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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace the disappearance of a young
- 0:19Speaker 1: Texas woman, Madeline Pentoha. After we take the story to
- 0:23Speaker 1: the air, a texasman arrested. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
- 0:27Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Vocination.
- 0:31Speaker 1: In series XEM one eleven, the family of a twenty
- 0:36Speaker 1: year old Texas woman devastated ten days after Madeleine goes missing.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Her body found Pentoho last scene around eleven PM on
- 0:48Speaker 1: May tenth, after going out with friends in Midland that's
- 0:53Speaker 1: about three hundred miles west of Dallas. Family and friends
- 0:58Speaker 1: immediately suspicious when they could not reach her the next day.
- 1:02Speaker 1: She had also left her phone, purse, keys, and dog
- 1:07Speaker 1: behind her at her apartment. Her loved ones became even
- 1:12Speaker 1: more angry. After a week passed and no progress reports
- 1:20Speaker 1: in the search for beautiful Madeline, we learned that Mario
- 1:27Speaker 1: Chicone twenty four, booked on murder one in connection to
- 1:35Speaker 1: the disappearance and death of a beautiful twenty year old girl,
- 1:40Speaker 1: Madeline Panoha. How did the whole thing begin?
- 1:45Speaker 2: Take a listen to our friends.
- 1:46Speaker 3: A kW es search continues for a twenty one year
- 1:50Speaker 3: old Midland woman, Madeleine Amaline Panhoa. She was last seen
- 1:54Speaker 3: on Wednesday around eleven pm at seventeen eleven West Francis.
- 1:58Speaker 3: There's still no word on what she was last wearing,
- 2:01Speaker 3: but her phone and car they were left at her apartment.
- 2:04Speaker 3: If you have any information on Madeleine's whereabouts, you can
- 2:07Speaker 3: call the Midland Police Department at four three two six
- 2:10Speaker 3: eight five seven to one zero eight.
- 2:13Speaker 4: It's a nightmare for any family having no idea where
- 2:16Speaker 4: your loved one is, and the Pandoha family says they
- 2:19Speaker 4: have no new information on where Madeleine is. Madeleine's father, Roberto,
- 2:23Speaker 4: is just desperate to have his daughter back and safe.
- 2:27Speaker 5: It's something that we don't wish this on anybody. We
- 2:30Speaker 5: never thought this was going to happen to her family.
- 2:34Speaker 4: Madeline Pandeau Hall was last seen at her apartment complex
- 2:37Speaker 4: on May tenth, Thursday, at one thirty.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Guys, I'm taking a look at her right now. She
- 2:44Speaker 1: looks like a beauty queen, and of course that's neither
- 2:47Speaker 1: here nor there. Her life is as valuable as everyone
- 2:53Speaker 1: else is. But I'm wondering who has seen her, because
- 3:01Speaker 1: I would remember this face anywhere. She's absolutely stunning. I
- 3:07Speaker 1: find it very very disturbing right off the top, that
- 3:13Speaker 1: she's missing without her cell phone. Now, this is a
- 3:18Speaker 1: twenty one year old girl and young woman. And if
- 3:23Speaker 1: my children are any example, or basically anybody I know,
- 3:28Speaker 1: and that includes all three of you sitting here in
- 3:30Speaker 1: the studio, nobody goes anywhere without their cell phone. Before
- 3:34Speaker 1: I go to our investigative reporter joining us from km I,
- 3:38Speaker 1: D TV and Odessa, that would be Rachel Hallam, I
- 3:41Speaker 1: want to go straight to Carla, Doctor Carla Manley, clinical psychologist,
- 3:46Speaker 1: author of Date Smart. Doctor Carla, it's great to have
- 3:50Speaker 1: you with us, and guys, you can find her at
- 3:52Speaker 1: doctor carlamanly dot com. Doctor Carla, It's like our cell
- 3:58Speaker 1: phones are an appendage. I often think, I'm sure you've
- 4:02Speaker 1: seen or read Harry Potters. They never go anywhere without
- 4:05Speaker 1: their wand ever it's their lifeline. Same thing with the phone.
- 4:10Speaker 1: My children take their phone everywhere. If they're in the
- 4:15Speaker 1: back of the house and they come up to the
- 4:17Speaker 1: front for a glass of milk, they bring their phone.
- 4:19Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you think is going to happen?
- 4:22Speaker 1: You're going to get a call from the White House.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Why do you have to have your phone? With you
- 4:25Speaker 1: at all times, but I really don't have leg to
- 4:29Speaker 1: stand on.
- 4:29Speaker 2: I do the same thing.
- 4:31Speaker 1: That is, I'm leading up to a point rather circuitously.
- 4:35Speaker 1: I find it disturbs me she doesn't have her phone,
- 4:38Speaker 1: and that tells me she has been taken against her will.
- 4:43Speaker 6: Absolutely, our cell phones, for so many of us have
- 4:47Speaker 6: become a security blanket. So if she'd left her home
- 4:51Speaker 6: without her cell phone, either she left who knows, maybe
- 4:55Speaker 6: just for a minute and intended to go back. But
- 4:57Speaker 6: to leave your home for what over a week now
- 5:01Speaker 6: and to not have your cell phone, that is really
- 5:04Speaker 6: a negative sign.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Let's go straight to Rachel Hallam, investigative reporter k m
- 5:10Speaker 1: I DTV Odessa. Rachel, thank you so much for being
- 5:14Speaker 1: with us. Tell me where was her car and where
- 5:18Speaker 1: were her car and cell phone found?
- 5:20Speaker 7: So, I mean, what we've been told is that her
- 5:22Speaker 7: car and cell phone were at her apartment. Her cell
- 5:24Speaker 7: phone was in her apartment off of West Francis in Midland. Now,
- 5:29Speaker 7: it does seem that this apartment complex itself is pretty isolated.
- 5:34Speaker 7: It is a good distance from downtown Midland, about five minutes.
- 5:37Speaker 7: I know that doesn't seem like a whole lot, but
- 5:39Speaker 7: it is a pretty good chunk of time, and it
- 5:41Speaker 7: is connected to a pretty active street, which is Garfield Street,
- 5:45Speaker 7: whereas West Francis meets Garfield Street. Now it seems like
- 5:48Speaker 7: somebody would have seen it. Somebody could have seen her
- 5:51Speaker 7: leave or be taken. So it's just odd, like you said,
- 5:55Speaker 7: and interesting enough. It's a very active apartment complex itself.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Too, Rachel, I'm glad you said that. Guys.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Rachel, how im joining us a reporter km iDTV. I
- 6:05Speaker 1: want to talk about Midland for a moment. Midland, and
- 6:09Speaker 1: of course we all know, is in western Texas. It's
- 6:12Speaker 1: an oil industry center. But what is grabbing my attention
- 6:17Speaker 1: It has a population of one hundred and thirty one thousand,
- 6:20Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five the last census. In broad terms,
- 6:25Speaker 1: that's a relatively small town. I came from one much
- 6:29Speaker 1: smaller than that at the time. Out in the middle
- 6:32Speaker 1: of all you could see are pine trees and soybean fields.
- 6:36Speaker 1: So that's Midland's bigger than where I came from. But still,
- 6:39Speaker 1: when you're thinking about narrowing down suspects or narrowing down
- 6:44Speaker 1: what happened to Madeline, I'm thinking about what you said
- 6:48Speaker 1: that it's about five minutes drive, not walk. Five minutes
- 6:53Speaker 1: drive from the city center. Is that what you're saying, Rachel, Yes, Sam,
- 6:59Speaker 1: it's about five driver walk right drive, Okay, So that's significant.
- 7:05Speaker 1: It's not like she got thrown in the car at
- 7:08Speaker 1: a red light a busy intersection in downtown Midland. She
- 7:12Speaker 1: is out in a.
- 7:13Speaker 2: More residential area.
- 7:15Speaker 1: But then also you said the apartment backs up on
- 7:18Speaker 1: a very busy Is it an interstate.
- 7:22Speaker 7: Yeah, so it connects to Garfield, which connects to I twenty,
- 7:25Speaker 7: Interstate I twenty, and that is a very very active
- 7:29Speaker 7: interstate right there.
- 7:30Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I twenty goes all the way across the
- 7:33Speaker 1: country to the eastern seaboard. Okay, let me bring in
- 7:37Speaker 1: Dorian Bond, guys, former Arizona detective, private detective, owner of
- 7:42Speaker 1: Bond Investigations in Dallas, and I'd like to point out
- 7:46Speaker 1: that's the largest African American owned PI firm in the country,
- 7:52Speaker 1: license forty two states. Long story short, you can find
- 7:55Speaker 1: them in Bond Investigations dot com. Dorian Bond has looked
- 8:00Speaker 1: for people. Let me tell you that. The reason I'm
- 8:03Speaker 1: concerned about it, first of all, being a suburban area,
- 8:08Speaker 1: that's good as far as trying to find a suspect
- 8:11Speaker 1: that may have taken her, because it's less likely she's
- 8:14Speaker 1: you know, carjacked and taken or kidnapped, grabbed off a
- 8:20Speaker 1: corner at an intersection, or you know, walking on a
- 8:23Speaker 1: busy street, much less likely in a suburban area. But
- 8:27Speaker 1: backing into I twenty, that's a whole nother animal. And
- 8:32Speaker 1: I'll tell you why this gives me. Okay, I just
- 8:36Speaker 1: felt it. It gives me shivers. I just got down
- 8:39Speaker 1: my legs. When I think about Shasta and Dylan GRONI
- 8:44Speaker 1: I use them as the perfect example.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Dorian Dorian.
- 8:48Speaker 1: That was a little girl and her little brother up
- 8:52Speaker 1: in Cord Delane, Idaho. And if you look down on
- 8:57Speaker 1: an aerial, which I did from up this guy looking
- 9:00Speaker 1: down where they were a kidnapped from their home, you
- 9:03Speaker 1: see nothing but green.
- 9:05Speaker 2: You don't even see their house.
- 9:07Speaker 1: And you think, how did somebody find these two children
- 9:10Speaker 1: to kidnap them? Unless they were a local. You'd have
- 9:14Speaker 1: to be local to find that place, right wrong. A
- 9:18Speaker 1: guy on the interstate Dorian was driving by, and he
- 9:22Speaker 1: happened to look out from a certain vantage point and
- 9:25Speaker 1: between the trees he saw shast of the girl on
- 9:30Speaker 1: her at her above ground pool went and killed the
- 9:33Speaker 1: whole family and took the children, later killed the little
- 9:35Speaker 1: boy Shasta lived. So you're not safe even in a
- 9:39Speaker 1: nice suburban area tucked away in Midland, Texas.
- 9:42Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
- 9:43Speaker 8: Yeah, when you're close to an interstate like that, and yes,
- 9:46Speaker 8: you can see middlands close to the border of Mexico,
- 9:50Speaker 8: when they if somebody disappears, the first thing you're gonna
- 9:53Speaker 8: look at is the for their phone.
- 9:54Speaker 2: I don't like that at all. Close to the border
- 9:56Speaker 2: of Mexico. Nothing good is happening there. Go ahead, Dorian.
- 10:00Speaker 8: Yeah, And when the first thing you can look at
- 10:01Speaker 8: when you're starting investigations, you look for the person's phone.
- 10:04Speaker 8: The fact that her phone was left there is going
- 10:06Speaker 8: to first teach tell me that it's deliberate. Then we're
- 10:10Speaker 8: going to then we're also going to look for the
- 10:12Speaker 8: try to get a hold of the telephone company and
- 10:14Speaker 8: see if we can get the last few phone calls,
- 10:17Speaker 8: the geolocation of the phone, and maybe the last few
- 10:20Speaker 8: text messages of who she texted, because that's going to
- 10:23Speaker 8: be the key. But the fact that her phone is
- 10:25Speaker 8: still there, it helps us because maybe they can get
- 10:28Speaker 8: access to the phone. Maybe her family which had information
- 10:33Speaker 8: that maybe lead to the password on the phone. But
- 10:36Speaker 8: you know, there's always going to be problems going through
- 10:38Speaker 8: Apple trying to get to a phone. It's an iPhone.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully somebody can crack it. Like I know everybody
- 10:43Speaker 1: and my family's code to their phone, so somebody should
- 10:49Speaker 1: probably know her code. Guys, joining me right now is
- 10:53Speaker 1: a very special guest. It's one of Mallin's dearest friends.
- 10:59Speaker 1: She showed up at Malon's apartment, but Madelin didn't answer
- 11:04Speaker 1: the phone. Jasmine Hernandez is with us, but first I
- 11:07Speaker 1: want you to hear our friends at crimeonline dot com.
- 11:12Speaker 9: After a night out with friends, Madeline Pentojas stopped responding
- 11:15Speaker 9: to text and phone calls. One of Pentohas's siblings went
- 11:18Speaker 9: to her apartment, but the door was locked and no
- 11:20Speaker 9: one answered. Midland police were called. Officers broke in and
- 11:24Speaker 9: found Pentoha's phone, keys, and her dog inside. Her car
- 11:28Speaker 9: was also still in the parking lot. Information began filtering
- 11:31Speaker 9: in from neighbors who heard arguing from both inside and
- 11:34Speaker 9: outside the apartment and screaming around one am. Surveillance cameras
- 11:38Speaker 9: caught a pickup truck speeding away from the home.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Was that Madeline? Was she fighting someone off? If so,
- 11:46Speaker 1: why didn't the neighbor call nine to one one? And
- 11:49Speaker 1: what do we know about a mystery truck peeling off?
- 11:54Speaker 2: Jasmin?
- 11:54Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. What led you to
- 11:57Speaker 1: go over to Madelin's apartment looking for her? Hi?
- 12:00Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am. So we had some plans that following day,
- 12:04Speaker 10: and so she was answering her phone and I have
- 12:06Speaker 10: her location on my phone and I noticed about her
- 12:09Speaker 10: location with at her apartment all day. And it's very
- 12:12Speaker 10: unlike her to cancel plans, to just not respond, and
- 12:16Speaker 10: she texts me every day, so I know when something's wrong.
- 12:18Speaker 10: I know when I need to show up to make
- 12:20Speaker 10: sure she's okay. So I showed up and sure enough,
- 12:23Speaker 10: she wasn't in there, and the rest of her stuff
- 12:25Speaker 10: was in there.
- 12:39Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace a double blow for the
- 12:46Speaker 1: family of Madeline Pantoha after they searched desperately to find
- 12:51Speaker 1: twenty year old Madeline. Her body is discovered booked in
- 12:57Speaker 1: her murder Mario check out All Along. Friends believe panto
- 13:03Speaker 1: Ha's ex boyfriend with whom she had recently broken up
- 13:07Speaker 1: and who still had to key to her apartment was
- 13:11Speaker 1: to blame. He was not publicly named as a POI
- 13:15Speaker 1: person of interest. What do we know about Madeleine's disappearance?
- 13:20Speaker 2: Guys with me.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Is a very dear friend of Madeline's. Now, I think
- 13:24Speaker 1: you said, Jasmine, that you have her on your location.
- 13:26Speaker 2: Yes, maam, I do.
- 13:28Speaker 1: What were your plans for the next day? What were
- 13:30Speaker 1: you two going to do?
- 13:31Speaker 10: And we were going to swim at her apartment.
- 13:33Speaker 1: So let me understand this. You keep calling her, you
- 13:36Speaker 1: text her, she never responds. You have plans for that day?
- 13:41Speaker 1: About what time of the day did you go over
- 13:44Speaker 1: and find out there's her car? The locator on the
- 13:47Speaker 1: phone says she's in her apartment, but she's not coming
- 13:50Speaker 1: to the door. I want to hear the whole thing
- 13:52Speaker 1: and tell me in slow mo Jasmine.
- 13:54Speaker 10: Yes them. So I showed up around six forty five pm,
- 13:58Speaker 10: and I was out there. I had her door for
- 14:00Speaker 10: quite a bit of time, and I actually left at
- 14:02Speaker 10: one point and had a gut feeling to go back.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Why did you leave because she wouldn't come to the door.
- 14:07Speaker 10: Yes, I just figured maybe her phone's dead and maybe
- 14:10Speaker 10: she left her phone here and maybe she looked at
- 14:11Speaker 10: a friends. I don't want to overreact, but then I
- 14:13Speaker 10: don't know. I just had a gat feeling to turn
- 14:15Speaker 10: back around.
- 14:15Speaker 2: Hold on, let me make a note of that. Manmute.
- 14:17Speaker 1: So if your phone has gone dead, everybody here in
- 14:20Speaker 1: the studio google us very quickly. I think I know
- 14:22Speaker 1: the answer, but I'm not sure. If your phone goes dead,
- 14:26Speaker 1: will it still show up on the location tracker? I
- 14:29Speaker 1: think it will show its last location, but I don't
- 14:31Speaker 1: know that.
- 14:32Speaker 11: Jack.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Can you look at that really quickly?
- 14:33Speaker 1: So you think, Okay, your phone's dead, she's gone somewhere,
- 14:37Speaker 1: and then you leave?
- 14:38Speaker 2: What made you go back? Jas? And I find that
- 14:41Speaker 2: really curious.
- 14:42Speaker 10: I just had a really bad gut feeling, and I
- 14:45Speaker 10: trust my.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Gut when you say bad gut feeling. What did it
- 14:47Speaker 2: feel like?
- 14:48Speaker 10: I felt wrong for leaving?
- 14:49Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 14:50Speaker 10: I felt like I needed to know that she was
- 14:52Speaker 10: at least okay and she was in there, or if
- 14:54Speaker 10: she was out with a friend. I needed to know.
- 14:55Speaker 10: So I contacted her friends and sure enough they hadn't
- 14:58Speaker 10: heard from where either.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Okay, guess what I was wrong.
- 15:01Speaker 1: If someone's phone dies, their location is no longer trackable.
- 15:05Speaker 1: The phone need to be turned on and connected to
- 15:08Speaker 1: a network in order to be located. If it's turned
- 15:11Speaker 1: off or the battery dies, the phone can no longer
- 15:15Speaker 1: be located. Huh, I want, But I guess you could
- 15:19Speaker 1: steal Jackie get the last known location. But now we
- 15:23Speaker 1: know when you're getting somebody's location on a tracker, like
- 15:27Speaker 1: I've got my whole family on Life three sixty. I
- 15:30Speaker 1: guess when their phone dies, you can't track. But it
- 15:33Speaker 1: does say my daughter's phone goes dead all the time.
- 15:36Speaker 1: It says last at home at two forty pm, So
- 15:41Speaker 1: it does give you that much. Okay, Jasmine, you know
- 15:44Speaker 1: what I always tell the children. I always say, you
- 15:47Speaker 1: know what, if what you're doing makes you feel bad,
- 15:51Speaker 1: or if you think you're not going to do something
- 15:53Speaker 1: and that makes you feel bad, that means that's the
- 15:56Speaker 1: wrong thing to do. You need to hear your feelings
- 16:01Speaker 1: and follow them.
- 16:03Speaker 2: So you leave. Did you go get in your car?
- 16:06Speaker 6: I did.
- 16:07Speaker 10: I got in my car. I drove down the street.
- 16:09Speaker 10: I actually called in some food and I never ended
- 16:12Speaker 10: up getting the food. I turned back around and I
- 16:14Speaker 10: went back.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Wow, you are a loyal friend, so you've been out
- 16:20Speaker 1: there bamming on the door, ringing the doorbell, calling your name.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Nobody comes to the door.
- 16:24Speaker 1: You leave, and then you have a second thought, you
- 16:25Speaker 1: go back and then what happens?
- 16:27Speaker 10: Still no answer to the door. And that's when I
- 16:29Speaker 10: contacted her brother.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Hey, tell me about her apartment, please, Jasmine, can you
- 16:33Speaker 1: see in there? Is it on the second floor? Third floor?
- 16:37Speaker 1: First floor? Can you look in the back door? The
- 16:39Speaker 1: front door doesn't have a balcony.
- 16:40Speaker 2: What can you tell me? Yes, ma'am.
- 16:41Speaker 10: So it is on the third floor, and she does
- 16:44Speaker 10: have a balcony. And from her door, there's a little
- 16:47Speaker 10: crack and you can see that there is a light
- 16:48Speaker 10: on a crack where at the top of the door.
- 16:51Speaker 10: Her door is a little luonky, So if you kind
- 16:53Speaker 10: of lean on it, there's a crack at the top
- 16:55Speaker 10: and you can see what at it a light's on
- 16:56Speaker 10: orbits off.
- 16:57Speaker 1: So by then you know seven seven thirty is it
- 16:59Speaker 1: getting dark?
- 17:00Speaker 10: Not quite yet, it gets dark baby, around eight nine is.
- 17:04Speaker 1: But you could see a light was on inside, and
- 17:06Speaker 1: you know her phone is saying it's inside.
- 17:08Speaker 2: And did you see your car?
- 17:09Speaker 10: Her car was there? It was parked in the parking lot.
- 17:12Speaker 2: What kind of car, is it.
- 17:13Speaker 10: It's a kind of like a dark blue Mazda.
- 17:16Speaker 2: So then what do you do? You call her brother?
- 17:17Speaker 1: And then what happens?
- 17:18Speaker 10: So he joins me and tries to continue knocking on
- 17:21Speaker 10: the door, and we were found by the maintenance man
- 17:23Speaker 10: and he let us in fray wellness check, and that's
- 17:26Speaker 10: where we found all of her belongings. Her purse, her phone,
- 17:29Speaker 10: her keys, everything was there. Her phone was between the couch,
- 17:33Speaker 10: her keys and her purse were on her coffee table.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Well, what phone was where between the couch? You mean
- 17:39Speaker 1: in the cushions.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Yes, the couch cushion down in the cushions.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Interesting, Well, okay, I know this sounds like a crazy question,
- 17:46Speaker 1: but when you say the phone was in the cushions,
- 17:49Speaker 1: was the phone on one end of the sofa? Like
- 17:51Speaker 1: she had had her head on a pillow with her
- 17:53Speaker 1: phone and it fell down in there.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Where on the sofa was it?
- 17:56Speaker 10: It was like towards the middle of the sofa, between
- 17:59Speaker 10: those cush.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Okay, all right, phone and the cushions. Purse. There was
- 18:05Speaker 2: the balcony, lot it.
- 18:06Speaker 10: Wasn't but she never lost your balcony?
- 18:08Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, it was on the third floor
- 18:10Speaker 1: and the dog was there, right.
- 18:12Speaker 10: The dog was there, dog named Luna.
- 18:15Speaker 1: After you find all of her stuff there, what did
- 18:18Speaker 1: you do? Jasmine?
- 18:19Speaker 10: We immediately got worried and that's when we called the
- 18:22Speaker 10: Middlan Police Department and they had came down to start
- 18:26Speaker 10: looking for us and figuring out what to do.
- 18:28Speaker 1: Has she ever gone this long without contacting you?
- 18:31Speaker 10: No, she's never gone more than a couple hours without
- 18:33Speaker 10: contacting me.
- 18:34Speaker 2: How long have you known?
- 18:36Speaker 1: Madeline?
- 18:37Speaker 12: For?
- 18:37Speaker 10: About four and a half years.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Joining me right now is Erv Miller. You may recognize
- 18:42Speaker 2: his name.
- 18:42Speaker 1: He's a renowned criminal defense attorney with the Miller Firm.
- 18:47Speaker 1: You can see him on CBS WBBM. He is the
- 18:52Speaker 1: legal advisor to the Good Wife and The Good Fight
- 18:56Speaker 1: with CBS.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Erv, thank you for being with us here. Rub. She's
- 19:01Speaker 2: twenty one years old.
- 19:02Speaker 1: You don't have to tell anybody you're going anywhere once
- 19:06Speaker 1: you are of a majority, and cops will say, well,
- 19:10Speaker 1: that doesn't mean she's missing, And they very often say, oh,
- 19:13Speaker 1: she's run off with their boyfriend. Some bs like that
- 19:17Speaker 1: because they know at that age twenty one, you don't
- 19:21Speaker 1: have to answer to anybody. You can leave without your
- 19:23Speaker 1: cell phone. That's not a crime right earth.
- 19:25Speaker 8: It's not a.
- 19:25Speaker 12: Crime, but it's not typical, and that's what the law
- 19:28Speaker 12: enforcement agencies look for. What's not typical when you have
- 19:33Speaker 12: a missing person and the door is locked and they're
- 19:36Speaker 12: not in there. The person is still there, the dog
- 19:38Speaker 12: is still there, the car is still there. You know,
- 19:41Speaker 12: if I could just comment quickly about the location, there's
- 19:44Speaker 12: a big difference between what might happen in the city
- 19:48Speaker 12: like Chicago, where I live, and what may happen in
- 19:51Speaker 12: the rural area of Midland, Texas.
- 19:53Speaker 6: You know, in.
- 19:53Speaker 12: Chicago, on every bridge on the highway, there's license plate readers,
- 19:58Speaker 12: on doorbells, on every block, there's ring doorbells where you
- 20:01Speaker 12: can get pictures of what's going on. On street corners.
- 20:05Speaker 12: We have police pods with cameras on them to surveil
- 20:08Speaker 12: the area. None of that's going to be present in
- 20:10Speaker 12: this particular scene that we're talking about today.
- 20:13Speaker 1: You know what, You're right, it's going to make it
- 20:14Speaker 1: much more difficult. The best clue we've got right now
- 20:19Speaker 1: is a late night argument. I can't tell Rachel hallam
- 20:23Speaker 1: km id joining us out of Odessa. The neighbors that
- 20:27Speaker 1: say they heard an argument, did they hear a female
- 20:30Speaker 1: voice or could they tell.
- 20:32Speaker 7: From what I've been told, they could tell if there
- 20:34Speaker 7: was a female voice and there was also a male voice.
- 20:37Speaker 7: They were arguing both outside of the apartment and inside
- 20:40Speaker 7: the apartment.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Did they call nine one one not?
- 20:43Speaker 6: From what I've been told.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Now, the search is on, guys, take a listen to
- 20:47Speaker 1: our cut. Three are friends at Kwees.
- 20:51Speaker 5: We've gone to lands over there, just empty lots thinking.
- 20:55Speaker 2: We've had people that.
- 20:56Speaker 5: We don't know searching with their drones. They've sent them,
- 21:00Speaker 5: sent us the videos, they send us pictures of the
- 21:04Speaker 5: of the finish day to We've had people offer horses
- 21:10Speaker 5: to us so that we can search.
- 21:13Speaker 4: The family just wanting to find Madeline as soon as possible.
- 21:22Speaker 2: All he wants to fun his daughter. Rachel Hall.
- 21:25Speaker 1: I'm joining us investigative reporter k M I D TV
- 21:28Speaker 1: and Odessa tell me about the search. What is being
- 21:32Speaker 1: done to find Madeline?
- 21:34Speaker 7: Well, I mean, like we just heard, there are so
- 21:36Speaker 7: many people in this area and even outside of Midland
- 21:39Speaker 7: that are searching themselves. Drones going out, They're going on
- 21:42Speaker 7: foot in and out of fields, and I've been in
- 21:44Speaker 7: contact with MPD pretty much every day since her disappearance.
- 21:48Speaker 7: Trying to get some answers. They say that they are
- 21:50Speaker 7: actively investigating any leads that they might have and searching themselves.
- 21:54Speaker 7: But as of right now, of course, there's there's just
- 21:56Speaker 7: no updates.
- 21:57Speaker 2: You know.
- 21:57Speaker 1: I want to go to you, Dori and Bond, as
- 21:59Speaker 1: well as IRV Miller, to talk about what should be
- 22:03Speaker 1: done right now, What should be happening in the search
- 22:07Speaker 1: for this beautiful young woman, twenty one year old Texas
- 22:10Speaker 1: woman Madeline Panchoh Dorian Dorian Bond joining me, detective private investigator,
- 22:18Speaker 1: owner of Bond Investigations, ain't in Dallas. What should be
- 22:23Speaker 1: happening right now to find her?
- 22:25Speaker 8: Well, I'm sure the police have already done this, but
- 22:27Speaker 8: the first thing I'm doing is going to interview the
- 22:29Speaker 8: neighbors that hurt the arguments see if there's any kind
- 22:33Speaker 8: Sometimes in people in apartment complexes they have cameras that
- 22:36Speaker 8: are pointing outside their windows looking at their cars due
- 22:39Speaker 8: to the property thefts in those areas. So I'd check
- 22:43Speaker 8: and see if there's any kind of cameras in the area,
- 22:45Speaker 8: look for red light cameras, look for local businesses that
- 22:49Speaker 8: are close by there that might have cameras to see
- 22:51Speaker 8: if they can see any kind of vehicles going in
- 22:53Speaker 8: and out and seeing that they can get you license
- 22:55Speaker 8: plates ran look at it, see if I don't know
- 22:58Speaker 8: if if they have license plate camera readers in that area.
- 23:01Speaker 8: But that's one of the first things. But like I
- 23:03Speaker 8: said before, the first thing is a cell phone. And
- 23:05Speaker 8: the cell phone's gone, You've got to move. You've got
- 23:06Speaker 8: to move to talking to neighbors and what they've heard
- 23:09Speaker 8: and what they heard in the In the midst of
- 23:12Speaker 8: the argument, I'm.
- 23:13Speaker 2: Very curious about ring doorbells.
- 23:16Speaker 1: What do you know if anything about that, Rachel hallam
- 23:19Speaker 1: joining us KM I D because we've had so many
- 23:23Speaker 1: breakthroughs and searches from ring doorbells.
- 23:27Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, and even out here, especially that a lot
- 23:29Speaker 7: of people have ring doorbells. Now, I mean, it wouldn't
- 23:32Speaker 7: hurt obviously to see if anybody in that apartment complex
- 23:35Speaker 7: had some. We've had a lot of breakthroughs in package
- 23:38Speaker 7: sets and pettyfests like that. But I mean, it definitely
- 23:42Speaker 7: would be a possibility and a big help if they
- 23:45Speaker 7: could have anybody have an eye on that.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Rachel or Jasmine, what is the name of our apartment complex.
- 23:51Speaker 10: It is the Palladium Apartment there in Midland they are?
- 23:54Speaker 2: And how big are those apartments? Jasmine?
- 23:56Speaker 1: Do you know how many people would live there?
- 23:59Speaker 10: I'm not quite.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Sure, Rachel.
- 24:01Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out if they have security cameras
- 24:05Speaker 1: at the entry the exit when you look at the apartment,
- 24:09Speaker 1: anyone on the panel?
- 24:10Speaker 2: Are there multiple entries and exits?
- 24:13Speaker 7: There is just the one entrance, and they should have
- 24:16Speaker 7: cameras right in the front. It is a pretty big
- 24:19Speaker 7: apartment complex, so there should be plenty of residents, and
- 24:23Speaker 7: there's a lot of buildings, so there should be some
- 24:25Speaker 7: cameras out there.
- 24:26Speaker 1: Also, there's a playground. Is that there a playground at Palladium?
- 24:30Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 24:30Speaker 1: Well that tells me that they may very well have cameras.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Have any of you seen a camera there?
- 24:38Speaker 10: Yes, they do have cameras where they all over the apartment,
- 24:41Speaker 10: but they do not work. We've already contacted the management
- 24:44Speaker 10: and they have said that none of them work besides
- 24:46Speaker 10: the one entering the apartment to the gates, and that
- 24:50Speaker 10: one is only a life seed. It is a save
- 24:52Speaker 10: data according to the management.
- 24:54Speaker 1: Is this Rachel or Jasmine? This is justin You know what, really, Irvmailler?
- 25:00Speaker 1: Do I have to say the two words Chandra Levy.
- 25:03Speaker 1: Did nobody learn a darn thing. Remember when Chandra Levy
- 25:08Speaker 1: went missing, the DC intern from California that was having
- 25:14Speaker 1: the affair with the congressman Condit and she disappears, We
- 25:21Speaker 1: can't find her. And she left her apartment just before
- 25:25Speaker 1: she went missing, but they rolled over it, they videoed
- 25:30Speaker 1: over it in the lobby, So you don't know if
- 25:33Speaker 1: she left with somebody, if someone you know, had a
- 25:36Speaker 1: gun in her bag under a coat. Did was she
- 25:38Speaker 1: dressed to go jogging? Was she dressed out to go
- 25:41Speaker 1: out to dinner? It would have told us so much.
- 25:45Speaker 1: That was the big deal when Chandra Levy went missing,
- 25:48Speaker 1: she was later found dead. She had gone jogging, and
- 25:52Speaker 1: I believe it was Rock Creek Park, not far from
- 25:57Speaker 1: where she lived. But how much more quickly would we
- 26:01Speaker 1: have looked there for her if we could have seen
- 26:03Speaker 1: her in her jogging outfit, because that was her jogging route.
- 26:07Speaker 1: So irv Miller, you know what, that is a huge,
- 26:11Speaker 1: huge blonder for the apartment complex.
- 26:14Speaker 8: Oh absolutely.
- 26:15Speaker 12: And you know in the case also goes to prove
- 26:17Speaker 12: that it's not always the typical suspect that ends up
- 26:20Speaker 12: being the bad guy. But the other thing that I
- 26:23Speaker 12: would suggest that the police should be doing right away
- 26:25Speaker 12: is checking financial accounts of hers to see if there
- 26:28Speaker 12: was any suspicious activity on a credit card, activity on
- 26:32Speaker 12: any bank accounts that you use an ATM, and perhaps
- 26:35Speaker 12: there's you know, some of these ATM when they're originally
- 26:38Speaker 12: used as actually a photograph of the person that is
- 26:41Speaker 12: actually using the ATM. Those are things that I think
- 26:44Speaker 12: should also be doing rather quickly to try to solve
- 26:48Speaker 12: this one.
- 26:48Speaker 1: Are these Poladium apartments on La Mesa Road, Jasmine, No, ma'am.
- 26:53Speaker 10: There are two Pladium apartments. This one is across from
- 26:56Speaker 10: the Horseshoe Arena. It is off the industrial.
- 26:59Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes.
- 27:01Speaker 1: It's amazing to me that they don't have video cams
- 27:05Speaker 1: and the ones they do have for only a live feed.
- 27:09Speaker 1: They search for this young lady goes on. I mean,
- 27:14Speaker 1: once you look at her, you will never forget her face.
- 27:18Speaker 2: She is stunning. Guys.
- 27:20Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut nineteen our friends from
- 27:22Speaker 1: crime online dot Com.
- 27:23Speaker 9: It's been eight days since Madeline Pantoha disappeared. Pentoha's father
- 27:28Speaker 9: says they are searching everywhere. People are using their drones
- 27:31Speaker 9: to cover land and empty lots quickly sending the family
- 27:34Speaker 9: videos pictures of the footage. The family has also had
- 27:37Speaker 9: offers of horses for searches. Madeline Panoha is approximately five
- 27:41Speaker 9: feet four inches tall and one hundred and thirty pounds,
- 27:44Speaker 9: with long, dark hair. She has two butterfly tattoos behind
- 27:47Speaker 9: her right ear and a tattoo of a snake on
- 27:50Speaker 9: her right arm.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Okay, that is helpful, that's very distinctive. Tell me about
- 27:56Speaker 1: the genesis, the origin of those tattoos, Jasma, her Nandez.
- 28:00Speaker 2: What did they mean the butterfly tattoos?
- 28:03Speaker 10: So she actually has the matching butterfly tattoo with another
- 28:06Speaker 10: friend of hers and the snake. She was so anxious
- 28:09Speaker 10: to get her first tattoo, she just chose whatever she
- 28:12Speaker 10: wanted to at the tattoo shop.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Tell me about her personality, Jasmine.
- 28:15Speaker 10: She's really bubbly. She's such a girl's girl. She's so sweet.
- 28:20Speaker 10: It's honestly really disappointing that all of this happened to her.
- 28:22Speaker 10: She really doesn't deserve any of this.
- 28:24Speaker 1: What does she date for a living, Jasmine?
- 28:26Speaker 10: So she actually works with me. We bartend at Clear
- 28:29Speaker 10: Springs Cafe and we work there together.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Dorian bond that opens up a whole cornucopia of possibilities,
- 28:37Speaker 1: a real Pandora's box. How do we know that someone
- 28:41Speaker 1: didn't spot her as a bartender, follow her, stalk her,
- 28:47Speaker 1: get obsessed with her. It happens a lot, Dorian, It.
- 28:51Speaker 8: Does happen a lot, and I know a lot of
- 28:54Speaker 8: bars have implemented that when the bartenders do lead that
- 28:57Speaker 8: somebody usually security walks them to the but not only
- 29:01Speaker 8: walks into the car, but they also watch to make
- 29:03Speaker 8: sure if any vehicles follow them before they leave and
- 29:07Speaker 8: see exactly if how many vehicles departed the area right
- 29:11Speaker 8: when the bartenders left, because that's an extra layer of security.
- 29:14Speaker 8: Because that's the one problem that we started noticing a
- 29:17Speaker 8: lot of people go to bars and they fall in
- 29:18Speaker 8: love with the bartender because barteners being nice, which usually
- 29:21Speaker 8: bartenders are nice because they're looking for a tip, and
- 29:24Speaker 8: so some people take that niceness the.
- 29:27Speaker 11: Wrong way and then they'd fall the home and do
- 29:29Speaker 11: have problems like that across the country.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Prime stories with Nancy Grace, her disappearance unfolded within her
- 29:48Speaker 1: community there in Midland, family and friends desperately trying to
- 29:52Speaker 1: find her. The family is suffering. Take a listen to
- 29:57Speaker 1: our cut nine. Our friends at ABC, most would.
- 30:00Speaker 13: Not expect this to happen to someone they love, and
- 30:03Speaker 13: for friends and family of Madeline, that is exactly the case.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Just she was so loving and like goofy carrying.
- 30:11Speaker 10: It was like who would have thought anyone could hurt
- 30:14Speaker 10: like such as sweet fool like that.
- 30:16Speaker 13: Overall, they just hope that if she is watching, they
- 30:19Speaker 13: have so much they want her to know.
- 30:21Speaker 6: Please, don't like yourself, your for you.
- 30:24Speaker 8: You're always be here and no matter what what you're trying, there's.
- 30:28Speaker 2: So many people looking for you. There's so many people
- 30:31Speaker 2: that just wants you.
- 30:31Speaker 4: Bet you're not alone and we're not going to stop
- 30:36Speaker 4: looking until we have a response.
- 30:39Speaker 1: We will find you. We will give up and our
- 30:43Speaker 1: twenty our friend Zytany's West nine.
- 30:45Speaker 10: The days have just been ah mush together honestly because.
- 30:49Speaker 9: We've just been doing the same thing.
- 30:51Speaker 14: We've just been reaching out to whoever we can reach
- 30:54Speaker 14: out to, looking in the lands, fields and everywhere we
- 30:59Speaker 14: can look for her.
- 31:01Speaker 10: So I have the best word right now, it's heartbroken
- 31:03Speaker 10: because I feel hopeless. There's something that we can do,
- 31:07Speaker 10: like a side of our hands and be searched.
- 31:09Speaker 14: Everywhere we passed out fires everywhere. If you're watching this, Maddie,
- 31:16Speaker 14: just be strong. We're coming to get you, and we're
- 31:21Speaker 14: trying our hardest to find you. To stay strong, and
- 31:26Speaker 14: we will stay strong too.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Family and friends doing everything they can to help police
- 31:31Speaker 1: find missing Madeline. Rachel Hallam joining US investigative reporter km Ida,
- 31:37Speaker 1: who's been on the story from the very beginning, and.
- 31:41Speaker 2: That's gotten to be a horrible, horrible.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Scenario for her friends out digging through landfills trying to
- 31:48Speaker 1: find her. What can you tell me about the identity
- 31:52Speaker 1: of the man we believes having an argument around one
- 31:56Speaker 1: am that morning at her or near her apartment.
- 32:01Speaker 7: Yeah, so what I've been told is that he was
- 32:04Speaker 7: an ex boyfriend of Madeline and they were having an argument,
- 32:08Speaker 7: like we had mentioned, outside of their apartment and inside
- 32:11Speaker 7: their apartment, they had been living together for a while
- 32:14Speaker 7: but recently had broken up, and they he still had
- 32:17Speaker 7: a key to her apartment and told friends that he
- 32:21Speaker 7: didn't have.
- 32:21Speaker 6: A key, but they that they told me that they
- 32:23Speaker 6: knew he.
- 32:24Speaker 7: Had a key and he was probably one of the
- 32:26Speaker 7: only options about only options to get into her apartment. Luckily,
- 32:30Speaker 7: the maintenance and like we had talked about helped them
- 32:33Speaker 7: get in there, but they know that he had a
- 32:35Speaker 7: key to her apartment.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Still, Jas and Hernandez, how long had they been broken up?
- 32:40Speaker 10: I want to say for about a month.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Let me guess she broke up with him, yes, ma'am.
- 32:45Speaker 1: Was he angry about the breakup?
- 32:47Speaker 10: Yes, maam? More so upset and sad, just trying to
- 32:52Speaker 10: get her back any way he could.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Really, any way he could, Like, what was he doing
- 32:56Speaker 1: to try to get her back?
- 32:58Speaker 10: Sometimes he would just send flowers to her apartment randomly,
- 33:00Speaker 10: but she would continually say that she did not want
- 33:03Speaker 10: to get back with him and that she was better
- 33:05Speaker 10: off by herself.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Why did she break up with him?
- 33:07Speaker 10: Honestly, he just wasn't very good of a person in
- 33:11Speaker 10: setting out. He just wasn't very very good and she
- 33:14Speaker 10: deserved more than what he had to talk her.
- 33:16Speaker 1: Okay, what do you mean? Did he neglect her? Was
- 33:18Speaker 1: he rude to her? Was he abusive to her? Why
- 33:21Speaker 1: did she break up with him? What did she tell
- 33:23Speaker 1: you as to why she broke up?
- 33:25Speaker 10: She told me that he cheated on her with someone,
- 33:28Speaker 10: So yeah, that's the reason for the breakup. She didn't
- 33:30Speaker 10: really go into detail, but.
- 33:31Speaker 1: And We don't know that that's true or whether she
- 33:34Speaker 1: thought that it happened and it did or did not happen,
- 33:37Speaker 1: but that's the reason she gave for breaking up. Take
- 33:39Speaker 1: a listen to our friends a kW Ees.
- 33:43Speaker 15: Pental's body was found near East County Road one ninety
- 33:46Speaker 15: and South County Road eleven thirty eight. The report doesn't
- 33:49Speaker 15: say how Pental had died, but did say that her
- 33:51Speaker 15: body was sent to the Dallas County Medical Examiners for
- 33:54Speaker 15: positive identification and an autopsy.
- 33:57Speaker 1: Madeline just twenty years old when she reportedly was murdered
- 34:02Speaker 1: by ex boyfriend Maria Chikan, just fourteen days before her
- 34:07Speaker 1: twenty first birthday.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Take a listen to our friends, akw Ees.
- 34:12Speaker 15: Please, were tipped off that twenty four year old Mario
- 34:15Speaker 15: Vanhacoon Junior may have been their suspect. After initial questioning.
- 34:19Speaker 15: According to the arrest warrant, Chaqun was evasive when Penthala
- 34:22Speaker 15: his friends asked him if he knew where she was.
- 34:25Speaker 15: The warrant says that Jaquon kept telling him that he
- 34:28Speaker 15: was at his dad's house and that the anger medication
- 34:31Speaker 15: he took didn't allow him to drive. Police also said
- 34:34Speaker 15: that when they investigated him, his story had some holes knts,
- 34:36Speaker 15: and it also kept changing up. The Warren says he
- 34:39Speaker 15: forgot to mention that he went to get drinks with
- 34:41Speaker 15: his cousin, picking him up in a four f two
- 34:44Speaker 15: fifty at the same apartment Penthoh lived in. A report
- 34:47Speaker 15: also says that his pickup was found near an oil
- 34:50Speaker 15: company off of Montgomery, while the Warren also says that
- 34:53Speaker 15: foul play was suspected after two investigations of her apartments.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Amidst the desperate of the discovery of twenty year old
- 35:03Speaker 1: Madeline Pentoha's disappearance, family and friends choose to celebrate her life.
- 35:11Speaker 1: They gathered together to celebrate what would have been Madeleine
- 35:16Speaker 1: Pentoha's twenty first birthday. Those who were close to Madeline
- 35:22Speaker 1: gathered at Our Lady Guadeloupe Church in Midland to memorialize
- 35:28Speaker 1: a beautiful daughter, sister, cousin, and friend, Madeleine Pentoha, her
- 35:37Speaker 1: body found just days before her twenty first birthday. Now justice,
- 35:48Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,