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- 0:08Speaker 1: School of Humans.
- 0:12Speaker 2: On October thirty first, twenty twenty, twenty, two year old
- 0:16Speaker 2: Aisha Jackson went out to a Halloween party. Before she left,
- 0:20Speaker 2: she talked to her mom, Liquida, and then she got
- 0:23Speaker 2: into a costume and went out with a couple of
- 0:25Speaker 2: her girlfriends. Ayisha was also with her aunt, Shequila, and
- 0:29Speaker 2: her uncle, William Parker Junior, who goes by the nickname
- 0:32Speaker 2: Thuga Man. Aisha was living on South Roselawn in Eldoredo, Arkansas,
- 0:38Speaker 2: but she had had a few break ins in her
- 0:40Speaker 2: home recently, so because of that, she had been staying
- 0:44Speaker 2: on and off with her uncle William and his wife,
- 0:46Speaker 2: Shequila in their home, which was a few minutes away
- 0:49Speaker 2: on Stewart Avenue. Aisha had mentioned going with William and
- 0:54Speaker 2: Shequila to Houston on November first. William and Shequila had
- 0:58Speaker 2: been living in Texas. They were in the process of
- 1:01Speaker 2: moving back to Eldredo, so Shequila and William were supposedly
- 1:05Speaker 2: going to move some furniture out of their apartment in
- 1:07Speaker 2: Houston and into a storage unit there. Aisha usually stayed
- 1:12Speaker 2: in constant touch with her mom, Liquita. They talked multiple
- 1:16Speaker 2: times per day, but on November one, twenty twenty, Ayisha
- 1:20Speaker 2: went radio silent. Liquita was able to reach her brother
- 1:25Speaker 2: William now. At first, William told Liquita that Ayisha was sleeping.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Liquida kept calling Ayisha's phone, and her daughter never answered.
- 1:35Speaker 2: She finally reached William again at around nine pm that
- 1:38Speaker 2: night on November first. He told Liquita that Aisha had
- 1:43Speaker 2: gone on the Houston trip with him in Shequila, but
- 1:45Speaker 2: that he had already dropped Ayisha back at her home.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Now.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Liquita thought this was weird because since the break ends again,
- 1:54Speaker 2: Aisha was afraid of being home by herself. Liquita wondered
- 1:59Speaker 2: why would Aisha not stay with her aunt and uncle
- 2:01Speaker 2: at their house. Why would she go home by herself
- 2:05Speaker 2: after dark. Liquita spent that night tossing and turning. At
- 2:10Speaker 2: around nine am on the morning of November two, she
- 2:14Speaker 2: and Ayisha's brother, Jaiques, who was in high school at
- 2:17Speaker 2: the time, and Liquita's husband, Freddy, got in the car
- 2:20Speaker 2: and drove over to Ayisha's house on South Roselawn. They
- 2:24Speaker 2: found the door cracked open, and when they went in,
- 2:28Speaker 2: the inside of Ayisha's house was in total disarray. Ayisha's
- 2:32Speaker 2: dog was out of the kennel. Her stuff was thrown around,
- 2:36Speaker 2: but nothing was really stolen. Her purse and wallet and
- 2:40Speaker 2: medication were all there, but Ayisha Jackson was gone.
- 2:46Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Townsend.
- 2:48Speaker 2: If you have a case you'd like me and my
- 2:50Speaker 2: team to look into, you can reach out to us
- 2:53Speaker 2: at our Helen Gone Murder line at six seven eight
- 2:55Speaker 2: seven four four six one four or five.
- 2:59Speaker 1: That six seven, eight seven four four, six, one four
- 3:02Speaker 1: or five.
- 3:04Speaker 2: This is Helen Gone Murder Line. Last week we mentioned
- 3:41Speaker 2: that Ayisha had recently reported a break in at her home.
- 3:44Speaker 2: There is a police report that we've gotten, and in
- 3:47Speaker 2: a case where there's no sign of the missing person,
- 3:50Speaker 2: there's no body and no real crime scene, at least
- 3:53Speaker 2: not yet, it's very important to take a look at
- 3:57Speaker 2: the physical evidence that we do have and to really
- 3:59Speaker 2: try to go in depth into it. We need to
- 4:02Speaker 2: figure out could the person who broke into Ayisha's home
- 4:06Speaker 2: have anything to do with her disappearance. Ayisha called the
- 4:10Speaker 2: police on October twenty six, twenty twenty, just five days
- 4:14Speaker 2: before she vanished. Officer Tyler Walker of the Eldoredo Police
- 4:18Speaker 2: Department took that call just after one twenty am on
- 4:22Speaker 2: the report. It states that Ayisha told Officer Walker that
- 4:26Speaker 2: she came home on October twenty third, a few days earlier,
- 4:30Speaker 2: and found that someone had been inside her house. She
- 4:33Speaker 2: said nothing had really been stolen, except for some food
- 4:37Speaker 2: from the refrigerator, which she estimated was about two hundred
- 4:40Speaker 2: dollars worth of food. Aisha said the drawers in her
- 4:44Speaker 2: bedroom had been ransacked, but she said she didn't notice
- 4:48Speaker 2: anything missing from there now. At this time, she tells
- 4:51Speaker 2: the officer that she believed that a man that she knew,
- 4:55Speaker 2: a man named Samaji, was responsible for this theft. Remember,
- 5:00Speaker 2: Samaji was a twenty three year old man whom Aisha
- 5:03Speaker 2: had been casually dating. She had recently gotten out of
- 5:06Speaker 2: a long term relationship, and she and Samaji had stopped
- 5:10Speaker 2: seeing each other shortly before she disappeared. But I wonder
- 5:14Speaker 2: whether it was Samaji or not, whoever broke in, what
- 5:18Speaker 2: were they looking for in those drawers?
- 5:23Speaker 1: Later, I do find a possible clue.
- 5:27Speaker 2: I've seen screenshots of Ayisha's Facebook messenger. She sent a
- 5:31Speaker 2: message to a friend after that break in, saying she
- 5:34Speaker 2: noticed that a gun that she had kept hidden in
- 5:37Speaker 2: her underwear drawer had been stolen as well. She said
- 5:40Speaker 2: she didn't even really know how to use a gun. Basically,
- 5:43Speaker 2: almost no one knew that she had it in there,
- 5:47Speaker 2: so she wondered who would have known to look for
- 5:50Speaker 2: it there and to take it out of that drawer.
- 5:52Speaker 2: I've also heard rumors about someone else who knew Ayisha
- 5:56Speaker 2: stealing a bag of drugs and potentially stashing the bag
- 6:00Speaker 2: of drugs in her home, but that's just a rumor
- 6:02Speaker 2: at this point. I have no idea if there's any
- 6:05Speaker 2: truth to that. Back to the police report. In that
- 6:10Speaker 2: police report, the officer noted that Aisha suspected that Samaji
- 6:16Speaker 2: may be responsible for the break in. I'm noticing this
- 6:19Speaker 2: is a slightly different story from what we've heard in
- 6:21Speaker 2: the past. Last week, we mentioned that Ayisha's grandmother, Ernestine,
- 6:26Speaker 2: told reporters after Ayisha went missing that Aisha had come
- 6:30Speaker 2: home and walked in on two guys at her apartment.
- 6:34Speaker 2: Her grandmother said Aisha had definitely recognized one of those
- 6:38Speaker 2: people as Samaji. We're not sure why those stories don't match.
- 6:42Speaker 2: We don't know if maybe Aisha might have had reservations
- 6:45Speaker 2: about getting Samaji in trouble, or maybe she was afraid
- 6:49Speaker 2: to give the police a definite ID, but she did
- 6:53Speaker 2: tell the officer his name, and I just think it's
- 6:57Speaker 2: an important distinction to note that in that police report,
- 6:59Speaker 2: she said she believed it was him, not that she
- 7:02Speaker 2: was absolutely certain it was him, not that she walked
- 7:04Speaker 2: in and busted him in her place. After Ayisha reported
- 7:11Speaker 2: this break in, she was put on the special patrol
- 7:14Speaker 2: list by the Eldreeda Police department.
- 7:16Speaker 1: This meant that a.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Patrol car was supposed to make some extra trips and
- 7:21Speaker 2: cruised by her house. Despite that fact, when Laquita contacted
- 7:26Speaker 2: police on November two about Ayisha being missing, police told
- 7:30Speaker 2: her she would have to wait to follow that report, which,
- 7:32Speaker 2: as we discussed last.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Week, is completely incorrect.
- 7:35Speaker 2: You do not have to wait forty two or seventy
- 7:37Speaker 2: two or some magic number of hours to report someone missing.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Liquita kept calling the police, but it was November fifth
- 7:46Speaker 2: before police finally started investigating. Liquida spent days trying to
- 7:52Speaker 2: get someone, anyone to listen and to take her seriously.
- 7:56Speaker 2: And even after Ayisha was officially reported missing and police
- 8:00Speaker 2: had gone to her home, they still didn't take some
- 8:04Speaker 2: basic steps like securing the home treating it as a
- 8:08Speaker 2: crime scene. They also did not take Ayisha's cell phone.
- 8:12Speaker 2: This cell phone is going to become a big part
- 8:15Speaker 2: of this mystery because remember Laquita told us on November two,
- 8:20Speaker 2: she went to Ayisha's apartment. While she and Jacques were
- 8:24Speaker 2: in there, they noticed that Ayisha's phone was there, plugged
- 8:28Speaker 2: into its charger. Liquita said that Shaquila, William's wife took
- 8:34Speaker 2: the phone from her. According to Laquita, Shaquilla did this
- 8:38Speaker 2: because she believed that one of her children would be
- 8:40Speaker 2: able to guess Ayisha's password, but apparently they couldn't, at
- 8:44Speaker 2: least that's the story Liquita was told. So after that,
- 8:48Speaker 2: Liquita was locked out of her daughter's phone. Police did
- 8:52Speaker 2: eventually take Ayisha's phone, but that was several days later,
- 8:55Speaker 2: after November fifth, when she was officially reported missing. So
- 9:01Speaker 2: here's the weird part because during that time period between
- 9:05Speaker 2: the last time when Ayisha was seen alive on October
- 9:08Speaker 2: thirty first, and when the police took control of that
- 9:12Speaker 2: phone several days later after November fifth, I have heard
- 9:16Speaker 2: that there were text messages coming from Ayisha's phone. Ayisha's
- 9:20Speaker 2: grandmother said that she made a FaceTime call on November
- 9:24Speaker 2: third and that she saw Ayisha in the background when
- 9:27Speaker 2: she made that call, but that's never been confirmed. Another
- 9:31Speaker 2: friend wrote on Facebook that Ayisha was liking reacting to
- 9:36Speaker 2: her posts on November fourth, So if that's true and
- 9:40Speaker 2: Ayisha was gone, how is that possible? Who was reacting
- 9:44Speaker 2: to those posts? How did that happen? As we said
- 9:48Speaker 2: last week, there were tips coming in about Aisha once
- 9:51Speaker 2: she was officially reported missing. But I think it's really
- 9:54Speaker 2: important to take a step back and ask ourselves where
- 9:59Speaker 2: these tips were coming from. Remember last week, Liquida and
- 10:04Speaker 2: Jacques ah his brother, said they were suspicious of William
- 10:08Speaker 2: and Shequila. Jacques said that when he and his mother
- 10:12Speaker 2: pulled into Ayisha's driveway on November tewod right before they
- 10:16Speaker 2: found that cell phone plugged into the charger in Ayisha's
- 10:19Speaker 2: house ransacked, they noticed that Shaquila had pulled in.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Right behind them.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Jacques and Laqueda both said that they thought it was
- 10:27Speaker 2: a little bit of a red flag that Shaquila was
- 10:30Speaker 2: so emotional. They believed maybe a little overly emotional. Now,
- 10:35Speaker 2: of course, this is Ayisha's aunt, and everyone handles grief
- 10:39Speaker 2: and shock differently. But I can say, as someone who's
- 10:42Speaker 2: done this for a long time, I do notice that
- 10:44Speaker 2: sometimes in cases you will see someone who seems to
- 10:48Speaker 2: show a lot of emotion. They add a lot of
- 10:50Speaker 2: drama to a scene, but don't necessarily help that much.
- 10:57Speaker 2: You may remember from last week that Jacques talked about
- 11:00Speaker 2: the fact Ayisha's family got a tip that Ayisha was
- 11:04Speaker 2: buried in a shallow gray in Strong, Arkansas. So, according
- 11:09Speaker 2: to Laquita's high school friend Rena, who has been helping
- 11:11Speaker 2: her with her daughter's case for the last couple of years,
- 11:14Speaker 2: in early December, Shaquila made a Facebook live asking the
- 11:18Speaker 2: public for help missing for a month, over a month
- 11:23Speaker 2: like like this need like we need.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Help, help like.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Shaquilla was very emotional in this Facebook live. She has
- 11:33Speaker 2: taken it down since, but she was basically begging the
- 11:35Speaker 2: public for help.
- 11:37Speaker 1: She said she wanted anyone.
- 11:39Speaker 2: With a four wheeler or a vehicle that could help
- 11:43Speaker 2: her search to come to the woods near Strong. She
- 11:48Speaker 2: said Aisha had been missing for a month, and she
- 11:51Speaker 2: begged for help. She kept saying, she's been gone a month.
- 11:54Speaker 2: In four days, what are y'all doing talking about the
- 11:57Speaker 2: police department? Now, I've replayed this message over and over
- 12:03Speaker 2: because I notice that la later says publicly on national
- 12:08Speaker 2: television that the last time she saw Ayisha was on
- 12:11Speaker 2: November third, which would have been a month and three days. Now.
- 12:14Speaker 2: This seems like a small discrepancy, but as you'll see,
- 12:17Speaker 2: this timeline and getting it right is absolutely crucial. In
- 12:23Speaker 2: this FaceTime live, Shaquila mentions that Ayisha was in love
- 12:27Speaker 2: with white boys. She says something about white boys taking
- 12:32Speaker 2: Ayisha out of her house. It seems likely she's referring
- 12:35Speaker 2: to Ayisha's long term ex boyfriend, who was white, because
- 12:40Speaker 2: Ayisha had very recently broken up with his person Jacques
- 12:44Speaker 2: talked last week about Ayisha's long term boyfriend. He said
- 12:47Speaker 2: this guy completely loved Ayisha, that he was very cooperative,
- 12:51Speaker 2: that he had an alibi, and that he helped search
- 12:53Speaker 2: for her. And there's never been any suggestion that this
- 12:57Speaker 2: ex could have been involved with Aisha's.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Disappearance at all.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Ayisha's own family said that the guy Ayisha suspected of
- 13:04Speaker 2: being in her home was not her ex boyfriend, but
- 13:07Speaker 2: was Samaji, who was black. According to her family, she
- 13:10Speaker 2: had been seeing Samaji casually shortly before she disappeared. I'm
- 13:14Speaker 2: just flagging this up because I'm wondering why this statement
- 13:18Speaker 2: was made by Shaquila about a white guy supposedly taking
- 13:22Speaker 2: Ayisha out of her home. It seems to kind of
- 13:24Speaker 2: come out of the blue. On November eighth, twenty twenty,
- 13:30Speaker 2: a witness was out in the woods. I don't want
- 13:33Speaker 2: to say exactly what this person was doing or give
- 13:37Speaker 2: their name because they are very afraid of retribution from
- 13:41Speaker 2: the people they saw. And honestly, I can understand why.
- 13:46Speaker 1: This witness saw a car pull up.
- 13:49Speaker 2: They saw two men get out of that car and
- 13:53Speaker 2: pop the trunk and then pull a bulky item that
- 13:58Speaker 2: was wrapped in a blanket out of that trunk. The
- 14:01Speaker 2: driver of the car, who the witness could not see,
- 14:05Speaker 2: then drove down the road, leaving the two men alone.
- 14:09Speaker 2: The two men took that bulky object wrapped in a
- 14:11Speaker 2: blanket and walked into the woods. Then a little while later,
- 14:17Speaker 2: after this car dropped these two men off in the woods,
- 14:20Speaker 2: this witness said they saw the same vehicle come back, pick.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Up the two men, and leave the area.
- 14:36Speaker 2: While this witness observed the two men take the item
- 14:39Speaker 2: from the trunk and go into the woods, they said
- 14:42Speaker 2: that they were scared. They were completely quiet, and they
- 14:46Speaker 2: told their children who were with them to stay completely quiet.
- 14:50Speaker 2: This person was scared of what those men could be
- 14:52Speaker 2: doing out there, and over the next few weeks, even
- 14:56Speaker 2: though he had been really freaked out, he told himself
- 14:59Speaker 2: maybe he'd blown it out of proportion in his mind.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Then you may remember from last week in December of
- 15:07Speaker 2: twenty twenty, Samaji, the twenty three year old man whom
- 15:10Speaker 2: Aisha had been dating casually, was arrested and police were
- 15:15Speaker 2: filing charges of capital murder and kidnapping against him. This
- 15:20Speaker 2: witness saw this on the news about Samaji being arrested.
- 15:24Speaker 2: He got very scared because he thought there could be
- 15:26Speaker 2: a chance that maybe he had seen something related Diaisha's disappearance,
- 15:31Speaker 2: and maybe the thing that those guys had been moving
- 15:33Speaker 2: out in the woods that day was a body. So
- 15:37Speaker 2: he called the police and told them about what he saw.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Police did come to the area and they did search
- 15:42Speaker 2: for a few hours. This witness believed they found a shirt,
- 15:46Speaker 2: but we have no idea whose shirt it was, whether
- 15:49Speaker 2: it was sent into evidence, or if it was in
- 15:52Speaker 2: any way connected Diaisha's case. In the end, like so
- 15:56Speaker 2: many leads in this case, it turned out to be
- 15:59Speaker 2: seemingly yet another dead end. At different points in the investigation,
- 16:07Speaker 2: it did start to seem to certain members of Ayisha's family,
- 16:11Speaker 2: like Shaquila and William, were trying to point fingers in
- 16:14Speaker 2: certain directions, first toward the long term X and later
- 16:18Speaker 2: towards Sumaji. Then on December thirteenth, twenty twenty, police announced
- 16:23Speaker 2: they made another arrest in the case, a man named
- 16:26Speaker 2: Kenneth Lee. We talked about this last week, how Kenneth
- 16:29Speaker 2: Lee was charged with extortion.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Basically what happened was he said he had.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Information about Aysha's case, but he said he would only
- 16:36Speaker 2: give it to the family if they paid him eight
- 16:38Speaker 2: thousand dollars. It turned out this information was a lie.
- 16:42Speaker 2: He had made up a story. The whole thing was basically.
- 16:45Speaker 1: A scam to get money.
- 16:47Speaker 2: But that's not the whole story because it turns out
- 16:50Speaker 2: that the chain of events that led to Kenneth's arrests
- 16:54Speaker 2: also involved Ayisha's uncle, William Parker. So again we need
- 17:01Speaker 2: to take a look at how this all went down now.
- 17:03Speaker 2: According to police records, on just number twelfth, Kenneth Lee
- 17:07Speaker 2: saw William on the.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Side of the road. He pulled over.
- 17:09Speaker 2: He told William he had information about Aisha, but he
- 17:12Speaker 2: said it would cost her family eight thousand dollars. Now
- 17:15Speaker 2: at that point, according to the police report, William said
- 17:18Speaker 2: he would try to get the money together.
- 17:20Speaker 1: So they made a plan.
- 17:23Speaker 2: William would make some calls about the money and call
- 17:25Speaker 2: Kenneth back, which he did, and that night they met
- 17:29Speaker 2: up on the side of the road. William got into
- 17:33Speaker 2: Kenneth's car. But what Kenneth didn't know was that William
- 17:37Speaker 2: was wearing a wire a video camera the Elderrated Police
- 17:40Speaker 2: Department had given him. This also seems strange to me,
- 17:44Speaker 2: by the way, because this all happened within a twenty
- 17:47Speaker 2: four hour period. This seems very quick to go to
- 17:51Speaker 2: the police, tell him you have a potential tip and
- 17:55Speaker 2: get wired up and get approval to be wired up.
- 17:58Speaker 2: So I do wonder how did that happen so fast?
- 18:01Speaker 2: Is it possible William was already working with the police
- 18:04Speaker 2: in some capacity. So anyway, now Kenneth and William were
- 18:09Speaker 2: sitting in the car on the side of the road.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Kenneth called this other party who supposedly had the information.
- 18:16Speaker 2: That person picked up the phone and said that they
- 18:19Speaker 2: had overheard Samaji tell two other guys that he Samaji
- 18:24Speaker 2: had paid ten thousand dollars to kidnap Aisha, and the
- 18:28Speaker 2: reason he did this, according to this third party, was
- 18:31Speaker 2: because Ayisha had been stealing methamphetamine from him, and he
- 18:34Speaker 2: allegedly had video of Aisha stealing methamphetamine from his stash
- 18:39Speaker 2: of drugs he kept at home. So this person said
- 18:43Speaker 2: Samaji had killed Aisha by hitting her over the head
- 18:47Speaker 2: several times with a hammer. Then Samaji supposedly took Ayisha's body,
- 18:53Speaker 2: traveled to a deer camp off Highway sixty three and
- 18:56Speaker 2: buried her body in a shallow grave. William caught everything
- 19:01Speaker 2: that happened on this video camera and after he finished
- 19:04Speaker 2: up with Kenneth, he went straight to the Eldoredo Police department.
- 19:08Speaker 2: He gave them the recording device and after that Kenneth
- 19:11Speaker 2: was arrested. Police, also, by the way, contacted this third
- 19:15Speaker 2: person who William and Kenneth were talking to on the phone.
- 19:18Speaker 2: The person basically told police the whole thing had been
- 19:21Speaker 2: a scam. He said, yes, he had made the call,
- 19:24Speaker 2: but he said Kenneth had set the whole thing up.
- 19:27Speaker 2: This person said Kenneth had come to them and said
- 19:30Speaker 2: they could make some easy money by selling the information
- 19:33Speaker 2: to Ayesha's family. Now we said the last week this
- 19:37Speaker 2: whole thing was just a hoax. But I think it's
- 19:40Speaker 2: very interesting that it didn't just come out of thin air. Again,
- 19:44Speaker 2: this was information that William was connected to that he
- 19:48Speaker 2: brought the police. As we said last week, the extortion
- 19:53Speaker 2: charges against Kenneth were later dropped and the charges against
- 19:57Speaker 2: Samaji were dropped as well. As the weeks and months
- 20:04Speaker 2: went on and this became more of a cold case.
- 20:06Speaker 2: What seems to have happened here is, unfortunately what happens
- 20:09Speaker 2: in so many cases. The family appears to be divided.
- 20:13Speaker 2: So on the one side you have jack Ques and Liquida,
- 20:16Speaker 2: and then on the other side you have people who
- 20:18Speaker 2: may be supporting William. Some of this could be because
- 20:22Speaker 2: some people don't want to believe it's possible for a
- 20:24Speaker 2: family member to have done anything like this, And I'm
- 20:27Speaker 2: just speculating here, but people could be scared William does
- 20:30Speaker 2: have a criminal background, and given William's prior arrests, in
- 20:35Speaker 2: the fact that a lot of them were for drugs,
- 20:37Speaker 2: some people wondered what actually happened on the road to Houston.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Was furniture the real reason why they made that trip,
- 20:45Speaker 2: or could there have been something else possibly some kind
- 20:47Speaker 2: of drug deal going on. Let's get into William Parker
- 20:51Speaker 2: Junior's criminal history. We know he had several convictions related
- 20:55Speaker 2: to drug charges in the past, and he's encountered some
- 20:58Speaker 2: dangerous situations. Back in twenty thirteen, when he was thirty
- 21:02Speaker 2: years old, the Eldedo News Times reported William was almost
- 21:06Speaker 2: murdered during an alleged drug deal gone wrong. The newspaper
- 21:10Speaker 2: quoted an arrest affidavit and said William testified that he
- 21:13Speaker 2: went to a residence to make a drug deal. He
- 21:15Speaker 2: said when he went inside, he was shot multiple times.
- 21:19Speaker 2: When police went to the hospital in Little Rock where
- 21:22Speaker 2: William was having surgery on his john stomach, they interviewed
- 21:25Speaker 2: him and he was able to identify the three men
- 21:28Speaker 2: who he said shot him, but later he retracted that statement.
- 21:32Speaker 2: He said, yes, the three guys he mentioned were at
- 21:35Speaker 2: the residence when he was there, but he said he
- 21:37Speaker 2: was shot by an unidentified man and he had been
- 21:39Speaker 2: shot from behind, so he couldn't tell who did it.
- 21:42Speaker 2: So the three alleged shooters got off lightly. One got
- 21:46Speaker 2: probation because of a past robbery conviction. The charges against
- 21:49Speaker 2: the other two were dismissed completely. William has been involved
- 21:54Speaker 2: with some dangerous people, and he's allegedly been involved in
- 21:58Speaker 2: some much darker things. Since Aisha's disappearance, William has been
- 22:04Speaker 2: arrested and charge was sexual assault, including sexual indecency with
- 22:10Speaker 2: a child. He's not the only man in Ayisha's life
- 22:14Speaker 2: that has had these types of charges filed against him.
- 22:17Speaker 2: In September of twenty twenty three, Samaji, the man who
- 22:21Speaker 2: I usual had been dating, was also charged with sexual
- 22:24Speaker 2: indecency with a child and second degree sexual assault. I've
- 22:28Speaker 2: read the arrest Afi David, and these charges are extremely disturbing.
- 22:34Speaker 2: I'm not going to invade the victim's privacy, but I
- 22:36Speaker 2: will say the alleged incident took place late in twenty
- 22:39Speaker 2: twenty two and it involved an eight year old girl.
- 22:44Speaker 2: She said she was at home with some other children
- 22:47Speaker 2: and Samaji told the other children to go to bed
- 22:50Speaker 2: and then asked her if she wanted to say her ABC's.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Then she said he said he would give her a
- 22:56Speaker 2: prize if she finished. She told the interviewer that after that,
- 23:01Speaker 2: Samaji put a blindfold on her, grabbed her sleeve and
- 23:06Speaker 2: put her hand.
- 23:07Speaker 1: On his penis.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Now, this case and William's case are both still making
- 23:12Speaker 2: their ways through the court system, but these charges are horrifying.
- 23:20Speaker 2: And I'm pointing this out because none of this proves
- 23:24Speaker 2: that William or Samaji had anything to do with Aisha's disappearance.
- 23:28Speaker 2: But from the standpoint of a police investigator, they have
- 23:32Speaker 2: to notice there was more than one man in Aisha
- 23:35Speaker 2: Jackson's orbit who had a potentially violent criminal record and
- 23:39Speaker 2: drug charges and sexual assault charges. We know that in
- 23:44Speaker 2: Samaji's case, he was obviously a person of interest from
- 23:47Speaker 2: the beginning, but as the case moved forward, police found
- 23:51Speaker 2: no evidence to tie him to Aisha's disappearance. The only
- 23:56Speaker 2: clue they had seemed to be the fact that Ayisha
- 23:59Speaker 2: suspected him of being inside her house when she wasn't there.
- 24:02Speaker 1: But they had no dispute that.
- 24:04Speaker 2: We know of or any animal, And from what we know,
- 24:08Speaker 2: Samaji was not around Aisha on Halloween night. Given Williams
- 24:14Speaker 2: past and the fact that he and Shaquila were the
- 24:17Speaker 2: last known people to see Ayishaw live, a lot of
- 24:20Speaker 2: people wondered why he wasn't considered, at the minimum a
- 24:23Speaker 2: person of interest, which brings us back to this trip
- 24:27Speaker 2: to Houston, because police said early on they verified that
- 24:31Speaker 2: Ayisha was in Houston with a family member, but later Rena,
- 24:36Speaker 2: Laquita's friend communicated via email and I've seen those emails.
- 24:40Speaker 2: She was emailing an officer who admitted police could not
- 24:44Speaker 2: verify Ayisha's location after October thirty. First, did Aisha ever
- 24:50Speaker 2: really go to Houston? Did she ever really leave Arkansas? So,
- 24:56Speaker 2: as Jacques, Liquita and the rest of the family are
- 24:59Speaker 2: hearing these rumors going around, one of the big things
- 25:02Speaker 2: that Jacques wanted was for William and Shaquila to volunte
- 25:05Speaker 2: harrily take light detector tests to as Jacques put it clear.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Their names.
- 25:10Speaker 2: So Jacques was kind of calling out Shaquila on social media.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Then he said she put a post on her Facebook page.
- 25:18Speaker 2: She said what y'all don't know is basically, we did
- 25:22Speaker 2: go to the police and take a lot of detector
- 25:23Speaker 2: test and passed.
- 25:25Speaker 1: But Jacques said that post was later removed.
- 25:29Speaker 2: After months had gone by and he wasn't getting any
- 25:32Speaker 2: answers from police.
- 25:33Speaker 1: Jacques said he was desperate for help.
- 25:36Speaker 2: He contacted several shows, including the Steve Wilcost Show. So
- 25:41Speaker 2: quick side note for people who have not seen this show.
- 25:44Speaker 2: Steve Wilcos is a former law enforcement officer, and he
- 25:48Speaker 2: was also Jerry Springer's bodyguard on the Jerry Springer Show.
- 25:51Speaker 2: So over the years Steve kind of became a character
- 25:54Speaker 2: in his own right. He's got this very blunt persona
- 25:57Speaker 2: and a big part of his show is taking people
- 26:00Speaker 2: and giving them light detector tests, and the tone of
- 26:03Speaker 2: the show is much than Jerry Springer.
- 26:07Speaker 1: You have people who are.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Accusing family members of molestation, theft, murder, really everything under
- 26:13Speaker 2: the sun. William was not on the show, but Shaquila
- 26:18Speaker 2: agreed to appear and to go on the show and
- 26:21Speaker 2: take a lot of detector test. The show aired on
- 26:24Speaker 2: November first, twenty twenty three. The title of the show
- 26:28Speaker 2: was I Want my Sister Back Dead or Alive. Now, yes,
- 26:34Speaker 2: this is a talk show, it is entertainment, but I
- 26:37Speaker 2: really applaud Jaquez here because, in my opinion, this was
- 26:40Speaker 2: a pretty ingenious way of getting Shaquila to talk to
- 26:43Speaker 2: people about what happened on the record and in whatever
- 26:46Speaker 2: roundabout way to get a light of detector test. It's
- 26:50Speaker 2: always a good idea in cases like this to keep
- 26:52Speaker 2: people talking because sooner or later, I believe most of
- 26:56Speaker 2: them will trip up. Having a record of those contradictions
- 26:59Speaker 2: is what can ultimately break a case, and that's why
- 27:01Speaker 2: I go so in depth into all these details.
- 27:06Speaker 1: So I've seen the show. Jacques appears first.
- 27:09Speaker 2: He talks about Ayisha, and he said that Shaquila, in
- 27:13Speaker 2: his opinion, had been, in his words, giving us the
- 27:16Speaker 2: run around for years. He said, point blank he thinks
- 27:19Speaker 2: that his AUNTI Shaquila, had something to do with the
- 27:21Speaker 2: disappearance of Aisha, or at least he said, he believes
- 27:25Speaker 2: she knows more than she's saying. And you really feel
- 27:28Speaker 2: for Jaques when you watch this because he explains how
- 27:31Speaker 2: after his sister disappeared, he was bullied at school. People
- 27:36Speaker 2: were saying he was weird. Some of them even alleged
- 27:39Speaker 2: he had something to do with Ayisha's disappearance. Jacques started
- 27:43Speaker 2: to wonder about the LA detector test because he said
- 27:46Speaker 2: Shaquila had posted on Facebook that she had taken one
- 27:48Speaker 2: and passed it. Jacques called the police detective who was
- 27:52Speaker 2: working the case, and he says that the police told
- 27:55Speaker 2: him this was not true, that William and Shaquila had
- 27:59Speaker 2: not taken light of detector tests. So on the show,
- 28:02Speaker 2: Jaques confronts her about this lat of detector test.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Kuila comes out she's very angry.
- 28:07Speaker 2: She says she's not a monster, she loved Ayisha and
- 28:11Speaker 2: this is all false accusations against her. At that moment,
- 28:15Speaker 2: all hell basically broke loose. Jacques and Shaequila started physically fighting.
- 28:20Speaker 2: He was screaming at her, he was shaking and asking if.
- 28:22Speaker 1: She had something to do with it.
- 28:27Speaker 2: Steve Wilcos asked her about what happened on the day
- 28:30Speaker 2: when Aisha went missing.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Her reply was very interesting because.
- 28:33Speaker 2: She says, quote November three, to be exact, we first
- 28:38Speaker 2: went to Houston to move some stuff out of my
- 28:40Speaker 2: old apartment because I was getting ready to get back
- 28:42Speaker 2: to Arkansas. We put the stuff into storage, and we
- 28:45Speaker 2: came back to Arkansas, dropped her off at home. I
- 28:48Speaker 2: walked her in, and me and Thugaman meaning William gave
- 28:51Speaker 2: her some decorations and stuff end quote. So she told
- 28:56Speaker 2: Steve Wilcost they were the last two people to see
- 28:59Speaker 2: her alive. She said she didn't have the slightest idea
- 29:02Speaker 2: what happened to Ayisha, and that she wanted to be
- 29:04Speaker 2: on the show so they could find out what happened
- 29:06Speaker 2: to her and also to clear her name. So a
- 29:08Speaker 2: couple of things are interesting about this First of all,
- 29:11Speaker 2: she says November three, but Laquita insists that they were
- 29:16Speaker 2: all at the home on November two, So how could
- 29:19Speaker 2: the trip to Houston have taken place on November third?
- 29:22Speaker 2: And if it did, why didn't Aisha answer the phone
- 29:25Speaker 2: between November one and November third?
- 29:27Speaker 1: What was going on during that time?
- 29:29Speaker 2: Someone is wrong about these dates and the police are
- 29:31Speaker 2: not exploring these contradictions. Shaquila did admit that she did
- 29:37Speaker 2: not take a lot detector test, so at least that
- 29:40Speaker 2: was cleared up.
- 29:42Speaker 1: She said police told.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Her and William they didn't need to take one because
- 29:45Speaker 2: they were not suspects. Jaques then asked, well, okay, if
- 29:50Speaker 2: he didn't take a lot of detector test, why did
- 29:52Speaker 2: you make a Facebook post saying you had. She says
- 29:55Speaker 2: she didn't make that post, so again another contradiction that
- 29:58Speaker 2: needs to be explored. Shaquilla says some other interesting and
- 30:03Speaker 2: in my opinion, potentially revealing things whi she's on stage.
- 30:06Speaker 2: I would actually love to see the rest of the tape,
- 30:09Speaker 2: the part of these interviews that did not make it
- 30:11Speaker 2: to error, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.
- 30:14Speaker 2: The other interesting part was when Steve Wilcos asked Shaquilla
- 30:18Speaker 2: if she thought William could have had anything to do
- 30:20Speaker 2: with it. She said, quote, at the time we dropped
- 30:24Speaker 2: her off, no, now if he doubled.
- 30:27Speaker 1: Back, I can't speak to that end quote.
- 30:30Speaker 2: So she's saying right there that in her mind, it's
- 30:33Speaker 2: possible that William did go back to Aisha's home and
- 30:35Speaker 2: do something to her. Steve Wilcos asked her what made
- 30:39Speaker 2: her change her mind about William and think he could
- 30:41Speaker 2: have had something to do with it. She talked about
- 30:45Speaker 2: stuff she found out. What did she mean there?
- 30:48Speaker 1: And she said.
- 30:49Speaker 2: Basically that the stuff was accusations of sexual assault.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Because it turned out that Shaquila.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Believed that her husband, William, may have sexually assaulted Aisha,
- 31:00Speaker 2: his own niece. So now we're hearing this bombshell news
- 31:16Speaker 2: that there was an accusation that William had sexually assaulted Aisha.
- 31:21Speaker 2: On the show, Shaquilla said that she and William were
- 31:24Speaker 2: not together anymore. The whole timeline of their relationship is
- 31:28Speaker 2: a little bit unclear because according to court records, Shaquilla
- 31:32Speaker 2: filed for divorce on March first, twenty nineteen, so more
- 31:35Speaker 2: than a year before Ayisha went missing. The divorce was
- 31:38Speaker 2: finalized in early twenty twenty, So it does seem like
- 31:41Speaker 2: they were on and off for a while, but family
- 31:44Speaker 2: members say that William and Shequilla were together at the
- 31:47Speaker 2: time Aisha disappeared. Like many people, I'm wondering what exactly
- 31:52Speaker 2: did Shaquilla.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Know and when did she know it.
- 31:57Speaker 2: After all that drama, Steve Wilkos came out with his
- 32:00Speaker 2: envelope and he revealed the results of Shaquila's law detector test. Now,
- 32:04Speaker 2: obviously I just want to say these results are not
- 32:06Speaker 2: admissible in court, and there's a good reason for that.
- 32:10Speaker 2: And with this test, we don't know who administered it.
- 32:12Speaker 2: The reliability of these tests is really dependent on the
- 32:15Speaker 2: skill of the operator. So I am not saying in
- 32:18Speaker 2: any way this is one hundred percent certain, but it
- 32:20Speaker 2: is interesting. By the way, when Steve asked Shaquilla who
- 32:24Speaker 2: she thought was responsible for Aisha's disappearance, she said she
- 32:28Speaker 2: thought it was one of Ayisha's boyfriends. So the first
- 32:31Speaker 2: question that the lie detector test ash Shequilla was were
- 32:35Speaker 2: you involved in the disappearance of Ayisha Jackson? She said no,
- 32:39Speaker 2: and they determined that she was telling the truth. Then
- 32:44Speaker 2: the second question was do you know for sure who
- 32:47Speaker 2: is involved in the disappearance of Ayisha Jackson. She said no,
- 32:52Speaker 2: and the results were that she did not tell the truth. Now,
- 32:55Speaker 2: after that result was read, all hell broke loose again.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Jacques was crying and looked like he was trying to
- 33:01Speaker 2: fight his ann again.
- 33:02Speaker 1: You could just see the devastation and it was genuine.
- 33:05Speaker 2: I know people say that sometimes these shows are fake,
- 33:08Speaker 2: but this was absolutely genuine. After that, Shaquila seems like
- 33:13Speaker 2: she's kind of trying to explain how that result happened.
- 33:16Speaker 2: She said she started to have suspicions about William because
- 33:18Speaker 2: she saw a video, a video where William allegedly admitted
- 33:23Speaker 2: that he essayed someone. Essay, by the way, means sexual assault.
- 33:30Speaker 2: I wonder if she's talking about a TikTok video, because
- 33:34Speaker 2: this TikTok video put a shocking twist in this case.
- 33:39Speaker 2: The person who made it, Rob, was an old friend
- 33:41Speaker 2: of Rena's who got involved with.
- 33:43Speaker 1: The case and was trying to help.
- 33:45Speaker 2: And as part of this TikTok, Rob put up a
- 33:48Speaker 2: conversation that Rena had with the mayor of Elddo, Arkansas,
- 33:52Speaker 2: Paul Choate, on February first, twenty twenty three, just a
- 33:56Speaker 2: little bit of background on that Rena had been asking
- 33:59Speaker 2: the mayor for months to meet with her. He finally
- 34:03Speaker 2: agreed and she took her friend Joanna and another person
- 34:07Speaker 2: with her, so three people were present when this conversation
- 34:10Speaker 2: took place. Rena recorded it and later she passed it
- 34:13Speaker 2: on to Rob Now. In this TikTok video, Rob mentions
- 34:19Speaker 2: that a police detective assigned to the case allegedly said
- 34:22Speaker 2: that Ayisha's uncle had essayed her in the past, meaning
- 34:25Speaker 2: sexually assaulted, and that it could be proven.
- 34:29Speaker 1: But they also supposedly said.
- 34:31Speaker 2: They weren't really looking into William because his alibi sounded credible.
- 34:36Speaker 2: The Eldado mayor told Rena that if she keeps pushing
- 34:41Speaker 2: the police department, if they expose potential mistakes they made,
- 34:45Speaker 2: that they're going to get frozen out and they need
- 34:47Speaker 2: to drop it.
- 34:48Speaker 4: I should be able to say this department did not
- 34:52Speaker 4: follow the correct policy and procedure and we shouldn't try
- 34:55Speaker 4: to cover that.
- 35:01Speaker 2: You will alienate yourself from any communication with police Clarks.
- 35:06Speaker 4: What do you mean if that's us let out that
- 35:08Speaker 4: they that they had not followed properly. Okay, but that's
- 35:12Speaker 4: still not But it's the truth. So you tell me
- 35:14Speaker 4: stick to facts. That's a fact.
- 35:17Speaker 2: Go and see what happens.
- 35:19Speaker 4: Mean, but do what and see what I can do?
- 35:22Speaker 4: What and see what happens. If you say they're not following.
- 35:26Speaker 3: If you've become accusatory, that's not accusing.
- 35:29Speaker 4: That's a fact.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Yes, okay.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Rob makes a good point in his TikTok. He goes
- 35:41Speaker 2: on to say that hundreds of thousands of young women
- 35:44Speaker 2: go missing every year in the United States, a disproportionate
- 35:47Speaker 2: number of Black women, and often these are the stories
- 35:50Speaker 2: that get forgotten by the media.
- 35:53Speaker 3: It's absolutely ridiculous that a young woman can just disappear
- 35:56Speaker 3: like this and nobody gives a shit. It's even more
- 35:58Speaker 3: frustrating that people who are supposed to be helping or
- 36:00Speaker 3: just brushing it off and not taking it seriously. It's
- 36:03Speaker 3: also worth noting a third of the almost three hundred
- 36:06Speaker 3: thousand girls and women reported the missing in the US
- 36:08Speaker 3: and twenty twenty we're black. If those cases often get
- 36:12Speaker 3: little attention, are all but ignored by law enforcement and
- 36:15Speaker 3: national news media. Ayasha's case is just one example of
- 36:18Speaker 3: the many missing black women who don't get the attention
- 36:21Speaker 3: they deserve.
- 36:22Speaker 2: But we're not going to forget about Ayisha Jackson because
- 36:25Speaker 2: at this point, her family, her mother, her brother, and
- 36:30Speaker 2: everyone in the community wants answers. And I want to reiterate,
- 36:35Speaker 2: neither William nor Shaquila have been charged with anything or
- 36:38Speaker 2: even named people of interest by police to my knowledge.
- 36:42Speaker 2: I'm really not trying to point the finger at anyone.
- 36:46Speaker 2: I am trying to point out these inconsistencies because the
- 36:50Speaker 2: devils in the details. These inconsistencies need to be resolved
- 36:53Speaker 2: and explained, and if the police would take a closer
- 36:58Speaker 2: look at them, I really believe that they could solve
- 37:01Speaker 2: this case. And the other thing that we really need
- 37:07Speaker 2: in this case is because we've been hearing for years
- 37:11Speaker 2: that the last time Ayisha was seen was on November fourth,
- 37:14Speaker 2: and that's in the original police report, we need the
- 37:17Speaker 2: public to know that is incorrect. The last time that
- 37:21Speaker 2: Ayisha was seen alive that we know of was October
- 37:24Speaker 2: thirty first, twenty twenty. That's the crucial time period. If
- 37:29Speaker 2: you know of anyone who was around in El Dorado
- 37:32Speaker 2: near Ayisha or any of her friends and family on
- 37:35Speaker 2: October twenty first to November two, twenty twenty, we want
- 37:39Speaker 2: to hear from you the last picture that we have
- 37:43Speaker 2: of Ayisha is Aisha in her purge costume posing with
- 37:47Speaker 2: her girlfriends at the gas station. She looked like everything
- 37:51Speaker 2: was fine and she was looking forward to a night out.
- 37:54Speaker 1: And you may remember from last.
- 37:55Speaker 2: Week one of Ayisha's girlfriends said that William was talking
- 37:58Speaker 2: about going to Houston. He wanted her the friend to
- 38:02Speaker 2: go with him and Ayisha to Houston. The friend said no,
- 38:06Speaker 2: and she said on social media William was acting weird
- 38:09Speaker 2: about that. So what really happened after Ayisha, William and
- 38:15Speaker 2: Shaquila left Ayisha's other girlfriends. What happened next? Did they
- 38:19Speaker 2: go back to Stuart Avenue? At any point to William
- 38:21Speaker 2: and Shaquilla's house. There was a neighbor on Stuart Avenue
- 38:26Speaker 2: who was making posts on Halloween knight, and we know
- 38:29Speaker 2: that this neighbor was having a party. Now, these are
- 38:31Speaker 2: small houses, they're very close to each other. There's no fences,
- 38:35Speaker 2: So if there was a party going on at the
- 38:37Speaker 2: neighbors it seems likely that someone would have seen Aisha round.
- 38:42Speaker 2: We need to talk to those people. We need to
- 38:44Speaker 2: know if she really went to that party, did she
- 38:47Speaker 2: go to Houston? What really happened to Aisha? On Halloween
- 38:50Speaker 2: night and in the early morning hours of November First.
- 38:54Speaker 2: I'm Catherine Townsend. This is Helen Gone Murder Line. Helen
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