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SPECIAL: Dad of missing tot girl Mariah Woods breaks down, ‘Baby, come home. Daddy loves you!’ PLUS: Is the Tampa serial killer nightmare over? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel
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  Speaker 1: one thirty two. Tampa police on the hut for a
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  Speaker 1: killer after the shooting guts of three people in ten days.
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  Speaker 1: We will hunt this son of a down until we
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  Speaker 1: find the Tampa's mayor doing what he can to reassure
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  Speaker 1: the public so that they've added a thousand street lights
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  Speaker 1: to the Seminal Heights neighborhood and that they won't stop
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  Speaker 1: until that killer is caught. Nobody comes into our house
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  Speaker 1: and does this not now, not ever, Authorities pouring over
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  Speaker 1: the great and surveillance video for clues looking at this
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  Speaker 1: person of an interest of walking alone and clearing a
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  Speaker 1: hood on the night of the first killing. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: go hunt him down and bring his head to me,
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  Speaker 1: and please to announce that tonight we will be making
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  Speaker 1: an arrest in the Seminel Heights murder. Tonight is the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of when justice will be served and then the
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  Speaker 1: process will occur when this individual roxon Hill, four people dead,
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  Speaker 1: an entire city gripped with fear. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa serial killer. But right now a crack in the
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  Speaker 1: case I may see, Grace. This is Crime Stories thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. I'm gonna go straight to
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  Speaker 1: a very critical police press conference. Listen. As you recall,
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  Speaker 1: on October nine, Benjamin Mitchell was twenty two years old
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  Speaker 1: and he was murdered. That was fifty one days ago.
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  Speaker 1: On October eleven, two days later, thirty two year old
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  Speaker 1: Monica Haffa was murdered. Eight days later, on October nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony n Iboa murdered twenty six days later. On November four,
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  Speaker 1: just two weeks ago, sixty year old Ronald Felton was murdered.
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  Speaker 1: We received over five thousand tips in this case. I
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  Speaker 1: am pleased to announce that tonight we will be making
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  Speaker 1: an arrest in the Seminal Heights murders. Our detectives are
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  Speaker 1: currently working on the charging document and we will be
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  Speaker 1: charging four counts of first degree murder for how Emmanuel Donaldson,
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  Speaker 1: the third, twenty four years old. Now, unfortunately I will
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  Speaker 1: not have the answers that you are going to want.
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  Speaker 1: This is an ongoing situation. We responded out to the
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  Speaker 1: area about two thirty this afternoon. We received some information
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  Speaker 1: about Mr Donaldson having a firearm at the McDonald's. One
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  Speaker 1: of his co workers approached a police officer. That is
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  Speaker 1: what led us to that through our investigation. Several hours later,
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  Speaker 1: we will be charging Donaldson, like I said, with four
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  Speaker 1: counts of first degree murder. I would like to thank
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  Speaker 1: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI, Florida
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  Speaker 1: Department of Law Enforcement, the Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office, the
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  Speaker 1: Florida Highway Patrol, the St. Pete Police Department, Pasco County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office, the University of South Florida p d in,
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  Speaker 1: the U. S. Marshall's Office, and several other law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: agencies have been assisting us. But more importantly, I would
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  Speaker 1: like to thank the people of Seminal Heights who have
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  Speaker 1: just been phenomenal in their support of our police department.
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  Speaker 1: It has just been their patients and their support and
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  Speaker 1: the way they have rallied behind the cops of Tampa
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  Speaker 1: has just been phenomenal. And the entire Bay Area, the
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  Speaker 1: way they have supported the men and women of the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Police Department in the neighborhood of Seminal Heights has
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  Speaker 1: just been awesome to see. Mayor, you know, fifty one
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  Speaker 1: days ago, I said this was a struggle between good
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  Speaker 1: and evil. Well tonight. Goodness has one tonight in the
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  Speaker 1: battle between darkness and light, light has won. It would
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  Speaker 1: not have happened without the amazing police work and the
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  Speaker 1: amazing partnership of the people that you see behind me,
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  Speaker 1: of the hundreds of men and women of the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Police Department that have been on this case for fifty
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  Speaker 1: one days. They put their lives on the sidelines, They
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  Speaker 1: put their normal jobs on the sidelines, and they focused
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  Speaker 1: on one thing, and that was to catch a killer.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how proud I am of them.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how proud I am of the
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  Speaker 1: partnership that we have with our fellow law enforcement agencies.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you, and I know. I speak for
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  Speaker 1: the people of Seminal Heights, who stood up with a
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  Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder, who never left during the tough times,
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  Speaker 1: who never quit on us, nor did they ever quit
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  Speaker 1: on the men and women of law enforcement. They had
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  Speaker 1: our backs and we had theirs. We could not have
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  Speaker 1: done this without their support, the support of this entire community.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight is the beginning of when justice will be served,
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  Speaker 1: and then the process will occur when this individual rots
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  Speaker 1: and health TPD did their job. The troopers did their job.
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  Speaker 1: F DLI did their job, the FBI did their job.
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  Speaker 1: Seminal Heights did their job. And tonight we're bringing someone
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  Speaker 1: to justice who doesn't deserve the right to walk amongst us.
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  Speaker 1: These folks deserve the credit. Now let's go bring justice
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  Speaker 1: to the families that are here today. Any questions about
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  Speaker 1: the bastard workers who initially brought this to the attention
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  Speaker 1: of the Tambo Police Department, Obviously they were very concerned
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  Speaker 1: spinting a gun. I don't know how much they knew
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  Speaker 1: about it, if this was actually as zero or or
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  Speaker 1: they were just concerned about it. We have to set.
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  Speaker 1: What I have to say is thank you, um for
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  Speaker 1: having the courage to step forward and doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if doing the right thing we're easy, then
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  Speaker 1: everybody would do it. And unfortunately we don't have enough
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  Speaker 1: of that. Uh. The people that helped us today are
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  Speaker 1: what makes this a great city and I just cannot
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  Speaker 1: thank them enough. We're not releasing anything like that is
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  Speaker 1: still ongoing. Uh. The charging documents are still being crafted
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  Speaker 1: and put together, so it's gonna be a time. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be some time before we can release any type
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  Speaker 1: of information like that questions, we're we're still going through
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  Speaker 1: the whole process. I don't know for sure that he
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  Speaker 1: worked there still. I believe at one point he did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he still does or did OI
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  Speaker 1: what I think when when when I found out there
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  Speaker 1: was a gun that uh and when I we looked
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  Speaker 1: at his description, it gave us a little more than
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  Speaker 1: what we've ever really had. We've run down some guns
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  Speaker 1: before running some other things. It just felt right. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of had a feeling that we were going to
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  Speaker 1: get a break. You know. Every day we would meet
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  Speaker 1: as a group and we would say what day is it?
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  Speaker 1: And today it was day fifty one, and we discussed yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I said, we're gonna we're gonna get a break this week.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to be optimistic. I can. I have
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  Speaker 1: a tendency to be uh. My glass is half empty
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  Speaker 1: sometimes and so I wanted to kind of pump everybody
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  Speaker 1: up and and for whatever reasons, we gotta break. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: stepped up and did the right thing, and that that's
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  Speaker 1: what we needed. We had said all along that no
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  Speaker 1: tip is too small, and somebody stepped forward and gave
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  Speaker 1: us what we needed. Were there there are several pieces
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  Speaker 1: that were we are having to put together, and so
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be more than one thing. And to
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  Speaker 1: get anything on this day without you don't get writing
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  Speaker 1: investigation on what that Laulers said, I know that you
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  Speaker 1: guys are running on top anyway, they they actually approached
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  Speaker 1: an officer on foot and had a conversation. So it
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  Speaker 1: was that conversation and then as far as we you know,
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  Speaker 1: we are still trying to figure out what they're tied.
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  Speaker 1: This person's ties to the neighborhood hood is. We're not
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  Speaker 1: sure why he was in this neighborhood. We're not aware
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  Speaker 1: of what his ties are, and we don't know what
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  Speaker 1: his motive is. We're but there's a lot more to go. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: we knew by coming out here tonight that we would
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  Speaker 1: probably create a lot more questions. But the real goal
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  Speaker 1: is to let the people of Seminal Heights be able
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  Speaker 1: to get a good night's sleep. It's been fifty one
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  Speaker 1: days that they've been terrorized in their neighborhood, and it
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  Speaker 1: is about letting these families know that we're gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: this person to justice and letting this neighborhood get some
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  Speaker 1: rest and hopefully try and put their lives back together.
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  Speaker 1: Really were talking to you in the family show. Um, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I talked to Monica Haffa's uh father on the phone
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  Speaker 1: through and through some text messages, but our detectives have
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  Speaker 1: reached out to all the family members. That was the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Police press conference regarding the Tampa serial killer. I
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  Speaker 1: is still on tonight for three year old Mariah Woods.
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  Speaker 1: The girl was last seen by her mother her home
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  Speaker 1: in ons Low County. The mother tells me she last
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  Speaker 1: saw her daughter in the home at around eleven PM
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  Speaker 1: when she checked on her. This is my world, This
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  Speaker 1: is my angel. She said her boyfriend saw the taller
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  Speaker 1: around midnight when he got up, and she says he
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  Speaker 1: told her to go back to bed. She was reported
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  Speaker 1: missing around six o'clock in the morning. For this girl,
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  Speaker 1: the bond that I have is my life. The child
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  Speaker 1: is white, three ft nine inches tall where he's thirty pounds.
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  Speaker 1: It has blonde hair and blue eyes, not making sense
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  Speaker 1: to me about where she could be at, who she
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  Speaker 1: could be with. Christie says she doesn't believe her child
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  Speaker 1: could have walked off, as she has weak bones and
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  Speaker 1: we're special braces to help her walk her don't never
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  Speaker 1: let her go. It gets to hold her tight. Did
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  Speaker 1: the search for a missing taught girl goes on. We
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  Speaker 1: are taking you now to Onslow County and the very
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  Speaker 1: latest in the search for Mariah Wood in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: This taught girl absolutely beautiful. She looks like a child
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  Speaker 1: star to me. In fact, Tom alexis fresh track. What
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  Speaker 1: was the name of the show where the twin girls
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  Speaker 1: were the stars? Toddlers? And what was their name? Now
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago, they're they're famous now one's of
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  Speaker 1: a model and one's married to some old guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What was that show? Full House? Full House? Yes, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was busy working during full House, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get to watch it. This little girl looks
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  Speaker 1: like then when when when they were little? And I
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  Speaker 1: keep seeing pictures of her in a pink dress. In
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  Speaker 1: every picture she's wearing a tiara and pink is involved.
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  Speaker 1: And she's absolutely precious. The Amber alert and now established.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone across the country knows about missing Mariah was listened
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  Speaker 1: to her mother's desperate Please, this is my world, this
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  Speaker 1: is my angel. You know she was sent to me
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  Speaker 1: for a reason. She was my meter cool. This is
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  Speaker 1: my everything, besides my boys. The love I have for
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  Speaker 1: this girl, the bond that I have is my life.
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  Speaker 1: Just please don't take that away. Bring her back. Alexi's
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  Speaker 1: terres Chuck joining us from writer online dot com. Alexis,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have covered so many missing children. Just
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  Speaker 1: give me the facts. Please. She was put to bed
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  Speaker 1: by her mother on Sunday night, she said, put her
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  Speaker 1: to sleep. She is three years old. She is about
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  Speaker 1: two ft nine inches tall. She only weighs thirty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: tiniest little thing. And Monday morning they discoveraged she was
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  Speaker 1: missing and they contacted the police. The thing about Mariah
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  Speaker 1: is you said, you've seen the pictures of her. She's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful little girl. She actually wears braces on her legs.
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  Speaker 1: She she is a little bit she she needs these
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  Speaker 1: braces to help her walk. She definitely has walking difficulties.
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  Speaker 1: She has braces on her legs. She's a three year
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  Speaker 1: old little girl, sweet, loving little girl with long brown
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  Speaker 1: hair and blue eyes. According to her mom, an extensive
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  Speaker 1: search underway, centering from the family home on Dawson Cabin Road. Helicopters,
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  Speaker 1: uh people walking elbow to elbow, deputies, firefighters, volunteers, all
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  Speaker 1: out trying to find Mariah. Would this is the call
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  Speaker 1: to arms and the search for this little girl. Now,
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  Speaker 1: our investigative reporter from crime online dot Com Lee Egan,
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  Speaker 1: joining us right now, leave, what have you just learned?
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  Speaker 1: The van that was at their home, a brown van,
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  Speaker 1: has been taken in for in town. Apparently there was
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  Speaker 1: something in there or something about that fan that police
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  Speaker 1: were interested about. And there seems to be some kind
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  Speaker 1: of smash window. I don't know how true that is.
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  Speaker 1: That's just what the locals are saying. But we do
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  Speaker 1: know that they do have the van and they are
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  Speaker 1: searching it, and apparently the van belongs to the family.
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  Speaker 1: I also know, Lee Egan joining me from crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot Com that the husband, the boyfriend that lives in
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  Speaker 1: the home with mom says the mom says she put
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  Speaker 1: Maria debat around eleven clock at night, which is late
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  Speaker 1: and questionable. But this little girl is not in school,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, she doesn't have to get up at
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  Speaker 1: six thirty or seven in the morning like mine do.
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  Speaker 1: And that the boyfriend slash husband says he saw quote
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  Speaker 1: saw the little girl at midnight and told her to
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  Speaker 1: go back to bed. Is that your understanding, Lee? Egan.
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  Speaker 1: My understanding is yet he saw the little girl, but
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  Speaker 1: he told the mother she's okay, got back to bed.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't actually tell the little girl to go back
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  Speaker 1: to bed, but he told the mother, I'll take care
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  Speaker 1: of her. It's okay, go back to bed. That's my
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  Speaker 1: understanding so far. It could be that he told the
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  Speaker 1: baby as well. But from what I'm gathering is that
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  Speaker 1: he said he was going to take care of the
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  Speaker 1: little girl and the mom to um. We also have
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  Speaker 1: a complaint to me report to ask you. Wilcott joining me,
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  Speaker 1: lawyer and renowned child advocate Melissa Hunter. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: Mariah's grandma says, mom puts my riot to bed at
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  Speaker 1: their home and checked on her at nine or ten.
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  Speaker 1: That's different. That's changing my timeline. I don't like that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's okay. You can enhance the timeline. But when
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  Speaker 1: you start changing, that concerns me because that means there's
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  Speaker 1: a conflicting story. Did you put her to bed at
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  Speaker 1: eleven or did you put her to bed earlier? And
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  Speaker 1: you're just going to check on her at nine o'clock?
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  Speaker 1: So uh, Hunter, the grandmother says, just as we are
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  Speaker 1: going to air, the mother goes to check on her,
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  Speaker 1: and Mariah was gone. And see, that's a totally different
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  Speaker 1: timeline than at nine or ten o'clock the baby's already gone.
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  Speaker 1: When another report says she was put to bed at
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  Speaker 1: eleven at midnight, the husband sees her and sends her
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  Speaker 1: back to bed. Now, I don't like conflicting timelines. You
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  Speaker 1: understand why, Ashley Wilcot. I do. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: something's tinky, something's amiss, and law enforcements doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying, we're investigating everything. We don't know what happened,
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  Speaker 1: but something isn't right. Those conflicting stories are too conflicting, right,
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  Speaker 1: There's it doesn't make sense. Now, listen to this. Christy Woods,
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  Speaker 1: who's Mariah's mom, is saying she discovered her daughter missing
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  Speaker 1: from their home at six thirty a m On Monday.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck? Just got Morgan? Help me out here.
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  Speaker 1: These can't all be true. She can't put her to
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  Speaker 1: bed and check on her, find her missing at nine pm,
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  Speaker 1: put her to bed at eleven, and she's up wandering
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  Speaker 1: around at midnight. And then, well, I guess it could
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  Speaker 1: be true that she discovers her missing at six thirty.
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  Speaker 1: So then you still got the dichotomy between missing at
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  Speaker 1: nine pm the night before and six thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't like it, just Scott, I don't either.
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  Speaker 1: It stinks and I'd be very curious to know what
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  Speaker 1: the source of these timelines are and why they're not
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  Speaker 1: matching up, because it is curious. I'd also like to
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what the scene looked like in this particular
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  Speaker 1: case when this thing was phoned in and wasn't locked down.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be very important moving forward from
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  Speaker 1: an evidentiary standpoint, and plus coupled that, along with nailing
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  Speaker 1: both of these principal adults down relative to the timeline,
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  Speaker 1: keep them separated and find out where everybody was when
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  Speaker 1: all of this happened. The very troubling piece to all
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  Speaker 1: of this is that this child is essentially non ambulatory,
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  Speaker 1: which means she cannot walk, probably without braces. Sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it might be some kind of developmental issues. She's very tiny,
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  Speaker 1: so she has to be she It's not like she
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: could just up and vanish out of the house and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: just wander away on her own. She's heavily dependent upon
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: her caretakers. I stay wide Amber alert for little Mariah
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: wood has been issued and we are all joining the search.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You know, Alexa's terres Chut writer online dot com. You
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: have a little boy, okay, And I don't know about you,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: but I still every time I get up in the night,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I go check on the children, both of them. I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: pulled the covers up, I stick their feetback under the covers.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I get them straightened out in the bed. Whatever's I mean?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And minor ten? But this mom is saying she let's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: just take one of the stories. And I'm not saying
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: she's lying. We're reporting what we know. There may be
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a simple explanation for this. Maybe the grandma heard it wrong,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: maybe the mom. You know, there's a lot of reasons
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: where there could be a conflict in what time she
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: went to bed. But I know this. I don't believe
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: there has been one night in the last ten years.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Alexis to res Chuck that I have not gotten up
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: at least twice in the night unless I was sick
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and checked on the children. But she's saying she goes
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to bed eleven, she doesn't notice the child has gone
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: until six thirty in the morning. Alexis well, and the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: grandmother also said, you know this little girl would never
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: wander outside in the dark by herself. Why is the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: grandmother even saying that my child would never managed to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: get out of his room and get out of our
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: house and just walk around outside. That that's so strange.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It seems to me that maybe the grandmother has been
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: told that the daughter wandered outside the house and that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: very suspicious, and I agree with that. Let me ask you,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcot child advocate. You're you have children one the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: same age as John, David and Lucy. Do you still
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: wake up in the night and check on them? Or
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: am I just the crazy one here? No? No, no,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I do the exact same thing.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Not only do I check on them every night, I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: also do the same. They wouldn't get out of my house,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: they would not wander outside. They wouldn't be able to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: wander outside there. I would wake up, I would, I mean,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you just it's hard to imagine somebody's saying, oh, yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: well it be too scared tonight to go out. My
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: kids wouldn't get out the door. Yeah I've got I've
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: got our place so tricked out with alarms and if
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you sneeze an alarm goes off and the Blaze are called.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to figure out how this whole
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: scenario happened. Let's talk about it to Dr Brian Russell,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: uh joining me, the host of investigation Discoveries, Fatal Vows,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: lawyer and psychologist and TV host Man. I don't know
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: if you ever sleep, but I want you to hear
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: what the mom also says. She says, this is my world,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: this is my angel. She was sent to me for
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a reason. This is my everything, beside my boys, the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: love I have for this girl, the bond that I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: have is my life. Please just don't take that. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm you know, a sucker, Dr Brian Russell,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: but it sounds like she means it. So here's the thing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: It does sound like this is not a walkaway situation.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: That sounds like this girl really couldn't have walked very
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: far under her own power. So it sounds like there
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: is an adult responsible for the fact that this girl
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: is missing. And what I can tell you is that
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: in almost all cases like this, the adult responsible is
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: one that is known to the child and to the family,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and so I don't think it's mutually exclusive for the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: mother to genuinely feel the feelings that she articulated that
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you just shared with the audience, but it also to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: perhaps I know some things, uh that that you know
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: ultimately will have to deal with the person who is
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: responsible for this. You know another thing I don't like
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: alexis terres Chuck. And I know you and Alan Duke
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are out there in your posh penthouse pads in l A.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: But I don't like the way people are treating them
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: because they live in a trailer. And let me tell
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you something. Um My Grant, my great grandmother. Okay, she
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: never finished high school. I don't think she got much
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: past the sixth grade. She was so smart. She worked,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: worked work. Her husband, I might add, Alan, Dee, listen up,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: would just leave in the morning and go to the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: courthouse and what's trials? Okay, that's where he would be. Well,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: she's working, all right, So she would work with work.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: She saved up enough. She didn't trust a bank, would
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: hide money in mason jars and bury them all around
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: their farm. Well, let me tell you something. She called
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in um the owner of this land that she was working,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and she brought in like the family doctor as a witness.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: They dug up every one of those jars, and after
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a period of years she had saved up enough to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: buy this huge tract of land. I'm talking about dozens
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and dozens of acres of land which later were developed
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: as a subdivision many years after her death. But she
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: uh dug up every one of those Mason jars and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: she had enough cold hard cash saved to buy the land.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, time went on, she worked the land,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: she sold, uh you know, produce off the land, She
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: raised animals on the less, she worked with her own
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: two hands. Ultimately she sold that land and she bought
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: a trailer, a streamline trailer, and put it parallel to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: my other grandmother's house where my mom grew up. And
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I remember go out there to her little silver trailer
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: as a little girl, parked out on this beautiful plot
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of land and threading needles for her. She's still so
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: but she couldn't thread the needle. So I don't take
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: very kindly. Two people pooh pooing, well, and that's been
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: their payment, that's been if she's in a trailer, And
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: so they're looking down on this crime and there maybe
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: aren't taking it seriously, but the police are taking it seriously.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They have issued an Amber alert and the FBI is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: involved now, and that means when the FBI gets involved,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: they that's about kidnapping, and then they worry that's maybe
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: she's being taken across state lines. So they have got
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the top law enforcement involved because they know that they
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: are taking this seriously. But what you're saying about her
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: living in a trailer and with the grandmother saying she
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: wouldn't walk outside at night, and you say you check
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: on your your kids every single night. I have a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: monitor where I watch Max every night because if I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: go in the room, he's gonna wake up and want
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to play. I think that this was a small house
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and that there may there's no way that they could
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: have not heard this little girl getting up, But strangers
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: on Alexis I'm hearing in my ear from Alan that
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: right now. We have local reporter Gerald Jackson with News
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Onslow dot Com joining us there in Onslow County, North Carolina.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Gerald Jackson, Hey, thank you guy for joining us. What's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the latest. Police are still searching for Mariah Woods. Police
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: don't know who has her, but a lot of people
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: are pointing him recording fingers at the boyfriend you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: saying that he may have something to do with her missing.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I know yesterday he was taking down to the back
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: down for the Shares deployment for interrogation twice after the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: initial interview. As far as what had happened to Mariah
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Woods Um, she was missed. She went missing sometime between
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Lema Clark t m Sunday evening at six o'clock eight
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: m um Monday morning. Her pajamas or nightclothes as she
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: had on was land beside the bed, so she was apparently,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: you know, walking around with some with panties on, pink
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: panties on pink and white panties on from you know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the underwear that she had on the night before they
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: put her and actually sleeping clothes. The citizens here in
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Onslow County are searching. A lot of citizens met up
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: at the in the area around seven o'clock to conduct
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: their own search. There's no sign of a break in.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: All we do know is Nancy, is that the door,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the back door of the home was open. That's what
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the parents have told police. That's what police have told
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: us the media. That's all that we know. There's no
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: force of a breaking and it's just don't sound like
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: something doesn't sound right. She's a disabled child. She wears
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: orthopedic braces. She cannot walk straight without those braces, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: she don't have those braces with her wherever she is
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: right now with me, right now joining us on the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: scene is Gerald Jackson with the news in Onslow dot
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Com joining us there in Onslow County, North Carolina. You've
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: given me a lot of new facts. Let me just
• 27:59
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• 28:02
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  Speaker 1: Mariah and joining me right now is Maria's biological father,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Alex Woods. And let me remind everyone Alex Woods is
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: in no way a suspect. As a matter of fact,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: he is front and center in the search for Maria,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: also with me, a well known figure around the world, Victims,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: writes advocate Mark Class, Pat Brown criminal profil er, and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Karen Stark psychologists out of New York. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go straight to Mariah's dad, Alex Woods. Alex, at a
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: time like this, I can't thank you enough for speaking
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to us and all of our listeners today that have
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: joined together praying for the safe return of baby Maria. Alex,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: when did you first learn Maria was missing? Monday morning?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: About eleven o'clock. I was at work and I heard
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the Ambia amber alert over the radio. You heard it
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: over the radio? Yeah? Oh, my stars? Did did? Did
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: nobody call you? Or now? My numbers got switched and uh, Christie,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the mother didn't notify me or nothing like that. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: had to hear it over the radio. The very very
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: latest of statewide amber alert issued for baby Maria. Now,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Onslo County Sheriff's Office and the FBI have released
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a villaince images showing a little girl walking with a
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: woman Monday around nine thirty a m. And a Walmart
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in Morehead City. Investigators want the public's help identifying both
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of these people. Let me ask you, Alex Woods, have
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: you seen these photos? Yes, ma'am? Do you believe that
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: could be Mariah? If I could see like a good
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: face shot, I'm hoping it is, you know, I'm hoping
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: she's safe and alive. I mean, I can't say a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: dent that it is, you know, because I don't get
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a good face shot of Well, wait a minute, let
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: me ask you this. Didn't she need her braces to walk? Yeah?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I think her braces was found at her mother's house. Outside. Well,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: this little girl, Alex Woods is walking. She's also being
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: held by this woman in Walmart and Morehead City, but
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: she's also pictured walking along beside her. Yeah, she can walk,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: but not not that good. You got a problem with
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: her left legs. She kind of like kicks it out
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean she can like take steps
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: without him. Right now, authority saying it's the premature to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: say what has happened to baby Maria. Um, let me
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: go to Mark class joining me along with Mariah's dad
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Alex Woods. Mark, you know the pain that Alex is
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: going through. Your daughter Polly was taken from your home,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: from her home and police came straight to your door
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and you cooperated completely. What should be happening right now? Mark,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: tell me what you think. Well, first of all, Alex,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I would like to extend my, my, my sympathy to you.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I know that this is a very difficult time for you,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and just stay strong. Work with the authorities. UM, answer
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: any questions that they may have. UH, keep doing shows
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like Nacy's shows so that people who are aware of
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: who Mariah is humanizer, so they understand, you know, what
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: a precious little girl she is, and so that they'll
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: be invested in her safe return. And if you do
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: things like that, uh, work with the police, work with
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: some media, work with any volunteers. If you happen to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: be in the immediate vicinity, UM, you're going to find
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: your daughter. And UH, that's I believe the best way
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to a successful resolution in this case. Mark Class. You know,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I pin a lot of hopes and belief and everything
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: that you say. I've never once known you to be
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: wrong in all the years you and I have fought
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: crime together. Alex Witch, I'm just reeling with the fact
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that you learned baby Mariah was missing. You're a little girl,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and you were in the middle of a vicious fight
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: for custody to get her to live with you at
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the time you heard it over the radio. Do you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: remember that moment you heard Mariah's gone. Yeah. I I mean, honestly,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was real. I heard her name
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: or anyone. I was like, what, no way, it took
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: him in a hint, And then I called my fiance
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I need you to look this
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: up and see if it's true, and it didn't read either.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, you know, nobody think that. And
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: then what happened, And then she called back and said
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: it was true that you know, if she wanted darn
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: And I got ahold of the Sheriff's office and they
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: came out and talked to me, and then I got
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I went home because they you know, they wanted to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: talk to me as soon as they could, so they
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: came to the job talk to me for a few minutes,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and then I came home and got all the paperwork
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and started everything that you know, we could start and
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: trying to help find her. And it's it's just a
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: going ongoing process. Everyone tipline four five five three three
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: four five five three three, All of you truckers out there,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: everybody on the road listening to Serious X two right now,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: help us, help us. Now. I know the pain of
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: losing someone after my fiance was murdered, but once I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: had my children, I cannot even imagine imagine what Alex
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Woods is going through right now. Pat Brown, criminal profiler,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: uh known all around the world, author of books. She
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: knows what she's talking about. Let's analyze what we know
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: about the disappearance itself, and Alex would listen closely to
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: what Pat Brown is saying, so I can come back
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to you and you can weigh in on her analysis.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Pat, Oh, right right away, Nancy, I'd like
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to ask Alex question, Alex, did Mariah's mom have your
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: phone number? She had a number and my fiance I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: did leave. Did she have what so she had a
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: way to contact you? Yeah, she knew, she knew where
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we lived. Do okay your friends and stuff like that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like a mix secret, right. I
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: think something very strange to me would just be that
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: if my child disappeared under these circumstances, I think the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: first person I would try to contact would be the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: father of my child, even if I wasn't a custody battle.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I first of all, I'd wonder if he knew anything.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I wonder if he came and got her, even if
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I was even if I was being angry about it,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: like hey, did you come and take my child? I
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: find it a little strange that she never contacted you.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I find that unusual. Yeah, me do. After they questioned
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: her everything like that they was she was telling the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: cops the first that I had her, that I probably
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: was the one have had her, And they came and
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: talked to me and looked and I didn't ever if
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: i'd had her at your tell him, well, it's I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: would think if she thought you had or she would
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: have been immediately making phone calls your direction. I think
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit unusual. Um, you know, that's what
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I think too. So I wouldn't know. Yeah, yeah, you know.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And as far as the video goes, Um, you know,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: one of the most difficult things with with if I
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: would find it strange too that if this soon after
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: your daughter disappeared, that anybody who had taken her would
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: be running around Walmart with her. But you know, one
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: of the difficulties with any of these, any kinds of sightings,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: is that so many children looked like so many other children.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Even as a parent, if I saw child to distance,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would. I would have difficulty
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: tried to determine if it was my child or not.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So you know that you're finding it difficult to figure
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that out. I got a question based on what you're
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: saying right now, Alex Woods, did you're the father of
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Mariah who is missing? Right now and we're trying to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: help find her. Did you see still photos of the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: child in Walmart? Or did you see video? I saw photos,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I ain't seen the video yet because Mark Class, the
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: reason I ask is she had a walking problem. She
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: has to wear braces like cerebral policy braces. She's got
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: a problem that hopefully she'll grow out of one day.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And when she walks, she slings out her right foot.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: So it's still photo doesn't do it justice, and you
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: can't see the little girl's face. And I agree with Pat,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna be her. I don't either,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: be honest with yes. I mean, I hope it is
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: so at least we know, you know she's alive and healthy,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: but I don't think it is. What about it, Mark Class, Well,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: it means that people are being vigilant, and I agree
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: with all of you that just probably not Mariah. But
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: people are being vigilant, are looking for her, and that's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the importance right now. We need as many eyes on
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: this little girl if we can possibly get because she
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: is somewhere and at some point they're going to find her,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and obviously the sooner rather than later, and more people
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that are looking the faster that will happen. I mean,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you know, Karen Stark, my longtime friend and psychologists well
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: known Adam, New York. Karen, you know the deal from
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: all the cases I've covered. My children just turned in.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: You know, i still sleep in the room with them
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: at night because I'm so freaked out about what could happen.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I know, it's crazy, you tell me a million times,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I don't need to do this. I don't sleep in
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the bed with them. Once in a while get up
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and go in another room. But you know, it's just
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: it can happen. It's likely to happen that a stranger
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: comes in and gets your child. No, can it happen? Yes, Karen,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: start games in Everybody's worth nightmare, Nancy. The idea that
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: something would happen to your children are similar to would
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: take them and Alex. I'm very very sorry to hear
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: about that. I think that everything you were told to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: do to stay vigilant, to be active, it's very important
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: right now that you get involved in this process of looking.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: It will really help you well your anxiety. You know,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: it's interesting. Careen, I'm gonna throw this to Alex and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: then the mom has made a plea. But he is
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: up front, just like Mark Class was when Paully went missing.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Alex Woods is out there answering the hard questions like
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: where were you at the time she went missing? And Alex,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: where were you at the time she went missing? And
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the night how was that mine and my fiancee's house
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: at our house? You know, I didn't know nothing about it.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Like I said about eleven o'clock, how is at work?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And how far away is your home from Mariah's? Five?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe ten minutes? Stops yep, and let me ask you this.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I know that there was a very very let me
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: just say, contentious custody battle. You wanted Mariah with you?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Why felt for their safety? I mean there well being
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: for all three kids, there was happier with me. They
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: was removed from her and the back a while back
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: in Chile service and then there was placing me for
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: about a month and a half. And then the next
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: thing you know, she went in live and falls side
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: documents and she got she got custody back at the kids.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Hold on learning something new right now? Are you telling
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: me that child services took Tiding away from her for
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: about a month. Yeah, In two thousands, sixteen, her boyfriend,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: physically abuser will Ryan him came with a belt unless
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: bruises on him and they said it yet he fell
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: off a bunk bed. Okay, this putting a whole new
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: light on this. If these allegations are true. We're hearing
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: from Alex Hoods and he is saying this is from
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: de Facts Department, Family Children's Services in some location CPS,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: child Protective Services. I can't confirm that right now, but
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: he is telling saying what Child Protective Services told him.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: And so they lived with you for a month and
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, that sure I did, and then she
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: got him back. Yeah, in April we got him. And
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: then like middle of May and the May, like first
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: part of June, she came in. She came and got
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: him because I wasn't home and my fiancee was home,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: but she didn't have like no legal rights to him,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: so she would be and the mother. She came there
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and snatched him up, and there was nothing we could
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: do about it. I mean, we went back and forth
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to court and she wins. Because I don't got an
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: all O question. Alex Woods is with me. This is
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: baby Mariah's biological dad who was in the middle of
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: an acrimonious custody battle to get his child back. What
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: do you know, Alex Woods, Because we're on the outside
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: looking in. Even as well known as Mark Classes, Pat
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Brown and here in Stark, we're on the outside looking in.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: What are police telling you about the conditions under which
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: she disappeared? They're they're may police saying that they're trying
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to Christie and her boyfriend are trying to say that
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: like she like just walked out the house, but the
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: front doors locked, the back doors open. I don't know.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: I think the police are kind of thinking that there's
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: like foul play involved, but they ain't. They ain't coming
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: out and saying that yet because they're trying to figure
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: it out. But they've searched the woods for two days
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: now with dogs, drones, helicopters. Didn't picked up her sent
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: nothing yours said go ahead. Christie dad said that he
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: feels that they're looking in the wrong spot, like she
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: ain't out in the woods with me. I don't think
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: he's in the wood either with us, is Alex Woods.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: This is Mariah's dad. We are all on pins and needles.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: We have recorders on the scene and on slow County
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and most important, we are all winning in prayer that
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Maria is found and brought home to you. Alex Woods, Alex,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: if you could speak to Mariah or the person that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: took her right now, what would you say, M please
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: bring my baby girl back home. Daddy loves her and
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: almost perfect little girls, nothing wrong to nobody. I just
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: want to safe and returned. I don't care. I just
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: want to please. I love you, Daddy loves your baby. Mr. Woods.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think you could have said anything more meaningful
• 45:40
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• 45:45
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