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Missing Texas mom Emily Wade found in flooded creek, but questions remain · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Emily Wade is originally from Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: The car she was driving was her mom's twenty twelve
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  Speaker 1: silver Nissan Altima with Kentucky license plates four one one
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  Speaker 1: pa Z. Jared Jones and Emily Wade share custody of
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  Speaker 1: their seven year old daughter. As of this morning, they
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  Speaker 1: hadn't told her yet that her mom is missing. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to break her heart. We don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: say to her, but we're gonna have to tell her something.
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  Speaker 1: She's very intuitive and she knows something that's wrong, her
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  Speaker 1: family says. Emily Wade's bank account hasn't been touched. That
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  Speaker 1: her cell phone, one she only uses for text messaging,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been used either. They are baffled, and so are police,
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  Speaker 1: and both are asking for the public's help to bring
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  Speaker 1: Emily home. No, she's never done anything like this before.
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  Speaker 1: That's what scares me. She would not do this her mother.
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  Speaker 1: I know she wouldn't do it to me. She knows
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  Speaker 1: that worry. She would not do this to me. She
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  Speaker 1: would not do this to her daughter. No, nothing like this.
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  Speaker 1: That's the mom of a beautiful young mom. Herself, Emily Wade,
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  Speaker 1: the mother to a little girl, and Emily's ex Jared
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  Speaker 1: Jones talking about the search for Emily, who seemingly just
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  Speaker 1: disappears off the face of the earth, has a regular
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  Speaker 1: day at and then says she's having Pete sa in
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  Speaker 1: a movie with a coworker. She leaves the co workers,
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  Speaker 1: spots the tail lines heading into the distance, and then
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  Speaker 1: she's never seen again. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us in the last hours.
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  Speaker 1: The search for Emily Wade comes to a sad but
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  Speaker 1: still mysterious and listen. Emily Wade was gone ten days.
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  Speaker 1: When her mother told us she feared the worst. I'm scared.
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared of what this outcomes. Going to the sixteenth day,
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  Speaker 1: she learned those fears were founded. Emily's family said it
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  Speaker 1: was too tough to talk tonight. After a group of
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  Speaker 1: searchers found a body they believed to be Emily's south
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  Speaker 1: of town. And on this case, there was no tips,
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  Speaker 1: no leaves. We just had no clue. We're eliminating places.
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  Speaker 1: What we were doing. It was members of Tony Wade's
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  Speaker 1: Cajun Coast Search and Rescue who were outlooking Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: the foliage, the trees extremely thick. We're a good part
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  Speaker 1: of Ensign Road is washed out by Chambers Creek. Teams
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  Speaker 1: searched by air here last week, but Monday on foot
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  Speaker 1: they found her about five hundred feet down street, so
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  Speaker 1: thick that we really couldn't get into where she was found.
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  Speaker 1: It was really really thick. The creek is high, and
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  Speaker 1: police confirm it also was on January fifth, when Emily disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: She was driving, having left a friend's house at eight thirty.
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  Speaker 1: It was dark, and these signs off Ensign Road may
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  Speaker 1: have been her only warning about water if she could
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  Speaker 1: see them. Still, we don't know for sure if she
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  Speaker 1: drove through here. Her car hasn't been found, and the
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  Speaker 1: medical examiner will share how she died. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: overlooking a winding, washed out road, even the experts at help,
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  Speaker 1: but wonder, I think they need to put up some
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  Speaker 1: more barricades or something is cold completely colo as the
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  Speaker 1: access to it when it's when the water's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: up like that, trying to avoid another tragedy. You were
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  Speaker 1: hearing our frenzy ktr KTV talking to Tony Wade, Commander
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  Speaker 1: of the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue with me now
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  Speaker 1: Tony Wade, the commander of the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue,
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  Speaker 1: along with Ashley Wilcot, juvenile judge lawyer. You can find
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  Speaker 1: her at Ashley Wilcott dot com. Professor forensics, Jacksonville State University,
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  Speaker 1: death investigator and author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan and Crime Online dot com investigative reporter
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  Speaker 1: John Lmley. John, maybe you need to recount that again
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  Speaker 1: for me, because it doesn't make sense to me that
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  Speaker 1: she's having Pezza in a movie with a coworker. She's
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  Speaker 1: going a very short distance home to the apartment she
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  Speaker 1: shares with her mom, who helps her take care of
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  Speaker 1: her little girl, and she's not far away at all,
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  Speaker 1: she knows the way, and then she ends up by accident,
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  Speaker 1: drowned in a body of water outside of her car,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody can find the car. You just better explain
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  Speaker 1: it to me, John Lemley. Certainly it is a head
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  Speaker 1: scratcher as to how all of this could have happened
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  Speaker 1: in such a relatively short amount of time. As we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about over the past few days, Emily Wade
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  Speaker 1: lived in an apartment with not only her seven year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter, but also her mom as well, in Ennis, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: about thirty five miles south of Dallas. Now, on the
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  Speaker 1: first Saturday of the year, that's January fifth, Emily asked
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  Speaker 1: her mom after she got home from work at Chili's restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: if she could use her mom's car to go to
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  Speaker 1: a male co worker's house. The two of them were
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  Speaker 1: going to eat pizza and watch a movie. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: last time her family saw her was late afternoon, as
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  Speaker 1: Emily left for that friend's house. Apparently she stayed there
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  Speaker 1: well long enough to watch a movie and eat some
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  Speaker 1: pizza a few hours, and according to the co worker,
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  Speaker 1: she left his house around eight thirty, presumably heading for home. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that's eight thirty. I don't know if it were
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  Speaker 1: was I'm sure it had to have been dark by
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  Speaker 1: that point. Let's go to the expert with me, Tony Way,
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  Speaker 1: commander of the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue. Tony, it's
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  Speaker 1: a real pleasure and honor to have you with us.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand, Tony, how she accidentally ended up outside
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  Speaker 1: of her car dead in a body of water. And
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  Speaker 1: the car hasn't shown up in all. Gustus. One of
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  Speaker 1: the questions that we're asking, you know, do do what
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  Speaker 1: do I think that is possible? Yes, I do. By
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  Speaker 1: all I means so I'm looking at the area and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's possible. You know. But typically in history
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  Speaker 1: when we found someone, uh that that drove off the
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  Speaker 1: body of water or something, that they will file them
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  Speaker 1: in the car, not outside of the car. Does raise
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  Speaker 1: some questions for us. I mean, we were told last
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  Speaker 1: night by a rumor that uh so, they had a
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  Speaker 1: son ar hit on the car in the creek, um
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  Speaker 1: but that has just to be confirmed. They haven't retrieved
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  Speaker 1: the car yet. You know, looking at the area, I
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  Speaker 1: can see where somebody is. It's really just out of
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  Speaker 1: the way place dark, dark, really dark. I can see
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  Speaker 1: sile somebody would at night drive off on the creek.
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  Speaker 1: But as you know, at the same time, as it
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  Speaker 1: raises a lot of questions to us, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things don't fit for me. It makes me wonder I'm
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  Speaker 1: the same way I'm this. I'm scratching my head on
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  Speaker 1: this deal. What doesn't fit for my first question with me, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Special guest Tony Way commander of the Cajun Co Search
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  Speaker 1: and Rescue is was this spot all the way from
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  Speaker 1: the co workers apartment to her home? Tony, No, No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. Uh, it's not far from the core work
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  Speaker 1: this house. It's just it's a it's a different route,
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  Speaker 1: a much longer route, but it's not far from the
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  Speaker 1: co worker's house at all. Not far from the coworker's house.
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  Speaker 1: But not on the route home. Now when you say
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  Speaker 1: it was not when you say, Commander Wade, that it
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  Speaker 1: was not on the route home. Was there a way?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the long way home? Could she have gotten
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  Speaker 1: home without turning back that way? Or was this like
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  Speaker 1: totally I'm driving to California as opposed to Atlanta. That's
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  Speaker 1: really not on the way? Okay, So could was this
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  Speaker 1: a long way home? Well it was, you know, she
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  Speaker 1: could have gotten home that way. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: this that would have been an extremely long route. She
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  Speaker 1: had to make a huge circle to get back home.
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  Speaker 1: So that doesn't make sense. So this was not on
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't not on it. It doesn't make sense to
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  Speaker 1: me at all. Now, okay, let me let me go
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  Speaker 1: in the next thing, describe the area for me, commanderway
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  Speaker 1: to please, It's it's a very rural area, un cornfields
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  Speaker 1: of cotton fields. It's just kind of out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's very limited lighting out there. It's just really
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  Speaker 1: really dark. It's a gravel road. It's not even paved now.
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  Speaker 1: It's just this little corner tuck out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Wish you would have been doing going that way. I
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  Speaker 1: want to go to John Lonley, Crime online dot Com
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  Speaker 1: investigative reporter, what details do you have well as far
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  Speaker 1: as the weather goes, which would have led to this
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  Speaker 1: swollen creek, This part of Texas has had much more
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  Speaker 1: than its share of rain really, going all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to last summer. On January fifth, the sunset around
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  Speaker 1: five thirty, so by the time Emily left her co
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  Speaker 1: worker's house, it had been dark for a few hours.
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  Speaker 1: And as you're driving along Ensign Road, there are as
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  Speaker 1: Tony has mentioned a couple of signs warning that the
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  Speaker 1: low water crossing ahead is considered closed when there's high water. However,
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  Speaker 1: one of those signs has fallen over, the other ones
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  Speaker 1: difficult to read even in the best of conditions. There
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  Speaker 1: are no street lights with all of this, and especially
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  Speaker 1: if Emily was not concentrating on her driver driving, it's
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  Speaker 1: easy to see how she could drive right into the
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  Speaker 1: We disagree with you, John Limley, because if what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying is corrected, there were signs, warning signs she had
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  Speaker 1: to go, Hey, this isn't the right way. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: pass this on the way to his place. This is
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  Speaker 1: not the way home to me. This doesn't make sense. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the scares me the most. Shirley Wade is
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  Speaker 1: going on day ten of not hearing from her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: Emily Wade. Emily's mother says the last time she saw
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  Speaker 1: her daughter she was going to a co worker's d
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  Speaker 1: pizza and to a movie. PLI say they have talked
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  Speaker 1: with that coworker who says he saw Wade drive away
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  Speaker 1: from his house around eight thirty That same night. Wade
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  Speaker 1: was driving her mother's twenty twelve silver Niece on Ultima
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  Speaker 1: with Kentucky license plates. You're hearing our friends at wk YTV.
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  Speaker 1: That's Hillary Thornton and Emily's mom, Shirley Wade. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: the last hours, we learned that the body of the
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  Speaker 1: missing Texas mom, beautiful young mom, Emily Wade, discovered in
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  Speaker 1: a creek bed. Was she swept into flooding walls? And
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  Speaker 1: why can't they find her car? How did she get
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  Speaker 1: out of her car? And this was not on the
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  Speaker 1: way home from the coworkers to her home. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of unanswered questions, and I'm not buying the accident theory,
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  Speaker 1: not yet anyway, straight out to Joseph Scott, Morgan forensics
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  Speaker 1: expert author Blood Beneath My Feet weigh in, Joe Scott,
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  Speaker 1: because how do you get out of your car? That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem right to me? Is to me? I got
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  Speaker 1: to find out what the autopsy says. Yeah, I do too, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what the mmy has to say
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  Speaker 1: from the autopsy. And you know, one of the big
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  Speaker 1: questions here, she's apparently I'm understanding, Tony, she's kind of
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  Speaker 1: free floating in its body of water. I want to
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  Speaker 1: know how she came to be outside of the vehicle
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  Speaker 1: where the wind is down. Was she unbelted? Was this
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  Speaker 1: does she have impact related right right right there. If
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  Speaker 1: it's raining, I can guarantee if she didn't have her
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  Speaker 1: windows down. Well, I agree, that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I'm wondering, and that's the big conundrum here. Also,
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  Speaker 1: what was the weather like that night? Was it pouring
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  Speaker 1: down rain? Was it missing? Well, she just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get her head clear, you know, because when we initially
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  Speaker 1: reported on this case, the idea was that was that
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  Speaker 1: her house where she resided was literally just around the
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  Speaker 1: corner from this other guy's place. Now, keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: she's from Kentucky. She's not a native of innist this
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  Speaker 1: area right here, She's not going to be familiar with
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  Speaker 1: these areas. Particularly hold on right there, right there, Joseph Scott, Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Willcott. How many more stupid women driver comments do
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  Speaker 1: we have to hear? If she lived right around the corner,
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  Speaker 1: why was she this far away going completely the wrong
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  Speaker 1: way where there are signs going warning, warning, warning. You
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  Speaker 1: don't think she figured that out? Yeah, so none of
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  Speaker 1: this adds up, right, I think that's what we're all
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  Speaker 1: thing is. It doesn't make good common sense going the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way, ignoring warnings, and oh she got into floodwater deceased,
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  Speaker 1: but we can't find the car. We don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: But something doesn't smell right. I understanding it was not
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  Speaker 1: raining at the time. Now the flooding was residual from
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  Speaker 1: earlier rainfall. Is that right? Let me go out to
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  Speaker 1: Commander Tony Wade joining us. What do you know about that, Commander, Well?
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  Speaker 1: What I understand it had rained that day. I've never
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  Speaker 1: been able to pinpoint if it was raining that night
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  Speaker 1: or not. I do know that this creek is fed
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  Speaker 1: from League Bardwell. League Bardwell has some dams on it,
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  Speaker 1: and then when it wa a rises to a point
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  Speaker 1: that they're considered worry about flooding, the open those dams
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  Speaker 1: and it pours into a poison the creek and the
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  Speaker 1: current is pretty strong. One of the other things that
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  Speaker 1: I want to come in on, you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: there was a reporting with the news that said that
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  Speaker 1: she was the last seen on Clay Street, which is
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  Speaker 1: right around the corner from her home, which is totally false.
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  Speaker 1: The area that she was last seen in the co
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  Speaker 1: worker's house is it's quite some distance from her home.
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  Speaker 1: It's not close to home at all. Uh, it's just
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  Speaker 1: several miles probably fifteen or twenty minutes away. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We went down to the creek on Sunday, the Sunday
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  Speaker 1: that we started, I was searching. We went down to
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  Speaker 1: the creek. We were able to cross the bridge. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They closed the dam so that they could search the area.
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  Speaker 1: They opened the dam's back up. I think on Monday
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  Speaker 1: you cannot cross there at all anymore. The current is
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  Speaker 1: just is pouring through there. You know, the comments about
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  Speaker 1: her being in the car, windows down or whatever. You
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  Speaker 1: I just, for some reason, I'm just not buying that
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  Speaker 1: history repeats itself. In my mind, we worked several cases
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  Speaker 1: like this before, and the victims were always sound in
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  Speaker 1: the car. Did she get in the water and drove
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  Speaker 1: off into the water and try to get out of
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  Speaker 1: the car to swim the shore, I mean that's the possibility,
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  Speaker 1: But I just I don't buy it. I don't buy
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  Speaker 1: the whole scenario that that she drove off into that creek.
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  Speaker 1: I just there's just something about it just not striking me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happened me too, Commanderander of the Cajun Coast
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  Speaker 1: Search and Rescue, Tony. There's just something about it. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm just conditioned from all the years of fighting crime
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  Speaker 1: and investigations that I think there's a monster in every shadow.
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  Speaker 1: But do you know how hard it is, commander, when
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  Speaker 1: you go in the water in a vehicle to get
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  Speaker 1: that window down and get out. That's hard. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: totally understand. And why is it so hard, commander? Why
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  Speaker 1: is it so hard? Well, you know, you have the
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  Speaker 1: pressures of the water. It's going to be very hard
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  Speaker 1: to open the door or window. The windows aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to roll down with electric windows wants to cause some
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  Speaker 1: merge to begin with. You know, the electric system is
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  Speaker 1: going to short out, so the window aren't going to
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  Speaker 1: rull down. She would have had to open the door.
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  Speaker 1: When a car is thinking like that and the pressure
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  Speaker 1: from the water outside trying to get in, it's just
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  Speaker 1: going to be next thing impossible to open the door.
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  Speaker 1: You know, once the car it feels up with water,
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  Speaker 1: then you can open the door. But I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: not buying this store. I'm just not buying it at all.
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  Speaker 1: So at the electric winds they shored out the minute
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  Speaker 1: the water because the car goes in the water. Yeah,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: whole electrical system was going to show it out and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: shut down. Say, she'd have to be you know, superhuman
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to get out once that car went in the water.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'm scared to death. I'll be honest with you. I'm
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: scared to death. Is what's wrong. I just don't know
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: what's wrong. I don't know where she is. She's been
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: gone now for four days, and it's killing me. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: love her so much and I just want her to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: come home. This is not the outcome anyone was hoping for.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: According to a search volunteer, the body, believed to be
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: that of thirty eight year old Emily Wade was found
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: not far from the home of a co worker she
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: was visiting the night that she went missing. Now, Wade disappeared,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, on January fifth. According to her mother,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a Wade told her that she was going to a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: co worker's house that night to have dinner and watch
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a movie. She never made it back home. Now, Wade's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: mother told me that co worker said Wade left the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: house a few hours later, and detectives say that co
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: worker has been cooperative since the very beginning of this
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: missing person's investigation. Now, according to Ennis Police, search volunteers
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: found a woman's body matching Wade's description late Monday morning
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in a creek bed known to have flooded that night.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: The floodwaters in that area are still flowing very quickly.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The low water crossing there is still impassable. Now. Investigators
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: are still waiting on the medical examiner in Dallas County
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to determine the cause of death as well as ide
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: this body to see if it is in fact that
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of Emily Wade. From there they can determine if this
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: was an accident or something more. Now I can tell
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you that Wade has an eight year old daughter who
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: has been staying with her father, a Wade's ex boyfriend
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: here in the Ennis area. So still a lot of
• 20:49
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• 22:14
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• 22:21
  Speaker 1: father of Emily's seven year old daughter, who describes her
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: as a happy person and especially close with her mother
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and her young girl. Our daughter is she's hanging in there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: She stands strong. She's god such a tough low cookie,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm sad. I think she's staying strong for man
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: man or Granny. Right. We just I know she's hurting,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and we just we just want her mom that Emily
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: recently moved to Hear from Kentucky. She was last seen
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: driving a two thousand of Nissan Ultima with Kentucky license plates.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not buying the whole accident theory yet. In the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: last hours the body of Emily Wade has been found
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in a body of water, not in her car, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a car hasn't even been found yet. Straight out to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: forensics expert, author of Blood Beneath My Feet, Joseph Scott Morgan,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Joe Scott, there's so many reasons that the autopsy is
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: so important. Ho hold on to Tony Wade, commander of
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue. You saw her body.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Was there any visible injury? Commander Wade. I didn't get
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: down there to look at the body closely, but from
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: what from what we can see and what were and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: also we were told that she was in pristine shape.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Was really really looked really well too, Joseph Scott Morgan. Again,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get that fact before you're in your consideration,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Joe Scott. The autopsy is critical. It's going to tell
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: us so much on so many different levels. What all
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: will they be looking for to determine cause of death
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: as possible as salt and will water? Yeah, I tell you,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I appreciate what Tony was saying. There's nothing like having
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: eyes on it the scene, But many times, particularly at night,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: it is hard to appreciate everything that's out there so
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: they're going to look completely externally at her to see
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: if there's any kind of trauma whatsoever in those bright
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: lights of the morgue. But what is critical here, Nancy,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and you kind of alluded to it. What's the water?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Does she have anything in her lungs that gives us
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: an indication that she may have essentially taken water on
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that issues attempting to breathe, she submerged, she drowns. So
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: one of the things that we look for in cases
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: like this is to see the weight of the lungs
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and also the presence of lungs or the presence of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: water and the lungs, and also something else. It's interesting
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: we look for water in the inner ear in cases
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of drowning as well. So that's going to be telltale,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and we won't know anything more until these autopsy results
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: are released. It just ripture hard out. I'm having a
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: hard time. I just every day gets harder. A mother's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: heart is breaking. I'm scared I'll never see her again.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: A lot. Shirley Wade living with her thirty eight year
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: old daughter, Emily Wade, in Ennis, an hour south of Dallas,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: when her daughter disappeared. Emily a waitress at Chili's reportedly
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: went to a coworkers for pizza in a movie. She
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: hasn't been seen since. Emily was last seen wearing a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: peach colored sweater. Police say she was driving a silver
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: twenty twelve Nissan Altima with Kentucky plates. If anybody has
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: seen Emily seen that Nissan anywhere, please we're asking you
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to contact the department. You are hearing from our friend
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Carrie Sanders, NBC News. I'm just not buying it. Something
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: is off to Ashley Wilcott judge Anne Lawyer at Ashley
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Wilcott dot com. Ashley just doesn't seem right to me.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And I'm hoping against hope that being submerged in water
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: did not destroy forensic evidence on her person. Well, I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: afraid that it will. I mean, that's just the reality, right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Once you are submerged in water, that's going to remove
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: some of it. But it doesn't mean there won't be
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: forensic evidence. The other thing, Nancy is, I'm just hopeful
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and prayerful, and it sounds like they are that law
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: enforcement looks at the totality of the circumstances and starts
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: wide open and then narrows down. She might have been
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: submerged in a car. She could have been kidnapped, killed
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and dumped in the creek. We don't know what happened,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and so they have to start broad with every single
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: scenario and narrow down as they get any evidence from
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: her body. Back to our commander joining us, Tony Way,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Command of the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue. What about it,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Commander Way? What is it that doesn't sit right with you?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: We probably were a thousand or so cases a year
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of missing persons, and we have found people that have
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: driven off in water and things like that, and they
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: will always inside the car. The relation to where she was.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So the co workers home there was up a big
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: flag for me. Her being outside of the car. There
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: was a big flag up to me, just hard in
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that area along. It just doesn't sit right, It doesn't.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem everything about Emily. Uh. You know, we
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: try we always try to touch a five a pattern
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: together of a person's life, how they act, what they do,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and all these things. And it's just this outside of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the pattern that we came over with Emily. I just
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: don't place her in that area on her own. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: don't place her getting her being out of the car
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: once it was submerged. Just there's too many things about
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: it that just doesn't fit the typical the typical situation.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: It's just it's just everything comes on the outside of it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't agree with it at all because
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking for the longest time I carried in
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: my minivan and somehow it's gotten lost. It looked like
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: a mini hammer and it's used for if you go
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: off a bridge, because if you have a minivan like mine,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it's a Toyota Sienna. If you have one like that,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: there aren't roll up window as an alternative, which I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: think that cars with electrical windows should also have a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: roll up as well, but they don't. So if that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: car went into the water, as you were describing, Commander
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Tony Wade, it would short out the electrical system and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you'd have to break the window from inside, and that's
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: really hard to do with the pressure of the water
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: coming in on the outside. She'd have to have something
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: with which to break it. I'm just thinking about her
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and that car that she had. John Linley, correct me
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, was a model that would have had
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: electric windows, so correct, How in the heck, what kind
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: of car was it? John twenty twelve Nissan Ultima. Yeah,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: so I don't understand how her going into water, what
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: she had time to think, Oh no, I'm going into water.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Let me let the window down. I don't think that's
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: how that played out, Commander Wade. I don't either. I don't.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I don't buy that at all. It's just a doesn't
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: fit to Joseph Scott, Morgan forensics expert, author of Blood
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Beneath My Feet. Joe Scott, when you're looking at a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: case like this, you compare it, You compare it to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: all the other cases you've ever handled, ever read about, investigated.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And that's where Wade, Commander Wade's coming from. Something's off.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe she's gonna it's surprised as we're
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: gonna find out that she's like Hercules, and she managed
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to get out of the car. But that body, the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: body is going to tell me so much because that
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: electrical system shorted out the minute of that car got
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in the water. Right, So how did she get out?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Where is the car? Why is she separate from the car,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Why isn't she strapped into the car, Why isn't she
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: in there unstrapped with the windows up. But the body, yes,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: as she will comes right, superficial evidence will be washed
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: away by the water. But why she clothed or her
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: clothes on correctly, or has she been a redressed post boredom?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Water will not get rid of DNA inside your body.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think as if if she had been sex assaulted,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan, what about scratches things like that. Yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: there's any number of physical findings that would be And
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: also let's keep in mind that she sustained any kind
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of like blunt force injuries or any kind of marks
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: around her neck. That's not going to be eradicated as
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a result of the water either. So you're going to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: have to look at all of this in the totality. Now,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the you know, the number one generator of blunt force
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: trauma it related to deaths in the United States are
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in fact motor vehicle accident. So for the medical examiner,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to be able to delineate or
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: these consistent would say, for instance, a car accident, or
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: was she assaulted in some way right there? Right there,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: there's a problem, Commander Tony Wade, if she had a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: crash and hit her head. She sure's heck, wouldn't have
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: been able to get out of that car if she
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: had a head injury. That that's correct, you know, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: surveying the scene, looking at the scene, there's there's no
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: signs where they would have been a vehicle accident. You know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: none of the trees have marks on it where she
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: would hit a tree or any that kind of stuff
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that did. Area is just clean. There's no indication of
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: a traphic guise something. Here's w k yttvs. Hillary Thornton
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: talking with Emily's brother. The thirty eight year old moved
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to Texas a couple of years ago from Cynthiana. However,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: came back to Kentucky several months ago to help her
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: mother recover from surgery. Once she was better, they both
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: moved back down to Texas just three weeks ago. They
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: made that move to be with Emily's seven year old
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: daughterly department and somebody will come over and knocked on
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: a dollar. She said that, mommy, you know, can imagine
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: what you're going through. My mom having a real time
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: with their thoughts. I ain't our daughter is missing and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: she down here with only family or she got his
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: men right now down here. Emily's brother Chad, who still
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: lives here in Kentucky, is now down in Texas helping
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: with search efforts were in nothing has really panned out.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Emily Wade was gone ten days when her mother told
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: us she feared the worst. I'm scared. I'm scared of
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: what this outcome is going to be. The sixteenth day,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: she learned those fears were founded. Emily's family said it
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: was too tough to talk tonight. After a group of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: searchers found a body they believed to be Emily's south
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: of town. And in this case they have no tips,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: no leaves. We just had no clue. We're eliminating places.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: What we were doing. It was members of Tony Wade's
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Cajun Coast Search and Rescue who were outlooking Monday morning.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: The foliage, the trees extremely thick. We're a good part
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of Ensign Road is washed out by Chambers Creek. Teams
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: searched by air here last week, but Monday on foot
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: they found her about five hundred feet down street. The
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: salt thick. We really couldn't get into where she was found,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: which was really really thick. The creek is high and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: police confirm it also was on January fifth, when Emily disappeared.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: She was driving, having left a friend's house at eight thirty.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: It was dark, and these signs off ensign road may
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: have been her only warning about water if she could
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: see them. Still, we don't know for sure if she
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: drove through here. Her car hasn't been found, and the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: medical examiner will share how she died. But in the meantime,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: overlooking a finding washed out road even the experts had
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: help with wonder. I think they need to put up
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: some more barricades or something is cold completely closed the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: access to it. When it's when when the water's gonna
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: be up like that? Trying to avoid another tragedy. You're
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: hearing our friends at ktr KTV and the commander of
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue, Tony Wade. Tony, I
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: got a question about that terrain. You were talking about
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: how thick and dance the foliage is. Could her car
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: have gotten through there? Well, you know there's a crossing
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: there and they call it the low water crossing, a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: very low bridge. You got to go down a steep
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: hill to cross the little bridge, and the back up
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: when and what's up Like that said, the bridge is underwater,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: so you know she could have driven down the roads
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and not see it at night and trying to attempt
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to cross it. The signs that they have up sand
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: of the bridge closed looks like some this is small.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: It's like hand teented signs that are hanging on the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: side of the road, so you know, yeah, you can
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: mist those signs. I just I finally believe that the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: county used to put up some barricades. It's when the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: when the water's high like that, you know, being dark
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: like an isn't an area and not familiar with the area,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I see it possible that she could have
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: driven off of it. I think it's highly unlikely, But
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm de posible. Why do you think it's unlikely that
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: she went her off? Why do you think it's unlikely
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that she went off of it? Just everything doesn't okay,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the whole picture that is being paint about there doesn't.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It doesn't fit her being outside of the car, the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: car not being right there, Tony. That bridge did it
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: have rails on either side? No, there's no rails on it,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: none of whatsoever. How why is it you can only
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: cross one vehicle at the time when the bridge, it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: not it's not that why it's a very narrow bridge.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: But that was not on her way home. No, it wasn't.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: It's not at all on the way home. She should
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: went the other way. That's one of the other things
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that throws up a flag for me. Why why she
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: would be in that area. It just you know, it
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't fit. Another thing I heard John Linley Crime
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: online dot Com investigated reporters that she had lived in
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Texas for many years, then she went to Kentucky. Then
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: they moved back to Texas. So she was not a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: stranger to the area, No, not at all. In fact,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: as we heard in that earlier news report, she had
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: moved back and forth from Harrison County, Kentucky, to Innis
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: County a number of times. Her mom had surgery at
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: one point, some back surgery. She needs some help, so
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: she moved back with her. She went back to Kentucky,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and then it was just a little over a month
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: before her disappearance that Emily had moved back with her daughter,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: her seven year old daughter into that apartment with her mom.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, how have they managed to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: clear the X and the ex husband seemingly on pretty
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: good terms. And the coworker, the mail coworker. How did
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: they clear them, John Limley? At this point they haven't
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: ruled anyone out. However, they have said that they are
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: not considered persons of interest. Now this was before Monday's discovery.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: We've yet to hear from investigators as to whether that
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: status has changed. Yeah, what about that Joe Scott Morgan?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: They were her name. I thought they had been cleared,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: But Limley is correcting me. I think he may be right.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: They were just not named suspects, but they seemed to
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: me to be confident they weren't involved. How would they
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: have done that? Well, you know, we can piece together
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: things like timeline, Nancy, we can also talk about alibis
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: relative to this, so they could in fact clear from
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: an investigative standpoint. From this perspective, But listen, Nancy, in
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a case like this, nothing is outside of the realm
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of consideration. Remember our working premises always every death is
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a homicide until proven otherwise, and that's what we work on.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: John Lemley, how are cops investigating the chilies where she worked?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: That was my first concern. First, you look at the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: husband or the ex or the boyfriend. Then you go
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to co workers and you go to neighbors. But where
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: she worked, she was constantly exposed to all sorts of
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: potential predators. How have they or can they investigate people
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: in and out of Chilies, specifically the last day she worked.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Investigators have not released details about that. However, we know
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: as part of their investigation, not only have they been
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: interviewing this coworker, but they have visited the Chili's restaurant
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: at least talked with staff, and through that we surmised
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: they have most likely asked staff of any well, for
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: lack of a better phrase, suspicious characters that might have
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: come in. Well, that's not that odd. Just got Morgan,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you're the forensics expert. When you have one guy that
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: comes in by himself and sits at the same spot
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: and always ask for the same waitress, that's something that
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the others notice. Joe Scott, Oh, yeah, you're absolutely right,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: because these are You know, if the person is a regular,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it's no big thing. But if they come in and say,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: for instance, and they focus on that one person constantly, constantly, constantly,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: maybe they even show up and say, hey, is she working?
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Tonight and then they turn around and leave. It's these
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: behavior patterns that we look at from an investigative standpoint
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to try to piece these things together to try to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: eliminate these suspects, to either include or exclude them. Back
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to Commander Tony Wade joining us from the Cajun Coast
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Search and Rescue, Commander Wade, had this area been searched
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: before and she was not spotted? And then she is, yeah,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it was, it was searched. You know. We were told
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: by police detective that they had had the dams closed
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: and they had dropped the water level there and they
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: had really searched that area. You know, we had been
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: out there and searched the area. Had volunteers that we're
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: working with us said when out searched the area and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: there was nothing found. And then you know, yesterday before
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: somebody was located there. So it just did I don't know,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: it just something doesn't seem right to me. Now that's
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: critical in my mind, Commander Wade, she wasn't there to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: start with. When then they went back she was there.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: How could that possibly work naturally? You know, we have
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to look at all scenarios involved in this. Uh, you know,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: and with that, with that portion of it, the way
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the currents running, she just possible she was upstream and
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: was was was lodged on something in book free and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: drift down there. You know, that's just not out of
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the realm of reality. Who whether I believe it or not,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I just you know, I feel comfortable in the fact
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: that I don't think she was there prior to Monday
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: being filmed. If you have information, if you know or
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: think you know anything about the disappearance of this gorgeous
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: young mom, Emily Wade, please call nine seven two eight
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: seven five four four six two repeat nine seven two,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: eight seven, five four four six two. Thank you to
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcott, Joe Scott, Morgan, John Lmley and our special
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: guest Commander Tony Wade. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: goodbye friend,