1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I have been a felony 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: prosecutor in inner city Atlanta for over a decade. I 3 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: have been a journalist over twenty years. I've handled and 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: covered literally thousands of cases. Of all of those cases, 5 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: the injustice of some just stick with me. Wrongful accusations. 6 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. These good sentences that don't fit the crime, 7 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: victims cries for help ignored. Many cases may have been 8 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: resolved in courts, but not resolved in my mind. Hi, guys, 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace here, and before I say another word about 10 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: our upcoming series Injustice with Nancy Grace on Oxygen, listen 11 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: to this. With every minute that passes, you're losing the 12 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: chance of finding the person much less alive. They're out 13 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: there all night, all lake, seminole, a law enforcement They're thinking, 14 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: how could he survive through the night? Not a trace? 15 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: Everything runs through your head everything. Could he have been 16 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: the victim of a burglary? I mean, we didn't really 17 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: know what had happened to Mike. So if he wasn't 18 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: in the lake, where could he be? Oh that horrible, 19 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: horrible feeling trying to figure out what happened. You're hearing 20 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: Mike's friend Clay catch him a young dad, a husband, 21 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: a loving husband, I might add, says he's going out 22 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: duck hunting and he never comes home. I've been to 23 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: Lake Seminole many, many times. Dark, dark waters. If you 24 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: look out on it, it's very eerie looking. Even in 25 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: the daytime. When you drive by, you'll look out and 26 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: it's vast. You can't even see the other side to 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: it at some points, and the water looks black even 28 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: in the daytime. And what makes it so eerie looking 29 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: to me stumps, dark stumps jutting out of the water, 30 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: and they're sharp. They're sharp on the edges, like spikes 31 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: in there throughout Lake Seminole. I don't know how anybody 32 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: boats on it or fishes on it, or hunts on 33 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: it with all those stumps, and what's under the water 34 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: is scarier. They are gators there for real gaiters. So 35 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: how this is a sportsman's paradise, I really don't know. 36 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: But I do know that this young dad, Mike Williams, 37 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: goes out duck hunting. He loved hunting. Early early on 38 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: a morning. He promises to come back because very important, 39 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: it's his anniversary. He and his wife already have one 40 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: baby girl named Annesley. Love Love, Love Annesley. They want 41 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: to add to their family. And that evening after he 42 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: gets back from duck hunting and she does what she 43 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: has to do. That day, they're heading for an anniversary 44 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: celebration at a bed and breakfast and they're going to 45 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: start on a baby. Okay, I can't really think a 46 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: happier time, So I'm circling back to what Mike's friend, 47 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: Clay catch Him said. They have no idea. Every theory 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: running through family's head, his wife's head. What could have 49 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: happened to him, had there been some attack, had there 50 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: been a burglary of some sort they didn't know about. 51 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out because they don't find his body. 52 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: They can't find any evidence of a struggle, nothing, It's 53 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: like he disappears off the face of the earth. Days, weeks, 54 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: and months go by, and suddenly the case goes cold. 55 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: The wife is struggling financially to support the house and 56 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: the daughter all on her own, keep it all going, 57 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: all the balls in the air, and they say the 58 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: case goes cold. Cold cases are tough because you continually 59 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: have your regular workload and then you've got this case 60 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: over here that you continue to look at, but you 61 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: know it's a cold case. So there's times when there's 62 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: nothing going on. It's just sitting there and you're waiting 63 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: for flair. You're hearing our friend Telly Sparkman, investigator in 64 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: the State's Attorney's office there in Leon County, Florida. And 65 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: it's not that the cops are the investigators don't want 66 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: to solve the case. They want to I've been in 67 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: the same boat they're in. You know, you get a 68 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: one hundred new cases a week, brandy felonies to investigate, 69 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: and you'll work to solve them. You work to take 70 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: them to trial, to investigate them. Then there are the 71 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: ones that stump you. You don't want to ignore them, 72 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: you don't want them to go cold, but they're just 73 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: not fitting together. They started requestioning everyone, nailing down alibis 74 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: yet again, trying to get a better timeline of what 75 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: happened that early early morning December sixteen, when Mike Williams 76 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. They went 77 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: to everybody, They went to friends, they went to bosses, 78 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: they spoke to Denise. They did it all, and they 79 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: did it over and over and over again, and still 80 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: nothing until evidence seemingly resurfaces that offers a crack in 81 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: the case. But was it. This is a case that 82 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: needs a spotlight. This case stands for so much, the 83 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: injustice heaped on Mike Williams and his family. I can't 84 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: get it out of my mind. Join us July twenty 85 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: six five Central Injustice with Nancy Grace on Oxygen The 86 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: True Network for Crime. Nancy Grace signing off, Goodbye friend.