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HELP FIND MISSING GRANDMOTHER ANNIE TISDALE: FOUND SAFE!!! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, breaking news. We need your help,
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  Speaker 1: and so does seventy eight year old Annie Tisdale. A
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  Speaker 1: grandma gone missing and she has dementia. Even if she's found,
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  Speaker 1: she won't be able to communicate who she is. Good evening,
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  Speaker 1: I'mancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. A seventy eight year old grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: Annie Tisdale, is missing, she has dementia, and she needs
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  Speaker 1: your help. Dave Matt, Crime Stories investigative reporter, what can
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  Speaker 1: you tell me? Tell me quickly because I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to her granddaughter.
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  Speaker 2: Tisdale went missing after she left her home to go
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  Speaker 2: to a restaurant and come back. Now, I point that
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  Speaker 2: out because as this timeline starts, Nancy, she actually normal
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  Speaker 2: routine stuff, goes to a restaurant, comes home, her food
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  Speaker 2: wasn't ready, so she goes back to this restaurant in Abeville,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. And we're talking about being able to track
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  Speaker 2: her via license plate cameras and surveillance video in different towns.
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  Speaker 2: Now follow me here from six pm to six fifteen pm.
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  Speaker 2: She has seen purchasing a lottery ticket scratchers from a
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  Speaker 2: local gas station in Abeville between seven pm and eight pm.
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  Speaker 2: She has seen on FLOT cameras in Greenwood, South, Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Greenwood South is about thirteen miles from Abeville, takes about
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes to get there, and is very common and
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  Speaker 2: very familiar to her. She knows this area, but on
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  Speaker 2: video she's seen on FLOT cameras making multiple turns and
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  Speaker 2: driving around as if she's lost. This is seven pm
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  Speaker 2: to eight pm, eight pm to five forty five am
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  Speaker 2: the next morning, Nancy. Ten hours of this timeline we
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  Speaker 2: don't no. Based on flock camera footage through multiple towns,
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  Speaker 2: she drove a route from Greenwood to Livonia, Georgia, through
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  Speaker 2: Calhoun Fall, South Carolina, into Georgia to Etburton, Georgia, and
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  Speaker 2: from Eppurton, Georgia to Lavonia, Georgia. This is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of driving around and no real direction as to where
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  Speaker 2: she's headed. It appears that she lost and turned around
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  Speaker 2: and could not figure out how to get back home. Nancy,
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  Speaker 2: this is.
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  Speaker 1: A seventy eight year old grandmother. She's last saying wearing
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  Speaker 1: a polka dot dress. I'm going to circle back to
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  Speaker 1: Brian Fitzgibbons, the director of operations USPA nationwide security expertise
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  Speaker 1: finding missing people. But first to Ryan Tisdale, granddaughter of
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  Speaker 1: Annie Tisdale. She Ryan and her father are currently searching
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  Speaker 1: throughout Georgia to find miss Annie Tisdale. Ryan, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being with us tonight. What happened? It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: she's driving around lost.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we think that she did get lost and
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  Speaker 3: took a wrong turn and she was caught on the
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  Speaker 3: cameras going back and forth between the Abbeyville area Athens, Alberton,
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  Speaker 3: Lavonia area, Augusta. That's that's what we know. Where the
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  Speaker 3: cameras were picked up, and that's all that we know
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  Speaker 3: footage wise.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the footage?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: What are you being told is in the footage?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Police chiefs told us that they can see the
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  Speaker 3: truck and they can see one person driving and they
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  Speaker 3: can't see anybody else. They did not confirm it was hers.
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  Speaker 1: So that tells me a lot. Do they have a
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  Speaker 1: reason to think it's not her?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So at this uncture, Ryan Tisdell, do you believe
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  Speaker 1: she's still driving her vehicle? Nobody has carjacked her.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't believe that she's driving, only because the
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  Speaker 3: camera hasn't picked it up. The only way we would
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  Speaker 3: think that she's driving is if she had gotten more gas.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, when was the last time her vehicle was spotted,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Tisdale.
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  Speaker 3: Sunday morning, uh seven am, seven point thirty eight am
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  Speaker 3: going northbound towards I eighty five is what they think?
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  Speaker 1: And where where on eighty five northbound?
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  Speaker 3: The camera was on Jones Street in Livonia. The direction
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  Speaker 3: that the Lavonia chief is saying was towards eighty five.
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  Speaker 3: But that was the last time I was picked up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And to your understanding, Ryan, she's still driving the car, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the truck, yeah, okay. Brian Fitzgibbons, Director Operations USP, a
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  Speaker 1: nationwide security He leads a team of investigators. They go
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  Speaker 1: all around the world finding missing people. He is a
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  Speaker 1: former marine, He is in an Iraqi war vet. He
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  Speaker 1: knows what he's talking about. I think this is a
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  Speaker 1: huge lead that we've got the vehicle. Why does that matter, Bruce?
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  Speaker 4: I have pictures of this vehicle and the tag number
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  Speaker 4: need to be shared all over that area. And for
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  Speaker 4: the simple reason, like you said, vehicles are easier to
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  Speaker 4: find than people. Okay, that vehicle is going to be
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  Speaker 4: crucial here. And one thing that I'll add that this
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  Speaker 4: is also should provide a little bit of hope to
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  Speaker 4: the family. That vehicle is also a shelter. That vehicle
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  Speaker 4: is also a place that Miss Tisdale is very familiar with.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, there's a high chance of likelihood that
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  Speaker 4: if we can get this vehicle and tag number shared
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  Speaker 4: far and wide within driving distance of that last known location,
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  Speaker 4: that leeds will begin to come in.
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  Speaker 1: She is driving a twenty fifteen black Toyota Tacoma. To
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  Speaker 1: all of you truckers listening now, license three three one
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  Speaker 1: eight six zero W as in Western. Three three one
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  Speaker 1: eight six zero W Western. That's her license plate, twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifteen black Toyota Tacoma with me, her granddaughter, Annie Tisdale's
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  Speaker 1: granddaughter Ryan. Were there any stickers on her car like
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  Speaker 1: on the back of my minivan, I've got. I am
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  Speaker 1: proud of my eagle scouts, My twins just made eagle.
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  Speaker 1: My point is what is identifying about her black Tacoma.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, on the back license plate there is the disability symbol.
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  Speaker 3: They have the disability. It may not be hanging, but
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  Speaker 3: they have the disability symbol on the back so that
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  Speaker 3: they can park in the disability spots and then on
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  Speaker 3: the front plate is the Alpha Greek letters of James Sizzel,
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  Speaker 3: her husband. Alpha Phi Alpha is his fraternity. So the
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  Speaker 3: front plate is are those Greek letters, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they are, but it's the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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  Speaker 1: It would be the A for Alpha, yep, the sign
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  Speaker 1: the Greek sign for Phi, and then another A for Alpha.
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  Speaker 1: The vehicle, the vehicle. The vehicle is the key. Did
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  Speaker 1: she have a cell phone?
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  Speaker 3: Ryan's either powered off or died when she left Abbeyville,
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  Speaker 3: So that's the last place they can ping it to
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  Speaker 3: is Abbeville.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been pinged in Abbeville, Abbeville, Georgia. Abbeville, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Abbeville, South Carolina, her home.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so long story, short, last saying Livonia, Georgia. Last
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  Speaker 1: Saint northbound I eighty five tell me Ryan Tisdale about
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  Speaker 1: her dementia.
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  Speaker 3: So we're thinking it has progressed in the last few months.
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  Speaker 3: She does not have the diagnosis technically, however, she was
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  Speaker 3: recently stick losing a lot of weight quickly, which I
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  Speaker 3: work in healthcare and that is not good for elderly
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  Speaker 3: to lose weight. So she now weighs one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: eighty pounds. I would say a guest is to forty
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  Speaker 3: pounds loss. And she was recently in the hospital the
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  Speaker 3: first week of February concerning her chronic kidney disease her
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  Speaker 3: high blood pressure, and they I asked my grandfather to
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  Speaker 3: ask them to do a dementia test so that way
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  Speaker 3: she could get the dementia diagnosis and that they could
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  Speaker 3: get easier home health options or just an option for
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  Speaker 3: either placement or for help in the home. They did
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  Speaker 3: do the test and she failed the dementia test. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know the reason why she wasn't given the dimension diagnosis,
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  Speaker 3: but she failed the dementia test, and that was do.
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  Speaker 1: You believe she has dementia? Ryan?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? Why forget questions she's asked in a short amount
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  Speaker 3: of time. She cannot remember things that she should normally know.
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  Speaker 3: I think the map of her getting lost and driving
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  Speaker 3: back and forth to different towns when she should know
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  Speaker 3: how to get home is a clear indicator. And I've
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  Speaker 3: worked in long term care with people with dementia for
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  Speaker 3: eight years. I see similarities.
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  Speaker 1: Missing Grandma Annie Tisdale. She is seventy eight years old.
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  Speaker 1: Her family, including her granddaughter Ryan, begging for your help.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not turn away. There is a tip line
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  Speaker 1: if you think you have information. Contact eight six four
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  Speaker 1: three six six five eight three two eight six four
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  Speaker 1: three six six five eight three two. Seen around five
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  Speaker 1: pm Saturday. Her vehicle was last spotted in Livonia, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: going toward I eighty five northbound. Black dress, white spots
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  Speaker 1: on it. She was wearing a cowboy hat, driving a
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen black Toyota Tacoma license three three one eight
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  Speaker 1: six zero w The Livonia Police Department needs your help.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't remember the number, just dial nine one
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  Speaker 1: one back to her granddaughter Ryan Tisdale. Ryan, has she
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  Speaker 1: ever disappe if you're like this before.
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  Speaker 3: No, She's gotten lost one time before, but she had
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  Speaker 3: her phone and was able to call, and that was
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  Speaker 3: over a year ago, and it was far before her
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  Speaker 3: dementia progressed this far.
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  Speaker 1: Brian has gibbons a lot of the fact that Miss
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  Speaker 1: Tisdale is showing signs of dementia. How will that affect
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  Speaker 1: the search for her?
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  Speaker 4: This is going to we train search and rescue teams
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  Speaker 4: for these specific cases. Nancy, And one of the pieces
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  Speaker 4: that you have to identify. You know, if we find
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  Speaker 4: this vehicle and Miss Tisdale is not with the vehicle,
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  Speaker 4: we need to begin searching what we call hiding spots. Right,
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  Speaker 4: these are non obvious locations. Patients with dementia will often
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  Speaker 4: for whatever reason, because of their condition, not seek help immediately,
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  Speaker 4: and they will seek some kind of concealment or shelter. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So these are open sheds, fence lines, brush lines. That's
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  Speaker 4: where the search would be focused in my opinion, if
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  Speaker 4: we find the vehicle first, right, if miss Tisdale is
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  Speaker 4: not already in the vehicle, we need to do a
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  Speaker 4: tight search area because she's not going to walk more
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  Speaker 4: than a couple miles away from that vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: To Ryan Tisdell, her granddaughter joining us tonight. What was
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  Speaker 1: she saying at the restaurant? What restaurant was it? What
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  Speaker 1: was she talking about? Did she say anything when she
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  Speaker 1: bought the lotto ticket?
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  Speaker 3: We don't have anything confirmed.
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  Speaker 1: Did she go back and pick up her food?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's confirmed that she got the coleslaw, brought it
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  Speaker 3: back to my grandfather and went back out, but it's
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  Speaker 3: not confirmed if she picked up the food.
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  Speaker 1: So there was still food waiting at the restaurant for her. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and she got the lotto ticket correct.
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  Speaker 3: That's not confirmed by the police either. HM.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Good to know because we're always going with that
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is typically where a lotto tickets are sold. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be and let's just say a circle K
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  Speaker 1: or a quick trip gas station. They have video and
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if they have video of her getting into
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  Speaker 1: her car, her truck, her Tacoma and if anyone got
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  Speaker 1: in with her. It sounds like no, it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: she's driving around lost because if someone got in the
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  Speaker 1: car with her, she would not have meandered for hours
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  Speaker 1: and hours. They would have taken off and got in
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  Speaker 1: the car and dumped her somewhere if it was a
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  Speaker 1: typical carjacking, which gives me hope. Dave Mac do you
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  Speaker 1: know anything about that, Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: This is a woman who's spent thirty nine years teaching
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  Speaker 2: school in middle school and knows her way around this
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  Speaker 2: area like the back of her hand. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: a woman who has sleep apnea, and she does sleep
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  Speaker 2: a lot. So as was mentioned earlier, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we have a vehicle involved, she has shelter. She might
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  Speaker 2: very well be on the side of the road, maybe
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  Speaker 2: in and off on a side road, asleep right now.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest problem with all of this is the knowing
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  Speaker 2: that she's driving around round on roads be familiar with,
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  Speaker 2: but has turned herself around and is lost and doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know which direction to go. And at this point she's
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  Speaker 2: probably run out of gas, so her car is probably
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  Speaker 2: sitting on the side of the road unless she has
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  Speaker 2: found a place to fill up. She only left the
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  Speaker 2: house with sixty dollars, no credit cards, no bank debit cards.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy, all of our trucker friends, everyone, the Georgia Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Investigation, the Georgia State Patrol, South Carolina State Patrol.
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  Speaker 1: We're calling on you. Please look for this black Tacoma
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  Speaker 1: A two thousand and fifteen black Tacoma license plate three
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  Speaker 1: three one eight six zero W. There is a disability
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  Speaker 1: symbol on the back and on the front the Greek
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  Speaker 1: letters Alpha Phi Alpha. Please help us bring grandmother, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Tisdale home to her husband and her family. If you
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  Speaker 1: know or think you know anything about Miss Tisdale's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: please call the Abbeville County Sheriffs eight six four three
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  Speaker 1: sixty six five eight three two and please join us
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  Speaker 1: in our prayers to bring Annie Tisdale home. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: to our guests, especially Ryan Tisdale, for being with us
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  Speaker 1: in the search for her grandma. And thank you to
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,