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Teen girl lured by online sex predator, kept in cage, starved, sex assaulted (Part 2) · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A teen girl goes missing
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Speaker 1: and we learn the worst. We learned that she has
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Speaker 1: been held in captivity in a cage for over a year.
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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. How did it happen?
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Speaker 1: How did a teen girl end up being held in
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Speaker 1: captivity for over a year, being denied food, being subjected
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Speaker 1: to water torture, and, in a stunning, stunning blow to
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Speaker 1: Lady Justice, the guy who makes off with her, Michael Wisselovsky,
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Speaker 1: is walking free. I want to introduce to you Helly,
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Speaker 1: the victim in this case, the teen girl mother Shawn
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Speaker 1: up Burns, and her father Anthony Burns. Tell me about
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Speaker 1: the moment you discover, Heley, your little girl is gone.
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Speaker 1: It was a Monday morning and I went in to
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Speaker 1: get her up for school, five or thirty in the morning,
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Speaker 1: so it was dark in the house, no one else
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Speaker 1: was awake. I immediately knew she was not in her
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Speaker 1: bad What did you do at that moment? I started
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Speaker 1: searching other places in the house that I thought she
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Speaker 1: might have moved to, like the couch. What was going
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Speaker 1: through your mind? What feelings were pulsing through your body?
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Speaker 1: She has to be here, somewhere. She has to be here, somewhere.
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Speaker 1: I just have to find her. That was the idea
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Speaker 1: that she had left, or that she wasn't here, never
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Speaker 1: even crossed my mind. And then after searching every square
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Speaker 1: into the house and establishing that she wasn't here, that's
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Speaker 1: when I woke my husband up and I came into
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Speaker 1: our bedroom and I said, Tony, Haley's not here to
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Speaker 1: Anthony Burns, this is Haley's dad. Do you remember that
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Speaker 1: moment that Shanna comes out. I'm sure it's still dark,
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Speaker 1: probably getting now around six six fifteen. What happened in
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Speaker 1: your mind? What's your recollection? I? Um, you know, even
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Speaker 1: sitting here right now, I'm tearing up a little bit, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: because um, as a parent, you know, you know my
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Speaker 1: daughter never tried to run away before, or never been
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Speaker 1: lured away before. It's a better way to put it, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, as soon as my wife, I'm so glad
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Speaker 1: you just said that. That's got to be clear. This
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Speaker 1: child did not run away. It is away. It is
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Speaker 1: she was lured by an online predator. She is a
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Speaker 1: child in the eyes of the law. What went through
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Speaker 1: your mind, Anthony. I ran out of bed and I
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Speaker 1: immediately went to her bedroom. I couldn't see her in there.
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Speaker 1: I was just kind of waking up, and I went downstairs.
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Speaker 1: As I went down, there's a look at her front door,
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Speaker 1: and the front door was unlocked, and it was a
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Speaker 1: little bit left adrift. And at that point I knew
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Speaker 1: someone had left through the front door. Either someone had
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Speaker 1: come in the front door or someone had walked out
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Speaker 1: of the front door. I didn't know at that point.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Aerial Placincia WCNC Charlotte. The seventeen
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Speaker 1: year old disappeared from her home back on May twenty third,
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Her family told us then she has Asperger
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Speaker 1: syndrome and left home without her medication. Last year, her
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Speaker 1: family told NBC Charlotte they tried to limit their daughter's
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Speaker 1: use of the computer after discovering she had been talking
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Speaker 1: to strangers online. According to The Observer, Burne's father said
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Speaker 1: she left a diary behind that detailed a plan to
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Speaker 1: run away with a thirty two year old man she
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Speaker 1: met online. Her family says she did not have a
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Speaker 1: cell phone, but still they believed she was able to
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Speaker 1: communicate with someone and left to meet that person. Do
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Speaker 1: you believe that this guy, Michael Weiselovski was telling her
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Speaker 1: what to do, to dress differently, to act differently. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we know he was absolutely Yeah. The school gave her
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Speaker 1: a Chrome pad. She had an IEP, which is an
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Speaker 1: individualized education plan because she special needs. One of those
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Speaker 1: accommodations was she's never to be online unsupervised. And yet
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Speaker 1: she's still communicating with this grown man. She's printing out
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Speaker 1: pornographic images in the school library. Did this? They did
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Speaker 1: not monitor it like it should? How did this guy
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Speaker 1: find err In? Where? How my pro ana chap website?
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Speaker 1: It is a website for people that have anorexia, that
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Speaker 1: don't want to hide it, that don't want to go
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Speaker 1: get help for it, that want to keep their anorexia
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Speaker 1: and are proud of it. Well, and if I could,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't that Hayley felt like she was anorexic.
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Speaker 1: It was that she didn't know what was wrong with
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Speaker 1: her and was trying to find discover through her own
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Speaker 1: means and self diagnosed so that she could change all
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Speaker 1: the bad things that kept happening to her. So she's
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Speaker 1: out in an anorexia support group trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: if maybe that has something to do with their problems,
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Speaker 1: and then she bumps into this guy who's in his thirties,
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Speaker 1: who has been in this chat room before and has
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Speaker 1: met other women, and has taken advantage of that relationship
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Speaker 1: by saying he's a mentor that can help them, as
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Speaker 1: opposed to someone who is going to then take advantage
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Speaker 1: of them, which is what ultimately happened, not only in
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Speaker 1: my daughter's case, but in several others. Here is Alisi
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Speaker 1: Lato's WSOCTV lawrence reveal the level of abuse a charlatean
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Speaker 1: endured while being held captive in Georgia for more than
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Speaker 1: a year. The documents day that Michael Wislovsky can find
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Speaker 1: Haley Burns in an upstairs bedroom of Histolouth home, telling
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Speaker 1: her that she would be arrested if she left. Wislovsky
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Speaker 1: reportedly controlled every aspect of his seventeen rold captive's life,
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Speaker 1: keeping a food journal detailing how many calories she'd eaten
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Speaker 1: each day, and withholding food from Haley if he thought
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Speaker 1: she'd eaten too many calories the day before. Doctors at
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta hospital who examined Haley after she was rescued
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Speaker 1: determined she was suffering from malnutrition, according to Warrens. Her
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Speaker 1: parents told Channel nine she lost fifteen to twenty pounds.
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Speaker 1: Haley Burns disappeared from her Valentine home in May of
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. This past weekend, the FBI responded to a
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Speaker 1: tip and tracked her to a home in Georgia. Our partner,
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Speaker 1: so tell me when you first got any inkling where
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Speaker 1: she was and when he first to her the name
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Speaker 1: Michael Wylovsky Sea. It was on June twenty three, is
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Speaker 1: about eight forty seven at night. Tony and I had
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Speaker 1: just sat down to watch a movie, and we'd gotten Showmars,
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Speaker 1: which is a local restaurant here in Charlotte, and we're
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Speaker 1: just getting ready to eat, and I got a Facebook
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Speaker 1: message from a woman I did not know in Romania,
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Speaker 1: and she said, are you the mother of Haley Burns.
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Speaker 1: And I responded back and I said yes, and she
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Speaker 1: said I'm in communication with her. She's safe and she
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Speaker 1: wants to come home, to which we had been informed
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Speaker 1: by the FBI to be very careful because people will
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Speaker 1: call you and say, I know where your kid is,
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Speaker 1: but you have to give me money. Psychic people will
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Speaker 1: try to take advantage of you. So I was a
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Speaker 1: lot more skeptical, let's say, than Tony was. Tony was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, it's her. They sent. She sent a
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Speaker 1: picture of Haley, and Tony was like, that's definitely her.
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Speaker 1: But I still needed more I needed. I said, ask
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Speaker 1: Kyle something that only Haley would know. And I have
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Speaker 1: a dent in my head from when I was hit
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Speaker 1: in the head of the hammer when I was a kid.
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Speaker 1: Very few people know that. And Hailey said, tell my mom,
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Speaker 1: she has a big dent in her head from a hammer.
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Speaker 1: And that is when I knew immediately that is my daughter.
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Speaker 1: And we it was like an old fashioned game of
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Speaker 1: telephone because Haley is chatting on a chat room with
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Speaker 1: this woman in Romania. The woman in Romania is on
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Speaker 1: a tablet with me face timing. I am on I
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Speaker 1: am communicating with my voice to Tony who's on his
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Speaker 1: phone with Pete, our FBI agent contact, who, by the way,
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Speaker 1: was at Disney with his family on vacation when all
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Speaker 1: of this happened, and he stepped up in the middle
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Speaker 1: of everything and didn't We felt so bad, but he
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Speaker 1: was so happy to do it, even though he was
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Speaker 1: on vacation with his family at Disney and then Pete
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Speaker 1: was on his phone with the detectives in Georgia, so
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Speaker 1: every question took five minutes to ask for them to
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Speaker 1: ask Pete, to ask Tony, to ask me, to ask
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Speaker 1: her to ask Hayley. So the process took a little
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Speaker 1: while longer than normal. But after about fifteen minutes, we
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Speaker 1: had established that it was Haley and we were then
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Speaker 1: just trying to establish where she was. But she did
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Speaker 1: not know where she was. She said, she said, I'm
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Speaker 1: in a brick, a two story brick building in Georgia,
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Speaker 1: and that's that's all we knew. Now everything's filtered through
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Speaker 1: the woman in Romania, so she's giving her more information
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Speaker 1: than she's giving us because she's just trying to be
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Speaker 1: quick about it. Oh, so we were I was asking,
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Speaker 1: you know, is there are there planes that fly overhead?
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Speaker 1: Is there do you hear trains near you? Is there
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Speaker 1: running water? Is there a local pizza place and he
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Speaker 1: orders pizza from that? Maybe there's a name on it.
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Speaker 1: And we were just frantically trying to figure out whatever
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Speaker 1: information we needed to find her, And ultimately it was
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Speaker 1: a picture she had taken a picture from her window
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Speaker 1: from where she was. It was a cross street and
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Speaker 1: I used that information to find her to Anthony Burns,
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Speaker 1: Haley's dad. Do you remember that moment you got the
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Speaker 1: text or the email, Because when somebody says it was
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Speaker 1: this day to eight forty seven pm, that strikes me.
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Speaker 1: I've never had that type of specificity. When I was prosecuting,
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Speaker 1: people didn't know what day it was, what month that was.
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Speaker 1: But you guys remember the exact time you heard Haley
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Speaker 1: was alive. Well, we haven't discussed the three hundred and
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Speaker 1: ninety nine days prior to this one. But when when
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Speaker 1: you get any kind of an egg of anything that
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Speaker 1: can tell you what happened to the one that you love,
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Speaker 1: then you you know it's it's an amazing change, and
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Speaker 1: it's like a new energy kind of came through us
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Speaker 1: when we finally had a relevant lead. And I had
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Speaker 1: probably given Pete, our FBI agent, fifteen leads over the
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Speaker 1: last three hundred nine nine days, none of them relevant,
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Speaker 1: and every time I would call them, I would say, Pete,
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Speaker 1: I don't think this one's going to be a good one,
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Speaker 1: but we should it out anyway. And this time I said, Pete,
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Speaker 1: we know where she is. This is actually her. She's
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Speaker 1: in danger, but we know, we know where she is.
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Speaker 1: We need to act now, and he acted during those
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety nine days. Did you think she
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Speaker 1: was alive? Did you think she was dead? Did you
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Speaker 1: think she was being held captive had run away? What
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Speaker 1: was going through your mind during those three hundred and
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Speaker 1: ninety nine days. I gotta tell you something. I just
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Speaker 1: had to go to La. I was working for Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: you know the Hallmark movies and mysteries, and they're like
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Speaker 1: a second family to me. But I've got to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I count the hours. I go, Okay, this is going
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Speaker 1: to be four days, and then I start back timing
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Speaker 1: the hours because I'm so miserable away from the twins.
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Speaker 1: What was going through your mind for three hundred and
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Speaker 1: ninety nine days, Anthony, I am. I pretty much fell apart.
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Speaker 1: I would wake up in the mornings and it's crying.
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Speaker 1: I would try to be quiet so that my wife
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Speaker 1: wouldn't hear me, or crying the shower and cry on
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Speaker 1: the way to work. I went through a very deep depression,
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Speaker 1: but I tried to keep it together as best as
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Speaker 1: I could because we needed to have something for her
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Speaker 1: to be able to come home too. So I went
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Speaker 1: through therapy, and I started working on myself. I didn't
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Speaker 1: blame the people around me. I started contacting involving the media.
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Speaker 1: One important thing, Nancy, that made this all the more
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Speaker 1: difficult for myself. About three days in Our trash day
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Speaker 1: is Wednesday. And this all happened on a Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: In the Monday morning. I woke up and late at
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Speaker 1: night on a Tuesday, and I realized that our trash
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Speaker 1: was going out the next day. And I looked over
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Speaker 1: at my wife and I said, the trash is going
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Speaker 1: out tomorrow. We should go and check it out. And
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Speaker 1: she said, there's nothing in there. You know, it's probably
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Speaker 1: not worth it. And I said, we should definitely do it.
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Speaker 1: So I went out in my boxers and I took
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Speaker 1: the trash can into our garage and I pulled out
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Speaker 1: all the bags and I found Hailey's trash bag that
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Speaker 1: she'd thrown away that weekend before she left. And in
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Speaker 1: the trash bag there were laws for interstate transport of
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Speaker 1: a minor across state lines, the ages of consent for
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Speaker 1: each state across the country. And I believe very strongly
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Speaker 1: that he had printed he had pointed her towards that
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Speaker 1: so that she would know what the penalties would be
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Speaker 1: if he was caught doing this, so he was he
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Speaker 1: was coaching her on how to leave without being monitored
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Speaker 1: or caught. And that's one of the reasons why for
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety nine days there were no leads
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Speaker 1: and there are no credible ones until this lead finally
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Speaker 1: came in. Seeing that, you know, I really believe that
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Speaker 1: was the Lord, because this is a funny story. I
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Speaker 1: had my grandmother's engagement ring, and that's what I wore
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Speaker 1: was my wedding band for a long time, and I
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Speaker 1: always kept it by the bad and sometimes when I
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Speaker 1: was pregnant, I couldn't make it fit on my fingers,
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Speaker 1: so I put it in tissue and stick at my
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Speaker 1: broad keep it with me at all times. Well, I
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Speaker 1: put it by the bed one night it was still
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Speaker 1: in the tissue. Went to our church in New York
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Speaker 1: and was sitting in the balcony, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: I had a thought. We had a friend staying with us.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Chris is going to throw away that tissue.
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Speaker 1: You better call him right now. I got up, I
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Speaker 1: walked out of church. I called our friend visiting Chris.
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Speaker 1: Sure enough, he had thrown away the tissue. He went
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Speaker 1: down all the way down to where all the trash
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Speaker 1: is for the entire apartment building in New York. He
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Speaker 1: spotted our bag. He found our bag, He found the tissue,
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Speaker 1: and saved my grandmother's engagement ring. Okay, just like something
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Speaker 1: got you in the middle of the night and said
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Speaker 1: go get that trash. But finding that did it relieve
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Speaker 1: your anxiety? Did you feel Okay, she ran away, She's
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Speaker 1: not been kidnapped and dead, She's run away. No, or
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Speaker 1: or did it work the other way? It worked the
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Speaker 1: other way, because I mean it kind of confirmed. So
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Speaker 1: I mean I I immediately went into kind of detective
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Speaker 1: mode because I knew that, you know, it wasn't just
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Speaker 1: about what the police did, It was about what anybody did.
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Speaker 1: And we were the closest ones and knew her routines
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Speaker 1: and everything the best. So I started searching through her room.
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Speaker 1: I started, you know, anywhere and everywhere I could find anything.
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Speaker 1: And I knew that that timing was important and that
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Speaker 1: we would only get one opportunity. And I guess I'd
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Speaker 1: seen movies where you know, the trash had been taken
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Speaker 1: and they just missed it, and it had that one
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Speaker 1: clue that it might have been the one to get
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Speaker 1: us there, But I think it made it harder because
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Speaker 1: at that point I truly knew an adult was involved
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Speaker 1: and that it was, And that makes it even scarier
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Speaker 1: to me to know an adult is involved. She didn't
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Speaker 1: just run out on her own. Guys joining me, Seana
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Burns along with Troy Slaton, California defense lawyer
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Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley detective as Stephen Lampley dot com, Ellen Kolorin
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Speaker 1: at crime online dot com. This guy, Michael Wislowski holds
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Speaker 1: little Halley in a cage, a cage for a year,
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Speaker 1: over a year, monitoring everything she ate, nownourishing her, forcing
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Speaker 1: her into six acts in exchange for food to Anthony Burns,
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Speaker 1: how did they find Wiselovsky? So when when the police
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Speaker 1: knocked on the door of the house after my daughter
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Speaker 1: essentially taking a picture out of the window to lead
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Speaker 1: them there, they they came knocked on the door. He
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Speaker 1: apparently had been downstairs drinking beer and playing video games
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Speaker 1: on his computer, and my daughter was on the second
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Speaker 1: story on a with a floor to ceiling gate, confining
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Speaker 1: her on the second story to get access to the downstairs.
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Speaker 1: And when they the police knock. He came and answered
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Speaker 1: the door, and they said who who are you? And
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Speaker 1: then they said are you here by yourself? And he
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Speaker 1: said no, I am here with my wife Alice. Oh
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Speaker 1: my stars, and so then I guess at that point
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Speaker 1: they said, well can we speak to Alice? And so
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Speaker 1: they went. He went to the gate and he unlocked
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Speaker 1: the gate and said get your get the fake ID
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Speaker 1: to my daughter and my daughter had a fake ID
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Speaker 1: that he'd given her that was of his ex wife
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Speaker 1: who who. She then took the ID downstairs. The police
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Speaker 1: then asked her who she was, and she used the
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Speaker 1: wrong name to the police, which immediately made the police
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Speaker 1: aware that there was something obviously wrong, and they already
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Speaker 1: knew something was wrong, but that just confirmed it. So
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Speaker 1: they separated Michael at that point took him outside. And
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Speaker 1: at that point my daughter then opened up and said,
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Speaker 1: my name is Haley Burns. I'm a missing person and
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Speaker 1: I want to go home. And then what happened? And
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Speaker 1: if my mom and I want to go home? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I missed my mom and I want to go dad.
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Speaker 1: It was it was definitely more yeah, you get that
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Speaker 1: in there, Shawna. I miss my mom and I want
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Speaker 1: to go home. Thank you for moms all over the country.
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Speaker 1: It was mom for sure. You know my husband all
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Speaker 1: the time says, look, I get it, you're the mom.
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Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be part of it. And there's
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Speaker 1: nothing nothing like being a mom. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: When did you learn they found her? At twelve forty
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Speaker 1: seven h that night, So at eight no, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: At twelve fifty four, eight forty seven, we got the
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Speaker 1: first message twelve fifty four, Pete says, she's safe. You
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Speaker 1: need to to Atlanta. We have her get to Atlanta
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Speaker 1: because we were in Charlotte and they were outside Atlanta
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Speaker 1: and that's where they took her, was to the police
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Speaker 1: department in Atlanta. So we then immediately got in the
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Speaker 1: van and drove to Atlanta and got there by two thirty.
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Speaker 1: It is a three and a half hour drive and
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Speaker 1: we spent the whole way. But we got to this
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Speaker 1: tiny little police station. It's a small town, so the
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Speaker 1: police stations aren't open all the time, and they had
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Speaker 1: to open this one up specifically, like a police officer
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Speaker 1: had to come in his pajamas with the keys to
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Speaker 1: open this police station for us. And when we went
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Speaker 1: in and saw her. She just ran up and hugged me,
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Speaker 1: like she melted into me. She hugged me so hard,
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Speaker 1: and we were just overwhelmed with such sense of relief
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Speaker 1: and joy to have her back and to know that
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Speaker 1: she was safe. And what was amazing was while we
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Speaker 1: were there with her, all of these uniform police officers
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Speaker 1: just kept trickling in and trickling in, and by the
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Speaker 1: end of it, there was so many of them just
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Speaker 1: standing around, crying and just so happy to be a
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Speaker 1: part of having her come home to us. And it
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Speaker 1: was I can't even explain how amazing of a feeling
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Speaker 1: it was to hold her again and to know that
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Speaker 1: she was safe. Can you tell me what she endured
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Speaker 1: Sean during that time? The way that she explained it
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Speaker 1: was he was not nice. He was not nice. That
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Speaker 1: is that is how she explained it to us. And
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Speaker 1: in the beginning we had very little time with her alone.
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Speaker 1: It was there was FBI, and there was police, and
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Speaker 1: there was like detectives, and then there was victim advoicates,
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Speaker 1: and then there was doctors and nurses, and it was
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Speaker 1: a long time before it was just me and her.
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Speaker 1: And I looked at her and I said, you know
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Speaker 1: what happened, And she said, Mom, he was not nice.
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Speaker 1: He was not nice at all. And we didn't really
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Speaker 1: learn what had happened to her from her. It took
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Speaker 1: her a very long time to be able to talk
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Speaker 1: to us about it. We learned from the doctors, from
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Speaker 1: the doctors in the hospital what had happened, and from
20:53
Speaker 1: the police officers and from the evidence of the house.
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Speaker 1: But we know that he raped her. We know that
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Speaker 1: he tortured her, he starved her, he manipulated her, and
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Speaker 1: secluded her from everything that had anything to do with us.
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Speaker 1: There were Haley and I are very close, always have been,
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Speaker 1: and we have all of these things that we do together,
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Speaker 1: like one of them was that we used to love
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Speaker 1: to watch the TV show Bones, because I love Bones.
21:23
Speaker 1: She was a foster kid who grew up and did
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Speaker 1: good things with her life, so I love that show.
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Speaker 1: And if he knew about something that reminded her of me,
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Speaker 1: he would not let her watch it. He would not
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Speaker 1: let her listen to it. He would not let her.
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Speaker 1: You can't do that because it'll make you think, your mom,
21:37
Speaker 1: you can't do that, because let make you can do that.
21:39
Speaker 1: She was never allowed to speak of us he would
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Speaker 1: beat her if she mentioned us. She mentioned that she
21:43
Speaker 1: missed us, so secretly, when she missed me, she would
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Speaker 1: watch Bones because he didn't know that I liked Bones
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Speaker 1: and that she liked Bones, And so when she missed me,
21:53
Speaker 1: she would secretly watch episodes of Bones to remember that
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Speaker 1: there were people out there that loved her. Online dot
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Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter, What have we learned from police that Haley,
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Speaker 1: this little team girl, endured at the hands of her kidnapper, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: What we have learned is that this sick predator took
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Speaker 1: advantage of the very thing that he had met this
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Speaker 1: team through, which was a possible eating disorder. And what
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Speaker 1: he did was he used food to control her. He
22:29
Speaker 1: forced her to perform sexual acts. A team girl forced
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Speaker 1: or perform sexual acts so that she could eat. If
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Speaker 1: she went past a certain calorie amount on a certain day,
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Speaker 1: then she would be deprived of food the next day.
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Speaker 1: He held her captive. As we heard, she was so
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Speaker 1: confined for over a year that when she finally was
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Speaker 1: able to get some help, she didn't even know where
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Speaker 1: she was. Neighbor said that they didn't even realize some
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Speaker 1: of them, that there were anything anyone living in the
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Speaker 1: home because it was drawn so dark, so Detroy s Layton.
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Speaker 1: How do predators like Michael Wislowski go under the radar
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Speaker 1: for so long? Nancy? A predator like this is so
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Speaker 1: conniving and is so smart and take such pains to
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Speaker 1: conceal their illegal activity that a person in a normal
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Speaker 1: neighborhood may not even know that something like this is
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Speaker 1: going on next door to them. And he was able to,
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Speaker 1: in a sense use the laws of the state of
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Speaker 1: Georgia to to inure to his benefit. What we know
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Speaker 1: now is Michael Wislovski, a thirty three year old man,
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Speaker 1: please guilty to first agree cruelty to a child and
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Speaker 1: interference interstate with custody. He gets ten years sentence, but
24:02
Speaker 1: is now out on straight probation. He has walked free
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Speaker 1: on straight probation. The ten years sentence is to be
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Speaker 1: served on probation. Take a listen to Lauren pose in
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Speaker 1: and action used to Atlanta Macaebokowski wanked in to court
24:24
Speaker 1: next to his attorney Thursday afternoon to change his plea
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Speaker 1: to guilty. The judge accepted it and ruled Rokowski will
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Speaker 1: serve ten years on probation and also gave him credit
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Speaker 1: eight months for time served in confinement while he was
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Speaker 1: in jail, But before accepting the police, the court her
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Speaker 1: testimony from Hailey Burns and her parents. A second I
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Speaker 1: left my home, my life, says North Carolina teen says
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Speaker 1: she met him online and disappeared from her parents home
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Speaker 1: in Charlotte. She told the court she was held captive
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Speaker 1: in his Duluth home for an entire year. Burne says
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Speaker 1: Rokowsky tortured her and made her do sexual things for food.
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Speaker 1: Her father, Tony Burns, told the judge every time he
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Speaker 1: would hear of a dead body, he feared it was
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Speaker 1: his Haleypas teach their kids to be scared of. Haley's
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Speaker 1: mom added that Bolkowski doesn't seem sorry for his actions.
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Speaker 1: You want not a minister because you're a pitiful man
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Speaker 1: who remember that actions have consequences. Now, after the hearing,
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Speaker 1: I spoke with the prosecutor. He told me Haley's family
25:19
Speaker 1: they're satisfied with the outcome today in court, but they
25:22
Speaker 1: really really would have preferred to see the defendant behind bars.
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Speaker 1: The ten years sentence is to be served on probation. Yes,
25:33
Speaker 1: he's registered as a sex offender, but when has that
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Speaker 1: ever stopped a sex offender from re offending. Stephen Lampley
25:41
Speaker 1: Detective Stephen Lampley dot com. I learned quickly. I didn't
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Speaker 1: need to look at a statistic to learn it. I
25:48
Speaker 1: found out that burglars, child molesters, and sex offenders can't stop.
25:55
Speaker 1: Oh one more peeping tom's. They can't stop. Now. I
25:58
Speaker 1: don't know why. I'm not a shrink, but I can
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Speaker 1: tell you they don't stop. They don't stop until they're
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Speaker 1: six feet under. So this guy, Michael Wizawowski, thanks judge,
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Speaker 1: is going to reoffend. I just don't know how, when,
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Speaker 1: or where, but he is going to reoffend Nancy. That's
26:18
Speaker 1: that's correct. I learned early on when we started this
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Speaker 1: new undercover division to work pedophiles. I learned early on
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Speaker 1: from some of the experts that you're correct. This this
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Speaker 1: is just my a a condition that can be rehabilitated.
26:35
Speaker 1: Once you're a pedophile. It doesn't go away. It's not
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Speaker 1: something they can be fixed. It's not something they can
26:41
Speaker 1: be rehabilitated. It's not something that's going to stop. It's
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Speaker 1: going to kind of perpetuate and continuing answer crime stories
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Speaker 1: with me. It's a grace. I can take joy in
27:04
Speaker 1: one thing, and that is that Haley Burns is alive
27:08
Speaker 1: and well and reunited with her family. Seana, how is
27:12
Speaker 1: she progressing now we've been in therapy. We're in therapy.
27:16
Speaker 1: She has three different therapists who got to therapy every
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Speaker 1: single week, and it is three steps forward, two steps back,
27:22
Speaker 1: five steps forward, four steps back, but there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of steps forward. She has good days and bad days.
27:28
Speaker 1: And it's been very difficult with the trial because it's
27:32
Speaker 1: hard to have any closure until after the trial, until
27:35
Speaker 1: after the hearing, until after everything's done. Since the last
27:37
Speaker 1: year and a half, we've just kind of been in
27:39
Speaker 1: window waiting for this. But now that this is done,
27:42
Speaker 1: we can have closure with it. We can move on
27:44
Speaker 1: and we all aren't like a big weight has been
27:47
Speaker 1: lifted off of our family. So we're all in a
27:49
Speaker 1: better place as far as like handling this. Take a
27:53
Speaker 1: listen to victim Haley Burns speaking in court. So a
27:58
Speaker 1: much time I tried to write this, it sounded melodramatic,
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Speaker 1: so I decided to stick to the facts. When Michael
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Speaker 1: Wislawski and I started corresponding, I was fifteen years old
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Speaker 1: about to term sixteen and vulnerable. I was physically unable
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Speaker 1: to process the gravity of our conversation, and he manipulated
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Speaker 1: me heavily, taking advantage of my mental illness to push
28:17
Speaker 1: me closer to his desires. I backed up twice and
28:20
Speaker 1: he bereaded me, pushing me to commit to him and
28:23
Speaker 1: his idea of a life for me. The second I
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Speaker 1: left my home, my life was ruined. The first week
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Speaker 1: why Sulowski had me in his home, he did unimaginable
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Speaker 1: things to me and irreparably broke my spirit and sense
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Speaker 1: of self. This abuse proceeded for fifty six weeks. I
28:38
Speaker 1: developed severe OCD about a month after why Slawski was
28:41
Speaker 1: released on bond, an escalation from a previous minor disorder.
28:45
Speaker 1: I checked blocks, successively, counted steps, tiles, items and numbers,
28:49
Speaker 1: and classified everything and everyone I knew into safe and
28:52
Speaker 1: unsafe classifications, hoping he would not hurt me again. It
28:56
Speaker 1: took me over a year to partially recover from a
28:58
Speaker 1: severe eating disorder. From severe eating disordered habits directly related
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Speaker 1: to his starving me and refusing me food, which went
29:06
Speaker 1: hand in hand with my OCD. He lowered myself, esteemed greatly,
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Speaker 1: and led me to believe I would never be loved
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Speaker 1: or have a proper life if I gained any light.
29:14
Speaker 1: I developed problems with intimacy, rejection, and attachment which goes
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Speaker 1: without saying, but I still feel me too mentioned. I
29:20
Speaker 1: also developed severe fears of water, such as showering, drinking, rain,
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Speaker 1: swimming due to water torture, and fears of sleeping due
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Speaker 1: to being in the same bed as him. I severely
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Speaker 1: mutilated myself comiga would become unlovable so no one would
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Speaker 1: hurt me again as why Solowski did. I am permanently disfigured.
29:38
Speaker 1: I also have suffered from deep depressions, lack of drive,
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Speaker 1: and an inability to motivate. I am now taking medication
29:43
Speaker 1: to keep it in check, which for a long time
29:45
Speaker 1: I was also phobic of, directly related to his tendency
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Speaker 1: to drug me. I suicide thrice since I escaped by
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Speaker 1: Silowski and I'm unable to have normal relationships without fear.
29:56
Speaker 1: I am unable to navigate social situations due to how
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Speaker 1: he kept me from the outside the world and still
30:00
Speaker 1: fear of human interaction sorry as an abuse tactic in
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Speaker 1: order to keep recomplacent to captivity. I cannot navigate retail
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Speaker 1: or even walk down the street alone without panic attacks.
30:13
Speaker 1: This has inspired agoraphobia. Oh my stars, what that family
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Speaker 1: had to go through. This is what I know. According
30:21
Speaker 1: to the FBI, an average child molester will offend two
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Speaker 1: to four hundred times before being caught. If ever, the
30:33
Speaker 1: vast majority of offenders are never caught, so they have
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Speaker 1: no criminal record. And according to the FBI, only one
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Speaker 1: out of ten cases of child sex abuse is ever
30:46
Speaker 1: reported to law enforcement. So for this one time he's caught, there,
30:54
Speaker 1: according to statistics, have been other instances and will be
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Speaker 1: other instances. This guy is walking amongst us now, Seana
31:08
Speaker 1: and Anthony. People don't get it. They don't get it,
31:12
Speaker 1: and I didn't either until I started studying it. The
31:17
Speaker 1: lures online, the chat rooms. Who would have thought this
31:22
Speaker 1: guy was targeting her at school when she's on her
31:25
Speaker 1: school chrome book after you monitor everything, so cut and
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Speaker 1: what And he was smart enough to do it on
31:32
Speaker 1: the school chromebook because we legally we could never have
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Speaker 1: access to those records because they have to protect the
31:38
Speaker 1: confidentiality of the other children. So yes, they absolutely could
31:43
Speaker 1: have used that and they could have scanned it and
31:44
Speaker 1: they could have found him. But legally he knew it
31:47
Speaker 1: because it was public property at the school. They would
31:50
Speaker 1: the FBI would never even have the jurisdiction to do that.
31:53
Speaker 1: Can I just tell you that tonight, when the children
31:55
Speaker 1: come home where the chromebooks from school? You know who's
31:57
Speaker 1: going to go lock herself in the bathroom and read
31:59
Speaker 1: every email that they've gotten. And that's thanks to Shauna
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Burns. Another thing I want to tell you,
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Speaker 1: and believe me, in the media circles, this is like
32:09
Speaker 1: dropping a stink bomb in the room. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: hear about this, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I
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Speaker 1: believe the Lord brought you back to your daughter, and
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Speaker 1: I believe the Lord has a plan for you and
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Speaker 1: for Helly and your children. And I also believe that
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Speaker 1: by you speaking out today, thousands and thousands of people
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Speaker 1: are going to hear your voice and maybe it will
32:37
Speaker 1: make a difference in just one life. Anthony, what is
32:42
Speaker 1: your message to other parents that are listening right now,
32:46
Speaker 1: listening to us on Sirius, listening to us on Crime
32:49
Speaker 1: Stories podcasts. What have you learned? What is your advice?
32:54
Speaker 1: What is your message? Thank you very much, Nancy. You
32:59
Speaker 1: know I had a great life. Up until this happened.
33:02
Speaker 1: I thought things like this just don't happen. You know,
33:05
Speaker 1: you you live in a good neighborhood and you're doing
33:08
Speaker 1: all the right stuff, and you just got to prune
33:11
Speaker 1: your headges every every weekend. But the reality is everyone
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Speaker 1: is susceptible to this. It doesn't matter how careful you are,
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Speaker 1: how on top of things you are. If you're not
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Speaker 1: on top of things for one week and you allow
33:24
Speaker 1: one of these guys to warm into your life and
33:28
Speaker 1: separate you on any level from your child, then you
33:31
Speaker 1: could be calling the media sitting there for three hundred
33:35
Speaker 1: and ninety nine days not knowing whether your daughter was
33:37
Speaker 1: alive or dead. And I don't want anyone else to
33:40
Speaker 1: go through that. So take precautions. Know what your child
33:43
Speaker 1: is doing, Communicate with them, keep a good relationship, even
33:46
Speaker 1: if it's difficult and they not always are warm and
33:49
Speaker 1: fuzzy to you. Don't stop trying to be an influence
33:53
Speaker 1: on them and to use what you know to help
33:55
Speaker 1: them be better. You know what, I'm going to play
33:58
Speaker 1: back what you just said million times and listen to it,
34:01
Speaker 1: because it is not always easy. Seana Burns, what is
34:05
Speaker 1: your message today? To moms and dads hearing your voice.
34:13
Speaker 1: My number one message would be that, like my husband said,
34:16
Speaker 1: you need to love your children even when it gets difficult.
34:19
Speaker 1: I have three kids that have special needs, and sometimes
34:22
Speaker 1: I lose sight of the little kids that's in there
34:25
Speaker 1: behind the bad behavior and behind the problems. You lose
34:30
Speaker 1: sight of that little kid that still loves you and
34:32
Speaker 1: still wants to connect with you. And that's the number
34:36
Speaker 1: one thing is if you lose that, then they can
34:38
Speaker 1: weasle their way in and then they can get in there.
34:41
Speaker 1: So never ever ever let your kids distance themselves from you.
34:45
Speaker 1: Stay as close to them as you possibly can, and
34:49
Speaker 1: never ever ever let them feel that you don't love them.
34:52
Speaker 1: No matter what they do, no matter what their behaviors are,
34:55
Speaker 1: you always love them, You always support them, you always
34:57
Speaker 1: have them. And if you're in a situation where your
34:59
Speaker 1: child this missing, never give up. You keep looking for
35:04
Speaker 1: your child. You search through every freeing Craig's lift back
35:08
Speaker 1: page for months. If you have to define your kid,
35:12
Speaker 1: you never stop looking. Ever, they could be out there
35:17
Speaker 1: looking for you and needing you to find them. If
35:20
Speaker 1: we had not found her, we don't. We don't even
35:24
Speaker 1: the idea of what could have happened if that lady
35:26
Speaker 1: had not messaged me, if that lady had not taken
35:28
Speaker 1: Hamley seriously and that contacted me and thought, oh, this
35:32
Speaker 1: is just a prank, She's not serious. If we there
35:34
Speaker 1: was no one else that would have rescued her, There
35:37
Speaker 1: was no one else that knew she was even there
35:38
Speaker 1: to rescue her. Never give up ever, that would be
35:45
Speaker 1: That would be it, you know, Nancy, One last thing,
35:48
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. In our family, we have a mantram. We
35:51
Speaker 1: believe in the mantra that the hana means family, and
35:54
Speaker 1: that means no one's left behind. And you know, when
35:57
Speaker 1: we got my daughter back for her birthday, we had
36:00
Speaker 1: blessing of being able to take her Disney and to
36:02
Speaker 1: go and see all those things and have this bucket
36:05
Speaker 1: list of memories that we've never had. And that's why
36:08
Speaker 1: you never give up. Yep, no one gets left behind. Absolutely,
36:12
Speaker 1: believe it or not, this girl had the courage to
36:14
Speaker 1: speak out loud in court. Listen to Haley Burns. The
36:18
Speaker 1: psychological damage Michael Westulowski has afflicted is beyond measure explanation.
36:22
Speaker 1: I trynot explain over a year of systematic abuse and
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Speaker 1: every neurological quirk it has caused. All I hope is
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Speaker 1: that it happens to the other innocent days. Nancy Grace
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Speaker 1: Crime Story, signing off goodbye friend,