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WHO'S LYING? The search for 4-year-old Maleah Davis INTENSIFIES! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm missing five year old
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Speaker 1: girl presumably in danger, Little Malia Davis, her stepfather, Darien Vince.
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Speaker 1: His story to police details a violent attack and a
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Speaker 1: twenty four hour period where he was not conscious. It
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Speaker 1: begins Friday evening around nine. Vince tells police he was
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Speaker 1: headed to pick up Malia's mother from Bush Airport. He
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Speaker 1: says he pulled over in near fifty nine and Greens
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Speaker 1: to check what he thought was a flat tire. Vince
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Speaker 1: told detectives three Hispanic men pulled up in a blue
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Speaker 1: Chevy pickup chuck to Hispanic males get out. One of
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Speaker 1: them makes a comment saying that Malia looks very nice,
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Speaker 1: looks very sweet. The other male hits Darien in the head.
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Speaker 1: Vince says he was knocked unconscious and the next twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours he recalls nothing. You're hearing the very latest
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Speaker 1: on Malia Davis, a four year old girl that was
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Speaker 1: at a KTRKTV. Malia Davis still missing. I'm Nancy Grace,
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Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to Lee Egan, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter,
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Speaker 1: the story stinks to me, There's something wrong with the story.
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Speaker 1: The dad says the step dad, Darien Vince says that
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Speaker 1: he's on the way the airport to pick up the
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Speaker 1: mom and he here's what he thinks, it's a flat
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Speaker 1: tire and gets out. What happens then Lee Well, he says,
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Speaker 1: he gets out of the car. Nancy and three Hispanic
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Speaker 1: men pull up to him in a blue Chevrolet pickup
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Speaker 1: truck and start making comments about how pretty Malia is,
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Speaker 1: how sweet he is, and then they end up hitting
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Speaker 1: him in the head and knocking him out, putting him
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Speaker 1: in his little boy in the dead of the truck,
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Speaker 1: and at some point they end up driving back to
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Speaker 1: where they hit him in the head and dropping him
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Speaker 1: off in the same area and then driving away with Malia.
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Speaker 1: They leave him and his little boy toddler boy two
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Speaker 1: years old, leave him in the little boy there and
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Speaker 1: drive away with Malia. That's a story. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our France at KTRK three pm Saturday, A surveillance
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Speaker 1: and then shows Vince's car in Sugarland six pm Saturday,
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Speaker 1: Vince tells police he woke up on the side up
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Speaker 1: Highway six near the Sugarland Mall, his one year old
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Speaker 1: son with him, but no Malia. He tells police he
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Speaker 1: tried to flag down cars for help but had no luck.
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Speaker 1: Just before eleven pm is when police say he made
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Speaker 1: it to Methodist Hospital, less than a mile from where
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Speaker 1: he says he was dropped off. We're looking for it.
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Speaker 1: We're hoping the public and years any information about anybody
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Speaker 1: who has seen Darien during that period of time, because
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Speaker 1: he doesn't really know where he was or what's going
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Speaker 1: on there. Anybody who's seen the vehicle, the silver Nissan Darion.
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Speaker 1: Vence told investigators he was driving to Bush Intercontinental Airport
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Speaker 1: to pick up Malia's mom. Vence says Malia and his
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Speaker 1: two year old son were in the car while near
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Speaker 1: Highway fifty nine in Green's Road. Vince told police he
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Speaker 1: heard a noise and pulled over to check his tire.
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Speaker 1: While outside the car, he says two men pulled up
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Speaker 1: in a blue Chevy pickup. One of them makes a
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Speaker 1: comment saying that Malia looks very nice, looks very sweet.
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Speaker 1: Then says one of the men hit him in the
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Speaker 1: head and he lost consciousness. Friday night, Malia's mother had
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Speaker 1: to call someone else to pick her up. When Vince
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Speaker 1: and the children never showed up sometime between Friday night
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Speaker 1: or Saturday. Vin says he woke up and was in
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Speaker 1: the back of the pickup with both children, but three
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Speaker 1: men were also in the car. He told police he
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Speaker 1: passed out again and woke up at six pm Saturday
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Speaker 1: near Highway six and fifty nine in Sugarland. His son
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Speaker 1: was with him, Malia was gone. So mysteriously, He's got
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Speaker 1: his own biological son, but his stepdaughter, Malia Davis, a
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Speaker 1: four year old, beautiful old girl, is missing. Here's khoutv
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Speaker 1: Vince says he walked down the road to Methodist Hospital,
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Speaker 1: where he was treated for a head injury, and reported
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Speaker 1: Malia missing, nearly twenty four hours after the alleged assault
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Speaker 1: that left Vince unconscious. I realize there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: blanks in that story, but we're open on the public
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Speaker 1: can filling the blanks. Sunday morning, Malia's case became an
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Speaker 1: Amber alert. That afternoon, traffic cameras spotted Vince's silver car
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Speaker 1: in sugar Land near where the family and friends handed
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Speaker 1: out flyers, followed by search and recovery groups starting their work.
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Speaker 1: Monday morning. KTRKTV Steve Campion talking with a victims hero
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Speaker 1: Texas Equi Search Tim Miller. Within the last ninety minutes,
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Speaker 1: the search for Malia Davis shifted more than thirty miles
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Speaker 1: away to southwest Houston, near Kirkwood and Bissonnatna. We are
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Speaker 1: in trouble. Bottom line, we're in trouble. I've had of course,
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Speaker 1: I believe in miracles, and we've hadden many of them.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to have a good ending.
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Speaker 1: I hope we have an enemy. The group helping Houston
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Speaker 1: police look for the missing four year old girl is
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Speaker 1: Texas Equi Search. Their leader, Tim Miller, says they repositioned
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Speaker 1: close to where the stepfather, Darion Vince calls home. We
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Speaker 1: hope Mark calls come in as leading us in different corrections.
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Speaker 1: We hope the investigation is going to lead us, sir,
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Speaker 1: and it's so it's all about her and joining me
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Speaker 1: right now, the founder and director of Texas Equisearch, Tim Miller.
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Speaker 1: Tim Miller, it doesn't make sense to me. You and
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Speaker 1: I've talked quite a bit about this particular case, Malia's disappearance.
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Speaker 1: You're telling me and you've been on the ground, looking
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Speaker 1: in the air, looking with dogs, looking for Maliah, that
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Speaker 1: they you seem to suggest to me that they take
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Speaker 1: the three Hispanic mills, take dear Vince in a big
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Speaker 1: loop and then bring him right back to where they
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Speaker 1: attacked him. Yeah, I bring him right back. And he's
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Speaker 1: at the corner fifty nine and Highway six, which is
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Speaker 1: a very busious intersection in sugar Land, trying to flag
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Speaker 1: somebody down. And he claims he walked to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: But you know, we've got a little hole in that
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Speaker 1: story to his vehicle that dropped him off at the hospital. Okay, whoa, whoa,
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Speaker 1: whoa whoa Wait, wait, way, wait a minute, Tim Miller,
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Speaker 1: he said nobody would help him. He had his son.
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Speaker 1: You can see the hospital video of him walking in
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Speaker 1: with the one year old son. What did you just
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Speaker 1: say about a car dropping him off? Hey, car dropped
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Speaker 1: him off? That certainly resembles the car that supposedly was
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Speaker 1: missing and then found. That's Thursday. And actually when they
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Speaker 1: interviewed his brother Joe, they asked, Joe, can you explain
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Speaker 1: why he was dropped off in his vehico and his
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Speaker 1: brother Joe says, well, I'm just not going to comment
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Speaker 1: on that right now, So I guess they gave him
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Speaker 1: his car back. I'm not really sure, You mean the
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Speaker 1: perpetrators that take for your old Maliah and dud. God
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Speaker 1: only knows what with her, drop him off, give him
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Speaker 1: curb service to John Cardillo joining me former NYPD John Cardillo.
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Speaker 1: Outside of emergency rooms and hospitals, there is almost always
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Speaker 1: video surveillance cameras. Why because a lot of crimes are
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Speaker 1: solved at emergency rooms in hospital people being dropped off
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Speaker 1: by fellow gang members after a shooting. You want to
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Speaker 1: get that license plate number, But for this kind of
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Speaker 1: material evidence, right a vehicle that that a potential suspect
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Speaker 1: said might have been somewhere else caught on that camera,
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Speaker 1: I would suspect this story has so many holes in
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Speaker 1: it that if I were the investigator on this case,
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Speaker 1: I would have this guy in an interrogation room night
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Speaker 1: and day until we figured out what happened here. Man,
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Speaker 1: his story stinks, Tim Miller, tell me what you have
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Speaker 1: been doing to find Melia if you can fit it
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Speaker 1: all in. Oh God, we have searched everywhere that we
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Speaker 1: know where to search, starting out where he claims this happened,
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Speaker 1: moved down by his a parliament went to sugar Land,
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Speaker 1: starf to sugar Land. We actually meant was postal inspectors,
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Speaker 1: which he did have a mail route down in the
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Speaker 1: Rosharan area. We got to wait. Let me stop you
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Speaker 1: right there, Tim Miller. You know I get carried away
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Speaker 1: and I break in. I know it's true, but I've
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Speaker 1: just got to stop you right now, because, as you know,
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Speaker 1: Darry and Vince, the stepfather's father, is stating that's not true.
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Speaker 1: His son did not have a mail route. That that's
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Speaker 1: all fabricated by the corps. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: listen to stepfather, Darry and Vince's father, when he went
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Speaker 1: out that first night to look for Malia, he got
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Speaker 1: mobs and then he didn't Yeah, and then he didn't understand.
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Speaker 1: He didn't trust her or her baby father because they
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Speaker 1: came to him a real crazy. Vince also claims blood
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Speaker 1: tied to Malia founded his son's apartment hallway and bathroom
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Speaker 1: and used to justify Darien's arrest came from another child.
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Speaker 1: It's her brother's blood from his tooth breasts. Detectives insist
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Speaker 1: they tested for family DNA and stand by their warrant.
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Speaker 1: They also stand by last week's search of a field
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Speaker 1: along Darien's old post office route never worked them on
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Speaker 1: a post ever in his life. But Darien's dad says
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Speaker 1: the sign worked just three days for the post office
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Speaker 1: through a tim service and never had one. You're hearing
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Speaker 1: our friends at Khou, Tim Miller, you hear his bio
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Speaker 1: dad saying that's not true. It's all a big lie.
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Speaker 1: Tell me how you verified he did have a mail route.
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Speaker 1: We actually met was two postal inspectors that came out there.
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Speaker 1: They gave us his mail route exactly where he delivered mail,
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Speaker 1: and every said that he was a head nearly a year.
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Speaker 1: So we didn't not direct from a postal inspectors. So
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Speaker 1: I don't think that they are sabricating this story. I
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Speaker 1: find it very difficult to believe to doctor Brian Russell, psychologist, lawyer,
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Speaker 1: post of Fatal Vows Hit series on investigation, Discovery, and
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Speaker 1: author that a postal inspector is gonna lie to Tim
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Speaker 1: Miller about Darien Vince working there. What he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: a dog in the fight, He's got no skin in
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Speaker 1: the game. Why would he lie to Tim Miller? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I agree, he wouldn't you know. As soon as I
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Speaker 1: heard about this, it gave me shades of Susan Smith,
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Speaker 1: remember her the woman, Yeah, I remember her. Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: bottom line, Tim Miller, when you approach the postial inspector
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Speaker 1: and you go, did darry In Vince ever work for you?
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Speaker 1: Did you show him a picture? You sure he knew
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Speaker 1: who dry In Vince is? He knew exactly who he was.
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Speaker 1: And then we actually talked to somebody at the post
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Speaker 1: office and they said that they terminated him because he
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Speaker 1: just liked to hang out and smoke cigarettes more than
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Speaker 1: concentrate on his job. So, you know, it's pretty apparent
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Speaker 1: that everybody in this family is not capable of telling
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Speaker 1: the truth, and there's only one person that can tell
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Speaker 1: the truth. And unfortunately weaken enough behind her crime stories
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace never worked them on a post route
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Speaker 1: ever in his life. There you hear the stepfather, Darien
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Speaker 1: Vince's father, Joe Vince, denying his son even ever worked
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Speaker 1: as a mail carrier. Why is that significant that he
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Speaker 1: did work as a mail carrier for well over a year?
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Speaker 1: Tim Miller joining me, founder director of Texas Equisearch. When
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Speaker 1: a child goes missing, you know Tim Miller will show
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Speaker 1: up with all of his forces. I'm talking horseback ATVs
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Speaker 1: air search as cadaver dogs sent dogs. Somehow he assembles
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Speaker 1: them all. Tim Miller, why is it so significant that
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Speaker 1: we nailed down the truth about this mail route? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think we nailed it down from the postal inspectors
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Speaker 1: and him, and besides that, Nancy quin Lex called me
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Speaker 1: up and he was actually with Brittany, and I told
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Speaker 1: quin Eli, said, Quinnell, and this is before we went
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Speaker 1: with Postal inspectors. Cornel, we understand that he had a
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Speaker 1: male route down in the Roe Sharon area and he
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Speaker 1: was actually west Brittany. So he asked Brittany if he
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Speaker 1: had a mail route, and Brittany said, yeah, he had
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Speaker 1: a male route. And so I asked Cornell, I said,
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Speaker 1: asked her he knows the route that he had that
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Speaker 1: scen area. I think we want to start searching. And
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Speaker 1: she said that she did not know the route that
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Speaker 1: he had, but one of her girlfriends actually rode with
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Speaker 1: him one time on the route. So he would get
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Speaker 1: with that girlfriend to if he remembered the route. And
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Speaker 1: then we got with the post office and then watch
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Speaker 1: Andy gout with a postal inspectors. So according to Brittany,
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Speaker 1: yes he had a mail route. According to the postal inspectors,
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Speaker 1: yes he had a mail route, so apparently n didn't
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Speaker 1: know what was going on in his son's life. The
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Speaker 1: significance of the stepdad having a male route, John Cardillo
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Speaker 1: from an NYPD, Why is it so important? Well, it
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Speaker 1: goes to credibility. I mean, if everybody's lying about it,
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Speaker 1: you know what? Cardillo no, because that mail route takes
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Speaker 1: him all the way through the swampy or wooded areas
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Speaker 1: in rochharon as to hide a body. Hello, quing ang
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Speaker 1: with myself. Somebody helped me. Well, what I'm saying is
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Speaker 1: but you gotta start somewhere, right, So first it goes
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Speaker 1: to credibility. You were a prosecutor, you need probable cause.
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Speaker 1: You might have to get a warrant. If in those
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Speaker 1: desolate areas there's a mini storage facility where you find
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Speaker 1: that on his mail route he paid for cash at
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Speaker 1: a mini storage, Well, then you're gonna need a warrant
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Speaker 1: to be able to crack that lock open to use
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Speaker 1: those bolt cutters. So first you got to start with
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Speaker 1: his credibility. That's a pretty bold and egregious lie that
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Speaker 1: he claimed that he didn't have a job, and his
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Speaker 1: family's claiming he didn't have a job, that he did
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Speaker 1: then you do what, Tim, did you go along that route,
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Speaker 1: which I suspect investigators are doing now because there was
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Speaker 1: very telling language and a clip you played. He's being
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Speaker 1: charged with tampering with a core. So they're running on
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Speaker 1: the premise that the little girl is now deceased. Investigators
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Speaker 1: are going to go through every inch of that mail route.
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Speaker 1: They're going to look for those deserted areas. They're going
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Speaker 1: to look for those mini storage facilities, abandoned warehouses, abandoned buildings.
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Speaker 1: But if there's anything locked, you need a warrant. So
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Speaker 1: you got to start with this credibright And that's why
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Speaker 1: I started there, Tim Miller, he's got a good point.
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Speaker 1: Tell me, but what you found on the mail route? Oh,
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Speaker 1: we found many, many isolated areas, and we've searched him
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Speaker 1: some on we have to search again because unfortunately, after
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Speaker 1: Lonely disappeared, we had a tremendous amount of rain. Some
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Speaker 1: areas we could not get to. And you know the
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Speaker 1: other thing is that we know when he's left he
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Speaker 1: had that bloom closed basket with a garbage bag in
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Speaker 1: it that we feel as though that was there. And
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Speaker 1: then we've got the vehicle located we're closed. Basket was
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Speaker 1: still in a new gas can, Lee Egan. Tim Miller
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Speaker 1: is talking about a blue closed basket and a plastic bag.
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Speaker 1: Let's just go back now off the mail route and
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Speaker 1: to the apartment. Tell me what happened, okay, May third,
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Speaker 1: he was seeing he was seen by himself walking out
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Speaker 1: of his apartment holding a blue clothes basket. Inside the
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Speaker 1: basket was a large black trash bag and according to
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Speaker 1: what police said, the way he was walking made it
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Speaker 1: seem like he was carrying something pretty heavy in that bag.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to this, police said. The defendant told
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Speaker 1: them that there should not be any blood in his apartment.
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Speaker 1: The officer reviewed video surveillance then from the porch of
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Speaker 1: the neighbor's apartment next to the defense apartment, and the
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Speaker 1: footage showed that on at one forty pm on Friday,
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Speaker 1: made a third that they recognized the defendant carrying out
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Speaker 1: from the apartment outside the apartment from inside to outside
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Speaker 1: a large blue laundry basket with a large black trash
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Speaker 1: bag inside that it seemed to walk out of the
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Speaker 1: camera's view and then return about three minutes later without
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Speaker 1: the basket. He's that observed walking out of the apartment
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Speaker 1: with cleaning supplies, including bleach. They did not do the
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Speaker 1: complainant ever leaving the apartment. They did see the defendant
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Speaker 1: leave later with only his two year old son from
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Speaker 1: the apartment. Tim Miller, founder and director of Texas EQUA
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Speaker 1: search where did that basket, That blue laundry basket turnout
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Speaker 1: turned up in the trunk of a car of b
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Speaker 1: car along with a brand new gas came in it
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Speaker 1: that he had just a smidget of gas. So of
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Speaker 1: course when I was flying then lay was searching and
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Speaker 1: one of the things we're looking for was any areas
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Speaker 1: that looked like it was burned. It's we feel as
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Speaker 1: out now that's very possible that he burned that little body.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to law enforcement now. On Friday made
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Speaker 1: a tenth the silver Nissan Ultima driven by the defendant
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Speaker 1: was process for evidence that there was a blue laundry
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Speaker 1: basket seller in parents to the blue laundry basket that
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Speaker 1: he's observed on the video surveillance carrying out of the
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Speaker 1: department on the night of the third. There were canine
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Speaker 1: dogs that were trained to sniff the scent of a
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Speaker 1: cadaver that walked around the vehicle and other vehicles in
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Speaker 1: the parking lot, and both of the dogs reacted to
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Speaker 1: the trunk of the silver Nissan that the defendant had
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Speaker 1: driven and that the blue laundry basket was recovered from,
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Speaker 1: indicating that the dogs were responding to the scent of
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Speaker 1: decomposition unity composition in the vehicle. Now they looked high
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Speaker 1: and low for the car before it was found. Even
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Speaker 1: the evidence surrounding the car doesn't make any sense. Dearian
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Speaker 1: Van says he was attacked when he got out of
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Speaker 1: the car with a flat tire. The car turns up
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Speaker 1: alone and abandoned a parking lot, But as Tim Miller
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Speaker 1: pointed out to you, hospital surveillance shows the step dad
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Speaker 1: was dropped off in the very same car. Listen to
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Speaker 1: Detective Ken in Free Asia. Well, we've had a bowl
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Speaker 1: out on the car, hoping we'd find him with it.
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Speaker 1: We've obviously found the car, but yeah, we're still looking
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Speaker 1: for him right now. The car looks fine. The car.
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Speaker 1: Everything looks normal on the car. The tires look look okay,
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they weren't changed at some point. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't have anything on that really citizens solid car
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Speaker 1: called the local PD Missouri City or Sugar I think
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Speaker 1: it was Misisters City. They contacted us and we came
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Speaker 1: out here. We looked inside. We haven't done any any
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Speaker 1: searching for anything. If we just took a glance inside
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Speaker 1: because it was bright. The winners are semi tenant, and everything,
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Speaker 1: like I said, looked normal, like a normal call. The
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Speaker 1: trunk looks harmalt him? Did I see the keys in
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Speaker 1: the car? Crime stories with Nancy Grace? Are you worried
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Speaker 1: that you can't find this man? If he considered the
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Speaker 1: person adventus, I would like to talk to him to
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Speaker 1: bed right now. UM, I'm not concerned that we haven't
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Speaker 1: found him. We're not. No, I'm not concerned about that
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Speaker 1: that saw him. You think you would think that if
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Speaker 1: you know your loved one is missing, that you would
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Speaker 1: be coming forward. And so he may have a legitimate reason.
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Speaker 1: I haven't spoken with him right now. We're still trying
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Speaker 1: to pull that and see what the angles of the
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Speaker 1: cameras are. UM. I have not personally viewed those. So UM.
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Speaker 1: That's we have officers in these in these businesses looking
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Speaker 1: at see there's any cameras focused on the parking lot,
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Speaker 1: and of course if there is, we're gonna backtrack and
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Speaker 1: get everything we can. I can't speak. The trunks just
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Speaker 1: miscellaneous clothes, papers, It's clean car, is there? Till yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I can believe us. I'll want to know you. Wow,
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Speaker 1: Detective Ken Vijia at oppressor. I Nancy Grace is his
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Speaker 1: crime stories. Thank you for being with us. Where is
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Speaker 1: four year old Malia Davis? As the trail gone cold?
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Speaker 1: With me? Tim Miller, Founder director of Texas Equisurch. You
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Speaker 1: just heard the detective say that the car looked normal,
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Speaker 1: But that's not what your cadaver dog said. Uh No,
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Speaker 1: cadaver dogs actually alerted on the trunk of the car.
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Speaker 1: Now and your expertise, Tim Miller. I've worked with a
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Speaker 1: lot of cadaver dogs as recently as last week. There
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Speaker 1: are many ways of a learning. They may sit down
20:46
Speaker 1: when they smell something. They may start barking and growling
20:50
Speaker 1: and scratching in a particular spot. They have different ways
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Speaker 1: of a learning. But you're telling me, Tim Miller, you
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Speaker 1: know for a fact cadaver were dogs hit on Darry
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Speaker 1: and Vince's car. That is the information I got from
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Speaker 1: homicide investigators. Wow, yeah that is I wasn't there, but yes,
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Speaker 1: that's the information that I got from homocide, Lee Egan.
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Speaker 1: That is a major that changes the entire focus of
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Speaker 1: this investigation. And another thing, Hold on, Lee, let me
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Speaker 1: go to doctor Brian Russell, psychologist, lawyer, host of Fatal
21:26
Speaker 1: Vows On Investigation, Discovery, author, Stop Moaning start owning on Amazon,
21:31
Speaker 1: Doctor Brian, Why didn't he go straight to police after
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Speaker 1: his pit stop at the hospital. Did you hear the
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Speaker 1: detectives saying, yeah, I'd like to talk to the stepfather,
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Speaker 1: Darry and Vince. We haven't found him. Why wasn't he
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Speaker 1: at the police station lying on the front steps screaming
21:46
Speaker 1: where is my stepdaughter? Well? Exactly, it's one of those
21:50
Speaker 1: those situations where it doesn't take a PhD to think
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Speaker 1: about what would I do if I were truly in
21:57
Speaker 1: the situation that he says he was in too. John Cardillo,
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Speaker 1: former NYPD, what do you make of what Miller is
22:05
Speaker 1: telling you? Well, I've learned a long time ago, don't
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Speaker 1: second guess the dogs. These dogs typically when they hit
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Speaker 1: on something. And if homicide investigators are going to be
22:14
Speaker 1: comfortable enough saying the cadaver dogs hit, then those dogs
22:18
Speaker 1: hit on something. And now this investigation is taking a
22:21
Speaker 1: considerably different turn. This is going to be a recovery
22:25
Speaker 1: and I believe a homicide investigation at this point. You know,
22:28
Speaker 1: you've looked everywhere to Miller, even at a haunted house
22:31
Speaker 1: out in Rosher in Texas. Why at a haunted house,
22:35
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like a Halloween haunted house. Well,
22:38
Speaker 1: that area was actually very very close to his Male
22:42
Speaker 1: routes famous where it's a lot of property out there.
22:45
Speaker 1: You can drive in many areas and it's very isolated,
22:49
Speaker 1: and Summer was an area we felt a though that
22:52
Speaker 1: that we've had to eliminate were I've got a couple
22:56
Speaker 1: of people out today. We're getting some calls in that
23:00
Speaker 1: feel as though that they've seen a vehicle like that.
23:02
Speaker 1: So even though we don't have a big search going on,
23:08
Speaker 1: we are every day have people out there that's driving
23:11
Speaker 1: looking at areas, following these leads how to talk with
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Speaker 1: homicide at least twice a day, and uh, you know
23:19
Speaker 1: the unfortunately, you know, I'm almost at that point of thinking,
23:23
Speaker 1: possibly this is a little girl. It's never going to
23:25
Speaker 1: be found. We know where she's not, and we just
23:30
Speaker 1: hope that one what comes in, that one call comes
23:32
Speaker 1: in and we can get a little body located. Tell
23:35
Speaker 1: me why you believe Malia's body was burned. Well, I
23:39
Speaker 1: think every indication is there. I mean, everything's been alive
23:44
Speaker 1: from the beginning, seeing him go out with a closed
23:47
Speaker 1: basket with a good you know, the blood in the apartment.
23:53
Speaker 1: You know, things just don't add up. But you know,
23:56
Speaker 1: we're not. I think the biggest miracle that we can
23:59
Speaker 1: hope for is to find that little body. And of
24:03
Speaker 1: course I'm getting crucified because people were saying and THEO.
24:07
Speaker 1: You know, you had over four thousand people in the
24:09
Speaker 1: search for little Kayley Anthony. Because this is a little
24:12
Speaker 1: black girl, you kind of halfway suspended it. But we've
24:16
Speaker 1: got to remember on Casey Anthony, we had phone things
24:20
Speaker 1: that was going all over the place for you know,
24:24
Speaker 1: thirty plus days, and we had things to do. We
24:27
Speaker 1: don't have anything on this stance. We don't have anything,
24:30
Speaker 1: so we can't see the arrow in the sky and
24:33
Speaker 1: where it comes down. Start searching. Take a listen thoughts
24:36
Speaker 1: for Houston police, who refused to say whether they believe
24:39
Speaker 1: twenty six year old Darien Vince killed Malia Davis. He
24:43
Speaker 1: is charged with tampering with evidence, specifically a human body
24:48
Speaker 1: A prosecutor says trained dogs detected the scent of human
24:52
Speaker 1: decomposition in Vince's vehicle, and blood evidence matching the four
24:56
Speaker 1: year old girl was found in his apartment. Vince told
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Speaker 1: police on May fourth, the men in a truck abducted him,
25:03
Speaker 1: Malia and his two year old son, and that these
25:06
Speaker 1: men had freed him and the boy. On Sunday, a
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Speaker 1: crowd of more than a hundred people gathered near Malia's
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Speaker 1: home to express their concern about the girl's disappearance. Some parade.
25:18
Speaker 1: Everybody wants the truth. We all want the truth, you know,
25:21
Speaker 1: like they say the truitht you know? Or is she?
25:24
Speaker 1: Or is she? So we could lare to rest you.
25:27
Speaker 1: Police have said they do not believe Malia is still alive.
25:32
Speaker 1: They also say Darien Vince, the suspect, could face additional charges,
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Speaker 1: including murder. To Lee Egan joining me Crime Online dot
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Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter, this is leading me to the apartment itself.
25:45
Speaker 1: What do we know about the apartment? Darian Vince, a
25:48
Speaker 1: stepdad share with Malia Davis four year old little girl,
25:52
Speaker 1: his bioson between one and two years old, and the mom,
25:56
Speaker 1: Britney Bowen. Well, if they shared an apartment together in
25:59
Speaker 1: Southwest Houston. It is a first floor apartment and it's
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Speaker 1: facing away either the security camera, you can see the apartment.
26:08
Speaker 1: There's only one way out of that apartment for all
26:10
Speaker 1: of them unless you go through a bedroom door window.
26:13
Speaker 1: So they all showed the apartment together. And then within
26:17
Speaker 1: a few days after Malia went missing disappeared, police did
26:21
Speaker 1: go to that apartment and they did, you know, did
26:24
Speaker 1: a thorough investigation, and they did find blood evidence inside
26:29
Speaker 1: the apartment that they matched back to Malia through her DNA,
26:33
Speaker 1: through her tooth fresh too. John Cardillo, former NYPD I'm
26:37
Speaker 1: surprised they waited days after her disappearance to process it.
26:41
Speaker 1: But the reality is it doesn't matter because they found
26:44
Speaker 1: blood evidence, blood that links back to Malia Davis. They
26:48
Speaker 1: found the blood evidence, they now have the forensic evidence.
26:51
Speaker 1: And going back to Tim's point, I think Tim is right,
26:55
Speaker 1: and I understand why he's so frustrated because episearch has
26:57
Speaker 1: had such tremendous success. The I feel the only way
27:02
Speaker 1: they're gonna find out what truly happened to this little
27:04
Speaker 1: girl is through exhaustive, exhaustive interrogation of this guy. And
27:08
Speaker 1: I suspect. Investigators have him in a room pretty much
27:11
Speaker 1: every waking moment and beyond. You want him exhausted, You
27:14
Speaker 1: want him hungry, You want him thirsty, You want him
27:17
Speaker 1: essentially begging for a coke and a big mac. So
27:21
Speaker 1: he'll give you something that'll indicate where you can find
27:24
Speaker 1: this little girl's remains. Take a listen to Canal X.
27:28
Speaker 1: Many people did not know that he had dismembered this
27:30
Speaker 1: beautiful baby. You said that in the interview. What makes
27:34
Speaker 1: what makes you say that is what information are you
27:37
Speaker 1: hearing then to say that, well, there was blood splatter
27:42
Speaker 1: evidence in the apartment. There was luinar spray and chemical
27:47
Speaker 1: spray that was all over the apartment after homicide investigators left.
27:52
Speaker 1: When you look at the video, the video footage extensively,
27:55
Speaker 1: you can tell what was going on, and you could
27:58
Speaker 1: tell he made two trips to buy big bottles of bleach.
28:01
Speaker 1: This was a man who never cleaned the house of eva,
28:04
Speaker 1: but he's buying big bottles of bleach, getting a big
28:07
Speaker 1: garbage back, and there's blood splatter, et cetera around a
28:11
Speaker 1: drainage area of the house. Why would human body tissue
28:14
Speaker 1: be in a draining system? Why would human body tissue
28:18
Speaker 1: be in the pipes under the sink, in the pipes
28:21
Speaker 1: under the bathtub. Why would that be? Why would that
28:24
Speaker 1: be human body tissue found around? Increases in crux of
28:28
Speaker 1: the balthe crime stories with Nancy Grace the courthouse, people
28:47
Speaker 1: directed their anger towards Malia's mother, All eyes on Brittany
28:50
Speaker 1: Bowen's as she walked down the hall, non saying a word. Vince,
28:54
Speaker 1: her ex fiance, did not appear. Critics questioning why she
28:58
Speaker 1: would leave her little girl with a man she says
29:00
Speaker 1: was dangerous. You have so many holes in your story.
29:03
Speaker 1: I don't believe you at all. I don't believe you.
29:06
Speaker 1: I will never believe you. You're just as guilty as him.
29:10
Speaker 1: She needs to be locked up along with him. She
29:13
Speaker 1: deserves to be locked up because that's not a real mother.
29:15
Speaker 1: A real mother would protect their child at enemies necessary,
29:18
Speaker 1: and she didn't do that. There are twenty eight hours
29:20
Speaker 1: from a third to a fourth events is unaccounted for.
29:23
Speaker 1: According to police, they believe he used that time to
29:26
Speaker 1: dispose of the little girl's body, and all of this
29:29
Speaker 1: as her mother was out of town. As parents, we
29:31
Speaker 1: gotta be much wiser, you know, offered the paper. Whole
29:35
Speaker 1: week shoals to put it in, you know, around our kids.
29:38
Speaker 1: That is ABC thirteen Jessica Willie covering a protest at
29:41
Speaker 1: the courthouse. Now, people lashing out not only at stepfather
29:45
Speaker 1: Dairy and Vince, as Tim Miller of Texas Sequal Search
29:48
Speaker 1: and others continue to look for the little girl or
29:51
Speaker 1: her body. People lashing out at the mother as well,
29:55
Speaker 1: And maybe this has something to do with it. Listen,
29:58
Speaker 1: you can't deny the here joy that jumps off of
30:01
Speaker 1: four year old Malia's face in the pictures that have
30:04
Speaker 1: been in the public eye since her disappearance, those were
30:07
Speaker 1: perhaps the happier days. Court records we uncovered paint a
30:11
Speaker 1: darker picture of the little girl's life over the last
30:13
Speaker 1: several months. Documents we obtained from the Harris County Clerks
30:18
Speaker 1: show that last August, the Department of Family and Protective
30:21
Speaker 1: Services received a report alleging physical abuse and neglectful supervision
30:26
Speaker 1: of Malia. She was living with her mother, Brittany Bowens,
30:30
Speaker 1: and stepfather Darry and Vince at the time. The state
30:33
Speaker 1: got involved after Malia's mother brought her to the hospital
30:36
Speaker 1: with a head injury. Doctors had to do surgery to
30:39
Speaker 1: remove half of her skull. When Malia got out of ICU,
30:42
Speaker 1: doctors ordered that she wear a helmet for twelve to
30:45
Speaker 1: twenty four months while she healed. But that was not
30:49
Speaker 1: Malia's first trip to the er. You're hearing our friend
30:52
Speaker 1: Cheryl Mercedes at khou to Lee Egancrimalline dot Com investigative reporter.
30:58
Speaker 1: What more do we know about this little girl's history
31:02
Speaker 1: with Family Protective Services? I mean, she's only four years old.
31:06
Speaker 1: That says four times twelve. That's only forty eight months,
31:10
Speaker 1: So how can that be this many visits to the
31:13
Speaker 1: doctor in the hospital. Well, all signs, in my opinion,
31:16
Speaker 1: point to abuse. But of course Brittany says that that
31:18
Speaker 1: never happened. She says that the little girl fell. She says,
31:22
Speaker 1: she's at a chair and she's fill and hit her
31:24
Speaker 1: head on a marble table. Now, CPS didn't go out
31:27
Speaker 1: to their apartment, but the investigator did not measure the
31:31
Speaker 1: height from the chair to the table, so we're not
31:33
Speaker 1: sure you know how far she's fell. But either way,
31:37
Speaker 1: doctors couldn't determine definitively that it was from a fall
31:41
Speaker 1: or was it from abuse. They couldn't tell, so you know,
31:43
Speaker 1: she had the operations of surgeries, and apparently Brittany completed
31:48
Speaker 1: her parenting classes and they allowed the little girl to
31:51
Speaker 1: temporarily go back to her home. Couldn't tell that is
31:56
Speaker 1: a load of b s. Child Protective Services needs to
31:59
Speaker 1: be strung up along with Darien Vince. Because you're sitting
32:03
Speaker 1: in a chair, even a high chair, at most you
32:06
Speaker 1: fall three feet. This child's head injury was so severe
32:11
Speaker 1: she had swelling and bleeding on the brain. They had
32:13
Speaker 1: to remove a big chunk of her skull and place
32:16
Speaker 1: it either in a refrigerated or frozen atmosphere or in
32:21
Speaker 1: her abdomen until the pressure could come off of her brain,
32:25
Speaker 1: and then reattach it to her skull. That's how serious
32:30
Speaker 1: the fall was. But this is what they say. According
32:33
Speaker 1: to records, On July tenth, Bowens took Malia to the
32:37
Speaker 1: er after she was throwing up blood. Doctor's reported Malia
32:41
Speaker 1: was extremely lethargic. Malia was treated and sent home the
32:46
Speaker 1: very next week. On July twenty eighth, Malia was back
32:49
Speaker 1: in the hospital for a cut to her forehead. Medical
32:51
Speaker 1: professionals reported she had blood just outside of her brain.
32:55
Speaker 1: Neither parent was able to tell doctors what could have
32:58
Speaker 1: caused it, and says she was hurt after falling from
33:02
Speaker 1: a chair, but medical professionals said that would not have
33:05
Speaker 1: caused the serious internal injuries. Doctors reported they were concerned
33:09
Speaker 1: about abuse, but in the end, the court found they
33:13
Speaker 1: could not confirm whether or not those injuries were caused
33:16
Speaker 1: by abuse. That's Cheryl Mercedes reporting out of KHOU. I
33:20
Speaker 1: mean when I hear that, Kathleen Murphy, family lawyer, it
33:24
Speaker 1: just hurts me because the doctors are saying, I don't
33:27
Speaker 1: know how this could have happened by accident from a fall.
33:30
Speaker 1: The doctors, the medical doctors are saying that. But CPS
33:33
Speaker 1: pushed the child back in the home and now we
33:36
Speaker 1: think she's been dismembered. Kathleen, it was clearly not properly investigated.
33:41
Speaker 1: It was clearly not properly investigated. And this child is dead, Nancy.
33:49
Speaker 1: This child is dead because of the court systems, because
33:52
Speaker 1: of CPS, because of the mother, because of her boyfriend,
33:56
Speaker 1: and because nobody stood up and stood up for this
33:58
Speaker 1: child in a way that counted. She and her two
34:01
Speaker 1: little siblings returned to the home per and order from
34:06
Speaker 1: a judge. Tim Miller found a director of Texas Sex Research.
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Speaker 1: You're out there beating your brains out, sweating, wet in
34:14
Speaker 1: the rain, digging through some remote mail route in East Houston, Texas.
34:18
Speaker 1: You can't find anything. And now you know, a judge
34:22
Speaker 1: and Child Protective Services handed this little girl back over
34:25
Speaker 1: to the stepdad on a silver platter. Well, I think
34:28
Speaker 1: CPS has blood out in their hands. I think a
34:30
Speaker 1: judge has blood out his hands or her hands, whatever
34:33
Speaker 1: judge it was. And that's another report that we got
34:38
Speaker 1: is that when she did have that brain entry, that
34:41
Speaker 1: Britney's mother came home and that baby was actually going
34:44
Speaker 1: into seizures. And Brittney's mother is the one that said, Brittany,
34:48
Speaker 1: you get this baby to the hospital. There's a child
34:51
Speaker 1: that's having seizures. And stepdad and biological mom and i'd
34:56
Speaker 1: even taken it to the emergency rule as Britney's mother said,
35:00
Speaker 1: get that baby to the hospital. That baby probably would
35:02
Speaker 1: have died if they wouldn't have been for Brittany's mother.
35:05
Speaker 1: So they had to force the mom, talk the mom
35:08
Speaker 1: into taking the baby to the hospital. Well, you know
35:11
Speaker 1: another thing I don't understand is that little Malia was
35:15
Speaker 1: at that house for an hour and a half before
35:17
Speaker 1: Brittany went to the airport. And nobody's going to tell
35:22
Speaker 1: me an apartment that's small, that mom wouldn't know that
35:25
Speaker 1: her little daughter was running around the apartment. And then
35:28
Speaker 1: why did she leave that early winter flight? Meant leave
35:30
Speaker 1: until four thirty in the afternoon. So nobody's story, you know,
35:34
Speaker 1: matches up to anything that's going on in this case.
35:37
Speaker 1: Not one person's story. Nobody's story is matching up. Tim
35:40
Speaker 1: Miller to Kathleen Murphy, family lawyer, Kathleen, I'm trying to
35:46
Speaker 1: piece together how many times this child was reported to CPS.
35:50
Speaker 1: CPS does nothing what the child had endured for four years,
35:55
Speaker 1: her entire life. She was methodically and regularly and consistently abused,
36:02
Speaker 1: and she was kept out of preschool for many days
36:06
Speaker 1: after she was returned in February. Their other child was
36:11
Speaker 1: at preschool. This child was not at preschool. And I
36:15
Speaker 1: believe this child was consistently, regularly and habitually abused. I
36:19
Speaker 1: believe the mother knew about it. Take a listen to
36:22
Speaker 1: our friends at ABCNS the bombshell allegations in the case
36:25
Speaker 1: of that missing four year old girl in Houston. A
36:28
Speaker 1: spokesperson for the mother of Malia Davis making graphic abuse
36:31
Speaker 1: claims against her stepfather. Here's ABC's Aeriel Ruscheff Tonight, a
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Speaker 1: spokesman for the mother of missing four year old Malia Davis,
36:38
Speaker 1: making chilling new allegations claiming Malia's stepfather was physically abusive
36:42
Speaker 1: toward the child. We need the truth about what happened
36:46
Speaker 1: to young Malia to come out, sources say. This image
36:49
Speaker 1: from a surveillance camera shows Malia's stepfather, dry On Vince,
36:52
Speaker 1: leaving home on Friday with a laundry basket carrying a
36:55
Speaker 1: plastic bag, and they say the next night he's seen
36:58
Speaker 1: walking into a hospital after he claims he woke up
37:00
Speaker 1: on the side of the road and Malia was gone. Today,
37:03
Speaker 1: Malia's mother pressed on why she is only now sharing
37:06
Speaker 1: these allegations. This mother has suffered a lot of abuse
37:11
Speaker 1: in her life. Okay, We're hearing it from all sides
37:14
Speaker 1: about what happened and why nothing was done about it.
37:18
Speaker 1: Tim Miller, founder director of Texas Equisearch. It seems to
37:22
Speaker 1: me that this child suffered her whole life, and now
37:25
Speaker 1: you are left looking for her body and would Nancy.
37:28
Speaker 1: We're gonna do everything we can do to find that
37:30
Speaker 1: by I don't care where it takes us. You know,
37:33
Speaker 1: sure we wish step Dad would talk, but when they
37:35
Speaker 1: arrested him, of course he lawyered up immediately and in
37:40
Speaker 1: anticipated he would do that, so that no cooperations from
37:43
Speaker 1: him whatsoever. You know, Mom knew this was going on
37:48
Speaker 1: for a long time, so you know, if she's certainly
37:51
Speaker 1: not gonna be Mother of the Year by no means.
37:54
Speaker 1: And you know, CPS got the ball, Judge got the ball.
37:59
Speaker 1: The ball was got on a little girl that did
38:02
Speaker 1: not did not have a choice in life, probably once
38:04
Speaker 1: she was born. And again I said this before, I'll
38:07
Speaker 1: say it again, a little Malia in some place he
38:10
Speaker 1: did not choose to be, in some place he doesn't
38:13
Speaker 1: want to be. And there's one person that knows, and
38:15
Speaker 1: of course he won't talk. Tip line seven one three
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Speaker 1: three zero eight thirty six hundred or seven one three
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Speaker 1: two two two tips seven one three two two two
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Speaker 1: eight four seven seven. The search for Maliah goes on
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off Goodbye friend,