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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, every parent's worst nightmare. We
- 0:15Speaker 1: are asking for your help. We desperately need your help.
- 0:19Speaker 1: A nine year old little girl out on a camping
- 0:22Speaker 1: trip with her family, goes for one more loop around
- 0:26Speaker 1: the campground with her bike, and now she's missing. I'm
- 0:31Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being
- 0:34Speaker 1: with us here at Fox Nation and series XM one eleven.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Where is Little Charlotte?
- 0:41Speaker 2: Listen an urgent search for a nine year old girl
- 0:44Speaker 2: who went missing from a New York state park while
- 0:47Speaker 2: camping with her family.
- 0:48Speaker 3: The day turned into every parent's nightmare.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Official say, Charlotte Senna simply vanished from Moroe Lake State
- 0:55Speaker 2: Park north of Albany. She was lasting Saturday, riding bikes
- 0:59Speaker 2: with friends. Around dinner time.
- 1:01Speaker 3: She's finally go around one more time by herself.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Be that big girl, do it by herself.
- 1:06Speaker 2: When she hadn't return fifteen minutes later.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Her parents knew immediately something was up. Just fifteen minutes,
- 1:13Speaker 1: that's all it took for this beautiful girl to seemingly
- 1:17Speaker 1: vanish on the face of the earth. You were hearing
- 1:19Speaker 1: from our friends at ABC. Now take a listen to
- 1:22Speaker 1: w RGB six what was.
- 1:24Speaker 4: Supposed to be a fun fall weekend has turned into
- 1:27Speaker 4: a nightmare for the family of nine year old Charlotte Senna.
- 1:31Speaker 5: She is a blonde, adorable, little nine year old girl
- 1:35Speaker 5: with bangs. She has green eyes, just under five feet tall,
- 1:40Speaker 5: and she is just a sweet, adorable girl.
- 1:44Speaker 4: Charlotte and friends went for a bike ride around Loop A,
- 1:47Speaker 4: where their cabin is located. Charlotte went for one last
- 1:51Speaker 4: ride by herself before heading back. After fifteen minutes she
- 1:54Speaker 4: hadn't returned.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Guys with me an all star panel to make sense
- 1:57Speaker 1: of what we know right now, but joining us in
- 2:00Speaker 1: the midst of the search and all of the confusion
- 2:04Speaker 1: and the chaos surrounding the search for this little girl
- 2:07Speaker 1: just nine years old. Charlotte's aunt is with us, Janey Senna,
- 2:14Speaker 1: Miss Senna, thank you for being with us.
- 2:15Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Nancy for you know, bringing attention
- 2:20Speaker 6: to what's going on with Charlotte.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Guys, the tip line five one eight four five seven
- 2:26Speaker 1: sixty eight eleven repeat five one eight four five seven
- 2:31Speaker 1: six eight one one, there is time to bring little
- 2:35Speaker 1: Charlotte home. I'm trying to understand what happened, but I
- 2:39Speaker 1: got to tell you, Miss Senna that when I heard
- 2:42Speaker 1: the story and realized what had happened, I've done the
- 2:47Speaker 1: same exact thing. We are v in camp a lot,
- 2:52Speaker 1: and the last time we took an RV trip all
- 2:54Speaker 1: the way across the country to the Tetons. Whenever we
- 2:58Speaker 1: go to an RV camp, my son and says, did
- 3:01Speaker 1: we bring his bike? And he was just a year
- 3:05Speaker 1: or two older than Charlotte, and he wanted to ride
- 3:08Speaker 1: all the way around the loop of the RV camp
- 3:12Speaker 1: or the campground every single night. And I would go
- 3:15Speaker 1: out and follow him, but on bike he would be,
- 3:18Speaker 1: you know, out of my site, but I would know
- 3:22Speaker 1: he wasn't that far right.
- 3:25Speaker 6: Yeah, And the proximity of where her where she was,
- 3:30Speaker 6: if you could see it, you would it's so close,
- 3:35Speaker 6: I mean it's it would it was visible to with
- 3:38Speaker 6: our campsite. So that's what's so crazy about this.
- 3:42Speaker 1: You're saying that her course, that Charlotte was riding on
- 3:46Speaker 1: her bike the whole time, was visible from the campsite,
- 3:50Speaker 1: not if.
- 3:51Speaker 6: She came around the other side of the loop, because
- 3:53Speaker 6: it's one way. They actually have one way signs that
- 3:55Speaker 6: go around, So if she was on the other side, no,
- 3:58Speaker 6: But where they where she was left and last scene
- 4:02Speaker 6: and where they found her bike was visible.
- 4:06Speaker 1: That just doesn't make any sense. I'm not saying right
- 4:09Speaker 1: that what you're saying is incorrect, saying how did this happen?
- 4:16Speaker 6: Right?
- 4:17Speaker 1: And when you're saying, okay, I'm trying to envision is
- 4:20Speaker 1: it cabins are tense.
- 4:22Speaker 6: It's tense, but a lot of people have those, like
- 4:24Speaker 6: pop up I guess campers they call them, you know,
- 4:27Speaker 6: the little one.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Right, So there's a big gripping of them, and then
- 4:32Speaker 1: there is the loop that goes around that. Is that right?
- 4:37Speaker 7: Yes?
- 4:37Speaker 6: So, And like I said, it's actually has one way signs,
- 4:40Speaker 6: so you can only drive, you know, because cars can drive,
- 4:44Speaker 6: you can really drive one way around it. And this
- 4:47Speaker 6: was during dinner time where everybody was out on their site.
- 4:51Speaker 6: It was seventy five degree beautiful day, wasn't dark yet
- 4:56Speaker 6: quite dark yet there it is cut into the middle
- 4:58Speaker 6: of a forest with giant so granted, as the sun
- 5:01Speaker 6: starts to come down, it gets a little darker faster
- 5:04Speaker 6: than other places perhaps, but it wasn't dark yet. Everybody
- 5:09Speaker 6: was out and about and that's what's so crazy about it, guys.
- 5:13Speaker 1: You were hearing Janey Senna. This is Charlotte's joining us again.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Five one eight four five seven six eight one one,
- 5:22Speaker 1: Miss Senna. I'm trying to give everyone a visual this
- 5:26Speaker 1: little nine year old girl. She was last wearing an
- 5:28Speaker 1: orange tied die Pokemon. The shirt pink pink. Oh, I'm
- 5:32Speaker 1: so glad you told us that.
- 5:33Speaker 6: No, I know, I had to correct the information and
- 5:36Speaker 6: in the Amber alert after it went out the first time,
- 5:39Speaker 6: and then for some reason now in the Amber alert
- 5:41Speaker 6: page it's saying she's five six and she we actually
- 5:45Speaker 6: told the police four seven, and then they put four
- 5:47Speaker 6: or six. But that's close enough, honestly. And then they
- 5:50Speaker 6: didn't have her eye color. I gave it to them.
- 5:52Speaker 7: It's green.
- 5:53Speaker 6: And then they had the shirt as orange.
- 5:55Speaker 8: It's actually pink.
- 5:56Speaker 6: So I don't know, but you know, we're all everybody's
- 6:00Speaker 6: where the police steeples have been. I think you know,
- 6:02Speaker 6: they're honestly overwhelmed too, just like everybody else.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Yeah, now let me ask you something. This is that
- 6:08Speaker 1: Moros State Park and Gavin Sort, New York, Yes to you,
- 6:12Speaker 1: Nicole Parton joining US Crime online dot Com investigative reporter.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Where is that exactly? And is that upstate New York
- 6:19Speaker 1: where is that.
- 6:20Speaker 8: This is in Saratoga County. So this is about fifty
- 6:23Speaker 8: miles north of Albany, New York.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Okay, so it's way upstate because you've got New York City,
- 6:29Speaker 1: then Albany's up you know, a little off to one side,
- 6:33Speaker 1: but beyond that. And so this is how far above Albany?
- 6:36Speaker 8: Fifty miles north of AUBUSNY.
- 6:38Speaker 1: So an hour north and Miss Senna, Jennae Senna Charlotte's
- 6:42Speaker 1: how far is this from the family home?
- 6:45Speaker 6: Very close actually, I would say ten to fifteen minutes away,
- 6:49Speaker 6: So it's a it's I mean, they love to camp,
- 6:53Speaker 6: and they camp but you know, on the Keith in
- 6:55Speaker 6: different places, but this is like kind of their close
- 6:58Speaker 6: by spot.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Would you say that Charlotte was familiar with the area.
- 7:02Speaker 6: I don't think she was super familiar with it. No,
- 7:06Speaker 6: But again, like they had, they had a group of
- 7:08Speaker 6: friends that they camp with regularly camping with them.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Were they with those friends this time?
- 7:14Speaker 6: Yes?
- 7:14Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 7:15Speaker 1: Who are those friends?
- 7:17Speaker 6: Very good, very good, longtime friends of my brother and
- 7:21Speaker 6: sister in law, who also have children the same age.
- 7:26Speaker 6: And Charlotte was with her sister who is eleven, and
- 7:32Speaker 6: her the friend who was around the same age, and
- 7:37Speaker 6: they apparently were like done bike riding, you know, and
- 7:42Speaker 6: Charlotte had said, just do one more lap with me,
- 7:46Speaker 6: and they kind of, I guess the friend threw down
- 7:48Speaker 6: her bike and said, nope, I'm done, I'm parking my bike,
- 7:51Speaker 6: and kind of what took off back to the campsite.
- 7:54Speaker 6: And that was the last time anybody saw Charlotte.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Guys, take a listen to this.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Her mom calling nine one one to report her missing,
- 8:02Speaker 2: multiple agencies combing Moroe Lake State Park from the air
- 8:05Speaker 2: and the ground using dogs and drones. Authorities issuing an
- 8:10Speaker 2: amber alert this morning.
- 8:12Speaker 9: After that exhausted search. When we couldn't find her here,
- 8:14Speaker 9: it was quite possible that an abduction had taken place.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Charlotte's family describing her as a joyful fourth grader who
- 8:22Speaker 2: had just been elected to student council too.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Donna Kelly joining me, former Utah Senior Deputy District Attorney, Donna,
- 8:30Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Just fifteen minutes later,
- 8:35Speaker 1: nine on one was called Is that right, Jenay?
- 8:37Speaker 6: I think Tricia actually told me like ten minutes had
- 8:41Speaker 6: gone by. I know that everybody's reporting fifteen I mean literally, Tricia.
- 8:46Speaker 6: They were cooking dinner. So the friend, David's friend, Charlotte's
- 8:50Speaker 6: father had his back to the loop where they were
- 8:54Speaker 6: riding bikes because he was at the grill and David
- 8:56Speaker 6: was there watching, and Tricia took the little one they
- 9:00Speaker 6: have a little three year old to the bathroom, and
- 9:03Speaker 6: then she came back from the bathroom, and it was
- 9:05Speaker 6: kind of like, oh, where's Charlotte. So that, I mean,
- 9:08Speaker 6: it was such a short amount of really a short
- 9:10Speaker 6: amount of time.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Let me ask you, how long is the loop? If
- 9:14Speaker 1: you were walking the loop as an adult, you were
- 9:16Speaker 1: just walking at yourself, how long would it take you
- 9:19Speaker 1: to walk the loop?
- 9:20Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I was walking around it yesterday. Fifteen minutes.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Okay, so fifteen minutes walking, So it couldn't have been
- 9:28Speaker 1: over much over a mile if you're just walking at
- 9:32Speaker 1: a normal pace. Sounds like a one mile loop. Okay,
- 9:35Speaker 1: back to you Time stories with Nancy, Grace, Donna Kelly
- 9:55Speaker 1: joining us. Donna, let me clarify one more thing, Janey.
- 9:59Speaker 1: So it was after your sister in law realizes that
- 10:03Speaker 1: Charlotte is she doesn't see her on the loop. Yeah,
- 10:06Speaker 1: she's gone to take the three year old to the bathroom.
- 10:08Speaker 1: She comes back, it's time for supper, and she doesn't
- 10:10Speaker 1: see Charlotte. So it's ten minutes after that that nine
- 10:15Speaker 1: on one is called.
- 10:16Speaker 6: Well because it took them a couple minutes to walk,
- 10:21Speaker 6: I guess the other little girl that had been with
- 10:23Speaker 6: Charlotte kind of took them down to where she left
- 10:26Speaker 6: her and it was a twenty feet maybe a little
- 10:29Speaker 6: bit weighs down the hill and that's where they found
- 10:33Speaker 6: her bike.
- 10:34Speaker 1: So when they found her by, is that when they
- 10:36Speaker 1: call nine one one, Yes, that's.
- 10:38Speaker 6: That's I think. There was a little bit of looking
- 10:41Speaker 6: around sort of thing, and then Tricia immediately called nine
- 10:46Speaker 6: one one and reported.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Okay, Donna Kelly. My point is an each minute, of course,
- 10:53Speaker 1: is important. And I'm getting a sign waved me from
- 10:57Speaker 1: Jackie that the loop is one third of a mile.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Loop A is the same on all camp sites. Is
- 11:04Speaker 1: that what you're trying to tell me, Jackie? Okay, so
- 11:06Speaker 1: one third of a mile, Donna Kelly. I mean, of course,
- 11:11Speaker 1: I know that there are ways that this can happen,
- 11:14Speaker 1: but to have Charlotte disappear after just literally minutes happening,
- 11:22Speaker 1: minutes passing, and then no sign of her at all,
- 11:28Speaker 1: that would suggest a car, what do you think.
- 11:31Speaker 10: It could be.
- 11:33Speaker 11: We here in Utah have had the experience sadly of
- 11:37Speaker 11: the Elizabeth Small case, and Elizabeth completely disappeared from her
- 11:43Speaker 11: home and within minutes was reported by her little sister.
- 11:50Speaker 11: There was people, there were people searching in a very
- 11:54Speaker 11: short time, but she was actually abducted and taken just
- 11:59Speaker 11: a little ways from her home, which was kind of
- 12:02Speaker 11: a rural wooded area, So it can happen very quickly
- 12:07Speaker 11: and with.
- 12:10Speaker 12: Very little trait.
- 12:11Speaker 1: Guys, I want to break down what we know right now.
- 12:15Speaker 1: With me is Janney Senna. This is Cheryla's aunt to you.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Justin Bordman joining us, a former detective with the West
- 12:23Speaker 1: Valley City PD Special Victims Unit.
- 12:26Speaker 12: Wait in, Yeah, that was a really quick disappearance and
- 12:32Speaker 12: it sounds like the family. I mean they reported extremely fast,
- 12:38Speaker 12: so it would kind of point to the direction of
- 12:42Speaker 12: a car, like what you were saying, because it would
- 12:44Speaker 12: be something that would be gone really quickly. I think
- 12:48Speaker 12: that you have to set up your perimeter to start
- 12:54Speaker 12: searching the area. I think that you also see how
- 12:58Speaker 12: close to water the bike was, I don't know the area,
- 13:05Speaker 12: and you would start searching from there. I Also remember
- 13:09Speaker 12: I thought somebody said they were staying in a cabin,
- 13:12Speaker 12: but it was also an RV sort of things.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Okay, let's find out about that, Jenni Senna. Was it
- 13:19Speaker 1: a cabin, a tant or an RV?
- 13:20Speaker 6: So Dave and Trisha have a little pop up camper
- 13:25Speaker 6: and a tent on the site what I were seeing
- 13:28Speaker 6: with friends, so there, as to my knowledge, there are no.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Cabins, So it's a pop up camper.
- 13:34Speaker 7: Yes.
- 13:34Speaker 6: And one thing I want to mention that I don't
- 13:36Speaker 6: think anybody has reported yet, but something that just has
- 13:40Speaker 6: been observed is that where the specific location where her
- 13:43Speaker 6: bike was found, if you just go down a little
- 13:45Speaker 6: hill sort of of like wooded area but kind of clear,
- 13:51Speaker 6: is the north Way? What the north Way which is
- 13:53Speaker 6: kind of our major thoroughfare, like once if you get
- 13:58Speaker 6: to Albany and then they becomes west, that's it, and
- 14:02Speaker 6: you want to go north, It's called the north Way,
- 14:04Speaker 6: which is eighty seven.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Okay, let's go with that. Right there, Mark Hopkins joining me,
- 14:08Speaker 1: Chief of Field Operations, Greater Philly Search and Rescue gpsa
- 14:12Speaker 1: R Greater Philly Search and Rescue. Mark right there, because
- 14:16Speaker 1: if they came in, if La law enforcement came in
- 14:20Speaker 1: with quickly, within fifteen to thirty minutes max. And they're
- 14:24Speaker 1: not picking anything up on a drone or a dog
- 14:27Speaker 1: or shoulder to shoulder. She was taken in a car.
- 14:32Speaker 1: The north Way, Is that what you said? The north Way?
- 14:34Speaker 6: The north Way, Yeah, through eighty seven, which is the
- 14:37Speaker 6: through way is eighty seven until you get to a
- 14:39Speaker 6: certain point and then the through way becomes west and
- 14:42Speaker 6: east up here and there eighty seven continues and it's
- 14:46Speaker 6: known as the north Way, which goes pet from Saratoga
- 14:50Speaker 6: up to I think like Canada.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Okay, Mark Hopkins, Chief Field Operations, Greater Philly Search and Rescue.
- 14:57Speaker 1: That's it. That's it that, that's what happened.
- 15:00Speaker 7: What do you think, well, I think that if if
- 15:03Speaker 7: the person to the part clearly changes things, all the
- 15:05Speaker 7: efforts in the park would be for naught because they're
- 15:08Speaker 7: not there.
- 15:09Speaker 10: But what our job is in search and rescue is
- 15:13Speaker 10: to in.
- 15:14Speaker 7: These instances, the world gets real big, real.
- 15:16Speaker 10: Fast, and time starts to move different, and our job
- 15:19Speaker 10: is to shrink it back down to something that's manageable
- 15:23Speaker 10: and get time back under control as best we can
- 15:25Speaker 10: and not be looking in the.
- 15:27Speaker 7: Entire world and that involves investigation, and with the proliferation
- 15:33Speaker 7: of camera phones and things of that nature in this
- 15:35Speaker 7: day and age, where they've got to do it.
- 15:38Speaker 10: People in parks or creatures of habit the same people
- 15:40Speaker 10: come on the same days at the same times. Typically
- 15:43Speaker 10: they need to extensively interview them because somebody saw something.
- 15:47Speaker 10: They just don't think it's important right now, but it is.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Let's go over the description again. Charlotte Center, just nine
- 15:54Speaker 1: years old, third grade. Pink tied eye, Pokemon shirt, dark
- 15:59Speaker 1: blue pants. Are they long or short? Janay?
- 16:02Speaker 6: I believe leggings, Nancy leggings probably.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Quick question, Janey. The gray helmet. Was it found the
- 16:09Speaker 1: biking helmet?
- 16:10Speaker 6: No, it was not.
- 16:11Speaker 1: Helmet still gone bike. Was the bike up on the
- 16:16Speaker 1: kickstand or was it just thrown down.
- 16:19Speaker 6: I've heard conflicting reports about that. I also have heard
- 16:22Speaker 6: that there was a passerby that claims they moved the
- 16:27Speaker 6: bike because it was laying down in the middle of
- 16:29Speaker 6: the road. I was initially told it was up on
- 16:32Speaker 6: its kickstand, but then these people came by and said, well,
- 16:37Speaker 6: we found it in the middle of the road and
- 16:38Speaker 6: we wanted to drive through, so we moved it.
- 16:41Speaker 1: And I don't see any reason that they would make
- 16:44Speaker 1: that up. Right, So bike in the middle of the road,
- 16:48Speaker 1: helmet gone, So she didn't take off her helmet. Blonde
- 16:52Speaker 1: with bangs, green eyes for seven ninety pounds, third grade, right, Jana,
- 16:57Speaker 1: fourth grade, fourth grade? Oh gosh, okay, everybody way in.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Doctor Gary Riccato is with a clinical psychologists and author
- 17:08Speaker 1: of The New Evil Understanding the Emergence of modern violent
- 17:12Speaker 1: crime way In Riccato.
- 17:15Speaker 11: Sure.
- 17:16Speaker 12: So, obviously, with these kind of events, the first thing
- 17:21Speaker 12: that has to happen is they're ruling out of a
- 17:23Speaker 12: simpler explanation like an accident, falling into water, things like that.
- 17:28Speaker 12: But once that's been ruled out and a lot of
- 17:30Speaker 12: time has gone by, obviously our thoughts have to begin
- 17:33Speaker 12: to move in the direction of an abduction. And one
- 17:36Speaker 12: thing that I would point out right away is that
- 17:39Speaker 12: people who abduct children really seem to fall into two
- 17:43Speaker 12: broad buckets. The first are a kind of more psychopathic,
- 17:48Speaker 12: scheming type of person who would groom a child over time,
- 17:52Speaker 12: you know, to lure them. But the other type, the
- 17:55Speaker 12: type that would more quickly operate like this, tends to
- 17:58Speaker 12: be a more peculiar odd person because they don't have
- 18:02Speaker 12: the social skills to lure someone like that. So those
- 18:06Speaker 12: kinds of people, because they're a little bit more odd
- 18:08Speaker 12: and disorganized, tend to be a little bit more local
- 18:13Speaker 12: and a little bit less clever and creative. And how
- 18:17Speaker 12: they do this, it's more like an opportunistic thing pops up,
- 18:22Speaker 12: they snatch and and you know, So that what I
- 18:25Speaker 12: think you're looking for is probably somebody who doesn't live
- 18:28Speaker 12: very far from that area and who most likely has
- 18:33Speaker 12: had a history consistent with this kind of thing. A
- 18:36Speaker 12: person you know doesn't tend to do this out of nowhere,
- 18:39Speaker 12: they tend to have a history of it. I can
- 18:42Speaker 12: tell you that with a quick search that Saratova County
- 18:46Speaker 12: has about two hundred registered offenders on records, yes, sex offenders,
- 18:53Speaker 12: and it has a crime rate that is about two
- 18:58Speaker 12: per one thousand crime two people per one thousand individuals,
- 19:03Speaker 12: which is not the lowest crime rates, that's only lower
- 19:08Speaker 12: than about twenty five percent of places in the state.
- 19:12Speaker 12: So it is a place where it is possible that
- 19:14Speaker 12: something like that happened. But I think it is useful
- 19:17Speaker 12: to think about the idea that that this is probably
- 19:19Speaker 12: somebody who isn't coming from very far away. For example,
- 19:24Speaker 12: we can't really picture somebody sitting and trolling waiting for
- 19:28Speaker 12: this to happen. It was far more likely somebody said, oh,
- 19:30Speaker 12: there is a child that is riding alone. I don't
- 19:33Speaker 12: see any parents. Let me open the car door, pull
- 19:36Speaker 12: the kid in, and so you know that. I think
- 19:39Speaker 12: that's the kind of person you're looking for here.
- 19:41Speaker 1: So don I want to follow up on multiple things
- 19:43Speaker 1: that you just said. Number one, Janey Senna, did the
- 19:46Speaker 1: loop that she was riding on her bike go anywhere
- 19:52Speaker 1: near down the heel where a driver would have seen her? Yes?
- 19:57Speaker 6: No, another driver. Well here's the thing, Nancy, Like I
- 20:01Speaker 6: said earlier, it's a one way.
- 20:03Speaker 1: I know it's one way, right, But did the loop?
- 20:06Speaker 1: Was the loop close to the north Way? Could you
- 20:09Speaker 1: see the loop from the highway?
- 20:13Speaker 6: Yes, but I don't believe a vehicle could go down.
- 20:16Speaker 6: It's like an embankment into the woods. So I don't
- 20:20Speaker 6: believe if that is that scenario, I think they would
- 20:24Speaker 6: have had to go out through the park. So that's
- 20:27Speaker 6: another kind of crazy thing that we can't wrap our heads.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Up and we understand what you're saying because we cannot
- 20:33Speaker 1: envision it. Yeah, Jennay Senna is with us. This is
- 20:36Speaker 1: Charlotte's aunt. So from the highway, from the north Way
- 20:41Speaker 1: that you described to us, you can see the loop
- 20:45Speaker 1: where Charlotte was riding her bid.
- 20:48Speaker 6: Yes, I don't believe you can see the north Way
- 20:52Speaker 6: from the loop. I don't believe you could see the
- 20:54Speaker 6: loop from the north Way. If that makes sense, you'd
- 20:57Speaker 6: be looking up a mountain sort of through trees, got it.
- 21:01Speaker 1: But yet her bike was found in the road on
- 21:06Speaker 1: the north Way.
- 21:07Speaker 6: No, in the loop.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you told me it was down the hill.
- 21:10Speaker 6: No, the bike is in a spot on the loop.
- 21:13Speaker 6: So on the particular loop, it's like the only spot
- 21:16Speaker 6: where you could actually kind of look down and see
- 21:19Speaker 6: the north Way.
- 21:20Speaker 1: I see. I see.
- 21:21Speaker 6: So if say, either if someone was traveling on foot
- 21:24Speaker 6: for some reason, you know, left a car on the
- 21:26Speaker 6: side of the north I don't know. I'm just saying,
- 21:29Speaker 6: runs up the hill something along those lines, got it. Otherwise,
- 21:33Speaker 6: if they're driving through the loop, they had to have
- 21:35Speaker 6: just continued on the one way and then you don't
- 21:40Speaker 6: have to go around it again. You could just go
- 21:42Speaker 6: right out the entrance to Luke ex So.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Are you saying on this loop that it's only, according
- 21:46Speaker 1: to Jackie, one third of a mile. Are you sure
- 21:49Speaker 1: that sounds about right? Are vehicles allowed on the.
- 21:53Speaker 6: Loop Yes, it's a one way road.
- 21:55Speaker 1: How do you get off of it?
- 21:57Speaker 6: You can just you just literally drive around from where
- 22:00Speaker 6: their campsite is. You drive around the corner and then
- 22:04Speaker 6: the entrance to Loop A is right there, and then
- 22:07Speaker 6: you make a left and another immediate left, and that
- 22:11Speaker 6: is the entrance to the park. That is the gate.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Oh so you were close to the gate, yes, of
- 22:17Speaker 1: the park. I guess that's why it's a Is it
- 22:20Speaker 1: the closest one to the to the entrance, yes, yes,
- 22:23Speaker 1: so there could have been a car there. I see.
- 22:27Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying
- 22:30Speaker 1: very quickly, Janey. Is there any body of water near there?
- 22:35Speaker 10: Oh?
- 22:35Speaker 6: A huge lake, yes, Moreau Lake, And there is a
- 22:41Speaker 6: separate I just learned because I was looking at maps
- 22:43Speaker 6: and stuff and reading tips from people that were messaging me.
- 22:48Speaker 6: And there's a separate, smaller lake next to it called
- 22:51Speaker 6: Bonita Lake. Banito Banita Bonita like Bonita Springs. Yes, it
- 22:56Speaker 6: reminds me of in Florida. So there's Moreau Lake, which
- 22:59Speaker 6: is rather large in my opinion, and then Benita Lake
- 23:05Speaker 6: right next to it.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Jenna. Have they brought in tracker dogs?
- 23:08Speaker 12: Oh?
- 23:08Speaker 6: Yeah, that was one of the first things they did
- 23:11Speaker 6: in the overnight hours Saturday night.
- 23:15Speaker 1: What did they come up with regarding tracker dogs.
- 23:19Speaker 6: I'm not sure because the police really aren't giving any
- 23:23Speaker 6: information on that to us.
- 23:27Speaker 1: At least, So what happened in those critical first moments
- 23:32Speaker 1: take a listen to our friends at WRGB.
- 23:35Speaker 4: Family friends in nearby campers when looking.
- 23:38Speaker 9: For her, and approximately six forty five pm, Sharlock's bike
- 23:41Speaker 9: was located in Loope and at six forty seven pm,
- 23:44Speaker 9: Charlotte's mom, Trishall, called nine one one to report the
- 23:47Speaker 9: child missing.
- 23:48Speaker 4: Massive search efforts have been going since seven pm Saturday,
- 23:51Speaker 4: with drones, canine officers, aviation and water search and rescue
- 23:56Speaker 4: teams canvassing the state park. Charlotte was last seen wearing
- 23:59Speaker 4: an or range tight eye Pokemon t shirt, blue pants,
- 24:03Speaker 4: black crocs, and a gray bike helmet.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Okay, we know it's pink. We know there are a
- 24:07Speaker 1: few discrepancies there. She's four seven ninety pounds, pink tight
- 24:11Speaker 1: eye Pokemon shirt, dark blue pants, probably tights, black crocs,
- 24:15Speaker 1: gray helmet. Her Gray Hamlet has not been found, so
- 24:18Speaker 1: obviously she was taken into Gray Helmet. I guess one
- 24:21Speaker 1: of the first things they did nical parton is to
- 24:24Speaker 1: search every camp or tent and cabin there.
- 24:26Speaker 8: Yes, no, yes, even the governor made a statement that
- 24:30Speaker 8: every cabin, tent, table, everything, nothing was left unturned. They
- 24:35Speaker 8: did an immediate search. Also interesting, there are thirty one
- 24:39Speaker 8: camp sites in loop A, Nancy. This is a busy loop.
- 24:43Speaker 8: Thirty one camp site in that particular loop, with a
- 24:46Speaker 8: restroom and shower facility right in the center of the loop,
- 24:51Speaker 8: the recycle the trash bins right on the outside. A
- 24:54Speaker 8: lot of activity, especially in the afternoon. People are grilling.
- 24:58Speaker 8: Six thirty people are outside doing the restroom breaks. I
- 25:02Speaker 8: mean that's a lot of people. Someone had to see something.
- 25:05Speaker 1: They had to They had to Nicole Partner and what
- 25:07Speaker 1: you said about the governor's correct take a listen hour
- 25:10Speaker 1: cut four WRGB six.
- 25:12Speaker 4: Governor Kathy Hokeel at the search site on Sunday afternoon,
- 25:15Speaker 4: saying she has promised this own a family law enforcement
- 25:19Speaker 4: will bring Charlotte home.
- 25:20Speaker 3: We are leaving no stone, no branch, no table, no
- 25:26Speaker 3: cabin unturned, untouched unexamined in our search to find Charlotte.
- 25:33Speaker 1: She's all of our daughters. Their family needs love, they
- 25:37Speaker 1: need prayers. Now I know that the camp was closed down.
- 25:42Speaker 1: Moreau Lake State Park in New York closes amid the
- 25:46Speaker 1: search for nine year olds Charlotte. Now I appreciate what
- 25:49Speaker 1: the governor says. I take everything a politician says with
- 25:53Speaker 1: a box of assault, but in this case it may
- 25:56Speaker 1: actually be helpful to the search for Charlotte. Now let
- 25:59Speaker 1: me under the steps that were taking the cole part
- 26:02Speaker 1: and Jennay Senna, everybody jump in on the panel. Please.
- 26:06Speaker 1: I understand that campers, tents, cabins were immediately searched. Now
- 26:12Speaker 1: does that include all thirty one camp sized Janney?
- 26:18Speaker 6: So here was my thing about that. Just even while
- 26:22Speaker 6: I was there yesterday, there were still people coming and
- 26:26Speaker 6: going that were camping there, I guess because they were
- 26:31Speaker 6: trying to kind of clear them out, but they had
- 26:34Speaker 6: to come back and get their stuff or whatever. It
- 26:36Speaker 6: was so like we were in the middle of the
- 26:39Speaker 6: loop at one point and there was a woman in
- 26:42Speaker 6: a jeep who looked aggravated and gave us a dirty
- 26:45Speaker 6: look that we were like in her way. And I
- 26:47Speaker 6: go who's that?
- 26:49Speaker 10: You know?
- 26:49Speaker 6: So the police were like at the gate, you know,
- 26:52Speaker 6: checking people and that sort of thing, but there were
- 26:56Speaker 6: like still a lot of strange people around and it
- 26:59Speaker 6: wasn't kind of fully cleared out until about six o'clock.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Until about six o'clock, you may, well, right, this whole
- 27:06Speaker 1: thing went down around six thirty to seven pm, So.
- 27:09Speaker 6: What was twenty four hours?
- 27:11Speaker 1: Twenty four hours? While you're jump in.
- 27:12Speaker 12: Disgustin hey, you know, one of the things I would
- 27:15Speaker 12: do is certainly start in the campground where we would
- 27:20Speaker 12: be identifying the people in the different camp spots. You know,
- 27:25Speaker 12: did they register their names on a book? Did how
- 27:29Speaker 12: did they pay? And then taking a look at their history.
- 27:32Speaker 12: I think that our suspect, if you will, would have
- 27:36Speaker 12: been somebody that certainly knows the area. But when you're hunting, sorry,
- 27:42Speaker 12: but when you're hunting for kids, it's certainly going to
- 27:45Speaker 12: be an opportunity to jump in and snag one. But
- 27:49Speaker 12: you're going to also run this through your head a lot.
- 27:52Speaker 12: You're going to be thinking about your exit strategy and
- 27:57Speaker 12: things like that. Then you just wait for the opportunity.
- 28:00Speaker 12: So somebody would be a little bit more familiar with
- 28:04Speaker 12: the campgrounds and the exit strategy. Maybe they were actually
- 28:08Speaker 12: camping there, saw the opportunity, snatched her up and then
- 28:13Speaker 12: took off. You know they had bloodhounds also right there soon.
- 28:20Speaker 12: Bloodhounds are incredible trackers, So if they didn't get a
- 28:24Speaker 12: track on which way or to the water, more likely
- 28:28Speaker 12: than not, I would agree with you that somebody snatched
- 28:32Speaker 12: her up in a car.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Okay, you're hearing Justin Bordman, former detective straight out to
- 28:37Speaker 1: Mark Hopkins, way in on what's your theory right now?
- 28:40Speaker 1: If every one of the thirty one camp sites have
- 28:44Speaker 1: been checked, and that's what I'm getting from Jena, Well.
- 28:48Speaker 10: If you're going with subduction as a theory and that's
- 28:51Speaker 10: not an in.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Ballots theory, Okay, what's the alternative?
- 28:55Speaker 10: Something happened and fightened her and she ran into the woods,
- 28:58Speaker 10: a medical emergency and animal something else are other possibilities.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Okay, let me just go out on a limb here.
- 29:07Speaker 1: She's camped here several times. She did not run into
- 29:11Speaker 1: the woods and stayed hiding there even when her parents
- 29:14Speaker 1: were calling her. Now, is she in the woods incapacitated? Maybe,
- 29:18Speaker 1: but she did not run in there and ignore people
- 29:20Speaker 1: calling her I do not think there has been a
- 29:23Speaker 1: wild animal attack. I think we would have seen evidence
- 29:27Speaker 1: of that, and her bike being in the middle of
- 29:30Speaker 1: the road to me precludes evidence of an animal attack.
- 29:35Speaker 1: And also when you have evidence of an animal attack,
- 29:38Speaker 1: you see tracks where the body is dragged.
- 29:43Speaker 10: The problem I have with the camper doing it is
- 29:45Speaker 10: that it would take a lot more time than this
- 29:48Speaker 10: person has.
- 29:49Speaker 12: A lot more What time that.
- 29:51Speaker 10: This person had to snatch her and break down a cap.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Potentially and break down a camp? Well, what if they're
- 29:58Speaker 1: in a camper on wheels, there's nothing bringing down Yeah.
- 30:02Speaker 10: Well, if they're in a camp and they were registered there,
- 30:04Speaker 10: that it's a sort of thing about going to a
- 30:07Speaker 10: list of people that were registered to be there. That's
- 30:10Speaker 10: that's a little easier. I hope. I hoped it would
- 30:12Speaker 10: be something that simple.
- 30:13Speaker 1: Okay, let's move forward, guys. Take a listen to our
- 30:17Speaker 1: cut three from Emma Quinn.
- 30:19Speaker 4: During a press conference, New York State Police were questioned
- 30:22Speaker 4: by since the search started Saturday evening, they waited to
- 30:25Speaker 4: send an Amber alert for Charlotte until Sunday morning.
- 30:29Speaker 9: Following our exhaustive search of the park, we we took
- 30:33Speaker 9: that step of issuing the Amber alert because we we
- 30:36Speaker 9: we felt that after that exhaustive search, when we couldn't
- 30:39Speaker 9: find her here, it was quite possible that an abduction
- 30:43Speaker 9: had taken place.
- 30:58Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace to Donna Kelly joining us,
- 31:06Speaker 1: former Utah Senior Deputy District Attorney and attorney for crime
- 31:09Speaker 1: victims and Amber alert. Everyone always attacks the police because
- 31:15Speaker 1: they delay an Amber alert, and sometimes those attacks are justified.
- 31:21Speaker 1: But in this case, I believe they were searching the
- 31:23Speaker 1: entire area before they issued an Amber alert, and I
- 31:27Speaker 1: don't have a problem with that. I mean, I wish
- 31:28Speaker 1: it had been sooner, but given they were out searching,
- 31:33Speaker 1: bringing in k nines and search activities, I don't think
- 31:37Speaker 1: they did anything wrong.
- 31:38Speaker 11: No, it sounds like to me that the priority was
- 31:41Speaker 11: get the area, you know, cleared first, and I agree.
- 31:47Speaker 1: With that, guys. Very often Amber alerts are issued if
- 31:52Speaker 1: police believe a car is involved. Nicole Parton joining me
- 31:57Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com jump.
- 31:59Speaker 8: In, Nicole, Well, I'm sure, and I think after they
- 32:02Speaker 8: brought in I was told they brought in one hundred personnel.
- 32:04Speaker 8: They brought the dogs, the drones, the boats, they started
- 32:07Speaker 8: six underwater rescue teams when all of that found nothing,
- 32:13Speaker 8: no results. It was quite obvious this had to be
- 32:16Speaker 8: leaning toward an abduction, and in that loop, the only
- 32:20Speaker 8: way out would be by vehicle, whether that's an RV,
- 32:24Speaker 8: a car, a truck, something on that king.
- 32:28Speaker 1: And in fact the one you sent us is a
- 32:30Speaker 1: really we've been looking online. This is a really good explanation. Guys.
- 32:37Speaker 1: When we're saying a loop, this is what we mean.
- 32:40Speaker 1: There's the entrance to the park. You turned in, and
- 32:44Speaker 1: there's a big it looks kind of like the shape
- 32:47Speaker 1: of a baked potato. There's a big baked potato, and
- 32:52Speaker 1: coming off the baked potato are thirty one little arrows. Okay,
- 32:58Speaker 1: each one of those is camp They're thirty one smaller campsites,
- 33:04Speaker 1: and those camp sites may accommodate. Let's just say, what
- 33:08Speaker 1: would you say, ten families, Max? What about it? Janey?
- 33:11Speaker 6: I'm not sure, honestly, Like, I know that at their
- 33:15Speaker 6: particular campsite they were able to put a very large
- 33:20Speaker 6: tent and a pop up camper.
- 33:22Speaker 1: Tent and camper. Yeah, but there were other families there
- 33:26Speaker 1: as well that they didn't know.
- 33:27Speaker 6: Correct, Well, yeah, all around the loop.
- 33:30Speaker 1: I know, But I'm just talking about their campsite, Campsite
- 33:33Speaker 1: number one, how many other families were there?
- 33:37Speaker 6: They're just they're just their friends, nobody that they didn't
- 33:40Speaker 6: know at their particular But it's all open. It's not
- 33:44Speaker 6: like there's I mean, I'm not a camper, so I
- 33:46Speaker 6: don't you know, I don't know too much about how
- 33:48Speaker 6: normally is. But it's not like there's a gate in
- 33:50Speaker 6: between or anything like that.
- 33:51Speaker 1: You can walk from one to the next.
- 33:53Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they run right into the next and there's
- 33:56Speaker 6: just a post with each number. And there was about
- 33:59Speaker 6: there is a about halfway up the like I said,
- 34:04Speaker 6: one way, so about halfway up the one side.
- 34:07Speaker 1: And let me ask you, were they in campsite number one? No,
- 34:12Speaker 1: I wonder do you know which campsite they were in?
- 34:14Speaker 6: I believe sixteen?
- 34:16Speaker 1: Okay, sixteen is about halfway around.
- 34:20Speaker 6: Yeah, got it.
- 34:21Speaker 1: So with that in mind, I want to go through
- 34:24Speaker 1: what the search efforts entailed, what do we know right
- 34:28Speaker 1: now about the search efforts that were implemented immediately, and
- 34:34Speaker 1: to call for tips take a listen to again. Emma Quinn.
- 34:38Speaker 4: Charlotte's aunt Jannay Senna, spoke on behalf of the.
- 34:41Speaker 5: Family, saying no tip is insignificant. So if anyone has
- 34:46Speaker 5: any information at all, saw anything in the vicinity of
- 34:51Speaker 5: the entrance to the Moreau Lake State Park, or are
- 34:54Speaker 5: camping here and have any information at all.
- 34:58Speaker 4: If anyone has any you saw something, you heard something,
- 35:02Speaker 4: you are asked to call the number on your screen
- 35:05Speaker 4: here or.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Call nine to one one. From what I can tell,
- 35:09Speaker 1: everything has been done at that site, and I'm guessing
- 35:13Speaker 1: that the campers were not allowed to leave without their
- 35:17Speaker 1: vehicle or their camper being searched. But frankly, if the
- 35:22Speaker 1: dogs didn't pick up anything to lead them to a
- 35:26Speaker 1: specific part of the camp, I'm not sure she was
- 35:30Speaker 1: taken to a camper or one of the tents. I
- 35:33Speaker 1: mean to Gary Dodger, Gary Pricado, clinical psychologist Ricado, I
- 35:39Speaker 1: would think that had someone taken her to their tent
- 35:43Speaker 1: or their camper to let's just play it out to
- 35:47Speaker 1: molest her and or kill her, the dogs would absolutely
- 35:51Speaker 1: have picked up that scent. I have no doubt in
- 35:54Speaker 1: my mind.
- 35:55Speaker 12: I would be more inclined to think that someone passing
- 35:59Speaker 12: in a vehicle oppera soonistically snatched her and left the park,
- 36:04Speaker 12: but that it would be somebody familiar with the area
- 36:07Speaker 12: and wouldn't have taken her very far out of the park.
- 36:11Speaker 12: I don't think this is somebody commuting from very far away.
- 36:14Speaker 12: It was just somebody with this kind of tendency who said, wow,
- 36:21Speaker 12: you know, opportunity has placed this person in my path,
- 36:24Speaker 12: opened the car door without any probably much talking or anything,
- 36:29Speaker 12: and drove off.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Would be my subposition that quickly. I think she was
- 36:34Speaker 1: yanked off of her bike, or she may have been
- 36:38Speaker 1: lure such as have you seen my puppy luring? But
- 36:41Speaker 1: it was such a quick thing. Once they can get
- 36:44Speaker 1: their hand on the child, if the child gets close
- 36:47Speaker 1: enough to the car, that's all it takes. Once they
- 36:50Speaker 1: get their hand around the child's arm, it's over.
- 36:53Speaker 10: It's justin.
- 36:54Speaker 1: Yes.
- 36:54Speaker 12: One thing that we haven't discussed, and it may not
- 36:58Speaker 12: be an issue, is brainstorming. Are there any custody issues?
- 37:03Speaker 6: Everyone keeps asking this information and.
- 37:06Speaker 1: No, okay, so no custody. Got a question? What about
- 37:10Speaker 1: cameras on the loop? Do you know anything about are
- 37:14Speaker 1: there cameras on the camp site? Janey?
- 37:16Speaker 6: There was a rumor on Facebook that there was a
- 37:19Speaker 6: trail cam.
- 37:19Speaker 1: I do not.
- 37:20Speaker 6: To my knowledge, I do not know anything about that,
- 37:22Speaker 6: and I've only seen it on this particular Facebook post
- 37:25Speaker 6: that keeps getting shared and shared with me. And I've
- 37:30Speaker 6: also been told that at the entrance there should be
- 37:33Speaker 6: some sort of camera or recording device for license plates,
- 37:37Speaker 6: but the police haven't shared that with us. So if
- 37:41Speaker 6: they are working that angle, they are doing it without
- 37:45Speaker 6: you know, talking about it. Essentially, it's hard to believe
- 37:49Speaker 6: in this day and age that there are no cameras.
- 37:51Speaker 1: Do you know if the family heard any cars, an
- 37:54Speaker 1: they screeching of tires, any scream, any anything.
- 37:57Speaker 6: I actually asked that question yesterday of the friend that
- 38:00Speaker 6: was camping with them, and because he's the one that
- 38:03Speaker 6: head is back to the loop, because he was cooking, grilling,
- 38:07Speaker 6: and he said Toenay, if she screamed, we wouldn't think
- 38:12Speaker 6: anything of it, because there's screams of joy. I mean,
- 38:15Speaker 6: there's so many children. Every campsite had several bikes in
- 38:18Speaker 6: front of it. They all ride their bikes around the loop.
- 38:21Speaker 6: This is the thing they do at this campsite. So
- 38:24Speaker 6: like to the point of one of your other panelists
- 38:27Speaker 6: that yes, someone who's familiar with this campsite would know
- 38:31Speaker 6: there's children on bikes and likely there's going to be
- 38:33Speaker 6: one that's going to be alone for a second. But yes,
- 38:37Speaker 6: they would. They make lots of noise. It was very noisy.
- 38:39Speaker 1: I think you're right, doctor Bricado. I think someone saw her,
- 38:43Speaker 1: took advantage, an opportunist with a proclivity to fantasize or
- 38:49Speaker 1: dream about children, grabbed her, put her in a car,
- 38:52Speaker 1: and took off. Because the dogs did not lead Ellie
- 38:57Speaker 1: to a campsite, a tent or pop up, the dogs
- 39:02Speaker 1: would have picked up percent. I have no doubt about that.
- 39:06Speaker 1: That only leaves her being in the water, which sometimes
- 39:10Speaker 1: they can pick that up too, or having been taken
- 39:13Speaker 1: in a car. And I think that it is someone
- 39:15Speaker 1: that lives nearby. Guys the tip line five one eight
- 39:19Speaker 1: four or five seven six eight one one repeat five
- 39:22Speaker 1: one eight four or five seven six eight one one.
- 39:25Speaker 1: There is a chance, a strong chance, we could bring
- 39:30Speaker 1: Charlotte home alive. With every hour that passes, that chance diminishes.
- 39:37Speaker 1: If you think you know anything, please call the tip line. Goodbye, friend,