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- 1:04Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace. Kiara Coles works as a mail
- 1:09Speaker 1: carrier out of this postal office in the South Shore neighborhood,
- 1:13Speaker 1: where her coworkers say they cannot comment about the disappearance,
- 1:17Speaker 1: but she hasn't been seen since calling off work lass
- 1:21Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. The year old was reported missing by her
- 1:25Speaker 1: family soon after, saying it is unlike her to be
- 1:29Speaker 1: out of touch. A private surveillance system near her home
- 1:33Speaker 1: at eighty one and Vernon captured images of Coals leaving
- 1:37Speaker 1: that morning, dressed in her postal uniform, but heading across
- 1:41Speaker 1: the street from where a car was parked. According to relatives,
- 1:45Speaker 1: Coals is pregnant and loves her postal job. Her person
- 1:49Speaker 1: cell phone were said to be inside her car and
- 1:52Speaker 1: it was locked, but there's been no sign of her.
- 1:54Speaker 1: I don't like it. The purse and the cellphone inside
- 1:57Speaker 1: the car. Who goes anywhere without their earth or their
- 2:01Speaker 1: cell phone. I will go plenty of places without my
- 2:04Speaker 1: up a pocketbook. I hardly ever carry one of those.
- 2:07Speaker 1: But your cell phone or your I D I mean,
- 2:10Speaker 1: it's he grace. This is crime stories. This case is urgent.
- 2:15Speaker 1: A gorgeous, young, pregnant postal worker is missing. Police searching
- 2:22Speaker 1: for her. Kira Coles is twenty six years old. Last
- 2:25Speaker 1: scene October two, October two and upscaled Chadham neighborhood. According
- 2:32Speaker 1: to her family, three months pregnant with her first child.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Her family is the one that finds her car parked
- 2:40Speaker 1: on her block, on her block so close to home,
- 2:45Speaker 1: her pocketbook and her cellphone still inside. The family desperate
- 2:50Speaker 1: for answers, joining me. Dr Bethany Marshall, renowned in the
- 2:54Speaker 1: l A psychoanalyst. Vincent Hill, private investigator who's about to
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- 3:03Speaker 1: Up a Titan, and it starts on Wednesday. I'm gonna
- 3:07Speaker 1: be listening to that. Vincent Hill, cop turned p I.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Also the author of two books, Wow, when do you
- 3:14Speaker 1: have time to do your p I work? Vincent author
- 3:16Speaker 1: of Playbook to a Murder and Incomplete Pass on Amazon,
- 3:21Speaker 1: but joining me right now. Special guest reporter and author
- 3:24Speaker 1: of Beautiful Life The c S I behind the Casey
- 3:27Speaker 1: Anthony trial. Our friend and colleague, investigative reporter Robin will Lynsky. Robin,
- 3:34Speaker 1: I gotta find out about this gorgeous young mom to
- 3:37Speaker 1: be Kiara Coles. It's not adding up. She's that close
- 3:41Speaker 1: to home and then just disappears. I hope no defense
- 3:44Speaker 1: attorney's gonna jump up and say, oh, she's just gone
- 3:47Speaker 1: with her boyfriend. She's not. I'm extremely worried about her.
- 3:51Speaker 1: And here's why. When you talk to people who know her,
- 3:54Speaker 1: who are in the postal service, this is someone who
- 3:57Speaker 1: shows up for work every day on time. Nancy, who's meticulous,
- 4:03Speaker 1: who has a car, who has an apartment, who she
- 4:07Speaker 1: just moved into a new apartment. I mean, when you
- 4:09Speaker 1: look at her and see how beautiful she is five
- 4:11Speaker 1: ft four hundred and twenty five pounds, she's extremely fick.
- 4:16Speaker 1: This is someone who takes care of herself. She's not
- 4:19Speaker 1: milling around without a job, willie Nilly. This is someone
- 4:23Speaker 1: who is meticulously dressed in a uniform, going to work
- 4:27Speaker 1: every day, being responsible. This is very odd that she
- 4:31Speaker 1: suddenly vanishes without a treat and you know, to Dr
- 4:34Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, Dr Bethany, I'm just sick about her family because, um,
- 4:40Speaker 1: I remember how ecstatic my my parents were when they
- 4:44Speaker 1: found out I was pregnant for the first and only
- 4:48Speaker 1: time with twins, and it was my dad broke down crying.
- 4:54Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. It It was so happy. I remember
- 4:57Speaker 1: the moment I told him. I had planned this big
- 5:01Speaker 1: telling him and I flew in from New York to Atlanta,
- 5:06Speaker 1: got in the car, drove to make and I had
- 5:10Speaker 1: it all planned out in my head. He came out
- 5:12Speaker 1: like he always did, came out of the house, out
- 5:14Speaker 1: in the driveway, and he was around, you know, getting
- 5:18Speaker 1: close to eighty at that point, I hugged him and
- 5:22Speaker 1: I just said, Daddy, I've gonna have twins. Just like that.
- 5:27Speaker 1: It just came out and he started crying. I will
- 5:30Speaker 1: never forget it as long. It's one of those moments
- 5:33Speaker 1: in your life that you don't forget ever. And I'm
- 5:38Speaker 1: just thinking about this twenty six year old so excited,
- 5:43Speaker 1: just beyond over the moon about having her first baby.
- 5:47Speaker 1: The family thrilled, and instead of throwing a baby shower
- 5:54Speaker 1: and planning the nursery and looking at Sonograham's and going
- 5:59Speaker 1: to doctors appointment, they're out plastering neighborhoods with with posters
- 6:04Speaker 1: of her Bethany. I mean, you're right, Nancy, when a
- 6:10Speaker 1: young woman is pregnant, it's the time of such great
- 6:14Speaker 1: hopes and dreams. But unfortunately, Nancy, as you know, not
- 6:19Speaker 1: all pregnancies are wanted, not all families are thrilled like yours.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Not all children are beloved, unfortunately. And I just feel
- 6:29Speaker 1: like there's such a big story hole here that maybe
- 6:32Speaker 1: Robin can help us with. I don't know where's the boyfriend.
- 6:36Speaker 1: I don't know much about the family. Were they thrilled
- 6:39Speaker 1: about this the impending birth of this child. Was there
- 6:43Speaker 1: a boyfriend or a husband who was supporting this pregnancy.
- 6:47Speaker 1: I feel like I smell a rat here that. Um,
- 6:51Speaker 1: we're just seeing the tip of an iceberg here with
- 6:54Speaker 1: all of these missing person's photos flyers being plastered all
- 6:58Speaker 1: over the neighborhood. UM, I feel like there's something very
- 7:03Speaker 1: unhappy going on. I just cannot put my finger on it. Well,
- 7:06Speaker 1: I know this. Uh, she goes missing October to October
- 7:12Speaker 1: two year old Kierra Coles. Now some reports are saying
- 7:16Speaker 1: she's last saying October two. And now all of her
- 7:22Speaker 1: fellow postal workers have joined in the search effort. Just
- 7:26Speaker 1: yesterday they were out ringing doorbells, passing out flyers, just
- 7:31Speaker 1: hoping someone would have recognized Kierra Coals, her close friends,
- 7:36Speaker 1: all of her family, co workers. They all say they're
- 7:38Speaker 1: so beside themselves because she's always in close contact with
- 7:44Speaker 1: her friends and family on let's just say, various social
- 7:48Speaker 1: media like Snapchat. She's always there. And not only that,
- 7:54Speaker 1: to find out, her car is right there near her home,
- 7:59Speaker 1: and in the car is her pocketbook, her purse, and
- 8:04Speaker 1: her cell phone. Now I've learned that just recently, surveillance
- 8:08Speaker 1: video has emerged and it's of her addressed in her
- 8:12Speaker 1: postal outfit, her uniform, walking past her car and then
- 8:18Speaker 1: out of the frame, out of the frame. To Robert Willnsky,
- 8:24Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, what more do we know?
- 8:28Speaker 1: Is it true she called in sick that day or no? Yes,
- 8:32Speaker 1: it's it's very unusual. So that, like you're saying, the
- 8:35Speaker 1: video captures her addressed in the postal uniform, she's slowly
- 8:39Speaker 1: walking past her car, and there's this phone call that
- 8:43Speaker 1: she calls in six So here, here's here's my take
- 8:46Speaker 1: on it. My take on it is is that somebody
- 8:49Speaker 1: called her and diverted her to somewhere else. Hey, you know,
- 8:54Speaker 1: maybe I'm gonna come and pick you up and let's
- 8:56Speaker 1: have a conversation about this or that. Why else if
- 8:59Speaker 1: your call in sick, right, you're in bed, you're sniffling,
- 9:03Speaker 1: you have tissues, you're under the cover as you're watching TV.
- 9:06Speaker 1: Oh I'm you're calling to work, I'm sick, and you
- 9:08Speaker 1: spend the rest of the day in bet Why is
- 9:10Speaker 1: she calling in sick dressed in her uniform. I believe
- 9:14Speaker 1: that her intention was to go to work. She got dressed,
- 9:17Speaker 1: she left the house, she had her things with her,
- 9:19Speaker 1: possibly put them in the car they were in there
- 9:22Speaker 1: from the night before, and then someone calls her and
- 9:24Speaker 1: diverts her to a different location or picks her up
- 9:27Speaker 1: on the street, or did someone else call in and
- 9:31Speaker 1: leave the message that she was sick because she was
- 9:34Speaker 1: out and she had on her postal uniform. If that
- 9:39Speaker 1: video was from that day, she wasn't six. She was up,
- 9:43Speaker 1: dressed and ready to go to work. I want you
- 9:46Speaker 1: to take a listen. Take a listen to our friend
- 9:49Speaker 1: Nancy lou over a w g N one neighbor spotted
- 9:54Speaker 1: coals on his security footage after hearing she went missing. Yeah,
- 9:59Speaker 1: she was that she was undecided what she wanted to
- 10:01Speaker 1: do and stuff like that, and a mom and them
- 10:03Speaker 1: said that she called off that morning saying she ain't
- 10:06Speaker 1: coming in, you know, but she was dressed in a uniform,
- 10:09Speaker 1: a post a uniform that she's really go to work,
- 10:11Speaker 1: you know that. I guess that's the less close she
- 10:12Speaker 1: had on Coles is five four and a hundred and
- 10:16Speaker 1: twenty five pounds. She has a heart tattoo on her
- 10:18Speaker 1: right hand and another on her back that reads Lucky Libra.
- 10:22Speaker 1: According to relatives calls is three months pregnant. And has
- 10:26Speaker 1: had the same boyfriend for several years. We read about it,
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- 11:53Speaker 1: I'll see there. Kimberly last saw her sister once she
- 11:56Speaker 1: picked her up from work last Monday. Her mother called
- 11:59Speaker 1: Thursday and asked if she had talked to her are
- 12:01Speaker 1: immediately was a snapchat because that's what she do, you know,
- 12:05Speaker 1: she snapped everywhere whatever she do or whatever she eating
- 12:09Speaker 1: house a day and everything. So I really want to snapchat.
- 12:12Speaker 1: So there was no story, so they kind of puzzled me.
- 12:15Speaker 1: She contacted her boyfriend, also the father of her unborn child.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Kia was three months pregnant. They all went to Kara's
- 12:22Speaker 1: apartment at eighty one in Vernon to check on her.
- 12:25Speaker 1: I just don't want to stand so who will do something?
- 12:28Speaker 1: I don't know? I could pretty old christ Chris friend,
- 12:32Speaker 1: the search has become desperate for three months pregnant mom,
- 12:36Speaker 1: a gorgeous young twenty six year old, a postal worker
- 12:40Speaker 1: who had held out a job for years, very very reliable.
- 12:43Speaker 1: You were just hearing our friend w g N TV
- 12:45Speaker 1: reporter Marcella Raymond, where is Kia? The time is ticking
- 12:52Speaker 1: by and we all know Vincent Price cop turned p
- 12:56Speaker 1: I that every hour that passes bodes yeah, and it's
- 13:02Speaker 1: it's troubling. And the thing that gets me the most
- 13:04Speaker 1: is that surveillance footage that tells me she was going
- 13:08Speaker 1: to see someone. Someone was around that corner out of
- 13:10Speaker 1: the view of that camera. Her cell phone or purse
- 13:14Speaker 1: were in the car, and that tells me someone else
- 13:16Speaker 1: made that call to her job to say she's sick,
- 13:19Speaker 1: because again, why would she get dressed just to call
- 13:22Speaker 1: in sick. So I would be looking at those phone
- 13:24Speaker 1: records of who called her work to say she's not
- 13:27Speaker 1: coming in, and I would start my investigation right there.
- 13:30Speaker 1: I agree with you, Robert Willinsky. Why don't we even
- 13:33Speaker 1: believe it was her calling in? You know, maybe it wasn't,
- 13:36Speaker 1: but her phone will show that. Does she have a
- 13:38Speaker 1: landline number in her apartment, Maybe she called from a landline,
- 13:42Speaker 1: Maybe she called from the cell phone earlier. But there's
- 13:44Speaker 1: no video of her with the with the phone at
- 13:46Speaker 1: the car, so either she either returned, she called, maybe
- 13:51Speaker 1: she called on someone else's phone. Maybe it wasn't even her,
- 13:53Speaker 1: like you were saying, Nancy, but they seem to believe
- 13:56Speaker 1: the postal service that it was her calling it sick.
- 13:58Speaker 1: I think here, you know, as as the officer was
- 14:02Speaker 1: former officer was saying that you need to take a
- 14:04Speaker 1: very hard look at this girl's inner circle. Who was
- 14:07Speaker 1: she hanging out with? Uh? You know who? What's what's?
- 14:11Speaker 1: What is up with this boyfriends? What about the people
- 14:13Speaker 1: she worked with? Men and women? Who is she hanging
- 14:16Speaker 1: out with? I would like to hear about her full
- 14:18Speaker 1: inner circle and who she's been in touch with. Right now,
- 14:21Speaker 1: no one has been named a suspect. Co workers, relatives, family,
- 14:27Speaker 1: loved ones. Everyone joining in the search for this pregnant mom.
- 14:30Speaker 1: The tip line three one two seven four seven eight
- 14:33Speaker 1: to seven four. Go to crime online dot com and
- 14:36Speaker 1: look at her photo. Ki Era Coals three one two
- 14:40Speaker 1: seven four seven eight to seven four. We are taking
- 14:44Speaker 1: your calls at nine zero nine four nine Crime nine
- 14:48Speaker 1: zero nine four nine two seven four six three. The
- 14:52Speaker 1: search going on for a missing pregnant mom. A postal
- 14:56Speaker 1: worker and she was caught on surveillance video wearing her
- 15:00Speaker 1: post to a uniform, walking by her car and she
- 15:02Speaker 1: walked out of the vision of the shot of the
- 15:05Speaker 1: surveillance video. Listen to this. The video is shot from
- 15:08Speaker 1: the vantage point of a neighbor's home. It shows Kara
- 15:11Speaker 1: walking west, walking past the door to her apartment before
- 15:14Speaker 1: she turns around, passing it again and crossing the street.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Before disappearing out of frame. The video was captured early
- 15:20Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. The same day, the post office says Kiarra
- 15:24Speaker 1: didn't show for work after her mother says she called
- 15:27Speaker 1: in sick, but both her mother and sisters say they
- 15:29Speaker 1: actually haven't heard from Kia since last Tuesday. In the
- 15:33Speaker 1: days since Kira was recorded missing, family and friends have
- 15:35Speaker 1: plastered this chat of neighborhood near eighty two in coals
- 15:38Speaker 1: with flyers asking for information. Yesterday, her family found Kira's
- 15:43Speaker 1: person's cell phone inside her car, but say Kira's wallet
- 15:46Speaker 1: and keys were missing. Trying desperately to not speak in
- 15:49Speaker 1: the past tense, a worried Karen Phillips experience is something
- 15:53Speaker 1: no mother should. I have no feeling. You know, it's
- 15:57Speaker 1: just hard out, you know. I don't want to thank
- 15:59Speaker 1: the worst. I'm trying to stay positive, but it's just empty,
- 16:03Speaker 1: you know. I need for her to come on. That
- 16:05Speaker 1: home is here at the corner of eighty one in Vernon,
- 16:08Speaker 1: where Cia Coles was last spotted on a neighbors surveillance
- 16:11Speaker 1: video last Wednesday morning. Did she go right there? She
- 16:14Speaker 1: walked down there and she didn't go into a place
- 16:16Speaker 1: which is right there, So she walked down there and
- 16:20Speaker 1: you can see it in a post office uniform. Did
- 16:23Speaker 1: she go right there and then she crossed the street.
- 16:25Speaker 1: That's the right there. You can see all that post officers.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Coles did not report for work that day and her
- 16:30Speaker 1: car remains parked where she left it. Family did not
- 16:33Speaker 1: hear from her and filed the missing person's report last
- 16:35Speaker 1: Thursday evening. We talk all of this, Hammy, if we
- 16:38Speaker 1: miss one day, it's just one day, never four fast, six, seven, eight,
- 16:43Speaker 1: nine days never. That is a big problem. They wait
- 16:46Speaker 1: until Thursday to report her missing. You're hearing from our
- 16:48Speaker 1: friends at Fox thirty two TV to Cary Turner in
- 16:52Speaker 1: ABC seven's Rav Bank Wall reporting on Kira Cole's missing
- 16:58Speaker 1: Several thoughts on what we just heard to Dr Bethany Marshall,
- 17:02Speaker 1: renowned l A psycho analysts. You know, did you just
- 17:06Speaker 1: hear the mother is the one who apparently called in,
- 17:11Speaker 1: I mean said that she called into work, not the
- 17:14Speaker 1: post office. The mother is the one. She's that said
- 17:17Speaker 1: she called in to work. What about that? Well, it
- 17:21Speaker 1: tells me that Kira thought she was going to work
- 17:24Speaker 1: that day. I mean, when you watch the video, she's
- 17:26Speaker 1: dressed up in her postal uniform. Her pocketbook is in
- 17:29Speaker 1: the car and her cell phone, so she's prepared to
- 17:32Speaker 1: go to work. She walks out of frame. She has
- 17:35Speaker 1: her car keys, so somebody has beckoned her once she
- 17:40Speaker 1: gets ready for the day. But if she has a boyfriend,
- 17:45Speaker 1: she's pregnant, this boyfriend seemingly would be in touch with
- 17:49Speaker 1: her and would know that she hasn't gone to work,
- 17:51Speaker 1: and would know the daily ins and outs of her life.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Why wouldn't the boyfriend call the family? Why wouldn't the
- 17:58Speaker 1: boyfriend work check that out? That's that's an excellent point.
- 18:01Speaker 1: Robert Walinsky, climb online dot com investigative reporter, author of
- 18:05Speaker 1: Beautiful Life. What about this? But the but the post
- 18:09Speaker 1: office confirmed that she's that she's out, that she's out
- 18:11Speaker 1: sick for the day. Regardless of who called, she was
- 18:14Speaker 1: outsick for the day. But that to me is very
- 18:16Speaker 1: troubling because you don't get up, Nancy. You know this
- 18:19Speaker 1: when you have to go and be on TV and
- 18:21Speaker 1: and and on the radio and go to work and
- 18:24Speaker 1: you're in the outfit. If you're legitimately sick, you're not
- 18:27Speaker 1: dressed in your postal uniform. You're just not. So somebody
- 18:30Speaker 1: got to her and said, oh, you know, come over here,
- 18:33Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick you up, or let's have a discussion.
- 18:36Speaker 1: And then suddenly she's outsick for the day and her
- 18:38Speaker 1: whereabouts are unknown. Why is her cell phone in the car?
- 18:41Speaker 1: That makes no sense? Something is is extremely suspicious. Vincent
- 18:45Speaker 1: Hill has lost so much time. She goes missing on Tuesday,
- 18:48Speaker 1: it's not reported until Thursday. Yeah, Nancy, anytime you lose
- 18:51Speaker 1: forty eight hours, the chances of finding someone alive decreases tremendously.
- 18:56Speaker 1: So time is of the essence here and finding Kira.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at ABC seven. Coles
- 19:03Speaker 1: has a boyfriend and his twelve weeks pregnant. Her father
- 19:06Speaker 1: came down today from his home and Racine, Wisconsin to
- 19:08Speaker 1: help in the search. How was her reaction to being pregnant?
- 19:12Speaker 1: Oh the joy I missed a smile on her face.
- 19:17Speaker 1: If anybody know anything, please call in let us know.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Miss Coles has two tattoos, including a heart on her
- 19:27Speaker 1: right hand. Maybe something did happen when she was just
- 19:29Speaker 1: overcome with and lie, did you know when you pregnant
- 19:31Speaker 1: you got emotions? So you know, I wanted to just
- 19:34Speaker 1: say she just went somewhere and they wanted to tell nobody,
- 19:36Speaker 1: and then you know, she just come home. But I
- 19:39Speaker 1: don't feel that just when you think crime cannot will
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- 22:28Speaker 1: a twenty one month sentence. He was supposed to be
- 22:31Speaker 1: locked up behind bars until August of nineteen, but he
- 22:35Speaker 1: has been a model prisoner behind bars, and therefore he
- 22:39Speaker 1: has been given time out for good behavior, and he
- 22:41Speaker 1: is going to get out in May, three months early
- 22:45Speaker 1: because of his good behavior. You know, can we just
- 22:48Speaker 1: talk about all of Anthony Wiener's antics? This guy could
- 22:53Speaker 1: not help himself. It wasn't just one sexting moment episode
- 22:59Speaker 1: where its a very troubled little girl. Um. He kept
- 23:05Speaker 1: telling her she made him h a r D, asking
- 23:11Speaker 1: her to dress up in school girl outfits, trying to
- 23:15Speaker 1: force her into rape fantasies with a little girl, a
- 23:23Speaker 1: little girl, high school girl. But it didn't all start
- 23:28Speaker 1: with her. This month's long relationship with a teen girl.
- 23:35Speaker 1: It's just the tip of the iceberg, alexis what all
- 23:40Speaker 1: has Anthony Weener a New York representative again with one
- 23:45Speaker 1: toe in the Oval office? How did it all start?
- 23:48Speaker 1: Am I wrong? But did it start when he accidentally
- 23:52Speaker 1: sexed a whole group of people a picture of his um.
- 23:57Speaker 1: There's just no nice way to say it penis, and
- 23:59Speaker 1: it's when he was an elected official, he was a congressman.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Let me just hold on, let me just savor that moment. Okay,
- 24:06Speaker 1: I'm sure all the ladies on this panel are cringing.
- 24:09Speaker 1: Dr Bethany Marshal, I'm sure you, of all people l
- 24:13Speaker 1: A psychoanalysts have heard of a Freudian slip when you
- 24:17Speaker 1: accidentally say something you didn't mean to say, and it
- 24:21Speaker 1: has huge implications. He accidentally sent a picture of his
- 24:28Speaker 1: pp out to like a turn of people. Oops. Well, actually,
- 24:35Speaker 1: to me, this speaks to his impulsivity. I've been um
- 24:39Speaker 1: really reading more about him and looking at his crimes
- 24:43Speaker 1: and um all the sex thing that went on between
- 24:46Speaker 1: him and uh minor women as well as women who
- 24:51Speaker 1: are over the age of eighteen, the age of consent,
- 24:54Speaker 1: and it appears to me that he does have an
- 24:57Speaker 1: impulse control disorder. He just cannot stop himself. And he
- 25:01Speaker 1: has what we call a process addiction, which is that
- 25:05Speaker 1: he is so involved in the process of maintaining sexual arousal,
- 25:10Speaker 1: maintaining an erection, or being hard as he put it
- 25:13Speaker 1: to this fifteen year old, that he lives in that state,
- 25:16Speaker 1: which is very masturbatory all he can think about is himself,
- 25:20Speaker 1: and he uses his victims in a very ruthless way
- 25:24Speaker 1: without regard for what's going on in their minds. And
- 25:27Speaker 1: I imagine that he relates to people in this manner.
- 25:31Speaker 1: In every area of his life, he in some ways
- 25:35Speaker 1: bathes himself in self excitement at other people's expense. I
- 25:39Speaker 1: remember one phrase he said to the girl, I would
- 25:44Speaker 1: bust that tight blank so hard and so often you
- 25:48Speaker 1: would leak and limp for a week. Astley Willcott, founder
- 25:55Speaker 1: of child Crime watch dot com, thoughts, Yeah, with a
- 25:58Speaker 1: daughter in my life makes me want to absolutely um
- 26:02Speaker 1: just strangle the man. Having said that, he's a predator,
- 26:06Speaker 1: so no matter how long he's in jail or isn't
- 26:09Speaker 1: in jail, he will always be a predator, and that's
- 26:12Speaker 1: why we all have to be aware of people like him.
- 26:15Speaker 1: He's a predator. But let me say this about federal
- 26:19Speaker 1: prison and that is there's no such thing, as you
- 26:21Speaker 1: well know, as parole. What there is is the opportunity
- 26:25Speaker 1: for a prisoner to get out early based on good
- 26:27Speaker 1: behavior up to I think it's fifty six days is
- 26:30Speaker 1: the time frame. So one of the questions I would
- 26:32Speaker 1: have in this specific case is, have men who have
- 26:36Speaker 1: been convicted of similar charges been allowed to get out
- 26:40Speaker 1: early for early behavior? It maybe it's the norm in
- 26:43Speaker 1: these cases. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm not saying
- 26:46Speaker 1: we want him back on the street as a perpetrator.
- 26:48Speaker 1: But at least if it's consistent with how all other
- 26:51Speaker 1: of the prisoners are treated, that's a little bit different
- 26:54Speaker 1: than if it's an exception for him. I'm not really
- 26:57Speaker 1: buying into that. Alexis to as Chuck the timeline. The
- 27:02Speaker 1: timeline tell me what led up to him ending up
- 27:06Speaker 1: in a federal pen. So for this case, he was
- 27:09Speaker 1: sexy with, Oh no, you don't have to limit it
- 27:11Speaker 1: to this case. So starting when he was an elected official,
- 27:14Speaker 1: when he was a congressman, he sent a picture out
- 27:17Speaker 1: to his entire Twitter followers. That's two thousand eleven, a
- 27:23Speaker 1: sex picture posted to his entire Twitter page. He then
- 27:26Speaker 1: lied about it, He said he didn't do it. Do
- 27:30Speaker 1: you remember watching him screaming at CNN reporter Dana Bash
- 27:35Speaker 1: saying that that she was being irrational because she was
- 27:38Speaker 1: asking him these questions. He was an elected official. People
- 27:41Speaker 1: were trying to get an answer about this, and he
- 27:43Speaker 1: was screaming at the reporter when he was one guilty
- 27:47Speaker 1: and he had done it. He said his account was hacked.
- 27:49Speaker 1: He didn't know what was going on, right, Okay, that
- 27:53Speaker 1: was And then in June two thousand eleven, he admits
- 27:56Speaker 1: to doing it. And then whoa what? In May of
- 28:00Speaker 1: the year and a half later, he's campaigning for mayor
- 28:02Speaker 1: of New York City and he's actually doing well in
- 28:05Speaker 1: the polls. Then what happens? Then he gets caught sexting
- 28:09Speaker 1: with a woman named Sydney Leathers. She comes forward and
- 28:14Speaker 1: says they have been I actually spoke with her. I
- 28:16Speaker 1: think I did the first interview with her, and she
- 28:19Speaker 1: told me how she had was surprised that it was him.
- 28:22Speaker 1: She didn't know it was him in the beginning and
- 28:24Speaker 1: they were just having dirty conversations. Then she realized who
- 28:27Speaker 1: it was, including explicit photos. This is why his wife,
- 28:31Speaker 1: Huma Aberdeen, whom let me just say it's a very
- 28:33Speaker 1: forgiving person, is running around carrying Hillary Clinton's pocketbook. Okay,
- 28:39Speaker 1: she's right there with Clinton during all the lead up
- 28:42Speaker 1: to the presidential election. Okay, this is her husband. He's
- 28:45Speaker 1: at home and some of the photos have his little boy,
- 28:48Speaker 1: his baby in the bed with him. His sexting go ahead,
- 28:52Speaker 1: so then he moves on. He gets embarrassed on the
- 28:54Speaker 1: mayor during the mayoral election. Whoma even gives a speech
- 28:58Speaker 1: on his behalf. She has never publicly other than maybe
- 29:01Speaker 1: a very flattering Vogue interview, which was all done very
- 29:06Speaker 1: much in cooperation with her. She actually gave a speech
- 29:09Speaker 1: supporting her husband during his campaign. Comes out and says,
- 29:13Speaker 1: we are working on this. It's over. It wasn't over,
- 29:15Speaker 1: and he loses the election. Election night, Sydney Leather shows
- 29:19Speaker 1: up at his election party, the woman that he's been
- 29:21Speaker 1: sexting with, to try to see him. He has to
- 29:23Speaker 1: sneak out of the election party, runs through at McDonald's
- 29:26Speaker 1: and runs into a car waiting for him. Huma doesn't
- 29:29Speaker 1: go with him, she doesn't vote with him. You don't
- 29:32Speaker 1: see her anywhere. Completely humiliated, and yes, she is still
- 29:35Speaker 1: working for Hillary Clinton. So then he tries to wait.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Now September two thirteen, he loses the mayoral primary to
- 29:44Speaker 1: de Blasio. All right, two thousand and sixteen, more explicit
- 29:48Speaker 1: photos go public, this one has his child in it.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Then the Daily Mail does a feature long story short
- 29:58Speaker 1: the FBI, the NYPD open an investigation springing from the
- 30:04Speaker 1: Daily Mail story. Then Aberdeen files for divorce. That's two
- 30:11Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, and here we are right. I mean, did
- 30:16Speaker 1: I miss something that he played guilty? He played guilty
- 30:19Speaker 1: uh in an federal obscenity charge in teen sexting, and
- 30:23Speaker 1: he has to register as a sex offender. And now
- 30:26Speaker 1: he's gonna walk out early. I mean, Vincent Hill, if
- 30:29Speaker 1: this guy were not a New York representative, or he
- 30:34Speaker 1: was a minority, or he was dirt poor, I guarantee
- 30:39Speaker 1: you he would not be getting out early, not at all.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Nancy more importantly, actually used the word predator. I'm gonna
- 30:44Speaker 1: take it one step further. He's a frequent pedophile. He
- 30:48Speaker 1: knew this girl was fifteen. He knew exactly what he
- 30:50Speaker 1: was doing. He's a pedophile, and pedophiles need to be
- 30:55Speaker 1: locked up. He didn't accidentally send this picture that I mean,
- 30:59Speaker 1: that's just like saying I accidentally took the picture with
- 31:02Speaker 1: my phone. He knew exactly what he was doing of
- 31:05Speaker 1: my penis. I accidentally took a picture of my penis.
- 31:10Speaker 1: That happened, Vincent, you're the only guy on the battle.
- 31:13Speaker 1: How do you accidentally take a picture of your penis.
- 31:15Speaker 1: Somebody tell me, I will say this. I've had people
- 31:18Speaker 1: women ask me for those types of pictures, and I
- 31:21Speaker 1: I don't think I would tell people that if I
- 31:23Speaker 1: were you. It's true because people ask for those and
- 31:27Speaker 1: I'm like, no way, because that is my brand and
- 31:30Speaker 1: I don't want to end up behind bars in a
- 31:33Speaker 1: few years. I'm very proud of you, Vincent, for turning
- 31:36Speaker 1: down that accidental penis photo. But I gotta ask. I'm
- 31:41Speaker 1: dying to get to you, but I've got to just
- 31:42Speaker 1: bring up one last thing to Dr Bethany. Does the
- 31:44Speaker 1: name Carlos Danger ring a bell? That was his screen name.
- 31:50Speaker 1: He chose the name Carlos Danger. I mean that should
- 31:54Speaker 1: be a felowy in itself ouch in terms of him
- 32:00Speaker 1: getting out to he is so compulsive. This is what
- 32:03Speaker 1: I'm worried about. I don't think he'll be able to stop.
- 32:06Speaker 1: I do treat um sex addicts in my practice, and
- 32:11Speaker 1: there is a certain subgroup that is so compulsive UM.
- 32:16Speaker 1: What I often say is that they want to keep
- 32:18Speaker 1: themselves in a sensory bath. Whether they have this constant erection.
- 32:22Speaker 1: They're constantly looking at pornography, They're constantly pushing the envelope,
- 32:26Speaker 1: and they don't know how to live any other way.
- 32:29Speaker 1: So I don't know what all this good behavior is
- 32:32Speaker 1: behind bars because it doesn't stack up to how I
- 32:35Speaker 1: know these perpetrators operate in the world. I don't even
- 32:38Speaker 1: know what you're talking about, a sensory bath. But Ashley Wilcott,
- 32:40Speaker 1: I know this. Somebody sends pictures like that and texts
- 32:44Speaker 1: like that to my daughter or son. You know what,
- 32:47Speaker 1: they better watch out because I'm coming after them. Guns
- 32:50Speaker 1: a blazing me too, a dent Katie bar the doors.
- 32:53Speaker 1: And the thing that really bothers me about this is
- 32:55Speaker 1: the victim that you just played tape of regrets right,
- 32:59Speaker 1: every things changed. Everybody at school knows it was her.
- 33:02Speaker 1: And that's what I really hate is you need and
- 33:06Speaker 1: want and pray that your children, God forbid, they get
- 33:09Speaker 1: a picture like this, tell you so you can handle
- 33:12Speaker 1: it and make sure that person pays for it. And
- 33:15Speaker 1: and here this victim saying, Wow, the consequences are too
- 33:18Speaker 1: great for me. I wish that I hadn't done it
- 33:20Speaker 1: almost That's what makes me sad. We've got to encourage
- 33:23Speaker 1: kids to come forward because it's it should never happen.
- 33:27Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends Inside edition with the
- 33:30Speaker 1: Twin Girl. Do you think the disgraced former Congressman Anthony
- 33:35Speaker 1: Weiner broke down and sobbed as he was sentenced to
- 33:37Speaker 1: twenty one months in federal prison. Weener fled guilty to
- 33:41Speaker 1: sexting with this fifteen year old high school girl. He
- 33:44Speaker 1: sent her obscene messages on social media, along with photos
- 33:48Speaker 1: showing him bare chested and even a photo holding his son,
- 33:51Speaker 1: Jordan's And in this Inside Edition exclusive, the victim isn't
- 33:55Speaker 1: pulling any punches. How would you describe his behavior? A.
- 34:00Speaker 1: I think he's a very, very sick person that needs held.
- 34:04Speaker 1: You know, again, this is not about Clinton, This is
- 34:06Speaker 1: not about Trump. This is not about politics only to
- 34:10Speaker 1: the extent that I firmly believe if he had not
- 34:13Speaker 1: been a New York State representative, he would still be
- 34:17Speaker 1: behind bars and would not have gotten preferential treatment. But
- 34:20Speaker 1: the bombshell is former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner will
- 34:25Speaker 1: be released early from a federal prison. So to you,
- 34:30Speaker 1: Dr Bethany Marshall, what does that tell all the sex
- 34:34Speaker 1: victims out there? It tells them that their pain does
- 34:38Speaker 1: not matter. It tells them that men are at a
- 34:42Speaker 1: more elevated status than women, and that women are not
- 34:45Speaker 1: regarded in our society, and it discourages them from coming forward.
- 34:49Speaker 1: Another thing I don't understand is how someone that has
- 34:53Speaker 1: so much going for them. I mean, he was a
- 34:56Speaker 1: superstar uh in the Democratic Party. He had won several
- 35:01Speaker 1: terms in the U. S. House of Representative by huge margins.
- 35:05Speaker 1: But then he got outed for messages via Twitter and
- 35:10Speaker 1: it seems like he could have done anything. I mean,
- 35:13Speaker 1: he was married to a chief the chief aid to
- 35:18Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. He was planning to run from mayor of
- 35:22Speaker 1: New York City, I mean, Dr bethany how can you
- 35:26Speaker 1: risk all that? I mean, I don't even want to
- 35:29Speaker 1: speed to run a red light? Uh? And and somehow
- 35:32Speaker 1: about on my record to have to tell the twins
- 35:34Speaker 1: about well, the risk taking is part of the perversion.
- 35:38Speaker 1: That's part of the thrill I think is getting away
- 35:40Speaker 1: with things behind other people's back. Also, Dancy, this is
- 35:44Speaker 1: what a personality disorder looks like. A personality disorder is
- 35:48Speaker 1: when a person has psychological traits that are maladaptive for
- 35:54Speaker 1: relating to other people, but these traits persist over time
- 35:58Speaker 1: despite negative can sequences. Negative consequences are coming to him
- 36:03Speaker 1: again and again, but there is lack of a learning curve,
- 36:07Speaker 1: which is why I'm very concerned that he's being released early.
- 36:11Speaker 1: And one final thing is he doesn't seem to really
- 36:14Speaker 1: care about the impact of his behaviors on the people
- 36:17Speaker 1: around him. He did that documentary, he put cameras in
- 36:21Speaker 1: his house, He sex to a fifteen year old. Can
- 36:25Speaker 1: you imagine if he was in public office, what kinds
- 36:28Speaker 1: of decisions he might make on all of our behalf?
- 36:30Speaker 1: I mean, it's frightening to think about. Is everybody sitting down,
- 36:34Speaker 1: Alexis Vincent? Actually Dr Bethany's sitting there. You better lay
- 36:38Speaker 1: down for this one. Is it true as a two
- 36:42Speaker 1: thousand eighteen report true that whom Aberdeen and Anthony Wayner
- 36:47Speaker 1: have withdrawn their divorce petition? Alexis, please tell me this
- 36:53Speaker 1: is not true. I believe it is true. Okay, So
- 36:57Speaker 1: let me understand this. She is going to stick with
- 37:00Speaker 1: her sexoholic husband, and she has for all these year.
- 37:03Speaker 1: This is this is ten years now at this point,
- 37:06Speaker 1: through multiple embarrassments, she is sticking with her. Now. I've
- 37:10Speaker 1: also heard they're trying to settle the divorce out of court.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Could that be a possibility. What does that mean, Ashley Wilcot.
- 37:19Speaker 1: That could be that they're trying to settle out of court.
- 37:21Speaker 1: But there's no reason you have to actually dismiss your
- 37:24Speaker 1: petition in order to do that and have a resolution.
- 37:27Speaker 1: I fear she's dismissed this, this lawsuit for divorce because
- 37:31Speaker 1: she's changed her mind. Maybe they're trying to keep the
- 37:34Speaker 1: details of their split secret by mediating it out of court.
- 37:39Speaker 1: But I think she's right. You don't have to totally
- 37:42Speaker 1: withdraw your divorce petition in order to do that. Well,
- 37:45Speaker 1: we'll just see what these two crazy kids decide to do.
- 37:48Speaker 1: But what I know now is that if you're rich
- 37:51Speaker 1: and powerful, you get less time in jail. I don't
- 37:55Speaker 1: like it. Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off, goodbye friend,