Speaker 1: My fourth grade teacher, Miss Eleanor, had her husband take
Speaker 1: an old TV set that used to sit in a
Speaker 1: wooden framed cabinet and he took the back panel off
Speaker 1: and cleaned out all the wires and bulbs and all
Speaker 1: the inner workings. She then had him bring it dire
Speaker 1: classroom in nineteen seventy four for us to use to
Speaker 1: do our book reports. Literally, we got to do our
Speaker 1: book reports on TV. And for me, it was a
Speaker 1: complete game changer of whether I hated the idea of
Speaker 1: giving a book report or I couldn't wait to do it.
Speaker 1: So for me, that weekly chore became something that I
Speaker 1: looked forward to because again, not only was I on TV,
Speaker 1: but one thing we did as a family, especially my
Speaker 1: four sisters and I, we never missed Mary Tyler Moore.
Speaker 1: So we just loved the idea of being a news anchor.
Speaker 1: To me, you know, they were so smart, they were informative.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were celebrities. So today it means so
Speaker 1: much to me to have you here, Karen. You are
Speaker 1: that just epitome of what a news anchor should be.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Cheryl, You've taught me everything. But I'll take that.
Speaker 1: But it's true You're smart, you're quick on your feet,
Speaker 1: You're extremely articulate, you can read and absorb and it's
Speaker 1: just amazing to watch you work. But I tell people
Speaker 1: all the time, and I've said it to you privately,
Speaker 1: as good as you are on TV, you are better
Speaker 1: privately when that camera is off. The way you truly
Speaker 1: love and care for people is amazing. So here's what
Speaker 1: I want the audience today to know about you. You
Speaker 1: are the anchor for WSB Channel two Action News in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You are a ten time Emmy Award winner. I believe.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Ten yes and one with you and
Speaker 1: one with me. You're welcome for that one. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I had a lot to do with it and not you.
Speaker 1: You are a legend in Atlanta new circles, and not
Speaker 1: just the new circles, but your volunteer work, your community outreach.
Speaker 1: You're a sorority sister, devoted. You're a wife, loving mother,
Speaker 1: a daughter, a friend. You're part of my Zone seven
Speaker 1: and have been for twenty years. You are loyal, you
Speaker 1: are trusted, honey. You are battle tested. There's no doubt.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to working scenes, I mean, Karen,
Speaker 1: I've told people I don't know how many times that
Speaker 1: when I watched some of these crimes shows and the
Speaker 1: hummer pulls up and a sexy leg and a stiletto
Speaker 1: heel comes out, you know that that's just not realistic.
Speaker 1: Until I worked with you, and when you came on
Speaker 1: a live scene with knee high Gucci boots, I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I can't ever say that again because I've seen somebody
Speaker 1: work or crime saying looking sexy. I've seen it, so
Speaker 1: I can't say that anymore. But we worked Melissa Wolfenberger together,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're here to talk about today. So
Speaker 1: Karen Greer, welcome to Zone seven. So excited to be
Speaker 1: a part of Zone seven. Let me fix something here.
Speaker 1: I had those boots on because I was in between shows.
Speaker 1: So I met you in the middle of my shift.
Speaker 1: That's when I was doing early mornings and came out.
Speaker 1: We hung out for a couple of hours and I
Speaker 1: went back to work. So I learned after that to
Speaker 1: bring other boots. Yes, And I've also seen you do
Speaker 1: such a quick change that you were live on air
Speaker 1: doing the news, ran out, did a quick thing with
Speaker 1: me on seen, ran back, and then the next thing
Speaker 1: I know, you're walking out in an evening gown. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you're one of the hardest working people I've
Speaker 1: ever met. I don't know that you've ever told any
Speaker 1: nonprofit no and everybody benefits when you show up. So again,
Speaker 1: thank you. Well, I'm honored to work on this, Cheryl,
Speaker 1: because you know, the Wolfenberger the family has been amazing
Speaker 1: and her whole disappearance, what happened? How long it's taken
Speaker 1: to just get any answers and we're still waiting for
Speaker 1: answers A twenty one year old You know, I look
Speaker 1: at my children, your children twenty one, twenty two, and
Speaker 1: to disappear in nineteen ninety eight, where you live with
Speaker 1: your husband and your two children, and nobody really knew anything.
Speaker 1: That's just bizarre. It is bizarre. And ask you, now
Speaker 1: you've covered this case for a long long time. When
Speaker 1: you cover a case like this, do you have a
Speaker 1: method or do you just kind of keep it fluid
Speaker 1: and as witnesses come up or people want to be interviewed,
Speaker 1: how do you operate? Try and keep it fluid because
Speaker 1: as you know, people will, you know, sometimes say I
Speaker 1: saw something, I know something. So you don't want to
Speaker 1: ever discount some of those people who will contact you
Speaker 1: about your story because we have you, as you know,
Speaker 1: heard from people who had a tidbit had some information
Speaker 1: for us. So I just try and keep it open
Speaker 1: and try and encourage people to be a part of
Speaker 1: our investigation. Work this with us, because it takes a
Speaker 1: village to solve some of these Oh, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. And I think you hit on something really
Speaker 1: important that I want to explore. A lot of times
Speaker 1: people will talk to you when they won't talk to
Speaker 1: the police. So the Karen Greer that comes into their
Speaker 1: home every night, they do know you. They are connected
Speaker 1: to you, they feel like and they see you so
Speaker 1: much and listen to your point of view and the
Speaker 1: way you, you know, talk on TV. I think that
Speaker 1: they trust you. I know that they trust you, and
Speaker 1: sometimes if they don't trust law enforcement, you have an
Speaker 1: end where a lot of times the police don't. And
Speaker 1: I think that's powerful. I've worked more than thirty years,
Speaker 1: three decades in this market, and I've worked hard to
Speaker 1: be a trusted source, someone people feel comfortable talking to,
Speaker 1: that you weren't afraid of sitting down with me, that
Speaker 1: you you know, knew that I was going to be
Speaker 1: fair and honest. So I do love that, and you know,
Speaker 1: I love the way you've guided me into walking crime scenes.
Speaker 1: You can't just say this happened, you know in Southwest Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Go walk over there, see how this happened, See where
Speaker 1: the body was found, see where the house was walk it,
Speaker 1: learn it, be a part of it. And I appreciate
Speaker 1: you for that. Oh honey, listen, there was no better
Speaker 1: time in my career than working with you. So when
Speaker 1: you and I decided we were going to take on
Speaker 1: Melissa Wolfenberger, I think we did something pretty good in
Speaker 1: that we brought in a lot of different people at
Speaker 1: the same time, which I think was critical. I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell everybody just a little bit and then I
Speaker 1: want you to kind of give your opinion of the
Speaker 1: way we did this. So we got the mama and
Speaker 1: the sister, the assistant disc attorney, Agrian Love, investigator Stein,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Thompson who's an expert search away metal detectors, Tray
Speaker 1: Sergeant who's an expert work in canine searches, and everybody
Speaker 1: was there so there was no confusion about where something happened,
Speaker 1: where something was located, what could possibly, you know, be done. Now,
Speaker 1: everybody got to be the collectively and get on the
Speaker 1: same page with can we find additional evidence in the
Speaker 1: case of Melissa Wolfenberger. But something really incredible happened when
Speaker 1: the assistant distric attorney got on scene. What was that
Speaker 1: care She was amazing. She you know, came in her
Speaker 1: work attire and walked into that wooded area looking for clues.
Speaker 1: She got in there, got dirty, and then had a chance.
Speaker 1: She had a chance to talk to the family, the
Speaker 1: mother and the sister and told them She's not letting
Speaker 1: this go. This this is going to be something that
Speaker 1: she champions because this case is is just unbelievable. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get real. When Adrian Love stood where the skull
Speaker 1: was found and saw its proximity to where the husband worked,
Speaker 1: what was her reaction flabbergasted? Right, she her face told
Speaker 1: it all, told it all. She was literally speechless. And
Speaker 1: what was so fantastic for me in that moment is
Speaker 1: watching Melissa's mama and sister Norma and Tina because they
Speaker 1: knew and that just that one moment they had an
Speaker 1: ally because Adrian Love got mad. She got mad thinking
Speaker 1: that skull is right here and you could put a
Speaker 1: golf ball to the front door of where he worked.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's gonna do something about that. She is
Speaker 1: not playing when it comes to this case. And if
Speaker 1: anybody knows what's going on in Metro Atlanta right now,
Speaker 1: she's on a big crime case now with some rappers here,
Speaker 1: young thug and she is part of that team that
Speaker 1: is prosecuting them. And she is no joke, no joke.
Speaker 1: How she steps in, how she does her homework, and
Speaker 1: know that she's not going to let this go. So
Speaker 1: I love that about her. And she kind of gave
Speaker 1: us an education that you know, this isn't the end
Speaker 1: of this for her. Expect something very soon. So that's
Speaker 1: what we're waiting on at this point, yep. And you know,
Speaker 1: when everybody was there together and got to, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of give their opinion about what should happen next,
Speaker 1: and where we were watching Dwayne search for the Saul
Speaker 1: and watching you know, Trace work her dogs, I felt
Speaker 1: like we stand a really good chance of finding something,
Speaker 1: of locating something that might push this thing even further
Speaker 1: than we've gotten right now. Cheryl, those dogs with Trace,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it. She got them out
Speaker 1: there on the scent. They charged into that wooded area charged.
Speaker 1: I mean they were dragging her. Oh yeah, they were
Speaker 1: dragging her and they were pulling out things that we
Speaker 1: were surprised. But they went from the front to the
Speaker 1: back of those woods looking and we really were thinking
Speaker 1: they're gonna find something the way they're digging. And you know,
Speaker 1: with investigators Steyn there, he got to not only understand
Speaker 1: that crime scene three sixty that we talked about three
Speaker 1: sixty one specifically for those that know me, but you know,
Speaker 1: with he and Adrian and you and the mama and
Speaker 1: myself all standing there saying, you know, this is going
Speaker 1: to be something we need to put in our playbook
Speaker 1: and this is where we go from ground zero to
Speaker 1: one to two, to three to four, etc. And it
Speaker 1: reminded me I grew up with a family that ran
Speaker 1: a small business in Atlanta and then it became a
Speaker 1: really incredibly large business. But their daddy, Jean, he would
Speaker 1: always say, let's have an understanding, so we don't have
Speaker 1: a misunderstanding. And that is another thing that went through
Speaker 1: my mind while we were all standing there. There was
Speaker 1: no doubt out we were all on the same page.
Speaker 1: The media is a tool for law enforcement on cold
Speaker 1: cases period. The media can do things law enforcement just
Speaker 1: can't do, and one of them is reach a ton
Speaker 1: of people with one episode of something. I don't care
Speaker 1: whether it's a story on the nightly news or a
Speaker 1: documentary or something on social media. Typically, your hometown newspaper
Speaker 1: or larger news organizations have more followers than the local
Speaker 1: police department, so again, they can reach people at a
Speaker 1: larger volume, faster. There's no better way to ask for
Speaker 1: the public's help with witnesses with a missing person. Regarding
Speaker 1: reward money, other types of tips, you have to have
Speaker 1: the media's help to reach the most people possible to
Speaker 1: help on cases. People oftentimes will speak to the media
Speaker 1: when they don't feel comfortable speaking to the police. I've
Speaker 1: seen it over and over. They know that reporter can't
Speaker 1: arrest them. They feel like they know that reporter personally,
Speaker 1: oftentimes because they see them in their home at night
Speaker 1: on the TV, whereas that police officer they've never met
Speaker 1: that person before. The media also has tools of their own,
Speaker 1: such as archives of past interviews and crime scene footage.
Speaker 1: This can be a money tree for law enforcement. If
Speaker 1: you go to your local reporter because you have a
Speaker 1: good work in relationship, or even if you don't you
Speaker 1: want to start one? And you ask them if they
Speaker 1: would let you see crime scene footage from a crime
Speaker 1: that occurred twenty five years ago, fifteen years ago. You
Speaker 1: may see a witness being interviewed that you didn't even
Speaker 1: know existed. They may have a teacher, or a neighbor
Speaker 1: or a boyfriend of the victim that's not in your file.
Speaker 1: It will also give you the benefit of watching footage
Speaker 1: so you can see exactly what the crime scene looked
Speaker 1: like them if it's been built up, if the woods
Speaker 1: have been cut down, and now there's a building where
Speaker 1: the crime scene was. Sometimes law enforcement they might have
Speaker 1: taken a video back then, but maybe they didn't. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's been lost. Maybe you haven't had time to convert it,
Speaker 1: so you don't have anything to watch it on. If
Speaker 1: it's eight millimeter, your local news can help you with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cheryl, how does something like this happen? Is
Speaker 1: the biggest question I have in a city like Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know, a young woman, a mother, a wife, a daughter,
Speaker 1: goes missing. Later we find parts of her body learned
Speaker 1: in doing this. There was so much technology that wasn't
Speaker 1: available back then when this happened, that we knew we
Speaker 1: had to get them to test some of this. Now,
Speaker 1: another important aspect you and I have talked a lot about.
Speaker 1: We've been on different scenes, Nicole Smith specifically. I remember
Speaker 1: we had the conversation that at some point you stopped
Speaker 1: being a news anchor and I stopped being a crime
Speaker 1: scene investigator, and we're just two mamas. That's the only
Speaker 1: way you can see these cases is from that point
Speaker 1: of view, and I think Melissa did that for both
Speaker 1: of us as well, because you being able to craft
Speaker 1: a story to compel action not just of police and
Speaker 1: prosecutors and experts, but the public at large. This was
Speaker 1: not an easy sale. It's a family where the parents
Speaker 1: had been involved in meeting homicides themselves, and now we're
Speaker 1: asking people to care about what happened to their child
Speaker 1: in spite of their past. But you did that so expertly,
Speaker 1: and the love and concern and care that you took
Speaker 1: for Melissa was so apparent that people understood what happened
Speaker 1: to her was a separate issue and needed to be
Speaker 1: looked at because somebody's walking around free. Somebody is walking
Speaker 1: free that beheaded and dismembered a young mother of two,
Speaker 1: And we know Melissa threw no fault of her own.
Speaker 1: She was born into this family, so she had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the sins of her parents. So you know,
Speaker 1: for what, the cruel way in which she was murdered
Speaker 1: and dismembered, she didn't deserve it. No one deserves that,
Speaker 1: and so it was important for us to tell that
Speaker 1: story so that people didn't blame her. Didn't you look
Speaker 1: at her family situation as a why I no one cared.
Speaker 1: You have to care. I mean, you look at her smile,
Speaker 1: you look at her innocence, you look at her babies
Speaker 1: who are not babies now because this has been so long,
Speaker 1: and it just breaks your heart. It does. And Carl
Speaker 1: Patton wrote a letter to the two of us, and
Speaker 1: in that letter he told us that if he had
Speaker 1: had any idea what he had done to those other families,
Speaker 1: he was just young and stupid and he didn't realize
Speaker 1: how he made them feel and how he destroyed their world.
Speaker 1: And he told you and I on that letter that
Speaker 1: ever since Melissa had been murdered, part of what he
Speaker 1: feels every day is just that remorse and guilt towards
Speaker 1: how he destroyed somebody's life. Do you think we'll find
Speaker 1: the torso. You know, s I worry, It's been so
Speaker 1: many years. You know, as we know, there was a
Speaker 1: dog that was pulling back out of the woods, so
Speaker 1: who knows what animals may have literally been in those
Speaker 1: woods and disturbing that evidence. I wondered that we may
Speaker 1: not ever find that torso. But we found it. We
Speaker 1: found her skull, we found her head, which I thought
Speaker 1: was crucial, and the arms and legs, and her arms
Speaker 1: and legs, and we talked about perhaps testing those bags,
Speaker 1: finding out where those bags came from. You know, I
Speaker 1: was unseen two weeks ago, and now is almost the
Speaker 1: perfect time to search because all the leaves are off
Speaker 1: the trees and the brush is way back. You can
Speaker 1: see openly all kind of rusted machinery and different items
Speaker 1: that are out there, big items, And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know that we don't need to get the search
Speaker 1: party back together and go back now. I would love that.
Speaker 1: And we just need to tell people because this case
Speaker 1: is going to be so captivating to them and important.
Speaker 1: You know what, don't really don't don't go on social media,
Speaker 1: don't post what you think you know, don't ask questions.
Speaker 1: Just let the professionals handle this. Let the investigators work
Speaker 1: on this, because we don't want to damage or hurt
Speaker 1: the integrity of this case. Oh that's a good point, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I know you're willing to go back. I know
Speaker 1: the family's willing to go back to Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: know Adrian she'd be all about it too. Pick a
Speaker 1: day before those leaves come back, and you know everything's
Speaker 1: grown over again because that area was grown over. Sure,
Speaker 1: how many years are we talking about? Twenty? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you don't I remember most when the dog started pulling,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important to let people know the
Speaker 1: dogs worked independently. She worked them separately. But when that
Speaker 1: first dog went, Trace was right behind them and she
Speaker 1: just disappeared into the kud zoo in the woods. It
Speaker 1: took her all in first. Face first. I think everybody
Speaker 1: remembers Scott Peterson when he was talking to Diane Sawyer
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three when he said about his
Speaker 1: missing wife Lacy, she was amazing. I think we all were, like,
Speaker 1: what he just referred to her in past hints? That
Speaker 1: was so important for law enforcement. If he's referring to
Speaker 1: her in past hinse he on some level does not
Speaker 1: believe she's coming home. Why would he not believe that?
Speaker 1: There are people that have worked in the media that
Speaker 1: have done unbelievable work on cases. We all know Woodward
Speaker 1: and Bernstein and what they did when it came to Watergate.
Speaker 1: Karen Greer, who y'all have heard from, She's put cases
Speaker 1: out there that had a positive conclusion. Part of the
Speaker 1: reason it did because Karen would not let these cases go.
Speaker 1: She's going to keep them in the spotlight. So cases
Speaker 1: like Honey Malone, Nicole Smith, and of course Melissa Wolfenberger,
Speaker 1: she keeps them alive in the public. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen a case like this before in your career three
Speaker 1: decades here in Atlanta. You know, I worked in Charlson,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Champagne, Illinois, never anything to this degree. It's
Speaker 1: amazing the twists and turns of this case that make
Speaker 1: it so intricate. But it's gonna get solved. You just
Speaker 1: trust us. Oh, I trust it, And I know that
Speaker 1: media is going to be a big part of that,
Speaker 1: because that's what kept this case alive. This case what't
Speaker 1: on anybody's radar. Nobody was talking about it, nobody was
Speaker 1: doing anything about it. Nobody was mad about it, But
Speaker 1: enter Karen Graham and that whole thing changed. You and
Speaker 1: I got a chance to go Nancy Grace and discussed
Speaker 1: this case live at Crime Con. What was that like
Speaker 1: for you? Amazing? That room was awesome of people who
Speaker 1: were like us and care about cold cases, who care
Speaker 1: about helping get to the bottom of things. They were
Speaker 1: trying to give us ideas and things we needed to do.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. And I never knew crime true crime.
Speaker 1: These kinds of stories meant so much to so many.
Speaker 1: The audience that really is a part of this are
Speaker 1: die hearts. They really want to make a difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great, But you know, we sat there and
Speaker 1: you know and Jim Clementi came and sat with us
Speaker 1: and helped out, and Jared Bradley came and sat with
Speaker 1: us and helped out. And you just think all of
Speaker 1: these wonderful people that have come and given us time
Speaker 1: and information. You and I had a chance to work
Speaker 1: with Paul Holes on Nicole's case. Yeah, So all of
Speaker 1: these people, given the best of themselves, has to me
Speaker 1: been such an uplifting part of what we do. Because
Speaker 1: you and I both get asked a lot, how do
Speaker 1: y'all not burn out? Well, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: burn out when you're just surrounded by just fantastic, heroic,
Speaker 1: loving people. I mean, it's kind of an honor to
Speaker 1: get to be with them every day. And I love
Speaker 1: that we had an opportunity to work with law enforcement
Speaker 1: and this great state to teach them, show them some
Speaker 1: of the new technology that is available so that they
Speaker 1: could use it in their arsenal. Yes, and Sergeant Layton,
Speaker 1: I mean, what an incredible ambassador for the Atlanta Police Department. Him.
Speaker 1: I do too, just a spectacular human being. But what
Speaker 1: I tell you, not only is he capable and willing
Speaker 1: and just ready to jump in this thing with both
Speaker 1: feet every chance he gets, but he's also open and
Speaker 1: willing to hear somebody say, hey, have you tried such
Speaker 1: and such, or we can maybe help connect you to
Speaker 1: somebody that can maybe open some doors to some new technology.
Speaker 1: That's very rare. It's rare. It's rare. Now, I did
Speaker 1: mention a crime come But for y'all that don't know
Speaker 1: what that is. It is the number one true crime
Speaker 1: event in the world. It lasts a whole weekend, and
Speaker 1: it is dedicated to anything and all things true crime.
Speaker 1: People from all walks of life come and you know
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily have anything in common except true crime.
Speaker 1: That's the common denominator with everybody. So it could be teachers, plumbers, actors,
Speaker 1: detectives all in the same room working on the same
Speaker 1: case at the same time, trying to help a family
Speaker 1: get answers. There are experts, survivors, authors, podcasters, and media
Speaker 1: personalities all in the same place for the same reason,
Speaker 1: and it is an unbelievable experience. You and I both
Speaker 1: know Vince Vlasquez, and I remember Vince told me years ago,
Speaker 1: and for the audience, Vince Velasquez is a retired homicide
Speaker 1: detective in Atlanta, but he's on a show called atl Homicide.
Speaker 1: Wonderful person. But Vince told me once, if anybody contacts
Speaker 1: him and says, hey, I have an idea for how
Speaker 1: you can solve a case, he said, my only response
Speaker 1: should be thank you. And that's all this is. I mean,
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, you and I do
Speaker 1: not have a crystal ball. I wouldn't use it if
Speaker 1: you gave it to me. And we worked on a
Speaker 1: case with him that yield it, yield it answers. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I mean that case, and we're going to be discussing
Speaker 1: it at another time. But again, that case was so powerful.
Speaker 1: Vince even said, I'm retired, but I will work this
Speaker 1: case for free till the day I die. Yes, stick
Speaker 1: around it. See what case that is? People, Oh, please
Speaker 1: stick around because it's gonna be a good one in
Speaker 1: the future. But I tell you, you you know, I came
Speaker 1: over state. Sometimes people have things to say about law enforcement,
Speaker 1: people have things say about the media, but I can
Speaker 1: honestly tell you that has never one time been my experience.
Speaker 1: I have seen extraordinary work from amazing people that only
Speaker 1: want to help. And it is not because she and
Speaker 1: I have partnered on things that did result in winning
Speaker 1: an Emmy twice being nominated. So once the Volks were
Speaker 1: just wrong, but anyway, wildly wrong. But you know I
Speaker 1: have called you night and day before and said, look,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you something, but it's got
Speaker 1: to be off the record. You have never once violated
Speaker 1: your ethics or our friendship. And you know search of
Speaker 1: a story. You have never heard a family. You have
Speaker 1: never shoved a microphone in somebody's face that was falling
Speaker 1: apart and having the worst moment of their life. I
Speaker 1: have only seen integrity and love and compassion, and you know,
Speaker 1: needing to get the information out, needing to tell the story.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to do your job, but you
Speaker 1: do it with such grace, and I just there's not
Speaker 1: enough good things I can say about you. And this
Speaker 1: isn't because I've known you a week. I mean I
Speaker 1: would have said this twenty years ago before we partnered.
Speaker 1: So all I can say is Atlanta News is better
Speaker 1: because you're in it. I think the State of George
Speaker 1: is better because you're in it. And I know these
Speaker 1: coal cases have a greater opportunity to see a conclusion
Speaker 1: that is met with law enforcement and having an understanding
Speaker 1: and the families feeling like they finally have a voice. Well,
Speaker 1: it really has been an eye opener for me and
Speaker 1: I appreciate this opportunity. And in the spirit of full disclosure,
Speaker 1: I am in the middle of a very noisy newsroom.
Speaker 1: So if you hear a lot of yelling, just know
Speaker 1: that we're working to get stories on the air for
Speaker 1: four or five and six right now, and that's a
Speaker 1: lot of Cheryl knows what my day is like. It
Speaker 1: doesn't just it's not just you show up and you
Speaker 1: read what's out there. But you know, Cheryl has me
Speaker 1: to the point where I need to find out myself
Speaker 1: how some of these stories, how some of these cases,
Speaker 1: how some of these people are affected in our community.
Speaker 1: And when she tells me about a case, a story,
Speaker 1: a family, we need to help get some answers. I'm
Speaker 1: all on board because I would want someone to do
Speaker 1: the same thing for me. Karen Greer, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being with us, y'all. I'm going to end
Speaker 1: Zone seven the way I always do with a quote
Speaker 1: from somebody from my Zone seven and tonight that comes
Speaker 1: from Stephanie Biber, true crime reporter for People magazine, and
Speaker 1: Stephanie says, always remember these stories belong to the families.
Speaker 1: All we can do for them and their loved one
Speaker 1: they've lost is to tell the story. It's for the families.
Speaker 1: And when the teleprompter keeps rolling, just speak from the heart.
Speaker 1: I'm Cheryl McCollum, and this is own seventh. Imagine working
Speaker 1: with a partner at a crime scene that could smell
Speaker 1: a dead body under the water, or locate after decades
Speaker 1: an old clandestine grave. Next week, y'all are going to
Speaker 1: hear from Tray Sergeant, a canine search and rescue expert,
Speaker 1: and her partners. Her dogs are unbelievable. They have assisted
Speaker 1: on numerous searches for missing and murdered people for decades.
Speaker 1: They have done extraordinary work and have had unbelievable success.
Speaker 1: And I cannot wait for y'all to hear about her
Speaker 1: and more importantly, her canine partners