1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A beautiful young teen girl, Deacara, missing, 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: her car found abandoned. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This 3 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: with us. How does a teen girl nineteen years old 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: just disappear into thin air? I want you to look 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: at this video. This video is obtained from a neighbor's 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: surveillance like a ringe cam. Take a look at this 8 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: surveillance footage shows Deacara parking her car on Jasmine Terrace, Hiasville. Now, 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: her parents are convinced this is Jacara walking away and 10 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: if you notice, if we get there, you go see 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: the lights on her vehicle blank. She turns and locks 12 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: her car. Now she also parks directly in front of 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: a fire hydrant clearly marked do not park here. Then 14 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: we see her walking out of the frame. She is 15 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: by herself. She is not drunk, stumbling on drugs. She's 16 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: walking purposely forward, even thinking to turn back and with 17 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: her keyfob lock her vehicle. Okay, take a good long, 18 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: hard look at this, joining me and all Star panel. 19 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: But first, how did the whole thing start? Listen? 20 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: Dakara Thompson is the nineteen year old daughter of Carmen 21 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: and Daniel Thompson. The youngest of five siblings. Dakara is 22 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 2: living with her father for the summer at his home 23 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: in Lanta, Maryland. Around ten pm August twenty second, Nakara 24 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: tells her dad she's going to run out for a bit, 25 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: but we'll return shortly. Daniel calls Dakara at eleven fifty 26 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: but gets no response, so he texts her, telling her. 27 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: He's going to bed. 28 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: She immediately texted back, I got gas and I'm out. 29 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: I should be back soon. 30 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: I love you too, good night. Straight out to Brian Fitzgibbons. 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: Joining us Director Operations USPA Nationwide Security, he leads a 32 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: team of investigators specializing and locating missing people at uspasecurity 33 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: dot Com. Brian, thank you for being with us. I 34 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: find that extremely probative, the fact that she's with dad. 35 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: That is not unusual. She's spending the summer there. Parents 36 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: are split in Atlanta, Maryland. First, I want to find 37 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: out which I'll get from Dave mac the crime rate 38 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: there and the crime rate in the area where her 39 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: car's found. But it's just ten pm. She's nineteen years old, Okay, 40 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: she doesn't have to be at school the next morning, 41 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: so she tells dad she's going to run out. Then 42 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: he calls her eleven to fifty pm and they text. 43 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: She takes back immediately. I got gas and I'm out. 44 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: I should be back soon. I love you too, good night. 45 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: That's very probative to me, Brian. What do you make 46 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: of it? 47 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly you take this timeline, Nancy, and then you 48 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 3: look at that surveillance video. First of all, you mentioned 49 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 3: it in the intro that she was parked in front 50 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 3: of a fire hydrant. One thing that wasn't mentioned is 51 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 3: she was going the wrong direction of travel, all right, 52 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: so she's parked in the opposite direction. This leads me 53 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 3: to believe that she wasn't planning to be there long, okay, 54 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 3: so that she could have been making a quick stop 55 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: to do something or see someone prior to heading back 56 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: to Lanham, which is only ten fifteen miles down the road. 57 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: How often has someone parked in front of a fire hydrant, 58 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: or on a yellow curve or on a ten minute 59 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: parking only when you think, hey, you know what, I'm 60 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: going to run in and run out. I'll be back 61 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: before they can tow my car. Maybe even put on 62 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: your emergency flashers to suggest to the meter maid, hey, 63 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: I'll be right back. You're right, that is significant, Brian Fitzgibbons. 64 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: She clearly knows what she's doing and she parks there. 65 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: Her parents agree that this was what they thought a 66 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: quick eron and she would be right back. So you 67 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: you ascertained all that from the way she parked, Brian, Yeah. 68 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 3: I'm looking at this to add, you know, to the 69 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 3: narrative that in questions that we want answered that this 70 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 3: looks like somebody who is not planning to stay there 71 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 3: for a long time. Right, If you're parked in that manner, 72 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 3: it definitely makes me believe that. 73 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: Guys, if you know or think you know anything about 74 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: this missing teen girl to Kara, please dial Prince George's 75 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: County PD three zero one seven seven two eight nine 76 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: seven zero repeat three zero one seven seven two eight 77 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: nine seven zero. As we say in a law time 78 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: is of the essence straight out to doctor Bethany Marshall 79 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: joining us renow psycho analyst, joining us out of LA, 80 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: author of deal Breaker. You can see her now on 81 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 1: Peacock and find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. 82 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany. I want to analyze very quickly before we 83 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: move forward with more facts that I believe are pertinent 84 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: what she said in her text to dad. First of all, 85 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: she tells him she's going out. If this is not 86 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: her sneaking out the window or surreptitiously sneaking out the 87 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: front door in her sock so it as not to 88 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: make a sound, and leaving with the lights off so 89 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: he doesn't know she's leaving. Around ten o'clock, she says, Hey, 90 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to run out. I'll be right back. Then 91 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: he calls her. About an hour and a half later, 92 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: she didn't pick up. He texts and says, I'm going 93 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: to bed. She takes back immediately, and it sounds like her. 94 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: You know, we've had those cases, like in Gabby Patito 95 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: where Brian laundry. He's killed her, he's murdered her. Now 96 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: he's driving her forward transit back across the country, and 97 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: he's responding to her family's text. But he screws up. 98 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: He refers to Grandpa by his full name, Like if 99 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: I texted my sister and mentioned Daddy my dad, and 100 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 1: she wrote writes back Yes. Walter Malcolm Gray Sr. Loved 101 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: decaf at night. Okay, that would be wrong. He blew it, 102 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: he mistexted. But this text sounds like her and dad 103 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: believes it hurt her. And also she sounds upbeat. Hey, 104 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: I got a gas, I'm out. I'll be back soon. 105 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: I love you too, good night. Okay, analyze it. Help me. 106 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: I'm grasping at straws bethany. 107 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: So the response to her dad suggests that she's oriented 108 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 4: to space and time. In other words, she's not high, 109 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 4: she's not drinking, nothing like that. The fact that her 110 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 4: father was not alarmed until an hour and a half later, 111 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 4: or perhaps not alarmed at all, just reached out to 112 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 4: see where she was, suggests that this behavior wasn't unusual. 113 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 4: Nineteen year olds are social, Nancy, so she could have 114 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 4: been visiting friends, you know, sitting at a cafe, something 115 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 4: like that. 116 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: But also I would want to know. 117 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 4: What is on that phone, you know, was she texting friends, 118 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:11,679 Speaker 4: did she visit? 119 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: Did she visit somebody? 120 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 5: You know? 121 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 4: Her whereabouts in the hour and a half before her 122 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 4: father reached out are very important, as her friends would 123 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,679 Speaker 4: also know. You know, nineteen year olds talked to their friends, 124 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 4: So did she talk to anybody about where she was 125 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 4: going and who she was seeing after she went to 126 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 4: the gas station. 127 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter. Have you seen the 128 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: other women that have gone missing in the last weeks 129 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: in the same jurisdiction, Erica Perry and Santia Desir They 130 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: look a lot like her, and they're all missing. 131 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 2: This isn't the last days, Nancy. We're not talking weeks here. 132 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 2: We're talking the last days. These women are going missing. 133 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 2: There's no consistency here other than the fact that they were. 134 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 5: In one case, Erica. 135 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: Was out walking at one in the afternoon, gone last 136 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 2: time she's seen. 137 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 5: All three of women look like they could be sisters. 138 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 5: When you look at those pictures right there. 139 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 2: They look like their sisters and all are now missing 140 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 2: from Prince George's County, America. 141 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hold that photo. Hold the photo, Bryan Fitzgibbons. 142 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: Look how precious, Look how cute they are, and importantly, 143 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: look at the similarities. Why do I care Because in 144 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: my experience of having investigated and tried together over ten thousand, 145 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: yes ten thousand, after over ten years trying cases in 146 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: intercity Atlanta of cases, perps have a type and I 147 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: hate to boil it down to a word, a type 148 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: the people. Ted Bundy initially picked out many of his victims. 149 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: All slight, thin, white females, long dark hair, typically part 150 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: of in the middle, brown eyes. They all look alike, 151 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: They all look similar. Look at the similarities in these 152 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: three young girls. You cannot get away from it. 153 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 3: Brian, shocking shocking similarities, Nancy, And what an anomaly to 154 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 3: say that we have these three women missing within ten 155 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 3: days of one another, in the same county, in the 156 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 3: same jurisdiction. 157 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: This is a major anomaly. What do you mean by 158 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: major anomaly? Speak English Man. We're not all with USPA 159 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: nationwide security. Okay, I act like you're talking to a 160 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: person who's very fortunate. I like you and I that 161 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: have never been exposed to violent Okay, this is out 162 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: of the ordinary. 163 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 3: Is another way to say it, that this is not 164 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 3: a pattern you would expect, right, that this is something 165 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 3: that you do not see often. Three women, similar descriptions 166 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: from the same area going missing within ten days of 167 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 3: one another, and that none of them have turned up. 168 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: You know, todave mac, I want to talk about the area. 169 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: We're saying three women similar in appearance go missing, all 170 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: unsolved in the same county. We are talking about Prince 171 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: George's county. What if anything, do we know about Prince 172 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 1: George's county? And while hold on day, Matt, while you 173 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: prepare that answer, I want to look at the video 174 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: one more time. Another thing I'd want to know, and 175 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: this is very significant. Randolph Rice is joining me from Maryland. 176 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:55,479 Speaker 1: Former prosecutor, defense attorney, civil attorney at Rice Mirtha Sourus. 177 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: You can find them him at Rice LAWMD dot com 178 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: or Randolph. When I look at similar transactions when I'm 179 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: preparing a case for trial, and the defense attorney starts 180 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: gnashing his teeth and switching his tail when I say, hey, 181 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: I got eight similar transactions I want to bring in 182 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,839 Speaker 1: his evidence. You have to look to see are the 183 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: victims similar? Are they similar in appearance? Are they similar 184 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: in age? For instance, did they all go to the 185 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: same school or were they all in the same class. 186 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: Did they all work at the same spot or in 187 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: the same area. One works at the library, one works 188 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: at the Starbucks across from the library. You look at that, 189 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: You look at the time of day or night. Did 190 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: they go missing. You look at whether boyfriends were involved. 191 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: You look at how they went missing. Were they all 192 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: driving their own car? And you look at the area. 193 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: Did they all disappear within three or four square blocks? 194 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: It matters, That's what I'm talking about in the more 195 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: points of similarity. Why do I care because it points 196 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: to one per Nancy? 197 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 6: Dare I say, we might have a serial kidnapper in 198 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 6: that county? 199 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: And you're exactly right. 200 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 6: You know these consistencies, these are the things that prosecutors 201 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 6: like you and I look for try to develop the 202 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 6: pace against the person who has potentially taken these three women. 203 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 6: So you're right, is it the race, is it the location? 204 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 6: Is it a similar person they're meeting up with? And 205 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 6: that's kind of what my theory is here, is that 206 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 6: there is somebody that she is meeting, whether it be 207 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 6: a potential boyfriend or a love interest or dare I say, 208 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 6: was this something that she was out at one thirty 209 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 6: in the morning, maybe meeting up with somebody that was 210 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 6: a bit nefarious, something like a drug transaction, which I 211 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 6: hope that's not the case. 212 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: Well, hold on, stop everything, Rice, don't start with me. 213 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: This young girl has no history. She doesn't even have 214 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: a juvenile history, which is really hard to find out. No, 215 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 1: juvenile history, no current history, no drug problem, know nothing. 216 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: She's not out meeting a dope deal or what all 217 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: three women are out meeting the same dope dealer. Just 218 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: stop right there, Okay, do not drag the victim through 219 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: the mud. We don't know anything like that. 220 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 6: I understand, Nancy, But I just I think that there 221 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 6: are obviously some more of this story, that there's possibly 222 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 6: something going on. Like my mother always said, nothing good 223 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 6: happens after midnight, Well this is after midnight, and I'm 224 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 6: worried that something bad happened after midnight. 225 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: You totally stole that from nearly every single closing argument 226 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: I've ever given. And now you're saying you got it 227 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: from your mother. All right, fine, you got it from 228 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: your mother. That said, I want to talk about the 229 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: area very quickly, and I agree with almost everything Randolph 230 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: ri said that on trial. Lawyer, former felony prosecutor now 231 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: defense and civil Dave mac tell me about this Prince 232 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: George's county. 233 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 2: Right, like every other county in America, it's pretty spread out, Nancy. 234 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 5: And when you look at the area here we're. 235 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 2: Looking at where Dakara was living with her dad is 236 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: in Lanham in Prince George's county, Lanam has a very 237 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 2: average crime rate, actually a. 238 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 5: Little bit lower than in other areas. 239 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: However, Hyattsville, Maryland, Okay, where we've got Dakara going missing, 240 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 2: where we have Erica Green going missing, that it's almost 241 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 2: double the crime rate in Hyattsville against the national average. 242 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 2: So you have Lantam, Maryland, where Dakara is living with 243 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 2: her dad, minimal crime rate or average. However, nine miles 244 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: away in Hyattsville, you've got almost double the crime rate. 245 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 2: And that's where we have all three of these women 246 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 2: now going missing from this area around Hyattsville and Riverdale. 247 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 5: Those you know, they bought up against one another. 248 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: So yes, Prince George's county, but in the community of 249 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: Hyattsville and Riverdale where we've got our women going missing, 250 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: much higher than the national average. 251 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: Okay, Ryan has gibbons. Let's analyze what he just said. 252 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: If you've got the same perp snatching these women. First 253 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: of all, if they're being lured, the crime rate area 254 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: of the area doesn't matter. But see what I mean, 255 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: because it's not like random crime. They go out in 256 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: a high crime rate area and they get mugged and 257 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: killed or kidnapped, all right, it's high crime. But if 258 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: it's the same purp, go with me on this. If 259 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: it's the same perp that is alluring them in some way, 260 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: he could be doing that from anywhere in Prince George, 261 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: see what I mean. So crime rate does matter if 262 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: it's not the same perp. If it is the same perp, 263 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: then it's not as relevant. I mean, we cannot discount it. Brian. 264 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, the relevant common connection is where the last known 265 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 3: location of all three of these women was in Hyattsville. Okay, 266 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 3: So that's going to immediately and we know a general 267 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 3: time for each of them, the date and a general 268 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 3: time for each of them, and in the car is case, 269 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 3: we have a very specific time. So that's going to 270 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 3: lead investigators to be able to analyze traffic cam, license 271 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 3: plate readers, any security footage around the last known locations 272 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 3: of all three women. 273 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: My goodness, or look, guys, look, look look at her. 274 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: She's going to a dance or something. Oh my goodness, 275 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: she's so beautiful. Where is Decara? Listen? 276 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 7: Daniel Thompson wakes up around ten am on August twenty 277 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 7: third and doesn't see his daughter or her car parked outside, 278 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 7: calling and texting fails to get an answer or reply, 279 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 7: so Daniel calls to Kara's mother, Carmen. She hasn't heard 280 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 7: from Decara, so she immediately begins tracking Deacara's iPhone. Her 281 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 7: current location was off, but it did show her last 282 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 7: known location near the intersection of Jasmine Terrace and Riggs Road. 283 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: In the last hours niece about Deacara, Dave mac what 284 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: have you learned? Nancy? 285 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 2: Police have been playing the investigation close to the vest, 286 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 2: but in a shocking turn of events, police now say 287 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 2: they were able to find additional surveillance video from the 288 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 2: night Dakara Thompson parked her car in front of a 289 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: fire hydrant facing the wrong direction. 290 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 5: In this new video, it shows what. 291 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 2: Happened after da Kara walks past the post office receptacle 292 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 2: that was sitting there and it reveals another vehicle, a 293 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: black SUV and the driver inside begins talking to Dakara. Now, 294 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 2: something we've learned about Dakara and Nancy is that she's 295 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 2: not a great driver, and considering the time of night 296 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 2: it's like one point thirty in the morning when she 297 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 2: parks her car, and how her car has parked in 298 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 2: front of a fire hydrant. The wrong direction and you 299 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: can tell it's parked several feet off the curb. Is 300 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 2: it possible that she was confused and maybe even lost, 301 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 2: and she's talking to the man in the black suv 302 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 2: for just a moment and then gets in the vehicle. 303 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 2: He somehow can this is her to get in. Investigators 304 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: are able to track that vehicle. This is the big 305 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 2: issue here. Investigators are able to track that black suv 306 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: to a home in the twelve thousand block of Cambridge 307 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 2: Drive in Bowie, Maryland, more than twenty five miles away 308 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 2: from where she parked her car in Hyattsville. 309 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: Dave mac do we know a cod Nancy? 310 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 2: A search warrant was served early today at the home 311 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 2: on Cambridge Drive in Bowie, Maryland. In particular, they searched 312 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 2: the room where Hugo Hernandez Mendez lives. Evidence indicates Dakara 313 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 2: was murdered in that room, then her body was moved 314 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 2: to the location where it was found. No cause of 315 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 2: death has been released at this time. 316 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: Dave may, I don't understand how her body is found 317 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: twenty miles away, at least twenty miles away from her car. 318 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: Still a lot of unanswered questions at this point. We 319 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 2: don't know why. Suspect Hugo Hernandez Mendez was in Hyattsville, 320 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 2: Maryland at the time he came in contact with Takara, However, 321 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 2: does get in his suv. 322 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: He takes her back to his room in. 323 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 2: Bowie, where he allegedly kills her, and then drives another 324 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 2: twenty miles from Bowie to where he dumps her body 325 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 2: near Annapolis, Maryland. Dave matt who is the purp The 326 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 2: suspect is Hugo Hernandez Mendez. He's thirty five years old 327 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 2: in the United States illegally. Here's the kicker. Hernandez Mendez 328 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 2: was arrested back in April on a dui charge, but 329 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 2: he was released pending his trial and appearance in court. 330 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 2: Now he's sitting in jail charged with first and second 331 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 2: degree murder. He is in custody and being held without bond. 332 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 8: On September fifth, detectives from the Prince George's County Police 333 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 8: Department's Homicide Division developed probable cause to present charges for 334 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 8: the murder of Dakar Thompson. This morning, criminal charges were 335 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 8: issued for first degree and second degree. 336 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: Murder WUSA nine using to find my iPhone app Daniel 337 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 2: to Thomson arrives at Jasmine Terrace and Riggs Road in 338 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 2: Hyattsville and finds Dacara's twenty thirteen white Ford Edge parked 339 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 2: going the wrong direction in front of a fire hydrant, 340 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 2: but Dakara is nowhere around. Daniel Thompson calls police. Inside 341 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 2: the car, they find Dakara's purse with sixty dollars cash, 342 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 2: her driver's license, debit cards, bank cards, and house keys. 343 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 8: On September fourth, several search warrants were obtained and executed 344 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 8: pertaining to this case, which led detectives to obtain enough 345 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 8: probable cause to take Hugo ren Hernandez Mendez into custody 346 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 8: and present him to the Core Commissioner for the murder 347 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 8: of Dakar. 348 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: Thompson WSA nine Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. Back to 349 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: the facts of the case. Doctor Kendall Crowns is joining 350 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: US renowned medical examiner chief Medical Examiner in Terrance County. 351 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: That's fort Worth. He is an esteemed lecturer at the 352 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, and he's a starvenue 353 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: hit podcast Mayhem in the Morgue. All that's well and good, 354 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: but what I care about is the literally thousands and 355 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: thousands of autopsies and investigations he has performed, Doctor Kimdall Crowns. 356 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: This is why I say I believe she was taken 357 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: in a car or she's in a structure, because if 358 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: they are doing the search, as I believe that they are, 359 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: cadaver dogs and scent dogs would have been brought out. 360 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 1: A cadaver dog will hit on dead tissue, dead human tissue. 361 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,239 Speaker 1: How long would tissue a body? How long would it 362 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: take until a cadaver dog would sense it? When does 363 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: that body start decomposing? There's really not a nice way 364 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: to put this. When does the body begin to smell? 365 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 9: So bodies start decomposing the moment after they die, your 366 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 9: body starts breaking down. The minute your part stops ceasing, 367 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 9: you start breaking down. But what you're talking about is 368 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 9: when it gets to the moderate stage of decomposition, when 369 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 9: the body begins to bloat and gases begin to form, 370 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 9: and you start getting the smell of death, which people 371 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 9: like to talk about. So that would be at about 372 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 9: two days two to three days ish, depending on the weather. 373 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 9: If it's hot outside of it'll be quicker, if it's 374 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 9: cold outside it'd be slower. But on average, under perfect circumstances, 375 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 9: about two to three days, you'll start seeing the bloat, 376 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 9: the green discoloration, and you'll start seeing the or you 377 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 9: start smelling the gases that are formed. That's usually when 378 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 9: the vultures start circling. 379 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: Dodgic Keittle Crowns. I'm going to ignore the vulture imagery 380 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: and move forward with a scientific discussion of bloat. Why 381 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: does the body bloat? And is that when the body 382 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: begins to smell. 383 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 9: So Bloating is the swelling of the body from the 384 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 9: decompositional gases produced by the bacteria in your body, breaking 385 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 9: you down into like a liquid form basically, and the 386 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 9: bloating that occurs. It causes the body to diffusely swell 387 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 9: the face, the breast, the abdomen, the genitalia, and that 388 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 9: is from the gas that is being formed. And the 389 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 9: gas being formed is what causes the smell. 390 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, You've dealt with this literally thousands of times. 391 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: Are you saying that after two to three days, dogs 392 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: would absolutely cadaver dogs would absolutely have hit on her 393 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: if she were lying out in the open. 394 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 9: I would think so, yes. 395 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns. Would it matter the cod cause of death? 396 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: Would her body be more quickly findable by cadaver dogs 397 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: if she had been shot versus asphyxiated versus ligature strangling 398 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,959 Speaker 1: versus stabbed The manner the cause of death cause of 399 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: death does that in any way enhance the smell for 400 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: dogs to find. 401 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 9: So, decomposition rates can be affected by the manner or 402 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 9: the cause of which the individual died. In times when 403 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 9: they're beaten or strangled, or where there's a large amount 404 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 9: of like physical activity associated with the death, that will 405 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 9: actually increase the rate of decomposition and cause the individual 406 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 9: to decompose faster. So, yes, it matters if they're beaten 407 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 9: or strangled, but if they're shot or stabbed it may 408 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 9: not matter. Also, if they're using some sort of drug 409 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 9: like cocaine or methamphetamine, that can also increase the rate 410 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 9: of decomposition and make the smell occur quicker. 411 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: You see where I'm going with this. Brian has givens 412 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: USPA nationwide security. That's why I'm saying she is not 413 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: lying out in a forested area or and a dump 414 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: or behind a Dixie dumpster. She hasn't been a throne 415 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: in a trash bag on the street behind one of 416 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 1: those buildings we were looking out of that video. Let's 417 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: take a look at the video again. Because dogs would 418 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: have found her immediately. They haven't. That tells me she 419 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: may have been taken in a vehicle or she's in 420 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: a structure. What do you think? 421 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 3: And adding to your point, you know, this area that 422 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 3: she was last seen is densely populated, number of large 423 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 3: apartment complexes nearby. If she were somewhere laying in that area, 424 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 3: hidden in that area, she would have been discovered pretty quickly. 425 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 7: Well. 426 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: Once analyze this, Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter, the 427 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: dad uses they find my iPhone app He arrives at 428 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: Jasmine Terrace and rigs. Okay, important note right here the 429 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: dad when he realizes he wakes up so she hasn't 430 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: responded to text and calls, he immediately calls nine one one. 431 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: You know what that tells me that she hold on 432 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: let me go to Bethany on this, Dave, hold on Bethany. 433 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: That tells me that this was not an every night occurrence, 434 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: because if she routinely didn't show up the next morning, 435 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 1: he wouldn't call police. He go, eh, she slept out again. 436 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: Not He immediately calls police. That tells me something, Bethany, 437 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: she never stays out all night. This is extremely unusual 438 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: behavior for her. So something did happen to her the 439 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: night before. That's what it tells me. Back to Dave 440 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: Mac he uses find my iPhone app and we've seen 441 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: that in a lot of other cases. And he gets 442 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: to Jasmine Terrace in Riggs Road, that's Height School. He 443 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: finds her white forward edged part as pointed out earlier 444 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: by Fitzgibbons, wrong direction in front of a fire hydrant. 445 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: He immediately calls police. In the car, they find, well, 446 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: you tell me what did they find in Ducara's car, Nancy. 447 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: They found her purse with sixty dollars cash in it. 448 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 2: They found her car keys. They didn't find her keep bob, 449 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 2: but we see when she's walking away it looks like 450 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 2: she's using the key bob to block it. They found 451 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 2: everything except her phone and again the key bob, everything 452 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 2: else left in the car and by the way it's 453 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 2: left on top of the seat. It was like she 454 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 2: got out but was planning to come right back, parked 455 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 2: in front of that fire hydrant going the wrong way. 456 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 5: Not known as a great driver. 457 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 2: But it seems odd that she would leave all of 458 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 2: those things sitting right there, like she was just hopping 459 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: out for a minute. And when she but she never 460 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 2: comes back. That's why God love her. Her mother, Her mother Carmen, 461 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: actually where they found the vehicle. She stayed there. She 462 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 2: stayed there waiting to see if her daughter would come 463 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 2: back for forty eight hours. Yet Nancy, for forty eight hours. 464 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 2: This mother, Carmen, you see the picture of her right there. 465 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 2: She waited for forty eight hours in that spot, praying, 466 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 2: hoping her daughter would come back looking for her car. 467 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: You know, Dave Matt Mahart's already breaking, But to think 468 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: of her mother refusing to leave the car's car, just 469 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: standing there waiting, pace, crying, begging, praying, waiting to see 470 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: her daughter walk around the corner of one of those 471 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: apartment complexes, had come back to Mom. To Randolph Rice 472 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: joining us, former prosecutor, current defense attorney and civil lawyer, 473 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: this is important. Why do I care if she was 474 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: going to come straight back to the car. She wasn't 475 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: planning on leaving the jurisdiction. She wasn't going on a trip, 476 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: She wasn't going away for the weekend, because nobody in 477 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: their right mind, and she was texting and speaking coherently 478 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: and joyfully up until she disappeared. Nobody in the right 479 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: mind would leave money, their pocketbook, driver's license, debit cards, 480 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: bank cars, and house keys on the seat. No, that 481 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: would not happen. This is telling us something. What about it, Randolph, Well. 482 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 6: What this also tells us is this is not a 483 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 6: robbery or a theft. So the fact that those items 484 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 6: are still in our car or whatever happened the next step, 485 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 6: whatever we see outside, we don't see outside of this frame, 486 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 6: didn't involve somebody coming back to the car to get 487 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 6: those items, which is very telling a prosecutor that could 488 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 6: be something that again, you know there's somebody else involved 489 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 6: outside of this frame. This is where cell phone records 490 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 6: come into play, because you've got the pinging off of 491 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 6: towers all around this area. And my thought is, if 492 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 6: I'm the prosecutor, I'm getting my detectives to start collecting 493 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 6: cell phone tower data immediately to try to find a connection. 494 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: And with all of those apartments and businesses, clearly they've 495 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: got ring door cams, they have surveillance video. Where is 496 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: it I want to see it, guys, you were looking 497 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: at a nineteen year old teen girl who staying the 498 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: summer with dad says Hey, I'm going out. I'll be 499 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: right back. She's never seen again. This as we now know, 500 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: three women disappearing over the last weeks in the same area. 501 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: This was not a carjack. This was not a theft. 502 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: What was it? Listen? Her purse was in her car. 503 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: It had sixty dollars cash, and. 504 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 10: The only thing she had with her was her phone 505 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 10: and her keyfob. 506 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 2: Mom Carmen Thompson says since all of Dakara's money, wallet, 507 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: and purse were in the seat of her vehicle, she 508 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 2: thought she was coming right back. The only thing Dakara 509 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 2: has with her when she leaves her car is her 510 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 2: phone and keyfob. As the search begins for Dakara, her 511 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 2: mother won't leave and remains at the spot where her 512 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 2: SUV was parked for the next forty eight hours, waiting 513 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 2: for her daughter to return. 514 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 10: I sat there for two days for forty eight hours, 515 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 10: just to see if she or someone else would come 516 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 10: back to look for the car, and nobody ever came back. 517 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: WUSA nine Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. 518 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 2: When she left her father's home the night of August 519 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 2: twenty second. She said she was going to get some 520 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 2: gas and be out for a bit, but would return shortly. 521 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 2: Investigators find surveillance footage at a Shell gas station at 522 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 2: the Eastgate shopping Center in Lanam, Prince George's County, showing 523 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 2: Dakara getting out of her twenty thirteen white Ford Edge 524 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 2: as she gets gassed. This is before the vehicle is 525 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 2: parked in front of a fire hydrant facing the wrong 526 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 2: direction in Hyattsville, about nine miles away from her father's 527 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 2: home in Lantam. 528 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 10: She hasn't used any money, so I'm like, what is 529 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 10: she eating? She has the same clothes for seven day. 530 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 10: Something has to be wrong. Somebody has her. Somebody has 531 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 10: that from our. 532 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: Friends at WUSA nine and you hear mom saying, what 533 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: is she eating? Is she starving? She hasn't used her money, 534 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: her debit cards, credit cards, She's wearing the same clothes 535 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: for seven days. Something is wrong. Somebody has her. That's 536 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: what Mom is saying now in the last hours. 537 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 8: Listen, we believe the murder occurred in the home on 538 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 8: Cambridge Drive, in her Nandez's bedroom. Her body was taken 539 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 8: to the location that it was recovered at by Hernandez. 540 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: At that time. 541 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 8: At this time, there are. 542 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: No additional suspects. 543 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 8: However, this investigation is ongoing. 544 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: WUSA nine. Okay, Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter. Let 545 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: me understand, a body has been found near another disabled car. 546 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: Authorities are saying the body is not connected to the 547 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: disabled car. I'm not really sure how they know that, 548 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: but that's what they're saying. They're also saying they have 549 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: not identified the body. All I want is a yes? No? 550 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: Is all that correct? 551 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 5: Yes? 552 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: Okay? Doctor Kendall Crown's joining me, Chief Medical Examiner Terrance 553 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: County and star Off Mayhem in the Morgue podcast. Doctor 554 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: crowns what they can't id the body? And now wait 555 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: a minute, it has been several days, one, two, three, four, 556 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: five days, going on six. You can get a DNA 557 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: match within twenty four hours. It's not going to be 558 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: a one in five million DNA match, but it'll be 559 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: a one in eight hundred DNA match. So if they 560 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: can't id the body, and why can't they look at 561 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: the body and tell me? Is it her? Is she 562 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: wearing the same clothes? I can see her clothes that 563 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: she's wearing. That makes me wonder is the body unclothed, 564 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: is the face disfigured? I mean we've had plenty of 565 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: time for a DNA match, Doctor Krows, That's correct. 566 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 9: You can get DNA matches quite quickly on individuals with 567 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 9: the rapid DNA screens. 568 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: Okay, what is that rapid DNA screen? 569 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 9: Rapid DNA it's the crime lambs that we use here 570 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 9: in Texas have rapid DNA screens where I know they 571 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 9: can do a rapid analysis to get identifications on bodies 572 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 9: quicker than the average DNA turnaround times. 573 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: I mean, doctor Kendall, Crown's immediate DNA matches have been 574 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: made in times of war, promptly, immediately. This is not 575 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 1: new technology. So a DNA match can be made within hours. Again, 576 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 1: it's not going to be one in eight octillion, it's 577 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: going to be one in eight hundred or one in 578 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 1: one thousand, which in this case is good enough. So 579 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: that leads me to a whole host of questions to 580 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 1: doctor Bethany. This could mean any number of things. All 581 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: they're saying is the body found is quote similar. What 582 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: does that mean? Remember Gabby Potito's body had been so 583 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:55,320 Speaker 1: destroyed by animals eating her. There's just really not a 584 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,720 Speaker 1: lot of people say animal activity to make it somehow 585 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: sound better. Ryan Laundry left her dead body out there 586 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: for animals to tear apart. She was first identified by 587 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: a unique T shirt that she was wearing. So we're 588 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: not getting a match to Takara. Why are we not 589 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: getting a match? It could be any number of things. 590 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: What do you think? 591 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 4: Well, what I'm thinking about it's hard to speak to that, 592 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 4: But what I'm thinking about is serial killers, serial killers 593 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 4: and was she the victim of one? And is there 594 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 4: a serial killer in the area who's going on a 595 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 4: killing spree. So here's the thing about serial killers. They 596 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 4: are very mobile. Once they've had victims in one city, 597 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 4: they will drive and drive and drive to another one. 598 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 4: They often go underground for long periods of time, and 599 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 4: then they strike, and often they'll have one, two, three 600 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 4: more victims, and then they go underground again. They have 601 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,760 Speaker 4: the same victim types. And these women look so similar. 602 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,640 Speaker 4: The two other women disappeared in the afternoon, Nancy like 603 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 4: they were snatched. Now, the fact that serial killers are 604 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 4: so mobile and they spend a lot of time looking 605 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 4: for just the right victim tells me that that possibly 606 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 4: there was some killer driving around these neighborhoods, just like 607 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 4: Brian Koberger with the white Elantra. I think it's important 608 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 4: for the police or the investigators to look at all 609 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,399 Speaker 4: the surveillance footage in the area and say who has 610 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 4: been driving driving driving around? That's what I think is important. 611 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 4: And you don't fancy that video because you're playing it again, 612 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 4: it looks like a mailbox in the corner. 613 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: Did you notice that? 614 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 4: And then she goes out of the frame, and she 615 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,040 Speaker 4: also lifts her arm up to the right just a 616 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 4: little bit after she's already locked the car. So I 617 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 4: was wondering if she was pushing pulling a piece of 618 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 4: mail out. Also, I would ask her parents. You know, 619 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 4: nineteen year olds don't normally mail things. But did she 620 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 4: have an application, a college application or something that she 621 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:58,720 Speaker 4: really needed to mail? 622 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: And was that something on her errand list to Randolph 623 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: Rice joining Us former felony prosecutor now criminal and civil 624 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: defense attorney at Rice Mertha and Sourus Randolph, what do 625 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: you make of this The fact that they're saying I 626 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 1: was similar. For all I know, is one of the 627 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 1: two other victims that go missing in the same time 628 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: span as Takara or Lord help us a fourth person 629 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: and Nancy. I was thinking the exact same thing because 630 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:27,240 Speaker 1: the state. 631 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 6: Police and the Prince George's County Police Department are being 632 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 6: so tight lipped about the fact who thisinct actually is, 633 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 6: which body this is, It's possible it could be one 634 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,799 Speaker 6: of these other women that have gone missing in the 635 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,399 Speaker 6: past couple of weeks. So that same question arises when 636 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 6: I think about this body found out Root fifty, which 637 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 6: is a heavily travel road. This is the road that 638 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 6: connects Baltimore, Washington, d C. To the eastern shore of Maryland, 639 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,400 Speaker 6: and this time of year there are thousands, tens of 640 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,759 Speaker 6: thousands of cars traveling that road every single hour. 641 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: Now, what do you believe Brian Is Gibbons, USPA Nationwide 642 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 1: Security jumping off what Randolph Rois just said, What does 643 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: that have to do with this heavily heavily traveled area. 644 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, you have three major roadways leading out of Hyattsville 645 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:19,239 Speaker 3: heading to Route fifty in Anna Rundell County. You know, 646 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 3: off the top of my head, I don't remember the 647 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 3: route numbers, but there are three major routes that are 648 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 3: going to have license plate readers that are going to 649 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:32,399 Speaker 3: have surveillance cameras. So what I really think is that 650 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 3: the police are going to hold back some information about 651 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 3: this body as they start to analyze who she could 652 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,920 Speaker 3: have been meeting up with, who drove out of that 653 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 3: area in the days, you know, the hours following her disappearance. 654 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: You know, another issue, Brian is the heavily populated area 655 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: where she walks away from her vehicle. Look, that's what 656 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 1: we're seeing from that side. But what we're getting is 657 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:04,319 Speaker 1: clearly ring cam surveillance video from another dwelling. So you 658 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,320 Speaker 1: see the walkway leading right up to it. So she's 659 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: walking through a lot of homes, a lot of residences. 660 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: They've got to have ring cams. What can we learn? 661 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, you would think that there's more security footage as 662 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 3: she heads towards Riggs Road here. And another thing to 663 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 3: point out, you know, doctor Bethany, you know, pointed out 664 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,279 Speaker 3: that her arm was up. My first inclination there is 665 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,280 Speaker 3: is she communicating with somebody? Is she speaking to somebody 666 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 3: who's off camera there? You know, that was my first 667 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:38,279 Speaker 3: reaction to that. 668 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: I don't see anyone. What do you make of that, 669 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,280 Speaker 1: Dave mac I don't notice for speaking to anyone off camera. 670 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,239 Speaker 1: Do you see that? 671 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 2: I wait, no, I went frame by frame on that video, Nancy, 672 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 2: to see what else could be found. 673 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 5: Nobody in the car, and nobody's standing near the car. Nothing. 674 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 2: Just I don't know why her arm was pointing out, 675 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,040 Speaker 2: maybe double checking the locking, I don't know, but sadly, 676 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 2: that's all we have right now. And by the way, 677 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,400 Speaker 2: this didn't come from the police. This actually was given 678 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 2: to the family by the guys, by the man who 679 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 2: actually had this video, so he gave it to the 680 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 2: family and to a local TV station. 681 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:12,400 Speaker 5: That's how we got it. 682 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: Another question that we didn't bring up is her phone 683 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: was disabled. Does that mean it was cut off? Does 684 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,440 Speaker 1: that mean it it was cut off? It didn't run 685 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,880 Speaker 1: out of battery, Dave Mac, it was particularly it was 686 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,799 Speaker 1: intentionally cut off. 687 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 2: That's what we've been told, is that she was disconnected 688 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,000 Speaker 2: off no idea at this point. 689 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 1: According to her family, she never cut her phone off. 690 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 2: Right, And that's that's why they tracked it by my 691 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 2: iPhone app because they gave him the last known location. 692 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,759 Speaker 2: But it was off from that moment. The minute she 693 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,319 Speaker 2: gets there, her phone's off for whatever reason. Once she 694 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 2: gets past that mailbox. 695 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 5: It's done. 696 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 2: A search warrant was served early today at the home 697 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:56,000 Speaker 2: on Cambridge Drive in Bowie, Maryland. The suspect is Hugo 698 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 2: Hernandez Mendez. He's thirty five years old in the United 699 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,720 Speaker 2: States dates illegally. No cause of death has been released 700 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 2: at this time. 701 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the 702 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,879 Speaker 1: disappearance of Dakara or the other ladies, please dial three 703 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:18,920 Speaker 1: zero one seven seven two eight nine seven zero, repeat 704 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 1: three zero one seven seven to two eight nine seven zero. 705 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,760 Speaker 1: We remember an American Hero Officer, Tara Cook, Whitfield County, Georgia, 706 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: killed in a light of duty, leaving behind a grieving husband, 707 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:45,920 Speaker 1: Seth American Hero Officer Tara Cook Rest in peace. End 708 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:51,600 Speaker 1: of Watch Nancy Gray signing off goodbye friend.