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Speaker 1: when two years pass and a mother, a father, a stepmother,

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Speaker 1: she would now be seven years old, Harmony Montgomery. Why

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Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and Series X one eleven, where

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Speaker 1: we still care about missing children and unsolved homicides. So

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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to reporter Brian Inton

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Speaker 1: First of all, Lisa Daddio, former police Lieutenant, Newhaan, PD,

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Speaker 1: Do we need a shrink? High profile lawyer joining me

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Speaker 1: out of Houston. Former felony prosecutor in Nicole Debord Hodge

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Speaker 1: My goodness, Jackson Miller. Two missing girls. Well, you got

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Speaker 1: tell you a technical legal term, doctor Jorry Cross. And

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Speaker 1: don't tell her, and she'd be like, like, you know,

427
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: and I'm watching her, so he'd un mute it, and

428
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's going on, like why are you muting it?

429
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: Every time I ask her a question? Why aren't you

430
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: letting her talk to me? Why are you answering for her?

431
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 1: Like you're acting weird at him. I'm like, what's going on?

432
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: Like we're co parenting, Like we're you're letting me have usinits, Like,

433
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: what's going on? He's like, He's like, I have soul, custody,

434
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 1: sole decision making. You don't get to ask me, and

435
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: he hangs up and blocks me. Okay, So at that

436
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: point Jack's Miller when the dad reportedly blocks her from

437
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: calling or emailing her daughter, what if anything, does she do?

438
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: You know? From what I understand, she was sending emails.

439
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: But I think the big thing is is that there

440
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: were thirteen quolls made to Harmonies home within a five

441
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: month period in twenty nineteen and twenty nine coals. Between

442
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and twenty twenty. There was a report that

443
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: the home had no electricity and no food. But then

444
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: according to authorities, when DCYF checked in on the girl,

445
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: they said there was electricity and there was food. So

446
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: that adds to the confusion, and of course enter the

447
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: next player in this scenario, the so called evil step mother.

448
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend of WMU R Amy

449
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: Cavino and our cut thirty nine. These are the criminal

450
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: complaints filed late this afternoon against thirty two year old

451
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: Kayala Montgomery, alleging between November thirtieth, twenty nineteen and June second,

452
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Kayla fraudulently represented to DHHS that Harmony

453
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: Montgomery was a member of her household. The purpose, prosecutors say,

454
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: was to receive undeserved foodstamp benefits and excess of fifteen

455
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. The policeffidavit provides a timeline of Harmony's life

456
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. On February twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, Kayla

457
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: allegedly filed a report with DHHS, adding Harmony as a

458
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: new household member. The affidavit states Ada Montgomery, Harmony's father,

459
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: was granted full custody of her February twenty second, twenty nineteen,

460
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: and that DHHS records show eight hundred EBT card transactions

461
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: during that time period, and state that on three occasions

462
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, Kayla applied for SNAP benefits listing Harmony

463
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: as a family member. In February twenty twenty one, Kala

464
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: stopped listing Harmony as a beneficiary for food assistance, and

465
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: in June twenty twenty one told a DHHS caseworker that

466
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: Harmony had moved back with her mother and could be

467
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: removed from the case. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, so

468
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: long story is shortened to coldeboard, hotge globe. You're the

469
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: high profile lawyer joining us out of Texas for literally years,

470
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: this evil stepmother gets government benefits and Harmony's name, knowing

471
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: Harmony doesn't live there. That doesn't look good. Well, not

472
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: only does it not look good is a crime. So

473
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: she's receiving funds from the government, effectively stealing from the

474
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: government by lying about this child living in her home.

475
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: And I think that now she is in a good

476
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: position to really think about whether or not she wants

477
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: to tell the government what she knows, tell law enforcement

478
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: what she knows, to help everyone find Harmony. I would

479
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: keep her behind bars on this fraud until she told

480
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: me something. Guys, take a listen to our cut thirty three.

481
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: Now this is behavioral evidence that a defense team could

482
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: attack at trial. They claim it means nothing. I think

483
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: it means a lot. Take a listen to Mora Barrett

484
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: NBC News. Adam Montgomery's charged with second degree assault, interference

485
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: with custody, and endangering the welfare of a child. One

486
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: of those instances, investigators say Adam struck Harmony in the face,

487
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: causing a black eye. In twenty nineteen. Kevin Montgomery, Adam's uncle,

488
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: was visiting the home around that time. I walked in

489
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: the house at Harmony had a black guy like you

490
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,959
Speaker 1: see in a boxing match between two men. He bashed

491
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: her around the apartment. Kind of her were his exact words.

492
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: According to court documents. Kevin says he and other family

493
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: members made multiple reports to newhamp Division for Children, Youth

494
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: and Families, and I don't know how they missed the

495
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: black guy that I saw. Police say they found Adam

496
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,959
Speaker 1: sleeping in his car with his new girlfriend on New

497
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: Year's Eve. He told police he'd given Harmony back to

498
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: her biological mother around Thanksgiving back in twenty nineteen. Her mother,

499
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: Crystal Sorry, disputes this. According to the court documents, police

500
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: say he made some contradictory stevements and quote did not

501
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: exhibit much emotion or reaction to the fact that Harmony

502
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: hadn't been seen in two years. You know, I'll just

503
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: never forget Lisa. Daddy. Oh, my son John David, who's

504
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: about two and a half three at the time, went

505
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: and hid inside as a superstore babies or us. I

506
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: was looking for this organic sunscreen lotion and was digging

507
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: through piles of sunscreen. I turned around there was Lucy

508
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: and know John David. I started screaming. I tuck Lucy

509
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: under my arm like a football and started running screaming

510
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: for them to lock the doors. He was hiding about

511
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: two miles away, thinking it had no idea the panic

512
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: he had called, but it caused. But I find it

513
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: really interesting that when they told Adam Montgomery harmony hasn't

514
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: been seen in two years, he showed no emotion whatsoever. Yeah,

515
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's and I've been in that position too

516
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: with my youngest son, Nancy. I mean, it's the worst

517
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: feeling in the whole world. So there's just so many

518
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: things about this case, both from biological mom and biological

519
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: So Daddy, oh, you're a firm and police. Lu said

520
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: it right, Yes, ma'am, call it. It's bs. It stinks

521
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: to I have it. He showed no emotion. I mean

522
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: when my cat went missing. I screamed till I couldn't

523
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: scream ast my voice. I couldn't be on the air

524
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: the next day. I screamed and screaming until midnight until

525
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: we found the cat. And he shows no emotion. That's BS, Nancy.

526
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. But look at

527
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: this guy's pass and his history, and I'm not making

528
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: excuses for him. Trust me, I would never do that.

529
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: But I he's void of everything, and so in light

530
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: of everything, it doesn't shock me. But I always think

531
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: when someone doesn't react the way that we think they

532
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: should react, what is the reason why exactly? There is

533
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: a twenty four seven three sixty five tip line devoted

534
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: to Harmony's We're about six zero three two zero three

535
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: sixty sixty repeat six zero three two zero three sixty sixty.

536
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: The reward is now over one hundred and four thousand

537
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: dollars one hundred and four thousand dollars and climbing. Please

538
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: help us bring home Jamison's sister. Take a listen now

539
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: to our friend Jason law at Boston twenty five. What

540
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: do you think happened to Harmony? The answers lie in him. Tuesday, Boston,

541
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: twenty five, spoke with Harmony's maternal grandfather, Tim Flanagan. He

542
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: says his daughter was a range from Adam Montgomery. Court

543
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: documents showed the mother last spoke to her daughter sometime

544
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty nineteen. A lot of people

545
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: may wonder, you know, why wasn't the mom were involved?

546
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: Why why didn't she see Harmony in the last two

547
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: years because the father would not let her. Every time

548
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: that he didn't let her, she would call the Spotment

549
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: of Social Services, and Social Services would say one thing, yes,

550
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: we'll get on it, and they never did. Why is it,

551
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: nicolde board hats globe that Department of Family Shoulder Services

552
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: cannot be held accountable. I've been asking that for many,

553
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: many years. When they leave children in horrible situations and

554
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: then the child is murdered. Here's a great example, the

555
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: Josh Powell case where Susan Powell goes missing and the

556
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: children draw pictures of Mommy in a car trunk and

557
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: being buried by daddy, and then he still has visitation

558
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: and he murders them and blows up the house. It

559
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on about how children are

560
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: mistreated and defacts does nothing. Why aren't they prosecuted Nicole. Well,

561
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: I think that they could be. And there is immunity

562
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: when you're a government agency from certain types of liability.

563
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: But when you exceed this type of negligence, I think

564
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 1: there's a real question about whether or not there is

565
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: now the possibility of seeking redress for civil rights violations,

566
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: for due process rights violations. Dead and she's probably dead

567
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: and they left or in an abusive home. Civil money,

568
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: what money? What money does Adam Montgomery have? I mean

569
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: money from defacts. I think they need to go to

570
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: jail Nicole possibly, which is unfortunate. Well, the problem is

571
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: is that that finding one particular individual liable could be

572
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: extremely difficult criminal context, and it may take a civil

573
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: lawsuit to get the agency to pay attention. You know, look,

574
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: I look at Crystal here as another victim. I mean,

575
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: she did everything she could to alert this system that

576
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: she thought that there was a problem. She'd lost custody.

577
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: They continue to treat her like trash and ignore everything

578
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: that she said, despite the fact that she gave them

579
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: multiple learning Well, you're right about that she did. According

580
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: to her, she sent multiple emails to Department of Family

581
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: Children's Services, which they ignored. They discounted her because she

582
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: had had problems in the past. But they do that too.

583
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: A lot of people totally blow them off. I'll pay

584
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: any attention to what they're saying. And the child ends

585
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: up dead. She's not alone. Neighbors called the uncle, called

586
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: the uncle, called police to the home, and still nothing

587
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: was done, and defects sits on their thumb and lets

588
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: it happen. And now she's gone. So right now, this

589
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: is what we know about the current search. Take a listen.

590
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: Manchester Police along with the FBI set up tents in

591
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: this backyard and brought ground thawing equipment over the weekend

592
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: as a search for many continues. This aerial view shows

593
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: about a dozen investigators and heavy equipment on the property

594
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: Monday morning, before it was taken down and packed up

595
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: by the afternoon. Authorities tight lift about what investigators uncovered

596
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: or discovered if anything. The search of the property is

597
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 1: the latest and the investigation police launched over a week ago.

598
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: To you, Jackson Miller joining us from oxygen dot com,

599
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: what do you know about the ground thawing equipment used

600
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: in the backyard where Harmony was last seen? So I

601
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: know that it's in the hands of new owners. The

602
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: new owners are being very cooperative with police. When I

603
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: contacted Heather Hamill, the spokesperson for the Manchester Police Department,

604
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: they could not they could not comment on what they

605
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: had found, if anything, So I think that's something hopefully

606
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: we'll learn more about in the near future. Well, the

607
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: fact that nothing was announced and no charges were developed.

608
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: And by the way, you were hearing our friend Oscar

609
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: Margain at NBC Boston talking about the ground thawing equipment

610
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: in order to use ground penetrating sonar, which I've used

611
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: many times along with cadaver dogs. You can have you

612
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: ever seen a metal detector people going up and down

613
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: the beach with them. You run the put the groundbreaking

614
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: sonar over the earth and you can get kind of

615
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: like a sonogram of what's below, and you can see

616
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: whether earth has been disturbed, in other words, whether somebody

617
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: was buried there and the earth was relocated, the soil

618
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: was relocated. Sometimes you can pick up if there's an

619
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: object there, like you would pick up in a sonogram

620
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: where you see the outline of the baby. That's what

621
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: it looks like. You have to know what you're doing

622
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: to read it. That's why they would need ground thawing

623
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: equipment to either dig or using ground penetrating sonar, and

624
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: that's not good. If they are at the point where

625
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: they're ready to dig for evidence, that means they're looking

626
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: for her remains. To Blair Miller, the adoptive father of

627
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: Harmony's little brother, Jamieson reporter anchor with CMG in the

628
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: Washington News Bureau, Blair, how much of this does Jamison know?

629
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: Does he understand what's happening? Yeah? Man, So we haven't

630
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,919
Speaker 1: talking about it yet, largely because we just don't know how.

631
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: So really we don't have the answers for him. We

632
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: don't know how to process this for a five year

633
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: old or help a five year old process has Adults

634
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: caneman figure this out right now? So what are we

635
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: supposed to tell Jamison? But I will tell you that's

636
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: our motivation behind everything. You know, one day when he's fifteen,

637
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Speaker 1: when he's twenty, when he's thirty or forty, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have some serious questions along the way, and we want

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Speaker 1: to make sure we're doing everything we can to be

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Speaker 1: able do what he would want us to do right now,

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Speaker 1: and that's trying to keep the hope and optimism out

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Speaker 1: there and keep the attention out there, because yes, two

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Speaker 1: years have gone by, but we know how fast paced

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Speaker 1: things move right now in people's lives, and they're actually

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Speaker 1: going to forget about this, and it's our job's not

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Speaker 1: let people forget Blair Miller. We will do everything in

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Speaker 1: our power to help you on your mission. And you're right,

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Speaker 1: why would you tell Jamison now you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to tell him, that she's missing, that she's dead, that

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Speaker 1: she had a black eye. Why would you tell him

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Speaker 1: any of that until you have some answers, God willing

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Speaker 1: we get answers again the tip line six three two

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Speaker 1: zero three sixty sixty Harmony, Where are you? Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Story signing off, goodbye fan