1 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. When a beautiful twenty five 2 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: year old girl doesn't answer her cell phone, her mother 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: knows immediately something is very wrong. What happened to Anastasia? 4 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: I mean, Nancy Grace, This is Crime Stories. Thank you 5 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: for being with us here at Fox Nation in series 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: XM one eleven. First of all, take a listen to 7 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: our friends at News five. Melissa Romanello says her daughter, 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: twenty five year old Anastasia Hamilton, has a lot of 9 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: plans for her future. She's got a lot of big dreams. 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: She wants to be a real estate life. But Romanello 11 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: is now living a nightmare. Anastasia is missing her come 12 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: home and just men her to her come home. Anastasia 13 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: lives in Cleveland at K and D Properties in Terminal Tower. Sunday, 14 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: I had text her at my foot in the morning 15 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: as her if she wanted to come over. She didn't answer. 16 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: You know, we talked have a dozen time today with 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: FaceTime several times today. After several hours of unanswered calls, texts, facetimes, 18 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: and messages on social media, Romanello went to Cleveland Police, 19 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: joining me and all start panel to make sense of 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: what we know right now. Big question what happened to Anastasia? Again, 21 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation. 22 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: In series X one eleven, a special guest joining us, 23 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: Anastasia's mother, Melissa Romanello. Miss Romanello, thank you for being 24 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: with us. You're welcome, Miss Romanello. I don't know how 25 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: you're holding it together. I have a daughter and a son, 26 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: and when they don't answer their phone, I go crazy 27 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: because I think something horrible has happened. Tell me about 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: when you first became concerned about your gorgeous daughter, Anastasia. UM, 29 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: I apologize. I'm not doing very well. I'm just so 30 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 1: sorry what you're going through. I'm just so sorry what 31 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: you and your family are endearing right now. I mean, 32 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: everything seemed normal. I text her goodnight like I always 33 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: do around midnight. UM. And then Sunday I text her 34 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: at nine thirty in the morning and they asked her 35 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: if she wanted to come over and help me organize 36 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: my closets. UM. She's getting apart her own apartment in 37 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: two weeks. And UM, I told her, I would you know, 38 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: pay her to help me organize UM some closets, UM, 39 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: so she could use the money towards you know, furnishings 40 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: for her apartment. And that was around nine thirty and 41 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: I didn't hear back, and I just thought maybe she 42 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: was sleeping in or something. UM. I went grocery shopping 43 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 1: and then I don't know, UM, A few hours had 44 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: gone by and I just something didn't feel right. So 45 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: I called her. I facetimed her, I tacked her. At 46 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: this point in time, I'm blowing her phone up. I'm 47 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: freaking out, you know, are you okay? What's going on? 48 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: Where are you? And there was no response, and I 49 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: just I told my husband something's wrong. I can feel it. 50 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: I know it's I know something's wrong. UM. I actually 51 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: went to Medinah police, not Cleveland, because I had called 52 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: Cleveland and they had told me to go to the 53 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: nearest police station and I live in Medinah, and UM 54 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: I went there and they they were very helpful. UM. 55 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: And they and they pinned her phone because I told 56 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: them something was wrong. And when they pinned her phone, 57 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: it pinged in a near a steelyard in Cleveland, which 58 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: made no sense. Let me ask you a question with me, 59 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: Melissa Romanello, this is Anastasia's mom. Did they ping it instantly? 60 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: How long did it take them to paying her phone. Gosh, 61 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: I would say it took a couple of hours. I 62 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: was there for a couple hours. Guys with me is 63 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: Melissa Romanello. This is Anastasia's mom. You know what you're 64 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: saying is really striking accord, Melissa. Mister Romanello, I remember 65 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: distinctly when I learned my fiance had been murdered. I 66 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: had to make a long story short. Just finished a 67 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: statistics exam and walked out of the building, and it's 68 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: all bright and sunny outside, and I looked down and 69 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: realized I was going to be about fifteen minutes late 70 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: to my job at the university library. So I didn't 71 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: have a cell phone, walked halfway across campus and went 72 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: to a pay phone to call the library and route 73 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm late. I just got out of 74 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: an exam and I got a message from them to 75 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: call Keith's sister Judy, and I knew immediately just something 76 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: was horribly wrong. I just knew right then. Nobody had 77 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: to tell me, so Miss Romanello with me as Anastasia's mother, 78 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: Melissa Romanello, when you told your husband I think something's 79 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: really wrong, did he believe you? Did? He did? He 80 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: was making dinner and he said, you know, honey, if 81 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: you think something's wrong, go go now, go go to 82 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: the police. And I said, okay, I will, and I 83 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: and I you know, and then I did. And what 84 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,799 Speaker 1: time of the day was that It was a Sunday? Correct, 85 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: it was it was on Sunday. I feel like it 86 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 1: was close to thirty six pm. I apologize, I haven't 87 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: been sleeping well, so my memory is pretty jogged. But 88 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: it was around five or six pm. And I went 89 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: to the local one near me and I explained to 90 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: them everything that and I just kept saying, I really 91 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: think something bad has happened to her, and I think, 92 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: you know, Thank goodness, they took me serious because they 93 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: peemed that phone and it was literally the only clue 94 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: we had somewhere where she would never ever be near steelworks. 95 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: As you're saying, is we're her phone, pained. Two special 96 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: guests joining us in addition to Anastasia's mother, Sia New 97 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: Yorker anchor reporter WOIOTV joining us and you can find 98 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: her on insta at TV Newslady Sea. Thank you for 99 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: being with us. Describe the area where Anastasia's phone peemed. 100 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: You know, I when she told us when she said, 101 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: and she told me that her phone peemed x Yard Commons. 102 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: It just seems strange because you know, the area, it's 103 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: not it's not the greatest area. It's not the area 104 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: that you would, you know, typically be in unless you 105 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: have some business there. And so you know, once she 106 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: told me that she had parked at Terminal Tower Parking Garage. 107 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: That's where she left her car, and I said, well, 108 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: why would her phone be over there, why would it 109 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: be pinking over there? She didn't have any friends over there. 110 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: You know, none of the stores were open, so it 111 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: just seemed kind of strange. You know. I want to 112 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: go to Daryl Coen joining us former prosecutor in the 113 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: same office where I prosecuted, Fulton County District Attorney's Office 114 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: now civil attorney in the Atlanta jurisdiction. Daryl, I remember 115 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: one particular case, the Julie Love case, a kindergarten teacher 116 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: that had gone missing. And in that case, everything went quiet, 117 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: or so many people thought it went quiet after Julie 118 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: Love went missing, but then turned out that part of 119 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: her belongings were found near a trash dump. And when 120 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: I heard where the trash dump was, I felt a 121 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: chill go down me because it was far away, Like 122 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: cea New Yorker is telling us from where Julie Love lived, 123 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: where she jogged off Collier Road. Why would her belongings 124 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: be near a trash dump way down in a high 125 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: crime area. I mean, you just just right the end. 126 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: I knew something. It was just not going to have 127 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 1: a good ending. Do you remember that, Nancy? I remember 128 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,119 Speaker 1: it well because I think at the time her boyfriend 129 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: was initially a suspect or a person of interest. Mark 130 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: kayliss Al recall, go ahead, Yes, And when they found 131 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: the clothing where they shouldn't have found it, there's no 132 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: way that she would have gone there on her own voluntarily, 133 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: no way. So you knew that good was not going 134 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: to follow. I'd like to apologize. It's not Steelyard. It's 135 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 1: the steel mill, which is very close to my understanding 136 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: to the Stillyard. Yes, is it Steell Mill Commons or 137 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: steel Mill? It's steal It's a factory. Yeah, why would 138 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: her belongings be near a factory? Time Stories with Nancy Grace, Guys, 139 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: we were talking about a gorgeous young girl, Anastasia Hamilton, 140 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: age twenty five. She gets text by her mom midnight 141 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: on a Saturday night, nine thirty, as she always does 142 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: to say good good night. And mister Vanella, you're really 143 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: bringing back a memory because when I left home to 144 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: go even to college, my mom would call me every 145 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: night and every morning, and she had to get up 146 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: really early in the morning to go to work, so 147 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: she would be calling me six o'clock seven am, which 148 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 1: he got to work, to make sure I was up 149 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: and about and going to where I was supposed to go. 150 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: And if she didn't call or I didn't answer, the 151 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: other one would know something was wrong. It was like 152 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: clock work, Miss Romanello. Miss Romanello, tell me, is that 153 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: the way it was with you and Anastasia. You were 154 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: in constant touch yea every day, a dozen times a day, 155 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 1: even you know FaceTime, text messaging, phone calls. We talked 156 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: several times a day. What it is called is behavioral 157 00:10:53,960 --> 00:11:00,319 Speaker 1: evidence routine evidence, not that it is stereotypical call or 158 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,359 Speaker 1: run of the mill routine. It's evidence of your routine. 159 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 1: Jess Goot Morgan, joining US Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, 160 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, and star 161 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: of a hit series Body Bags, with Joe Scott Morgan 162 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: on iHeart Joe Scott. I know that you typically focus 163 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: on hard evidence forensics such as fingerprints, fibers, DNA, but 164 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: evidence of routine is very powerful. For instance, if I 165 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: didn't show up to this anchorshare right here, Jackie would 166 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: know that somebody was dead or in the hospital. That's 167 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: routine evidence, evidence of routine. When Anastasia did not respond 168 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: Sunday morning at nine thirty am, her mom knew something 169 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: was wrong. Yeah, it's a pattern of what we look for. 170 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: And patterns are all you know, That's that's our bread 171 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: and butter and investigations. Yeah, we you know, we highlight 172 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: the physical evidence that we found, those things that we 173 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: can obviously observe and examine and those sorts of things, 174 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: but those circumstantial events that kind of you know, paint 175 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: this fringe around the hard evidence. It gives us an 176 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: idea about the life that has been lived and are 177 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: there any commonalities there? Are there things that go into 178 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: routine and why would an individual such as Anastasia deviate 179 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: from that routine exactly? Because that is a problem. Guys. 180 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: Imagine what her mom, Melissa Romanella, is going through the 181 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: torture she's enduring. Takeing us an hour cut three our 182 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: friends at in these five, she feels like she's in 183 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: the dark, not knowing if she's been called against her will, 184 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 1: not knowing if something really bad happening to her, and 185 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: which is dumped her somewhere. I mean, I have a 186 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: thousand things, all horrible going through my high Anastasia is 187 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: five four and has brown hair and brown eyes. Crimestoppers 188 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: is offering a twenty five a reward for any information 189 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: that may lead to Anastasia, but Romanello tells me she 190 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: will match that reward money and double the amount, pleading 191 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: for anyone with any leads to call Cleveland Police or 192 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: crime Stoppers. We know that she was headed to Terminal 193 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: Towers parking garage on that Saturday, and then a sudden 194 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: twist in the case. Take a listen to our cut 195 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: for our friends at needs five and we have breaking 196 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: knews now on the woman found dead in a home 197 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,319 Speaker 1: in cleveland Slavic Village neighborhood this afternoon. The Cuyahola County 198 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: Medical Examiner's Office confirmed just moments ago that that woman 199 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: has been identified as twenty five year old Anastasia Hamilton. 200 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: To see a new Yorker joining us from woiotv in 201 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 1: Cleveland Sea. Where was Anastasia found in the Slavic Village neighborhood, 202 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: which you know, some people would say is not one 203 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: of the greatest neighborhoods in Cleveland. There's a lot of 204 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: crime there. There are a lot of abandoned homes. It 205 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: was an area where there were beautiful homes at one time, 206 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: and just a lot of people left the neighborhood and 207 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: so it has really gone down. They're trying to rebuild, 208 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: but there's no reason to be over there unless you 209 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: live there. It's called the Broadway. Slavic Village. It's a 210 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: neighborhood on the southeast side of Cleveland. It's one of 211 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: Cleveland's oldest neighborhoods and it first originated as a township 212 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: of Nieburgh and is known as Slavic Village because it 213 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: was home to original immigrants from Czechoslovakia and Poland, hence 214 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: the name Slavic Village Czecho Slovakian that's where the name 215 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: comes from. But over the years it's really no longer 216 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: the home of Czech, Slovakian or Polish immigrants. It has 217 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: become almost a ghost town. A lot of abandoned homes, 218 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: as Sia New Yorker has just told us. Who found 219 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: Anastasia Sia? Yes, two women, two ladies were you know, 220 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: looking to find her, her mother and private investigator. You know, 221 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: the whole community was looking for her, and sadly they 222 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: meet that grizzly discovery right there in the Slavic Village neighborhood, 223 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: in a home that it doesn't appear anyone lived in. 224 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: Melissa Ramanello joining me. This is Anastasia's mother, Melissa, I am. 225 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: I hate going through the facts and upsetting you more 226 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: than you already are so upset. Our goal is to 227 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: solve your daughter's homicide, to find the man that did 228 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: this to her. Melissa Romanello, When did you get the 229 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: news that Anastasia's body had been found? I heard it 230 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: on the news. How did that happen? Apparently the news 231 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: was there and I found out on the news before 232 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: the detective even had a chance to call me because 233 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: I was watching the news. Where were you in my 234 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: living room? Were you alone? I can't even remember. I 235 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: believe my husband was home. I'm pretty sure I was screaming, 236 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: so my son and my daughter were outside, Yes, they 237 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: were outside playing football together. I remember the moment like 238 00:16:55,120 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: Crystal clearly, when I found out I was alone, when 239 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: I found out that my fiance had been martyr. That 240 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: it seems to me that those seconds took so long, 241 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: and it was everything slowed down, and h millisecond sticks 242 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: in my mind. Melissa, what do you remember about that moment? 243 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: I just felt like I was dreaming that someone was 244 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: going to smack me and wake me up. And then 245 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: every memory of herd just went through my mind and 246 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe what I was seeing or hearing, 247 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: and I was just devastated. Sia New Yorker with WOIOTV. Sia, 248 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 1: you said two women found her body. Yes, two women 249 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: who had been out in the neighborhood looking for her. 250 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: You know, when we put the story out there, you know, 251 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: shared all over and so a lot of people were, 252 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: you know, wanting to get help, and once they went 253 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: searching for her, Melissa Romanello, do you know who these 254 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 1: two women are? I do not know who they are. 255 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: I don't know who any of these people are, to 256 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: be honest with you, and I really think that if 257 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: crime stoppers wouldn't Chief John Mennick and Mike Eiler of Medinah. 258 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: Mike Orler is a police officer and a family friend. 259 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: I really believe had they not got crime stoppers involved, 260 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: we may have never found her. Um. You know, once 261 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: we realized she was in Cleveland, UM, you know, I 262 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 1: had to talk to new detectives in Cleveland, and UM, 263 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: I would you know, I know Anastasia would want to 264 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: bring awareness to policies that we need to change for 265 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: missing persons. I mean I am working with Equa Search 266 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: right now. And Tim Miller, you know his daughter say 267 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: they wrote her off as a sixteen year old runaway. 268 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: And for my daughter, you know, who's twenty five. You know, 269 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: how do we know she's not there? Willingly? How do 270 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: we know she's not ignoring you? Please listen to the families. 271 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: We know our children, and time is of the essence, 272 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: and it's it's it's you know, just it's frustrating because 273 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: we know our children, we know when something is wrong. 274 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: And my opinion, policies needs to change. And it was 275 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: only four days for me. I can't imagine families that 276 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: go thirty days, sixty days, months without knowing where their 277 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: loved ones are or you know people you know, it's 278 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: quick to say though they just they're ignoring you, or 279 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: they ran away or done so off of Melissa Romanello. 280 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: When someone goes missing, police just discount and say, oh, 281 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: they're a runaway, or she's at with her new boyfriend, 282 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: or she's an adult she doesn't want to be found. 283 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: That has to change. You're preaching to the choir, meliss 284 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: you are. I agree with you. Three guys, I want 285 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: you to take a listen now to our cut seven. 286 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: This is Jesse Schultz at these five. Anastasia Hamilton's mom 287 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: is doing the unthinkable, trying to plan her oldest child's funeral. 288 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: But that pain is intensified by not knowing what happened 289 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: in Anastasia's final hours. Call it a mother's intuition, a 290 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 1: gut feeling. But Melissa Romanello knew Sunday morning that something 291 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: wasn't right. I knew something bad happened to her. She 292 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: would never amount respond to me. Later that day, Romanello 293 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: filed a missing person's report for her daughter, twenty five 294 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,959 Speaker 1: year old Anastasia Hamilton, and police found that this surveillance 295 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: photo from Saturday night of Anastasia and a man walking 296 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: out of Terminal Towers parking garage. It would be the 297 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: last known photo of Anastasia alive. This is an extremely 298 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: heartwaking for our family and the most difficult thing I've 299 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: got on for in my entire life. Wednesday, Anastasia's body 300 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: was found at this Speacon house in Slavic Village. Cleveland. 301 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: Police noted cuts and bruising on her body. Two things 302 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: the surveillance video and the condition of Anastasia's body. Joe 303 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: Scott Morgan is with me as well as doctor Charles Heller. 304 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 1: Doctor Heller, the quandary knowing your child is missing, that 305 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: hell you go through imagining what is happening, and then 306 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: the shock of learning your child has been killed. I 307 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: remember learning not only that Keith was killed, but that 308 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: he was in fact murdered. It's another blow. It's almost surreal. 309 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel real. Doctor. Yeah, we need to find 310 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: out what happened to this lovely young woman who I 311 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: heard from Miss Romanello that she was very loving and 312 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: caring and generous with herself or time, and so what 313 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 1: We've got to figure out what happened. We've got to 314 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: find out what happened. We have to doctor Heller, and 315 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: I am so grateful you're with us to make sense 316 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 1: of that to do just that, Doctor Helen, what is 317 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: it in the human mind that takes over when you 318 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: get a shock, you get shocking news that you feel 319 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 1: it's not real, Like we heard earlier, Melissa described me, 320 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: it felt like a nightmare, didn't seem real, but you 321 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: do know it Israel, it is happening. What is that 322 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: state of mind, it said, what we called dissociation. It's 323 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: like a splitting. We go into a very deep place 324 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: to protect ourselves from the pain, but also too because 325 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: we're confused. It. It's a terrible situation. Two special guest 326 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: joining us, just Scott Morgan, Professor forensics, explained to me 327 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: the damage done, the injuries on Anastasia's body. Yeah, and 328 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: from what we're hearing right now, of course the Cuyahoga 329 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: Emmy has not released everything yet, but from what we're 330 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: understanding right now, we've got multiple lacerations that have been 331 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: mentioned also abrasions at this point in time, and so 332 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 1: you're dealing with multiple trauma, Nancy. And there's a lot 333 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: to be learned here. And if I can just kind 334 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: of talk about this a little bit, where she was 335 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: last seen in the tower on that camera, you know, 336 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: checking this thing out and where she was down. You're 337 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: talking about a ten minute car ride versus an hour 338 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: and a half walk to get to that same location, 339 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: So she had to be transported there by someone with 340 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: a vehicle. I don't know if she went willingly or 341 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: unwillingly at this point, I can only imagine unwillingly. We 342 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: don't know who this person is, but we do know 343 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: that this individual is still on the street. We also 344 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: know she was covered in lacerations, covered and lacerations. Yeah, 345 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: and that goes to forgive me for saying this, but 346 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: this goes to strikes, This goes to blunt force trauma. 347 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: And I hate to say that, but that's the reality 348 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: we're looking at. As jo Scott Morgan said too, is 349 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,679 Speaker 1: she's won. The mode of death called manner of death 350 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: and the cause of death. The neither have been released. 351 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: We're now trying to figure out what happened to Anastasia, 352 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: specifically why she was left in this abandoned building up 353 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,719 Speaker 1: all places, because I believe where a body is left 354 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: is a major clue as to the perpetrator. Now, let's 355 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: talk about the surveillance video. Take a listen to our 356 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: cut five. Our friends at WKYC Rachel McDonald has been 357 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: friends with Anastasia Hamilton since middle school, a bond no 358 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: one could break the sweetest, nicest, kindest person if you 359 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: were lucky enough to be her friends like you knew 360 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: she had your back through whatever. But late Saturday, twenty 361 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: five year old Anastasia went missing, last scene leaving a 362 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: Tower City parking garage where she worked at the apartments 363 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: managed by K and D. This grainy surveillance photo shows 364 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: her with a man police called unknown male, without describing 365 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: the connection between the two, a photo that troubled those 366 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: who knew her well. She didn't look like she was 367 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: that comfortable around him in the video footage, so immediately 368 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: I was freaking out, and I feared the worst. The 369 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 1: worst would eventually come true. Missing for four days, Annastasia's 370 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: body was found Wednesday afternoon in a home on East 371 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: fifty fourth Street in the Slavic Village neighborhood. The circumstances 372 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: surrounding her death not known at this time. Joining me 373 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: a special guest who is incredibly braving through the worst 374 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: moment of her life and her valiant fight to find 375 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: her daughter's killer, and we are joining her with me. 376 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: Melissa Romanello miss Romanello. I'm looking down right now, ex 377 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: directly at the video. I think you're right. They're not 378 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: walking together. There's some maybe this much space between them. 379 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,239 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that they're together. I would say he 380 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: was walking beside her. They don't look together. She's looking 381 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: me straight ahead. He's looking a little bit at an 382 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: angle toward her direction. They're not holding hands, their arms 383 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: are not linked nothing. He's got a bag in his 384 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: right hand, indicating to me that he is right handed. 385 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: He's got something like a mailbag type messenger bag over 386 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: his shoulder, and I'm just looking at it very carefully. 387 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 1: She is not looking at him at all. When did 388 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: she first see the video? Her? Her coworker sent it 389 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: to me because she wasn't sure if she was allowed to, 390 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 1: but she was. Her heart was breaking for me, So 391 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: I don't remember when the video was said to me. 392 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: So you got it sent by a coworker of hers. Yeah, 393 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: she sent me the photos and then I gave that 394 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: to I believe. I'm so sorry that. Do you know 395 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: the guy? That's what I'm getting at. Do you know 396 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: this guy? I do not know. Did Anastasia have a 397 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time? No, you would have known, correct. Yeah, 398 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: I would have hoped that she would have shared that 399 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: with me. Huh, you seem very close that, and you 400 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: would have known. What is it that she has in 401 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: her hand. I'm honestly not sure it could be her 402 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: keys had a like a like a what do you 403 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: call those lanyard? Yeah, like a lanyard, thank you, But 404 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: that was really long, So it is really long. She's 405 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: holding the keys like this in front of her, which, 406 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 1: of course I'm not a nun verbal expert, but I 407 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: do know that's a defensive move. When you put something 408 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: in front of you, or touch and hold your neck 409 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: or cross your arms, that is a defensive gesture. She's 410 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: holding her hands like this and in her hands or 411 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: her keys as she's walking. She's not talking, she's not smiling. 412 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: She's looking forward and down a little bit. And I 413 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: can see the like a ribbon or a string, a 414 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: lanyard of some sort hang down from here in front 415 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: of her chest and it goes all the way down 416 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: to below her knee. Okay, do any of her friends 417 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: know this guy? No, not that I'm aware of. No. 418 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: The only way I found out his name is because 419 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: of the million people on social media messaging me, tell 420 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: me about that. See a New Yorker. This picture has 421 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: been disseminated and people it's a really good picture of 422 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: the guy, although he's wearing a hat. To me, he 423 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: looks like a white male, maybe five ten to six 424 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: feet tall. What more do we know about about who 425 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: this guy is? You know, I can tell you police 426 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: haven't released They say that he's known to them, but 427 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: they've not released his name. You know, through some of 428 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: our own investigations and through tips people have given us 429 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: through social media, we do know his name. But several 430 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: people well in the Slavic Village neighborhood told our news 431 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: crews that he was a familiar face. They'd seen him 432 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: hanging around there, so they do know who he is. 433 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: But he's to my knowledge, he's since kind of disappeared 434 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: and they're looking for him. Police are looking for him. Okay, 435 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: right there, Darryl Cowen, he's disappeared. Why would he disappear? Oh, 436 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: we obviously he had a vacation. He disappeared because he's hiding. 437 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: He's disappeared because out of sight is out of mind. 438 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: He disappeared because he doesn't want to be questioned. And 439 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: if he committed this horrible crime. He clearly doesn't want 440 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: to be arrested and prosecuted. He disappeared because that's the 441 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: only thing he could do was hide see New York 442 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: shre Are you releasing the name? No, we have not 443 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: released the name because he's not been named as a 444 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: suspect just yet, so we have not. Okay, but Melissa Romanella, 445 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: I was nice. I do well if that's who again, 446 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: I don't know this person, it's it's you know, I've 447 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: gotten a lot of you know, there were people messaging 448 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: me pretending to be my daughter before we found her. 449 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: So okay, wait a minute. What Yeah, I had a 450 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: person called me m three o'clock in the morning the 451 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: day before we found her. Um, I didn't answer it, 452 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: and then I would you know, I was so angry 453 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: that I didn't answer the phone because I thought maybe 454 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: it was really her. And then they sent text messages saying, um, mom, 455 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: it's me. I'm not okay, I need to talk to you. 456 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: And then I kept calling the number and I actually 457 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: had a detective coming over that morning and I was 458 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: in panic mode. We need to trace this phone down 459 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: and he just said, that's a scam, and I just said, 460 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: what kind of person would do that to me? And 461 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: on top of that, because there's a reward, just a 462 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: lot of not nice people. You mean they were trying 463 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: to get money from you, That is the opinion. Yeah, oh, 464 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: my Star Time Stories with Nancy Grace, doctor Charles Heller. 465 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: Who are these harpies, these vampires, these leeches trying to 466 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: take advantage of Anastasia's mother by texting her and pretending 467 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: their Anastasia. What pervert would do that? Well, very evil people. 468 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: But this brings up one of my questions about a 469 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: clue that I heard about regarding a text message that 470 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: appeared to come from Anastasia's telephone. What about it? The 471 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: report was that she said she was feeling and she 472 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: had to leave. Okay, hold on, let me ask Melissa 473 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: about that. Melissa Romanella, did you get a text message 474 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: from your daughter climbing? She was ill? No, her friend, 475 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: her one of her best friends, got a message that 476 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: her friend was at a wedding, so she wasn't responding. 477 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: So and it was around like one am or so. So, 478 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: so at that time, Anasadia was still alive and well. 479 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: And unless someone was texting from her phone, but she 480 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:31,479 Speaker 1: was texting, I'm not feeling well. Let me ask you this, 481 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: miss Romanello, where I know she parked her car where 482 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: she worked at Kay and D Properties and terminal tower. 483 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: Was her car moved or was it still there? It 484 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: was still there? What about her cell phone in her pocketbook? 485 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: Those are missing? Okay? So what we don't know is 486 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 1: what happened in her final hours. Take a listen to 487 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: our cut eight, our friend Jesse Schultz. There are comp 488 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: side attacols that are still working, okays, and we're still 489 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: looking for or a person of interest. Romanello says her 490 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: daughter sent text Sunday morning around one am to friends 491 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: that said she didn't feel well, her head was pounding, 492 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: and she wanted to go home. Texts that just bring 493 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: more questions for Romanello. Where's her first where's her phone? 494 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: Where's the shirt that she locked in? And I mean, 495 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: there are just so many questions. Why would someone dout 496 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: my beautiful daughter in this horrible home? And I don't know. 497 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 1: Nothing makes sense, Nothing is making sense right now. See 498 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:42,919 Speaker 1: a New Yorker joining us WOIOTV. Have police name this 499 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,520 Speaker 1: unidentified mail as a person of interest? No, Police said 500 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: that they have someone that they are looking at, but 501 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,240 Speaker 1: they have not named an official suspect, and so until 502 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: then we're kind of just waiting to find out what's happening. 503 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: But if they're looking at someone Daryl Cohen, doesn't that 504 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: make them a person of interest? Well, it certainly makes 505 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 1: them a person of interest, but then they don't want 506 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 1: that person to know that they're a person of interest, which, 507 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: of course I always believe as a suspect, I'm not 508 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,879 Speaker 1: in the days of a person of interest. If they're 509 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: looking at a person that carefully, that closely, he or 510 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: she is a suspect. In this case, he's a suspect, 511 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: and probably more than that. There is a clear photo 512 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:36,760 Speaker 1: of Anastasia Hamilton walking along with this guy. Melissa Romanello, 513 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: how would you describe him to me? He looks like 514 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 1: about five eleven to six feet tall, white male. Yeah. 515 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 1: I felt like the photo was a bit greasy and 516 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: very difficult to see, but yeah, Anasthesias are about five 517 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: four and a half and he looked at me about 518 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: five ton fish in my opinion, a white male. Also 519 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: had some things around his neck. I don't know if 520 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: those were keyes or what those were. To you, Jess 521 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,919 Speaker 1: got Morgan, you're the forensics expert. What do you make 522 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,880 Speaker 1: of this grainy surveillance video, and I think this was 523 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: taken near where she worked. Yeah, one of the things 524 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: that really jumped out to me, believe it or not, 525 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: where his shoes. They don't look like it doesn't look 526 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: like somebody that's living on the street, you know what 527 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,120 Speaker 1: I mean, Nancy. They look new, They look clean. He 528 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily look disheveled. I don't understand what all of 529 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,439 Speaker 1: this stuff is around his neck at that point in time, 530 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: but he does. There's you know, maybe this is just me, 531 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: you know, kind of projecting on this. He seems he 532 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: seems purposed, that he's kind of guiding along the way here. 533 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,240 Speaker 1: And this goes to this idea of familiarity. He's comfortable 534 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 1: in this environment in the parking garage with this young 535 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: lady that he does not know. And then when when 536 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,960 Speaker 1: she is found, that is a very specific area, Nancy. 537 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,399 Speaker 1: That would give me an idea that whoever brought her 538 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,919 Speaker 1: there was very familiar about that area, that they're very 539 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 1: confident in it because they knew that this is a 540 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: vacated location where you know, it's just by the grace 541 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,920 Speaker 1: of God that she was actually found in that location. 542 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,719 Speaker 1: But yeah, all of that is kind of adding up 543 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,759 Speaker 1: into a picture that appears to be kind of well 544 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: formed and purposed. If he's involved in the there is 545 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,239 Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind that somebody has identified this guy, 546 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: if not just on those tennis shoes and that outfit alone. 547 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 1: Take a look at this surveillance of video. I also 548 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: want to tell you about to go fund me. You 549 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: can find it at Anastasia Hamilton Funeral Expenses. Can you 550 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:58,480 Speaker 1: even consider the heartbreak this mom is suffering. Instead of 551 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: planning a trip with her or her daughter's wedding or 552 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 1: July the fourth party with her daughter, she's gathering funds 553 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: to pay for Anastasia's funeral. Miss Romanello, I am so sorry. 554 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: The only thing I know to do right now is 555 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: to try to help you solve this homicide. What are 556 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,320 Speaker 1: your words, Miss Romanello? To those that are listening or 557 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,320 Speaker 1: watching right now, if anyone obviously knows more than they're saying, 558 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 1: then you know, please go to the police and bring 559 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,720 Speaker 1: justice and let's find out what took place that evening. 560 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: And again I just want to touch on bringing awareness 561 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: to missing persons, and I know Anesthesia would want me to. 562 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: If any parent ever goes through this, get your community involved. 563 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: You've got to get an army because that's that's how 564 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,759 Speaker 1: you get people to listen and take it serious. And 565 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: you know, we know what we know our kids and 566 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:15,000 Speaker 1: I knew something was wrong, and they're too quick to say, well, 567 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 1: she's ignoring you, or you know, how do we know 568 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 1: she's not somewhere willingly Okay, well why don't you go 569 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,080 Speaker 1: ask her then? And just doesn't want to talk to 570 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: her mother. That was far from the case. I'm sure 571 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: the thing she wanted the most in the world was 572 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,239 Speaker 1: her mother. I also want to touch on the community 573 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 1: that I live in and old friends, new friends. They've 574 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 1: been amazing support to me. The donations for the ghostroend 575 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,080 Speaker 1: me has certainly helped us with her funeral expenses and 576 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,959 Speaker 1: anything that is left over will be donated to her 577 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: brother's college expenses. And Equiserch. I want to I want 578 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,360 Speaker 1: to talk about Equiserch because they've sent dogs out there 579 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,040 Speaker 1: looking for her phone, her purse, They've been helping me, 580 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: and they do all of this free of service for 581 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,320 Speaker 1: families because you know, I read some of the stories 582 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,160 Speaker 1: and I didn't know about them. I wish I would 583 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,680 Speaker 1: have known about them on day one, but They're an 584 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,759 Speaker 1: additional res source to the police and I hope that 585 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 1: moving forward the police will will work let them work 586 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,279 Speaker 1: with them, because that they're just an amazing group. If 587 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,040 Speaker 1: you have information or think you have information, call the 588 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,320 Speaker 1: Sheriff's tip line two one six, two five, two seven, 589 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 1: four six three repeat two one six, two five, two 590 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: seven to four six three. Our prayers with Anastasia's family. 591 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: Goodbye friend.