1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: one thirty two. Tampa police on the hut for a 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: killer after the shooting guts of three people in ten days. 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: We will hunt this son of a down until we 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: find the Tampa's mayor doing what he can to reassure 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: the public so that they've added a thousand street lights 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: to the Seminal Heights neighborhood and that they won't stop 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: until that killer is caught. Nobody comes into our house 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: and does this not now, not ever, Authorities pouring over 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: the great and surveillance video for clues looking at this 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: person of an interest of walking alone and clearing a 12 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: hood on the night of the first killing. You guys, 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: go hunt him down and bring his head to me, 14 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: and please to announce that tonight we will be making 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: an arrest in the Seminel Heights murder. Tonight is the 16 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: beginning of when justice will be served and then the 17 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: process will occur when this individual roxon Hill, four people dead, 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: an entire city gripped with fear. I'm talking about the 19 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: Tampa serial killer. But right now a crack in the 20 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: case I may see, Grace. This is Crime Stories thank 21 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: you for being with us. I'm gonna go straight to 22 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: a very critical police press conference. Listen. As you recall, 23 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 1: on October nine, Benjamin Mitchell was twenty two years old 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: and he was murdered. That was fifty one days ago. 25 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: On October eleven, two days later, thirty two year old 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: Monica Haffa was murdered. Eight days later, on October nineteenth, 27 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: Anthony n Iboa murdered twenty six days later. On November four, 28 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: just two weeks ago, sixty year old Ronald Felton was murdered. 29 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: We received over five thousand tips in this case. I 30 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: am pleased to announce that tonight we will be making 31 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: an arrest in the Seminal Heights murders. Our detectives are 32 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: currently working on the charging document and we will be 33 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: charging four counts of first degree murder for how Emmanuel Donaldson, 34 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: the third, twenty four years old. Now, unfortunately I will 35 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: not have the answers that you are going to want. 36 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: This is an ongoing situation. We responded out to the 37 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: area about two thirty this afternoon. We received some information 38 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: about Mr Donaldson having a firearm at the McDonald's. One 39 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: of his co workers approached a police officer. That is 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: what led us to that through our investigation. Several hours later, 41 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: we will be charging Donaldson, like I said, with four 42 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: counts of first degree murder. I would like to thank 43 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI, Florida 44 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: Department of Law Enforcement, the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office, the 45 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: Florida Highway Patrol, the St. Pete Police Department, Pasco County 46 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office, the University of South Florida p d in, 47 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: the U. S. Marshall's Office, and several other law enforcement 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: agencies have been assisting us. But more importantly, I would 49 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: like to thank the people of Seminal Heights who have 50 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: just been phenomenal in their support of our police department. 51 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: It has just been their patients and their support and 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: the way they have rallied behind the cops of Tampa 53 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: has just been phenomenal. And the entire Bay Area, the 54 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: way they have supported the men and women of the 55 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: Tampa Police Department in the neighborhood of Seminal Heights has 56 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: just been awesome to see. Mayor, you know, fifty one 57 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: days ago, I said this was a struggle between good 58 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: and evil. Well tonight. Goodness has one tonight in the 59 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: battle between darkness and light, light has won. It would 60 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: not have happened without the amazing police work and the 61 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: amazing partnership of the people that you see behind me, 62 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: of the hundreds of men and women of the Tampa 63 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: Police Department that have been on this case for fifty 64 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: one days. They put their lives on the sidelines, They 65 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: put their normal jobs on the sidelines, and they focused 66 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: on one thing, and that was to catch a killer. 67 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how proud I am of them. 68 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how proud I am of the 69 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: partnership that we have with our fellow law enforcement agencies. 70 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: I can't tell you, and I know. I speak for 71 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: the people of Seminal Heights, who stood up with a 72 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder, who never left during the tough times, 73 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: who never quit on us, nor did they ever quit 74 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: on the men and women of law enforcement. They had 75 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: our backs and we had theirs. We could not have 76 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: done this without their support, the support of this entire community. 77 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: Tonight is the beginning of when justice will be served, 78 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: and then the process will occur when this individual rots 79 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: and health TPD did their job. The troopers did their job. 80 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: F DLI did their job, the FBI did their job. 81 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: Seminal Heights did their job. And tonight we're bringing someone 82 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: to justice who doesn't deserve the right to walk amongst us. 83 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: These folks deserve the credit. Now let's go bring justice 84 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: to the families that are here today. Any questions about 85 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: the bastard workers who initially brought this to the attention 86 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: of the Tambo Police Department, Obviously they were very concerned 87 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: spinting a gun. I don't know how much they knew 88 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: about it, if this was actually as zero or or 89 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: they were just concerned about it. We have to set. 90 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: What I have to say is thank you, um for 91 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: having the courage to step forward and doing the right thing. 92 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: You know, if doing the right thing we're easy, then 93 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: everybody would do it. And unfortunately we don't have enough 94 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: of that. Uh. The people that helped us today are 95 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: what makes this a great city and I just cannot 96 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: thank them enough. We're not releasing anything like that is 97 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: still ongoing. Uh. The charging documents are still being crafted 98 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: and put together, so it's gonna be a time. It's 99 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: gonna be some time before we can release any type 100 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: of information like that questions, we're we're still going through 101 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: the whole process. I don't know for sure that he 102 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: worked there still. I believe at one point he did. 103 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if he still does or did OI 104 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: what I think when when when I found out there 105 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: was a gun that uh and when I we looked 106 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: at his description, it gave us a little more than 107 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: what we've ever really had. We've run down some guns 108 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: before running some other things. It just felt right. I 109 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: kind of had a feeling that we were going to 110 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: get a break. You know. Every day we would meet 111 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: as a group and we would say what day is it? 112 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: And today it was day fifty one, and we discussed yesterday. 113 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: I said, we're gonna we're gonna get a break this week. 114 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: I was trying to be optimistic. I can. I have 115 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: a tendency to be uh. My glass is half empty 116 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: sometimes and so I wanted to kind of pump everybody 117 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: up and and for whatever reasons, we gotta break. Somebody 118 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: stepped up and did the right thing, and that that's 119 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: what we needed. We had said all along that no 120 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: tip is too small, and somebody stepped forward and gave 121 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: us what we needed. Were there there are several pieces 122 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: that were we are having to put together, and so 123 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: it's going to be more than one thing. And to 124 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: get anything on this day without you don't get writing 125 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: investigation on what that Laulers said, I know that you 126 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: guys are running on top anyway, they they actually approached 127 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: an officer on foot and had a conversation. So it 128 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: was that conversation and then as far as we you know, 129 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: we are still trying to figure out what they're tied. 130 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: This person's ties to the neighborhood hood is. We're not 131 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: sure why he was in this neighborhood. We're not aware 132 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: of what his ties are, and we don't know what 133 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: his motive is. We're but there's a lot more to go. Unfortunately, 134 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: we knew by coming out here tonight that we would 135 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: probably create a lot more questions. But the real goal 136 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: is to let the people of Seminal Heights be able 137 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: to get a good night's sleep. It's been fifty one 138 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: days that they've been terrorized in their neighborhood, and it 139 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: is about letting these families know that we're gonna bring 140 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: this person to justice and letting this neighborhood get some 141 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: rest and hopefully try and put their lives back together. 142 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: Really were talking to you in the family show. Um, Yes, 143 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: I talked to Monica Haffa's uh father on the phone 144 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: through and through some text messages, but our detectives have 145 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: reached out to all the family members. That was the 146 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: Tampa Police press conference regarding the Tampa serial killer. 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The mother tells me she last 174 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: saw her daughter in the home at around eleven PM 175 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: when she checked on her. This is my world, This 176 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: is my angel. She said her boyfriend saw the taller 177 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: around midnight when he got up, and she says he 178 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: told her to go back to bed. She was reported 179 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: missing around six o'clock in the morning. For this girl, 180 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: the bond that I have is my life. The child 181 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: is white, three ft nine inches tall where he's thirty pounds. 182 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: It has blonde hair and blue eyes, not making sense 183 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: to me about where she could be at, who she 184 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: could be with. Christie says she doesn't believe her child 185 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: could have walked off, as she has weak bones and 186 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,719 Speaker 1: we're special braces to help her walk her don't never 187 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: let her go. It gets to hold her tight. Did 188 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: you know that in an ounce of gold was worth 189 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 1: twenty dollars and it would buy two suits in a shirt? Hi, 190 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: I'm Scott Carter with PM Capital. Times have changed since then. 191 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: We no longer carry a gold coin in our pocket 192 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: his money. The government made us exchange that a long 193 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: time ago for a twenty dollar bill. PM Capital is 194 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: in the wealth preservation business, and keeping your buying power 195 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: is our goal. Investors know that it's not what you have, 196 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 1: it's what you keep to Today, if I want to 197 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: buy two suits in a shirt and use the twenty 198 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: dollar bill I received for my gold coin, it might 199 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: buy a pair of socks. But if I had my 200 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: one ounce gold coin, it would still buy two suits 201 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: in a shirt. That's called preserving your buying power. Find 202 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: out how gold can help you keep your buying power. 203 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: Dial pound to fifty and use the key word grace. 204 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: That's pound two fifty grace on your cell dial pound 205 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: to fifty and say grace. Our specialists are standing by 206 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: the search for a missing taught girl goes on. We 207 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: are taking you now to Onslow County and the very 208 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 1: latest in the search for Mariah Wood in North Carolina. 209 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: This taught girl absolutely beautiful. She looks like a child 210 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: star to me. In fact, Tom alexis fresh track. What 211 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: was the name of the show where the twin girls 212 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: were the stars? Toddlers? And what was their name? Now 213 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: a long time ago, they're they're famous now one's of 214 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: a model and one's married to some old guy. Yeah. 215 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: What was that show? Full House? Full House? Yes, thank you, 216 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was busy working during full House, so 217 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: I didn't get to watch it. This little girl looks 218 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: like then when when when they were little? And I 219 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: keep seeing pictures of her in a pink dress. In 220 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: every picture she's wearing a tiara and pink is involved. 221 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: And she's absolutely precious. The Amber alert and now established. 222 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: Everyone across the country knows about missing Mariah was listened 223 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: to her mother's desperate Please, this is my world, this 224 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 1: is my angel. You know she was sent to me 225 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: for a reason. She was my meter cool. This is 226 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: my everything, besides my boys. The love I have for 227 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: this girl, the bond that I have is my life. 228 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Just please don't take that away. Bring her back. Alexi's 229 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: terres Chuck joining us from writer online dot com. Alexis, 230 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: you and I have covered so many missing children. Just 231 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: give me the facts. Please. She was put to bed 232 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: by her mother on Sunday night, she said, put her 233 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: to sleep. She is three years old. She is about 234 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: two ft nine inches tall. She only weighs thirty pounds, 235 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: tiniest little thing. And Monday morning they discoveraged she was 236 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: missing and they contacted the police. The thing about Mariah 237 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: is you said, you've seen the pictures of her. She's 238 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: a beautiful little girl. She actually wears braces on her legs. 239 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: She she is a little bit she she needs these 240 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: braces to help her walk. She definitely has walking difficulties. 241 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: She has braces on her legs. She's a three year 242 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: old little girl, sweet, loving little girl with long brown 243 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: hair and blue eyes. According to her mom, an extensive 244 00:14:52,040 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: search underway, centering from the family home on Dawson Cabin Road. Helicopters, 245 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: uh people walking elbow to elbow, deputies, firefighters, volunteers, all 246 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: out trying to find Mariah. Would this is the call 247 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: to arms and the search for this little girl. Now, 248 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: our investigative reporter from crime online dot Com Lee Egan, 249 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: joining us right now, leave, what have you just learned? 250 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: The van that was at their home, a brown van, 251 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: has been taken in for in town. Apparently there was 252 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: something in there or something about that fan that police 253 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: were interested about. And there seems to be some kind 254 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: of smash window. I don't know how true that is. 255 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: That's just what the locals are saying. But we do 256 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: know that they do have the van and they are 257 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: searching it, and apparently the van belongs to the family. 258 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: I also know, Lee Egan joining me from crime online 259 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: dot Com that the husband, the boyfriend that lives in 260 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: the home with mom says the mom says she put 261 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: Maria debat around eleven clock at night, which is late 262 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: and questionable. But this little girl is not in school, 263 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: so you know, she doesn't have to get up at 264 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: six thirty or seven in the morning like mine do. 265 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: And that the boyfriend slash husband says he saw quote 266 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: saw the little girl at midnight and told her to 267 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: go back to bed. Is that your understanding, Lee? Egan. 268 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: My understanding is yet he saw the little girl, but 269 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: he told the mother she's okay, got back to bed. 270 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: He didn't actually tell the little girl to go back 271 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: to bed, but he told the mother, I'll take care 272 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: of her. It's okay, go back to bed. That's my 273 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: understanding so far. It could be that he told the 274 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: baby as well. But from what I'm gathering is that 275 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: he said he was going to take care of the 276 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: little girl and the mom to um. We also have 277 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: a complaint to me report to ask you. Wilcott joining me, 278 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: lawyer and renowned child advocate Melissa Hunter. Now this is 279 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: Mariah's grandma says, mom puts my riot to bed at 280 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: their home and checked on her at nine or ten. 281 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: That's different. That's changing my timeline. I don't like that, 282 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: but it's okay. You can enhance the timeline. But when 283 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: you start changing, that concerns me because that means there's 284 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: a conflicting story. Did you put her to bed at 285 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: eleven or did you put her to bed earlier? And 286 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: you're just going to check on her at nine o'clock? 287 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: So uh, Hunter, the grandmother says, just as we are 288 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: going to air, the mother goes to check on her, 289 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: and Mariah was gone. And see, that's a totally different 290 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: timeline than at nine or ten o'clock the baby's already gone. 291 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: When another report says she was put to bed at 292 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: eleven at midnight, the husband sees her and sends her 293 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: back to bed. Now, I don't like conflicting timelines. You 294 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: understand why, Ashley Wilcot. I do. And I feel like 295 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: something's tinky, something's amiss, and law enforcements doing the right thing. 296 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: They're saying, we're investigating everything. We don't know what happened, 297 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: but something isn't right. Those conflicting stories are too conflicting, right, 298 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: There's it doesn't make sense. Now, listen to this. Christy Woods, 299 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: who's Mariah's mom, is saying she discovered her daughter missing 300 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: from their home at six thirty a m On Monday. 301 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: What the heck? Just got Morgan? Help me out here. 302 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: These can't all be true. She can't put her to 303 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: bed and check on her, find her missing at nine pm, 304 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: put her to bed at eleven, and she's up wandering 305 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: around at midnight. And then, well, I guess it could 306 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: be true that she discovers her missing at six thirty. 307 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: So then you still got the dichotomy between missing at 308 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: nine pm the night before and six thirty in the morning. 309 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: So I don't like it, just Scott, I don't either. 310 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: It stinks and I'd be very curious to know what 311 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: the source of these timelines are and why they're not 312 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,479 Speaker 1: matching up, because it is curious. I'd also like to 313 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: know exactly what the scene looked like in this particular 314 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: case when this thing was phoned in and wasn't locked down. 315 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: This is going to be very important moving forward from 316 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: an evidentiary standpoint, and plus coupled that, along with nailing 317 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: both of these principal adults down relative to the timeline, 318 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: keep them separated and find out where everybody was when 319 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: all of this happened. The very troubling piece to all 320 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: of this is that this child is essentially non ambulatory, 321 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: which means she cannot walk, probably without braces. Sounds like 322 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: it might be some kind of developmental issues. She's very tiny, 323 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: so she has to be she It's not like she 324 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: could just up and vanish out of the house and 325 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: just wander away on her own. She's heavily dependent upon 326 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 1: her caretakers. I stay wide Amber alert for little Mariah 327 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: wood has been issued and we are all joining the search. 328 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: You know, Alexa's terres Chut writer online dot com. You 329 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,640 Speaker 1: have a little boy, okay, And I don't know about you, 330 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: but I still every time I get up in the night, 331 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: I go check on the children, both of them. I 332 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: pulled the covers up, I stick their feetback under the covers. 333 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: I get them straightened out in the bed. Whatever's I mean? 334 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: And minor ten? But this mom is saying she let's 335 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: just take one of the stories. And I'm not saying 336 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 1: she's lying. We're reporting what we know. There may be 337 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: a simple explanation for this. Maybe the grandma heard it wrong, 338 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: maybe the mom. You know, there's a lot of reasons 339 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: where there could be a conflict in what time she 340 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: went to bed. But I know this. I don't believe 341 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: there has been one night in the last ten years. 342 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: Alexis to res Chuck that I have not gotten up 343 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: at least twice in the night unless I was sick 344 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: and checked on the children. But she's saying she goes 345 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 1: to bed eleven, she doesn't notice the child has gone 346 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: until six thirty in the morning. Alexis well, and the 347 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: grandmother also said, you know this little girl would never 348 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: wander outside in the dark by herself. Why is the 349 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: grandmother even saying that my child would never managed to 350 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: get out of his room and get out of our 351 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: house and just walk around outside. That that's so strange. 352 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 1: It seems to me that maybe the grandmother has been 353 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: told that the daughter wandered outside the house and that 354 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: very suspicious, and I agree with that. Let me ask you, 355 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcot child advocate. You're you have children one the 356 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: same age as John, David and Lucy. Do you still 357 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: wake up in the night and check on them? Or 358 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: am I just the crazy one here? No? No, no, 359 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I do the exact same thing. 360 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: Not only do I check on them every night, I 361 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: also do the same. They wouldn't get out of my house, 362 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: they would not wander outside. They wouldn't be able to 363 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: wander outside there. I would wake up, I would, I mean, 364 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: you just it's hard to imagine somebody's saying, oh, yeah, 365 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: well it be too scared tonight to go out. My 366 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: kids wouldn't get out the door. Yeah I've got I've 367 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: got our place so tricked out with alarms and if 368 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: you sneeze an alarm goes off and the Blaze are called. 369 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to figure out how this whole 370 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: scenario happened. Let's talk about it to Dr Brian Russell, 371 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: uh joining me, the host of investigation Discoveries, Fatal Vows, 372 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: lawyer and psychologist and TV host Man. I don't know 373 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: if you ever sleep, but I want you to hear 374 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: what the mom also says. She says, this is my world, 375 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: this is my angel. She was sent to me for 376 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: a reason. This is my everything, beside my boys, the 377 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: love I have for this girl, the bond that I 378 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: have is my life. Please just don't take that. I 379 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: don't know, I'm you know, a sucker, Dr Brian Russell, 380 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: but it sounds like she means it. So here's the thing. 381 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,959 Speaker 1: It does sound like this is not a walkaway situation. 382 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: That sounds like this girl really couldn't have walked very 383 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: far under her own power. So it sounds like there 384 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 1: is an adult responsible for the fact that this girl 385 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: is missing. And what I can tell you is that 386 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: in almost all cases like this, the adult responsible is 387 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: one that is known to the child and to the family, 388 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: and so I don't think it's mutually exclusive for the 389 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: mother to genuinely feel the feelings that she articulated that 390 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 1: you just shared with the audience, but it also to 391 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: perhaps I know some things, uh that that you know 392 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: ultimately will have to deal with the person who is 393 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 1: responsible for this. You know another thing I don't like 394 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: alexis terres Chuck. And I know you and Alan Duke 395 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: are out there in your posh penthouse pads in l A. 396 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: But I don't like the way people are treating them 397 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: because they live in a trailer. And let me tell 398 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: you something. Um My Grant, my great grandmother. Okay, she 399 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: never finished high school. I don't think she got much 400 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: past the sixth grade. She was so smart. She worked, 401 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: worked work. Her husband, I might add, Alan, Dee, listen up, 402 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: would just leave in the morning and go to the 403 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: courthouse and what's trials? Okay, that's where he would be. Well, 404 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: she's working, all right, So she would work with work. 405 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: She saved up enough. She didn't trust a bank, would 406 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: hide money in mason jars and bury them all around 407 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: their farm. Well, let me tell you something. She called 408 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: in um the owner of this land that she was working, 409 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: and she brought in like the family doctor as a witness. 410 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: They dug up every one of those jars, and after 411 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: a period of years she had saved up enough to 412 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: buy this huge tract of land. I'm talking about dozens 413 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: and dozens of acres of land which later were developed 414 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: as a subdivision many years after her death. But she 415 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: uh dug up every one of those Mason jars and 416 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: she had enough cold hard cash saved to buy the land. 417 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,719 Speaker 1: All right. Now, time went on, she worked the land, 418 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: she sold, uh you know, produce off the land, She 419 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: raised animals on the less, she worked with her own 420 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:50,479 Speaker 1: two hands. Ultimately she sold that land and she bought 421 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: a trailer, a streamline trailer, and put it parallel to 422 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: my other grandmother's house where my mom grew up. And 423 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: I remember go out there to her little silver trailer 424 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: as a little girl, parked out on this beautiful plot 425 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: of land and threading needles for her. She's still so 426 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: but she couldn't thread the needle. So I don't take 427 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: very kindly. Two people pooh pooing, well, and that's been 428 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: their payment, that's been if she's in a trailer, And 429 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: so they're looking down on this crime and there maybe 430 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: aren't taking it seriously, but the police are taking it seriously. 431 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: They have issued an Amber alert and the FBI is 432 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: involved now, and that means when the FBI gets involved, 433 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: they that's about kidnapping, and then they worry that's maybe 434 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: she's being taken across state lines. So they have got 435 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: the top law enforcement involved because they know that they 436 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: are taking this seriously. But what you're saying about her 437 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: living in a trailer and with the grandmother saying she 438 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't walk outside at night, and you say you check 439 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: on your your kids every single night. I have a 440 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: monitor where I watch Max every night because if I 441 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: go in the room, he's gonna wake up and want 442 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 1: to play. I think that this was a small house 443 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: and that there may there's no way that they could 444 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: have not heard this little girl getting up, But strangers 445 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: on Alexis I'm hearing in my ear from Alan that 446 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: right now. We have local reporter Gerald Jackson with News 447 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: Onslow dot Com joining us there in Onslow County, North Carolina. 448 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: Gerald Jackson, Hey, thank you guy for joining us. What's 449 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: the latest. Police are still searching for Mariah Woods. Police 450 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: don't know who has her, but a lot of people 451 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: are pointing him recording fingers at the boyfriend you know, 452 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: saying that he may have something to do with her missing. 453 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: I know yesterday he was taking down to the back 454 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: down for the Shares deployment for interrogation twice after the 455 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: initial interview. As far as what had happened to Mariah 456 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: Woods Um, she was missed. She went missing sometime between 457 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: Lema Clark t m Sunday evening at six o'clock eight 458 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: m um Monday morning. Her pajamas or nightclothes as she 459 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: had on was land beside the bed, so she was apparently, 460 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, walking around with some with panties on, pink 461 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: panties on pink and white panties on from you know, 462 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: the underwear that she had on the night before they 463 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: put her and actually sleeping clothes. The citizens here in 464 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: Onslow County are searching. A lot of citizens met up 465 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: at the in the area around seven o'clock to conduct 466 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: their own search. There's no sign of a break in. 467 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: All we do know is Nancy, is that the door, 468 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: the back door of the home was open. That's what 469 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: the parents have told police. That's what police have told 470 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: us the media. That's all that we know. There's no 471 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: force of a breaking and it's just don't sound like 472 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: something doesn't sound right. She's a disabled child. She wears 473 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: orthopedic braces. She cannot walk straight without those braces, and 474 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,239 Speaker 1: she don't have those braces with her wherever she is 475 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: right now with me, right now joining us on the 476 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: scene is Gerald Jackson with the news in Onslow dot 477 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: Com joining us there in Onslow County, North Carolina. You've 478 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: given me a lot of new facts. Let me just 479 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: stop one moment in our search for this missing little girl, 480 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: Mariah Wood in North Carolina, and thank our partner who 481 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: is making today's program possible. And it is link a 482 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: k C. Christmas is right around the corner with all 483 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: the other holidays. 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And let me remind everyone Alex Woods is 548 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: in no way a suspect. As a matter of fact, 549 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,719 Speaker 1: he is front and center in the search for Maria, 550 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: also with me, a well known figure around the world, Victims, 551 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: writes advocate Mark Class, Pat Brown criminal profil er, and 552 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: Karen Stark psychologists out of New York. I want to 553 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: go straight to Mariah's dad, Alex Woods. Alex, at a 554 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: time like this, I can't thank you enough for speaking 555 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: to us and all of our listeners today that have 556 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: joined together praying for the safe return of baby Maria. Alex, 557 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: when did you first learn Maria was missing? Monday morning? 558 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: About eleven o'clock. I was at work and I heard 559 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: the Ambia amber alert over the radio. You heard it 560 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: over the radio? Yeah? Oh, my stars? Did did? Did 561 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: nobody call you? Or now? My numbers got switched and uh, Christie, 562 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: the mother didn't notify me or nothing like that. I 563 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: had to hear it over the radio. The very very 564 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: latest of statewide amber alert issued for baby Maria. Now, 565 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: the Onslo County Sheriff's Office and the FBI have released 566 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: a villaince images showing a little girl walking with a 567 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: woman Monday around nine thirty a m. And a Walmart 568 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: in Morehead City. Investigators want the public's help identifying both 569 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: of these people. Let me ask you, Alex Woods, have 570 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: you seen these photos? Yes, ma'am? Do you believe that 571 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: could be Mariah? If I could see like a good 572 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: face shot, I'm hoping it is, you know, I'm hoping 573 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: she's safe and alive. I mean, I can't say a 574 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: dent that it is, you know, because I don't get 575 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: a good face shot of Well, wait a minute, let 576 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 1: me ask you this. Didn't she need her braces to walk? Yeah? 577 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: I think her braces was found at her mother's house. Outside. Well, 578 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: this little girl, Alex Woods is walking. She's also being 579 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 1: held by this woman in Walmart and Morehead City, but 580 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: she's also pictured walking along beside her. Yeah, she can walk, 581 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: but not not that good. You got a problem with 582 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: her left legs. She kind of like kicks it out 583 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean she can like take steps 584 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: without him. Right now, authority saying it's the premature to 585 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: say what has happened to baby Maria. Um, let me 586 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: go to Mark class joining me along with Mariah's dad 587 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: Alex Woods. Mark, you know the pain that Alex is 588 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,959 Speaker 1: going through. Your daughter Polly was taken from your home, 589 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: from her home and police came straight to your door 590 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: and you cooperated completely. What should be happening right now? Mark, 591 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: tell me what you think. Well, first of all, Alex, 592 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: I would like to extend my, my, my sympathy to you. 593 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: I know that this is a very difficult time for you, 594 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: and just stay strong. Work with the authorities. UM, answer 595 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: any questions that they may have. UH, keep doing shows 596 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: like Nacy's shows so that people who are aware of 597 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: who Mariah is humanizer, so they understand, you know, what 598 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,319 Speaker 1: a precious little girl she is, and so that they'll 599 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: be invested in her safe return. And if you do 600 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: things like that, uh, work with the police, work with 601 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: some media, work with any volunteers. If you happen to 602 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,919 Speaker 1: be in the immediate vicinity, UM, you're going to find 603 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: your daughter. And UH, that's I believe the best way 604 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: to a successful resolution in this case. Mark Class. You know, 605 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: I pin a lot of hopes and belief and everything 606 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: that you say. I've never once known you to be 607 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: wrong in all the years you and I have fought 608 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: crime together. Alex Witch, I'm just reeling with the fact 609 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: that you learned baby Mariah was missing. You're a little girl, 610 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 1: and you were in the middle of a vicious fight 611 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: for custody to get her to live with you at 612 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: the time you heard it over the radio. Do you 613 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: remember that moment you heard Mariah's gone. Yeah. I I mean, honestly, 614 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 1: I didn't think it was real. I heard her name 615 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: or anyone. I was like, what, no way, it took 616 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: him in a hint, And then I called my fiance 617 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: and I was like, I need you to look this 618 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: up and see if it's true, and it didn't read either. 619 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: I was like, no, you know, nobody think that. And 620 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,800 Speaker 1: then what happened, And then she called back and said 621 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 1: it was true that you know, if she wanted darn 622 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: And I got ahold of the Sheriff's office and they 623 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: came out and talked to me, and then I got 624 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 1: I went home because they you know, they wanted to 625 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: talk to me as soon as they could, so they 626 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,360 Speaker 1: came to the job talk to me for a few minutes, 627 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: and then I came home and got all the paperwork 628 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: and started everything that you know, we could start and 629 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: trying to help find her. And it's it's just a 630 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: going ongoing process. Everyone tipline four five five three three 631 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: four five five three three, All of you truckers out there, 632 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,879 Speaker 1: everybody on the road listening to Serious X two right now, 633 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: help us, help us. Now. I know the pain of 634 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: losing someone after my fiance was murdered, but once I 635 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: had my children, I cannot even imagine imagine what Alex 636 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:56,359 Speaker 1: Woods is going through right now. Pat Brown, criminal profiler, 637 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: uh known all around the world, author of books. She 638 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: knows what she's talking about. Let's analyze what we know 639 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,960 Speaker 1: about the disappearance itself, and Alex would listen closely to 640 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: what Pat Brown is saying, so I can come back 641 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: to you and you can weigh in on her analysis. 642 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,759 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Pat, Oh, right right away, Nancy, I'd like 643 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: to ask Alex question, Alex, did Mariah's mom have your 644 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: phone number? She had a number and my fiance I 645 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: did leave. Did she have what so she had a 646 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: way to contact you? Yeah, she knew, she knew where 647 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,799 Speaker 1: we lived. Do okay your friends and stuff like that. 648 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like a mix secret, right. I 649 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,920 Speaker 1: think something very strange to me would just be that 650 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,279 Speaker 1: if my child disappeared under these circumstances, I think the 651 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: first person I would try to contact would be the 652 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 1: father of my child, even if I wasn't a custody battle. 653 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 1: I first of all, I'd wonder if he knew anything. 654 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: I wonder if he came and got her, even if 655 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 1: I was even if I was being angry about it, 656 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: like hey, did you come and take my child? I 657 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 1: find it a little strange that she never contacted you. 658 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: I find that unusual. Yeah, me do. After they questioned 659 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,800 Speaker 1: her everything like that they was she was telling the 660 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,240 Speaker 1: cops the first that I had her, that I probably 661 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,319 Speaker 1: was the one have had her, And they came and 662 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 1: talked to me and looked and I didn't ever if 663 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,279 Speaker 1: i'd had her at your tell him, well, it's I 664 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,919 Speaker 1: would think if she thought you had or she would 665 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: have been immediately making phone calls your direction. I think 666 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 1: it's a little bit unusual. Um, you know, that's what 667 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: I think too. So I wouldn't know. Yeah, yeah, you know. 668 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,719 Speaker 1: And as far as the video goes, Um, you know, 669 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 1: one of the most difficult things with with if I 670 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,959 Speaker 1: would find it strange too that if this soon after 671 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: your daughter disappeared, that anybody who had taken her would 672 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,359 Speaker 1: be running around Walmart with her. But you know, one 673 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: of the difficulties with any of these, any kinds of sightings, 674 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: is that so many children looked like so many other children. 675 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,320 Speaker 1: Even as a parent, if I saw child to distance, 676 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,279 Speaker 1: I don't know that I would. I would have difficulty 677 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,440 Speaker 1: tried to determine if it was my child or not. 678 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 1: So you know that you're finding it difficult to figure 679 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,879 Speaker 1: that out. I got a question based on what you're 680 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: saying right now, Alex Woods, did you're the father of 681 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,279 Speaker 1: Mariah who is missing? Right now and we're trying to 682 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 1: help find her. Did you see still photos of the 683 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,759 Speaker 1: child in Walmart? Or did you see video? I saw photos, 684 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,360 Speaker 1: I ain't seen the video yet because Mark Class, the 685 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,360 Speaker 1: reason I ask is she had a walking problem. She 686 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 1: has to wear braces like cerebral policy braces. She's got 687 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: a problem that hopefully she'll grow out of one day. 688 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 1: And when she walks, she slings out her right foot. 689 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: So it's still photo doesn't do it justice, and you 690 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,719 Speaker 1: can't see the little girl's face. And I agree with Pat, 691 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna be her. I don't either, 692 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,319 Speaker 1: be honest with yes. I mean, I hope it is 693 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,840 Speaker 1: so at least we know, you know she's alive and healthy, 694 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: but I don't think it is. What about it, Mark Class, Well, 695 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: it means that people are being vigilant, and I agree 696 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: with all of you that just probably not Mariah. But 697 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 1: people are being vigilant, are looking for her, and that's 698 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,839 Speaker 1: the importance right now. We need as many eyes on 699 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,880 Speaker 1: this little girl if we can possibly get because she 700 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 1: is somewhere and at some point they're going to find her, 701 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 1: and obviously the sooner rather than later, and more people 702 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,040 Speaker 1: that are looking the faster that will happen. I mean, 703 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,839 Speaker 1: you know, Karen Stark, my longtime friend and psychologists well 704 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,080 Speaker 1: known Adam, New York. Karen, you know the deal from 705 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,919 Speaker 1: all the cases I've covered. My children just turned in. 706 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,480 Speaker 1: You know, i still sleep in the room with them 707 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,160 Speaker 1: at night because I'm so freaked out about what could happen. 708 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,279 Speaker 1: I know, it's crazy, you tell me a million times, 709 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: I don't need to do this. I don't sleep in 710 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,080 Speaker 1: the bed with them. Once in a while get up 711 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,520 Speaker 1: and go in another room. But you know, it's just 712 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: it can happen. It's likely to happen that a stranger 713 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: comes in and gets your child. No, can it happen? Yes, Karen, 714 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 1: start games in Everybody's worth nightmare, Nancy. The idea that 715 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,640 Speaker 1: something would happen to your children are similar to would 716 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,759 Speaker 1: take them and Alex. I'm very very sorry to hear 717 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,640 Speaker 1: about that. I think that everything you were told to 718 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: do to stay vigilant, to be active, it's very important 719 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: right now that you get involved in this process of looking. 720 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,560 Speaker 1: It will really help you well your anxiety. You know, 721 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,239 Speaker 1: it's interesting. Careen, I'm gonna throw this to Alex and 722 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: then the mom has made a plea. But he is 723 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: up front, just like Mark Class was when Paully went missing. 724 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,279 Speaker 1: Alex Woods is out there answering the hard questions like 725 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: where were you at the time she went missing? And Alex, 726 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 1: where were you at the time she went missing? And 727 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,560 Speaker 1: the night how was that mine and my fiancee's house 728 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: at our house? You know, I didn't know nothing about it. 729 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,919 Speaker 1: Like I said about eleven o'clock, how is at work? 730 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,800 Speaker 1: And how far away is your home from Mariah's? Five? 731 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,239 Speaker 1: Maybe ten minutes? Stops yep, and let me ask you this. 732 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: I know that there was a very very let me 733 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,399 Speaker 1: just say, contentious custody battle. You wanted Mariah with you? 734 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,080 Speaker 1: Why felt for their safety? I mean there well being 735 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,440 Speaker 1: for all three kids, there was happier with me. They 736 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 1: was removed from her and the back a while back 737 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,440 Speaker 1: in Chile service and then there was placing me for 738 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: about a month and a half. And then the next 739 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,680 Speaker 1: thing you know, she went in live and falls side 740 00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,360 Speaker 1: documents and she got she got custody back at the kids. 741 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,360 Speaker 1: Hold on learning something new right now? Are you telling 742 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,160 Speaker 1: me that child services took Tiding away from her for 743 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 1: about a month. Yeah, In two thousands, sixteen, her boyfriend, 744 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,200 Speaker 1: physically abuser will Ryan him came with a belt unless 745 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,399 Speaker 1: bruises on him and they said it yet he fell 746 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,239 Speaker 1: off a bunk bed. Okay, this putting a whole new 747 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,279 Speaker 1: light on this. If these allegations are true. We're hearing 748 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,040 Speaker 1: from Alex Hoods and he is saying this is from 749 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,560 Speaker 1: de Facts Department, Family Children's Services in some location CPS, 750 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: child Protective Services. I can't confirm that right now, but 751 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,640 Speaker 1: he is telling saying what Child Protective Services told him. 752 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,000 Speaker 1: And so they lived with you for a month and 753 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,360 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, that sure I did, and then she 754 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,360 Speaker 1: got him back. Yeah, in April we got him. And 755 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,399 Speaker 1: then like middle of May and the May, like first 756 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,799 Speaker 1: part of June, she came in. She came and got 757 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,799 Speaker 1: him because I wasn't home and my fiancee was home, 758 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 1: but she didn't have like no legal rights to him, 759 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,000 Speaker 1: so she would be and the mother. She came there 760 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,960 Speaker 1: and snatched him up, and there was nothing we could 761 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 1: do about it. I mean, we went back and forth 762 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 1: to court and she wins. Because I don't got an 763 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,319 Speaker 1: all O question. Alex Woods is with me. This is 764 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,319 Speaker 1: baby Mariah's biological dad who was in the middle of 765 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:40,719 Speaker 1: an acrimonious custody battle to get his child back. What 766 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,760 Speaker 1: do you know, Alex Woods, Because we're on the outside 767 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 1: looking in. Even as well known as Mark Classes, Pat 768 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,880 Speaker 1: Brown and here in Stark, we're on the outside looking in. 769 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 1: What are police telling you about the conditions under which 770 00:43:55,080 --> 00:44:03,280 Speaker 1: she disappeared? They're they're may police saying that they're trying 771 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,640 Speaker 1: to Christie and her boyfriend are trying to say that 772 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,759 Speaker 1: like she like just walked out the house, but the 773 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,719 Speaker 1: front doors locked, the back doors open. I don't know. 774 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,919 Speaker 1: I think the police are kind of thinking that there's 775 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,879 Speaker 1: like foul play involved, but they ain't. They ain't coming 776 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,120 Speaker 1: out and saying that yet because they're trying to figure 777 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,320 Speaker 1: it out. But they've searched the woods for two days 778 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: now with dogs, drones, helicopters. Didn't picked up her sent 779 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:36,640 Speaker 1: nothing yours said go ahead. Christie dad said that he 780 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,160 Speaker 1: feels that they're looking in the wrong spot, like she 781 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,239 Speaker 1: ain't out in the woods with me. I don't think 782 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,000 Speaker 1: he's in the wood either with us, is Alex Woods. 783 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:52,120 Speaker 1: This is Mariah's dad. We are all on pins and needles. 784 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 1: We have recorders on the scene and on slow County 785 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,319 Speaker 1: and most important, we are all winning in prayer that 786 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:06,080 Speaker 1: Maria is found and brought home to you. Alex Woods, Alex, 787 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,600 Speaker 1: if you could speak to Mariah or the person that 788 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:16,000 Speaker 1: took her right now, what would you say, M please 789 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 1: bring my baby girl back home. Daddy loves her and 790 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:25,279 Speaker 1: almost perfect little girls, nothing wrong to nobody. I just 791 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,319 Speaker 1: want to safe and returned. I don't care. I just 792 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:35,280 Speaker 1: want to please. I love you, Daddy loves your baby. Mr. Woods. 793 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:40,279 Speaker 1: I don't think you could have said anything more meaningful 794 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:45,320 Speaker 1: than that, and please know we are behind you. One everyone, 795 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,200 Speaker 1: let me give you the tip line again, all of 796 00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,120 Speaker 1: you out there on the road listening to Serious right 797 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 1: now or listening to our podcast. The tip line is 798 00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:02,880 Speaker 1: four five three four five five three one one three. 799 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: We are on the case as it progresses. I want 800 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,320 Speaker 1: to take this moment and thank our partner for making 801 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 1: our Serious sex in program possible today. Super Beats. 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