WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 2 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:11.805 School of Humans. 0:00:12.605 --> 0:00:16.085 On October thirty first, twenty twenty, twenty, two year old 0:00:16.085 --> 0:00:20.325 Aisha Jackson went out to a Halloween party. Before she left, 0:00:20.525 --> 0:00:23.605 she talked to her mom, Liquida, and then she got 0:00:23.605 --> 0:00:25.645 into a costume and went out with a couple of 0:00:25.645 --> 0:00:29.605 her girlfriends. Ayisha was also with her aunt, Shequila, and 0:00:29.645 --> 0:00:32.525 her uncle, William Parker Junior, who goes by the nickname 0:00:32.605 --> 0:00:37.685 Thuga Man. Aisha was living on South Roselawn in Eldoredo, Arkansas, 0:00:38.205 --> 0:00:40.285 but she had had a few break ins in her 0:00:40.285 --> 0:00:44.125 home recently, so because of that, she had been staying 0:00:44.165 --> 0:00:46.405 on and off with her uncle William and his wife, 0:00:46.445 --> 0:00:49.445 Shequila in their home, which was a few minutes away 0:00:49.525 --> 0:00:54.125 on Stewart Avenue. Aisha had mentioned going with William and 0:00:54.165 --> 0:00:58.845 Shequila to Houston on November first. William and Shequila had 0:00:58.885 --> 0:01:01.445 been living in Texas. They were in the process of 0:01:01.485 --> 0:01:05.645 moving back to Eldredo, so Shequila and William were supposedly 0:01:05.725 --> 0:01:07.805 going to move some furniture out of their apartment in 0:01:07.845 --> 0:01:12.805 Houston and into a storage unit there. Aisha usually stayed 0:01:12.885 --> 0:01:16.645 in constant touch with her mom, Liquita. They talked multiple 0:01:16.645 --> 0:01:20.605 times per day, but on November one, twenty twenty, Ayisha 0:01:20.685 --> 0:01:25.645 went radio silent. Liquita was able to reach her brother 0:01:25.685 --> 0:01:30.165 William now. At first, William told Liquita that Ayisha was sleeping. 0:01:31.365 --> 0:01:34.765 Liquida kept calling Ayisha's phone, and her daughter never answered. 0:01:35.365 --> 0:01:38.285 She finally reached William again at around nine pm that 0:01:38.445 --> 0:01:43.125 night on November first. He told Liquita that Aisha had 0:01:43.165 --> 0:01:45.805 gone on the Houston trip with him in Shequila, but 0:01:45.845 --> 0:01:48.205 that he had already dropped Ayisha back at her home. 0:01:50.125 --> 0:01:50.245 Now. 0:01:50.325 --> 0:01:54.285 Liquita thought this was weird because since the break ends again, 0:01:54.525 --> 0:01:58.725 Aisha was afraid of being home by herself. Liquita wondered 0:01:59.165 --> 0:02:01.885 why would Aisha not stay with her aunt and uncle 0:02:01.925 --> 0:02:04.965 at their house. Why would she go home by herself 0:02:05.005 --> 0:02:10.445 after dark. Liquita spent that night tossing and turning. At 0:02:10.485 --> 0:02:13.925 around nine am on the morning of November two, she 0:02:14.205 --> 0:02:17.045 and Ayisha's brother, Jaiques, who was in high school at 0:02:17.085 --> 0:02:20.725 the time, and Liquita's husband, Freddy, got in the car 0:02:20.765 --> 0:02:24.965 and drove over to Ayisha's house on South Roselawn. They 0:02:24.965 --> 0:02:28.005 found the door cracked open, and when they went in, 0:02:28.365 --> 0:02:32.845 the inside of Ayisha's house was in total disarray. Ayisha's 0:02:32.845 --> 0:02:36.085 dog was out of the kennel. Her stuff was thrown around, 0:02:36.925 --> 0:02:40.885 but nothing was really stolen. Her purse and wallet and 0:02:40.925 --> 0:02:46.365 medication were all there, but Ayisha Jackson was gone. 0:02:46.885 --> 0:02:48.005 I'm Catherine Townsend. 0:02:48.525 --> 0:02:50.525 If you have a case you'd like me and my 0:02:50.565 --> 0:02:53.125 team to look into, you can reach out to us 0:02:53.165 --> 0:02:55.725 at our Helen Gone Murder line at six seven eight 0:02:55.965 --> 0:02:58.565 seven four four six one four or five. 0:02:59.085 --> 0:03:02.685 That six seven, eight seven four four, six, one four 0:03:02.765 --> 0:03:03.085 or five. 0:03:04.085 --> 0:03:41.045 This is Helen Gone Murder Line. Last week we mentioned 0:03:41.045 --> 0:03:44.165 that Ayisha had recently reported a break in at her home. 0:03:44.885 --> 0:03:47.685 There is a police report that we've gotten, and in 0:03:47.725 --> 0:03:50.325 a case where there's no sign of the missing person, 0:03:50.645 --> 0:03:53.605 there's no body and no real crime scene, at least 0:03:53.685 --> 0:03:57.085 not yet, it's very important to take a look at 0:03:57.085 --> 0:03:59.725 the physical evidence that we do have and to really 0:03:59.765 --> 0:04:02.565 try to go in depth into it. We need to 0:04:02.565 --> 0:04:06.325 figure out could the person who broke into Ayisha's home 0:04:06.725 --> 0:04:10.125 have anything to do with her disappearance. Ayisha called the 0:04:10.125 --> 0:04:14.045 police on October twenty six, twenty twenty, just five days 0:04:14.045 --> 0:04:18.365 before she vanished. Officer Tyler Walker of the Eldoredo Police 0:04:18.365 --> 0:04:22.445 Department took that call just after one twenty am on 0:04:22.485 --> 0:04:26.725 the report. It states that Ayisha told Officer Walker that 0:04:26.805 --> 0:04:30.005 she came home on October twenty third, a few days earlier, 0:04:30.325 --> 0:04:33.565 and found that someone had been inside her house. She 0:04:33.725 --> 0:04:37.205 said nothing had really been stolen, except for some food 0:04:37.245 --> 0:04:40.085 from the refrigerator, which she estimated was about two hundred 0:04:40.125 --> 0:04:44.085 dollars worth of food. Aisha said the drawers in her 0:04:44.125 --> 0:04:48.285 bedroom had been ransacked, but she said she didn't notice 0:04:48.325 --> 0:04:51.925 anything missing from there now. At this time, she tells 0:04:51.965 --> 0:04:55.165 the officer that she believed that a man that she knew, 0:04:55.245 --> 0:05:00.405 a man named Samaji, was responsible for this theft. Remember, 0:05:00.565 --> 0:05:03.685 Samaji was a twenty three year old man whom Aisha 0:05:03.725 --> 0:05:06.885 had been casually dating. She had recently gotten out of 0:05:06.885 --> 0:05:10.605 a long term relationship, and she and Samaji had stopped 0:05:10.605 --> 0:05:14.005 seeing each other shortly before she disappeared. But I wonder 0:05:14.565 --> 0:05:18.365 whether it was Samaji or not, whoever broke in, what 0:05:18.445 --> 0:05:20.485 were they looking for in those drawers? 0:05:23.965 --> 0:05:27.165 Later, I do find a possible clue. 0:05:27.325 --> 0:05:31.685 I've seen screenshots of Ayisha's Facebook messenger. She sent a 0:05:31.725 --> 0:05:34.565 message to a friend after that break in, saying she 0:05:34.725 --> 0:05:37.005 noticed that a gun that she had kept hidden in 0:05:37.045 --> 0:05:40.405 her underwear drawer had been stolen as well. She said 0:05:40.525 --> 0:05:43.605 she didn't even really know how to use a gun. Basically, 0:05:43.725 --> 0:05:46.485 almost no one knew that she had it in there, 0:05:47.045 --> 0:05:49.965 so she wondered who would have known to look for 0:05:50.005 --> 0:05:51.725 it there and to take it out of that drawer. 0:05:52.765 --> 0:05:56.765 I've also heard rumors about someone else who knew Ayisha 0:05:56.885 --> 0:06:00.165 stealing a bag of drugs and potentially stashing the bag 0:06:00.205 --> 0:06:02.925 of drugs in her home, but that's just a rumor 0:06:02.965 --> 0:06:05.045 at this point. I have no idea if there's any 0:06:05.085 --> 0:06:10.565 truth to that. Back to the police report. In that 0:06:10.605 --> 0:06:15.925 police report, the officer noted that Aisha suspected that Samaji 0:06:16.045 --> 0:06:19.245 may be responsible for the break in. I'm noticing this 0:06:19.285 --> 0:06:21.845 is a slightly different story from what we've heard in 0:06:21.885 --> 0:06:26.685 the past. Last week, we mentioned that Ayisha's grandmother, Ernestine, 0:06:26.725 --> 0:06:30.765 told reporters after Ayisha went missing that Aisha had come 0:06:30.805 --> 0:06:33.685 home and walked in on two guys at her apartment. 0:06:34.045 --> 0:06:38.125 Her grandmother said Aisha had definitely recognized one of those 0:06:38.165 --> 0:06:42.525 people as Samaji. We're not sure why those stories don't match. 0:06:42.925 --> 0:06:45.765 We don't know if maybe Aisha might have had reservations 0:06:45.805 --> 0:06:49.645 about getting Samaji in trouble, or maybe she was afraid 0:06:49.685 --> 0:06:53.005 to give the police a definite ID, but she did 0:06:53.125 --> 0:06:56.965 tell the officer his name, and I just think it's 0:06:57.005 --> 0:06:59.765 an important distinction to note that in that police report, 0:06:59.925 --> 0:07:02.085 she said she believed it was him, not that she 0:07:02.165 --> 0:07:04.525 was absolutely certain it was him, not that she walked 0:07:04.565 --> 0:07:11.645 in and busted him in her place. After Ayisha reported 0:07:11.645 --> 0:07:14.365 this break in, she was put on the special patrol 0:07:14.405 --> 0:07:16.205 list by the Eldreeda Police department. 0:07:16.805 --> 0:07:17.645 This meant that a. 0:07:17.565 --> 0:07:21.005 Patrol car was supposed to make some extra trips and 0:07:21.085 --> 0:07:26.285 cruised by her house. Despite that fact, when Laquita contacted 0:07:26.285 --> 0:07:30.325 police on November two about Ayisha being missing, police told 0:07:30.365 --> 0:07:32.445 her she would have to wait to follow that report, which, 0:07:32.485 --> 0:07:33.645 as we discussed last. 0:07:33.525 --> 0:07:35.205 Week, is completely incorrect. 0:07:35.485 --> 0:07:37.965 You do not have to wait forty two or seventy 0:07:37.965 --> 0:07:41.085 two or some magic number of hours to report someone missing. 0:07:42.605 --> 0:07:46.645 Liquita kept calling the police, but it was November fifth 0:07:46.765 --> 0:07:52.685 before police finally started investigating. Liquida spent days trying to 0:07:52.685 --> 0:07:55.805 get someone, anyone to listen and to take her seriously. 0:07:56.765 --> 0:08:00.805 And even after Ayisha was officially reported missing and police 0:08:00.845 --> 0:08:04.765 had gone to her home, they still didn't take some 0:08:04.845 --> 0:08:08.085 basic steps like securing the home treating it as a 0:08:08.125 --> 0:08:12.245 crime scene. They also did not take Ayisha's cell phone. 0:08:12.565 --> 0:08:15.285 This cell phone is going to become a big part 0:08:15.365 --> 0:08:19.605 of this mystery because remember Laquita told us on November two, 0:08:20.205 --> 0:08:24.005 she went to Ayisha's apartment. While she and Jacques were 0:08:24.005 --> 0:08:28.365 in there, they noticed that Ayisha's phone was there, plugged 0:08:28.365 --> 0:08:34.125 into its charger. Liquita said that Shaquila, William's wife took 0:08:34.165 --> 0:08:37.765 the phone from her. According to Laquita, Shaquilla did this 0:08:38.005 --> 0:08:40.565 because she believed that one of her children would be 0:08:40.565 --> 0:08:44.685 able to guess Ayisha's password, but apparently they couldn't, at 0:08:44.765 --> 0:08:47.725 least that's the story Liquita was told. So after that, 0:08:48.165 --> 0:08:52.005 Liquita was locked out of her daughter's phone. Police did 0:08:52.125 --> 0:08:55.245 eventually take Ayisha's phone, but that was several days later, 0:08:55.445 --> 0:09:01.765 after November fifth, when she was officially reported missing. So 0:09:01.885 --> 0:09:05.845 here's the weird part because during that time period between 0:09:05.845 --> 0:09:08.445 the last time when Ayisha was seen alive on October 0:09:08.485 --> 0:09:12.125 thirty first, and when the police took control of that 0:09:12.205 --> 0:09:16.005 phone several days later after November fifth, I have heard 0:09:16.085 --> 0:09:20.925 that there were text messages coming from Ayisha's phone. Ayisha's 0:09:20.925 --> 0:09:24.085 grandmother said that she made a FaceTime call on November 0:09:24.165 --> 0:09:27.525 third and that she saw Ayisha in the background when 0:09:27.565 --> 0:09:31.285 she made that call, but that's never been confirmed. Another 0:09:31.365 --> 0:09:35.845 friend wrote on Facebook that Ayisha was liking reacting to 0:09:36.085 --> 0:09:40.365 her posts on November fourth, So if that's true and 0:09:40.485 --> 0:09:44.805 Ayisha was gone, how is that possible? Who was reacting 0:09:44.845 --> 0:09:48.125 to those posts? How did that happen? As we said 0:09:48.245 --> 0:09:51.325 last week, there were tips coming in about Aisha once 0:09:51.365 --> 0:09:54.885 she was officially reported missing. But I think it's really 0:09:54.965 --> 0:09:59.005 important to take a step back and ask ourselves where 0:09:59.005 --> 0:10:04.405 these tips were coming from. Remember last week, Liquida and 0:10:04.485 --> 0:10:08.125 Jacques ah his brother, said they were suspicious of William 0:10:08.165 --> 0:10:11.885 and Shequila. Jacques said that when he and his mother 0:10:12.005 --> 0:10:16.045 pulled into Ayisha's driveway on November tewod right before they 0:10:16.085 --> 0:10:19.205 found that cell phone plugged into the charger in Ayisha's 0:10:19.205 --> 0:10:23.005 house ransacked, they noticed that Shaquila had pulled in. 0:10:23.005 --> 0:10:24.005 Right behind them. 0:10:24.485 --> 0:10:27.725 Jacques and Laqueda both said that they thought it was 0:10:27.765 --> 0:10:30.285 a little bit of a red flag that Shaquila was 0:10:30.365 --> 0:10:35.205 so emotional. They believed maybe a little overly emotional. Now, 0:10:35.245 --> 0:10:39.325 of course, this is Ayisha's aunt, and everyone handles grief 0:10:39.365 --> 0:10:42.485 and shock differently. But I can say, as someone who's 0:10:42.485 --> 0:10:44.645 done this for a long time, I do notice that 0:10:44.685 --> 0:10:48.045 sometimes in cases you will see someone who seems to 0:10:48.085 --> 0:10:50.685 show a lot of emotion. They add a lot of 0:10:50.765 --> 0:10:54.205 drama to a scene, but don't necessarily help that much. 0:10:57.685 --> 0:11:00.725 You may remember from last week that Jacques talked about 0:11:00.725 --> 0:11:04.085 the fact Ayisha's family got a tip that Ayisha was 0:11:04.125 --> 0:11:09.125 buried in a shallow gray in Strong, Arkansas. So, according 0:11:09.165 --> 0:11:11.845 to Laquita's high school friend Rena, who has been helping 0:11:11.885 --> 0:11:14.165 her with her daughter's case for the last couple of years, 0:11:14.485 --> 0:11:18.565 in early December, Shaquila made a Facebook live asking the 0:11:18.565 --> 0:11:22.685 public for help missing for a month, over a month 0:11:23.085 --> 0:11:26.085 like like this need like we need. 0:11:25.845 --> 0:11:26.845 Help, help like. 0:11:29.285 --> 0:11:32.965 Shaquilla was very emotional in this Facebook live. She has 0:11:33.045 --> 0:11:35.645 taken it down since, but she was basically begging the 0:11:35.685 --> 0:11:36.565 public for help. 0:11:37.245 --> 0:11:40.165 She said she wanted anyone. 0:11:39.805 --> 0:11:43.125 With a four wheeler or a vehicle that could help 0:11:43.125 --> 0:11:48.005 her search to come to the woods near Strong. She 0:11:48.045 --> 0:11:50.765 said Aisha had been missing for a month, and she 0:11:51.005 --> 0:11:54.045 begged for help. She kept saying, she's been gone a month. 0:11:54.085 --> 0:11:57.085 In four days, what are y'all doing talking about the 0:11:57.125 --> 0:12:02.925 police department? Now, I've replayed this message over and over 0:12:03.085 --> 0:12:08.245 because I notice that la later says publicly on national 0:12:08.285 --> 0:12:11.285 television that the last time she saw Ayisha was on 0:12:11.325 --> 0:12:14.805 November third, which would have been a month and three days. Now. 0:12:14.885 --> 0:12:17.965 This seems like a small discrepancy, but as you'll see, 0:12:17.965 --> 0:12:23.645 this timeline and getting it right is absolutely crucial. In 0:12:23.685 --> 0:12:27.285 this FaceTime live, Shaquila mentions that Ayisha was in love 0:12:27.365 --> 0:12:32.125 with white boys. She says something about white boys taking 0:12:32.165 --> 0:12:35.965 Ayisha out of her house. It seems likely she's referring 0:12:35.965 --> 0:12:40.445 to Ayisha's long term ex boyfriend, who was white, because 0:12:40.485 --> 0:12:44.125 Ayisha had very recently broken up with his person Jacques 0:12:44.245 --> 0:12:47.765 talked last week about Ayisha's long term boyfriend. He said 0:12:47.765 --> 0:12:50.965 this guy completely loved Ayisha, that he was very cooperative, 0:12:51.205 --> 0:12:53.405 that he had an alibi, and that he helped search 0:12:53.445 --> 0:12:56.925 for her. And there's never been any suggestion that this 0:12:57.085 --> 0:12:59.365 ex could have been involved with Aisha's. 0:12:58.925 --> 0:12:59.965 Disappearance at all. 0:13:00.965 --> 0:13:04.685 Ayisha's own family said that the guy Ayisha suspected of 0:13:04.725 --> 0:13:07.125 being in her home was not her ex boyfriend, but 0:13:07.205 --> 0:13:10.605 was Samaji, who was black. According to her family, she 0:13:10.645 --> 0:13:14.925 had been seeing Samaji casually shortly before she disappeared. I'm 0:13:14.925 --> 0:13:18.005 just flagging this up because I'm wondering why this statement 0:13:18.085 --> 0:13:22.325 was made by Shaquila about a white guy supposedly taking 0:13:22.365 --> 0:13:24.285 Ayisha out of her home. It seems to kind of 0:13:24.285 --> 0:13:29.725 come out of the blue. On November eighth, twenty twenty, 0:13:30.005 --> 0:13:33.445 a witness was out in the woods. I don't want 0:13:33.485 --> 0:13:37.085 to say exactly what this person was doing or give 0:13:37.125 --> 0:13:41.765 their name because they are very afraid of retribution from 0:13:41.805 --> 0:13:46.125 the people they saw. And honestly, I can understand why. 0:13:46.245 --> 0:13:49.445 This witness saw a car pull up. 0:13:49.805 --> 0:13:53.485 They saw two men get out of that car and 0:13:53.965 --> 0:13:58.125 pop the trunk and then pull a bulky item that 0:13:58.245 --> 0:14:01.405 was wrapped in a blanket out of that trunk. The 0:14:01.525 --> 0:14:04.485 driver of the car, who the witness could not see, 0:14:05.005 --> 0:14:09.125 then drove down the road, leaving the two men alone. 0:14:09.245 --> 0:14:11.725 The two men took that bulky object wrapped in a 0:14:11.725 --> 0:14:16.685 blanket and walked into the woods. Then a little while later, 0:14:17.005 --> 0:14:19.925 after this car dropped these two men off in the woods, 0:14:20.725 --> 0:14:24.805 this witness said they saw the same vehicle come back, pick. 0:14:24.685 --> 0:14:26.525 Up the two men, and leave the area. 0:14:36.245 --> 0:14:39.205 While this witness observed the two men take the item 0:14:39.205 --> 0:14:42.045 from the trunk and go into the woods, they said 0:14:42.245 --> 0:14:46.005 that they were scared. They were completely quiet, and they 0:14:46.085 --> 0:14:49.405 told their children who were with them to stay completely quiet. 0:14:50.165 --> 0:14:52.845 This person was scared of what those men could be 0:14:52.885 --> 0:14:56.605 doing out there, and over the next few weeks, even 0:14:56.645 --> 0:14:59.885 though he had been really freaked out, he told himself 0:14:59.925 --> 0:15:02.405 maybe he'd blown it out of proportion in his mind. 0:15:03.245 --> 0:15:07.045 Then you may remember from last week in December of 0:15:07.085 --> 0:15:10.925 twenty twenty, Samaji, the twenty three year old man whom 0:15:10.965 --> 0:15:15.925 Aisha had been dating casually, was arrested and police were 0:15:15.965 --> 0:15:20.365 filing charges of capital murder and kidnapping against him. This 0:15:20.445 --> 0:15:23.765 witness saw this on the news about Samaji being arrested. 0:15:24.165 --> 0:15:26.645 He got very scared because he thought there could be 0:15:26.725 --> 0:15:30.965 a chance that maybe he had seen something related Diaisha's disappearance, 0:15:31.485 --> 0:15:33.605 and maybe the thing that those guys had been moving 0:15:33.605 --> 0:15:36.725 out in the woods that day was a body. So 0:15:37.005 --> 0:15:39.565 he called the police and told them about what he saw. 0:15:40.045 --> 0:15:42.405 Police did come to the area and they did search 0:15:42.445 --> 0:15:46.445 for a few hours. This witness believed they found a shirt, 0:15:46.685 --> 0:15:49.725 but we have no idea whose shirt it was, whether 0:15:49.765 --> 0:15:52.165 it was sent into evidence, or if it was in 0:15:52.205 --> 0:15:56.485 any way connected Diaisha's case. In the end, like so 0:15:56.685 --> 0:15:59.525 many leads in this case, it turned out to be 0:15:59.605 --> 0:16:06.685 seemingly yet another dead end. At different points in the investigation, 0:16:07.325 --> 0:16:11.245 it did start to seem to certain members of Ayisha's family, 0:16:11.605 --> 0:16:14.405 like Shaquila and William, were trying to point fingers in 0:16:14.445 --> 0:16:18.125 certain directions, first toward the long term X and later 0:16:18.245 --> 0:16:23.685 towards Sumaji. Then on December thirteenth, twenty twenty, police announced 0:16:23.725 --> 0:16:26.045 they made another arrest in the case, a man named 0:16:26.125 --> 0:16:29.685 Kenneth Lee. We talked about this last week, how Kenneth 0:16:29.765 --> 0:16:31.245 Lee was charged with extortion. 0:16:31.845 --> 0:16:33.765 Basically what happened was he said he had. 0:16:33.645 --> 0:16:36.285 Information about Aysha's case, but he said he would only 0:16:36.285 --> 0:16:38.485 give it to the family if they paid him eight 0:16:38.525 --> 0:16:42.325 thousand dollars. It turned out this information was a lie. 0:16:42.485 --> 0:16:45.965 He had made up a story. The whole thing was basically. 0:16:45.645 --> 0:16:47.245 A scam to get money. 0:16:47.645 --> 0:16:50.805 But that's not the whole story because it turns out 0:16:50.845 --> 0:16:53.525 that the chain of events that led to Kenneth's arrests 0:16:54.005 --> 0:17:01.165 also involved Ayisha's uncle, William Parker. So again we need 0:17:01.205 --> 0:17:03.125 to take a look at how this all went down now. 0:17:03.125 --> 0:17:07.125 According to police records, on just number twelfth, Kenneth Lee 0:17:07.245 --> 0:17:08.085 saw William on the. 0:17:08.085 --> 0:17:09.765 Side of the road. He pulled over. 0:17:09.885 --> 0:17:12.645 He told William he had information about Aisha, but he 0:17:12.645 --> 0:17:15.525 said it would cost her family eight thousand dollars. Now 0:17:15.565 --> 0:17:18.525 at that point, according to the police report, William said 0:17:18.525 --> 0:17:19.885 he would try to get the money together. 0:17:20.965 --> 0:17:22.005 So they made a plan. 0:17:23.045 --> 0:17:25.725 William would make some calls about the money and call 0:17:25.805 --> 0:17:29.205 Kenneth back, which he did, and that night they met 0:17:29.325 --> 0:17:33.005 up on the side of the road. William got into 0:17:33.085 --> 0:17:37.445 Kenneth's car. But what Kenneth didn't know was that William 0:17:37.525 --> 0:17:40.845 was wearing a wire a video camera the Elderrated Police 0:17:40.845 --> 0:17:44.245 Department had given him. This also seems strange to me, 0:17:44.325 --> 0:17:47.005 by the way, because this all happened within a twenty 0:17:47.005 --> 0:17:51.525 four hour period. This seems very quick to go to 0:17:51.565 --> 0:17:54.365 the police, tell him you have a potential tip and 0:17:55.005 --> 0:17:57.725 get wired up and get approval to be wired up. 0:17:58.405 --> 0:18:01.005 So I do wonder how did that happen so fast? 0:18:01.325 --> 0:18:04.245 Is it possible William was already working with the police 0:18:04.245 --> 0:18:09.125 in some capacity. So anyway, now Kenneth and William were 0:18:09.125 --> 0:18:10.525 sitting in the car on the side of the road. 0:18:10.965 --> 0:18:15.325 Kenneth called this other party who supposedly had the information. 0:18:16.405 --> 0:18:19.285 That person picked up the phone and said that they 0:18:19.325 --> 0:18:24.005 had overheard Samaji tell two other guys that he Samaji 0:18:24.325 --> 0:18:28.045 had paid ten thousand dollars to kidnap Aisha, and the 0:18:28.085 --> 0:18:31.205 reason he did this, according to this third party, was 0:18:31.245 --> 0:18:34.725 because Ayisha had been stealing methamphetamine from him, and he 0:18:34.805 --> 0:18:39.725 allegedly had video of Aisha stealing methamphetamine from his stash 0:18:39.765 --> 0:18:43.445 of drugs he kept at home. So this person said 0:18:43.765 --> 0:18:46.845 Samaji had killed Aisha by hitting her over the head 0:18:47.365 --> 0:18:52.805 several times with a hammer. Then Samaji supposedly took Ayisha's body, 0:18:53.165 --> 0:18:56.285 traveled to a deer camp off Highway sixty three and 0:18:56.365 --> 0:19:01.445 buried her body in a shallow grave. William caught everything 0:19:01.485 --> 0:19:04.165 that happened on this video camera and after he finished 0:19:04.205 --> 0:19:07.325 up with Kenneth, he went straight to the Eldoredo Police department. 0:19:08.005 --> 0:19:10.925 He gave them the recording device and after that Kenneth 0:19:11.045 --> 0:19:15.645 was arrested. Police, also, by the way, contacted this third 0:19:15.685 --> 0:19:18.885 person who William and Kenneth were talking to on the phone. 0:19:18.965 --> 0:19:21.485 The person basically told police the whole thing had been 0:19:21.525 --> 0:19:24.165 a scam. He said, yes, he had made the call, 0:19:24.565 --> 0:19:26.685 but he said Kenneth had set the whole thing up. 0:19:27.205 --> 0:19:30.685 This person said Kenneth had come to them and said 0:19:30.685 --> 0:19:33.125 they could make some easy money by selling the information 0:19:33.285 --> 0:19:37.445 to Ayesha's family. Now we said the last week this 0:19:37.565 --> 0:19:40.685 whole thing was just a hoax. But I think it's 0:19:40.845 --> 0:19:43.925 very interesting that it didn't just come out of thin air. Again, 0:19:44.765 --> 0:19:48.365 this was information that William was connected to that he 0:19:48.405 --> 0:19:52.965 brought the police. As we said last week, the extortion 0:19:53.125 --> 0:19:57.205 charges against Kenneth were later dropped and the charges against 0:19:57.205 --> 0:20:03.965 Samaji were dropped as well. As the weeks and months 0:20:04.005 --> 0:20:05.885 went on and this became more of a cold case. 0:20:06.405 --> 0:20:09.405 What seems to have happened here is, unfortunately what happens 0:20:09.445 --> 0:20:13.165 in so many cases. The family appears to be divided. 0:20:13.565 --> 0:20:16.405 So on the one side you have jack Ques and Liquida, 0:20:16.805 --> 0:20:18.525 and then on the other side you have people who 0:20:18.565 --> 0:20:22.005 may be supporting William. Some of this could be because 0:20:22.085 --> 0:20:24.245 some people don't want to believe it's possible for a 0:20:24.285 --> 0:20:27.325 family member to have done anything like this, And I'm 0:20:27.365 --> 0:20:30.845 just speculating here, but people could be scared William does 0:20:30.925 --> 0:20:34.965 have a criminal background, and given William's prior arrests, in 0:20:35.005 --> 0:20:36.605 the fact that a lot of them were for drugs, 0:20:37.405 --> 0:20:41.525 some people wondered what actually happened on the road to Houston. 0:20:41.845 --> 0:20:44.405 Was furniture the real reason why they made that trip, 0:20:45.165 --> 0:20:47.485 or could there have been something else possibly some kind 0:20:47.525 --> 0:20:51.085 of drug deal going on. Let's get into William Parker 0:20:51.165 --> 0:20:55.205 Junior's criminal history. We know he had several convictions related 0:20:55.205 --> 0:20:58.445 to drug charges in the past, and he's encountered some 0:20:58.525 --> 0:21:02.045 dangerous situations. Back in twenty thirteen, when he was thirty 0:21:02.125 --> 0:21:06.325 years old, the Eldedo News Times reported William was almost 0:21:06.445 --> 0:21:10.165 murdered during an alleged drug deal gone wrong. The newspaper 0:21:10.245 --> 0:21:13.165 quoted an arrest affidavit and said William testified that he 0:21:13.245 --> 0:21:15.645 went to a residence to make a drug deal. He 0:21:15.645 --> 0:21:18.765 said when he went inside, he was shot multiple times. 0:21:19.765 --> 0:21:22.525 When police went to the hospital in Little Rock where 0:21:22.525 --> 0:21:25.885 William was having surgery on his john stomach, they interviewed 0:21:25.925 --> 0:21:28.565 him and he was able to identify the three men 0:21:28.605 --> 0:21:32.325 who he said shot him, but later he retracted that statement. 0:21:32.805 --> 0:21:35.125 He said, yes, the three guys he mentioned were at 0:21:35.125 --> 0:21:37.565 the residence when he was there, but he said he 0:21:37.645 --> 0:21:39.765 was shot by an unidentified man and he had been 0:21:39.765 --> 0:21:41.845 shot from behind, so he couldn't tell who did it. 0:21:42.605 --> 0:21:46.165 So the three alleged shooters got off lightly. One got 0:21:46.205 --> 0:21:49.765 probation because of a past robbery conviction. The charges against 0:21:49.765 --> 0:21:54.165 the other two were dismissed completely. William has been involved 0:21:54.165 --> 0:21:57.965 with some dangerous people, and he's allegedly been involved in 0:21:58.005 --> 0:22:04.805 some much darker things. Since Aisha's disappearance, William has been 0:22:04.885 --> 0:22:10.165 arrested and charge was sexual assault, including sexual indecency with 0:22:10.165 --> 0:22:13.925 a child. He's not the only man in Ayisha's life 0:22:14.045 --> 0:22:16.885 that has had these types of charges filed against him. 0:22:17.365 --> 0:22:21.725 In September of twenty twenty three, Samaji, the man who 0:22:21.765 --> 0:22:24.365 I usual had been dating, was also charged with sexual 0:22:24.365 --> 0:22:28.325 indecency with a child and second degree sexual assault. I've 0:22:28.365 --> 0:22:33.405 read the arrest Afi David, and these charges are extremely disturbing. 0:22:34.005 --> 0:22:36.565 I'm not going to invade the victim's privacy, but I 0:22:36.605 --> 0:22:39.845 will say the alleged incident took place late in twenty 0:22:39.885 --> 0:22:43.525 twenty two and it involved an eight year old girl. 0:22:44.285 --> 0:22:46.725 She said she was at home with some other children 0:22:47.365 --> 0:22:50.805 and Samaji told the other children to go to bed 0:22:50.845 --> 0:22:53.765 and then asked her if she wanted to say her ABC's. 0:22:54.725 --> 0:22:56.725 Then she said he said he would give her a 0:22:56.805 --> 0:23:01.245 prize if she finished. She told the interviewer that after that, 0:23:01.365 --> 0:23:06.085 Samaji put a blindfold on her, grabbed her sleeve and 0:23:06.205 --> 0:23:07.325 put her hand. 0:23:07.165 --> 0:23:08.205 On his penis. 0:23:09.245 --> 0:23:12.085 Now, this case and William's case are both still making 0:23:12.125 --> 0:23:16.885 their ways through the court system, but these charges are horrifying. 0:23:20.765 --> 0:23:24.165 And I'm pointing this out because none of this proves 0:23:24.485 --> 0:23:28.205 that William or Samaji had anything to do with Aisha's disappearance. 0:23:28.845 --> 0:23:32.565 But from the standpoint of a police investigator, they have 0:23:32.645 --> 0:23:35.045 to notice there was more than one man in Aisha 0:23:35.085 --> 0:23:39.285 Jackson's orbit who had a potentially violent criminal record and 0:23:39.565 --> 0:23:44.685 drug charges and sexual assault charges. We know that in 0:23:44.725 --> 0:23:47.605 Samaji's case, he was obviously a person of interest from 0:23:47.685 --> 0:23:51.805 the beginning, but as the case moved forward, police found 0:23:51.845 --> 0:23:55.925 no evidence to tie him to Aisha's disappearance. The only 0:23:56.005 --> 0:23:59.125 clue they had seemed to be the fact that Ayisha 0:23:59.165 --> 0:24:02.205 suspected him of being inside her house when she wasn't there. 0:24:02.845 --> 0:24:04.245 But they had no dispute that. 0:24:04.205 --> 0:24:07.725 We know of or any animal, And from what we know, 0:24:08.565 --> 0:24:14.765 Samaji was not around Aisha on Halloween night. Given Williams 0:24:14.805 --> 0:24:17.005 past and the fact that he and Shaquila were the 0:24:17.085 --> 0:24:20.165 last known people to see Ayishaw live, a lot of 0:24:20.205 --> 0:24:23.685 people wondered why he wasn't considered, at the minimum a 0:24:23.685 --> 0:24:27.925 person of interest, which brings us back to this trip 0:24:27.965 --> 0:24:31.645 to Houston, because police said early on they verified that 0:24:31.725 --> 0:24:35.765 Ayisha was in Houston with a family member, but later Rena, 0:24:36.165 --> 0:24:40.165 Laquita's friend communicated via email and I've seen those emails. 0:24:40.645 --> 0:24:44.045 She was emailing an officer who admitted police could not 0:24:44.525 --> 0:24:49.965 verify Ayisha's location after October thirty. First, did Aisha ever 0:24:50.085 --> 0:24:56.205 really go to Houston? Did she ever really leave Arkansas? So, 0:24:56.765 --> 0:24:59.485