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BREAKING NEWS: MISSING CHRISTINA JOHNSON FOUND · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grease, has the mystery surrounding a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful young tennis star who goes missing with her little
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  Speaker 1: dog been solved. Of course, I'm talking about a gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: young woman, Christina Johnson, who seemingly goes for a walk
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  Speaker 1: with her little dog and is never seen again, her
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  Speaker 1: father and mother begging for help in the last moments
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  Speaker 1: literally as we go to air Bob Shell, Christina Johnson
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  Speaker 1: has been found.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is he Greace? This is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us here on Crime Stories and
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  Speaker 1: on series XEM one eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me right now in All Star panel. But first I.
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  Speaker 1: Want to go to Christina's father, who was there on
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  Speaker 1: location telling us the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, as I mentioned when we went to
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  Speaker 1: air PTL, Praise the Lord. You know, I don't get
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  Speaker 1: to announce this kind of news very often, in fact
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  Speaker 1: practically ever.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we still don't know from the day she left
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  Speaker 3: to today, and she was located at the University of
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  Speaker 3: Houston campus, so she's en route to the hospital. Now
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  Speaker 3: we do have Max, which is kind of ironic. We
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  Speaker 3: had another dog we thought was Max, and they looked identical.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, she's safe and I'm headed to the hospital now.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, mister Johnson is right be draggled, wet, beat up
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  Speaker 1: little dog that everyone thought was Max, including Christina's parents,
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  Speaker 1: and they know the dog was found separated from Christina.
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  Speaker 2: She's on the way to the hospital right now.
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  Speaker 1: But let's backtrack and figure out what exactly happened. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I want you to hear what mister Johnson
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  Speaker 1: said earlier to kp RC two.
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  Speaker 3: I believe she may be being held with against her
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  Speaker 3: will or anything could be going on right now, and
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  Speaker 3: our Lord knows where she is.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: And more, come home, your father, your mother, miss you,
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  Speaker 3: your brother's missu.
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  Speaker 4: They down here from out of town.
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  Speaker 3: We always want to meet Niggi're safe and I was
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  Speaker 3: just speaking with the detective. They're getting sightings possibly another
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  Speaker 3: ten miles from here, so it's coming to wide range.
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  Speaker 3: So they're doing drone searches seeing if they can get
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  Speaker 3: in my Euy's on.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear the pain in his voice and the
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  Speaker 1: desperate search for his daughter, you know, And the thing
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  Speaker 1: about your daughter, Christina, She's the daughter everybody hopes their
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  Speaker 1: daughter will grow into loving, super smart athletic champion, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Nurtured her all the way through those years. Mister Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: tell me about when she went missing. What happened that day?
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  Speaker 3: Well, again, she left as she usually do, eight am,
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  Speaker 3: and typically she come back before dark, and this particular
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  Speaker 3: instance she didn't come back, which was puzzling.
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  Speaker 4: And another day went by.
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  Speaker 3: Then I had to initiate a missing person's reporter and
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  Speaker 3: you've been pretty much scrambling.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's my understanding.
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  Speaker 1: She had graduated from college and was looking for a
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  Speaker 1: job and had moved back home for the job search.
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  Speaker 1: And every day she would get her laptop and her
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  Speaker 1: little dog Max, and they would go to like a jacket,
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  Speaker 1: a box or somewhere where there's WiFi, and she would work.
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  Speaker 1: And you had spotted her there every day, sitting right
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  Speaker 1: there working on resume. Oh my star, she's gorgeous, working
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  Speaker 1: on resumes, trying to make contacts, trying.
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  Speaker 2: To get a job.
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  Speaker 1: And this day she leaves as normal, no bags, no
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  Speaker 1: curling irons, no liquids, makeup, nothing like that that you
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  Speaker 1: would expect her to take on an overnight trip. She
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  Speaker 1: leaves with her laptop and the dog Max and she
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  Speaker 1: never comes home. That is what you knew. So what
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  Speaker 1: do we know exactly about that day? Listen to Dave.
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  Speaker 5: Mac March sixth, Emmanuel Johnson says his daughter Christina left
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  Speaker 5: with Max as she usually does, but they didn't come
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  Speaker 5: back home. He reports his daughter missing and begins searching
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  Speaker 5: for her. Johnson says Christina would never stay away this
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  Speaker 5: long and believes she might be being held against her
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  Speaker 5: own will. Then a shocking discovery in a neighborhood seven
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  Speaker 5: miles away from the Johnson home, Kellie Clemens, driving in
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  Speaker 5: a ferocious downpour, spots Max wandering around all alone. She
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  Speaker 5: has seen reports of Christina and Max missing and calls
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  Speaker 5: Max by name. He lets her pick him up. Max
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  Speaker 5: is now safe, but there's still no sign of Christina Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to you, mister Johnson, this is Christina's dad.
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  Speaker 1: Your heart must have plummeted. What went through your mind
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  Speaker 1: when this good samaritan seemingly finds Max in.
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  Speaker 2: A torrential downpour?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my stars, yeah, I was, I was. I was mortified.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. My main concern was if they found Max, where's Christina?
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  Speaker 3: And so that that was there was a point in
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  Speaker 3: at time that I was I was very confused, and
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  Speaker 3: again I was worried. Uh, I was worried about where
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  Speaker 3: where Christina was worried.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my stars, that's put it mildly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if my little girl or my son, they're twins,
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  Speaker 1: goes for a walk with our dog fat Boy, and
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  Speaker 1: then I find fat Boy wandering days later in a downpour,
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  Speaker 1: in lightning and thunder without them, I mean, what went
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  Speaker 1: through your mind?
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  Speaker 2: What did you think?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously I thought foul play.
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  Speaker 3: I thought someone might have grabbed her or was holding
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  Speaker 3: her against a whill or you know, things of that nature,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought the worst.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it was. It was taxing on both
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  Speaker 4: me and my wife. You know, yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I ran through about amenia scenarios of what could possibly be,
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  Speaker 3: where she could possibly be, and none of them were good.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I just I feel like I want to break down
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  Speaker 1: in tears right now because I've been following the case,
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  Speaker 1: investigating it on my own, and when the dog Mac
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  Speaker 1: or who we thought was the dog Max, turned up
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  Speaker 1: without her, I've got to tell you all my legal
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and investigative knowledge screamed that she had been killed
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  Speaker 1: because she would never have separated from that little Max,
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  Speaker 1: the dog that we thought had been found. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: know everybody's gonna want of all these answers. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: get a call just before you join us. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: about the call, Tell me what you did. We'll rehask
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  Speaker 1: the search for her and what you and your wife
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  Speaker 1: have been through.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to hear some good news. Tell me
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  Speaker 2: exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the detective, the police officers here at the University
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  Speaker 3: of Houston contacted us this morning, called me and said
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  Speaker 3: they found her and she was here on campus and
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  Speaker 3: they also found Max.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I was taken aback, Like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: you know what's the address? You know?
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  Speaker 3: And I immediately started heading heading me this way, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was It was a great It was a great call.
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  Speaker 3: I felt, you know, a release, uh, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: big relief off my heart that she's still alive and
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  Speaker 3: she's safe.
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  Speaker 1: I got a question when the detective called you and
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  Speaker 1: said we think we found her, what is the first
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  Speaker 1: thing that went through your mind.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to talk to her.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to confirm it was her, especially when they
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  Speaker 3: said was it found her in Max. There's been a
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  Speaker 3: lot of confusion going on throughout this period, so I
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  Speaker 3: just I definitely wanted to hear her voice so I
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  Speaker 3: can confirm it was her, and and I heard her,
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  Speaker 3: and I knew it was her, and and it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was again a big relief at that particular point,
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  Speaker 3: knowing that she was okay, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was. It was just a big
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  Speaker 4: weight off my shoulders, off that family shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: So you did talk to her, have you seen her?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? I laid eyes on her.
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  Speaker 3: She looked physically fine, but again she's headed out to
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  Speaker 3: the hospital, So we're gonna I'm gonna go ahead, be
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  Speaker 3: headed that way from here shortly and.
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  Speaker 4: Just trying to.
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  Speaker 3: Figure out, you know, what's been going on as time, So.
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  Speaker 1: Was she found on campus? Yes, time stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: I've got another question about you and your wife during
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  Speaker 1: these last days, since I believe March is sixth, that
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  Speaker 1: you have been searching for her, high and low, retracing
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  Speaker 1: every step, going everywhere she would have gone, putting up flyers,
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  Speaker 1: going doing everything you can. Did you have dreams about
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  Speaker 1: her where you were reunited with her, where you saw
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  Speaker 1: her and she was okay.
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  Speaker 3: This is ironic because back to back nights I've had
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  Speaker 3: two dreams about her, and I was talking to my
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  Speaker 3: barber about it.
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  Speaker 4: He was trying to help interpret the dreams.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, as of recently, I had two dreams back
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  Speaker 3: to back nights, and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What were they? I got to hear this.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have time to ask that kind of question
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  Speaker 1: instead of have there been canines?
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  Speaker 2: Did you do?
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  Speaker 1: Did you search bodies of water? Did you use horses?
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  Speaker 1: Cadets overhead? That's normally where I'm headed at a moment
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  Speaker 1: when somebody's missing. But now I get to find out
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  Speaker 1: other things. And I've got to tell you, I'm frankly overjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: What were the dreams?
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of weird just that I was back at
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  Speaker 3: home in Philadelphia in my you know, staying in my room,
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  Speaker 3: and she would come out my brother's room and just
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  Speaker 3: walk by me and go into the bathroom, wouldn't say anything,
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  Speaker 3: and I, you know when I and I immediately wake
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  Speaker 3: up and I'm immediately trying to figure out what was
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  Speaker 3: that about. And that's another one where she's sitting on
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  Speaker 3: a couch. You know that's sitting there, I guess just
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  Speaker 3: as if you know, sitting on the top of the
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  Speaker 3: couch and at the bottom of the couch, but the
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  Speaker 3: top that wear her feet on the cushions, like staring
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  Speaker 3: off at something. And again I immediately wake up, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm totally confused. But it happened back to back at nights,
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  Speaker 3: and I couldn't interpret what those dreams meant.
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  Speaker 4: It was very weird.
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  Speaker 2: Back to back, and that was in the last two nights.
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  Speaker 4: Right exactly. And you know, and.
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  Speaker 3: I said to myself last night that she can't be
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  Speaker 3: in the area that we're searching. She has to be
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  Speaker 3: either in fifth Ward or third Ward. And this morning
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  Speaker 3: we find our U of H campuses in third Ward.
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  Speaker 3: So I kind of had a premonition, if you will,
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  Speaker 3: that she was in this particular area.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me let me well, first of all, I've
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  Speaker 1: had a similar dream after my dad passed away, and
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  Speaker 1: like you, I see him in a comforting and familiar
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  Speaker 1: setting back at my old Methodist church back home in
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  Speaker 1: rural Bibb County, and he is walking away and he
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  Speaker 1: always turns back and looks at me like I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Going to join him.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what any of that means, but
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  Speaker 1: I see him, and I'm trying to figure out if
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  Speaker 1: you were getting some sort of a premonition you were
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  Speaker 1: going to find your daughter the next day, because you did.
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  Speaker 1: She was on campus. Was she in a dorm, a
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  Speaker 1: community center, a house.
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  Speaker 4: Where was she Well, the story is still kind of cloudy.
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  Speaker 3: I think she talked to the campus police for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: and she went about her business. And then I guess
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  Speaker 3: they had the foresight to look into the database and
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  Speaker 3: they noticed that, hey, she fits a subscription of the
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  Speaker 3: description of the young lady and the dog. That's mission.
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  Speaker 3: So they immediately went back out located her in border here.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was the last night, eleven PM or
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  Speaker 3: something to that extent, and they finally got in touch
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  Speaker 3: with the detective on the case, and the detective told
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  Speaker 3: them to give me a call.
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  Speaker 4: And here we are.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, we are speaking to Christina Johnson's father, Emmanuel Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: who has just gotten the good news, the wonderful news
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  Speaker 1: his daughter is alive. Joining me, mister Johnson, don't move
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  Speaker 1: an end. Joining me an all star panel to make
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  Speaker 1: sense of what we're hearing right now. But first I
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  Speaker 1: want to go to Angelina Faris, Deputy director Texas Equasearch,
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  Speaker 1: who has been leading the search to find Christina. Angelina,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much, for being with us. Typically when
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  Speaker 1: I'm with Texas Equisearch, the news is never good.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about the search that you led to find.
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  Speaker 6: Her, Good morning, and thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So, initially when we were contacted, we had many many
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  Speaker 6: cases coming through, and the one thing that stuck out
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  Speaker 6: was that Christina was missing with her dog. So we
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  Speaker 6: quickly sent a small team just looking in the shelters
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  Speaker 6: nearby the house where she was last seen. And then
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  Speaker 6: that's when the call came in from a community member
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  Speaker 6: who said, Hey, you know, you guys are looking for
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  Speaker 6: this lady and this dog, and we think we found
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  Speaker 6: this dog. And so that was just something very very
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  Speaker 6: quick that happened. In the meantime, still trying to get
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  Speaker 6: information as to what her habits were, what her daily
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  Speaker 6: routine was. Once we had all of that information, we
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  Speaker 6: started near her home, which is where we always started,
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  Speaker 6: the last place that they were seeing, and started going
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  Speaker 6: to the Jack in the box and the areas and
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  Speaker 6: the stores and the library and the community center where
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  Speaker 6: she went and try to find out if anybody had
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  Speaker 6: seen or had anybody seen her recently. So there was
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  Speaker 6: a concerted effort that Saturday and Sunday to look for
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  Speaker 6: her and find someone who had seen her. Fast forward
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  Speaker 6: a few days. By Saturday, I want to say the sixteenth,
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  Speaker 6: we were able to obtain video footage of her at
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  Speaker 6: an establishment I want to say, the day after she
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  Speaker 6: went miss and that gave us a lot of hope.
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  Speaker 6: I think, I think for a little while there, we're
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  Speaker 6: very concerned that maybe something had happened to her. And
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  Speaker 6: once we saw that footage of her the next day
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  Speaker 6: and we're able to confirm that it was Christina, that
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  Speaker 6: certainly made us hopeful. And there was definitely a thought
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  Speaker 6: that she could be out, you know, walking around or
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  Speaker 6: going somewhere that where she was safe.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just.
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  Speaker 6: Very worrying to not know where she was and not
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  Speaker 6: have any idea.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's very worrying to me because guys are
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  Speaker 1: hearing Angelina Ferris, who textas ec research to Michael Yvgnez
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  Speaker 1: joining us former Houston PD detective, licensed private investigator at
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  Speaker 1: Why two Investigations.
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  Speaker 2: Michael, I've had so many.
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  Speaker 1: Cases where, for instance, you see a kidnap victim go
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  Speaker 1: into a bank or go to an ATM and withdraw money.
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  Speaker 2: You think everything's okay. It's not okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because sitting outside is a kid napper who has a
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  Speaker 1: gun or is threatening them. I mean, yes, I was
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  Speaker 1: thrilled to learn that there had been what we thought
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  Speaker 1: was video surveillance of Christina.
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  Speaker 2: But things are not always as they seem, are they, Michael, No,
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  Speaker 2: they are not.
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  Speaker 8: And what you mentioned was a very real possibility she
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  Speaker 8: could have been kidnapped, held against her will. Lord only
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  Speaker 8: knows what because we don't know the full circumstances of
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  Speaker 8: her disappearance right now, Nancy. But let me say God
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  Speaker 8: blessed to mister Johnson and his family for the safe
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  Speaker 8: recovery of their daughter. Because when I worked for the
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  Speaker 8: Houston Police Department in the Homicide Division, I had both
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  Speaker 8: sides of the investigation. I've had cases sent to me
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  Speaker 8: from missing persons where the person ultimately ended up deceased,
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  Speaker 8: and I've had cases where we recovered them safe and
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  Speaker 8: sounds some children as well, and it's just a beautiful,
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  Speaker 8: beautiful event when they are finally recovered and returned to
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  Speaker 8: their fam And so, yeah, you just don't know the
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  Speaker 8: circumstances until all it's all fleshed.
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  Speaker 2: Out in the ind No, you really don't. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's like, are your eyes tricking you?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what we are really seeing is that her
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  Speaker 1: Is she thereof her own volition? Guys, for those of
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  Speaker 1: you just joining us, we have really a miracle. The
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  Speaker 1: search has been on for days and days for this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful girl, Christina Johnson. Everyone has been praying, helping the search,
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  Speaker 1: hoping against hope that she would be found alive. Joining
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  Speaker 1: me right now is her father who has actually seen her.
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  Speaker 1: So you're telling me she had been on campus and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see any visible signs of injury.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct, mister Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct. She seemed to be in good health,
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  Speaker 3: and she did have some stuff her bag as far
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  Speaker 3: as the food items that she's in, the dog food
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  Speaker 3: and things like that. So you know, we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: work through circumstances and events right now and I'll know
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  Speaker 3: more later on today.
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  Speaker 2: And I see you immediately called her mother.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: She was there when I got the call that she
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  Speaker 3: was found, So she was immediately What did she do?
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  Speaker 4: You know, she was happy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it was a burden lifted off for her
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  Speaker 3: chest because she's been concerned about this over the last
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  Speaker 3: eleven days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: How you guys have even put got up out of
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  Speaker 1: the bed for the last eleven days. Guys, who is
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful young girl that seemingly walked to work on
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  Speaker 1: her resume, to the Jack in the Box of the
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  Speaker 1: community center for Wi Fi and never came home.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to Nicole parton Crime Online.
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  Speaker 9: Like many people, Christina Johnson played tennis when she was
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  Speaker 9: growing up. Unlike most people, Christina Johnson became a champion
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  Speaker 9: tennis player inner teens. She went on to play tennis
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  Speaker 9: for West Virginia University. After graduating from Alderson broad Us
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  Speaker 9: University in West Virginia, Johnson moves back home to Houston
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  Speaker 9: to plan what she wants to do next and what.
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  Speaker 2: About her daily routine. Listen to Sydney Summer.
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  Speaker 10: After moving back to Houston, Johnson has been staying with
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: her dad. Her normal routine includes Max, her ten year
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: old mixed breed dog. Johnson rarely goes anywhere without our
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: CA nine best friend. Each morning, Christina grabs her laptop
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  Speaker 10: and takes Max for a walk to a nearby Jack
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  Speaker 10: in the box or they go to the Hackberry Community Center.
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  Speaker 10: Johnson's family says Christina and Max are often gone all
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: day long, but are always back before evening joining me.
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  Speaker 1: Is Christina's dad? Is that Max in the car with you?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: It is? It is? It is definitely Max. He has
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the collar on that he should.
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  Speaker 2: Can I see that little guy? Because can I see
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that little guy?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Because this little guy was a huge, huge clue in
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the case.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, where he is?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: He?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I see you Max, that little guy right there.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It was like the biggest clue we could find until
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: video surveillance emerged.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: That guy. I am so happy to see him.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And I'm just imagining the good Samaritan that jumped out
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of her car in the thunder and the lightning because
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: she thinks she sees Max and takes the dog in.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And what must have gone through your mind in Christina's
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: mom's mind when you find out your daughter dog has
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: been found, but no sign of Christina during this time.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: To doctor John Delatory, licensed psychologist and mediator, Doctor Delatory,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: very often people have a psychotic break and stress and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: so many other things build up in their minds.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know yet that that has what had happened.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But this is a girl, as you heard, doctor Delatory,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: it's a very high achiever.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: No history.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, I like that, as we call it, two shot
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: very much. I'm gonna be really happy when I see
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Christina in the background too, Coster delatory, did you hear
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: what we were saying about Christina? A champion tennis player,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: She goes on to play at the college level. You
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: know how hard that is to achieve, to actually make
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it the millions of other people that want a college scholarship.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: She makes it to WVU, Then she graduates, Then she
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: starts the job search. That's not easy, every day facing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: one defeat after the next defeat, after the next rejection,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and still trying. And everybody sees you as this champion,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: which you've been your whole life, and then all of
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a sudden.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, real life hits you. You know, expectations versus reality.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: This is one of those times where all of these
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: kinds of adulting type tasks now confronts this individual, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: we don't know how the person is handling stress. We
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: don't know how they manage all of these kinds of things.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: And I'm sure she expected to have a lot of
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: things maybe put in place and already ready to go.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: But she's working hard. And I think that's the key,
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: is that sometimes when you're working so hard. It can
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: weigh so much on you that sometimes you forget to
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: allow other people.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: To help you.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Sometimes you don't tell the people that are closest to
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: you what exactly it is that's going on, whatever struggles
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: that you might be experiencing, right, Allowing some of the
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: burden to go on with your family members so that
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: they can help prop you up. Sometimes we think that
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: we can just face this and be isolated, and we
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: still have so much to learn. And I'm glad Christina
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: is still around so that she can tell us her story,
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: so that she can help other people who may be
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: facing similar kinds of issues.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Joining me is Christina's dad, Emmanuel Johnson, Mister Johnson. Was
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: anyone else taken into custody as anyone?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Did you hear or know of anyone that had been harboring.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Her at this point? No, I'm not aware of anyone
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: else's that's in custody. I have I have zero knowledge
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: as far as what's been going on for the last
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: eleven days, but I don't to my understanding, there's nothing nefarious. Again,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I'll know more later on today. Yeah, Yeah, that's pretty
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: much where we are at this point.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. How much time did you
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: get to spend with Christina?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: A couple of minutes? A couple of minutes.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: We wanted to we wanted to go ahead and expediate, uh, expedite, uh,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: you know, getting her to the hospital and and and
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: and and and checked out, and you know, we wanted
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: to go ahead and get Max. It's been look like
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: he's been in the rain quite a bit, and I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: had to go ahead and put him in the truck.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: So as far as extracting any information, that hasn't taken place.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yet, mister Johnson, What was her for your mim? Was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: she happy to see you? Did she look out of it? Disoriented? Sad, crying,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: hurting the Please tell me what was her demeanor?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: What did she say?
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Well, it's it's kind of hard to describe at this point.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I think it was a.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: You know, uh, To describe her demeanor, I would say
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: maybe confused to a certain extent. So you know, we'
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: just try again. I'll know more later. But right now, did.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: She recognize you?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Yes? She did?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Did she say Daddy? Does she know you?
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Well? Again? I don't.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I think her main concern was Max, for whatever reason,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: And we just need to go ahead, and you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: evaluator more, evaluate the situation more, and that it'll tell.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Us, Yeah, something's wrong, right, right, something is wrong.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but something is wrong.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Right for her not to run up to you and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: hug on you and say, Dad, you know so happy?
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Something is wrong. We don't know what yet. Number One,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I know this, She's alive.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: And I don't get to say that very often, so
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep saying it over and over.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Christina is alive. Right, we'll figure out what's wrong. We'll
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: figure out what happened exactly. But the main thing is
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: she's alive.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: She's on our way to the hospital for those of
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you just joining us, she's getting evaluated. We're trying to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: find out what happened, what went wrong. But let me
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: ask you this, mister Johnson. Has it been hard for
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: her going from literally being a tennis star and getting
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: her you know, getting to play at college and graduating
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to come out of that MAYLEEU and then suddenly she's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: at the Jack in the box using the Wi Fi
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: trying to get a job.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: That must have been a huge change for.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Her, right, I mean, we had Wi Fi at home
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: it's not. It's not It's not as if she had
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: to go to the jack the box to use the
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: or anywhere else. It was just a matter of her,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I believe, getting out of the house. But you know,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I've been reading a lot about the loneliness in this
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: country being an epidemic and things of that nature.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: I don't, I don't know.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I think you know, these kids, and I think it's
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: across the board for this generation X that you know,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: the reality is starting to sit in, like the other
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: panel panel member said, and and things is not.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: What they what it seems, I guess, or as easy
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: as they wanted to be.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: And I don't, I don't know what kind of struggles
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you know, she may be going through and we need
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to figure it out.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And but you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Know, mister Johnson, you know what you know how many
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: resumes I sent out before I finally got that job
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: at the District Attorney's office, right, which really is all
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I ever wanted. I sent out over three hundred resumes,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: over three and I try and I got one job,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and it certainly is not the dream job.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Then another job.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: All tried to inch toward a goal. And it can
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: be hard, it can be so hard, especially when you're
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: coming from being on the top. I mean, your daughter
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: was a champion youth tennis star, gets to play at college.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Very few people get that, makes great grades, graduates ready
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to take on the world, and then bam, And that's
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a very harsh, harsh transition. Tell me if you can,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: mister Johnson, about that video surveillance that at first wethought
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: was a crack in the case.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Did you see the surveillance?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: What wasn't I did see it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: To my understanding, she she just went into the business
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to use the restroom. As she was coming out, she
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: was drying her hands off, so and that was quite
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: a distance from the house, and the big question was
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: how did she get you know, we get over there
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: and what is she doing over there? And you know, so,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, I have more questions and answers at this point,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and you know, hopefully later on today we can go
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: ahead and get a lot of these questions answered, you know, hopefully.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, joining me is Alexis arrest hut Clime online
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter Alexis, thank you for being with us.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I understand that once she left, other than that video surveillance,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: we had nothing about ATM's credit cards, no other sightings
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: than sightings started popping up all over the place that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: were not her.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: What can you tell me about that, Alexistereschuk.
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: That's exactly what happened. She went missing and there was
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: no contact from her. She didn't use her credit cards,
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: she didn't purchase anything. She wasn't shopping at the jack
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: in the box or at the target or anywhere. So
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: then people started sending in the when the press found
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: out about it, when everybody started finding out after her
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: dad went to the police started getting the word out,
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: people started sending in sightings. Not maliciously, right, They said, oh,
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: we think we saw her at this place. I thought
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: we saw her at another place. But none of them
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: were Christina, And so the search broadened. It's a huge town,
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: so they started going looking at different places. But nothing
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: was happening until the dog was found. And because she
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: went missing with the dog, that's sort of an extra
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: clue for people to look for. You see just a
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: girl by herself, you might think, oh, she's just but
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: if you see this dog. So this woman finds this
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: dog at night in the rain, the thunder, the lightning,
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: great she calls the dog. That is literally exactly how
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: I got straight dog. I called a missing dog's name,
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: and it came running to me. It was not the
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: missing dog. In ten years later, I still have that dog,
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: but the dog came. So everybody thought, really the worst.
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: You find the dog without her seven miles away. That
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: is really far distance for a dog. She is not
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: sighted anywhere around there, There are no sightings. The search
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: in that area doesn't turn up anything for her, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: so it seemed as if she had been taken from
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: the area at some point and the dog dropped. That's
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: what the worst fears were that everybody had.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And of course to you, mister Johnson, she is missing
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: out of the Houston, Texas area, and there's a very
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: high crime rate in Houston, and she is on foot.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: You're telling me, other.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Than being seemingly disoriented and confused, you did not see
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: any outward or visible signs of injury.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Correct? Not at all? None at all?
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: To be fine. But again, I know more later on,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: so I can't defend.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: These, Yes you will. Yeah, we don't know what she's
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: been through.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Michael Yvine is joining US former Houston homicide detective now
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: PI y two investigations.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Houston has a very.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Very high crime rate, including gangs, and this young girl
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: was gone with her dog on foot and spotted confirmed
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: spotted nearly ten miles away, having been on foot. That
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: would chill down anybody's spine.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: That leads me to a conclusion, Nancy, that she had
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: some possible outside help. She's been gone for a while.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: You know, I don't know if there's any movement on
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: her bank account, but you can assure that the police
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: will come through her finances, her bank account records or
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: social media, her cell phone records and everything. So they're
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: gonna do a pretty thorough investigation, try to get to
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: the bottom of what happened to her exactly, including her
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: mental state.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: The headline the batterer now is when we hardly ever
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: get to report Christina has been found alive.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Mister Johnson, where are you going now?
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I need to take Max back home and get him,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: uh in the one warm place. It's kind of raining
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: pretty bad out here right now, and I'm go ahead
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: and feed him and and I drop him off.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: I'd be pretty much headed that way towards the hospital. Uh.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: They wanted me to give some time, so I'm gonna
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: give him some time to get to get everything situated.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: So my next my next stop is back home to
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: drop Max off.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Mister Johnson, God spaid, God spaid man, our prayer still with.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Your daughter and your wife and you. What a day,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: thank you, what a day in criminal justice.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: This beautiful young woman has been found alive.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: All I can say is praise the Lord.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: And if I can tell you, I want to give
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: thanks to the Texas Ech Research, Houston Police Department.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: They all been great. They did an outstanding job.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Dot in their eyes, crossing the t's, checking the blocks
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: and putting the flyer out and putting the words out
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: and also channel to the news. They did a great job.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: And I just want to thank all you guys for
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: your effort. And I'm happy to have a happy ending.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: But again, I really appreciate all you guys and all
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: your efforts.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Mister Johnson, thank you for saying that. And you are
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: so right. Texas ECH Research once again coming through to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: help people. And we always hear bad stories about the police.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Finally I'm hearing good things about the police and very
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: well deserved.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Stay in touch, God speak. Goodbye friend,