperry, 89 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: Chris Sperry's telling me, I would expect to see major 90 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: skull fracture and lacerations to knock you out for twenty 91 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: one hours. Hey, take a listen to kat r KTV 92 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: Corney Fletcher PM Saturday, A surveillance and and shows Vince's 93 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: car in Sugarland six pm Saturday. Vince sells police he 94 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: woke up on the side of Highway six near the 95 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: Sugarland Mall, his one year old son with him, but nomalia. 96 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: He tells police he tried to fly down cars for help, 97 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: but had no luck. Just before eleven PM is when 98 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: police say he needed a Methodist hospital less than a 99 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: mile from where he says he was dropped off. We're 100 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: looking for it. We're hoping the public and years any 101 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: information about anybody who has seen Darien during that period 102 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: of time, because he doesn't really know where he was 103 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: or what's going on there. Anybody who's seen the vehicle, 104 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: the silver Nissan. Doesn't know where he is. Okay, he's 105 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: one mile away. Isn't that what they just said? John Limley, 106 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 1: he's one mile away, he doesn't know where he is. 107 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: How can that be correct? He hadn't They hadn't made 108 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: much journey on their trip already. You know, as I said, 109 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: this was an hour long trip and they were maybe 110 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: a couple of minutes into the trip according to his story. 111 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: Well he's a mile away. Yeah, I mean, I'm just 112 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to compare this to what I know 113 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: to be true. And I'm basing in on what I 114 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: think my dad would have done if guys that come 115 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: up and started talking about how pretty and sweet I was, 116 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: and I'm a tiny little girl. I don't know, I'm 117 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: comparing this guy to the goal standard. So let me 118 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 1: get back to what we know. To doctor Joey Silva 119 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: joining me, forensic psychologist, Doctor Silva, explain to me what 120 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: would cause a memory loss like this. I mean, if 121 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: it was a severe um trauma to the head where 122 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: he had traumatic brain injury after that. But I mean, 123 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: you know, it just doesn't I mean, he was coherent. 124 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: App it seems like he was coherent after the fact. 125 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to have any of associated memory losses 126 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: um that would be indicative to it to a real 127 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: severe TBI traumatic brain injury. It just it just doesn't 128 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: add up to be knocked out for that long from 129 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: a blue object to the head and then you know, 130 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: be able to have conversations after that, be able to 131 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: kind of get up function. You know, it just doesn't 132 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 1: add up that he that he would have such severe 133 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: memory loss. I've got a lot, a lot of questions 134 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: and things are definitely not as they same. Here is 135 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: John Marshall at khou Derrion. Vince told investigators he was 136 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: driving to book Intercontinental Airport to pick up Malia's mom. 137 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: Vince says Malia and his two year old son were 138 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: in the car while near Highway fifty nine in greens Road, 139 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: Vince told police he heard a noise and pulled over 140 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: to check his tire. While outside the car, he says 141 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: two men pulled up in a blue Chevy pickup. One 142 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: of them makes a comment saying that Malia looks very nice, 143 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: looks very sweet. Then says one of the men hit 144 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: him in the head and he lost consciousness. Friday night, 145 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: Malia's mother had to call someone else to pick her 146 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: up when Vince and the children never showed up. Sometime 147 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: between Friday night or Saturday, Vin says he woke up 148 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: and was in the back of the pickup with both children, 149 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: but three men were also in the car. He told 150 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: police he passed out again and woke up at six 151 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: pm Saturday near Highway six and fifty nine in Sugarland. 152 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 1: His son was with him. Malia was gone right now. 153 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: We're ouside of Methodist Hospital in Sugarland. This is where 154 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: police say her stepfather, Darien Vince, showed up yesterday night 155 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: just before eleven pm with his one year old son, 156 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: no Malia. He told detectives here that they had been 157 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: abducted on Friday night when they run their way to 158 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: the airport to pick up his wife, Malia's mother. He 159 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: says he got out to check on what he believed 160 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: was a flat tire, and that is when he was 161 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: approached by three Hispanic males in a blue Chevy pickup truck. 162 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: He says that he was hit on the head and 163 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: that's when he believes he's fell unconscious. Now, the next 164 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: twenty four hours, there's a major gap that police are 165 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: hoping that you can help figure them out if you 166 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: happen to see Darien in this blue pickup truck, happened 167 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: to see the babies or these three Hispanic males that 168 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: he says abducted them. They want to hear from you 169 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: for twenty four hours, he says he doesn't know what happened. Yesterday. 170 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: He says that he woke up near the Sugarland Mall, 171 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: which is only about a mile from Methodist Hospital here 172 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: around six pm. He says that he tried to wave 173 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: down cars for help. No one helped, so he walked here. 174 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: He got here before eleven pm, and that is where 175 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: the story picks up again. You are hearing the very 176 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: latest that is from KTRKTV. Stefani a coolie. Now the 177 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: search from Maliah Davis is on to John Limley, Crime 178 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter, tell me about the search 179 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: for the little girl. The search immediately started around this area. 180 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: Where what area? The area where Vince said he came 181 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: to with his son. Corse is what you know what, 182 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: I'm a JD, not a DDS. I'm not good at 183 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: pulling teeth, So just tell me. Where's the area Malie 184 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: goes missing? Where did this go down? This is around 185 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: Highway six, about a mile from the hospital where he 186 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: takes the child. Okay, let me be more specific. What 187 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: city and state we're in, Sugarland, Texas where the family 188 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: actually lives. Is that near Houston? It is about an 189 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: hour away from Okay, there you go hour outside of Houston. 190 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: Keep going. And so they began fanning out from the 191 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: area where he said he came to with his son. 192 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: They again cutting away brush and looking for anything they 193 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: can find that will point them towards where the car 194 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 1: has gone and where Malia has gone. Let's start right there. 195 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan's joining me, forensics expert author of Blood 196 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: Beneath My Feet. Joe Scott, when you've got a vehicle, 197 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: you got a problem. Because that child is going sixty 198 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: miles an hour at best if she makes it okay, 199 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: So cops are off on the search for this vehicle. 200 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if you remember this the 201 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: case of the Runaway Bride, the real case, not the 202 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: movie with Julia Roberts. What was her name, Jennifer, Jennifer? 203 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: Can you look that up? New intern Runaway Bride, Georgia Jennifer. 204 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: Somebody she blamed her air quote, assault and kidnap on 205 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: three Hispanics? Why is it always three Hispanics? Although Susan 206 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: Smith did blame an African American male, and when that 207 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: came out, I happened to be sitting next to my 208 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: trial part Hermann Sloan, now a judge by the way, 209 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: he's gone on to greatness, and he looked just like 210 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: the composite Susan Smith drew of the guy that allegedly 211 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: took her children. So I've been very, very leery of 212 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: composites when mommy or daddy's story doesn't hold together from me. 213 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: So this time it's three Hispanic mails he can't really identify, 214 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: and a pickup. So what do you do? The child's gone? 215 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: Oh it was Jennifer Wilbanks, Thank you, thank you. Okay, 216 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: back to the search for the vehicle. What do you do, 217 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 1: Joe Scott, Well, we work, you know, we work in 218 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: crom scene investigation in linear time. There is a moment 219 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: in time when something horrible happens that summons all of 220 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: us investigators to the scene. And at that moment time, 221 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: as we moved down that timeline, we're getting further and 222 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: further out. You mentioned a car just a second, Nancy, 223 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: as that car, let's just say a car is involved. 224 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: It's moving further out in time. Time is bleeding off 225 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: the clock. It's getting further and further away, So the 226 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: search area has to expand that's why the police are 227 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: so frenetically searching for this child further out in time. 228 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: She's moving away, moving away, and they have this awareness 229 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: about it, and it creates a major problem, particularly when 230 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: you've got all of these actors involved in this that 231 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: this guy is claiming that are involved in this case. 232 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: Has this child inspirited away to another town, to another state, 233 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: or to another country. So Randy Kessler, the dad in 234 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: this case, the dad in this case, Vince Okay, Darien 235 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: Vince stepdad by the way, stepfather only reports to child 236 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: Maliah missing twenty four hours in if we take his 237 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: word on the timeline, so twenty four hours have already 238 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: been lost. He's at a hospital about his own injuries, 239 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: and that's when he goes, oh, yeah, my daughter, my stepdaughter, Maliah, Yeah, 240 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,719 Speaker 1: she was kidnapped. See I've got a problem with that, Randy. Yeah. Well, 241 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: I know you don't like to have anybody the benefit 242 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: of the data, especially someone who's accused of a crime. 243 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: But you know, if he's got a brain injury and 244 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: he's been hit in the head, that accounts for a 245 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: lot of why he might have done the right thing 246 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: the right time, in a timely way, especially if he 247 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: was unconscious for the first twenty one hours. Okay, all right, 248 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: I hear that. Thence the stepfather claims three men in 249 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: a pickup truck pulled up, knocked him out, kidnapped him, 250 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: Malia and his one year old son, before they eventually 251 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: allowed him and the boy to go free. He then 252 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: reports to the alleged kidnap at a hospital Saturday night, 253 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: explaining he had been in and out of consciousness for 254 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Now, what can you tell me, John 255 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: Limley about the condition of his vehicle didn't at all 256 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: start when he had car trouble or a flat or 257 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: something like that. He said that he heard a popping sound. 258 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: He thought it might be a flat tire. But eventually 259 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: that vehicle is found, not a scratch on it and 260 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: no flat tires. Well, can you tell me about any 261 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: security footage that may show me when and how the 262 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: car arrived in a lot? What was it doing in 263 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: a lot? By the way, good question. The vehicle was 264 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: taken to the Houston Police Department for for forensics test. 265 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: Detectives are looking for surveillance video from a shopping mall 266 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: in a nearby Walmart store. The vehicle is a silver 267 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: Nissan Ultima and it was found Thursday morning in this 268 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: parking lot of a shopping mall in Missouri City, Texas. 269 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: This is just outside of Sugarland. Very disappointing. Malia was 270 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: not in the car, No one was around it. An 271 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: employee of a taxi cab company is actually the one 272 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: that spotted the car in the parking lot and called police. Well, 273 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: we do know this, We do know he had visible injuries, 274 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: Cops saying something quote clearly happened to him. According to him, 275 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: he was driving with Malia and his son was that 276 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: his bio son, John Limley was at his bioson and 277 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: his stepdaughter. Yes, his bioson and stepdaughter, and authorities have 278 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: not been able to or will not release information on 279 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: whether Malia's mom and her stepfather are married. Take a 280 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: listen to the timeline as we knew it at the time. 281 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: Vence says he walked down the road to Methodist Hospital, 282 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: where he was treated for a head injury and reported 283 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: Malia missing nearly twenty four hours after the alleged assault 284 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: that left Vence unconscious. I realize there's a lot of 285 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: blanks in that story, but we're open on the public 286 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: can filling the blanks. Sunday morning, Malia's case became an 287 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: Amber alert. That afternoon, traffic cameras spotted Vince's silver car 288 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: in sugar Land, near where the family and friends handed 289 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: out flyers, followed by search and recovery groups starting their 290 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: work Monday morning. You're hearing our friend Josh Marshall there 291 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: at khoutv Okay, I've got an issue, John Limley. I 292 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: understand that he first tells cops. He wakes up on 293 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: the side of the road six pm Saturday evening, next 294 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: to his son. I thought you told me he woke 295 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: up in the back of the Hispanic Males pickup. His 296 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: story is that he wakes up sporadically. He's in and 297 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: out of consciousness throughout that long twenty one hour period, 298 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: and one of the first things he remembers after the 299 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: initial incident where the pickup drives up and the men 300 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,719 Speaker 1: get out, is he's in the back of the truck 301 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: with his son, Courtland and Malia. He says, is there 302 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: as well at that first point when he comes to consciousness. 303 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: But then when he wakes up six pm on Saturday, 304 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: the sun's there, but Malia's gone. Doctor Chris Sperry, retired 305 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: Chief Medical Examiner, Doctor Sperry, let me understand what you're 306 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 1: telling me about a head injury. So now he's waking 307 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: up in various places, he says, he wakes up in 308 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: the pickup with the children there. Now he's telling me, 309 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: he wakes up on the side of the road and 310 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: manages to walk to the hospital. What does this mean, 311 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: Doctor Sperry? Is it physically possible what he's saying. No, 312 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: that's not physically possible. I mean, quite honestly, what he's 313 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: describing sounds like the plot of a very lousy TV show. 314 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing that people see on television, 315 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: but it doesn't happen in real life and individuals and 316 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,439 Speaker 1: if they sustain a severe traumatic brain injury, a severe 317 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: head injury, they're going to be unconscious and stay that way. 318 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: But this lapsing in and out of consciousness and remembering 319 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: certain things very clearly but having large caps, that that's 320 00:18:44,800 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: conscious Climb Stories with Nancy Grace. Within the last ninety minutes, 321 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: the search for Malia Davis shifted more than thirty miles 322 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: away to southwest Houston, near Kirkwood and Vicinaty. We are 323 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: in trouble. Bottom line, we're in trouble. Of course. I 324 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,640 Speaker 1: believe in miracles, and we've had in many of them. 325 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to have a good ending. 326 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: I hopefully have an enemy. The group helping Houston police 327 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: look for the missing four year old girl is Texas Equisearch. 328 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: Their leader Tim Miller says they repositioned close to where 329 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: the stepfather, Daryan Vince calls home. We hope Mark calls 330 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: come in. It's leading us in different corrections. We hope 331 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: the investigation is going to lead us, sir, and it's 332 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: it's all about her. You're hearing our friend Tim Miller, 333 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: the head of Texas Equisearch. He became devoted to finding 334 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: missing children when his own daughter was kidnapped and murdered. 335 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: Texas Equisearch joining the search for Malia. Back to John Linley, 336 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: crime line dot Com investigative reporter and Joe Scott Morgan, 337 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, jacksonvill State University. So what do we do now, 338 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: Joe Scott in the search for her? And when you 339 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:12,479 Speaker 1: get that vehicle, when you finally get the vehicle, and 340 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: I've heard difference ways it was spotted, but it's spotted. 341 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: What do you do? Well, you know, you got to 342 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: treat this vehicle. Will kick gloves, Nancy. You know, one 343 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: of the things I'm thinking about is how did the 344 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: car wind up there? You know, who who actually facilitated 345 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: that car to get to that point? So that leads 346 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: me back to, you know, to one of the biggest 347 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: tools we have, that's DNA evidence. If in fact, someone 348 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: else was in that vehicle, operating that vehicle got it 349 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: to that location, they need to treat that the interior, 350 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: the exterior that car very very gently because you could 351 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: have touched DNA in there that was brought about from 352 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: somebody that's non familiar DNA, So that's one of the 353 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: things that they need to take care of. My suspicion 354 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: is is that the car was initially processed a bit 355 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: at the scene, but more than likely this has been 356 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: taken off on a flatbed truck where they can examine 357 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: this thing under close scrutiny. Also, they're going to check 358 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: base things. Remember his story, Nancy, he's talking about a 359 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 1: flat tire. Is there any evidence of a flat tire? 360 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: Is there any evidence of tire has ever been changed? 361 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: Has anybody manipulated the back area of the car where 362 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: the tires and tools are kept. All these sorts of things, 363 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: and of course big things that we can look for, 364 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: like blood evidence that's visible with a non aided eye 365 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: inside of that car. Is there blood spatterning? There is 366 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: there transfer blood in there? Anything that could lead us 367 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: back to information regarding exactly what happened. Well, for the 368 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: longest time police and detectives were looking for the stepfather 369 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 1: with a bolo. Be on the lookout for the car 370 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: and then take a listen to Detective Ken. The gi 371 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: next steps We're gonna go ahead and take the car 372 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: back to HPD, process it, see if we can get 373 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: any fingerprints off of it, and just go over with 374 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: a fine cheefe coma see if we see anything. We're 375 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: following up on tips because we have tips coming in 376 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: on the crime stoppers with the pickup, and we of 377 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: course we're following up on those we have to. Um, 378 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: but we haven't had you luck finding that truck yet. 379 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: And at the same time detectives and police were looking 380 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: for the step dad. Take a listen. Are you worry 381 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: that you can't find this No, mam, if you considered 382 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: a person adventurous, I would like to talk to him 383 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: to bed right now. UM, I'm not concerned that we 384 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: haven't found him. We're not. No, I'm not concerned about 385 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: that I saw him. You think you would think that 386 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: if you know your loved one is missing, that you 387 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 1: would be coming forward, and so he may have a 388 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 1: legitimate reason. I haven't spoken with him. Well right now, 389 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: we're still trying to pull that and see what the 390 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: angles of the cameras are. UM. I have not personally 391 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,959 Speaker 1: viewed those, so UM. That's we have officers in these 392 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: in these businesses looking at there any cameras focused on 393 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: the parking lot, and of course if there is, we're 394 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: going to backtrack and get everything we can't, just miscellaneous 395 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: clothes papers. It's a clean car, is there? Yeah? I 396 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: think I believe us. I'll want to know you. So 397 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: what does that mean? J Scott Morgan, it's a clean car. Well, 398 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: what he's saying, Nancy, is that first blush upon they're 399 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: examining the car, there's nothing in there to indicate that 400 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: any kind of struggle happened. You know, we're talking about 401 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: obvious signs of struggle, looking for you know, visible bloodstains 402 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: for instance, that might be in there, or maybe things 403 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: have been bent broken or something like that as a 404 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: result of a fight that happened within the car. You know, 405 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: there's nothing in there to indicate that there was anything 406 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: going on that appeared to be nefarious. At least we'll 407 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 1: have another issue. Randy Kessler. He says, this happens on 408 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,959 Speaker 1: the side of the road when he has car trouble, 409 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: possibly a flat tire. There are no flats and the 410 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: car is found in a parking lot. Okay. According to 411 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: an investigators have said a woman spots the great Nissan 412 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,479 Speaker 1: Ultima and a parking lot and reports to the Houston 413 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: Police Department. So let me understand the theory here. Let's 414 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: follow through what the stepfather, Darien fences saying. He's saying 415 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: he had he thought a flat tire. He gets out, 416 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: Then Hispanic males pull up in a pickup truck. They 417 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: admire the daughter, They hit him in the head. He 418 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: wakes up twenty four hours later, either in their pickup 419 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: truck or on the side of the road, walks to 420 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: the hospital and then reports Maliam missing. So how does 421 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: his vehicle, the Ultima, get to a parking lot? You 422 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: make a dry good prosecutor, and I understand exactly how 423 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: you got where you are today, because that's exactly what 424 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: you need to do to build a circumstantial evidence case. 425 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: But it's still circumstantial evidence and offending the case. You 426 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 1: gotta have more than that to put someone away from 427 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: this kind of crime. So you know, it's a start. 428 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: What kind of crime? I don't even have a body? 429 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: What crime are you talking about? Well, if you're saying 430 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: he's involved in conspiracy where it's kidnapping, hiding, you can 431 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: have murder without a body. And certainly they've been cases 432 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: where murders have been fabric so you've already left to murder. 433 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: Why I haven't. I'm trying to defend whatever you said murder. 434 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: I didn't say murder. You said it. Well, then with 435 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: the crime, where we invest Well, I do know a 436 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: little girl's missing. I would say some type of custodial 437 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: interference or even a kidnap, which leads me to the mother, 438 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: John Limley. Wasn't she going to be picked up at 439 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: the airport? Whatever, She's still at the airport waiting. No. 440 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: Another family member eventually went to pick her up at 441 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: the airport. The flight was supposed to begin around ten 442 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: o'clock that night, and that's why around eight thirty or so, 443 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: that's when the family left for Bushing Intercontinental. Okay, let 444 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: me understand something. So they know he doesn't show up, 445 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: They know Malia and a little brother are missing. Nobody 446 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: files a missing person report. There was nothing filed that 447 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 1: we are aware of. Nothing has shown up and the 448 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: police have not given any information as to that. And 449 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: then twenty four hours later, he shows up at the 450 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: hospital and goes, oh, somebody hit me in the head. 451 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: He does have a head injury right in the middle 452 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: of his forehead. Can't miss it, right, But I noticed 453 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: there's not a band aid on it. There's not a 454 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: doesn't appear to be stitches that I can't tell if 455 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: those are. No, I don't see any stitches, but there 456 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: is a there is Something did happened to the front 457 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: of his head, but I don't know what. So he 458 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: goes missing that we know he and the two children 459 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: are gone by ten o'clock that night when he's supposed 460 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: to pick them up in the airport, But twenty four 461 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: hours later, nobody was reported missing. I mean, help me out, 462 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan. You think I'd wait twenty four hours 463 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: to report the twins weren't where they're supposed to be. 464 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,959 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go drive by their school right now, make 465 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 1: sure they're there. No way t four hours. Yeah, just 466 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 1: the parent and you drives you into just a dead 467 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: panic at that point in time, and your look. I'd 468 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: be running. I'd be running all over place, screaming have 469 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: you seen my child? Have you seen my child? Head 470 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: injury or not? Which sounds very dubious at best. Yeah, 471 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: I can't imagine waiting twenty four hours to go out 472 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: and find my child. Well, it's not just the mom 473 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: who was we understand flying in KHRK, Shelley Shoulders talks 474 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: with the dad, the bio dad, Craig Davis. I haven't 475 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: spoken to the public because I I can't talk about 476 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: my daughter with it. I can't control my emotions. I 477 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: can't predict myself. I break down and I cry. In 478 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: a video postage to Instagram, Davis shared sweet moments with 479 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: his daughter as he anguishes over her whereabouts now Good 480 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: Investigators say Melia's stepfather was the last person to see her. 481 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: Dari and Vince told police he was driving to the 482 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: airport Friday night with Malia and his one year old 483 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: baby boy. He pulled off at Green's Road in fifty 484 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: nine to check a tire and that's when he says 485 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: he was ambushed by three Hispanic men and in twenty 486 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: ten blue Chevy pickup Vents says the men kidnaped the family. 487 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,959 Speaker 1: He says he was in and out of consciousness and 488 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: was dropped off in Sugarland Saturday evening with the baby, 489 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: but Malia, he says, was gone. Crime Stories with Nancy 490 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: Grace detectives tell me those closest to Malia have to 491 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: be ruled out, which is why the search is now 492 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: focused near the family's home. Early on, I said that, 493 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: you know, we're certainly hoping for the best, expecting the worst, 494 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: and I certainly expect the worst at disappointed times. I 495 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: haven't seen Malia's mother or family on either search, but 496 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: they spent last night handing out flyers like the one 497 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: the girl's mother clutched while crying, I just want to 498 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: find Malia. I just want to you're hearing our frens 499 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 1: at Khou. That was Jason Miles reporting that now the 500 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: search focus is around Malia's home. That does not jib 501 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: at all with the story from stepfather Darien Vince. As 502 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: a matter of fact, take a listen to what we 503 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: have learned. Documents we obtained from the Harris County Clerks 504 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: show that last August, the Department of Family and Protective 505 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: Services were see a report alleging physical abuse and neglectful 506 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: supervision of Malia. She was living with her mother, Brittany Bowens, 507 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: and stepfather dari and Vince at the time. The state 508 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: got involved after Malia's mother brought her to the hospital 509 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: with a head injury. Doctors had to do surgery to 510 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: remove half of her skull When Malia got out of ICU, 511 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: doctor Years ordered that she wear a helmet for twelve 512 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: to twenty four months while she healed. But that was 513 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: not Malia's first trip to the arm. Doctor Chris Berry, 514 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: I hardly even know what to say. Why would you 515 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: have to remove that amount of a child's skull. I've 516 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: seen children. When my son had a head injury, we 517 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: thought he would be having to wear a helmet. He 518 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: didn't for your skull to for everything to heal. But 519 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: explained to me, what what did she just say? Explain 520 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: it to me in terms I can understand sure. What 521 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: she said was that half of the skull had to 522 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: be removed, and the reason for that is severe swelling 523 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: of the brain. There also was bleeding on the surface 524 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: of Wilia's brain, which is very suspicious a subdural hemorrhage 525 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: or hemorrhage on the surface of the brain, and the 526 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: brain reacts to major injury pretty much in one way 527 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: by swelling. And when the brain starts to swell, it's 528 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: the brain's enclosed, especially in a child of Malia's age, 529 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: within a box that can't enlarge and can't expand, so 530 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: as the brain swells left unchecked, it will cut off 531 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: its own blood supply and eventually cause the person to die. 532 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: But in some cases, such as Melia's, surgeons were able 533 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: to remove a large part of the skull to allow 534 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: the brain to expand and swell without resulting in pressure 535 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: on the blood supply to the brain, and then with 536 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: enough time and medication to reduce the swelling of the brain, 537 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: they were then able to put the piece of skull back. 538 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: This can take all week, a couple of weeks sometimes, 539 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: but it's fairly remarkable surgery. But it's life saving. And 540 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: if it's if you do If you don't do it, 541 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: then the only outcome you know is death. So this 542 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: is a life saving measure. But what it also tells 543 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: me is how severe the injury was to Malia's brain 544 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: to cause such massive, uncontrolled swelling that they had to 545 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: remove half of the skull in order to allow the 546 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: brain to swell and expand without damaging the brain itself. 547 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: Doctor Sperry, I had written a question for you. Does 548 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: the skull grow back? Like when you break a bone 549 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: and you get it set the bone, it seems to 550 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: fuse together, you actually create bone and you get well. 551 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: At the way I understand it's just I'm a simple 552 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: trial lawyer. But does the skull you said they then 553 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: put the piece of the skull back. Yes, there's two 554 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: different ways what the surgeons will do. They can they'll 555 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: take this piece of skull, which would be about the 556 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: size of the palm of your hand. I mean it's 557 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: it's fairly large, and they can do two different things. 558 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: One is to freeze it at very very low temperature. 559 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: It's usually about maybe forty degrees below zero at least, 560 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: so that uh, you know, the bone itself will will 561 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: stay you know, stay viable, it won't die. The other thing, 562 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: which is commonly done, is actually to put the piece 563 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: of bone inside of the person's abdomen, to just make 564 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: an incision and put it inside the belly to allow 565 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: it to stay alive again. And then when it kind 566 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: comes time to put the piece of skull back onto 567 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: the surface of the brain. Then it's just removed from 568 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: the belly. It's a fairly simple procedure, and they open 569 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: up the scalp incision, place the bone back, and then 570 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: use some anchors to uh, you know, keep the piece 571 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: of bone in place, and then the bone will the 572 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: edges will grow back together once you put the piece 573 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: of move the bone and back in place. It's like 574 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: a jigsaw puzzle. You put it back in place, and 575 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,479 Speaker 1: then then the bone heels with time. To Randy Kessler, 576 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: defense lawyer and trial professor at Emory Law School, you 577 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: know when you listen to somebody like Chris Sperry, do 578 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: you feel like I do a little bit of an idiot? Yeah? 579 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it's amazing. I mean I can 580 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: throw out Latin phrases and arguing court all day. But wow, 581 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: as much as I'd like to talk about, you know, 582 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: a piece of skull in your abdomen and freezing and 583 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: all that, I want to get back to, Malia is 584 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: still missing everybody. But what I don't understand right now 585 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: Limley John Limley Crime online dot Com investigative reporters. The 586 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: mother says she fell from a chair. Okay, that's I 587 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: don't need to go to a doctor, doctor Sperry to 588 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: tell you you're not gonna have that kind of injury 589 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: from falling from a chair. Okay, I've fallen from a 590 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: chair before. I've missed the chair not paying attention. I 591 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: don't have a brain injury. I don't have to have 592 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: part of my skull, remove moved. I mean, anybody in 593 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: there yet, a village idiot can figure that out. So 594 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: why was she back in the home? I mean, if 595 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,439 Speaker 1: that's true, then that means that the mother is lying, 596 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: which means why is the mother lying? Has to be 597 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,800 Speaker 1: a nefarious reason, I assume for the mother to be lying, 598 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 1: why was she back in the home? And this is 599 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 1: by far the first time Malia has been Absia neglected, 600 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: not her first trip to the emergency room. According to records, 601 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: three weeks before this incident we were talking about that 602 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,360 Speaker 1: required half of her skull to be removed. She was 603 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: This is July tenth. The mother took Malia to the 604 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 1: er after she was throwing up blood. Doctors reported Malia 605 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:48,280 Speaker 1: was extremely lethargic and week she was treated and sent home. 606 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 1: The following week, this is now July twenty eighth, Malia 607 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 1: back in the hospital for a cut to her forehead. Later, 608 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: medical professional professionals reported she had blood just outside of 609 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: her brain, which of course could be life threatening. Now 610 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: after us, okay, stop stop stop, I can't, I can't. 611 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 1: I can't take anymore. I can't take anymore. They're not 612 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,240 Speaker 1: going to find this girl alive. They're now looking around 613 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: the home area to find her doctor Jolly Silva. Why 614 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: why why abuse a little for year old girl? Why 615 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 1: go through all this drama and these big lies. Why 616 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,400 Speaker 1: not just put her up for adoption, let her go 617 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 1: to somebody that will love her. Why pick out the 618 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: step child versus the natural child? I mean, you know, 619 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: I've seen hundreds of cases like this, you know, in 620 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: the New York City area, and I mean they have 621 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 1: an inability to cope with any of the hardships better 622 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 1: involved with parenting, and they take it out on the child. 623 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 1: They take it out on the child that the child 624 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: is doing something to them, and they have no remorse. 625 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: You know, I just see it over and over. They 626 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,759 Speaker 1: typically just do not have remorse the mother, and my 627 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 1: mom as just as responsible if she stood by and 628 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:08,040 Speaker 1: let this happen. Tipline seven one three three zero eight 629 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,320 Speaker 1: thirty six hundred seven one three three zero eight thirty 630 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,240 Speaker 1: six hundred or seven one three two two two tips 631 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: t I P. S Our prayer is that Malia Davis, 632 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: a four year old little girl, is found alive. Nancy 633 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: Gray's crime story, signing off Goodbye Friend,