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- 0:01Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A heartbreaking reveal. Mommy says
- 0:10Speaker 1: her missing little girl, just six years old, was eaten
- 0:15Speaker 1: by wolves. Really, Where's Oakley? I'm Nancy Grace. This is
- 0:22Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. The desperate
- 0:26Speaker 1: search for a missing little girl continues. What happened to Oakley? Carlson?
- 0:33Speaker 1: Where is Oakley?
- 0:35Speaker 2: And and and and.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Look?
- 0:41Speaker 2: I don't even take a son from me?
- 0:44Speaker 4: And so and he took his phone from you?
- 0:47Speaker 1: Did you have Andrew's phone?
- 0:49Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 0:50Speaker 1: I love bost in Tokio, Maryland? Okay?
- 0:53Speaker 2: And and Andrew take it?
- 0:56Speaker 1: And then what happened? And and and him back in
- 1:04Speaker 1: Whose bed? Is there anything more precious than a little
- 1:10Speaker 1: baby girl? This case is haunting, not just me, but
- 1:17Speaker 1: so many others. And Jordan put okay?
- 1:21Speaker 5: Jordan put Andrew back in his bed?
- 1:25Speaker 1: He does she hit him? Okley?
- 1:29Speaker 6: Him dead?
- 1:30Speaker 1: Nick? Who do you Hondich? Why did she hit him?
- 1:36Speaker 1: Go to him? Gosh? Hoh? Him? Who is being meant?
- 1:42Speaker 1: Why does he be mean? How many nights? I have?
- 1:49Speaker 1: Lenawaite wondering where is Oakley? Joining me an all star
- 1:55Speaker 1: panel to make sense of what we know right now?
- 1:57Speaker 1: But first, I'm gonna go to a very special guest
- 2:01Speaker 1: joining us, Jamie Joe Hiles. Jamie Joe was Oakley's foster
- 2:11Speaker 1: mom and loved her so much. Jamie Joe, thank you
- 2:20Speaker 1: for being with us and leading the rally to try
- 2:24Speaker 1: and find Oakley. Tell me how you ended up getting
- 2:30Speaker 1: to foster Oakley To start with, we.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Were really fortunate when it came to fostering Oakley. She
- 2:37Speaker 2: kind of almost fell in our lap. It was as if,
- 2:41Speaker 2: you know, a family friend contacted us and said, Hey,
- 2:44Speaker 2: I know of a foster child that is most likely
- 2:47Speaker 2: going to be put into adoption. Is this something that
- 2:50Speaker 2: you're interested in doing? And my husband and I looked
- 2:53Speaker 2: at each other across the couch and we just were like, yeah,
- 2:55Speaker 2: let's do it. And we weren't sure at first if
- 2:58Speaker 2: it was going to be a long term sit you
- 3:00Speaker 2: or a short term but as the years went by,
- 3:02Speaker 2: we were like, wow, like this is actually happening, Like
- 3:04Speaker 2: we're going to get to adopt her, and we love
- 3:07Speaker 2: the time that we had with Oakley.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Tell me about Oakley. I'm seeing all these fantastic photos
- 3:13Speaker 1: that you so kindly have given us as you and Oakley,
- 3:17Speaker 1: your husband with Oakley, and she's so happy.
- 3:22Speaker 2: She is so happy, Jamie Joe. Yeah, she was a
- 3:25Speaker 2: happy little girl, like I know that. I she definitely
- 3:29Speaker 2: had her toddler moments, but she was such a good
- 3:32Speaker 2: little girl. She was polite, she was adventurous, she wasn't
- 3:37Speaker 2: scared of anything. She tried all of her food that
- 3:39Speaker 2: we put in front of her, and she slept all night.
- 3:41Speaker 2: She was just the best little girl you could.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Ever think of.
- 3:43Speaker 1: I'm looking at a photo of you, and that's when
- 3:46Speaker 1: she's little, and then progressing. Now she's got on tennis
- 3:51Speaker 1: shoes and walking. Now she's with you, she's got all
- 3:53Speaker 1: her baby teeth, and she's got a big smile. There
- 3:57Speaker 1: she is with your husband, kissing him, sitting on his shoulders. Here,
- 4:01Speaker 1: you guys are all dressed up. She looks like little
- 4:05Speaker 1: bo peep. Just the love on her face. That's what
- 4:09Speaker 1: happens when a child is really loved. Tell me about
- 4:15Speaker 1: your daily routine with Oakley.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Yeah. So a lot of the time Oakley would go
- 4:20Speaker 2: to the daycare here in town. I'd pick her up
- 4:23Speaker 2: after school, and then we would always go to sporting events,
- 4:26Speaker 2: whether that was like the high school basketball or I
- 4:28Speaker 2: coached a dance team at the High School where I work,
- 4:31Speaker 2: and so she would often come to dance practice with us.
- 4:33Speaker 2: We had her in dance class also, so every Tuesday
- 4:36Speaker 2: she would go to her little ballet class. And then
- 4:40Speaker 2: the weekends we were always doing something, going to the zoo,
- 4:43Speaker 2: going to the hands On Children's Museum, going to the beach,
- 4:46Speaker 2: anything like that to kind of get those experiences with
- 4:49Speaker 2: her that every little kid should get to have.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Oh my stars, Jamie Jo Hiles, you're minding me. And
- 4:55Speaker 1: when the twins were little, I felt like a cruise director.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Every weekend. I was trying to think, what can we
- 5:01Speaker 1: do with the twins this weekend, whether it's the hands
- 5:05Speaker 1: On Museum or some other museum or some festival, or
- 5:09Speaker 1: looking for pompkins or picking strawberries, or just anything to
- 5:15Speaker 1: get them out and about see their face light up
- 5:18Speaker 1: and have a brand new experience the dance classes, the
- 5:23Speaker 1: SoC or this that. Just there, I saw her in
- 5:27Speaker 1: the floor playing with pots and pans, something the twins love.
- 5:31Speaker 1: For me to take out all the pots and pans
- 5:34Speaker 1: out of the cabinet, put them all the floor and
- 5:36Speaker 1: give them two woodenspoons each and it was the most
- 5:39Speaker 1: beautiful music I've ever heard. Why couldn't you keep Oakley.
- 5:46Speaker 2: I know that Mom had gone to the rehab classes
- 5:50Speaker 2: that she was ordered to go to, and shortly after
- 5:54Speaker 2: she went to those rehab classes, she became pregnant and
- 5:56Speaker 2: stayed clean. And I don't know if it's because she
- 6:00Speaker 2: had stayed clean for so long or what kind of
- 6:03Speaker 2: law happens, but she was able to get Oakley and
- 6:07Speaker 2: her siblings back.
- 6:08Speaker 1: I saw you take a big swallow, like a hell cold,
- 6:14Speaker 1: and your throat just then from here, I could see
- 6:20Speaker 1: you swallow at that last sentence.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Why it never gets easier to talk about this because
- 6:28Speaker 2: my husband and I grieved the loss of Oakley, and
- 6:31Speaker 2: then to find out that she was missing. It still
- 6:34Speaker 2: hurts our hearts and it doesn't make sense to us,
- 6:36Speaker 2: and it never will make sense to us why we
- 6:39Speaker 2: didn't get to have her with us permanently.
- 6:42Speaker 1: What did they tell you when they told you they
- 6:45Speaker 1: were taking Oakley away and giving her back to Buyo Mom,
- 6:50Speaker 1: who had been just out of rehab.
- 6:53Speaker 2: So it was really confusing at first because in the
- 6:57Speaker 2: spring we were asked by our sol worker, Angela Freese,
- 7:02Speaker 2: if we would be interested in taking the new baby
- 7:05Speaker 2: when it was born, and my husband and I were like, yes,
- 7:09Speaker 2: we would be interested in taking Oakley's younger sibling, and
- 7:12Speaker 2: then the next month at the next health and safety visit,
- 7:15Speaker 2: we were told never mind, like that's not an option anymore.
- 7:20Speaker 2: And then it slowly kind of came to that, oh,
- 7:23Speaker 2: she's going to be returned. And when my husband and
- 7:26Speaker 2: I went to fight it with the Grace Harbor Department
- 7:29Speaker 2: of Children, Youth and Families, we were told she's not
- 7:32Speaker 2: your daughter.
- 7:33Speaker 1: You need to let go of this. I've had that
- 7:34Speaker 1: hit like a ton of Briggs.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not a confrontational person, and I had
- 7:40Speaker 2: my whole listing of like, you're going to give this
- 7:42Speaker 2: child attachment disorder. She's barely spent any time at their
- 7:45Speaker 2: house and you want to return her in the next month.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Why do you think that this is conducive to her
- 7:50Speaker 2: or the parents? It seems like an asenine plan to
- 7:53Speaker 2: me for somebody that has struggled with drugs to have
- 7:56Speaker 2: a baby, get all their kids back at once and
- 7:59Speaker 2: be able to hope and do okay, Like, doesn't that
- 8:01Speaker 2: seem like a plan for failure at the kid's expense.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Joining me an addition to Jamie J. Hils, who love
- 8:09Speaker 1: Oakley with all of her heart. A renowned guest psychiatrist,
- 8:18Speaker 1: Emmy honored personality doctor Carol Lieberman, best selling author of
- 8:25Speaker 1: Lions and Tigers and Terrorists Oh My, she is on
- 8:30Speaker 1: a mission to help parents and teachers protect children. Doctor
- 8:36Speaker 1: Carrol Lieberman, thank you so much for being with us.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Can you explain something Jamie jo Hiles just said she
- 8:43Speaker 1: referred to attachment disorder?
- 8:46Speaker 4: What is that?
- 8:47Speaker 3: Well, what that is is when a child is being
- 8:50Speaker 3: raised by parents who are very traumatic towards the child,
- 8:54Speaker 3: in other words, who are their physical abuse or sexual abuse,
- 8:57Speaker 3: or neglect, some kind of problems. That makes a child
- 9:01Speaker 3: have a lot more trouble when they then are placed
- 9:04Speaker 3: in another home. But that's the thing that I was
- 9:07Speaker 3: noticing in these photographs that clearly she did adopt to
- 9:13Speaker 3: Jamie Joe, you know, did feel loved and did flourish,
- 9:17Speaker 3: and so she would have not had attachment disorder. She
- 9:21Speaker 3: would have continued with them and felt that love.
- 9:24Speaker 1: What happens when you disrupt that, doctor Leeberman.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Well, it's very difficult because you know, if she were
- 9:30Speaker 3: going to a loving home as well, it's still difficult
- 9:33Speaker 3: being disrupted, especially at a young age. But there might
- 9:37Speaker 3: have been some possibility of still growing and things being okay.
- 9:43Speaker 3: But going back to the place that she had to
- 9:45Speaker 3: be taken out of, I mean, obviously it was a
- 9:47Speaker 3: horrible situation that she wouldn't have put in foster care
- 9:51Speaker 3: to begin with.
- 9:51Speaker 1: To Cold Case investigative research founder, forensic expert, and star
- 9:57Speaker 1: of a hit news podcast, Zone Heaven, Cheryl McCollum is
- 10:02Speaker 1: joining us. Cheryl, I don't understand it at this point.
- 10:07Speaker 1: I don't try to understand it. I just accept that
- 10:10Speaker 1: it's true. Why defacts and I reserve this for very
- 10:15Speaker 1: few entities. May they rot in hell? Continue to put
- 10:21Speaker 1: these defenseless children. They take them out of the fire,
- 10:24Speaker 1: then throw them back into the frying pan with bio
- 10:29Speaker 1: parents that treat them like crap to start with, and
- 10:33Speaker 1: then we're all surprised when the child goes missing. I'm
- 10:36Speaker 1: not surprised. Why does that keep happening? It's like Groundhog Day,
- 10:41Speaker 1: over and over and over again.
- 10:43Speaker 4: In this case, the foster mom emailed and emailed and
- 10:47Speaker 4: called her husband emailed. They documented the injuries on Oakley,
- 10:51Speaker 4: and those were ignored when that baby was given back
- 10:55Speaker 4: to the biological parents. It is without reason, I would
- 11:00Speaker 4: go ten months without a social worker go into that
- 11:04Speaker 4: home and visiting with Oakley, reinterviewing her, making.
- 11:09Speaker 7: Sure she was safe.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Straight back out to Jamie Jo Hiles joining us. This
- 11:13Speaker 1: is Oakley's foster mom, Jamie, Joe, How long did you
- 11:18Speaker 1: have Oakley?
- 11:19Speaker 2: We had her for a little over two and a
- 11:21Speaker 2: half years.
- 11:21Speaker 1: During that time, did she have any visitation with the
- 11:24Speaker 1: bio mom or dad?
- 11:25Speaker 2: She had on and off weekly visits with both Jordan
- 11:29Speaker 2: and Andrew. Sometimes it was just Jordan, sometimes it was Andrew,
- 11:33Speaker 2: sometimes it was both of them, but she did see
- 11:35Speaker 2: them pretty regularly.
- 11:37Speaker 1: And how would she respond to that?
- 11:38Speaker 2: Sometimes she'd come home and she'd be upset because Jordan
- 11:41Speaker 2: or Andrew would be upset at the visit, So she
- 11:43Speaker 2: would come home and be upset. Sometimes when she had
- 11:48Speaker 2: weekend visits, like right before she transitioned home, she told
- 11:51Speaker 2: me that she was at their house for too long
- 11:54Speaker 2: and that she would have liked to have come home sooner.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Did you ever notice any injuries on Oakley's face or body?
- 12:01Speaker 2: Yes, So one time she came home from a visit
- 12:04Speaker 2: with scratch marks on her face, and I documented them,
- 12:09Speaker 2: and I took a picture and I sent it to
- 12:11Speaker 2: the social worker and asked what happened, and I did
- 12:15Speaker 2: not really get any kind of response. She said that
- 12:18Speaker 2: she was going to be out on vacation and would
- 12:20Speaker 2: address it later.
- 12:21Speaker 1: So the baby comes home Covenant scratches, and the social
- 12:25Speaker 1: worker goes on vacation. Yeah, did she explain how she
- 12:31Speaker 1: got the scratches.
- 12:32Speaker 2: We never pushed her like we asked her, But we
- 12:35Speaker 2: also never wanted to give her an idea of like
- 12:38Speaker 2: Jordan or Andrew would cause harm to her, So we
- 12:41Speaker 2: never wanted to put that in her head. Just like
- 12:44Speaker 2: the video earlier of my husband in Oakley talking like
- 12:47Speaker 2: she came back from a visit and started to say
- 12:50Speaker 2: that violence happened, And I immediately got out my phone
- 12:53Speaker 2: to record that because it was shocking that she was
- 12:56Speaker 2: just talking about it as if it were normal.
- 12:58Speaker 1: What was she saying about violence in that video with
- 13:01Speaker 1: your husband.
- 13:02Speaker 2: She was at an overnight weekend visit with Jordan and Andrew,
- 13:06Speaker 2: and this was a month before she transitioned home, and
- 13:10Speaker 2: she said that she was watching Coco Mellon on Andrew's
- 13:14Speaker 2: phone and that Jordan took the phone from her and
- 13:20Speaker 2: was upset that Andrew must have given her the phone,
- 13:22Speaker 2: and then she began hitting Andrew. Violence is something she
- 13:27Speaker 2: never would have seen in our home, so it was
- 13:29Speaker 2: very unusual that she was talking about it. And you
- 13:34Speaker 2: could tell she was nervous because she was stuttering as
- 13:36Speaker 2: she was talking. That was not her normal dialect. She
- 13:38Speaker 2: never spoke like that, but you could tell she was nervous.
- 13:49Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. Doctor Carroll Laberman is with us,
- 13:55Speaker 1: a renowned psychiatrist joining us out of Beverly Heels. Harold,
- 14:02Speaker 1: let me tell you a quick story. When Lucy and John,
- 14:05Speaker 1: Dave or Lila and I would have bath time with
- 14:08Speaker 1: each one would get their own bath time, and I
- 14:11Speaker 1: would read books to them, and I'd be getting ready
- 14:14Speaker 1: to sneak out after the bath so I could go
- 14:17Speaker 1: to work at night. So I would read this one
- 14:21Speaker 1: book called Caps for Sale, I think it was, and
- 14:24Speaker 1: it would be I've got a point a guy that
- 14:28Speaker 1: sold caps, and they were it was a children's book,
- 14:30Speaker 1: and they were stacked up in a big stack, and
- 14:33Speaker 1: a bunch of monkeys got the caps and ran off
- 14:37Speaker 1: with them, and the salesperson the guy said, give me
- 14:43Speaker 1: back those caps, and in the book and has fists
- 14:47Speaker 1: like that, and so I would act it out like
- 14:50Speaker 1: I just did with you, and I remember Lucy would
- 14:54Speaker 1: go and just look at me, like when I see,
- 14:58Speaker 1: give me back those caps, And then she would look
- 15:02Speaker 1: at the book, at the picture of the man arguing, fighting,
- 15:07Speaker 1: arguing with the monkeys up in the tree. And it
- 15:10Speaker 1: was only later I realized she had never heard anybody
- 15:15Speaker 1: threaten anybody. This was just a book. And so I
- 15:18Speaker 1: would try to turn the page and she'd reach it
- 15:20Speaker 1: back and turn it back and just look at the page.
- 15:23Speaker 1: And then she'd look at me like, what's happening because
- 15:28Speaker 1: she had never seen anything like that. I mean, all
- 15:31Speaker 1: we watched was PBS for Pete's sake, Charlie and Lola.
- 15:35Speaker 1: And now I understand why that bothered her so much,
- 15:38Speaker 1: the confrontation, Doctor Carroll.
- 15:41Speaker 8: Yes, So your.
- 15:41Speaker 3: Point is that the fact that it wasn't bothering Oakley,
- 15:46Speaker 3: that she was telling the story as if she was
- 15:48Speaker 3: just saying and then we went to the store when
- 15:50Speaker 3: we got bananas, you know, that shows that this is
- 15:52Speaker 3: what she was exposed to all the time, a lot
- 15:54Speaker 3: of domestic violence, and how her parents must have just
- 15:58Speaker 3: treated it as if this was more.
- 16:00Speaker 1: They give the baby back and then a bizarre event. Listen.
- 16:06Speaker 9: Andrew Carlson calls police fire dispatch to report a fire
- 16:10Speaker 9: at the family home earlier in the day. He tells
- 16:12Speaker 9: dispatch his daughter used a cigarette lighter and caught the
- 16:15Speaker 9: couch on fire. Carlson says he doesn't need fire response,
- 16:18Speaker 9: just wanted to report the fire. Jordan Bowers tells others
- 16:21Speaker 9: Oakley started the fire and it took four hours for
- 16:23Speaker 9: her and Carlson to extinguish the blaze. Fire investigators confirm
- 16:27Speaker 9: a fire at the home, but say it appears to
- 16:29Speaker 9: have started in the microwave, not Oakley using a lighter
- 16:32Speaker 9: to start a fire.
- 16:33Speaker 4: You know.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Dave mack is joining me Crime online dot Com investigative reporter.
- 16:38Speaker 1: I worked really hard to develop an expertise in prosecuting Arson,
- 16:44Speaker 1: Dave mac as you and I have discussed when I
- 16:46Speaker 1: was a prosecutor, because first you have to prove a
- 16:49Speaker 1: crime even happened. Then you have to get to the
- 16:52Speaker 1: bottom of how it happened and who did it. They're
- 16:56Speaker 1: a technical type of prosecution and investigation. And an Arson
- 17:00Speaker 1: expert tells me it started in the microwave. I'm telling
- 17:04Speaker 1: you that's where it started. I don't know how it started.
- 17:07Speaker 1: But that's where it started. It's really, Dave mac not
- 17:11Speaker 1: that hard to determine where the fire started because just
- 17:14Speaker 1: think about it, Dave Matt, at your house, if you
- 17:18Speaker 1: threw gasoline on the floor in let's just say the
- 17:22Speaker 1: den where your TV is, and then the rest of
- 17:26Speaker 1: the house burned as well or with smoke damage. You
- 17:28Speaker 1: can see with the naked eye that the den is
- 17:32Speaker 1: where the most concentrated burning has been. That's where the
- 17:35Speaker 1: most damage is. You can even see where accelerant can
- 17:39Speaker 1: be poured onto the floor. Sometimes you can smell it.
- 17:42Speaker 1: So if they say it started in the microwave, they
- 17:45Speaker 1: know that to be true, probably from the naked eye.
- 17:49Speaker 1: But yet the parents blame Oakley. Oakley's just a baby.
- 17:56Speaker 1: They're saying Oakley started the fire. But ours investigators say
- 18:02Speaker 1: it started in the microwave.
- 18:04Speaker 9: Right from the earliest call to the fire, they said, oh, man,
- 18:08Speaker 9: she lit it. Our daughter was playing with a lighter
- 18:10Speaker 9: and the couch caught on fire. That was there to like,
- 18:13Speaker 9: blaming Oakley from the very beginning, and then even said
- 18:17Speaker 9: that with one of the other children who repeated the lie.
- 18:20Speaker 1: So Jamie jo Hils, when you heard there had been
- 18:23Speaker 1: a fire and an Oakley started it. What did you think?
- 18:29Speaker 2: I'm thirty seven and I can barely use a lighter,
- 18:31Speaker 2: So that was alarming to me that suddenly this four
- 18:34Speaker 2: year old has the grip strength to start a lighter.
- 18:37Speaker 2: But secondly, one of my friends shared the GoFundMe that
- 18:41Speaker 2: Jordan had started to get money to help them with
- 18:45Speaker 2: the fire, and that was alarming to me. So I
- 18:47Speaker 2: immediately screenshot all the pictures of the damage of the
- 18:51Speaker 2: house and I sent them to DCUIF and I.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Said, this is not right, This is not right. This
- 18:58Speaker 1: is like something something.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Else is going on, and you need to investigate it
- 19:03Speaker 2: because this is not what happened. This wasn't because of Oakley.
- 19:07Speaker 2: I didn't even get a response from oakley social worker,
- 19:10Speaker 2: not a single response.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Joining me an all star panel. Let me go out
- 19:15Speaker 1: to Jarrett Farantino, who's joining us along with foster mom
- 19:19Speaker 1: Jamie jo Hiles, who actually took care of Oakley and
- 19:23Speaker 1: really fought tooth and nail for her not to be
- 19:27Speaker 1: returned to these Let me just say no good bioparents.
- 19:31Speaker 1: Jarrett Farentino is host of Prime Time Crime on YouTube,
- 19:36Speaker 1: a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania at Jarrettfarentino dot com. Jared,
- 19:41Speaker 1: let me understand, why is it that defacts Department Family
- 19:46Speaker 1: Children's Services CPS, Child Protective Services anything but worked so
- 19:51Speaker 1: hard to reunite the baby with the bioparents. The baby's
- 19:56Speaker 1: already been taken away from them. Why do they want
- 20:00Speaker 1: the baby back with the bioparents, you know, Nancy, that's
- 20:03Speaker 1: a great question.
- 20:04Speaker 8: The way those systems have been long set up is
- 20:07Speaker 8: they say the best interests of a child is to
- 20:10Speaker 8: be with their biological parents. If parents meet these thresholds,
- 20:15Speaker 8: if a parent is need of drug rehab, if a
- 20:17Speaker 8: parent is bettering their life, situation is taking certain classes,
- 20:22Speaker 8: the court's favor putting a child back in a situation
- 20:26Speaker 8: like this, and unfortunately it could have tragic consequences.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Sometimes the desire, Jamie jo Hiles, maybe you know more
- 20:34Speaker 1: about it than I do. All I know is wrong,
- 20:37Speaker 1: and I have railed against it for years, seemingly without effect.
- 20:43Speaker 1: But I've seen one case after the next after the next.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Why does the system defects CPS put the priority on
- 20:51Speaker 1: the bioparents who have already either neglected, abandoned, or mistreated
- 20:55Speaker 1: their child. Why do they get what they want, not
- 20:59Speaker 1: what the child wasn't. I don't mean a child going
- 21:02Speaker 1: I want to go to the candy store, I want
- 21:04Speaker 1: to go to six Flags. I don't mean that. I
- 21:07Speaker 1: mean as to where they live. Does a child's voice
- 21:10Speaker 1: mean nothing into system? No, it doesn't.
- 21:12Speaker 2: And what's unfortunate is Oakley even had a CASA, which
- 21:16Speaker 2: is a court appointed special advocate, and he is supposed
- 21:19Speaker 2: to be the voice for Oakley and her siblings, and
- 21:22Speaker 2: he only came out to meet her twice in the
- 21:25Speaker 2: whole two and a half years, and so I don't
- 21:27Speaker 2: think he even had a thumb on how Oakley felt
- 21:30Speaker 2: or anything. I think that he just kind of did
- 21:32Speaker 2: what the court suggested and what the social worker suggested.
- 21:36Speaker 1: But it's really unfair.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Because I could tell Oakley she wanted to see her
- 21:43Speaker 2: siblings and her biological parents on occasion, but she didn't
- 21:46Speaker 2: want to go back there permanently.
- 21:48Speaker 1: But I couldn't do anything about that, But she was
- 21:50Speaker 1: forced to crime stores with Nancy Grace. Where is Oakley?
- 22:04Speaker 1: The tip line? Three six zero five three three eight
- 22:08Speaker 1: seven sixty five repeat three six zero five three three
- 22:12Speaker 1: eight seven six ' five. First, the bizarre fire that
- 22:17Speaker 1: they blame on Oakley, and now.
- 22:20Speaker 9: This Oakley Carlson's six year old sibling goes to Principal
- 22:23Speaker 9: Swift's home for a playdate and sleepover. When Swift asks
- 22:26Speaker 9: about Oakley, the sibling gets upset and says, quote, Oakley
- 22:30Speaker 9: is no more. Swift presses and asks again about Oakley,
- 22:34Speaker 9: and the sibling tells her Oakley went to live with
- 22:36Speaker 9: her foster parents that she lived with before. Concerned about
- 22:40Speaker 9: what she is hearing, Principal Swift contacts the grays Harbor
- 22:42Speaker 9: County Sheriff's office saying she's concerned for oakley safety and
- 22:46Speaker 9: requests a welfare check.
- 22:47Speaker 1: So, after the bizarre fire, then we have the Oakville
- 22:51Speaker 1: Elementary principal, Jessica Swift, stopping by with a care package
- 22:55Speaker 1: after this fire, never sees Oakley. Where's Oakley? And then
- 22:59Speaker 1: she goes back never sees Oakley. And I'm gonna circle
- 23:02Speaker 1: back to doctor Kyrol Lieberman about how very often we
- 23:05Speaker 1: see one child of several picked out as escapegoat, which
- 23:09Speaker 1: I don't understand. That tell me what happened.
- 23:11Speaker 9: What happened is Principal Swift actually she knew something's going wrong,
- 23:16Speaker 9: so she orchestrates to have a sleepover with Oakley's older sister.
- 23:21Speaker 9: She can't find out anything about Oakley in a positive way,
- 23:24Speaker 9: so she calls police go check on her.
- 23:26Speaker 1: I didn't see her.
- 23:27Speaker 9: I've been there twice. Now I'm hearing something weird from
- 23:29Speaker 9: her sister. Please go check on Oakley. Now, by the
- 23:32Speaker 9: time police go to check on Oakley, the family is
- 23:35Speaker 9: not in their house where they had the fire. They've
- 23:37Speaker 9: actually moved out to a hotel and it's in that hotel.
- 23:41Speaker 1: What I mean, did you see the damage in the house.
- 23:44Speaker 1: I guess they did move into a hotel. Well, hold on.
- 23:48Speaker 4: So the.
- 23:51Speaker 1: Principal Swift is so worried she sets up a play
- 23:55Speaker 1: date for a sleepover, and this is with oakley six
- 24:00Speaker 1: year old sister. The sibling gets upset and says, quote,
- 24:06Speaker 1: Oakley is no more. And then the sibling says, Oakley
- 24:11Speaker 1: went to live with her foster parents that she used
- 24:15Speaker 1: to live with. Do I have that straight?
- 24:17Speaker 9: Dave Mack, Absolutely, That's what the principal was working on
- 24:21Speaker 9: that type of knowledge. So Principal Swift is being aggressive,
- 24:25Speaker 9: but within the what she's supposed to be doing, she's
- 24:27Speaker 9: looking after where is Oakley?
- 24:30Speaker 1: So we go from this bizarre fire in the family
- 24:33Speaker 1: home to Oakley not being present when the principal comes
- 24:38Speaker 1: by with a care package, to then the sibling telling
- 24:42Speaker 1: the principal Oakley is no more. Those are very odd
- 24:47Speaker 1: words coming from a child, so principal very wise the
- 24:52Speaker 1: cause for a welfare check. Listen to what happens due
- 24:55Speaker 1: to the fire.
- 24:56Speaker 5: Oakley Carlson's family is staying at a hotel when the
- 24:59Speaker 5: Tumwater Police Department conducts a welfare check. Andrew Carlson tells
- 25:03Speaker 5: police Oakley is with his parents Oakley's grandparents, but he
- 25:07Speaker 5: doesn't know his father's phone number and can't remember the address.
- 25:10Speaker 5: Carlson's father tells police he hasn't seen Oakley for quite
- 25:14Speaker 5: some time.
- 25:15Speaker 9: Returning to the hotel, the officer's report claims Andrew Carlson
- 25:18Speaker 9: doesn't seem surprised that Oakley is not with his parents.
- 25:21Speaker 9: Speaking to Jordan Bowers about her daughter Oakley, Bowers becomes
- 25:25Speaker 9: uncooperative and refuses to answer questions. After the officers leave
- 25:29Speaker 9: the hotel, Andrew Carlson calls police dispatch and reports Oakley
- 25:33Speaker 9: Carlson missing.
- 25:34Speaker 1: Jamie Joe, did you know at the time that all
- 25:37Speaker 1: of this was happening. What were you told, if anything?
- 25:40Speaker 1: I wasn't told.
- 25:41Speaker 2: Anything until so I received two phone calls when I
- 25:44Speaker 2: was at school that day. One call was from the
- 25:46Speaker 2: Grace Harbor County Jai's office asking me if I'd seen Oakley,
- 25:49Speaker 2: and the second call was from DCYF from Grace Harbor
- 25:52Speaker 2: asking if I could take Oakley's younger brother and Oakley
- 25:56Speaker 2: when they found her.
- 25:57Speaker 1: So that's all I was told.
- 26:00Speaker 2: I still have never been told by DCYF. But Oakley
- 26:03Speaker 2: is missing to the capacity that she is.
- 26:05Speaker 1: So you take care of her, You take her in.
- 26:08Speaker 1: I'm looking at all those pictures. You're the one that
- 26:11Speaker 1: bought that baby blanket right there. You're the one that
- 26:13Speaker 1: bought those clothes. You're the one that put the smile
- 26:16Speaker 1: on her face and took care of her. The bioparents
- 26:19Speaker 1: did nothing, nothing except a beglect and mistreat her. And
- 26:25Speaker 1: now suddenly you're hearing the siblings stay, Oh, she went back.
- 26:28Speaker 1: She went back to live with the foster mom. When
- 26:30Speaker 1: you know, Darwill, she's not there. She hasn't come back
- 26:34Speaker 1: to you. And that's why they came and called you
- 26:37Speaker 1: while they came to see you. Because the sibling was
- 26:40Speaker 1: told she was with you. What went through your mind
- 26:45Speaker 1: when they called you looking for Oakley?
- 26:47Speaker 2: My first thought was, oh, my goodness, like where is she?
- 26:51Speaker 1: Is she okay?
- 26:52Speaker 2: And then when they said can you take her little brother?
- 26:54Speaker 2: And can you take Oakley? I thought, oh my gosh,
- 26:57Speaker 2: we're going to get We're going to get our girl back.
- 26:58Speaker 2: And so it was incidentally her birthday, and immediately I thought,
- 27:03Speaker 2: I have to run to party City to plan a
- 27:05Speaker 2: birthday party for when she shows up at my house.
- 27:08Speaker 2: I had no idea for at least twenty four hours
- 27:12Speaker 2: that it was as bad as it is, no idea.
- 27:16Speaker 2: I checked my phone all night that night waiting for
- 27:19Speaker 2: a phone call that Oakley was going to be dropped
- 27:21Speaker 2: off at my house.
- 27:22Speaker 1: So when they called you looking for Oakley, you get
- 27:25Speaker 1: excited and they say, can you take Oakley when we
- 27:29Speaker 1: find her? That had to ring a red bill of
- 27:31Speaker 1: alarm in your head. Where we find her? And can
- 27:34Speaker 1: you take the little brother, the kneeborn, And you're like,
- 27:39Speaker 1: I'm going to get her and a sibling. And your
- 27:42Speaker 1: thought was I got to go to party seat right
- 27:44Speaker 1: now because it's her birthday and we're going to have
- 27:46Speaker 1: a party. That's what was going through your mind.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Yes, I immediately told my husband and my father, and
- 27:52Speaker 2: I said, we need to get the nursery ready for
- 27:55Speaker 2: her younger sibling, and we have a guest bedroom which
- 27:58Speaker 2: is where Oakley would stay, and we'd figure it out
- 28:00Speaker 2: later to make it more like not so.
- 28:03Speaker 7: Non kid like.
- 28:04Speaker 2: And I thought, Okay, we have to make her birthday
- 28:06Speaker 2: special because obviously if she is not at home, or
- 28:11Speaker 2: if she is being placed back in a foster care,
- 28:13Speaker 2: she's had a really bad birthday already, So let's try
- 28:16Speaker 2: to do something to make the day at least good
- 28:18Speaker 2: for her fifth birthday.
- 28:20Speaker 6: And then this listen, investigators question Oakley's nine year old brother,
- 28:25Speaker 6: who says Jordan Bowers would put Oakley in the closet,
- 28:28Speaker 6: possibly under the stairwell, and has witnessed Jordan beat Oakley
- 28:32Speaker 6: with a belt and has been worried about her starving.
- 28:36Speaker 6: During a forensic interview with a child advocate, Oakley's six
- 28:39Speaker 6: year old sister said her mother Jordan, had told her
- 28:43Speaker 6: to not talk about Oakley. She had gone out into
- 28:46Speaker 6: the woods, she said, and had been eaten by wolves.
- 28:49Speaker 1: To Jamie Joe Hiles, when did you learn the bier?
- 28:56Speaker 1: Mom told the other sisters and brothers that Oakley went
- 29:01Speaker 1: out in the woods and was eaten by wolves.
- 29:05Speaker 2: So I think it was on December ninth, the city
- 29:08Speaker 2: of Oakville held a really beautiful candlelight vigil for Oakley,
- 29:12Speaker 2: and a lot of us walked and just kind of
- 29:14Speaker 2: thought about Oakley and had hope for Oakley. And it
- 29:17Speaker 2: was as soon as I came home from that I
- 29:19Speaker 2: saw the police reports and the news reports that this
- 29:22Speaker 2: is what Jordan had been telling Oakley siblings, don't talk
- 29:25Speaker 2: about her. She's been eaten by wolves, that there was
- 29:28Speaker 2: abuse that happened, that she was starved. And the feeling
- 29:31Speaker 2: of knowing that that's what she endured is.
- 29:35Speaker 3: I mean, it just kills you, you know, Jamie Joe.
- 29:40Speaker 1: I torture myself the same way I have to stop myself,
- 29:44Speaker 1: Like as I think back on when my fiance was murdered,
- 29:47Speaker 1: and I wonder what happened, what did he endure? Did
- 29:53Speaker 1: he understand what was happening to him? Did he know
- 29:56Speaker 1: he was dying? It? Guess me know where what goes
- 30:04Speaker 1: through yourma when you heard this story that mom is
- 30:09Speaker 1: telling people, the children that Oakley went in the woods
- 30:14Speaker 1: and was eaten by wolves. What went through your mind?
- 30:18Speaker 1: Do you remember that moment?
- 30:21Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I thought that was the stupidest
- 30:23Speaker 2: thing that she could say, because we don't have wolves
- 30:25Speaker 2: around here. But then I also thought, how incredulous of
- 30:30Speaker 2: Jordan to sit there and tell her children, you better
- 30:34Speaker 2: watch out, you better not talk about this, because this
- 30:36Speaker 2: is what happened to her, and it's going to happen
- 30:38Speaker 2: to you too if you're not good. Like that's terrifying
- 30:41Speaker 2: to as a little kid to be like, this happened
- 30:44Speaker 2: to my siblings, so I better be on my best behavior.
- 30:47Speaker 2: And it just makes me feel like I want to
- 30:50Speaker 2: go to DCYF and be like I told you so,
- 30:53Speaker 2: I told you that this was a major concern, and
- 30:55Speaker 2: I felt like nobody listened to me.
- 30:58Speaker 1: And now here we are. Well, it is dawn on
- 31:01Speaker 1: you that that story was impossible. She wasn't eaten by wolves,
- 31:06Speaker 1: and that mommy is trying to come up with an
- 31:09Speaker 1: explanation about why Oakley is gone forever. Yeah, I mean,
- 31:15Speaker 1: I mean, like a ton of bricks.
- 31:16Speaker 4: And it did.
- 31:17Speaker 1: And it's just so.
- 31:19Speaker 2: It's so infuriating to know that that's the kind of
- 31:24Speaker 2: that's the story that her siblings are are thinking okay, like, uh,
- 31:29Speaker 2: you know, Oakley's gone that this is this is what
- 31:32Speaker 2: happened to her. Like that's so frustrating. And as a
- 31:36Speaker 2: as a foster parent, and I don't even like to
- 31:38Speaker 2: call myself her foster mom.
- 31:39Speaker 7: I was her mom.
- 31:41Speaker 2: Nobody wants to think of their kid being eaten by wolves,
- 31:46Speaker 2: and she just Jordan's talk.
- 31:47Speaker 1: First of all, she wasn't eaten by wolves. She wasn't
- 31:51Speaker 1: eaten by wolves. We don't have to think about that
- 31:53Speaker 1: happening because that didn't happen, which leads me to the
- 31:56Speaker 1: conclusion something else horrible it happened. And what's also very
- 32:02Speaker 1: infuriating Jamie Joe is that there were so many red
- 32:08Speaker 1: flags that were waving in front of everybody, right under
- 32:12Speaker 1: their nose.
- 32:13Speaker 5: For instance, listen, Oakley's grandmother tells investigators the last time
- 32:17Speaker 5: she saw her granddaughter, quote, Oakley didn't look well. Oakley
- 32:21Speaker 5: had dark circles under her eyes, pale skin, and she
- 32:23Speaker 5: had scratches or sores on her face. Now, the Grace
- 32:26Speaker 5: Harbor County Sheriff's Office has renewed its call for information
- 32:29Speaker 5: regarding the girl's disappearance. Oakley Carlson is often referred to
- 32:33Speaker 5: now as the missing girl who was kept in a
- 32:36Speaker 5: cell under the stairs.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Dave Matt Crime online dot Com. What did I hear
- 32:40Speaker 1: about a cell under the stairs?
- 32:42Speaker 9: You mean, like Harry Potter, it was a place that
- 32:45Speaker 9: the children described like a cell, the under the stairs.
- 32:49Speaker 9: It was an obvious area where they would put her
- 32:52Speaker 9: where she was in the dark, locked in, couldn't get out,
- 32:56Speaker 9: and they all knew it.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Don't Kirill Lieberman with us nown psychiatrists, why do we
- 33:02Speaker 1: see over and over one child out of the whole
- 33:05Speaker 1: family targeted for abuse.
- 33:06Speaker 3: What it might have been is the fact that she
- 33:08Speaker 3: is so adorable and maybe that got her more attention,
- 33:13Speaker 3: like from the father or from people who would come
- 33:16Speaker 3: to see the family, and the mother couldn't deal with
- 33:19Speaker 3: that that she didn't want locally stealing attention that she
- 33:22Speaker 3: wanted for herself.
- 33:23Speaker 1: You know, I know that sounds far fetched, but doctor
- 33:25Speaker 1: Lieberman is absolutely correct that exact scenario has happened. Cheryl McCollum,
- 33:30Speaker 1: cole Case Research Institute Founder and director, Cheryl, We've seen
- 33:36Speaker 1: it one hundred times, five hundred times. Her one child
- 33:40Speaker 1: is targeted and they are abused horribly.
- 33:43Speaker 7: And let's talk about the mom's statement about the wolves. Nancy,
- 33:47Speaker 7: to your point, when she accepts number one that her
- 33:51Speaker 7: child is dead, she accepts that her child is dead
- 33:55Speaker 7: in the most violent, horrific manner that you could imagine,
- 33:59Speaker 7: and then she tells the other children about it so that, hey,
- 34:03Speaker 7: everybody knows there's no chance she's ever coming home. And
- 34:09Speaker 7: then they started go fundme where they talk about, hey,
- 34:12Speaker 7: we escaped with our three children, they had four.
- 34:16Speaker 1: You are so right, they said, we escaped with our
- 34:19Speaker 1: three children and they had four Jamie Joe Hiles, what
- 34:27Speaker 1: do you make of what Cheryl has just pointed out.
- 34:30Speaker 2: When we saw the GoFundMe and we saw that statement,
- 34:34Speaker 2: we thought that that was a really interesting statement that
- 34:37Speaker 2: they have four kids, But why does it say three?
- 34:40Speaker 2: And that was something I also mentioned a DCIF in
- 34:43Speaker 2: my email to them. This is not right, something's wrong.
- 34:48Speaker 2: It just might ignored.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Jamie Joe, what have you learned about Oakley being kept
- 34:56Speaker 1: in a sell under the stairs in the dark, horrible things?
- 35:02Speaker 2: She was put into the cell all the time. It's
- 35:04Speaker 2: like a little cabinet, because I've seen pictures of it,
- 35:08Speaker 2: and sometimes they would push the couch in front of
- 35:11Speaker 2: the cabinet. And she would be on the door until
- 35:14Speaker 2: she passed out from exhaustion, Like that was just like
- 35:18Speaker 2: her holding place, and everybody knew about it.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Jamie Joe, do you think there is any chance Ugley
- 35:28Speaker 1: is still alive?
- 35:29Speaker 2: In my heart, I hope, I hope I see her
- 35:32Speaker 2: again alive. I always will be a little hopeful. But
- 35:38Speaker 2: when you hear about the abuse that she endured, the
- 35:40Speaker 2: starvation or the drug use that the parents had, it's
- 35:44Speaker 2: hard for me to think that she's alive. But I
- 35:48Speaker 2: hope I get to see her again. I hope she's alive.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Have you ever Jamie jo Hiles confronted defects about what
- 35:57Speaker 1: they did?
- 35:58Speaker 2: I have written governor in multiple times asking for an
- 36:01Speaker 2: outside investigation. I have you know? As soon as this
- 36:05Speaker 2: kind of started to come to light and be in
- 36:07Speaker 2: the media, Washington DCYF called me and was like, Hey,
- 36:10Speaker 2: just a reminder that this is a private situation and
- 36:13Speaker 2: don't talk about it. And I was like, no, Like,
- 36:18Speaker 2: her case is closed, so I'm going to talk about
- 36:21Speaker 2: it because you guys messed up and I've never gotten anything.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Patrick Dowd, the onbuds mid for the Department and Children,
- 36:29Speaker 2: Youth and Family. They say there was nothing wrong done
- 36:32Speaker 2: in her case, and we know that that's not true,
- 36:36Speaker 2: so they will never take account of it.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Actually said, we did nothing wrong. They handed the baby back,
- 36:42Speaker 1: snatched out of your arms, and gave it back to
- 36:46Speaker 1: two no good parents who all they ever did was
- 36:51Speaker 1: sleep together and have a baby. That's it. And it's
- 36:55Speaker 1: been the rest of their time is trading this baby girl.
- 36:59Speaker 1: And they don't like what I'm saying. They're more than
- 37:02Speaker 1: welcome to join us. We've extended an invitation. They didn't join.
- 37:08Speaker 1: I wonder why they steal defects. Still says they did
- 37:14Speaker 1: nothing wrong.
- 37:15Speaker 2: Yes, correct, And it's so it's laughable because I can say,
- 37:20Speaker 2: well what about this, and what about this, and what
- 37:21Speaker 2: about this? And they say, well, we followed all the rules,
- 37:23Speaker 2: We followed all the laws. Okay, well why didn't If
- 37:27Speaker 2: I'm a mandator reporter by the state, why didn't you
- 37:29Speaker 2: check in on my claims of abuse? I contacted twice,
- 37:32Speaker 2: Why didn't you check in on them? That should have
- 37:34Speaker 2: been a red flag right there.
- 37:35Speaker 1: Did you ever hear back from Governor Jay Ainsley?
- 37:40Speaker 2: He won't even say her name, He's never said her name.
- 37:44Speaker 2: He says, oh, we're really sorry to hear about this,
- 37:45Speaker 2: but he's never said Oakley Carlson.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Let your voice be heard. The number for Governor Jay
- 37:54Speaker 1: Ainsley in Washington is three six zero nine zero too
- 38:00Speaker 1: for one one one repeat, Governor Jay Insley, you know
- 38:05Speaker 1: what grow a spine? Do something, just anything, Governor j Insley.
- 38:13Speaker 1: Repeat three six zero nine zero two four one one one.
- 38:18Speaker 1: I don't care if you have to blow the whole
- 38:20Speaker 1: office up. This girl is very likely dead thanks to defects,
- 38:29Speaker 1: putting her back in harm's way. With two drug addled parents,
- 38:36Speaker 1: she had a slim chance at happiness, and they snatched
- 38:41Speaker 1: her away from that. Living in a dark cell under
- 38:46Speaker 1: the stairs, barricaded in by a sofa, she would scream
- 38:53Speaker 1: to get out until she passed out from exhaustion. Governor Insley,
- 38:59Speaker 1: how can you stand by and do nothing? Are you
- 39:04Speaker 1: like pontcous pilot? You just wash your hands and it's
- 39:08Speaker 1: all over, and you could turn away and just go
- 39:10Speaker 1: back to what you were doing. It's not that easy.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Tip line if you know or think you know anything
- 39:20Speaker 1: about Oakley three six zero five three three eight seven
- 39:26Speaker 1: six ' five repeat three six zero five three three
- 39:30Speaker 1: eight seven sixty five. There is a one hundred thousand
- 39:34Speaker 1: dollars reward for information. Jamie, Joe, thank you for being
- 39:43Speaker 1: with us. I fear deeply that when you do see
- 39:48Speaker 1: Oakley again, you will only meet in heaven. Thank you,
- 39:53Speaker 1: I hear that too. We stop now to remember an
- 39:56Speaker 1: American hero, Deputy Sheriff Ned Bird Wait count Sheriffs North Carolina,
- 40:02Speaker 1: a US Air Force Vet Deputy Sheriff Bird survived by
- 40:08Speaker 1: his beloved canine partner Sasha, and nephews Tyler Logan Gavin Kobe.
- 40:17Speaker 1: An American hero Deputy Sheriff Ned Bird. End of Watch.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Thank you to all of our guests, but especially to
- 40:28Speaker 1: Oakley's real mom Jamie Jo Hiles, Nancy Grace signing off,
- 40:35Speaker 1: Goodbye friend