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SICK RANSOM TEXTS: MISSING WOMAN'S FAMILY TOLD SHE'D BE "CHOPPED INTO PIECES" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, the family of a missing
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  Speaker 1: woman last seen running barefoot from a hotel, just told
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  Speaker 1: she would be chalked into pieces and a sick ransom text.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Leila Santanello is a young Tennessee mom living with her
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  Speaker 2: boyfriend Michael and baby daughter Nova. Things take a turn
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  Speaker 2: when Laila and her boyfriend get into an argument and
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  Speaker 2: Layla leaves the house.
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  Speaker 3: This is Leila Santanello, a young mother from Kingsport, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: who hasn't been seen in nearly two years. Leila is
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  Speaker 3: mom to now four year old Nova Grace, who now
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  Speaker 3: lives with her grandmother, Jennifer Santanello. Jennifer, Layla's father George Emman,
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  Speaker 3: and stepmother Britney Zeitler are all desperate to bring Laila
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  Speaker 3: home and reunite her with her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Where is Layelah? Again? Thank you for being with us
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  Speaker 1: tonight and our search for missing mom? Leelah? What do
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  Speaker 1: we know? Joining me and Allstar panel to make sense
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  Speaker 1: of what we're learning right now? But first listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: She had to sit on and there was a pink
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  Speaker 4: Teddy Bear exactly like literally the same color and everything.
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  Speaker 4: And he was sitting in the chair and he was
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  Speaker 4: holding her like this right, and he had his I'm
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  Speaker 4: like this, she's in his lap. I took the pink
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  Speaker 4: Teddy Bear and I'll put it in teddybears.
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  Speaker 1: You see Leela telling a story about her most precious prize,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be her daughter, Nova Grace, talking about
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  Speaker 1: a pink Teddy Bear. You know what, I want to
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  Speaker 1: see that one more time, guys. Look at Leelah now missing.
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  Speaker 4: She had to suit on, and there was a pink
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  Speaker 4: Teddy Bear exactly like literally the same color and everything.
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  Speaker 4: And he was sitting in the chair and he was
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  Speaker 4: holding her like this right and the end of the
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  Speaker 4: arm like this, she said his lap. I took the
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  Speaker 4: pink Teddy Bear and I put it in.
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  Speaker 5: Teddybeary.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go straight out now to Leyelah's father and stepmom,
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  Speaker 1: George Emmett and Brittany Zeiitler. To both of you, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. George, tell me about Leela.
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  Speaker 1: When I see her singing along to music or talking
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  Speaker 1: about her baby, Nova Graces, it's hard to believe that
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  Speaker 1: she's out of Nova's life. I mean, tell me about her.
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  Speaker 1: I understand she was a very, very loving mother.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she was a very loving mother. She loved her
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  Speaker 6: daughter very much. She loved her family. She was always
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  Speaker 6: doing things with her daughter. You know, she was always
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  Speaker 6: trying to strive to do better in life. So she's
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  Speaker 6: she's she's a wonderful person, and I just want her
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  Speaker 6: back home.
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  Speaker 1: What has it been like, George without her?
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  Speaker 5: Miserable?
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  Speaker 6: I can't sleep, I can't think right, it's hard to work.
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  Speaker 6: I got other kids I got to take care of.
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  Speaker 6: It's just been very stressful. It's every parent's worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Brittany is Wala's stepmother. Brittany, thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: What has it been like for you guys trying to
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  Speaker 1: move forward? You've got Nova Grace that doesn't have her mother.
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  Speaker 1: You're missing Layla. What has that been like since she
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  Speaker 1: went missing?
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  Speaker 7: It's been really difficult, especially on all of us. It
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  Speaker 7: definitely impacted us in many different ways, especially with having
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  Speaker 7: to take on a little girl that is definitely missing
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  Speaker 7: her mom and needs her need to be met. Or
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  Speaker 7: that little girl she needs all the extra TLC that
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  Speaker 7: she could eventually get, and we can all as a whole,
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  Speaker 7: blended family give her the best life that we could
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  Speaker 7: possibly give her at this time.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we've learned during this.
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  Speaker 7: Unexpected tragedy that we've been faced with. Life doesn't stop.
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  Speaker 7: Life keeps going whether we want it.
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  Speaker 5: To or not.
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  Speaker 7: And we still have to pick up all the pieces,
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  Speaker 7: and there's still a lot of work that has to
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  Speaker 7: get done, and we just keep holding on to the
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  Speaker 7: little bit of hope that she is in fact still
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  Speaker 7: out there.
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  Speaker 1: You said something very striking, Brittany. I remember when my
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  Speaker 1: fiance was murdered. I felt like the whole world had
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  Speaker 1: just stopped. And then I look back and was stunned
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  Speaker 1: to say that the world just kept turning. I was
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  Speaker 1: the only one that stopped. It feels like everything froze
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  Speaker 1: in time. George, what do you tell Nova Grace about
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  Speaker 1: her mom? What does she ask?
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  Speaker 6: She just basically, I guess, where's mommy, where's mommy?
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  Speaker 5: Where's mommy? Looking not my mom? Yeah, she doesn't really know.
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  Speaker 6: She was she was really young, really young at the
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  Speaker 6: time we're talking to you, or so she's was, didn't
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  Speaker 6: really know much at that time.
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  Speaker 8: But she is starting to question where her mom is
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  Speaker 8: and in fact, do I have a mom. You know, she'll.
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  Speaker 7: See cartoons, she'll watch other kids call mom, dad whatnot,
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  Speaker 7: you know, and here she is wondering, where's my mom?
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  Speaker 7: So she is starting to ask those questions, where where
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  Speaker 7: is my mom? And of course we get stumps, all
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  Speaker 7: of us too, and we try to you know, rechange
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  Speaker 7: you know, the topic, and show her her face and
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  Speaker 7: show great pictures of Leila and Nova together so she
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  Speaker 7: can at least see the good times that they did
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  Speaker 7: have together and just hope that she can have more.
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  Speaker 1: Brittany, you just broke my heart to think of baby
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  Speaker 1: Nova Grace saying do I even have a mom? Do
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  Speaker 1: I have a mom? What did you do when she
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  Speaker 1: said that?
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  Speaker 7: When she just started talking about mom, I just sat
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  Speaker 7: right back, all my tears. Then she's say, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 7: you'll see mommy soon, and just try to redirect her
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  Speaker 7: into a different topic or do something different just to
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  Speaker 7: kind of get that off the topic, because I honestly
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  Speaker 7: don't know what to even say at this point.
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  Speaker 8: We could say so much and we're.
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  Speaker 7: Going to run out of things to say, and there's
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  Speaker 7: going to come a point in time where what do
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  Speaker 7: we say?
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  Speaker 1: Guys? Uh, The family of a missing woman Leela last
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  Speaker 1: scene running barefoot from a hotel. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: put the cart before the horse. Let's start at the beginning. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Just a few months after having her daughter, Nova Grace,
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  Speaker 2: Layla Sentinela loses her grandfather, with whom she was very close.
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  Speaker 2: In the roller coaster of emotions between the joy of
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  Speaker 2: becoming a new mom and the grief of doing so
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  Speaker 2: without her grandfather, Layla leans on Michael Thompson for support.
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  Speaker 2: The too quickly become inseparable, and Layla moves in with
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  Speaker 2: Michael's family in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: The grief that she went through when the grandfather died unexpectedly.
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  Speaker 1: To Karen Start joining me, renowned psychologist joining us out
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  Speaker 1: of Manhattan, Manhattan, Radio trauma expert consultant at Karenstart dot com, Karen,
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  Speaker 1: you never know how the loss of that father figure
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  Speaker 1: or grandfather figure will affect you the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: And for Leila, the loss of her grandfather was devastating.
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  Speaker 1: It was a real turning point in her life.
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  Speaker 9: I have no doubt, Nanta, that she was feeling that
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  Speaker 9: she would be able to share her daughter with him.
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  Speaker 9: She was very very.
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  Speaker 1: Close to him.
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  Speaker 8: And get them in many.
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  Speaker 9: Forms, as you know, and in this case, with somebody
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  Speaker 9: so close, it could have led to devastation. Here she is,
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  Speaker 9: she's so confused. She loves her daughter and is excited,
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  Speaker 9: but a tremendous loss and trauma when it came to
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  Speaker 9: her grandfather.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, very often we don't understand why people
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  Speaker 1: do the things they do when they're functioning with immense grief.
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  Speaker 1: How did the death of the grandfather affect her.
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  Speaker 5: George really really bad?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, she wasn't really talking to nobody, wasn't eating right,
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  Speaker 6: just crying, constantly, crying every day.
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  Speaker 5: I've tried to hug her holder and love her. She
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  Speaker 5: just didn't want to be bothered.
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  Speaker 7: Really, Now, we were lucky enough to have her present
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  Speaker 7: when she found out that her grandfather passed away. She
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  Speaker 7: was actually a majury taking her family vacation with Nova,
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  Speaker 7: her mom and the mom's boyfriend. And I want to
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  Speaker 7: say we were more fortunate enough to be there through
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  Speaker 7: that traumatic time in her life as a whole. And yes,
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  Speaker 7: she was very devastated over the loss of her grandfather.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Karen, start with me, psychologist, You think
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  Speaker 1: that someone it would be traumatized when they lose their
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  Speaker 1: mom or their dad, which they are typically, But I
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  Speaker 1: can identify that when I lost my grandmother, my mother's
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  Speaker 1: mother who raised us, Lucy, that I then named my
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  Speaker 1: daughter after my grandmother raised us while my mom worked,
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  Speaker 1: and we were extremely extremely close. So a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people can't relate to someone falling apart when they lose
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  Speaker 1: a grandparent, right, but for many of us, it can
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  Speaker 1: be devastating.
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  Speaker 9: Without a doubt, this is sort of a father figure
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  Speaker 9: for her. Even though she had her dad and loves
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  Speaker 9: her dad, she was extremely close to her grandfather, And
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  Speaker 9: so the behavior that you have after a loss like that, Nancy,
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  Speaker 9: anything is possible because you're in trauma. You're really feeling
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  Speaker 9: extreme PTSD sometimes where you can't get over the event
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  Speaker 9: and you can't get over the lost chap to come
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  Speaker 9: to terms with it.
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  Speaker 1: It also makes me think, of course, I'm just an
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  Speaker 1: armchair psychologist. Don't like you, Karen start, but it makes
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  Speaker 1: me wonder if that's not why she then got so
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  Speaker 1: attached to the boyfriend Michael Thompson. Listen.
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  Speaker 10: On Friday, June twenty third, Leayla gets in an argument
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  Speaker 10: with her boyfriend Michael Thompson, and while the pair are
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  Speaker 10: usually attached to the hip, Leayla takes off, leaving most
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  Speaker 10: of her belongings, including the couple's shared phone behind. Layla
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  Speaker 10: stays with several friends, but is not in contact with
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  Speaker 10: family without her phone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my stars, this to me that starts the dominoes
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  Speaker 1: falling when she leaves the boyfriend's place without a cell phone. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me understand this, Brittany Zeidler. They were sharing one account.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, they were working off of one working phone. The
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  Speaker 7: other phone had a Wi Fi connected phone, so that
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  Speaker 7: was when they were able to get a hold of
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  Speaker 7: one another. Leila would stay behind, Michael would go run
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  Speaker 7: his errands, and the sleep with one phone on the
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  Speaker 7: one account for many months.
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  Speaker 1: So those who were sharing one phone, then that phone disappears.
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  Speaker 1: That right there marks for me the beginning of a timeline.
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  Speaker 1: Why because nobody can be in touch with her. Rick
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  Speaker 1: Schaeffer joining me, former FBI supervisory special agent. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: in this day and age, Rick, your cell phone, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the Alex Murdad case. For peace sake,
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  Speaker 1: Murdod charged and the double murder of his wife and son,
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  Speaker 1: Maggie and Paul. The digital footprint, the cell phone data
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  Speaker 1: of the NAV system in his vehicle told a story.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as far as I was concerned, you put
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  Speaker 1: that one digital analyst on the stand case closed because
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  Speaker 1: it places murder like at the scene of the double murder.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of the double murder, you hear his
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  Speaker 1: voice in the background of a video taken and then
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  Speaker 1: with the nav system you see what time he leaves
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  Speaker 1: goes hies out at his grandmother's thirty minutes away. You
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  Speaker 1: can even see where he slows down. Let's the window down. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you can tell that from a nav system and throws Maggie,
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  Speaker 1: his now dead wife's phone out the window and then
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  Speaker 1: takes off. You can tell all that from modern digital science.
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  Speaker 1: So when you don't have a phone that greatly greatly
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  Speaker 1: impedes a criminal investigation, absolutely.
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  Speaker 11: Or absolutely correct. Not only are you going to be
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  Speaker 11: able to determine where that phone is, but who's in
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  Speaker 11: possession of it at time, not only from the cell
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  Speaker 11: tower it's painting off, but any metadata that can be
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  Speaker 11: extracted from photos or text or anything.
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  Speaker 5: Of that nature. It looks like the police department.
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  Speaker 11: Has done everything they can from a cell phone data
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  Speaker 11: collection standpoint, looking at cameras, any digital technology that would
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  Speaker 11: help track or whereabouts, and the reality of it is
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  Speaker 11: is she's clearly vanished, and that's a very difficult thing
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  Speaker 11: to do in today's environment out there where everything is
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  Speaker 11: digitally captured.
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  Speaker 2: Leila is last seen in an open field before seemingly
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  Speaker 2: vanishing into thin air. Now her family is looking for
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  Speaker 2: answers as to the whereabouts of the young Tennessee momus.
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  Speaker 1: And where is Leila after a sick money grab where
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  Speaker 1: the family gets threatening ransom texts threatening to chop Leila
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  Speaker 1: into bits if money isn't forked over. This during the
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  Speaker 1: search for the missing mom As it goes on, we
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  Speaker 1: were just describing how Leila and the boyfriend that she
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  Speaker 1: suddenly moves into after the death of her grandfather have
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  Speaker 1: an argument. They have an argument, she takes off without
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  Speaker 1: a cell phone.
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  Speaker 12: Then what happens Saturday morning? Michael, Since Jennifer sendsanello a
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  Speaker 12: message on Layla's Facebook profile, Jennifer is immediately worried. It's
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  Speaker 12: unusual that Michael wouldn't know where Layla is. Michael says
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  Speaker 12: he hasn't seen Leila in more than twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 12: Jennifer spent several hours trying to track Layla down. Layla
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  Speaker 12: isn't hospitalized anywhere. Finally, Jennifer's niece gets word from a
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  Speaker 12: mutual friend that Layla spent the night at his house
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  Speaker 12: and was okay when she left.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so there. Even after she takes off without a
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  Speaker 1: cell phone, which destroys everybody because they can't get in
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  Speaker 1: touch with her, we find out she's at a friend's house. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: everything is okay. But finally we actually hear from Leelah herself.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning, Jennifer Sonanela wakes up to another Facebook message,
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  Speaker 2: this time from Layla. Laylah says she's okay and doing fine,
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  Speaker 2: much to her mother's relief. Jennifer has a few questions,
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  Speaker 2: but when Layla is vague, Jennifer assumes it's because Layla
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  Speaker 2: knows Michael can access the count she doesn't want him
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  Speaker 2: to know where she is. Leyla reminds her mom that
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  Speaker 2: she isn't carrying a phone, but she'll do her best
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  Speaker 2: to check in as much as possible. Jennifer's niece places
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  Speaker 2: Leila out of friends again, confirming Layla borrowed their phone
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  Speaker 2: to message her mom. Okay, Now we have a genuine lead.
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  Speaker 1: I was suspicious about those messages because they didn't sound
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  Speaker 1: like Leela and I don't have to talk about Gabby Petito,
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  Speaker 1: who went on a cross country trip with fiance Brian Laundry.
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  Speaker 1: He murdered her and was using her phone and her
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  Speaker 1: Fortransit and her credit cards and her money, and was
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  Speaker 1: texting odd texts. They wouldn't seem odd, probably to you
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  Speaker 1: or to me, but to the family that was getting them,
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  Speaker 1: they knew that wasn't Gabby. For instance, when she asked
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  Speaker 1: about her grandfather, she said, in my case, well how's
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  Speaker 1: Walter Malcolm and Grace Senior. She would never have said that.
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  Speaker 1: She would be saying how's granddaddy? So they knew something
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. Well, they were right. It wasn't her texting.
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  Speaker 1: It was Brian Laundry trying to give the appearance that
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  Speaker 1: Gabby was still alive. However, in this case, there was
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  Speaker 1: another reason that Leela was not being forthcoming in her
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  Speaker 1: text to Britney Zeitler, her stepmom, and George Emmett, her
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  Speaker 1: father to Brittany, apparently because they shared the same cell phone.
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  Speaker 1: And we had this occur recently in the case of
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  Speaker 1: glam yoga instructor Caitlyn Armstrong, who murdered her boyfriend, Colin
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  Speaker 1: Strickland's former girlfriend out of a fit of jealousy. She
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  Speaker 1: the yoga instructor, was sharing an account with Colin Strickland,
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  Speaker 1: the boyfriend, so when he was texting the victim Maureen,
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  Speaker 1: she could see it all. She could see it all.
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  Speaker 1: It pop right up on her iPad, right, So here,
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  Speaker 1: do you believe that was Leila messaging but that she
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  Speaker 1: was intentionally being vague because she shared that account with
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  Speaker 1: the boyfriend that she just walked down on. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, We really did think that it was Leela for
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  Speaker 7: the moment. So we you know, we're like, okay, maybe
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  Speaker 7: she doesn't want to know where she is at. He
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  Speaker 7: wants to stay away from her vice versa. So we
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  Speaker 7: just let it be at that moment in time. But
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  Speaker 7: when we didn't hear from her voice, we started to question.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what about it, George, When you found out
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  Speaker 1: about that Facebook message, I'm fine, I'm at so and
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  Speaker 1: so friend, and then that was corroborated by someone else. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's where she is. Everything's fine. At that point, you
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  Speaker 1: were not concerned, is that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 13: At that point I thought maybe she did get an
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  Speaker 13: argument with them and Joy I didn't want to get
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  Speaker 13: away from them at first, but then when I tried
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  Speaker 13: to reach out to her and didn't get a response back,
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  Speaker 13: that's when I started getting a little nervous.
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  Speaker 3: The case moves forward. Now it's Monday morning. Monday morning,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Thompson is becoming more insistent that he can't find Layla,
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  Speaker 3: claiming she asked him to pick her up from a
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  Speaker 3: friend's house but wasn't there when he arrived. Jennifer still
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  Speaker 3: believes her daughter is avoiding Michael and doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: tip him off to where she is. Michael then reaches
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  Speaker 3: out to Layla's dad, George Emmett, making him intensely worried.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right there, When did you become concerned, George? That
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  Speaker 1: something was a mess.
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  Speaker 6: When I texted her and I didn't get no response
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  Speaker 6: the next day, That's when.
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  Speaker 5: I was really worried because that's not like my daughter.
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  Speaker 5: She picks up for me and I'm no matter what.
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  Speaker 6: So that's when I really got worried and decided I
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  Speaker 6: was going to call and.
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  Speaker 5: Make a police report on my.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to talk about what you just said, George,
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  Speaker 1: joining me is Leila's father, George and stepmom Brittany Joining
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  Speaker 1: me now is a renowned defense attorney Ben at Powers.
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  Speaker 1: You can find them at Legal Powers online. Ben. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. Ben. It's called routine evidence.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't like that description because it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about the typical, run of the mill, standard evidence.
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  Speaker 1: But what it means is evidence of someone's routine.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 1: A routine a routine that you unintentionally carry out or
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: repeat every day. I do the same thing every single
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: morning in an effort to get my children to school,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: take care of my mother who lives with us, take
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: care of a multitude of pets before I can start
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: my real job. Right. It's a routine that has been
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: perfected to save time and accomplish things. Right. That's a routine.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And here, when George Emmitt says she didn't call, a
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: lot of people will go, hey, I don't hear from
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: my daughter for two weeks at a time, and that's okay.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I called my mom and dad, say what you want
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: every single day in the morning and at night, at
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a bare of minimum. That has been my routine. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: wanted to hear from them. I wanted to hear their voice.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: So routine evidence is very powerful, being powers. I guess
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: some defense attorneys would argue it means nothing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I would say routine evidence can be important.
• 21:30
  Speaker 14: But under these circumstances, the routine was clearly turned upside.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Down and inside out.
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: You know, she has a big argument with her boyfriend
• 21:38
  Speaker 14: that they're basically attached at the hill because of extenuating circumstances,
• 21:44
  Speaker 14: they're relegated to one phone instead of two, and so
• 21:48
  Speaker 14: she could be separated from him and the phone. She
• 21:50
  Speaker 14: could be separated from him with the phone. You know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 14: that type of distinction in the timeline definitely throws the
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: routine into question and isn't as reliable as maybe under
• 22:01
  Speaker 14: regular circumstances that the routine usually exists within.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: She had to sit on and there was a pink
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Teddy Bear exactly like literally the same color and everything,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: and he was sitting in a chair and he was
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: holding her like this right, and I'm like this just
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: in his lap. I took the pink Teddy Bear and
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I put.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: It in.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Teddy Bear George with me. This is Layla's dad. Why
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: are you crying?
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Devastating? That's been too long it's very stressful on me,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: my family. I just it's a lot. That's why I'm crying.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: That's every parent's worst.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Nightmare, you know.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And I was thinking, George, after you know, my fiance
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: was murdered, I never ever thought that I could ever remarry,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that I would ever have children. I thought that was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: just a dream that was just over and it was.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It was for over twenty years. Then suddenly I have
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a family. Can I tell you the greatest thing that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: happened to me was having the twins. And let me
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: see those videos in your control room. I mean, this
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: was the time of Leela's life. She finally has Nova Grace,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: just the love of her life, finally happiness, she has
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: this beautiful baby girl. I mean, I guess most moms
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: out there would agree that's the best time of your
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: life when you finally have your children. And to think
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: she's snatched away from her daughter and now her daughter
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: George has patures in these videos that's it and says
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: things like do I even have a mommy? I mean,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I get while you're crying, George.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she's all my granddaor is all I have left
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: of my daughter as of now? For two years Oh,
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: it's really hard and devastate. I just want to answers
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: hell loove closure.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Guys, we left off, we left off where George is
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: now becoming extremely worried. Listen.
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: George calls Jennifer to discuss whether they should report Layla missing.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: Extremely concerned after his last conversation with Michael based on
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: her last text conversation with Laila, Jennifer doesn't want to
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: jump the gun. The parents decide to report Layla missing
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: the next morning, which will be forty eight hours since
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: Layla's last contact with family. However, George can't shake the
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: feeling he needs to do something, and after several sleepless hours,
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: makes an official report that Laylah Santonello is missing in
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: the early morning hours of June twenty seventh.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: So George, since Michael Thompson, the boyfriend, and Layelah had
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: been so close joined at the hip following her grandfather's death,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: When he is starting to ask you, where's Laila, you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: know something is really wrong. What prompted you to report
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: her missing at that time?
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Well, when I couldn't get a hold of her and
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: she didn't respond back to me, I already knew something
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: was wrong.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Something something was not right.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: So when he was reaching out to me and sending
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: me text messages about not being able to find my
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: daughter and everything, that just made it ten times worse
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: for me. I mean I went right out there right away.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: We hired a private detective.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: We have a private detective that's been on the case
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: since day one.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: We have a private detective.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: We've been We've drove from boys you Jorge to Tennessee
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: out several I can't many times already on behalf of
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: my daughter.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Then the searches on was George reports her missing and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: finally a lead listen.
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: Kingsport Police immediately began investigating, speaking with Michael Thompson and
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: his family around two am June twenty seventh. By the
• 26:16
  Speaker 12: end of the day, investigators have a lead. Layla checked
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: into the Americourt Hotel for the night of June twenty sixth.
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: Employees and other guests say Leyla seemed paranoid. Laila is
• 26:27
  Speaker 12: caught on CCTV knocking on doors to look for someone.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Join me now, a very special guest. Rebecca McNairy, reporter
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: writer at Kingston Time News. Rebecca, thank you so much
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: for being with us. So who was she looking for
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: why are people there at the hotel describing her as
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: afraid of something?
• 26:49
  Speaker 15: You know, going based off the facts that we have
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: received from the Kingsport Police Department and other local authorities,
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: we have not been sure of who specifically she was
• 27:00
  Speaker 15: looking for.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: We know that witnesses testified that she.
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: Was acting paranoid and looking for something, but the Kingsport
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: Police Department has not released any specific details regarding that
• 27:14
  Speaker 15: certain matter.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: You know, Rebecca McNary, you're so right speaking of a
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: witness perceived good samaritan, this is what we learned.
• 27:24
  Speaker 16: Please let me help you. I have a room, My mom,
• 27:27
  Speaker 16: my son are inside. You can sit down. I will
• 27:30
  Speaker 16: talk to you. How would do any tag him to
• 27:31
  Speaker 16: help you? She froze for a moment, full a breath,
• 27:35
  Speaker 16: and he was like, and she looked at my room,
• 27:38
  Speaker 16: She looked at me, and then she said no, I
• 27:39
  Speaker 16: can't and she.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Just ran out and through the park came lot and.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: That was a life I saw her.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Is that right, Rebecca mnary? She this good Samarita said, look,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: what's wrong? Who are you looking for? Why are you afraid?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And apparently Lila goes, no, no, I can't talk to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you about it. It takes off running. Yeah, that is.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Several witnesses accounts.
• 28:03
  Speaker 15: I believe the police department and local authorities have told
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: me that, But again I can't comment on that specifically
• 28:10
  Speaker 15: because the police department has not come forward with that
• 28:15
  Speaker 15: specific information.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Where is a mom of one little nova grace? We're
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: talking about Layela? Do we finally have a bead or
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: where she may be? And now is this a break? Listen?
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: As police tried to determine Layla's next move, employees at
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: the nearby warehouse provide another lead. Around six or fifteen
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: in the morning, Layla asks if she can bump a cigarette.
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: None of the men have smokes on them. Layla thanks
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: them anyway and walks away. The men say Layla was
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: perfectly polite and seemed coherent. Layla did appear slightly disheveled
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: with messy hair and grass and leaves on her back,
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: like she maybe had laid down in the field.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Now, how does a marble slab creamery fit into this
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: search for Laylah? We all know what that is? Very
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: popular ice cream place a shop. Listen.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: An employee at a nearby ice cream shop, the Marble
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Slab says, a blonde woman came into the store around
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: noon on the twenty seventh, with no shoes on. She
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: says the woman was very disheveled, wearing a white T
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: shirt and black luggings. The woman seemed somewhat incoherent and
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: made a comment about her husband wanting to kill her
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: before asking to borrow the employee's phone.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: The woman walked.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Back out of the store, saying she wanted to head
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: to a nearby five below to buy shoes. When shown
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: a photo of Leila, the employee is convinced that's the
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: woman she spoke to.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, we've all heard attacks on eyewitnesses, and in this
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: particular case, we hit a dead end.
• 29:44
  Speaker 12: Kingsport police intensely focused on the marble slab lead, checking
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: with several more nearby establishments. Authorities believe they are zeroing
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: in on Layla, but CCTV and phone records eventually proved
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: the employee was mistaken about the woman's identity. Officers tracked
• 29:59
  Speaker 12: the woman down, who confirms it was her in the
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: ice cream shop that afternoon, not Leila.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Santanello. Ah Crime Stories with Nancy Grace joining me, investigative
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: reporter and writer at the Kingsport Time needs Rebecca McNairy, Rebecca,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that's devastating to get an eyewitness tip. The woman is
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: absolutely convinced this is Leelah that comes into Marble Slab
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Creamery and she's disproved. Tell me what happened. The woman
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: was so convinced it was Leilah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 15: Yeah, according to report, she was convinced that she had
• 30:46
  Speaker 15: seen Layla. Again, the Kingsport Police investigated and that was
• 30:51
  Speaker 15: indeed not the case based off the records and the
• 30:54
  Speaker 15: surveillance footage that they had. But again, something like that
• 30:58
  Speaker 15: where you think that you have a lead and then
• 31:01
  Speaker 15: instead is definitely devastating for the family that's trying to
• 31:04
  Speaker 15: bring Leila home.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: To Ben Powers joining US criminal defense attorney, Ben it's
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: also bad for an investigation, a potential trial in the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: future because when you get a lead, an eyewitness lead,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and the woman is absolutely convinced she sees Leyla right
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: later on, a defense attorney can say, see, she saw
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Layelah at this time on this date, and my client
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: on trial now was here in another state or whatever
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: fill in the blank. When you try, when you try
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a case, you have to go down every avenue to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: get to the truth. You can't leave anything out. But
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: when you go down those avenues, for instance, if you
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: name a person of interest or suspect too soon it
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: turns out to be wrong, that's a field day for
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the defense, just like a false tip.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree.
• 31:58
  Speaker 14: I think the significance of the witness being mistaken as
• 32:01
  Speaker 14: it shows that police.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Went down the wrong thread. You know, it ultimately led to.
• 32:08
  Speaker 14: A Tom commitment from the investigation that ended with a
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: dead end in the investigation. So then they've got to
• 32:13
  Speaker 14: go back and figure out what direction do they take
• 32:16
  Speaker 14: the investigation. And so now that tim, that effort, that
• 32:20
  Speaker 14: dedication has been spent on something that wasn't fruitful. Oh yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 14: and something like this. You know, Tom is the enemy
• 32:27
  Speaker 14: of an investigation. The longer time goes on, the harder
• 32:30
  Speaker 14: the investigation gets.
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: Two weeks after Layla's disappearance, both mother and stepmother start
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: getting cash apt requests from Layla's account, but the message
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: is attached to the requests send chills down their spines.
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: They're keeping me hostage. I owe someone fifteen minutes or
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: you'll find her. In pieces and the acronym TWLMG panics,
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: the women send various amounts of money with messages like,
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: are you okay and call me in the hopes that
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: Laila would see them, also reporting the activity to Believes.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Oh my stars, sick ransom text to Leilah's family, George Emmitt,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: what happened at that point?
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: We got really scared, We got really nervous, and we
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: were willing to do whatever it took to try to
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: get a hold of her.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: At that point.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, in all of her history, had Leyela ever
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: sent you a text or an email like that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Never?
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: Never, So that's why we were very discerned and worried.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: That somebody might actually threatened to chop her up.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, correct, Yes, you know.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: It's just actually making my stomach hurt. After all you
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: had been through, and someone is threatening to chop her
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: up unless they get money. Look, we're showing you the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: sick ransom text. I mean, Brittany, what went through your
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: mind when you get this?
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: I was in utter shock, and of course I reached
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: out to Jennifer. I reached out To's boyfriend Michael, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: while I am on the phone with Michael, I'm like,
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: are you getting any cash up requests? Because I'm getting
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: some right now, saying for abbreviations, and I gave him
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: you know TWMLG and he goes, oh, well, my brother
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: says they won't let me go or they will let
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: me go.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: And I'm not processing everything that's going on at that moment.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: I'm just thinking, oh my god, how do we do this?
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: I want to hear her voice. I want to know
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: that she is in fact, okay, do they really have her?
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: So there were so.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Many things just running through my mind as well as George's,
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: and we were just dumbfounded, like, oh my, what do
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: we do?
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: Do we send all this money?
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: Do we I dragged it out as much as I
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: possibly could to be able to get as much information
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: as I possibly can, and Jennifer and I were asking
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: questions like, you know, what's your youngest brother's name, what's
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: your pop secret pass code?
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: Only things that Leila can answer, and they were left
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: and answered.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: So how did he the boyfriend know what t w
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: l MG means. It's not like he's I DK. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: don't know. I had to figure out what does t
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: w l MG mean? And he knew it off the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: tip of his.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Tongue, That's what I was saying, And like I, of course,
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: wasn't processing it at that exact moment.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: But once I had a moment to process everything.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: On what was going on and rereading all of the
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: messages and everything that I had sending it to the investigators,
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: I was just like, wow, Like, I know, I got
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: a lot going on, but how do you know exactly
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: what that meant?
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: In an instance?
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: I was just I was roud.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I was roud. This is what Leila's mother has to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: say about that ransom text.
• 35:48
  Speaker 15: It's one thing for a stranger to try and capitalize
• 35:53
  Speaker 15: on something.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Like that the way that they that he did.
• 35:57
  Speaker 15: It's a whole other thing when it's someone.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: That you care about.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: From our friends at News five wcy B to Rebecca
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: McNary joining US reporter Kingsport Time News, who is he
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: who sent the ransom text threatening to talk Lala into bits?
• 36:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah, So police later found out during their investigation of
• 36:18
  Speaker 15: that was her boyfriend at the time, Michael Thompson, who
• 36:22
  Speaker 15: was sending those pretty alarming messages to Leyla's family about
• 36:25
  Speaker 15: two weeks after she was reported missing. He was later
• 36:30
  Speaker 15: indicted by a grand jury here in Sulliwyn County on
• 36:33
  Speaker 15: financial exploitation, credit card fraud, and identity theft.
• 36:38
  Speaker 12: Thompson otherwise cooperates with the investigation, and neither family nor
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: cops believe Thompson had anything to do with Layla's disappearance,
• 36:46
  Speaker 12: but obviously tried to take advantage of this situation. Jennifer
• 36:49
  Speaker 12: Santanello claims Thompson has taken a polygraph test, but the
• 36:53
  Speaker 12: results were inconclusive because he was not sober for the
• 36:56
  Speaker 12: five hour exam.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: George, jam And, I want to confirm with you. Our
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: sources have told us that you do not believe Thompson
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: had anything to do with Layla's disappearance.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: No, I don't believe. Well, they cleared them first. First
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: they cleared them.
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: How do you feel.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: I feel he might know something or know some people
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: that could be involved are whereabouts. That is possible, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: he's not saying nothing for nobody.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So guys, what about the search now.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: In addition to grid searches near the Americ Court Hotel,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Kingsport PD have searched the home Laylah shared with Michael
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Thompson and served at least thirty more search warrants. Officers
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: have also issued at least twenty five subpoenas. Officers remain
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: tight lipped about their most current leads to protect the investigation,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: but have searched several other locations in addition to the field,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: totaling six ground searches.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: To Rebecca McNary joining us from Kingsport, Time News tell
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: me about the search as it stands right now and
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the reward.
• 37:59
  Speaker 15: I know that the search the ground searches were subsided
• 38:04
  Speaker 15: a little bit during the colder winter months, but that
• 38:06
  Speaker 15: those are expected to pick up again here in the
• 38:10
  Speaker 15: near future. As far as any kind of reward money,
• 38:15
  Speaker 15: I'm not sure. I believe the last number that I
• 38:18
  Speaker 15: heard was around seven grand that her family was offering
• 38:21
  Speaker 15: do whoever had information about her whereabouts and disappearance.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: To George and Brittany. This case has taken so many
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: twists and turns, false reports of false siding that seems
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: so credible. The ransom text just cold blooded ransom text,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: money grab. So where are we left? In my mind,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: we're left with the warehouse workers that didn't have a
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: cigarette seeing her walk off into a field. That's where
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: we are.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: What about it, George, That's where we are as of
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: right now. That's the last known place that she was
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: actually seen.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: So that's all we know is of right now?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: What about it? Brittany.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: Well, so even though that's all that we have at
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: this time, we're going to continue to work as hard
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: as we can to figure out what direction she went.
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: And I call it the direction of the unknown.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: Since it's been two years almost now, and I know,
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: any type of surveillance footage that we have tried to
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: grab off of weather cameras or any type of surveillance
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: that our investigator had tried to pull, I know at
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: this time it's definitely going to be extremely difficult.
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: To be able to pull. So we're got to just
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: keep on search in and.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Put ground searches in place to be able to gather
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: as much resources that we possibly can from nonprofit organizations.
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  Speaker 8: That offer out of our dogs.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: Drones, extensive, yes, extensive, wide varieties of you know, needs
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: for Layela to be able to be found, since we
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: feel like we're working next little of nothing at this time.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: disappearance of Layelah Santanello, please dial four two three three
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  Speaker 1: four three nine seven eight zero or toll free eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred TB I find eight hundred eight two four three
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  Speaker 1: four sixty three. There is a seven thousand dollars reward
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: for information in the disappearance of Leyela, and that reward
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: is growing. We now remember an American hero, Senior Deputy
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Christopher Corzilias, Travis County Sheriff, Texas, passed away in the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: line of duty, survived by grieving partner Bethany, mother Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: father Paul, stepmom Patty. American hero Senior Deputy Christopher Grasilius,
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,