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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Help us find SSARM.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Chilling close circuit TV spots the missing flight attendant just
- 0:14Speaker 3: before she vanishes off her boyfriend's yacht. Good evening, I'm
- 0:20Speaker 3: Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I want to thank
- 0:23Speaker 3: you for being with us.
- 0:24Speaker 4: A young woman with a love for adventure spent her
- 0:27Speaker 4: days sailing the beautiful waters of the Virgin Islands, working
- 0:31Speaker 4: in the glamorous world of luxury yaytes. She had once
- 0:34Speaker 4: been a flight attendant, driven by her desire to explore
- 0:37Speaker 4: the globe, until her journey came to an unexpected halt.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Where is Sarm? Let's start at the beginning.
- 0:47Speaker 5: We began to search, initially that the day we became
- 0:51Speaker 5: aware that she went missing that Monday afternoon. We initially
- 0:56Speaker 5: the first six days spent a lot of time in
- 0:59Speaker 5: small craft searching, shoreline scuba diving, snorkeling, and transitioned to
- 1:06Speaker 5: a ground search using volunteers on foot searching the terrain
- 1:12Speaker 5: in heavy, heavy bush as well as a long rough
- 1:15Speaker 5: reef rocks call using drones. Taking those maps that we've
- 1:19Speaker 5: created from the drone imagery and entered into the software,
- 1:25Speaker 5: stitches all this together and makes a very high resolution map.
- 1:28Speaker 5: We found nothing. We found no evidence of anything, not
- 1:32Speaker 5: a clothing, not not shoes, not a not an unusual
- 1:36Speaker 5: broken twig.
- 1:37Speaker 3: So where is sarm Heslop in the last days? Previously
- 1:44Speaker 3: buried Closed Circuit TV reveals her last moments where she
- 1:51Speaker 3: was known alive. Newly released footage just before her disappearance,
- 1:58Speaker 3: joining Me and All Star Panel. But first there's the footage. Guys,
- 2:03Speaker 3: look at that, and there's a very very disturbing clue
- 2:07Speaker 3: about that, because apparently she's wearing this is just before
- 2:12Speaker 3: she goes missing.
- 2:13Speaker 2: There she is walking along with the boyfriend.
- 2:19Speaker 3: She's wearing something altogether different in this closed circuit video
- 2:23Speaker 3: than what she was described.
- 2:24Speaker 2: As wearing when she goes missing.
- 2:26Speaker 3: Shortly after this very chilling closed circuit TV video, that's
- 2:33Speaker 3: sarm Haslot right there. They're getting into dinghy and they're
- 2:38Speaker 3: heading out to the boyfriend's yacht. That's got to be
- 2:45Speaker 3: excruciating for her family to feel so close to her
- 2:50Speaker 3: in this video, and then it all ends just before
- 2:54Speaker 3: she seemingly vanishes into thin air again an All Star
- 2:59Speaker 3: Panel joint us tonight.
- 3:00Speaker 2: But I want to go to two very special guests. First.
- 3:03Speaker 3: It's Kate Vernal's former roommate with Sarm Heslop and Andrew
- 3:09Speaker 3: Baldwin a very dear friend for years and years. Andrew,
- 3:15Speaker 3: thank you for being with us tonight. When did you
- 3:17Speaker 3: learn that sarm was missing?
- 3:22Speaker 6: I got a call from Kate Owen. It was the
- 3:26Speaker 6: day after that she went missing, so kind of kind
- 3:29Speaker 6: of nearly thirty six hours after. I got a frantic
- 3:32Speaker 6: call from Kate and all she said was you know,
- 3:34Speaker 6: and I remember the words. They still chill me. Now
- 3:38Speaker 6: Salm's missing and we don't know where she is. They
- 3:40Speaker 6: just come out of the blue.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Andrew Baldwin, I don't understand the night that you learn
- 3:47Speaker 3: your dear friend many many years.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Has just vanished.
- 3:52Speaker 3: What were you told, if anything, as to what happened
- 3:55Speaker 3: to her?
- 3:57Speaker 6: Initially I was just told that she was she was.
- 4:00Speaker 6: I think Kate Owen at the time had just had
- 4:03Speaker 6: a call from Ryan Bain to say that she'd gone
- 4:06Speaker 6: missing the previous the previous night. So it was twenty
- 4:10Speaker 6: four hours after she'd got missing, and literally said she'd
- 4:13Speaker 6: gone missing in the middle of the night. They didn't
- 4:15Speaker 6: know where she was. Talked about an anchor Alarm talked
- 4:18Speaker 6: about people searching but there were very very few details.
- 4:23Speaker 6: And subsequent to that, I had a conversation with Ryan Bain.
- 4:26Speaker 3: You spoke to the boyfriend, the so called boyfriend, Ryan Baine.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Is that correct?
- 4:30Speaker 7: And that's correct, just after the call from Kate.
- 4:34Speaker 3: So I found it really difficult to believe that this
- 4:37Speaker 3: is this is how it goes down. We've seen the
- 4:40Speaker 3: newly released closer at TV video and he Ryan Bain,
- 4:44Speaker 3: the so called boyfriend, is walking with sarm. They had
- 4:48Speaker 3: been in the town. They were leaving. I believe they've
- 4:52Speaker 3: been to a restaurant, slash bar, and they were going
- 4:55Speaker 3: back to his yacht and then some I mean the
- 4:59Speaker 3: yachts it's not that big, they're not that many rooms
- 5:03Speaker 3: to look in. So they're on a yacht. If she
- 5:06Speaker 3: vanishes off the yacht in the middle of the night,
- 5:09Speaker 3: Andrew what how the dinghy was still there? So where
- 5:13Speaker 3: did she go?
- 5:14Speaker 6: That's exactly what we're asking ourselves. You know, the information
- 5:18Speaker 6: we got that she just disappeared. There was an original
- 5:22Speaker 6: Maybe she went off somewhere, maybe she met some friends,
- 5:25Speaker 6: but it was late, it was during COVID we you know,
- 5:27Speaker 6: I think that's highly unlikely.
- 5:29Speaker 7: All of her belongings are on the boat and.
- 5:33Speaker 3: I need to ask him a question. Andrew, I'm sorry,
- 5:38Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense to me. What do you mean
- 5:40Speaker 3: she went off with friends? She gets on the dinghy
- 5:43Speaker 3: with the boyfriend, They go to his yacht. They disembark
- 5:47Speaker 3: the dinghy, they get on the yacht, the dinghy's tied
- 5:50Speaker 3: to the yacht. When the boyfriend wakes up, the dinghy's
- 5:55Speaker 3: still there.
- 5:57Speaker 2: So what does somebody.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Beam her up?
- 5:59Speaker 3: Scotty, I mean, what do you mean she went somewhere
- 6:01Speaker 3: with friends?
- 6:02Speaker 2: That's impossible.
- 6:03Speaker 3: She did not leave the yacht.
- 6:06Speaker 6: I think we never you know, that was something that
- 6:08Speaker 6: kind of maybe she maybe she went off, maybe someone
- 6:10Speaker 6: picked her up, maybe she went to when and met someone,
- 6:14Speaker 6: But there was she didn't know that many people on
- 6:15Speaker 6: the island, and all the people that she knew wouldn't
- 6:18Speaker 6: wouldn't have done that.
- 6:18Speaker 7: So I find that really hard to believe.
- 6:20Speaker 6: And then kind of the the thing that come that
- 6:25Speaker 6: was suggested was that she'd fallen off the boat and
- 6:27Speaker 6: drifted away.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Fallen off the boat and drifted away, I'd like, can
- 6:34Speaker 3: I go now to Kate Vernal's former roommate of Psalms.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Kate fell off the boat and drifted away.
- 6:47Speaker 8: I think from the outset it was just a ridiculous theory.
- 6:51Speaker 9: Salmon had stewed across the Atlantic and not fallen overboard.
- 6:55Speaker 9: So to suggest that she had fallen overboard in the
- 6:59Speaker 9: middle of the night on a yacht there was maud
- 7:02Speaker 9: so close to shore just seems absolutely impossible and ridiculous.
- 7:07Speaker 3: First of all, I want to figure out how in
- 7:10Speaker 3: the hay did this beautiful, young, brilliant woman end up
- 7:17Speaker 3: on a yacht out in the middle of her ocean,
- 7:20Speaker 3: of the ocean with her family a world away.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Listen.
- 7:23Speaker 10: Sarmheslab has a restless sense of adventure and works various
- 7:27Speaker 10: jobs to fund her passion for travel and sailing, working
- 7:30Speaker 10: as a flight attendant for Flybee in the UK, a
- 7:33Speaker 10: waitress in Gibraltar and Malta, even working in a call
- 7:36Speaker 10: center to fund her exotic adventures.
- 7:39Speaker 3: She's adventuresome. She works all over the world. Tell me
- 7:42Speaker 3: about that, Andrew Baldwin.
- 7:44Speaker 6: She just loved new experiences, you know, Nancy. She loved
- 7:50Speaker 6: to meet people, she loved new cultures, new destinations. She
- 7:55Speaker 6: liked to do things that perhaps some of us just
- 7:57Speaker 6: wouldn't do. I remember her call maintain that she was
- 8:01Speaker 6: sailing across the Atlantic on a yacht and just you know.
- 8:04Speaker 7: No one would do that. Oh, no one would think
- 8:07Speaker 7: about doing that.
- 8:07Speaker 6: But she would do things that enriched her life and
- 8:11Speaker 6: enriched you know what she was doing, and got great experience.
- 8:13Speaker 6: She wasn't someone who wanted to settle down nine to five.
- 8:17Speaker 6: She just wanted to see everything that the world had
- 8:21Speaker 6: to offer her.
- 8:22Speaker 7: And she did.
- 8:23Speaker 3: You know, I really don't like Andrew when people suggest
- 8:29Speaker 3: that she quote asked for bad fortune because she traveled
- 8:35Speaker 3: the world and did adventurous things. If a man did that,
- 8:38Speaker 3: nobody would think twice. I remember asking my now husband
- 8:43Speaker 3: learn to dive with me. Let's go all over the
- 8:46Speaker 3: world and dive.
- 8:47Speaker 2: He didn't want to. He wanted to stay in his office,
- 8:50Speaker 2: and he did.
- 8:52Speaker 3: I didn't, and I ended up going all over the
- 8:55Speaker 3: world diving. Now, I don't want my children to do
- 8:57Speaker 3: it because it's incredibly dangerous, and.
- 9:00Speaker 2: I had them Andrew, I swore it off.
- 9:02Speaker 3: I've never done it again because it's too important to
- 9:05Speaker 3: me that I am with them to bring them up
- 9:09Speaker 3: or hiking. I said, David, please go hiking with me.
- 9:14Speaker 5: Now.
- 9:15Speaker 3: Didn't want to take off work, and I don't fault him.
- 9:17Speaker 3: I even married him. But my point is just because
- 9:21Speaker 3: she is adventurous, I don't like the insinuations made about her.
- 9:27Speaker 3: This girl was scrubbed in sunshine. She loved life, and
- 9:31Speaker 3: I don't like those insinuations about her.
- 9:34Speaker 7: Andrew the thing about some She was so loyal.
- 9:38Speaker 6: She was a friend that if you wanted something, or
- 9:41Speaker 6: you needed to speak to someone, or she'd be there
- 9:45Speaker 6: for you. She'd be there at the end of the phone,
- 9:47Speaker 6: she'd be there. She was such a loyal, trustworthy person.
- 9:50Speaker 6: She traveled safe. She was very street savvy. She was
- 9:54Speaker 6: very conscious of the world around her, conscious of how
- 9:59Speaker 6: to travel safe, how to meet people safely, how to
- 10:03Speaker 6: kind of traveling around the world. You know, she was very,
- 10:05Speaker 6: very smart. So she would not do anything that she
- 10:10Speaker 6: felt that would be dangerous to her, and she would
- 10:14Speaker 6: take advice. So you know, I completely refuse any insinuation
- 10:18Speaker 6: that she shouldn't have been traveling. And I agree if
- 10:21Speaker 6: I wanted to go traveling or do anything, no one
- 10:23Speaker 6: would say anything.
- 10:24Speaker 7: This wonderful woman that we call our friend just did
- 10:30Speaker 7: things that she wanted to do and live her life
- 10:32Speaker 7: the way she wanted to do it, and no one
- 10:34Speaker 7: should blame her for that your.
- 10:36Speaker 3: Preaching to the choir. Andrew Bald went to Kate Vinol's
- 10:39Speaker 3: her a roommate. Kate, I assume you agree with me.
- 10:43Speaker 3: I do not like the insinuation that somehow, because she
- 10:46Speaker 3: traveled the world and wanted to see it all and
- 10:50Speaker 3: do it all and experience it all, that somehow makes
- 10:53Speaker 3: her a big hope. I don't get that that Nothing
- 10:57Speaker 3: could be further from the truth.
- 11:00Speaker 8: So I agree with you completely.
- 11:01Speaker 9: I think watching her go on all these adventurous and
- 11:06Speaker 9: being a headstrong but spontaneous, she was really meticulous.
- 11:09Speaker 8: She would organize down.
- 11:11Speaker 9: To the last to the last point, and I always
- 11:16Speaker 9: was excited for her, and I think she should be
- 11:19Speaker 9: praised for not conforming to a nine to five, to
- 11:21Speaker 9: actually doing what we all dreamed to do by going
- 11:24Speaker 9: on holiday once a year.
- 11:26Speaker 8: That was what she just wanted to do with her life.
- 11:28Speaker 9: I don't think anyone should be put down for wanting
- 11:33Speaker 9: to have a fun life.
- 11:35Speaker 8: Is it jealousy?
- 11:36Speaker 9: Maybe you know, this is a young woman who's living
- 11:39Speaker 9: the life that she wants to live and not conforming
- 11:41Speaker 9: to a nine to five. I was always in support
- 11:45Speaker 9: of her traveling. We would always stay in communication, and
- 11:48Speaker 9: she would always come back, you know, and then.
- 11:51Speaker 8: Save up to go away again. Whereas, why is that wrong?
- 11:54Speaker 9: You know, I think it's something we all want to do,
- 11:57Speaker 9: but we just do it for two weeks of a
- 11:58Speaker 9: year to go on holiday, other than making it how we.
- 12:02Speaker 8: Want to look back on our lives.
- 12:04Speaker 3: And she was working. She worked the entire time. Enter
- 12:09Speaker 3: the boyfriend, Ryan Baine.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Listen.
- 12:13Speaker 11: Sarm meets Ryan Bain online and becomes close enough. She
- 12:16Speaker 11: moves to the Virgin Islands and joins Bain on board
- 12:19Speaker 11: his forty seven foot luxury catamaran Siren Song as a chef.
- 12:23Speaker 11: The Siren Song is a working charter yacht available for
- 12:26Speaker 11: private charge and is more than a bay off the
- 12:28Speaker 11: western coast of Saint John Us, Virgin Islands.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Andrew, what was her plan? She meets Bain online? Does
- 12:37Speaker 3: she fall in love with him? Is that what happened?
- 12:41Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 12:41Speaker 6: I think Lin Simon Ryan met when Salmon was in
- 12:43Speaker 6: the Caribbean and they formed a relationship, and you know,
- 12:47Speaker 6: she was really open about that and she was excited
- 12:49Speaker 6: about it. Then her travel was over and she moves
- 12:54Speaker 6: back to Malta to some friends and she worked in
- 12:57Speaker 6: Malta to fund more of her trips. We've already said
- 13:00Speaker 6: to fund more and to do more adventures, and I
- 13:02Speaker 6: think the calling that, you know, she she kind of
- 13:06Speaker 6: realized being a part that actually I want to give,
- 13:08Speaker 6: give this relationship a go.
- 13:10Speaker 7: I want to.
- 13:10Speaker 6: I want to go back, and I want to, but
- 13:12Speaker 6: I want to go back on my terms. I want
- 13:13Speaker 6: to go back and and fund myself. I want to
- 13:16Speaker 6: be working. I don't want to. I don't want to
- 13:18Speaker 6: go back and just be your girlfriend. I want to
- 13:20Speaker 6: go back and work and I want to pursue a
- 13:22Speaker 6: career and work working in this In this business.
- 13:27Speaker 12: People would describe some as a free spirit, adventurous, sarcastic, bonkers.
- 13:35Speaker 8: So that is a boat.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Look, I had a miscall on my phone. Psalm's missing.
- 13:47Speaker 3: A massive search and rescue operation is underway for a
- 13:49Speaker 3: British former flight attendant.
- 13:52Speaker 2: While sailing around the Caribbean. Some has a lot vanished.
- 13:56Speaker 3: That from missing in Paradise searching for song now able
- 14:00Speaker 3: to US audiences on BBC.
- 14:02Speaker 11: Select Living on board the Siren Song called the Virgin
- 14:06Speaker 11: Islands premiere luxury sailing charter sarm is living her best life.
- 14:10Speaker 11: On the evening of March seventh, Simon Bain go to
- 14:13Speaker 11: the island of Saint John for dinner. Leaving the restaurant,
- 14:16Speaker 11: they bought a small dinghy for the two hundred foot
- 14:18Speaker 11: hop to where Siren Song is moored off shore. Bain says,
- 14:21Speaker 11: Sarm is asleep by ten pm.
- 14:24Speaker 3: Two hundred feet that's not far at all, but from
- 14:29Speaker 3: what we've been told, the depth goes from about four
- 14:33Speaker 3: to five feet, and then after you're out just a
- 14:36Speaker 3: very short distance, it drops to forty or fifty feet.
- 14:41Speaker 3: So here we go. Two thirty am. He wakes up
- 14:47Speaker 3: and discovers he can't find Psarm.
- 14:51Speaker 2: What else happened?
- 14:53Speaker 11: At two thirty am. Bain awakens but can't find Sarm.
- 14:57Speaker 11: He takes a dinghy to the shore to report her
- 14:59Speaker 11: missing to island and police, suggesting she may have fallen overboard.
- 15:02Speaker 11: Police tell him to call the coast Guard. Bain does
- 15:05Speaker 11: not notify the coast Guard immediately for reasons unknown. He
- 15:09Speaker 11: waits until eleven forty five to notify the coast Guard
- 15:12Speaker 11: this Sarm is missing. When Coastguard officials arrive, an intoxicated
- 15:16Speaker 11: Bain refuses to allow them to board the catamaran to
- 15:19Speaker 11: conduct a serge.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Okay, right there, Andrew, I've got a problem with him
- 15:24Speaker 3: not allowing them on board. If he wants to find sarm,
- 15:28Speaker 3: why wouldn't allow them on board the yacht.
- 15:31Speaker 6: I think we've got a problem. This is where our
- 15:32Speaker 6: problems begin with the timeline. The timeline is where the
- 15:35Speaker 6: problems begin. You know, the call to the police, the
- 15:41Speaker 6: meeting of the police, and then nine hours pass before
- 15:46Speaker 6: the call to the coastguards.
- 15:47Speaker 7: And nine hours of time where.
- 15:49Speaker 6: She was still missing wherever she was, and you know
- 15:53Speaker 6: the reports and the coast guard that were retained on
- 15:57Speaker 6: a quite clean state that the coast Guard and the USB,
- 16:00Speaker 6: John and police wanted to come on board the boat
- 16:02Speaker 6: and potentially search the boat, and he refused them the
- 16:06Speaker 6: entry to the main area of the boat because he
- 16:08Speaker 6: was intoxicated, and they didn't want to put themselves in
- 16:12Speaker 6: any risk, any danger at that point she was missing.
- 16:14Speaker 6: At that point, we didn't know what was happening, so
- 16:16Speaker 6: they didn't want to put themselves in any danger, so
- 16:18Speaker 6: they left.
- 16:19Speaker 3: Kate Ronald, the roommate of saram heaslap the long delay.
- 16:28Speaker 3: Have you ever spoken to Baying the boyfriend and asked,
- 16:34Speaker 3: why did you wait nearly ten hours to get the Coastguard.
- 16:38Speaker 9: No, Andrew is Salm's only friend who's spoken to Ryan,
- 16:42Speaker 9: with the exception of Kate Owen.
- 16:45Speaker 8: It would be my first and maybe only.
- 16:49Speaker 9: Question to ask Ryan if I had the opportunity, because
- 16:53Speaker 9: he woke up so some wasn't there. He went to shore,
- 16:56Speaker 9: he spoke to the police, he was told to come
- 16:58Speaker 9: back to the boat called the host guard, but he
- 17:01Speaker 9: didn't call the coast Guard.
- 17:02Speaker 8: He didn't even get on the radio.
- 17:04Speaker 9: There's a continuously monitored channel on the radio frequency that.
- 17:09Speaker 8: Is monitored by the coast Guard. That didn't happen.
- 17:12Speaker 9: He didn't set off any flares. He didn't even call
- 17:15Speaker 9: her name. If you speak to the other two captains
- 17:18Speaker 9: of the neighboring vessels, they didn't hit anything that night.
- 17:22Speaker 9: So he doesn't even get in his dinghy to go
- 17:24Speaker 9: looking for her. He gets in his dinghy to go
- 17:26Speaker 9: to shore to speak to the police, but then he
- 17:29Speaker 9: just comes straight back. There's no evidence of him reaching
- 17:33Speaker 9: out to anybody else to ask.
- 17:35Speaker 8: For help to search this.
- 17:36Speaker 3: M Andrew Bodwin, did you ask Bain anything about the delay.
- 17:43Speaker 7: At that point?
- 17:43Speaker 6: I spoke to him, probably in the immediacy that I
- 17:47Speaker 6: was called on kind of the second day, and then
- 17:51Speaker 6: I spoke to him twice, and at that point we
- 17:53Speaker 6: didn't know any of this. We only knew that the
- 17:56Speaker 6: wording I got from Ryan Bain was I'm out searching.
- 18:00Speaker 6: I'm looking for her. I'm out on the boat. We're
- 18:02Speaker 6: doing everything we can. We're getting loads of people searching
- 18:05Speaker 6: for We had no idea at this point of this
- 18:09Speaker 6: timeline and what happened, so you know, that only come
- 18:12Speaker 6: out kind of in the weeks after she went missing,
- 18:15Speaker 6: that we found out about this gap, and by which
- 18:17Speaker 6: point he was not talking, he was not communicating, he
- 18:19Speaker 6: wasn't answering messages. He had his lawyer, and therefore there
- 18:23Speaker 6: has been no opportunity I think after that point to
- 18:26Speaker 6: ask him any questions.
- 18:28Speaker 3: Joining us now from ASAR Disaster Area Response Team Jeff Jones, Jeff,
- 18:37Speaker 3: when did you first get to the scene.
- 18:39Speaker 5: I was initially I've seen the next morning beginning to
- 18:42Speaker 5: do scuba diving as well as shoreline base search with
- 18:46Speaker 5: small craft throughout Frank Bay. That next morning. There were
- 18:50Speaker 5: two vessels in that bay, but I spoke to one
- 18:52Speaker 5: captain myself who was there the night that she went away.
- 18:55Speaker 5: We were missing it around two am when mister Bain
- 18:59Speaker 5: knowsed her done, and that vessel was about one hundred
- 19:02Speaker 5: to one hundred and twenty feet to the northwest in
- 19:05Speaker 5: that same morning area in Frank Bay.
- 19:09Speaker 3: The same mooring area there in Frank Bay. And you know, Jeff,
- 19:14Speaker 3: you're stating that you spoke to the captain who was.
- 19:16Speaker 2: There that night.
- 19:18Speaker 5: I spoke to a captain who was there the night
- 19:20Speaker 5: she went missing. He actually came into that base Sunday
- 19:22Speaker 5: morning and it dropped anchor about one hundred to one
- 19:25Speaker 5: hundred twenty feet away from the siren song. And he
- 19:28Speaker 5: was there overnight on that vessel. He's also a term
- 19:31Speaker 5: charter captain with another catamaran for hire, and he saw nothing,
- 19:37Speaker 5: heard nothing, and was unaware of any unusual foul play
- 19:41Speaker 5: till the next day when the coach starts showed up.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 19:55Speaker 3: That's a lot of time, Andrew Baldwin. For the captains
- 20:02Speaker 3: on vessels around bang, they had no idea anything was wrong.
- 20:07Speaker 3: None of them were alerted by him. There wasn't a
- 20:10Speaker 3: siren nothing. I mean, we've all seen those boat horns
- 20:14Speaker 3: that are incredibly loud. Why didn't he call out on
- 20:19Speaker 3: those to the boats, the vessels around him, asking for help,
- 20:24Speaker 3: asking them to look for sarm. They knew nothing until
- 20:27Speaker 3: the coastguard pulls up the next day.
- 20:29Speaker 2: Essentially, Yeah, I mean that's what's come out.
- 20:33Speaker 6: You know, we knew there were two boats close, so
- 20:37Speaker 6: we kind of all assumed that, you know, like any search,
- 20:40Speaker 6: So you would be speaking to the boats asking for
- 20:43Speaker 6: their assistance, putting lights in the water. If she had
- 20:45Speaker 6: fallen off, there was an assumption then you would be
- 20:49Speaker 6: shouting her name, you'd be he had a dinghy, he
- 20:51Speaker 6: could have banged on the side of the boat, he
- 20:53Speaker 6: could have called her name, he shouted. We've seen interviews
- 20:56Speaker 6: with both captains, both captains independently. Both captains stated they
- 21:01Speaker 6: woke up that morning and there was nothing different than
- 21:04Speaker 6: any other morning they woke up. Siren song was quiet,
- 21:07Speaker 6: there was nothing going on. There was no one shouting,
- 21:10Speaker 6: there was no one looking, There wasn't someone screaming. There
- 21:13Speaker 6: was nothing happening on that boat in the first thing
- 21:16Speaker 6: in the morning.
- 21:16Speaker 7: She were missing, So.
- 21:17Speaker 8: What was going on?
- 21:18Speaker 7: What was he doing like waiting to pick up the phone?
- 21:22Speaker 6: You know what whilch If it was my loved one,
- 21:24Speaker 6: my family, any of my friends, I would be made.
- 21:27Speaker 6: I would be screaming, I would be shouting. I would
- 21:30Speaker 6: be calling for help. The boats were one hundred feet away,
- 21:33Speaker 6: maybe two hundred feet away. They would have if you did,
- 21:36Speaker 6: they'd have shouted. If Ryan Baine had shouted, they would
- 21:39Speaker 6: have heard him. And they said that, and they're both
- 21:42Speaker 6: both experienced captains. They would have heard him say something.
- 21:44Speaker 6: And he said nothing to those boats.
- 21:47Speaker 2: What about it? To you, k Ronalds, what do you
- 21:49Speaker 2: make of it?
- 21:49Speaker 8: I just think there's a lot of contradiction happening.
- 21:52Speaker 7: Though.
- 21:53Speaker 9: The story from the captain of the Sirens Song differs
- 21:56Speaker 9: completely from the story given by the captains of the
- 21:59Speaker 9: two or In boats. As Andrew said, they both woke
- 22:03Speaker 9: up the next morning. It was a calm morning, nothing
- 22:07Speaker 9: appeared to be out of the ordinary, and both captains
- 22:10Speaker 9: of the other vessels confirmed that they if he had
- 22:15Speaker 9: to set off a flare, if he had have shouted
- 22:17Speaker 9: her name, even it would have woken them up. It
- 22:20Speaker 9: would have alerted them and they would have helped search.
- 22:22Speaker 9: So there is a reason that only he knows why
- 22:26Speaker 9: he didn't call the Coastguard on the phone. He didn't
- 22:30Speaker 9: call them on the radio, he didn't shout for help,
- 22:32Speaker 9: and it's not acceptable that the answer would be, well,
- 22:36Speaker 9: she might have gone to shore to have drinks with friends.
- 22:40Speaker 9: If she did that, then she would have had to
- 22:42Speaker 9: have swum to shore. It was COVID, there was a curfew.
- 22:46Speaker 9: From what she told us that all the bars and
- 22:48Speaker 9: restaurants closed at ten pm. So there is no logical
- 22:54Speaker 9: explanation to delay calling the Coastguard by nine hours unless
- 23:00Speaker 9: you are waiting for something to something else to happen,
- 23:06Speaker 9: for a suitable time to pass. Maybe he went back
- 23:09Speaker 9: to the boat and he fell asleep. None of it
- 23:12Speaker 9: is excusable, but none of it is acceptable as a
- 23:15Speaker 9: reason not to call the post Guard.
- 23:16Speaker 3: And of course there is the little town there. Back
- 23:20Speaker 3: to Jeff Jones joining us from ASAR Disaster Area Response Team,
- 23:26Speaker 3: what can you tell me about how far the yacht
- 23:31Speaker 3: was moored from the town and what about the town itself?
- 23:36Speaker 5: I would say between one hundred and forty one hundred
- 23:38Speaker 5: and sixty feet and it's just around the corner from
- 23:40Speaker 5: Cruise Bay, in which Cruise Bay is our local town.
- 23:43Speaker 5: From Cruise Bay, which is the city center, so to speak,
- 23:46Speaker 5: for our island here on Saint John. It's where all
- 23:48Speaker 5: the bars, restaurants, shopping, the watersports, the dive shops. Everything's
- 23:53Speaker 5: located at It's maybe a three minute walk from there,
- 23:57Speaker 5: just around the corner in another bay called Frank.
- 23:59Speaker 2: Bay, So very very close.
- 24:02Speaker 3: But the issue is, what are we supposed to believe
- 24:06Speaker 3: that she jumped into the water and swam ashore. I mean,
- 24:10Speaker 3: tell me about the underwater terrain, Jeff.
- 24:16Speaker 5: Where it's at exactly. It is probably between fifteen to
- 24:18Speaker 5: twenty feet feet, but within fifty feet it gets into
- 24:23Speaker 5: five foot of water. It's a very very clear bay
- 24:27Speaker 5: that's primarily sandy bottom with some rocks and reef and
- 24:31Speaker 5: ball but for the most part, it's a pretty shallow bay.
- 24:34Speaker 5: Most of all of our waters down in the Caribbean
- 24:36Speaker 5: are shallow. When we initially started began doing our grid
- 24:39Speaker 5: search patterns, we were doing in small craft, trying to
- 24:42Speaker 5: cover the most amount of area quickly, and we were
- 24:45Speaker 5: most of that was done, you know, visually above the
- 24:49Speaker 5: water because the water is so clear. At the next day,
- 24:52Speaker 5: when we were doing dies in forty to fifty foot
- 24:55Speaker 5: of water, we could see, you know, visibility forty fifty
- 25:00Speaker 5: foot deep easily.
- 25:02Speaker 3: You know, I'm also curious and I'm going to throw
- 25:05Speaker 3: this to Andrew and Kate, I want you to hear
- 25:09Speaker 3: what she left behind on her boyfriend's yacht.
- 25:13Speaker 11: Sarm's phone, wallet, and passport were left behind on the
- 25:16Speaker 11: boat and it turned over to the police. An intensive
- 25:19Speaker 11: search of the coastline begins, with dogs on shore, divers
- 25:22Speaker 11: in the water, and drones overhead. As word spreads of
- 25:26Speaker 11: the missing woman. A local dog walker on Saint John
- 25:29Speaker 11: says they heard a scream out at see in the
- 25:31Speaker 11: direction of where the catamaran was anchored around the time
- 25:34Speaker 11: of Sarm's disappearance.
- 25:36Speaker 3: So one person hears a scream, they think they don't
- 25:40Speaker 3: know where it came from. I'm also intrigued Andrew Baldwin,
- 25:45Speaker 3: Okay suspicious.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Her wallet, her phone, her.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Passport all still on the yacht. So that completely destroys
- 25:56Speaker 3: the theory that she.
- 25:57Speaker 2: Went back in town.
- 26:00Speaker 3: Somehow what swam and went back into town even though
- 26:05Speaker 3: everything was closed during COVID dripping wet and uh oh,
- 26:09Speaker 3: she figured out her wallet, her credit cards, her ID,
- 26:13Speaker 3: her passport, so she couldn't get anything to eat, she
- 26:16Speaker 3: couldn't get anything to drink.
- 26:17Speaker 2: She's dripping wet. Help me out.
- 26:19Speaker 6: She wouldn't have left those items in the first place.
- 26:21Speaker 6: And you know, she definitely wouldn't have gone swimming. She's savvy.
- 26:24Speaker 6: She wouldn't be swimming at night. You know, hey, Owen
- 26:28Speaker 6: who traveled with her, they were really really clean. Don't
- 26:31Speaker 6: swim at night in the Caribbean on your own. You
- 26:32Speaker 6: don't swim on your own. You need to tell us
- 26:34Speaker 6: where you are. There's no reason why she would leave
- 26:36Speaker 6: those things. She wouldn't leave those things. She'll never never
- 26:39Speaker 6: get off the boat leaving her her phone, her ID,
- 26:42Speaker 6: her wallet, not willingly.
- 26:44Speaker 2: What about it, Kate Vernold's.
- 26:46Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's ridiculous to suggest that she went
- 26:49Speaker 9: to shore and left everything. Yeah, you can have the
- 26:52Speaker 9: watertight bags, but she wouldn't swim to shore and leave
- 26:56Speaker 9: everything there. It's her passport, her iPad, her her wallet.
- 27:02Speaker 9: That the suggestion that she went to shore after seeing
- 27:05Speaker 9: that those thingers were left on the boat is just
- 27:07Speaker 9: another statement that doesn't ring true to anyone. I don't
- 27:12Speaker 9: think that that would be a viable thing that anyone
- 27:15Speaker 9: would do.
- 27:15Speaker 3: In the last weeks, newly released CCTV closed circuit TV
- 27:21Speaker 3: footage has revealed what I consider to be a very
- 27:26Speaker 3: critical clue.
- 27:28Speaker 10: Listen the family complains about the CCTV footage they are
- 27:32Speaker 10: shown by police, not just because they don't get to
- 27:34Speaker 10: see all of it, but the clothing she is wearing
- 27:37Speaker 10: in the footage is not what she is described as wearing.
- 27:39Speaker 10: According to the last witness to see her. It stated
- 27:42Speaker 10: that Sarm was wearing a black dress with flowers on it,
- 27:46Speaker 10: but in the CCTV footage she is wearing a top
- 27:49Speaker 10: with either shorts or skirt. The black dress was also
- 27:52Speaker 10: not among items returned to the family after she vanished.
- 27:55Speaker 3: Okay, that is a very big issue. Why were we
- 28:01Speaker 3: told by being the boyfriend that she's wearing a black
- 28:05Speaker 3: dress when clearly that's not what she's wearing. She's not
- 28:09Speaker 3: wearing that, and that very same black dress was not
- 28:14Speaker 3: amongst the items for clothing and all of her possessions
- 28:17Speaker 3: that were returned to the family after she disappeared. So
- 28:21Speaker 3: where's the black dress and why the wardrobe change?
- 28:25Speaker 1: Or is it all a big lie?
- 28:27Speaker 3: Andrew Baldwin, do you see the significance of this.
- 28:31Speaker 6: We've never really been able to get to the route
- 28:34Speaker 6: the crux of that issue, because you know, I think
- 28:39Speaker 6: he said that very early on about the clothing and Obviously,
- 28:42Speaker 6: no one's been able to question him or asking questions
- 28:44Speaker 6: about that point because he's now not talking and he's
- 28:48Speaker 6: so and that's just something that he could clear up.
- 28:51Speaker 7: You know, maybe there's an explanation.
- 28:53Speaker 6: I don't know, but the fact that you're not talking
- 28:55Speaker 6: means you can't tear up anything.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Kate Vernold's joining us from a roommate of arms. What
- 29:01Speaker 3: do you make of the missing black dress in the
- 29:03Speaker 3: alleged wardrobe change in the middle of the night.
- 29:06Speaker 9: I think it's possible that after the CCTV footage she
- 29:11Speaker 9: goes back to the boat, she gets changed. That could
- 29:13Speaker 9: very well be the reason that Brian says that that's
- 29:16Speaker 9: what she's wearing.
- 29:17Speaker 3: I'm sorry, no, wait, wait, wait, Kate, you're gonna have
- 29:20Speaker 3: to help me with your timeline, because we see them
- 29:23Speaker 3: on the footage going back to the dinghy, getting on
- 29:27Speaker 3: the dinghy which is going to take them back to
- 29:29Speaker 3: his yacht. He says they went to sleep at ten pm,
- 29:35Speaker 3: So change clothes into a black cocktail dress for what?
- 29:41Speaker 3: And when I mean, we see them they've gone out
- 29:44Speaker 3: to dinner, it's dark, they're heading back to the yacht,
- 29:48Speaker 3: and when was she supposed to change clothes and for what,
- 29:53Speaker 3: And where's the black dress?
- 29:55Speaker 9: Yeah, no one knows where this black dress is or
- 29:58Speaker 9: where the suggestion of a black dress even came from.
- 30:01Speaker 9: That's literally Brian's word against anyone's. And as you can
- 30:04Speaker 9: see from the CCTV footage, she's not wearing a black dress.
- 30:09Speaker 9: So is it a mistake that he made when he
- 30:12Speaker 9: described what she was wearing when she went missing, or
- 30:16Speaker 9: perhaps it is just a Freudian slip.
- 30:22Speaker 8: I have no idea where the black dress is.
- 30:24Speaker 9: We wasn't in her belongings when they were returned by
- 30:27Speaker 9: the police. So it's just another one of those little
- 30:31Speaker 9: trip ups that doesn't you know.
- 30:33Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate your phraseology, but some would say, boyfriend, Bain,
- 30:43Speaker 3: why are you lying? She's clearly not wearing a black dress.
- 30:46Speaker 3: According to you, Bain, you leave dinner, you get on
- 30:50Speaker 3: the dinghy, you go to the yacht, and then you're
- 30:53Speaker 3: asleep very shortly after that at ten pm. That's his words,
- 30:57Speaker 3: not mine. So why the wardrobe change? You don't remember
- 31:00Speaker 3: remember what she was wearing that night a couple of
- 31:02Speaker 3: hours before. Yeah, see, I've got a problem with that.
- 31:06Speaker 3: But that said, I've got another problem when your beloved
- 31:11Speaker 3: goes missing, and instead of talking to police, you claim
- 31:16Speaker 3: the Fifth Amendment. Okay, the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Now,
- 31:22Speaker 3: judges instructuries you are not to consider or note that
- 31:30Speaker 3: a suspect chooses to remain silent and take the Fifth Amendment.
- 31:35Speaker 3: That's neither here nor there. But look around, everybody.
- 31:38Speaker 1: We're not in court.
- 31:40Speaker 2: We can comment, and hell.
- 31:43Speaker 3: Would freeze over before I would stay silent while my
- 31:47Speaker 3: husband is missing.
- 31:49Speaker 2: But that is what happened. Listen.
- 31:51Speaker 11: Bain's actions during the investigation have come under scrutiny from
- 31:55Speaker 11: Sarm's family. Bain claims his lawyer advises him to use
- 31:58Speaker 11: his Fourth Amendment right to prevent a full forensic search
- 32:01Speaker 11: of his yacht, and when police tried to question him,
- 32:04Speaker 11: he invokes his Fifth Amenment right to remain.
- 32:06Speaker 2: Silent and he takes off.
- 32:08Speaker 11: Bain leaves the Virgin Islands five weeks after Psarm's disappearance
- 32:12Speaker 11: while the search is ongoing, and sets sail for Grenada,
- 32:15Speaker 11: where he replaces the refrigerator in the Siren Song. Bain
- 32:19Speaker 11: then removes the name from the luxury catamaran and sells
- 32:22Speaker 11: it for around a quarter of a million dollars and more.
- 32:27Speaker 3: Dark clouds on the horizon when Bain's ex wife Cory
- 32:32Speaker 3: Stephenson rais him.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace.
- 32:45Speaker 4: With the disappearance of PSARM, Bain's ex wife, Cory Stephenson
- 32:49Speaker 4: publicly states he was violent during their marriage and he
- 32:52Speaker 4: was even arrested on domestic assault charges against her that
- 32:56Speaker 4: landed him in jail.
- 32:58Speaker 3: None of this Boat's will, Andrew Baldwin has the boyfriend
- 33:05Speaker 3: Bane just completely dropped off the map. Is like SARM
- 33:10Speaker 3: never existed.
- 33:12Speaker 7: He did, you know?
- 33:13Speaker 6: He the only person that was talking on in behalf
- 33:16Speaker 6: of it with his law was his lawyer. So we
- 33:19Speaker 6: weren't able to the police, weren't able to answer any questions.
- 33:23Speaker 6: And you know, and I don't know the US legal system,
- 33:25Speaker 6: but why can't he answer questions with the lawyer there?
- 33:28Speaker 6: Why can he? You know, I don't think the police
- 33:30Speaker 6: were saying that you're under arrest. We just want to
- 33:32Speaker 6: know what you know. And he didn't even answer those questions.
- 33:36Speaker 6: It's only been more recently that he has come out
- 33:39Speaker 6: on social media with some information that he wanted to
- 33:43Speaker 6: share some information that there's more about poking holes in
- 33:46Speaker 6: the investigation from.
- 33:48Speaker 3: His side and what would that be Andrew Baldwin that
- 33:52Speaker 3: he has shared recently.
- 33:55Speaker 6: So he said an open letter that kind of talks
- 33:59Speaker 6: about things that he thinks that that could have happened,
- 34:04Speaker 6: that talks about some and which talks about Kate Owen,
- 34:09Speaker 6: which which suggests, you know, kind of puts up a
- 34:12Speaker 6: defense and says, you know, everyone that's talking about him
- 34:17Speaker 6: is only looking at one side. They're not looking at
- 34:19Speaker 6: his side, and they're not they're asking him him. No
- 34:22Speaker 6: one could ask you because she didn't answer any questions
- 34:24Speaker 6: and you wouldn't talk. So therefore, you know, if you'd
- 34:27Speaker 6: come forward and have a conversation with the police, with
- 34:29Speaker 6: your lawyer president, maybe.
- 34:31Speaker 7: Maybe you know, maybe there's information that you have.
- 34:33Speaker 6: That could have could have could have found out earlier
- 34:36Speaker 6: what happened that night to sar you.
- 34:38Speaker 3: Know Kate Ronald's are This statement issued by the then
- 34:43Speaker 3: boyfriend basically says I didn't murder her. Why not speak
- 34:51Speaker 3: at the time the search was going on. Why just
- 34:54Speaker 3: issue a comment when you can't be questioned.
- 34:58Speaker 8: Yeah, that's absolutely no reason not to speak to the police.
- 35:01Speaker 9: If you haven't done anything wrong, then just speak to
- 35:04Speaker 9: the police and tell them what you know.
- 35:06Speaker 8: His attorney said that.
- 35:09Speaker 9: There's nothing wrong with him getting an attorney before he
- 35:12Speaker 9: calls the coast guard. That's perfectly normal. I don't think
- 35:15Speaker 9: that's personally perfectly normal at all. I don't think anyone
- 35:19Speaker 9: would even think to do that unless they've done something wrong.
- 35:22Speaker 9: If your loved one, your friend, a crew member has
- 35:25Speaker 9: gone missing, and you've done nothing wrong and there's no
- 35:30Speaker 9: foul play, why do you need to call your attorney.
- 35:35Speaker 8: I don't think that's normal behavior.
- 35:38Speaker 9: I think it's completely not normal to seek for help
- 35:44Speaker 9: and to tell your story, to tell.
- 35:46Speaker 8: The police what's happened. Is not normal to go into social.
- 35:49Speaker 9: Media and post your story before you've even spoken to
- 35:52Speaker 9: the police. And just to add to that, his attorney
- 35:56Speaker 9: said that if the police did want to speak to him,
- 36:00Speaker 9: all they had to do is reach out to Ryan
- 36:02Speaker 9: and ask him to come back and make a statement.
- 36:05Speaker 8: Why do the police need to ask you to come
- 36:06Speaker 8: back and do that.
- 36:07Speaker 9: You were her boyfriend, you supposedly loved her, and your heartbroken.
- 36:13Speaker 8: Why aren't you just voluntarily going back to.
- 36:15Speaker 9: The US Virgin Islands and speaking to the police to
- 36:18Speaker 9: make your statement.
- 36:19Speaker 8: Why do you have to be asked.
- 36:20Speaker 3: In this bizarre five page quote open letter the so
- 36:26Speaker 3: called boyfriend Ryan Bain, speaks mostly about himself, how he
- 36:31Speaker 3: has been vilified and placed under a quote false sense
- 36:35Speaker 3: of suspicion, and he says the truth is I just
- 36:39Speaker 3: wanted to protect myself.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Okay, I have a concern with that.
- 36:46Speaker 3: Of course, if this ever did go to a jury
- 36:48Speaker 3: trial and he is presumed innocent, of course.
- 36:53Speaker 2: No one could comment on his right to remain silent.
- 36:56Speaker 3: But we're not in court. We can analyze the facts
- 36:59Speaker 3: as we see them. The letter is addressed to investigative journalists,
- 37:04Speaker 3: and for the most part, rails against what he calls
- 37:08Speaker 3: unfair coverage, accusing the media of omitting crucial facts.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Really, what facts?
- 37:17Speaker 1: What facts?
- 37:20Speaker 2: If he has facts.
- 37:22Speaker 3: That are unknown to everyone else, let's hear them.
- 37:26Speaker 2: He claims, no one observes signs of a fight.
- 37:30Speaker 3: Was anybody else on the yacht that could have seen
- 37:32Speaker 3: the fight if it existed? No evidence of an argument? Really,
- 37:37Speaker 3: no one else was on the yacht. Nobody knows what
- 37:39Speaker 3: has happened on the yacht. No scratches are marks to
- 37:42Speaker 3: suggest a struggle. Isn't it true that he would not
- 37:46Speaker 3: allow searches of his yacht so we don't know what
- 37:51Speaker 3: shape the yacht was in. I welcome mister Bain to
- 37:57Speaker 3: join us here on crime stories and give us his
- 38:01Speaker 3: side of the story and recount all the facts to
- 38:04Speaker 3: which he is referring that point to his innocence. In
- 38:08Speaker 3: the meantime, if you know or think you know anything
- 38:12Speaker 3: about the case, please dial eight hundred two two two
- 38:18Speaker 3: eight four seven seven repeat eight hundred two two two
- 38:22Speaker 3: eight four seven seven. We wait as justice unfals. Now
- 38:29Speaker 3: we remember an American hero, Sheriff Robert Rogers, Wilcotx County
- 38:33Speaker 3: Sheriff's Georgia, killed in the line of duty after twenty
- 38:37Speaker 3: two years in law enforcement, leaving behind a grieving widow.
- 38:42Speaker 3: Healey and son Robert. American hero Sheriff Robert Rogers. Nancy
- 38:51Speaker 3: Gray signing off goodbye friend
- 39:00Speaker 8: Eve.