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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Where is a missing autistic
- 0:18Speaker 1: teen Sebastian Rogers? The hunt is on for this boy?
- 0:24Speaker 1: Did he wander away from home entirely barefoot? This as
- 0:30Speaker 1: eerie surveillance footage emerges outside Sebastian's home, purportedly of two
- 0:39Speaker 1: people with flashlights. What does that mean? I'm Nancy Grace.
- 0:46Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
- 0:48Speaker 1: here at Crime Stories and on Serious XM one eleven.
- 0:53Speaker 1: First of all, listen to this.
- 0:55Speaker 2: When I welcome up for school, he wasn't there. I
- 0:59Speaker 2: took a second walk through the house looking for him,
- 1:01Speaker 2: in case you've gotten up and was trying to get
- 1:03Speaker 2: breakfast or something, because you did that sometimes. Three minutes
- 1:10Speaker 2: in give or page, I was on the phone with
- 1:12Speaker 2: my husband. I said I can't found him. He said,
- 1:18Speaker 2: what do you mean, can't find them?
- 1:19Speaker 1: I said, he's not that you are hearing Sebastian's mother
- 1:23Speaker 1: describing the moment that she realizes Sebastian is gone again.
- 1:29Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grayson. I want to thank you for being
- 1:31Speaker 1: with us. The search for Sebastian is on. And let
- 1:33Speaker 1: me right off the top, give you the tip line
- 1:36Speaker 1: sixty one five four five one three, eight, three eight
- 1:40Speaker 1: repeat sixty one five four, five one three eight three eight.
- 1:46Speaker 1: This boy needs our help. Where is Sebastian? Joining me
- 1:53Speaker 1: an all star panel to make sense of what we
- 1:55Speaker 1: know right now. But first I want to go out
- 1:57Speaker 1: to a very special guest. This is Sebastian's father joining us,
- 2:02Speaker 1: Seth Rogers. Mister Rogers, thank you for being with us.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Could you recount for us when you learn Sebastian is missing?
- 2:12Speaker 1: I know, it just seems completely surreal.
- 2:14Speaker 3: There's no words for it. I mean, when I found
- 2:17Speaker 3: out that he was gone, I was just like, I
- 2:21Speaker 3: headed over to Katie's house see what was going on?
- 2:26Speaker 3: And he's not here. I don't know where he's at.
- 2:30Speaker 3: I've been looking for him every.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Day, Seth, What have you been doing to look for him?
- 2:36Speaker 1: Every day? And I know that to be true? You
- 2:39Speaker 1: are looking for him every day. This young boy is autistic.
- 2:45Speaker 1: He may not in a scared and emotional and lost state.
- 2:50Speaker 1: He may not even be able to tell someone who
- 2:53Speaker 1: he is and where his home is. He is out
- 2:57Speaker 1: there lost and the Lord only knows where. Seth, what
- 3:02Speaker 1: have you been doing to find Sebastian?
- 3:05Speaker 3: Been adding out flyers every day. I've been on this podcast,
- 3:08Speaker 3: I've done some face to face interviews on the news.
- 3:12Speaker 3: I'm just anything I can. I've been to the South
- 3:16Speaker 3: side of Nashville. I've been to Franklin. I've been to Bellevue.
- 3:19Speaker 3: I've been through Henderson, I've been through Gallatin, I've been
- 3:21Speaker 3: through Clarksville. I've been through Oak Grove, Kentucky. I mean,
- 3:25Speaker 3: I'm handing out flyers finding out I mean, I want
- 3:28Speaker 3: everybody to see my son and know that he's missing,
- 3:32Speaker 3: and that if you see him, call nine one one.
- 3:35Speaker 3: I need my son back.
- 3:36Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get my mind around what you
- 3:41Speaker 1: and Sebastian's mom are going through. Because when I go
- 3:47Speaker 1: in to wake up my twins, if they're not in
- 3:51Speaker 1: the bed, which is rare, you're just still asleep. If
- 3:54Speaker 1: they're not in the bed, I immediately glance in the bathroom,
- 3:58Speaker 1: and if they're not, there's totally out of character. They're
- 4:02Speaker 1: always right there in their bedroom in the morning when
- 4:05Speaker 1: I wake them up, and that would be totally out
- 4:10Speaker 1: of the normal if they weren't there. Tell me your
- 4:13Speaker 1: understanding of what happened.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Katy told me that she when she woke up Monday,
- 4:18Speaker 3: morning that he wasn't in his room and she can't
- 4:22Speaker 3: find him. And I heard that once I got there.
- 4:25Speaker 3: When I got off of work, I had a text
- 4:27Speaker 3: message from the stepfather, Chris and a missed phone call,
- 4:31Speaker 3: and I called him and he told me that Sebastian
- 4:35Speaker 3: was missing and he didn't know what had happened.
- 4:39Speaker 1: So seth to your understanding when you get there to
- 4:43Speaker 1: the same What time did you get to the home
- 4:45Speaker 1: that day?
- 4:45Speaker 3: I got the message at about seven twenty. I was
- 4:48Speaker 3: there at about eight o'clock.
- 4:49Speaker 1: So immediately when you got to the home, tell me
- 4:53Speaker 1: about the state of the home.
- 4:54Speaker 3: The home was clean, I mean, it looked like it
- 4:58Speaker 3: normally did when I walked in.
- 5:00Speaker 1: So were there any signs of a forced entry at
- 5:02Speaker 1: the front or back door or on Sebastian's window that
- 5:05Speaker 1: you could observe?
- 5:06Speaker 3: No, there was nothing.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Was anything stolen from.
- 5:09Speaker 3: The home, not that I was informed of.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Do you know if there are burglar lights motion sensor
- 5:15Speaker 1: lights that would turn on if someone moved on the
- 5:18Speaker 1: perimeter of the home, No, ma'am. Okay, I'm trying to
- 5:21Speaker 1: understand his daily routine. Did Sebastian get up every morning
- 5:25Speaker 1: and go to school?
- 5:26Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. What school Beach High School?
- 5:29Speaker 1: How far away?
- 5:29Speaker 3: I think it's like point six miles.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Six miles did you say six miles point six point
- 5:36Speaker 1: six miles very close to home? Did he walk or
- 5:39Speaker 1: take a bus or ride a bike?
- 5:40Speaker 3: He rode the bus.
- 5:42Speaker 1: He rode the bus. Is he mainstreamed? He is autistic?
- 5:46Speaker 1: Is he mainstreamed with other students?
- 5:49Speaker 3: He's in there? Why we Try program?
- 5:51Speaker 1: What is that?
- 5:52Speaker 3: It's for their It's for the special needs children where
- 5:55Speaker 3: they are doing the same tasks that the mainstream does,
- 5:59Speaker 3: but they get a little bit extra time. You know,
- 6:02Speaker 3: if they have like thirty questions, then in the Why
- 6:05Speaker 3: We Try program, they get like twenty and they get
- 6:09Speaker 3: extra time to answer them.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Okay, I'm trying to understand that morning your wife calls you,
- 6:15Speaker 1: your ex calls you about seven twenty am. Would that
- 6:19Speaker 1: have been on a school day?
- 6:20Speaker 3: No, it was it was her husband that called me.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Okay, Was that at seven twenty am?
- 6:26Speaker 4: No?
- 6:27Speaker 3: Seven twenty am is when I got to my vehicle
- 6:29Speaker 3: because I got off of work at seven. My shift
- 6:32Speaker 3: ended at seven. By the time I found out to
- 6:34Speaker 3: make sure that I didn't have to stay over or anything.
- 6:37Speaker 3: Then I got to my trunck about seven twenty, and
- 6:40Speaker 3: they had texted me and tried to call me on
- 6:42Speaker 3: my cellphone around six twenty, and.
- 6:45Speaker 1: You found out about it at seven twenty. Is that correct, yes, ma'am. Okay,
- 6:49Speaker 1: mister Rogers. Did he go missing on a school day.
- 6:53Speaker 3: From my understanding, she put him to bed Sunday night,
- 6:57Speaker 3: and yes, Monday morning he's missing.
- 7:00Speaker 1: So he's in his room Sunday night. Monday morning, he's
- 7:03Speaker 1: gone out of his home. Could you tell me the
- 7:09Speaker 1: level of the severity of his autism.
- 7:13Speaker 3: He's very intelligent, He's very smart. He just lacks social
- 7:18Speaker 3: skills in reading the people's body language. He likes things
- 7:24Speaker 3: to be in a routine. He likes to control his environment.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I'm looking at Sebastian right now, and it is breaking
- 7:31Speaker 1: my heart thinking of this young boy, this autistic boy,
- 7:36Speaker 1: possibly out in the wild, possibly with strangers. He doesn't know.
- 7:42Speaker 1: What would his reaction be to that seth Rogers.
- 7:45Speaker 3: I don't know, because I've never seen him have to
- 7:48Speaker 3: deal with this. Most of the time, if he's with me,
- 7:51Speaker 3: he gets his information from me about interacting with people.
- 7:56Speaker 3: You know, if I sit there and I'm meeting new people,
- 8:00Speaker 3: I talked to him. It's like son, you can introduce
- 8:02Speaker 3: yourself if you like. If he does, he does. If
- 8:05Speaker 3: he doesn't want to, I don't make him.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Seth, when was the last time you can verify that
- 8:13Speaker 1: he was alive and well.
- 8:15Speaker 3: When I talk to him on Thursday?
- 8:17Speaker 1: How often do you see him?
- 8:18Speaker 3: I get to see him every other weekend if he's
- 8:21Speaker 3: on like a spring break or a fall break, or
- 8:24Speaker 3: he's got an extended time away from school for like
- 8:27Speaker 3: school days when we had the weather was bad out
- 8:32Speaker 3: here and they canceled school. He was with me summer
- 8:35Speaker 3: breaks by get him whatever he's not in.
- 8:37Speaker 1: School, Seth. Whenever you have the opportunity to be with Sebastian,
- 8:42Speaker 1: isn't it true that you exercise that opportunity? You are
- 8:46Speaker 1: with him every chance possible under the law. Yes, ma'am, guys,
- 8:49Speaker 1: I'm bringing in the rest of the panel. You are hearing.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Seth Rogers describe the moment he gets off of work
- 8:55Speaker 1: around seven am, gets to his vehicle and realizes his
- 9:00Speaker 1: wife and the stepdad have been calling and texting him
- 9:05Speaker 1: since around six twenty ish am so on a Monday
- 9:09Speaker 1: morning to tell him his son, an autistic boy, is missing.
- 9:15Speaker 1: From their home, and from what I can tell right now,
- 9:19Speaker 1: you heard Aaron Cantrell jumping in earlier, and thank you
- 9:23Speaker 1: for that. Aaron, please don't hold back. Erin, we're not
- 9:27Speaker 1: having high tea at Windsor Castle. Aaron is joining us
- 9:30Speaker 1: in news Channel five in Nashville. Erin, thank you for
- 9:32Speaker 1: being with us. I don't hear anything so far about
- 9:35Speaker 1: a forced entry, about a window being open, about anything
- 9:40Speaker 1: being taken from the home. I understand that the mother
- 9:44Speaker 1: put him to bed at regular bedtime for school the
- 9:47Speaker 1: next morning, and that around six to six twenty a m.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Monday morning, she says, she goes into his bedroom to
- 9:55Speaker 1: wake him and he is gone. Aaron or Seth or
- 10:01Speaker 1: anyone else else on the panel, do we know that
- 10:03Speaker 1: anything else was missing, such as his backpack, a cell phone,
- 10:08Speaker 1: something he liked. Do we know anything about anything missing
- 10:12Speaker 1: from the home.
- 10:13Speaker 3: His mother said that he's missing the key chain flashlight.
- 10:17Speaker 1: That's it, his keychain flashlight. Interesting, interesting, Seth Rogers. When
- 10:22Speaker 1: I come in, I put my driver's license and credit cards,
- 10:26Speaker 1: which are in a rubber band. That's my pocket book.
- 10:29Speaker 1: All of that and my key and a certain spot
- 10:32Speaker 1: in the kitchen. Rarely do I put it anywhere else.
- 10:37Speaker 1: This is what I'm asking, Seth. You told me that
- 10:40Speaker 1: your son, autistic boy, Sebastian, likes things in a certain way,
- 10:46Speaker 1: in a routine like many of us would he have
- 10:49Speaker 1: had that flashlight. And I believe you said keys, flashlight
- 10:53Speaker 1: and keys attached to each other.
- 10:55Speaker 3: It's a key chain flashlight. It's a flashlight that would
- 10:57Speaker 3: go in your keys.
- 10:59Speaker 1: I bet he always putting them in a certain place,
- 11:01Speaker 1: didn't he?
- 11:01Speaker 3: In my house? All of his stuff is in his
- 11:03Speaker 3: upper drawer. When the police showed up at my house
- 11:06Speaker 3: to look upper drawer, house, key wallet, everything's in his
- 11:11Speaker 3: upper drawer.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace joining me right now is
- 11:30Speaker 1: an expert, a board certified behavior analyst and autism expert,
- 11:34Speaker 1: Chief clinical officer with Little Stars Therapy Services, Courtney Laski,
- 11:40Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Isn't it
- 11:42Speaker 1: true that autistic children, like many of us, like things
- 11:48Speaker 1: to be in a certain order for many, many varied reasons.
- 11:54Speaker 1: If this was missing from Sebastian's home, I would venture
- 12:01Speaker 1: to hypothesize he took it with him.
- 12:04Speaker 5: Correct.
- 12:05Speaker 6: Yes, And you know, without knowing Sebastian personally, I can't
- 12:09Speaker 6: make any assumptions about his behavior, but knowing that this
- 12:13Speaker 6: was not a typical history for him to wander to
- 12:16Speaker 6: leave the house in the middle of the night, it
- 12:19Speaker 6: is interesting that he did leave with that key chain flashlight.
- 12:22Speaker 1: You know another thing which is quite the dichotomy, Courtney Laski,
- 12:26Speaker 1: And I'm going to throw this to you as well,
- 12:27Speaker 1: Seth Rogers. If he was in such routine as I
- 12:32Speaker 1: believe he was due to his circumstances being autistic, why
- 12:38Speaker 1: would he have left without his shoes? That is not
- 12:41Speaker 1: his routine. This is not a child that leaves a
- 12:44Speaker 1: home without his shoes. First of all, Seth, how do
- 12:47Speaker 1: I know he didn't have his shoes?
- 12:48Speaker 3: Three pairs of shoes were at the front door, his
- 12:51Speaker 3: old tennis shoes, his new tennis shoes that his mama
- 12:54Speaker 3: had just bought him, in the boots that I had
- 12:56Speaker 3: just bought him.
- 12:57Speaker 1: Is it possibly wore another set of shoes.
- 12:59Speaker 3: His feet were grown And the last time I had
- 13:01Speaker 3: him for that, the last weekend I had him, his
- 13:04Speaker 3: moment told me that his shoes weren't fitting anymore, and
- 13:08Speaker 3: she asked me to get him shoes, and we wanted
- 13:12Speaker 3: a pair of boots, so we went to boot bart
- 13:14Speaker 3: and got even a pair of boots.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Is it possible he wore a different pair of shoes.
- 13:17Speaker 3: Oh, think so, because if he's not fitting into him,
- 13:20Speaker 3: she gets.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Rid of them. Okay, let me tell you something, Seth.
- 13:24Speaker 1: My son and daughter have one of those she wrecks
- 13:27Speaker 1: over the back of their closet door, and I would see.
- 13:31Speaker 1: I see those closet doors ten times a day. I
- 13:34Speaker 1: would see if shees were missing.
- 13:36Speaker 3: I would know that there's no shoes in his room.
- 13:39Speaker 1: Okay, there's my answer. He left without his shoes on.
- 13:42Speaker 3: Shoes get taken off at the front door. Same as
- 13:44Speaker 3: my house.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Same here. I always have people take their shoes off
- 13:49Speaker 1: at the door. Just have it so there were no
- 13:52Speaker 1: shoes in his room. All the shoes were still sitting
- 13:55Speaker 1: at the door. Can we confirm that, Seth?
- 13:57Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Guys you may think, why is she asking and asking
- 14:01Speaker 1: and asking about the same thing. I'll tell you why.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Behavioral evidence evidence of routine hold on Courtney Laski, because
- 14:11Speaker 1: this touches on you as well. Doctor Sherry Schwartz is
- 14:14Speaker 1: with me forensic psychologists specializing in victim advocacy at Panthermitigation
- 14:20Speaker 1: Dot com doctor Sherry, thank you for being with us,
- 14:23Speaker 1: Doctor Sherry. When I say routine evidence, I don't mean
- 14:28Speaker 1: mundane evidence, just you know, the regular evidence. I mean
- 14:31Speaker 1: evidence of routine. For instance, if I came and sat
- 14:35Speaker 1: down in this chair in this studio and Jackie was
- 14:39Speaker 1: not right there, she would either be dead or on
- 14:44Speaker 1: the way or in the hospital period because that's her routine. Right,
- 14:49Speaker 1: So this autistic child would not have left in the
- 14:52Speaker 1: middle of the night without a pair of shoes on.
- 14:55Speaker 1: And that is telling me something. Probatively, it proves something
- 14:59Speaker 1: to me. What do you think of it, doctor Sherry.
- 15:01Speaker 7: I agree completely, Nancy. I actually saw an interview that
- 15:06Speaker 7: mister Rogers gave about this particular issue and how when
- 15:11Speaker 7: he was younger, Sebastian he stepped he went outside barefoot,
- 15:16Speaker 7: and he stepped into an ant hill of fire ants.
- 15:20Speaker 3: And so Dad.
- 15:20Speaker 7: Doesn't believe that he would go out barefoot, and so
- 15:24Speaker 7: this goes to that behavioral evidence that you're talking about.
- 15:28Speaker 7: This is another fact that's very important that we need
- 15:31Speaker 7: to pay attention to because this is not something that
- 15:34Speaker 7: Sebastian would normally do. And we know this because he's
- 15:38Speaker 7: had a prior experience. So These are really important cues
- 15:42Speaker 7: in an investigation like this.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Doctor Sherry Schwartz. A lot of people may think that
- 15:46Speaker 1: means nothing that I can't find his shoes, But it
- 15:49Speaker 1: means a lot to me, and I guarantee you it
- 15:51Speaker 1: would mean a lot to any mother or father hearing
- 15:55Speaker 1: this event, Seth, What does it mean to you? Was
- 15:57Speaker 1: he prone to go outside and wander around at all period? Uh?
- 16:02Speaker 1: Number one? At night in the dark? Number two and
- 16:06Speaker 1: without his shoes? On number three? Would he ever have
- 16:08Speaker 1: done that? Seth?
- 16:09Speaker 3: From No? I mean the only time he goes outside
- 16:13Speaker 3: at night at my house is to put the trash
- 16:15Speaker 3: in the trash can, which is right outside my front door.
- 16:18Speaker 3: I said, I'm.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Very curious about this. And one more thing while it's
- 16:22Speaker 1: on my mind. Does he have social media? Seth?
- 16:25Speaker 3: No?
- 16:26Speaker 1: He does?
- 16:26Speaker 8: Don't?
- 16:27Speaker 1: Okay, good, I can rule that out, or at least
- 16:29Speaker 1: we don't think he does. Is he have a cell phone?
- 16:31Speaker 3: He does have a cell phone.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Where's the cell phone.
- 16:34Speaker 3: At his mom? And dead? At his mom and stepfathers.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Didn't take his cell phone? Seth? Is he like every
- 16:40Speaker 1: other boy in America glued to his cell.
- 16:43Speaker 3: Phone when he has access to it?
- 16:45Speaker 1: What do you mean by that when does he have access?
- 16:47Speaker 9: When he has access to like YouTube and stuff like that,
- 16:50Speaker 9: he is glued to his phone because he likes to
- 16:52Speaker 9: watch videos about Minecraft and he likes to watch videos
- 16:56Speaker 9: of people playing woman Craft.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Okay, you do know that social media because people can
- 17:01Speaker 1: talk to each other on Minecraft. Did you know that?
- 17:04Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
- 17:05Speaker 3: No, what I'm talking about is the videos he watches
- 17:08Speaker 3: videos of people playing it on YouTube.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Does he play it?
- 17:14Speaker 3: I think he hasn't for his switch at his mom's house,
- 17:18Speaker 3: but he does not, and he's glued to that all
- 17:21Speaker 3: the time.
- 17:22Speaker 1: We need a forensic search to that phone pronto, Seth,
- 17:25Speaker 1: because I find it very curious if he went voluntarily
- 17:29Speaker 1: that he didn't take the phone with him, okay, because
- 17:33Speaker 1: it'd be cold a in htbl that either one of
- 17:36Speaker 1: my sixteen year old would go anywhere without their phone.
- 17:38Speaker 1: And it's not just them, I mean everybody takes their
- 17:41Speaker 1: phone with them everywhere they go. It's like their magic
- 17:43Speaker 1: wand you can't be without it. So I find it interesting.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Did the mom have the phone put away? Could he
- 17:49Speaker 1: have taken it with him?
- 17:50Speaker 3: Most of the time I've seen the phone plug down
- 17:53Speaker 3: on the counter on the little bar in their kitchen.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to Courtney Laski joining us expert and
- 18:01Speaker 1: children and teens with autism. Courtney, you've been listening way in.
- 18:05Speaker 6: Yes, I absolutely agree with you, Nancy. This is a
- 18:08Speaker 6: very unusual pattern of behavior that we're looking at. If
- 18:12Speaker 6: this child has access to a cell phone, like you said,
- 18:16Speaker 6: minecraft is social media, YouTube, is social media anywhere that
- 18:20Speaker 6: he would have access and the ability to talk with others,
- 18:24Speaker 6: my concern would be related to his autism diagnosis and
- 18:28Speaker 6: that deficit in communication and understanding.
- 18:31Speaker 1: Of social skills.
- 18:33Speaker 6: Is it possible that peers at school or someone has
- 18:36Speaker 6: contacted him through these gaming methods, bullying, peer pressure? Was
- 18:41Speaker 6: he persuaded to leave, perhaps from his mom's house in
- 18:45Speaker 6: the middle of the night.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Is that you jumping agin Seth?
- 18:47Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. I know that his phone was locked down.
- 18:50Speaker 3: He had no internet access. He only had the ability
- 18:53Speaker 3: to take pictures on his phone, text on his phone,
- 18:57Speaker 3: FaceTime and telephone calls. Everything else was locked down on
- 19:01Speaker 3: his phone.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Have the police looked at his phone? Have they taken
- 19:04Speaker 1: his phone to look at who he may have been
- 19:06Speaker 1: speaking to?
- 19:06Speaker 3: Yes?
- 19:07Speaker 1: Question, where is this coming? Where's this coming from Aaron
- 19:10Speaker 1: Cantrell that people saw flashlights, to people with flashlights around
- 19:16Speaker 1: the property the night that Sebastian disappears. And I keep
- 19:19Speaker 1: seeing in all the headlines the night that Sebastian wandered
- 19:23Speaker 1: off barefoot. I don't think that's what happened. He's never
- 19:28Speaker 1: wandered off before.
- 19:30Speaker 8: What go ahead, dear, yes, ma'am, Well, we know we
- 19:32Speaker 8: got that video a little later. So we just got
- 19:34Speaker 8: that video maybe and released it within like the last
- 19:37Speaker 8: week or so. But this is from just neighborhood video,
- 19:40Speaker 8: like the ring doorbell cameras in that subdivision. From the reporting,
- 19:44Speaker 8: there's not street lights there, so that's why it's so
- 19:46Speaker 8: pitched black and it's so late at night. But you
- 19:48Speaker 8: see those two flashlights. But what's interesting is where these
- 19:52Speaker 8: lights are. It's almost a common area, so it wouldn't
- 19:55Speaker 8: be odd if someone may have been out at that
- 19:57Speaker 8: time walking their dog or something of that nature. But
- 20:00Speaker 8: the fact that Sebastian did leave with a flashlight and
- 20:03Speaker 8: there are two flashlights seen in that video, why do.
- 20:05Speaker 1: You keep saying Sebastian did leave. Why are you saying
- 20:10Speaker 1: that would you go out in the middle of the
- 20:12Speaker 1: night and leave without your shoes on. I'm just curious,
- 20:15Speaker 1: would you erin?
- 20:16Speaker 3: No, you make a good point.
- 20:17Speaker 8: I would not leave without my shoes.
- 20:18Speaker 1: I think you would either, even more so because you're
- 20:21Speaker 1: hearing Courtney Laski and Seth Rogers state this boy is autistic.
- 20:28Speaker 1: He doesn't think the same way we think. We have
- 20:31Speaker 1: to try to think like him. He liked everything in
- 20:34Speaker 1: a particular routine. His routine was he wore shoes every
- 20:39Speaker 1: time he went out. After the ant bed incident. Okay,
- 20:45Speaker 1: so no, why would he go missing? And let me
- 20:48Speaker 1: ask you something else, Aaron Cantrell. Isn't it true that
- 20:53Speaker 1: Emergency Management Agency Director Ken Widner has told us that
- 21:00Speaker 1: the canines could not pick up a scent out doors?
- 21:07Speaker 8: Exactly, they have not been able to pick up a scent,
- 21:10Speaker 8: and they had a false hit, but then that did
- 21:13Speaker 8: not turn out to be anything. Because this when Sebastian
- 21:17Speaker 8: went missing, it was kind of a warm day that
- 21:20Speaker 8: first day, but after the next day of the search
- 21:22Speaker 8: it went extremely cold. It was rainy, which made it
- 21:25Speaker 8: even more concerning because here you do, you have this
- 21:28Speaker 8: fifteen year old who has autism, when no shoes on
- 21:31Speaker 8: and you know, maybe a sweatshirt and sweatpants, but it
- 21:33Speaker 8: is now cold, so they were concerned about hypothermia as well.
- 21:37Speaker 8: So a lot of factors kind of changed the search
- 21:40Speaker 8: as well, but they have not picked up a scent
- 21:42Speaker 8: at all.
- 21:43Speaker 1: Officials have now been able to analyze home security video
- 21:46Speaker 1: from that Hendersonville neighborhood and discover signs of what may
- 21:53Speaker 1: have happened to Sebastian. Two people near the family home
- 21:58Speaker 1: and as I recall, it was around three ten am
- 22:02Speaker 1: that Monday, three ten am. Who in the hay is
- 22:07Speaker 1: walking around? Two people two flashlights at three ten am
- 22:13Speaker 1: in that neighborhood and coincidentally it is the same time
- 22:18Speaker 1: during which Sebastian goes missing, which leads me to our guest,
- 22:23Speaker 1: Douglas McGregor, geographic profileer specializing in violent crime and missing people.
- 22:31Speaker 1: You can find him at the Goo profile er. Douglas,
- 22:35Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. A lot's happening
- 22:38Speaker 1: right here. No K nine sent outside, no shoes, no
- 22:46Speaker 1: break in, no theft, the phone's still there. Weigh in,
- 22:51Speaker 1: So if we.
- 22:51Speaker 10: Look at if we look at each of these, then
- 22:53Speaker 10: no shoes thing. There's a lot of autistic people who
- 22:57Speaker 10: actually enjoy going barefoot in our connects them with the earth.
- 23:01Speaker 10: They like that texture, that feel. I mean, there's a
- 23:03Speaker 10: whole campaign barefooting for autism.
- 23:05Speaker 1: Okay, let me stop you right there, Douglas, let me
- 23:08Speaker 1: stop you right there. Seth Rogers's right. But does that
- 23:14Speaker 1: have anything to do with Sebastian. Did Sebastian go barefoot outside?
- 23:18Speaker 1: Was he part of barefoot for Autism? Do you know?
- 23:21Speaker 3: No, he's got a pair of slippers that he wears
- 23:24Speaker 3: so he doesn't have to put on the socks and shoes.
- 23:26Speaker 3: He puts those on it if he's going to go
- 23:28Speaker 3: out to the trash or check the mill and doesn't
- 23:30Speaker 3: want to put socks on.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Have you seen him since the ant bad incident go
- 23:33Speaker 1: outside barefoot?
- 23:34Speaker 3: No, not on my house.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Okay, all right, back to you, Douglas McGregor, go ahead.
- 23:39Speaker 10: So continuing on with just how he left the premises,
- 23:42Speaker 10: the other question I have is the wording and law
- 23:47Speaker 10: enforcement is giving out with regard to what he was wearing,
- 23:50Speaker 10: the clothing that he was in, a black sweater and
- 23:52Speaker 10: black sweatpants. How do we know that did he go
- 23:55Speaker 10: to bed in those in that clothing? How do we
- 23:58Speaker 10: know he didn't wake up in the middle and change clothing.
- 24:01Speaker 10: I think the wording should be he may be in
- 24:03Speaker 10: a black sweatshirt and sweatpants, or he may have those
- 24:06Speaker 10: things on him if they are missing from the house,
- 24:08Speaker 10: but we don't know that he left in those You.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Know, that's a really good point, seth Rogers. What about it?
- 24:12Speaker 1: Is that what he slept in? How do we know
- 24:14Speaker 1: that's what he was wearing.
- 24:15Speaker 3: His mom said that he was wearing black leisure pants
- 24:18Speaker 3: and a black T shirt, which when he went to bed.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Guys, I want you to hear what Eric Acratic, chief
- 24:24Speaker 1: Deputy of Sumner County Sheriffs, has to say.
- 24:27Speaker 4: Really wanted to come to the community and ask for
- 24:28Speaker 4: your help. We need you to search your properties every day,
- 24:32Speaker 4: morning and night. If there's a shd or a crawl
- 24:35Speaker 4: space or up under your mobile home, or a tarp
- 24:39Speaker 4: that's in your yard, check it every morning and check
- 24:41Speaker 4: it every night. If he went for any details that
- 24:44Speaker 4: something has been disturbed, If there's a shirt that was
- 24:46Speaker 4: there today that wasn't there yesterday, notify us. You can
- 24:50Speaker 4: really help us by searching your own property twice a day.
- 24:55Speaker 4: Like I said, we're operating under assumption that Sabashian walked off,
- 24:57Speaker 4: and we really need your help to ensure that he
- 24:59Speaker 4: is brought him safely.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Did he did he walk off? If so, why are
- 25:05Speaker 1: canines not picking up his scent? I can tell you
- 25:09Speaker 1: this seth Rogers, and to you, Douglas McGregor, the best
- 25:14Speaker 1: witness I ever put on the stand, and all the
- 25:17Speaker 1: years I tried cases, and I don't mean shopliftings, I
- 25:20Speaker 1: mean felony, homicides, violent crimes. Was a dog. If the
- 25:26Speaker 1: dog tells me the dog cannot pick up a scent,
- 25:29Speaker 1: I believe the dog. So I'm having hard time accepting
- 25:34Speaker 1: what I'm hearing that this young autistic boy just waded
- 25:38Speaker 1: out in the middle of the night without shoes on. Okay,
- 25:42Speaker 1: back to you, Douglas McGregor, tell me more of your analysis.
- 25:44Speaker 10: So looking at what the canines were able to pick up,
- 25:47Speaker 10: those canines should be picking up multiple cents. And it's
- 25:52Speaker 10: all based on Sebastian's routine activities. You know, does he
- 25:56Speaker 10: go to a friend's house during the week, does he
- 25:59Speaker 10: go to the corner store, does he occasionally walk to
- 26:02Speaker 10: school even taking the bus. Those canines should be picking
- 26:06Speaker 10: up all those sins from that seven days past because
- 26:09Speaker 10: canines regularly train from a scenarios where someone's gone missing
- 26:16Speaker 10: from one hour up to seven days, and bloodhounds can
- 26:19Speaker 10: pick up even longer than seven days. So those canines
- 26:23Speaker 10: should be picking up since they should be tracking those
- 26:27Speaker 10: sens and then ruling them out as as an activity
- 26:32Speaker 10: from the past that isn't associated with him going missing.
- 26:36Speaker 10: On that Sunday evening.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Seth Rogers, why have you been told that authorities are
- 26:42Speaker 1: searching a landfill?
- 26:44Speaker 3: They told me they just wanted to make sure that
- 26:46Speaker 3: there was nothing there.
- 26:48Speaker 1: Aaron Contrail joining me News Channel five out of Nashville. Aaron,
- 26:51Speaker 1: what can you tell me about this landfill search?
- 26:53Speaker 8: Yeah, Nancy, So they had got a tip that potentially
- 26:55Speaker 8: from the garbage workers that maybe the trash may have
- 26:58Speaker 8: been off a little bit.
- 27:00Speaker 1: What do you mean by that. You can't just throw
- 27:02Speaker 1: a grenade into my mind palace and expect me not
- 27:08Speaker 1: to follow up. What do you mean something was off?
- 27:10Speaker 8: So basically the workers said they, you know, they have
- 27:14Speaker 8: the same garbage truck drivers that come to the house,
- 27:17Speaker 8: and when they picked up the garbage can it just
- 27:20Speaker 8: felt more heavier than normal. So they just said that
- 27:25Speaker 8: to the authorities. So just to follow up on that tip,
- 27:28Speaker 8: they went out to the landfill the search because that's
- 27:30Speaker 8: where the trash is taken there in Sumner County. They
- 27:33Speaker 8: take it out there to Kentucky. So just following up
- 27:36Speaker 8: on that tip, that's what kind of led them out there,
- 27:38Speaker 8: because you know, we're used to our garbage, you know,
- 27:40Speaker 8: the same garbage truck workers coming out there, they know
- 27:43Speaker 8: kind of how the trash usually feels every single day,
- 27:45Speaker 8: so it felt a little off for them, so that's
- 27:48Speaker 8: why they told that to the authorities. So that's kind
- 27:50Speaker 8: of what led them to the landfill to start looking around.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Seth Rogers, have you been asked to take a polygraph?
- 27:58Speaker 1: Would you be willing to take a polygraph?
- 28:00Speaker 3: Volunteered?
- 28:00Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that. You know, I hold every
- 28:04Speaker 1: parent to the gold standard. I don't know if you've
- 28:07Speaker 1: ever heard of Mark Klass. His daughter Polly was kidnapped
- 28:12Speaker 1: from the home. She was horribly molested and murdered. When
- 28:15Speaker 1: cops came to heat, like you, was separated or divorced
- 28:19Speaker 1: from his wife and lived separately. You know what he
- 28:22Speaker 1: said when they came at the door, He's like, take
- 28:26Speaker 1: my fingerprints, search my home, search my car. Search my office,
- 28:30Speaker 1: do whatever you want, find my daughter, Find who took
- 28:34Speaker 1: my daughter, because it's not me, I'll take I'll do
- 28:37Speaker 1: whatever you want. And they did all of that. Of
- 28:41Speaker 1: course it wasn't him, somebody else. But that said, has
- 28:45Speaker 1: the mother and the stepfather taken a polygraph? I know
- 28:50Speaker 1: the mom is, so she agreed to a polygraph. What
- 28:52Speaker 1: about the stepfather?
- 28:53Speaker 3: I have no idea.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Guys, there is a reward for information into search for
- 28:59Speaker 1: this little autistic boy. Aeron at kntrell. I want you
- 29:05Speaker 1: to take a listen to what Chief Deputy Eric Kradick
- 29:08Speaker 1: has to say. Listen.
- 29:09Speaker 4: Last Monday morning, at about six thirty, Sebastian was reported missing
- 29:12Speaker 4: from his home. Since then, we've conducted an extensive and
- 29:16Speaker 4: exhaustive search around the home looking for any evidence, any
- 29:20Speaker 4: trace of Sebastian. At this time, the decision has been
- 29:25Speaker 4: made to scale back on the ground search operations. Let
- 29:29Speaker 4: me be clear that this does not diminish our commitment
- 29:31Speaker 4: to finding Sebastian. This is simply us transitioning from the
- 29:36Speaker 4: ground search to the investigative side. We are still committed
- 29:40Speaker 4: to finding Sebastian bringing him home safe. We have no leads,
- 29:43Speaker 4: no details, to indicate that Sebastian is not alive.
- 29:47Speaker 1: From what I know, I can tell you that at
- 29:50Speaker 1: this juncture, the family has totally cooperated with police. I'm
- 29:55Speaker 1: curious about these flashlights. Back to you. Aaron Kentrell joining
- 30:00Speaker 1: us from News Channel five. Aaron, I'm deducing nobody's told
- 30:06Speaker 1: me this that the flashlights of apparently two people were
- 30:11Speaker 1: saying in that neighborhood. Was it on ring cam?
- 30:18Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 30:18Speaker 8: They believe it's a kind of a neighborhood kind of video,
- 30:21Speaker 8: so either ring or some version of that in the neighborhood,
- 30:24Speaker 8: which I'm in a Facebook group called Finding Sebastian Rodgers,
- 30:28Speaker 8: and neighbors have posted in there, like one neighbor said,
- 30:31Speaker 8: if he would have walked near their house, you know,
- 30:34Speaker 8: you have those automatic lights that sometime come on, but
- 30:36Speaker 8: that didn't come on. But in the video with the flashlights,
- 30:39Speaker 8: you see two flashlights. That's all you can see because
- 30:41Speaker 8: it's so dark. There's no street lights in the neighborhood.
- 30:44Speaker 8: But you see two lights walking towards kind of a
- 30:48Speaker 8: to the right of the video. But then you see
- 30:51Speaker 8: I think it may be into a wooded area and
- 30:53Speaker 8: then one of those light, both those lights disappear, but
- 30:57Speaker 8: then you see one person stay away, but then some
- 30:59Speaker 8: other person or thing comes back into the.
- 31:04Speaker 3: Camera.
- 31:04Speaker 8: So that's kind of odd too, because you see two
- 31:06Speaker 8: flashlights leave and then you see some sort of body
- 31:09Speaker 8: of something of one person walk back through the camera.
- 31:12Speaker 1: I'm curious how close were the flashlights to their home
- 31:17Speaker 1: to Sebastian's home.
- 31:18Speaker 8: Very close, so it is kind of right behind the home.
- 31:21Speaker 8: Kind of like a common area of the neighborhood, so
- 31:24Speaker 8: you know, like a subdivision there may be kind of
- 31:26Speaker 8: like some grassier area, maybe people may walk their dogs,
- 31:30Speaker 8: that sort of thing. So it's kind of a common area,
- 31:33Speaker 8: but very close to Sebastian's home.
- 31:35Speaker 1: So these flashlights, we think two people were right behind
- 31:41Speaker 1: Sebastian's home. Is that correct, Aaron? Yes, okay. Are you
- 31:45Speaker 1: also telling me that there are lights that come on
- 31:48Speaker 1: automatically that are motion censored on Sebastian's home.
- 31:52Speaker 8: That's what one of the neighbors alluded to in a
- 31:54Speaker 8: Facebook post early on in the investigation. You know, there
- 31:57Speaker 8: was a Facebook group started, and you know, right now
- 32:00Speaker 8: it's flooded with a lot of individuals. In the beginning,
- 32:02Speaker 8: it was definitely more just family and neighbors, and one
- 32:05Speaker 8: neighbor didn't mention that if he was to have walked
- 32:09Speaker 8: by their home, their motion lights would have come on
- 32:13Speaker 8: if he walked on the side of their home. So
- 32:14Speaker 8: that was kind of odd too, because that's why the
- 32:16Speaker 8: neighbors said that was suspicious to her because her light
- 32:20Speaker 8: normally comes on if anybody walks past the home, and.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Aaron, the motion activated lights on Sebastian and the neighbor's
- 32:27Speaker 1: home did not come.
- 32:29Speaker 8: On, no, which is in the video when you see
- 32:31Speaker 8: the flashlights. That's why all you can see are the
- 32:33Speaker 8: two dots of the flashlight. You can't really see anything else.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace, Aaron this ring doorbell camera
- 32:57Speaker 1: or something similar, did it ever show those outdoor light
- 33:04Speaker 1: sensors coming on that night?
- 33:07Speaker 8: Not in that particular video. So that's the only video
- 33:09Speaker 8: that we've been able to get our hands on. Authorities
- 33:12Speaker 8: have said they've received several videos and things of that
- 33:16Speaker 8: nature sent into them, but all they could confirm for
- 33:19Speaker 8: us with that video was that was one of the
- 33:21Speaker 8: pieces of evidence that they are looking at, and they
- 33:24Speaker 8: are aware of that video, but they could have. Authorities
- 33:27Speaker 8: could have other videos that they're looking at. But that's
- 33:29Speaker 8: the one that we've been able to get our hands on,
- 33:31Speaker 8: which is very odd considering again, Sebastian, they have said
- 33:36Speaker 8: that he had that flashlight.
- 33:38Speaker 1: With him, Douglass McGregor, It grows curiouser and curiouser to
- 33:44Speaker 1: coin a phrase, because if he had walked out of
- 33:48Speaker 1: that house, those motion sensor lights would have come on.
- 33:52Speaker 1: But from what we can to do, they didn't.
- 33:55Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly, and I've seen the video. First question would be,
- 34:01Speaker 10: let's just set aside the motion sensor lights for a moment.
- 34:04Speaker 10: Who who would he leave that house with? If it
- 34:09Speaker 10: wasn't one of the three parents, who would it be
- 34:12Speaker 10: and those you know?
- 34:14Speaker 1: That would be the.
- 34:14Speaker 10: Next step in the investigation at that point, looking at
- 34:17Speaker 10: that video.
- 34:18Speaker 1: And Seth, who can verify his last conversation other than
- 34:25Speaker 1: the mom and the stepdad? He was at school on Friday.
- 34:29Speaker 1: You spoke to him Thursday night. He was at school
- 34:32Speaker 1: on Friday, correct, Yes, ma'am, So I know who was alive,
- 34:36Speaker 1: And we'll say at three thirty on Friday afternoon, who
- 34:39Speaker 1: saw him other than the parents from that afternoon three
- 34:43Speaker 1: thirty ish till we find out he's missing on Monday morning.
- 34:47Speaker 1: I don't know who else, So I don't have any
- 34:50Speaker 1: proof of life between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, I haven't.
- 34:53Speaker 3: Been informed of anything. We only proof of life would
- 34:56Speaker 3: be Katie.
- 34:58Speaker 1: His mom was McGregor. Go ahead.
- 35:02Speaker 10: I've been following this search and i've and law enforcement
- 35:05Speaker 10: has done a thorough job of using different assets at
- 35:09Speaker 10: their disposal. But the search needs to be expanded. The
- 35:13Speaker 10: number one reason that autistic children go missing are runaways,
- 35:19Speaker 10: endangered endangered runaways, and you know, once that hits a
- 35:24Speaker 10: certain point in time, statistically it turns into a parent.
- 35:28Speaker 10: Abduction is the number one leading cause. But based on
- 35:33Speaker 10: his age, they need to expand this search. Where might
- 35:37Speaker 10: he go, what method of transportation might he have, and
- 35:42Speaker 10: they need to research everywhere that they've already searched within
- 35:46Speaker 10: the five mile or ten mile radius. Because autistic children,
- 35:50Speaker 10: you know, they have a tendency to hide or avoid stimuli,
- 35:58Speaker 10: So just loud noise in general, helicopters, sirens, people shouting,
- 36:03Speaker 10: they may hide, they may seek out crevices. That construction
- 36:07Speaker 10: site that the dog hit needs to be researched thoroughly.
- 36:13Speaker 10: And this is something that not only law enforcement can do,
- 36:16Speaker 10: but the parents can get together volunteer searches within the
- 36:20Speaker 10: community to search these areas as well.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Hold on, let me understand something, Aaron. You told me
- 36:28Speaker 1: that the dogs had not made a hit. Wasn't that
- 36:31Speaker 1: a false positive at the construction site? Yes, yes, ma'am,
- 36:35Speaker 1: But still it needs to be further investigated, you know too.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Back to Seth, you keep saying that a piece of
- 36:42Speaker 1: the puzzle is missing. Something is missing. It doesn't add up.
- 36:47Speaker 1: What do you mean by that something?
- 36:50Speaker 3: So it doesn't add up for him to break routine
- 36:53Speaker 3: and to leave the house with no shoes, no socks on,
- 36:57Speaker 3: no coat. Something just doesn't make sense. I don't know
- 37:03Speaker 3: what he was thinking.
- 37:04Speaker 1: Guys. I want to give you the tip line again.
- 37:06Speaker 1: Six one five four five one thirty eight thirty eight
- 37:09Speaker 1: Repeat six one, five, four five one thirty eight thirty eight.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Listen to Sebastian's mom, Katie.
- 37:18Speaker 5: I guarantee you he has loved and trust me. The
- 37:22Speaker 5: open arms are waiting for him to come home, from
- 37:24Speaker 5: every parent, to every family members, to probably everyone in
- 37:27Speaker 5: the community. But there's no malice that we just want
- 37:32Speaker 5: our boy home.
- 37:34Speaker 1: Bad, bad. That is from w SMV four that also
- 37:39Speaker 1: has a full discussion with Sebastian's mother. The full interview
- 37:47Speaker 1: w SMZ four to you, Seth Rogers, what are your
- 37:53Speaker 1: final thoughts.
- 37:53Speaker 3: I'm just looking for my son and wanting to come home.
- 37:56Speaker 3: I need people to look at his best. Sure, keep
- 38:00Speaker 3: your eyes open, keep your head up. If you see him,
- 38:03Speaker 3: please call it on one one. I need my son back.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Do you think he left that home alone?
- 38:12Speaker 3: I have no idea what to think. It's not like him.
- 38:15Speaker 1: Guys, please help us bring Sebastian home. This boy needs
- 38:19Speaker 1: us six one five four five one three eight three
- 38:23Speaker 1: eight goodbye. Five