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HELP BRING ANIAH BLANCHARD HOME! Beautiful teen college student missing after Snapchatting with roommate about new friend. · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. I'm Nancy Grace. Right now we
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  Speaker 1: are on the trail of a missing team girl, Anaia Blanchard.
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  Speaker 1: Police just releasing surveillance the video of Anaia, the missing
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  Speaker 1: stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris. Where is Ania the
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  Speaker 1: Alabama college student absolutely stunning, last seen on video surveillance
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  Speaker 1: at a local Chevron station buying a bag of chips.
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  Speaker 1: She's never seen again. Disturbingly, her vehicle found almost fifty
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  Speaker 1: miles away, parked in an apartment complex with damage to
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  Speaker 1: the car, damage that was not there earlier. Help us
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  Speaker 1: bring Ania home. Crime Story Stories with Nancy Grace anew
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  Speaker 1: Harris here. Um. If you have any leads on where
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  Speaker 1: our daughter is and Niam Blatchard, please please please go
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  Speaker 1: to authorities. Tell someone. She was last seen in uh
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  Speaker 1: black Hanna CRV twout seventeen tag it's b actually excuse
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  Speaker 1: me four nine B two three five six BS three
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  Speaker 1: five six. I'm sorry. She was possibly last seen in
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  Speaker 1: downtown and Southeastern Downtown Auburn, Southeastern and Scott barn If
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  Speaker 1: you have any information, please please come forward. Just hearing
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  Speaker 1: the voice of Walt Harris, you may know him as
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  Speaker 1: the famous UFC heavyweight fighter, but hearing him along with
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  Speaker 1: his beautiful wife, Angela Harris, in their pain, distraught, begging
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  Speaker 1: for help literally sends chills down my body, all the
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  Speaker 1: way down into my boots. They need our help. We
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  Speaker 1: have got to help them find their teen girl, Anya I,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. As you all know by now, this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: young girl is gone. It is quote completely out of
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  Speaker 1: character for this teen girl to go missing. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: joining me, Karen Smith, Barbones Consulting, Karen Stark Psychologists out
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  Speaker 1: of Manhattan, Jeff Cortez, a former FBI special agent. Special
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  Speaker 1: guests joining me right now, Angela Harris and Walt Harris
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  Speaker 1: begging for your help. Tipline three three four two four
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  Speaker 1: six one three nine one Repeat tipline three three four
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  Speaker 1: two four six one three nine one. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go straight out to renowned FC heavyweight fighter Walt Harris. Walt,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? Um? We just got a confirmation that you know,
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  Speaker 1: our daughter was missing. UM. And we've been here for
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  Speaker 1: approximately a week trying to uncover what's going on and
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  Speaker 1: figure out where our daughter is. UM. And you know
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are. When when we're still looking. We're
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  Speaker 1: still searching. UM. We lead the public health Walt Harris
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  Speaker 1: and his wife Angela, begging for your help right now,
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  Speaker 1: Angela Harris with me. This is Ania's mother, Angela. When
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  Speaker 1: did you discover your girl is missing? Well with Last
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, received a phone call from our twenty year
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  Speaker 1: old son who also lived here, an offer and said,
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  Speaker 1: mom Ania didn't come home. And I said, what do
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  Speaker 1: you mean she didn't come home? He said, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Her roommate says, she didn't come home and we can't
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with the Walt. I immediately drove to
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  Speaker 1: Auburn from Birmingham, you know, desperately, just calling on her
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  Speaker 1: all the way there, just trying to get in touch
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  Speaker 1: with her, because she and I talked every morning. That morning,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think anything of it because she had some
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  Speaker 1: things to do that morning. We had been to a
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  Speaker 1: funeral the night before. She was with us, and I
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  Speaker 1: knew she was. She had to leave the funeral early
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  Speaker 1: to get to Auburn to take care of responsibilities the
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  Speaker 1: next day. And so when I called her that morning,
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  Speaker 1: when I took my other children to school and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer, I kind of was like, Okay, she she's busy,
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  Speaker 1: she had something to do this morning. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to her in a little while. So but I
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  Speaker 1: talked to Nayah every morning. We FaceTime. We don't just call,
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  Speaker 1: We FaceTime so we can see each on a space
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  Speaker 1: that we can spend time together since she lives two
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  Speaker 1: hours away from us. So it's like I say, when
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  Speaker 1: he called us, say that, we immediately just left and
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  Speaker 1: and came to Auburn and to see what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: And when we got to Auburn, we realized, wait, something
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  Speaker 1: is wrong. Our daughter has she has a dog and
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  Speaker 1: that dog is her baby. And she also is a
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  Speaker 1: babysitter and she was to take her her kids that
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  Speaker 1: she babysits to school, and she didn't show up for
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  Speaker 1: that and she would never, ever ever not get up
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  Speaker 1: to take care of those children, take care of her dog.
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  Speaker 1: And the later started getting the later we knew something
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  Speaker 1: was very wrong. Guys, please help us. We need your
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  Speaker 1: help so badly. The more I look into the case,
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  Speaker 1: the more I am disturbed. Blancher's stepfather, UFC heavyweight Walt Harris,
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  Speaker 1: has made many, many desperate pleas for information about the
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  Speaker 1: teen girls who whereabouts on social media. And now we
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  Speaker 1: are taking to the airwaves on crime stories on sirius
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  Speaker 1: to ask for your help. The car that Anya, the
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  Speaker 1: teen girl was driving the night she disappears in Auburn
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  Speaker 1: has been found fifty miles away in Montgomery. Repeat, the
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  Speaker 1: car that Anya was driving the night she goes missing
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  Speaker 1: in Auburn, Alabama was found fifty miles away in Montgomery.
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  Speaker 1: And I've looked at the car. There is damage to
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  Speaker 1: the right front and the passenger side of the car.
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  Speaker 1: To Walt Harris UFC, have youweight fighter, that's how you
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  Speaker 1: know that name. Tell me about the damage done to
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  Speaker 1: the car. That's what we want to know. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean the damage. There was damage to the front panel
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  Speaker 1: from what we can see from the images they showed us.
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  Speaker 1: And there's screeps that all down the size. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: believe her rich side review mirrors damaged. And that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much always Wait a minute, well right there, right there,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Cortesi, former special agent with the f B I
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  Speaker 1: you can find him a Jeff Coortzi dot com. Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: did you hear what he just said? Scrapes down the side?
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  Speaker 1: To me, that suggests that somebody may have another car
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  Speaker 1: may have pushed his car off the road. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like somebody just turned into it at a red light,
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  Speaker 1: like she was turning left and somebody came, no, h
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  Speaker 1: this not that at all. There are scrapes going down
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  Speaker 1: the side of it. What does that tell you, Jeff?
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  Speaker 1: If anything? You know, it's one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: it could tell us a few things. Obviously that that vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: if the damage did not exist prior to and his disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: could have engaged in some kind of altercation with another
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  Speaker 1: vehicle on the road. It could have been done intentionally
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  Speaker 1: hoping that she would stop, or it could have been
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  Speaker 1: a situation where something became heated on the road and
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  Speaker 1: that that impact took place through hostile activity. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Cortesi, come on, two and two is four? All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's not brain surgery and it's not rocket science. Her
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  Speaker 1: car was fine, guys. Let me give you what I
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  Speaker 1: know about the car. And it's a black Honda c
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  Speaker 1: r V. Black Honda c r V driving somewhere between
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  Speaker 1: Auburn and Montgomery. That's about fifty miles on a Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: All right. The car was fine before then. Now the
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  Speaker 1: car has scrape marks down the side, significant damage to
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  Speaker 1: the passenger side, and she's gone. It's not just a coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: Karen Smith, forensics expert, way in Karen, what I can
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  Speaker 1: see from these photographs, Nancy, and based on my experience,
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  Speaker 1: the scrape marks look they're linear, and when you have
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  Speaker 1: two cars that collide the scrape marks aren't linear. That
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  Speaker 1: tells me, in my experience, that it's a concrete barricade
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  Speaker 1: or a guardrail. I don't know if that's indicative of
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  Speaker 1: an impaired driver whoever was driving the car, if there
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  Speaker 1: was a struggle in the car, if there was distracted
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  Speaker 1: driving going on in the car. I don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: What I do know is that that car, since it's
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  Speaker 1: fifty miles away, that is now a key piece of
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  Speaker 1: evidence in this case. If there's foreign DNA, if there's
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  Speaker 1: male DNA, if you have fingerprints that are inconsistent with
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  Speaker 1: Ania Blanchard on or inside that vehicle, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go through it with a fine tooth comb
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  Speaker 1: and see if there's anything that does not belong in
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  Speaker 1: that car. Receipts, beer can, soda cans, anything that can
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  Speaker 1: hold DNA and fingerprints. They're going to have to collect
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  Speaker 1: it and process it and see if there's anything we
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  Speaker 1: can glean from any of us crime stories With Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: Her roommate texted her own snappat and said, hey, where
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  Speaker 1: are you? Um she said, or she said, are you?
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  Speaker 1: Almost told him and she said yeah and um she
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  Speaker 1: said where are you? And um, she said, I'm with
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I should give any names.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give any names. He said, she was
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  Speaker 1: she was with a young man, is what you understand?
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  Speaker 1: Just met and that is all. She didn't say how
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  Speaker 1: she met him, where she met him, where she was at?
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  Speaker 1: He could said she was with a certain person and
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  Speaker 1: that she had just met him, and um, yes, that
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  Speaker 1: is all. That is all we know. You're hearing our
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  Speaker 1: friends at w b RC Fox six. That's Mike Deverley
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  Speaker 1: and Janice Rogers trying to find Ania Blancher, a teen
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  Speaker 1: girl who seemingly vanishes. Straight out to our friend at
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  Speaker 1: ABC thirty three forty w b M a Ashley Gooden
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  Speaker 1: from Birmingham, give me the timeline of Annia Blancher's disappearance
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  Speaker 1: from Auburn Police put out the missing person report. They
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  Speaker 1: told us that it was around sometime Wednesday when she
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  Speaker 1: last spoke with someone, and so it was around eleven
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  Speaker 1: thirty Wednesday evening that a person said that they had
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  Speaker 1: spoken with Annihilist. Around Friday evening, they found her car
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  Speaker 1: in Montgomery, Alabama, at an apartment complex. Now Montgomery is
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  Speaker 1: about forty five minutes thirty forty five minutes away from Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: so of course that was something unusual. And when police
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  Speaker 1: did sign that car, it had some damage that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: there prior to making it to Montgomery. Police say that
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  Speaker 1: they packed her license plate in the South College area
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  Speaker 1: of Auburn, which is also around the area where the
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  Speaker 1: interstate is I eighty five to get to Auburn, so
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  Speaker 1: I mean, excuse me to get to Montgomery. In to that,
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  Speaker 1: there was surveillance video of Anayah and a gas station
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  Speaker 1: right before her car was paid. Those are those places
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  Speaker 1: close to each other. The gas station and where her
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  Speaker 1: car was pained with the license plate are close to
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  Speaker 1: each other. Let me ask you this. You said her
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  Speaker 1: tag was payed. What do you mean by that? Colins
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  Speaker 1: have a way of when they checked the cameras that
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  Speaker 1: are on the traffic lights, they can see the license
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  Speaker 1: plates and so it was an instance of seeing one
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  Speaker 1: of those and figuring out that was Aniah's car. It's
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  Speaker 1: a parents' worst nightmare. In joining me right now, Angela
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  Speaker 1: Harris is is Anaia's mother and renowned UFC heavyweight fighter
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  Speaker 1: Walt Harris. Walt Harris, what can you tell me that
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  Speaker 1: cops are saying about what if anything they fine inside
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  Speaker 1: that black condescy RV that she was driving. Um, that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. We haven't gotten any information about what was
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  Speaker 1: actually inside the car. UM. You know, we're waiting on
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  Speaker 1: that news today. I think they're having a briefing. UM,
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  Speaker 1: we will be brief UM. So you know, it's just, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of what else and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't knows and we just want clarity, UM for our sanity.
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  Speaker 1: My wife is really dealing with the heart. UM, I'm
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the heart. Our families are dealing with the heart.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a lot of love and support from everyone
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  Speaker 1: down here, but we just need to know where we
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  Speaker 1: are and what's going on. I mean, I just pray
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  Speaker 1: today we get those answers. It's so so significant that
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  Speaker 1: she was out that night, that she was snapchatting as
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  Speaker 1: late as eleven ish that night, eleven ish on close
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  Speaker 1: to eleven thirty on Wednesday night, snapchatting with her roommate. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: she's a Homewood native. She's going to Southern Union State
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  Speaker 1: Community College in Wady. She goes missing, but we do
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  Speaker 1: have a development in the case. Listen, Yeah, they really
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  Speaker 1: they okay, they just tell us, you know, different pieces
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  Speaker 1: of what's going on. They um, they talk about you
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  Speaker 1: know what. You know, they really hadn't discovered much. They
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  Speaker 1: pretty much is um they under standstill when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to that. So it's really they haven't really give us
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  Speaker 1: an update and you know, they just um it. It's
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  Speaker 1: really it's really those senses the cases, those senses where
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  Speaker 1: they can't tell us too much. So they can't tell
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  Speaker 1: us if you know, they just got on that it's
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  Speaker 1: considered considered the foul play. Um. You know. But they
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  Speaker 1: got so many different entities involved. They got the FBI involved,
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  Speaker 1: they got the d they got a Homeland Security, they
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  Speaker 1: got um the drug dry tables atf and a federal marshalls.
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  Speaker 1: But they hadn't been able to give me any thank
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  Speaker 1: concrete since they since they seen the video and the
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  Speaker 1: video came out about her in the convenience store. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard much after that. You were hearing bio Dad
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Blanchard speaking. Now we know there is convenience store video.
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  Speaker 1: To Walt Harris, what video? Tell me about the video?
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  Speaker 1: In the video, Um, she's dying about the chips. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and she's from what I can tell, very tired. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And she just looks like she's about to go home.
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  Speaker 1: And that's pretty much the last time she was seeing
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  Speaker 1: um alive from what I see or you know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you a couple of specific questions. Where
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  Speaker 1: was that? Was that a convenience store? Um? The coveni
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  Speaker 1: store is on South College. What city it's in Auburn?
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  Speaker 1: What time was the video? I believe it was even
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  Speaker 1: spot then twenty. She was at the store. She purchased
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  Speaker 1: a back of Salton vinegar potato chips. Okay, Angela Harris
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  Speaker 1: with me, this is an ie mom. Tell me what
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  Speaker 1: you know about that video. Angela Harris, I know that
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  Speaker 1: she she went into the store, and UM, she did
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  Speaker 1: look tired. We had a very long day that day,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, we had lost a very close family
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  Speaker 1: friend in a car accident, and her and her son
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  Speaker 1: drove from Auburn earlier that day to come be with
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  Speaker 1: with their family and our family and um go to
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  Speaker 1: the funeral. And it was already six thirty when she,
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  Speaker 1: you know, said mey mom in allogity to go. It's
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  Speaker 1: getting late and they had a four hour drive. So
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  Speaker 1: I know that Anya is a homebody. She she likes
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  Speaker 1: to go to bed early. Yeah, she's a college student.
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  Speaker 1: Of course she goes out from but when she gets
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  Speaker 1: tired and she gets sleepy, she's ready to go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: So that video told me I could see my baby
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  Speaker 1: in her face, and I knew it wasn't her like
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  Speaker 1: she just she was tired. And I know in my
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  Speaker 1: heart that her plan was to buy her some chips
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  Speaker 1: and go home, because if that's her thing, she'll buy
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  Speaker 1: her a snack and she'll go go, you know, eat
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  Speaker 1: a snack in her bed or something before she goes.
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  Speaker 1: And that's evident by her empty chip bags, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in her Nightstandum. But yeah, that's what I saw from
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  Speaker 1: the video. And I was just tired and she was like,
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  Speaker 1: I just I'm just ready to be home. Guys, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the disappearance of a gorgeous young team girl.
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  Speaker 1: She was snapchatting after eleven o'clock with a friend. She
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  Speaker 1: said she was gonna see a guy she had just met,
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  Speaker 1: and she's pictured at a convenience store on video and
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  Speaker 1: she We believe this is the last known video that
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  Speaker 1: we have of her. Take a listen to our friends
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  Speaker 1: at w VTMAS at chip. Scarborough Police release surveillance video
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  Speaker 1: from the night of her disappearance. Auburn Police say this
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  Speaker 1: is nineteen year old Anniah Blanchard inside a convenient store
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  Speaker 1: on South College Street in Auburn last Wednesday night, the
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  Speaker 1: same night investigators say she was last heard from. Jack
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  Speaker 1: Owens is a retired special agent with the FBI. He
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  Speaker 1: says missing person cases get more challenging with every day
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  Speaker 1: that passes. At this point, a lot of leads and
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  Speaker 1: manpower have already been used up. You may have to
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  Speaker 1: revisit all of them since we don't have her. Officers
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  Speaker 1: found Blanchard's car in the parking lot of a Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: apartment complex on Friday night. They say the car was
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  Speaker 1: damaged between the time she disappeared Wednesday in Auburn and
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  Speaker 1: when the car was found Friday. The fact there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of space between there and where we found her
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  Speaker 1: car that opens up all kinds of highway checks and
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  Speaker 1: leads along that highway. What place, what kind of place
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  Speaker 1: was open at that time of night? You got to
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  Speaker 1: visit everything. Crime stories with Nancy Grace trying to find
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  Speaker 1: Annia Blancher, a teen girl she has never quote up
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  Speaker 1: and disappeared before. Go to crime online dot com where
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  Speaker 1: we are posting the last known video of Annia Blanchard,
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  Speaker 1: the teen girl missing, so you can look at it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at a photo of her right now. Absolutely beautiful, long, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: shiny brunette hair, big brown eyes, beautiful smile. She's wearing
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  Speaker 1: a silver necklace with a heart on it. Her debit
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  Speaker 1: card was last used Wednesday night, eleven twenty pm. I'm
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  Speaker 1: guessing to Angela Harris, her mother, that was at the
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  Speaker 1: convenience store to get the chips. Do you know about
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  Speaker 1: that ATM Purchase? Yes, ma'am. That's actually how we discussed
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  Speaker 1: ourselves that night. We had so many of our friends
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  Speaker 1: to come immediately in family, and we were just we
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  Speaker 1: were helpless. It didn't know what to do. So we
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  Speaker 1: were just sitting in a parking lot, just sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the ground and we're like trying to find something, and
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  Speaker 1: because we couldn't get into her Venmo, well, we got
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  Speaker 1: into her email and we saw the Venmo purchase for
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  Speaker 1: two dollars and seventeen cents and we couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 1: what it was, and we taught We told the police
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  Speaker 1: that hey, look, she thought she bought something at at
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  Speaker 1: a Chevron here at Auburn, please go see to get
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  Speaker 1: the video. And so what they did and that's when
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  Speaker 1: we saw that she purchased a bag of chips. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if they have videos from outside the Chevron stationed
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  Speaker 1: there in Auburn, for instance, was there a car that
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  Speaker 1: pulled out after her? Did she have a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: someone like say, hey anything as she was walking out?
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  Speaker 1: Has the person who sold her the salt vinegar chips?
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  Speaker 1: Have they been interviewed? And that gives me an idea
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  Speaker 1: as to which way she was going. We know where
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: her car ended up, we know where the Chevron station is.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Which way did she go? And then we would pull
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: her Villa's video along that perceived route. But let's take
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a look at her psychologically. Who is teen girl a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Nia Blanchard? Take a listen, just she has a personality Um.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Anytimes she woke in the room, she lights the room up. Um.
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  Speaker 1: He just has a smile that everybody just catch. His
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  Speaker 1: attention to so many people and he's a genuine person.
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  Speaker 1: She she never meets a stranger in and you know
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: she she's just so I'm trying to come up with
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  Speaker 1: a word. Um. She's very older man. She's us. She
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: likes to be there at first, like to early, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: she likes to leave early if he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: on time. She is just a real structured and sweethearts.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: He's a real I mean, she has a heart of
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  Speaker 1: gold and she want to make sure everybody's okay. You
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: are hearing bio Dad Elijah Blancher speaking to Crime Stories
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: exclusively about his daughter's disappearance to Karen Stark Psychologists. You
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: can find her at Karen Stark dot com. Joining us
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  Speaker 1: out of Manhattan, Karen. She's a homebody, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: like Lucy, my little girl. She's a homebody. We go
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Lucy want to go out from Mexican. No, Mom, please
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  Speaker 1: go home and cook, which you know is fine with
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: me because I can put veggies in her. John David
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the opposite, He's ready to go have tennis shoes will travel.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That's him very different personalities. Annia Blanchard is a homebody.
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  Speaker 1: What is this all telling you, Karen? Very disturbing, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: And first of all, I want to say to the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: parents that my heart goes out to you if this
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  Speaker 1: has to be crushing the whole family, and I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: But what it says to me, Nancy is this is
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: very suspicious. I know truly what it's like to be
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the kind of kid that doesn't really want to cause
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: any problems, that prefers to stay home like Lucy. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: this is extremely troubling because it's out of character. You
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: want to pay attention to anything that's out of character.
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  Speaker 1: So she's not somebody who would run off with a guy.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: According to this information, something is happening that's not okay.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the guy, Angela Harris, why aren't they releasing
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: his name? I don't get it. Where did they? Where
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: does she maybeam? Where? What was happening? No, we don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: know who it is. We don't know who it is.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: We have no idea. We don't know who it is.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: We the police have not like like her father was
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and what was saying. They're not giving us But this
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and pieces of information, and we have no idea who
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: this person is. We just know, we don't even know
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: if it was a Niam making no snapchat text messages
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to her roommate. It does sound like her the way
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: she would talk, but we have no absolutely no idea,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and that's why this is so hard. We have nothing
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to go on, and we are demanding wait a minute,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, I want to follow up on what
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you just said, Angela. So they were snapchat texts, they
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: were not pictures, they were just words, right, interesting, interesting,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Now wait a minute, Angela, you said that it sounded
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like her vernacular, in other words, the way she would talk. Yes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: why do you say that? Why do you say that?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Because the way she was her roommate, she was talking
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to her roommate. Her roommates said, you know, I wish
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you would have like she said, are you on your
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: way home? And when Annia said that she was with
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a certain I can't say the name, but I'm with
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: this person, and her roommate says, who is that? And
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: she said, I just met him, and then she said
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I'm She said, well, I wish you would have let
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: me known. I waited up on you I'm going to sleep.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I love you, and Anya said, I'm so sorry. I
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: love you too, And that's the last thing that she
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: said to her roommate. Now, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Did Anya have a boyfriend, Angela, No, she didn't have
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a serious boyfriend. There were there were boys that she friended,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: no serious boyfriend at all. I'm trying to get to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the crux of who this guy is. So she is
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: in a Chevron gas station in Auburn getting chips at
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: around eleven twenty and that she was alone, right, unless
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I'm missing something in that video. But yet this snapchat
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: check says she's with somebody, But she was anybody with
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: her in the video. The police are telling the police
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: are only showing us a bit, a little snippet of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the video. They're saying that they could not see anyone
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: in the car, but they cannot tell us one. And
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that's why right now we are we are getting angry, Nancy.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: We are getting We have been through every emotion in
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the world they should ever imagine, and now we're just
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: getting angry and we want answers. Person, Well, how often
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: are you going to the police station to Walt Harris,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the stepfather UFC heavyweight fighter walk. Are you going to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the police station every day? Um, in the beginning the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: first two or three days, yes, and then they would
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: come to us and brief us and then not just
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: slowed down to the point where we were calling them
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to home see us. That's not what right, that's not right,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you know. And and and that's the part that's angry and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: me because if you know we need information, I feel
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: like you should be coming forward with it at your leisure,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you know, like you should just be giving it to us.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And it feels like we're having a fish information and um,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's the days are accounting, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that's where you're giving us. Well, I gotta tell you something.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something, Walt. Now, when I was
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: working cases for all those years in Inner City Atlanta,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I mean I would had on tunnel vision blinders, like
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a horse running a race. All my eyes were on
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: was the prize, and that was seeking justice. They may
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: be so in it, they're not thinking of the courtesies
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of calling and the niceties of all that. But but
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know that's true. Jeff Cortesi, you're a former
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: special agent with the FBI, for Pete's sake, help me out.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I could. I really think that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: one of the strong foxibilities is we're not hearing a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: lot right now because they're working. The fact that they
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: haven't made mention of who that boy is is um significant.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: The fact that they haven't said, you know, we ran
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: this down and come to a conclusion that this is
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not related, or that this was not true information, or well,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, Jeff, you know I always agree with you,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: but how can it not be related? She meets a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: guy that night and she goes missing, her car is
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: damaged that night. They are connected, Jeff. They have to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: be connected in some way. And that's what I'm saying,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And that's what I think. That's why I believe that.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Well why did I just have to say all that?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: If that's what you're saying, say it, man. Yeah. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I think that the fact that we're not hearing a
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: lot about that is an indication that they're working those angles.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: If there was nothing there, they would say there's nothing there.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: The fact that the law enforcement has gone quiet generally
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: mean that they are working certain things, and to expose
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: certain information would leave them vulnerable to mishaps. Along the way.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: They want to focus their attention on getting your daughter.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, Jeff, I hate that, I hated,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I hated, I hate it, but it's true. Sometimes you
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: cannot release information or it can screw everything up. Okay,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: this is what we know. The investigation is continuing. If
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you have information and guarding a Nia's whereabouts, call Auburn Police.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the number the detective division is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: three three four five zero one three one four zero
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: repeat three three four five zero one three one four zero.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: There is an anonymous tip line three three four two
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  Speaker 1: four six thirteen ninety one repeat three three four two
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  Speaker 1: four six one three nine one. If you know something
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: about a Nia's disappearance, if you were in the convenience store,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: if you saw what you thought was a car accident
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night, I asked Wednesday night between Auburn and Montgomery,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a black Honda, please help us. You can call anonymously
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: three three four two four six one three nine one.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I want to circle back
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to Angela Harris. They need our help. We have got
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to help them find their teen girl. Anya. Take a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: listen to our friends at w VT and the family
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: says that people need to continue to talk about this
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to bring evidence forward and help police in this investigation.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And going back to that video, it's on this street
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: where police say that nineteen year old student was seen
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: before she was reported. I'm gonna saying this is the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: last time nineteen year Oldanya Blanchard was seen. Auburn and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: police releasing a new video of the team entering a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: convenience store on South College Street shortly before I witness
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: accounts say her black twenty seventeen Honda CRV drove southbound
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: on South College Street Saturday. The vehicle found at an
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: apartment complex in Montgomery, almost an hour away from where
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the surveillance video was taken with a certain person and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that she had just met him. Anaya's family still desperately
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: searching for the Southern Union State student. They say they
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: won't rest until they bring their loved one home. Is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: definitely looking for her safe return and yeah, she's somebody
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that she's a fun, loving and happy Say something something,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Say something, safe return. Montgomery Police and Auburn Police have
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: created a joint investigation along with the FBI, the Alabama
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Law Enforcement Agency, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and other
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: agencies dedicated to the safe return of the nineteen year
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: old student to Angela Harris, what do you think, Angela,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: because this sounds very unlike Anniah Blanchard to say at
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: eleven twenty at night, I just met a guy and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: then I'm going out with him, right, and that that
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: is not I do not think that was in a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Nia's plan. Something has went wrong. I don't know. I've
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: ceculated everything that I could speculate. But what I do
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: know is, and let me say this, I know the
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: police are working. I know they are, but it is
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: so frustrating. But I'm We're trying to let them do
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: their job because we do not want to hinder anything
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: about bringing our baby home. So I don't you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want to discredit him at all. But I
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: know that my daughter her phone was dying. Her brother
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: told us her phone was die when she dropped him
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: off at eleven and eleven o'clock at his house in Auburn,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and he she had not mentioned to him about going anywhere,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and he said, Mom, if I knew she was gonna
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: be going anywhere, I would have given her my charger.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: They didn't she didn't have a car charger. And also
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: what tells me that I know ah Nia was planning
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: on going home. She was in the store, she had money,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: She had money to buy a charger. Her walk just
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: gave her money when she left. She could have bought
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a charger for her phone if she thought she was
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be out for any length of time. So I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: just can't. I just cannot make any sense of this.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I just do not. I just don't know, Nancy what happened.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I just know that's not my daughter. Angela, Angela, Angela, Listen.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I know you're not attacking the police. I know you're
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: just at the end of your rope, right and you're
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: hanging on trying to find your girls. And every time
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I look at her picture, I see my Lucy right right. Guys,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: please help us. Three three, two, four, six, one, three
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: nine one. I've given you all the numbers. Ashley Gooden
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: WBMAABC thirty three forty joining me out of Birmingham. What
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: more can you tell us, Ashley? On the heels of
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: this community losing Camille Cocake McKinney, people are really on
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: high alert and fully invested in searching for Anaiah because
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: We aren't wanting to lose someone else in our community,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: especially not someone so young with such a future ahead
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: of them. This girl is missing. There is time to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: bring her home safely, and if you don't have a tip,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: please join us and pray that Anaiah is brought home
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to her family. We wait as just as unfolds C
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Gray's crime story, signing off goodbye friend.