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Speaker 1: Forty What Action News digs deeper and gets the answers

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Speaker 1: about what happens to Adrian Jones. Investigator Jessica McMaster now

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Speaker 1: uncovered exclusive evidence he was just a typical little boy,

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Speaker 1: just full of life. Adrian's dad and step mom abused

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Speaker 1: him for months. He just had the most amazing smile

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Speaker 1: never before seeing. Video takes us inside Adrian's last moment.

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Speaker 1: You can see the look of nothing in his eyes.

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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. So you eat

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Speaker 1: out the trash? Could you keep on getting cold? Could

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Speaker 1: you're outside? In this video, you can hear Heather's harsh

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Speaker 1: words towards Adrian and a lack of compassion for a

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Speaker 1: desperate little boy. The last days and hours of Adrian's

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Speaker 1: life spent stripped and confined to a shower stall, left

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Speaker 1: outside overnight to stand in a filthy pool. A new

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Speaker 1: records show with the State of Kansas knew before the

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Speaker 1: death of little seven year old Adrian Jones. We learned

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Speaker 1: as early as twenty eleven, d CF had allegations of

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Speaker 1: Adrian's abuse, hundreds of red flags, black eyes, beatings, stealing

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Speaker 1: food from trash cans to survive, being forced to stay

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Speaker 1: outside and eat from bowls on the ground, being forced

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Speaker 1: to stand in water up to your neck overnight. And

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Speaker 1: he's just seven years old. Finally, and I never thought

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Speaker 1: I would put these words together in one sentence. Murdered

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Speaker 1: and fed to pigs by his own father and stepmother.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I am talking about a beautiful little boy

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Speaker 1: we have now all come to know. His name is

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Speaker 1: Adrian Jones. And he was murdered by his father and stepmother,

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Speaker 1: and the whole time, the Department of Children's Services and

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Speaker 1: police in two states knew he had been abused for years.

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Speaker 1: What really happened? Joining us today is a woman who

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Speaker 1: probably wishes she didn't know Adrian's grandmother, Judy Conway. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Judy. I very often have to just close

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Speaker 1: all the horrible things that happened to Adrian Jones. Tell

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Speaker 1: me when you first realized that Adrian was being abused.

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Speaker 1: I found out on November two thousand seventeen. I received

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Speaker 1: a phone call and I just couldn't believe it. I

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Speaker 1: was I was in total shock. Um, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: regards to that. I left work at that time, called

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Speaker 1: my oldest granddaughter, spoke to her and she had already heard. Also,

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Speaker 1: it's like, all of a sudden, and I've said this before,

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Speaker 1: it's like the grief takes a whole of you, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: and just stripped you to the bare bones, and you

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Speaker 1: just can't fan them that when you're given the news

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Speaker 1: that the remains of a child have been sent, have

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Speaker 1: been found and a pig pen, and that your grandson

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Speaker 1: is missing, Judy, I can hardly process. I can hardly

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Speaker 1: process really what you're saying because it is so beyond

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Speaker 1: and I have handled literally estimated about ten thousand felonies

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Speaker 1: over the course of ten years, including please investigations, trials

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Speaker 1: to just the works. Just the brutality of this, not

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Speaker 1: his remains to pigs. But let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: You are Adrian's grandmother. How are you maternal? Are you paternal? What?

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Speaker 1: How are you related to Adrian? His mother is my daughter.

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Speaker 1: So Adrian's mother is your daughter? Okay, got it. I'm

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Speaker 1: just I'm just stunned by the whole thing. So you

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Speaker 1: called you? Actually it was my granddaughter or who called me.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, when she first mentioned it to me,

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Speaker 1: understand that. Now, what did they hide? Did his parents

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Speaker 1: Mike and Heather would never even pick up the phone.

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Speaker 1: That they won't allow anybody to see the kids. But

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Speaker 1: I never thought in a million years, Nancy, that it

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Speaker 1: had absolutely no idea that Mike would ever allow anyone

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. Let me go back, let me track,

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Speaker 1: start with? And remember this, this is not about you, right,

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Speaker 1: Whatever they were doing, they are clearly in the wrong.

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Speaker 1: So whatever pretense they made up, we're trying to get

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Speaker 1: And another thing, Judy, another thing that I learned, and

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Speaker 1: I still don't understand it. I think it have to

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Speaker 1: but very often we'll pick one kid. I remember I

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that Heather did tell one

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Speaker 1: and I stated to them Michael Jones, and they mentioned

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Speaker 1: child social workers that let him die, the police that

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Speaker 1: knew the defects, workers that knew he was being abused.

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Speaker 1: And for Missouri, the number of the Missouri Attorney General

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Speaker 1: the Missouri Attorney General and Missouri is josh har Holly

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Speaker 1: And as I'm listening to Adrian's grandmother talk about this case,

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Speaker 1: I can only say one thing. Thank you Lord for

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Speaker 1: taking Adrian away from these people since the authorities left

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Speaker 1: him there to be abused and die. G D. Conway,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Nancy Grace signing off,

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Speaker 1: goodbye friend, Bye,