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HELP BRING MISSING CHILDREN HOME: Genesis Reid and Jacob Pritchett · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, breaking news. A three year
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  Speaker 1: old little girl, Genesis read missing from Enterprise Alabama. Enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: Where is that? Enterprise is near Hey, Cody, it is
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  Speaker 1: near op I'm trying to give you a good connection.
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  Speaker 1: It's along the Panhandle, veering toward Florida. A three year
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  Speaker 1: old little girl missing Genesis read Not only that, Jacob Pritchett,
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  Speaker 1: an autistic boy just eleven years old, is missing out
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  Speaker 1: of Brooklyn. His mom says he never existed. Really, then
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  Speaker 1: why do you have his name tattooed on your body? Woman?
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  Speaker 1: Good evening? I mean's he grais? This is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for being with us. Straight
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  Speaker 1: out to Dave Matt, crime Story's investigative reporter, I want
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  Speaker 1: to start with the little three year old girl, Genesis
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  Speaker 1: read out of Enterprise Alabama. First of all, where's Enterprise? Explain?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll do a better job than I did.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the Panhandle of Florida. If you're going from
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  Speaker 2: the beach like Panama City Beach to Montgomery, Alabama, it's
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  Speaker 2: halfway point very southern part of Alabama, northern Florida, in
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  Speaker 2: that general vicinity. Enterprise Alabama not a big city. But
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned op and other areas. It's called the wiregrass areas.
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  Speaker 2: But Nancy, we have a three year old, Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: mom says she woke up at three o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: her toddler is gone, and the front door is open.
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  Speaker 2: We've heard this before in other stories. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what her mother, Adrian Read, expects us to believe, but
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  Speaker 2: she claims in a nine to one one call that
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  Speaker 2: she woke up. Baby's missing.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: She said that she wasn't in her bed, But other
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  Speaker 2: reports are that Adrian slept with Genesis in the same bed.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got to get that squared away. But right now,
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  Speaker 2: Genesis Read missing at three years old.
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  Speaker 3: Enterprise, Alabama police desperately searching for Genesis Nova Reid, turning
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  Speaker 3: three next month. The taller reported missing Monday, when her
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  Speaker 3: mom wakes in the early morning hours to find Genesis's
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  Speaker 3: bed empty and the front door open. Neighbors fear Genesis
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  Speaker 3: missing longer, having last seen her more than a month ago.
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  Speaker 3: Genesis light skin, African American with black hair and brown eyes,
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  Speaker 3: two feet five inches tall, thirty pounds, last seen wearing
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  Speaker 3: pink mini male's pajamas anyone with info call Enterprise PD
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  Speaker 3: at three three four three four seven two two two two.
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  Speaker 1: Now joining us in addition to Dave Matt from Crimes Toys.
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  Speaker 1: A real expert in finding missing people. It's Brian Fitzgibbons.
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  Speaker 1: He is Director Operations usp a nationwide security He leads
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  Speaker 1: a team of investigators. They go worldwide trying to find
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  Speaker 1: missing people. He is at uspasecurity dot com. Brian, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. Brian, I don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: It stinks, you know why. It stinks for many reasons.
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  Speaker 1: But first of all, neighbors state they have not seen
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  Speaker 1: Genesis Reid in two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the most concerning piece here. And neighbors have
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  Speaker 4: also reported that they would consistently see the mother with Genesis,
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  Speaker 4: so prior to a month, you know, a month ago,
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  Speaker 4: they're seeing them all the time. And now that she's
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  Speaker 4: reported missing, we learned that they haven't seen her in
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  Speaker 4: over a month. One thing that did jump off the
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  Speaker 4: page here this is this isn't like a house that
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  Speaker 4: she walked out of. This is an apartment building where,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a complex where you've got a number of neighbors,
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  Speaker 4: not a huge wooded area near it. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of houses and residences all around Apache Drive, so it's
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  Speaker 4: very unlikely that this was a wandered off into the
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  Speaker 4: woods scenario.
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  Speaker 5: The mother stated that when she woke up this morning
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  Speaker 5: at three am, that's when she noticed the child was missing.
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  Speaker 5: We have not stopped since three am this morning. During
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  Speaker 5: the morning hours, we completed a number of searches of
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  Speaker 5: the area in close proximity to the residents here.
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  Speaker 1: That is catchin Billy Haglan joining us from Enterprise, and
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  Speaker 1: that's from our friends at Wiregrass Daily News. Back to
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  Speaker 1: the facts, to Dave mac, I understand that she was
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  Speaker 1: last seen wearing Mini mouse pjs.
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  Speaker 2: That's the story that we're being given. But the reality, Nancy,
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  Speaker 2: is that Genesis had a regular routine with her mom.
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  Speaker 2: They would walk around the apartment complace. It was a
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  Speaker 2: regular thing, walking every day. Friends around there, had other
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  Speaker 2: children playing with Genesis, and all of a sudden, around
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  Speaker 2: Christmas time, it stopped. They haven't seen Genesis and Adrian
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  Speaker 2: and her mother walking around the apartment complex together. And
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  Speaker 2: when they were questioned, we're talking about people who live
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  Speaker 2: with them in the same apartment complex, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say anything bad. She's a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: But I haven't seen this child since Christmas, So reporting
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  Speaker 2: her missing now we're talking six or eight weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy, you know you're right. There are neighbors at state
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  Speaker 1: they have not seen Jennison's since Christmas. Others put it
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  Speaker 1: at a few weeks. But I think I can understand
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  Speaker 1: the discrepancy. There neighbors that associate with the mom and
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  Speaker 1: the baby. Maybe next door neighbors or little playmate moms
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  Speaker 1: see her more often and would realize she's been missing
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  Speaker 1: for longer. So I noticed another discrepancy, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you about that, Dave mac Some report state
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  Speaker 1: the mom noticed she was missing when she went to
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  Speaker 1: go check in her bed and Genesis's bed. Other reports
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  Speaker 1: say they slept together.
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  Speaker 2: What do we know, Well, we know exactly that that
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  Speaker 2: we're getting two separate stories about where this child sleeps
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  Speaker 2: and again a three year old that normally sleeps with mom,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that's the truth of the matter. We're getting
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  Speaker 2: both these stories from mom, Nancy, So which one do
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  Speaker 2: you want to believe that she had her own bed
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  Speaker 2: she's slept in or she regularly sleeps with mom because
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  Speaker 2: she s told both stories.
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  Speaker 3: So far.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently this little girl Fitsgibbons, is not even three years old,
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  Speaker 1: much like Caley Anthony, the daughter of top Mom Casey Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: not quite three years old. What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I want to share something. In a lot
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  Speaker 4: of our cases that we work with children under the
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  Speaker 4: age of five, Okay, it's very likely going to have
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  Speaker 4: something to do with a custody issue, okay. And something
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  Speaker 4: jumps out to me in this story that law enforcement
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  Speaker 4: is not currently requesting any major search effort or.
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  Speaker 3: Help from the public.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So what that indicates to me is that there's an
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  Speaker 4: investigation going on. Where was Genesis? Did she travel anywhere
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  Speaker 4: with her mother around Christmas time? Who were they with?
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  Speaker 4: And could she be staying there with a friend or
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  Speaker 4: a family member as a part of a greater custody battle.
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  Speaker 4: So you know that that's a point of hope for
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  Speaker 4: the public here and a point of hope for Genesis
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  Speaker 4: that that could be the case.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this along those same lines,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Fitzgibbons, what does it tell you that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: has been brought in in the search for Genesis? Maybe hey,
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  Speaker 1: cross state lines for custody issues?
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  Speaker 4: Correct? Yeah, cross state lines, and you have to understand
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  Speaker 4: the FBI can be called in to assist. They're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have greater resources tracking cell phones and things like that,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, the local law enforcement enterprise may have
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  Speaker 4: well just called them in. And we've been up.
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  Speaker 3: Since four o'clock this morning, literally standing outside with the policies.
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  Speaker 5: Four o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't nobody went to sleep, Ain't nobody and we are
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  Speaker 3: been standing out here waiting. Neighbors say Genesis is a
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  Speaker 3: familiar face, seen walking with her mom on a patchy
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  Speaker 3: drive almost daily up until about a month ago, when
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  Speaker 3: Adrian suddenly stops the practice. Vanessa Marna, whose daughter frequently
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  Speaker 3: plays with Genesis, says she hasn't seen the toddler since Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Another neighbor says he runs into Adrian shopping alone on
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  Speaker 3: Valentine's Day. When he asks where her daughter is. Adrian replies,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know and abruptly walks away.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it babysits Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: That's my friend.
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  Speaker 1: So I would never, you know, go against what she's saying.
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  Speaker 3: My biggest concern is getting a baby home.
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  Speaker 1: So that from our friends at WDH n okay, I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you how devastating the blow will be if
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  Speaker 1: Genesis has been missing since Christmas. That's according to her neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: So Brians Gibbons, we've lost a lot of time if
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  Speaker 1: that's true. And you know in some jurisdictions, not reporting
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  Speaker 1: your child missing is in fact a crime.
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  Speaker 4: Oh certainly. Yeah. And you know investigators when you see
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  Speaker 4: State Bureau of Investigation FBI, along with the local law
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  Speaker 4: enforcement involved here, I'm going to guarantee you that answers
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  Speaker 4: are going to come here for Genesis. They're going to
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  Speaker 4: be downloading all sorts of communications location data for the
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  Speaker 4: mother to try to unwind the last time they were,
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  Speaker 4: indeed together.
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  Speaker 1: The last time we have seen her about a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: She's a walker up and down and roll lift his
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  Speaker 1: child and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And now I was certain.
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  Speaker 5: Now we're trying to get a timeline, and I would
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  Speaker 5: appreciate that information. We haven't necessarily stated that Genesis has
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  Speaker 5: been missing for thirty days, but that's what we're asking.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody is to provide that information, except.
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  Speaker 1: From our friends at Wiregrass Daily News and w d
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  Speaker 1: h N. To you, Dave Mac who is this mysterious Mariah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a name that apparently was given by Adrian to
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement. Just a name. I remember you mentioned top
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  Speaker 2: mom a few minutes ago. Remember how she said that
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  Speaker 2: she dropped off.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't say xanautic Gozalees. Is that what you're about
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  Speaker 1: to say?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sadly, I was, but now I got Mariah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay again, I believe the person you're referring to
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  Speaker 1: as Adrian by their first name would be genesis mother.
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  Speaker 1: Adrian read, we're trying to learn more about this little girl.
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  Speaker 1: We know that it was in fact mom who called
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  Speaker 1: nine one one.
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  Speaker 3: Genesis's mom, who neighbors identify as Adrian Reid, calls nine
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  Speaker 3: one one at three am Monday morning, explaining she woke
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  Speaker 3: to find her toddler missing from her bed and the
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  Speaker 3: front door to their home at Meadowbrook Apartments wide open.
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  Speaker 3: Enterprise police descend on the complex, backed by Coffee County sheriffs,
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  Speaker 3: state investigators, and local fire departments. Investigators search the immediate
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  Speaker 3: area for the little girl. By three pm, FBI agents
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  Speaker 3: join the search.
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  Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the
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  Speaker 1: disappearance of this little two year old girl almost three,
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  Speaker 1: please dial Enterprise PD three three four three four seven
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  Speaker 1: two two two two Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Enterprise Police have charged the mother of Genesis Reed with
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  Speaker 2: filing a false report about the missing toddler. Adrian Reid
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  Speaker 2: is being held without bond on the Class C felony,
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  Speaker 2: which might indicate she is suspected a foul play in
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  Speaker 2: the case. Routinely, Class C allegations have a much lower bond.
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  Speaker 2: Enterprise Police Chief Michael Moore says the search for two
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  Speaker 2: year old Genesis Reed continues in earnest and he's asking
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  Speaker 2: the public for more information. But as of this moment,
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Reid, the mother of Genesis Read in jail without bond.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace and now we go across
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  Speaker 1: the country to the Bronx in the search for an
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  Speaker 1: eleven year old autistic boy. His name Jacob Pritchett. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Pritchett straight out to Dave Matt, what can you tell
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  Speaker 1: me about Jacob's disappearance.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Pritchett is eleven years old Nancy and he is
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  Speaker 2: from Brooklyn. He is autistic and nonverbal. He was reported
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  Speaker 2: missing in October, not by his mother but by social services.
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  Speaker 2: Family says that Jacob has never actually been enrolled in
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  Speaker 2: public school, that he has been homeschooled by his mother.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with that is Jack Will And Pritchett. Jacob
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  Speaker 2: Pritchett's mother claims she doesn't have a son. She doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a son named Jacob, even though she has a
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  Speaker 2: tattoo on her arm that says Jacob. She claims she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have a son. Jacob Pritchett eleven years old. Last
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  Speaker 2: theme by an apartment manager April of a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got last sighting April. Second, we've got missing
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  Speaker 2: report filed in October, and Jacob's mother, Jack Will and Pritchett,
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  Speaker 2: has been locked up a couple of time in Riker's
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  Speaker 2: Island for being pulled in front of a judge and
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  Speaker 2: saying I don't have a son. They're looking for Jacob
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  Speaker 2: Bridget Good Gravy.
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  Speaker 1: There are thousands of people across the country that would
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  Speaker 1: take this boy and raise him in a loving home.
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  Speaker 1: Straight out to Brian Fitzgibbons joining us USPA Nationwide Security.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it, And I know we've asked this rhetorically
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  Speaker 1: many many times, why is it that anybody can have
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  Speaker 1: children but you have to go through all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: licensure to drive a car to you know, buy a home,
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  Speaker 1: but anybody can have a child and then mistreat them.
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  Speaker 1: The mom says, quote that she was bearing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know who uses that word anymore. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, New Testament, I don't know. But
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  Speaker 1: that said, how dare she she's got his name tattooed
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  Speaker 1: on her body? Fits?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And what we've learned about the mother, Nancy, is that
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  Speaker 4: she's suffering from some severe mental health issues. Since October, NYPD,
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  Speaker 4: when they found out about Jacob being missing, has actually
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  Speaker 4: done quite a bit here. They've sent dogs into the
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  Speaker 4: apartment in Brooklyn, cadaver dogs that actually did hit and
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  Speaker 4: find the presence of blood, so that's very concerning. On
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  Speaker 4: top of that, NYPD has excavated over three million pounds
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  Speaker 4: of trash in Rochester, New York, at a landfill that
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  Speaker 4: services that apartment complex. So no Jacob, no answers. All
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  Speaker 4: signs have to lead to this mother and for these
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  Speaker 4: questions to be answered.
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  Speaker 1: I know, as she gets taken back and forth to
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  Speaker 1: Rikers because she won't tell anyone about the child, and
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  Speaker 1: just most recently another judge there in Brooklyn sprang her
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  Speaker 1: from behind bars and dismissed the case. Is that true,
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  Speaker 1: Dave mac one.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred percent true, Nancy. So Jackal and Pritchett is back
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  Speaker 2: out on the loose again. But hey, one thing to
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  Speaker 2: point out about these searches. Early on in the investigation,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking October here, as investigators were getting into this
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  Speaker 2: very very quickly, they brought out cadaver dogs and brought
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  Speaker 2: them to the apartment of Jackal and pritchet That's where
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  Speaker 2: dogs hit on blood on the refrigerator and blood on
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  Speaker 2: a mattress that was found by the dumpster outside. It
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  Speaker 2: is that mattress, blood and dumpster that led law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: to searching nearly three million pounds of broad garbage at
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  Speaker 2: the dump in search of this child, anything they can find.
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  Speaker 1: The last confirmed signing Jacob was April two, a property
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  Speaker 1: manager saw him, and earlier in twenty twenty five he
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  Speaker 1: waved from a window h early twenty twenty five with
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  Speaker 1: he waved to his aunt who was speaking to his
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  Speaker 1: mother outside. Now we also know that, according to NYPD,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob never went to public school and was being home schooled.
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  Speaker 1: Now right there, it reminds me of the Urpen children.
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  Speaker 1: There was no record of them. They were being horribly
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  Speaker 1: abused in the home, and when a child is taken
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  Speaker 1: out of regular school and is being homeschooled. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not knocking homeschooling, I'm saying that that's one less barrier
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  Speaker 1: to a child being mistreated because teachers and school employees
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  Speaker 1: are under a duty a duty to report if they
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  Speaker 1: suspect mistreatment or abuse. So when you take that safety
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  Speaker 1: net out of the equation, you have more children being abused.
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  Speaker 4: What about it?
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  Speaker 1: If it's Gibbons, I mean, I would think that school
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  Speaker 1: teachers would notice he's not in school anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, it's certainly a defense right that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: when this child is not integrated with society in any way,
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  Speaker 4: no one seeing him on a regular basis, he has
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  Speaker 4: no method to report to a safe adult about the
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  Speaker 4: conditions that he's living in or the treatment that he's getting.
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  Speaker 4: So that's certainly one component to it. You know, I'd
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  Speaker 4: love to learn more about what activities was he involved in,
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  Speaker 4: if any, Was he allowed to leave the house? You know,
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  Speaker 4: we see reports that his aunt had to wave to
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  Speaker 4: him through the window while she spoke to the mother outside.
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  Speaker 4: So this is a very disturbing case.
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  Speaker 1: It's also amazing to me that no one ever reported
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  Speaker 1: this activity to defects apartment Family Children's Services. She has
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  Speaker 1: his dB tattooed on her body, yet she says he
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  Speaker 1: never existed. If you know or think you know anything
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  Speaker 1: about the case of missing boy Jacob Pritchard out of Brooklyn,
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  Speaker 1: please dial toll free crime Stoppers eight hundred and five
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  Speaker 1: seven seven tips t I p S eight hundred five
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  Speaker 1: seven seven eight four seven seven, or go online to
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  Speaker 1: Crimestoppers dot n y p D online dot org. Please
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  Speaker 1: help us find baby Genesis and little boy Jacob. Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace signing off, We wait as just as unfolds. Goodbye friend,