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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. New video just emerging after
- 0:08Speaker 1: a missing Jersey woman's car is found disabled in Pine
- 0:12Speaker 1: barrens tonight. Where is Danielle? I mean to see Grace.
- 0:17Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
- 0:19Speaker 2: A New Jersey woman's baffling disappearance mild camping leaves her
- 0:23Speaker 2: mother searching for answers. What happened to Danielle?
- 0:29Speaker 1: How could this beautiful young woman just vanish off the
- 0:32Speaker 1: face of the earth just like that? I don't buy it, okay,
- 0:36Speaker 1: how did the whole thing start? Listen?
- 0:38Speaker 2: Saturday, Sue texts Danielle to check in, but doesn't get
- 0:42Speaker 2: a response. That's not completely unusual, But as Sue sends
- 0:46Speaker 2: several more texts and call multiple times with no response,
- 0:50Speaker 2: she begins to fear something is wrong. When it's been
- 0:52Speaker 2: a week with no contact with Danielle, Sue reports Danielle
- 0:56Speaker 2: missing to the New Jersey State Police officers begin and
- 1:00Speaker 2: intense investigation, trying to retrace Danielle's steps.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Joining me in All Star Pale, but straight out to
- 1:06Speaker 1: Danielle's mom suit Quack and Bush, Miss Qurack and Bush.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. I'm going to get
- 1:12Speaker 1: to the video in just one moment. But miss crack
- 1:15Speaker 1: and Bush, when is the last time you spoke with
- 1:18Speaker 1: your daughter?
- 1:19Speaker 3: Friday night, April twelfth, and what was your conversation? It
- 1:23Speaker 3: was a good conversation. She said she was camping. I
- 1:27Speaker 3: wondered why she was there. I guess there was, Well,
- 1:33Speaker 3: there was an eclipse.
- 1:36Speaker 4: Then we talked. We talked.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I prayed with her. She struggled since the loss of
- 1:44Speaker 3: her brothers and her father and grandfather. But she was
- 1:49Speaker 3: sounding okay.
- 1:52Speaker 4: She it's just a regular conversation.
- 1:56Speaker 1: She was camping to look at the eclipse. That was
- 1:59Speaker 1: my understanding, okay, And she seemed in good spirits. She
- 2:03Speaker 1: was okay. When you state that you prayed with her,
- 2:08Speaker 1: that's because she had suffered loss, as had you.
- 2:13Speaker 3: What had happened In two thousand and fifteen, I lost
- 2:18Speaker 3: my oldest son to suicide. Not ten months later I
- 2:22Speaker 3: lost my youngest son who was serving as a marine.
- 2:30Speaker 3: Twenty twenty, Danielle lost her grandfather that she was living
- 2:34Speaker 3: with to COVID, and a month later her father to
- 2:38Speaker 3: COVID as well.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Your family has been through so much and now this
- 2:46Speaker 1: Mss Quackenbush, how as a crime victim myself. I'm always curious,
- 2:54Speaker 1: how do you get to sleep at night? How do
- 2:57Speaker 1: you take your mind off Danielle missing even for five minutes.
- 3:02Speaker 3: It's not easy. I have strong faith that this will
- 3:06Speaker 3: be made right, but it's it's not easy.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Miss Quackenbush spoke to her daughter that day. Everything was fine. Listen.
- 3:19Speaker 5: Danielle Lopez is in frequent contact with her mom and
- 3:22Speaker 5: calls her from the Brendan T. Burns State Forest Campground
- 3:25Speaker 5: Friday night. Sue tells her daughter it sounds like fun.
- 3:28Speaker 5: Danielle hasn't been camping since she was a little girl.
- 3:31Speaker 5: Danielle tells Sue to stop worrying. When Sue questions if
- 3:34Speaker 5: it's warm enough to be camping, Danielle ends their conversation
- 3:37Speaker 5: with the usual I love you and we'll talk soon.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Joining me is Danielle's mom, Sue Quackenbush. Miss Quackenbush, you
- 3:45Speaker 1: stated that everything seemed fine. You guys typically prayed together
- 3:51Speaker 1: over the phone. That was not unusual. So she goes
- 3:55Speaker 1: out camping to see the eclipse, and you are actually
- 4:00Speaker 1: worried that she might get cold. Yes, well, describe that
- 4:06Speaker 1: part of the conversation. I just said it's April's cold
- 4:09Speaker 1: at night. She assured me she had a heater, a campfire,
- 4:16Speaker 1: and but she was okay. She struggled a lot after
- 4:22Speaker 1: the losses. Danielle struggled a lot. So I what do
- 4:26Speaker 1: you mean by struggled.
- 4:29Speaker 3: After the loss of her father. She had resources and
- 4:32Speaker 3: so she wasn't working. It didn't change anything, just I'm
- 4:38Speaker 3: a mom having lost two children.
- 4:40Speaker 4: I was.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Very much in touch with her, calling.
- 4:44Speaker 4: Her twice a day.
- 4:45Speaker 3: We didn't always speak twice a day, but it called
- 4:48Speaker 3: her twice a day.
- 4:50Speaker 1: So you guys were in very very close contact. Has
- 4:53Speaker 1: there ever been a time when it's been over a
- 4:56Speaker 1: month that you don't speak to her?
- 4:58Speaker 6: Never?
- 4:59Speaker 1: Okay, to the moment that Danielle seemingly just vanished off
- 5:05Speaker 1: a very very popular hiking trail listen.
- 5:08Speaker 7: At nine to eleven am Saturday morning, Danielle is spotted
- 5:11Speaker 7: on surveillance footage buying coffee from a wah wah in Vincentown,
- 5:15Speaker 7: about a ten minute drive from the campsite. Danielle does
- 5:18Speaker 7: not appear to be in distress. Danielle uses a wah
- 5:21Speaker 7: Wah rewards card she shares with her mother, Regarded by
- 5:23Speaker 7: both as emergency money to make her purchases that morning.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Okay, there is Danielle and this is nine to eleven
- 5:30Speaker 1: am on a Saturday morning, spotted in a wah wah
- 5:34Speaker 1: in Vincentown. That's only a few minutes away from the
- 5:38Speaker 1: campsite where she was. Now, she's obviously not in any
- 5:43Speaker 1: distress at all, and she uses the Wahwah rewards card
- 5:47Speaker 1: she shared with her mom. Now, Miss Kragenbush, why did
- 5:51Speaker 1: you regard that as quote emergency money? What does that mean?
- 5:55Speaker 3: Danielle, I had resources, but as a mom, if she
- 5:58Speaker 3: ever needed asked if she ever needed anything. We've had
- 6:02Speaker 3: it since she was probably eighteen that we've shared it.
- 6:06Speaker 1: But there were.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Times where she'd grab a coffee in a wah wah
- 6:13Speaker 3: sandwich and use it, but not very often. So when
- 6:17Speaker 3: I saw this, I wondered, But at least I knew
- 6:24Speaker 3: where she was.
- 6:25Speaker 1: When did you realize, Miss Kragenbush, something was wrong.
- 6:29Speaker 3: I talked with her on Friday night, and by Monday,
- 6:32Speaker 3: when I couldn't reach her, I was growing increasingly concerned
- 6:37Speaker 3: every day.
- 6:38Speaker 1: So you believe something happened between the Saturday morning at
- 6:42Speaker 1: nine to eleven when we see her at wah wahs
- 6:45Speaker 1: and by Monday morning something was horribly wrong.
- 6:49Speaker 3: It's when I started becoming alarmed, and then there were
- 6:51Speaker 3: fires in the forest. I woke up that morning to
- 6:54Speaker 3: news on the news that there were fires in the forest.
- 6:58Speaker 3: And that's when I call called the missing persons.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Straight out to doctor John Delatory, joining US licensed psychologist,
- 7:07Speaker 1: and you can find him online at resolution FCS dot com.
- 7:13Speaker 1: Dotor Delatory. Thank you for being with us. And that
- 7:15Speaker 1: is what we call routine evidence, habit evidence, evidence of routine.
- 7:22Speaker 1: They talk to each other about twice a day. They
- 7:24Speaker 1: were texting back and forth all the time. We have
- 7:27Speaker 1: seen timeline start based on something as seemingly innocuous as
- 7:33Speaker 1: a dog barking. And that's the Oj Simpson case when
- 7:36Speaker 1: Nicole Brown's dog Akita began to moan and wail and
- 7:40Speaker 1: the neighbors heard it and they had never heard anything
- 7:43Speaker 1: like that before. Here, I would place the time the
- 7:47Speaker 1: timeline starting at about nine to twelve after she walked
- 7:51Speaker 1: out of that wah wah on a Saturday morning, probably
- 7:55Speaker 1: to Sunday night, because by Monday morning her mother realized
- 7:59Speaker 1: something was wrong.
- 8:00Speaker 8: Yeah, not only that, is that by Monday morning, you
- 8:03Speaker 8: would think then that she would have responded back to
- 8:06Speaker 8: her mother, right. So it's in that time frame that
- 8:10Speaker 8: the behaviors of someone really kind of define what exactly
- 8:14Speaker 8: it is that's going on. If they're still around and
- 8:17Speaker 8: still able to communicate, you would think that they would
- 8:19Speaker 8: engage in a behavior that would suggest that everything is fine.
- 8:24Speaker 8: If they're not able to do that, then perhaps something
- 8:26Speaker 8: else got in the way of them being able to communicate.
- 8:30Speaker 8: Lost the phone, or the power goes out on the phone.
- 8:32Speaker 8: Something happens in that timeframe where she's not able to
- 8:36Speaker 8: say hey to other people, right, whether it's friends, whoever
- 8:40Speaker 8: it is that's in her life, is she's not able
- 8:42Speaker 8: to tell them everything's going okay. Right, I'm just out
- 8:45Speaker 8: here doing for myself now.
- 8:47Speaker 1: With us Brian Vazgibbons Direct Operations USPA Nationwide Security. He
- 8:52Speaker 1: leads a team of expert investigators specializing in locating missing people. Brian,
- 8:59Speaker 1: the fact that she suddenly stopped, I know it's called
- 9:04Speaker 1: routine evidence evidence of habit, but I would start the
- 9:07Speaker 1: timeline right there because that was a huge departure from
- 9:11Speaker 1: her normal died in the wool routine of talking to mom,
- 9:15Speaker 1: praying with mom on the phone, texting back and forth.
- 9:19Speaker 1: That starts it for me that Saturday when she steps
- 9:22Speaker 1: out of that wah wah.
- 9:23Speaker 4: Certainly.
- 9:23Speaker 9: And I'm a student of renowned cold case detective Jay
- 9:27Speaker 9: Warner Wallace, who talks about these investigations in three phases,
- 9:32Speaker 9: the fuse, the explosion, and the fallout. Okay, so when
- 9:36Speaker 9: we're talking about what's leading up to her disappearance, we
- 9:40Speaker 9: start that timeline where the departure from her routine behavior begins.
- 9:46Speaker 9: A lack of a response back to a text, lack
- 9:49Speaker 9: of communication.
- 9:50Speaker 4: We know that her car broke down.
- 9:52Speaker 9: These are all things that are that fuse of what
- 9:55Speaker 9: happened that described to us the lead up to this event.
- 9:59Speaker 1: Ms Kraich. I think, actually, now that I'm analyzing it,
- 10:02Speaker 1: the timeline starts later based on the new video evidence
- 10:07Speaker 1: you've seen of the go pro But let me ask
- 10:09Speaker 1: you this, So did you call and report missing?
- 10:13Speaker 4: Yes? I did.
- 10:14Speaker 1: When was that and what happened when you called to
- 10:16Speaker 1: reporter missing?
- 10:17Speaker 3: I believe it was the twenty third that I called Again.
- 10:21Speaker 3: I woke up that morning seeing that there were forest fires,
- 10:25Speaker 3: significant forest fires in the Penn State forest area, and
- 10:30Speaker 3: without having been able to reach her, I didn't was.
- 10:35Speaker 3: I saw her calls, the texts weren't going through, the
- 10:38Speaker 3: calls weren't going through, and I gave it some time
- 10:42Speaker 3: and called. Wednesday, the twenty fourth is when I called
- 10:45Speaker 3: to reporter missing.
- 10:47Speaker 6: Immediately the search is on Listen, believing Danielle is still
- 10:51Speaker 6: in the area. State police launch massive searches for Danielle
- 10:54Speaker 6: throughout the state park. Detectives are also searching for her
- 10:58Speaker 6: blue Tudor two thousand and eight accent that hasn't been
- 11:01Speaker 6: seen since Danielle disappeared. The searches get whiter and whiter
- 11:05Speaker 6: until Danielle's car is found abandoned a week later, roughly
- 11:09Speaker 6: fifteen miles from the campsite. The car is parked in
- 11:12Speaker 6: the center of a large puddle on Los Lane Road,
- 11:15Speaker 6: a dirt path deep in the Penn State Forest.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Sydney Sunder joining me Crime online dot Com investigative reporter
- 11:21Speaker 1: explained to me about the car being found. What can
- 11:25Speaker 1: you tell me about that now? This is after wahwahs.
- 11:29Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am so. A week into the search for Danielle,
- 11:32Speaker 10: her car is found about fifteen miles from the campsite
- 11:36Speaker 10: where she was staying. The car was parked on a
- 11:39Speaker 10: dirt road deep in the Penn State Forest. This is
- 11:42Speaker 10: a heavily wooded area. It's very rural, but it seems
- 11:45Speaker 10: to be a fairly popular trail. And her car is
- 11:48Speaker 10: parked in this giant mud puddle and it's just sitting there.
- 11:52Speaker 10: The battery is dead.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Now, isn't it true? When they jumped it, the emergency
- 11:58Speaker 1: blinkers immediately started fling, and we believe that the flashing
- 12:02Speaker 1: blinkers is what ran out the battery.
- 12:05Speaker 10: That's correct, Nancy, That's exactly what police believe happened.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. Okay, let's see a map
- 12:21Speaker 1: of what we're talking about. Tell me again, Sidney, where
- 12:25Speaker 1: is the car as it relates to the campsite and
- 12:28Speaker 1: as it relates to wah Wahs.
- 12:30Speaker 10: So the campsite is kind of directly in between both
- 12:33Speaker 10: of these points we see on the map. So she
- 12:35Speaker 10: goes to this Wahwahs in one direction, where her car
- 12:38Speaker 10: is found is fifteen miles from the campsite in the
- 12:41Speaker 10: other direction. So her car is found disabled on this
- 12:45Speaker 10: lost lane road that goes straight through the Penn Forest.
- 12:48Speaker 10: It's a popular trail, but it's rural. It's a dirt path,
- 12:52Speaker 10: it's a heavily wooded area.
- 12:55Speaker 2: A camping trip in New Jersey's behind barrens turns into
- 12:58Speaker 2: a missing person's. Danielle Lopez's car found abandoned and disabled.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Why did Danielle Lopez vanish?
- 13:08Speaker 1: Why does she vanish? And where is she right now? Listen?
- 13:11Speaker 2: Three months after Danielle is reported missing, a couple comes
- 13:14Speaker 2: forward with the possible sighting of Danielle. They give cops
- 13:18Speaker 2: dash cam footage of an encounter with a woman on
- 13:21Speaker 2: Los Lane Road around six pm April thirteenth. The camera
- 13:25Speaker 2: catches Danielle's car seen passing on Lost Lane Road. Danielle
- 13:30Speaker 2: appears to be alone. A few minutes later, they passed
- 13:33Speaker 2: Danielle's car again, but this time it's stuck in the
- 13:36Speaker 2: mud a few feet up the road. The couple checks
- 13:39Speaker 2: on Danielle, who politely declines their offer of aid. Danielle
- 13:43Speaker 2: does not appear distressed, and the couple goes on their way,
- 13:46Speaker 2: leaving Danielle in the woods alone.
- 13:49Speaker 1: That adds to our timeline, which is extremely significant. Straight
- 13:52Speaker 1: back out to Danielle's mom joining us tonight, begging for
- 13:56Speaker 1: your help in finding her daughter. This family has been
- 14:00Speaker 1: through so much COVID deaths, suicide, more and now this
- 14:08Speaker 1: the mom just wants her daughter back. Tell me what
- 14:13Speaker 1: you know, Miss crack and Bush. About this couple that
- 14:16Speaker 1: comes forward with the signing of Danielle.
- 14:18Speaker 3: They passed her initially at four o'clock. That's in her car.
- 14:24Speaker 3: They again see her at five point fifty. That's the
- 14:28Speaker 3: last time they saw her. The car was moved out
- 14:34Speaker 3: of the puddle by some people. They I think I
- 14:40Speaker 3: sent you the video that they pulled her car from
- 14:42Speaker 3: the puddle.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Not much further than that. Hold on, let's see that video,
- 14:47Speaker 1: Miss crack and Bush. Hold on just one moment. Let's
- 14:49Speaker 1: pull that up for everyone to see. Okay, go ahead,
- 14:52Speaker 1: Miss crack and Bush.
- 14:53Speaker 3: So again, this is probably about eight o'clock at night,
- 14:57Speaker 3: with Danielle last being seen or spoke and with by
- 15:00Speaker 3: the go pro people at five fifty.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Okay, here is her vehicle getting pulled out of the
- 15:08Speaker 1: mud by some good Samaritans. Now a couple comes forward
- 15:13Speaker 1: with a possible sighting and they give this dash cam
- 15:17Speaker 1: footage of an encounter. It was a lost lane road.
- 15:24Speaker 1: The camera is capturing Daniel's car. Now, this is where
- 15:28Speaker 1: she was pulled out of the mud. Tell me what
- 15:30Speaker 1: the couple says, Miss Quackenbush.
- 15:33Speaker 3: She asks, I mean when she's walking once they know
- 15:36Speaker 3: she stranded. Yes, yes, they do not offer help, and
- 15:41Speaker 3: she doesn't decline any help. She clearly says, what do
- 15:45Speaker 3: I do? And can you push me out of the puddle?
- 15:50Speaker 3: And when they say no, I mean, daniel appeared no threat.
- 15:54Speaker 3: She was coherent, speaking clearly to them, and they say no.
- 16:00Speaker 3: She said, well, I guess I got myself into this,
- 16:03Speaker 3: I got myself out And she just asked them the
- 16:06Speaker 3: direction towards Oswego Lake, that's the direction she was last
- 16:11Speaker 3: seen walking. That was at five point fifty. The people
- 16:15Speaker 3: that towed the car out did not report to the
- 16:19Speaker 3: police or to the park rangers or anyone that there
- 16:23Speaker 3: was a car out there. The GoPro people did not
- 16:26Speaker 3: render any help to Danielle, nor did they call the
- 16:30Speaker 3: park police or nine one one to say there was
- 16:32Speaker 3: a stranded female alone.
- 16:34Speaker 4: As at night is approaching, you know.
- 16:37Speaker 1: To Matthew Mangino joining us, a high profile lawyer, former
- 16:40Speaker 1: district attorney and author of the Executioners Toll, Matthew Mangino,
- 16:46Speaker 1: miss Krackenbush is just trying to find her daughter and
- 16:49Speaker 1: bring her home, and she is laying out time after
- 16:52Speaker 1: time after time when people could have helped her but didn't.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Under our law, in our jurisprudence, there is no duty
- 17:03Speaker 1: to help anyone. So as much as we feel it's wrong,
- 17:08Speaker 1: it's not a crime. Well, certainly, Nancy, it's not a
- 17:11Speaker 1: crime not to render.
- 17:13Speaker 11: Aid in a situation like this. I mean, it's unfortunate,
- 17:16Speaker 11: it's lost opportunities to help somebody and possibly prevent a
- 17:21Speaker 11: tragedy here, you know, would very easily, you know, just
- 17:25Speaker 11: call the park rangers, just call.
- 17:29Speaker 12: The police, Just call nine to one one and say, hey,
- 17:32Speaker 12: you know, Knight is approaching and there's a woman by
- 17:35Speaker 12: herself stranded in the woods. You know, you don't necessarily
- 17:40Speaker 12: have to go try to pull the car out, but
- 17:42Speaker 12: at least do something, you know, like any person in
- 17:48Speaker 12: a similar situation might do.
- 17:50Speaker 13: Just make a phone call, just call the authorities, and
- 17:54Speaker 13: a tragedy may be inverted, you know.
- 17:56Speaker 1: To Ms Krachenbos joining us, she's begging for your help
- 17:59Speaker 1: to try to find Danielle. So there were multiple times
- 18:03Speaker 1: people could have helped Danielle. Isn't it true she actually
- 18:07Speaker 1: asked them to help, and you said, you're so polite,
- 18:12Speaker 1: They declined.
- 18:13Speaker 3: She said exactly what do I do, which indicates that
- 18:19Speaker 3: the person's in an unexpected situation and does not know
- 18:22Speaker 3: what to do, so that is asking for help. The
- 18:25Speaker 3: go pro people have changed their story several times based
- 18:30Speaker 3: on information as it comes out. I suppose to appease
- 18:33Speaker 3: their responsibility in this, but nonetheless it would have been
- 18:38Speaker 3: completely different investigation had they not under any obligation, but
- 18:43Speaker 3: had they, out of just being doing the right thing,
- 18:48Speaker 3: had called help for her.
- 18:50Speaker 1: When you say the go pro people change your story, okay,
- 18:55Speaker 1: what was the first story and how has it changed.
- 18:58Speaker 3: The first story, they reached out to me saying that
- 19:03Speaker 3: they regretted it. Danielle seemed kind and genuine. The later
- 19:10Speaker 3: indications are that the police have the times wrong. But
- 19:14Speaker 3: the police dumped that GoPro they have the information correct.
- 19:18Speaker 3: They said that Danielle said she had cell phone service
- 19:21Speaker 3: and could call someone. Indications are she did not have
- 19:25Speaker 3: any service in that forest. It's wooded so heavily that
- 19:30Speaker 3: a lot of people don't have service out there. They've
- 19:35Speaker 3: just changed up their story to fit how this story
- 19:39Speaker 3: is going. Again, they didn't come forward with information for
- 19:43Speaker 3: three months into the investigation, where the investigation initially led
- 19:49Speaker 3: me to believe Danielle would not be coming back based
- 19:53Speaker 3: on evidence in the car.
- 19:57Speaker 4: That wasn't so that.
- 20:00Speaker 3: That turned out to be different. And I refer to
- 20:02Speaker 3: Danielle in the past tense as a result of that,
- 20:10Speaker 3: I refer to her in the present tense now. But
- 20:13Speaker 3: I have no way of knowing what's happened to her.
- 20:16Speaker 1: What was miss Crackenbush, What was found in the car?
- 20:19Speaker 3: They say nothing. Now now they come back at me
- 20:22Speaker 3: and say there wasn't evidence in the car. They didn't,
- 20:28Speaker 3: they didn't follow the evidence.
- 20:30Speaker 4: They are now.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Danielle Lopez is all smiles as she mis coffee at
- 20:35Speaker 2: a Wawas gas station, her last known sighting. Now does
- 20:40Speaker 2: new video offer a glimmer of hope to the missing
- 20:43Speaker 2: woman's family.
- 20:46Speaker 1: This beautiful young woman goes camping to watch the eclipse,
- 20:51Speaker 1: She speaks to her mother, and then she's never seen again.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Where is Danielle? Her mother? Sue Quackenbush is with us
- 20:58Speaker 1: tonight asking for your help. The tip line is six
- 21:03Speaker 1: zero nine eight eight two two thousand, repeat six zero
- 21:07Speaker 1: nine eight eight two two thousand. Then hit Extension twenty
- 21:12Speaker 1: two fifty four six zero nine eight eight to two thousand.
- 21:16Speaker 1: There is a five thousand dollars reward in the search
- 21:21Speaker 1: for Danielle Lopez.
- 21:25Speaker 7: Now I want you to hear what a tipster says.
- 21:28Speaker 7: Another tipster comes forward, claiming to have pulled Danielle's car
- 21:31Speaker 7: out of the mud after she was last seen walking
- 21:33Speaker 7: away on April twelfth. The tipster says the Hyundai's partially
- 21:37Speaker 7: blocking the road, so he peeks inside and decides to
- 21:40Speaker 7: toe it out of the mud. After spotting the keys
- 21:42Speaker 7: through the window, the good Samaritan turns the car back off,
- 21:45Speaker 7: but flips on the flashers, hoping the car's owner will
- 21:47Speaker 7: get the message the car has been rescued and be
- 21:49Speaker 7: pleased with the handiwork on their return.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Okay, Sidney Sumner joining US Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, Sidney,
- 21:56Speaker 1: explain to me again how this tipster fits into the
- 22:00Speaker 1: timeline and now we've got that video.
- 22:03Speaker 10: Yeah, Nancy, So people have come forward since the search
- 22:07Speaker 10: for Danielle began, so at first we knew she had
- 22:10Speaker 10: stuck this wah wah. We found her car a few
- 22:12Speaker 10: weeks later, but we didn't know what happened after that? Wohah,
- 22:16Speaker 10: the tipster is coming forward. The couple with the GoPro
- 22:19Speaker 10: placed Danielle on Lost Lane Road around four to six pm,
- 22:24Speaker 10: so that's where we see that sighting. And then afterwards
- 22:28Speaker 10: this other person comes forward claiming around eight o'clock they
- 22:32Speaker 10: see Danielle's car. It's kind of blocking the road. It's
- 22:35Speaker 10: stuck in this mud puddle. So they tow the car out,
- 22:39Speaker 10: and in this video we can see Danielle's headlights on,
- 22:42Speaker 10: so the car was obviously functional at this point. When
- 22:45Speaker 10: they tow the car out, the good Samaritan who decided
- 22:49Speaker 10: to do this, turns the flashers on, hoping the owner
- 22:53Speaker 10: will be able to more easily see the car in
- 22:54Speaker 10: the dark, will return, realize their car has been towed,
- 22:58Speaker 10: and be able to get the heck out of there.
- 23:00Speaker 10: Danielle never returns to the car. That's why the battery
- 23:03Speaker 10: was dead when cops find it two weeks later.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Okay, now a more clear timeline is emerging. Brief as Gibbons,
- 23:10Speaker 1: can you believe there were so many chances to help
- 23:13Speaker 1: her and no one did? First? As Miss Quackenbush is
- 23:17Speaker 1: relating on, people come along and she says, I'm stuck.
- 23:22Speaker 1: What do I do? And they decline to help her.
- 23:26Speaker 1: The next thing, you know is Sydney correct me if
- 23:28Speaker 1: I'm wrong. After that, another tipster comes forward and says
- 23:33Speaker 1: he finds the car sitting there in the middle of
- 23:36Speaker 1: the road, well not completely in the middle, but blocking it,
- 23:39Speaker 1: so he takes it ut himself to pull it over
- 23:42Speaker 1: and flip on the emergencies. But in that short space
- 23:47Speaker 1: of time she goes missing.
- 23:50Speaker 9: Incredibly frustrating Nancy. Two opportunities that wasted precious time for Danielle.
- 23:59Speaker 9: Here right, we have the opportunity number one. The couple
- 24:03Speaker 9: sees her walking down the road. I understand maybe in
- 24:07Speaker 9: the first instance they didn't call for help, but almost
- 24:10Speaker 9: two hours later, to see a woman alone as darkness
- 24:15Speaker 9: is setting in in the woods, that call needed to
- 24:19Speaker 9: be made to authorities to help her.
- 24:21Speaker 4: Ms.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Krackenbush tell me everything you observed on this newly emerging video,
- 24:27Speaker 1: the go pro video, from beginning to end. What do
- 24:31Speaker 1: you see?
- 24:32Speaker 3: I see Danielle pretty carefree. She is just going along
- 24:38Speaker 3: down to this lake Oswego. The significance of Oswego. I
- 24:44Speaker 3: don't know why she was going to that lake. It's
- 24:47Speaker 3: the name of the college. Her uncle went to my thoughts,
- 24:50Speaker 3: so she might have called him from there. She's carefree,
- 24:53Speaker 3: she's just cautious, and they exchanged pleasant trees, and she's
- 25:01Speaker 3: on her way.
- 25:03Speaker 4: Then they come across.
- 25:04Speaker 3: Her stranded, and then they go on to see the
- 25:07Speaker 3: car stuck and stranded.
- 25:10Speaker 1: Okay, one more time, very slowly. From beginning to end.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Miss Krakabush has seen this video. LA Law Enforcement has
- 25:18Speaker 1: not released it yet. From beginning to end, what exactly
- 25:22Speaker 1: do you see in the video?
- 25:24Speaker 3: I see Danielle walking. I can tell she's confused as
- 25:32Speaker 3: to what to do. Why do you say she's confused?
- 25:34Speaker 4: She didn't know what to do.
- 25:36Speaker 3: I saw the apprehension like, uh oh, I've just got
- 25:39Speaker 3: myself into a situation here.
- 25:41Speaker 4: That's what as a mother saw. She didn't know how
- 25:46Speaker 4: to get out of it.
- 25:47Speaker 3: But evidently there were plenty of people around that day
- 25:52Speaker 3: and the fact that she just disappeared within that window
- 25:54Speaker 3: of time.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Were the go pro people men or women?
- 26:00Speaker 3: It was a man and a woman according to the people.
- 26:04Speaker 3: But I don't hear another woman's voice in there, and
- 26:07Speaker 3: don't see either one of them.
- 26:09Speaker 4: The GoPros.
- 26:10Speaker 3: Something mounted to the dashboard I only hear his voice.
- 26:14Speaker 1: And what is he saying to hermus Krackenbush can help
- 26:17Speaker 1: you crime stores with Nancy Grace.
- 26:28Speaker 5: New Jersey State police have searched both the campground and
- 26:32Speaker 5: Lost Lane Road on foot, horseback, ATVs and with dogs, drones, helicopters,
- 26:37Speaker 5: and a marine unit, turning up no new leads in
- 26:40Speaker 5: Danielle's case. Officers say they've conducted dozens of interviews and
- 26:44Speaker 5: run down every tip they have received to no avail.
- 26:48Speaker 5: Cops say there is no evidence pointing to foul play,
- 26:51Speaker 5: but the investigation is still open and active.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Ms Qrackenbush, what is your response to law enforcement saying
- 26:56Speaker 1: there's no evidence of foul play?
- 26:58Speaker 3: Initially they said there was under suspicious circumstances. Evan said
- 27:04Speaker 3: that to me, and they say it's active, ongoing and
- 27:08Speaker 3: there'll be more searches. But I could watch that go
- 27:14Speaker 3: pro VIDI about another three hundred more times. I just
- 27:18Speaker 3: know this investigation would be completely different if either of
- 27:21Speaker 3: those people that could have helped.
- 27:22Speaker 1: I've got to say, Matthew Mangino with me, veteran trial
- 27:25Speaker 1: lawyer in the Pennsylvania jurisdiction. Matthew, I find that very
- 27:32Speaker 1: odd when you see a lady alone, a young woman
- 27:36Speaker 1: alone in a disley wooded forest at night, and she
- 27:41Speaker 1: asked for help, and the words Miss Quackenbush said were,
- 27:46Speaker 1: I can't help you. I can't help you. I find
- 27:51Speaker 1: that very very unusual, to the point of being suspicious.
- 27:56Speaker 4: Yeah, it is certainly strange.
- 27:58Speaker 12: I mean, at a minimum, you know you would say,
- 28:01Speaker 12: to a woman's stranded in the woods, if you feel uncomfortable.
- 28:04Speaker 11: About putting her in your car, say hey, go.
- 28:07Speaker 12: Back to your vehicle.
- 28:08Speaker 1: I'm going to leave and I'm going to call for help.
- 28:11Speaker 12: They don't have to give her a ride out of
- 28:13Speaker 12: the woods necessarily, but at least give.
- 28:15Speaker 14: Her some direction and provide her with an opportunity to
- 28:19Speaker 14: get some help. I mean, their.
- 28:21Speaker 12: Failure to do anything in this situation not only is
- 28:25Speaker 12: improper in terms of trying to find Danielle.
- 28:28Speaker 13: Immediately or help her, but also making it very difficult
- 28:34Speaker 13: to properly investigate this case because so much time passed
- 28:37Speaker 13: between when she was last seen and when she was
- 28:40Speaker 13: reported missing.
- 28:41Speaker 10: And that's unfortunate.
- 28:43Speaker 14: If they had done something earlier, at least you could
- 28:46Speaker 14: have had an immediate, meaningful investigation of her disappearance or
- 28:53Speaker 14: much better, they would have found her at her car
- 28:56Speaker 14: and helped her and got.
- 28:57Speaker 11: Her out of the woods and back home.
- 28:59Speaker 1: If it's given is I'm question the words I can't
- 29:03Speaker 1: help you, Not that I question was Krackenbush. I'm sure
- 29:07Speaker 1: she's telling us what she saw on that GoPro and
- 29:10Speaker 1: what she heard, But that level of disregard for this
- 29:16Speaker 1: young woman alone out in the woods at night, on
- 29:19Speaker 1: foot asking for help, I can't help you. To me,
- 29:23Speaker 1: that rises to a level of suspicion on whoever had
- 29:26Speaker 1: that GoPro.
- 29:27Speaker 9: Certainly, and this is contrary to what we see in
- 29:30Speaker 9: most missing persons cases that take place in the backcountry.
- 29:35Speaker 9: Folks that are camping, hiking, exploring these backcountry areas typically
- 29:40Speaker 9: provide a genuine and tremendous amount of assistance to somebody
- 29:44Speaker 9: in need of help. So this is outside of the
- 29:47Speaker 9: norm of what we typically see with these types of cases.
- 29:50Speaker 1: You know, I'm just trying to make sense of it.
- 29:52Speaker 1: On Sidney Sumner joining us Crimeline dot com, Sydney, what
- 29:58Speaker 1: exactly are police saying? Are they saying they don't suspect
- 30:02Speaker 1: foul play?
- 30:02Speaker 10: That's correct, Nancy. According to detectives with the New Jersey
- 30:07Speaker 10: State police, they have no evidence supporting foul play being
- 30:12Speaker 10: involved in her disappearance.
- 30:14Speaker 1: Delatory, do you ever get tired of hearing that a
- 30:17Speaker 1: young girl or woman goes missing? I remember when Stacy
- 30:21Speaker 1: Peterson went missing and her husband, a cop, says she's
- 30:28Speaker 1: just with her new boyfriend that would be Jerry Peterson,
- 30:31Speaker 1: and everybody just accepted it. I mean, over and over,
- 30:33Speaker 1: she's dead, over and over and over we hear no
- 30:38Speaker 1: foul play. Why does that keep happening? People just chalk
- 30:42Speaker 1: it off what she's slung up with another guy that
- 30:44Speaker 1: didn't happen.
- 30:45Speaker 8: Yeah, the problem is is the decision making that goes
- 30:47Speaker 8: into when you're conducting an investigation, because when you don't
- 30:52Speaker 8: find something as an investigator, as just a human being,
- 30:55Speaker 8: when you don't find evidence of something, you can jump
- 30:57Speaker 8: to the conclusion that the thing that you would be
- 31:00Speaker 8: typically doing an investigation didn't happen. And that's a falsehood, right,
- 31:04Speaker 8: That's that's a complete falsehood because any number of things
- 31:08Speaker 8: could have contributed to an investigator not finding the evidence
- 31:12Speaker 8: of foul play. And currently we're seeing a lot of issues,
- 31:15Speaker 8: including with this so called couple with the GoPro that
- 31:19Speaker 8: needs to be investigated further. If you if you investigate
- 31:22Speaker 8: under the assumption that something happened, then you can start
- 31:25Speaker 8: looking for things that maybe support it or don't support it.
- 31:28Speaker 8: But you can't just outright say because then that's another
- 31:32Speaker 8: issue that's coming into play with not being able to find.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Daniel ms Krackenbush. Have you met with the go Pro couple?
- 31:39Speaker 4: No, No, they won't. I asked no.
- 31:43Speaker 3: No to say, they've asked what I've asked them if
- 31:48Speaker 3: they would release that go Pro video. To me, the
- 31:53Speaker 3: investigation is with the Major Crimes Unit. It is not
- 31:57Speaker 3: with missing persons. The investigtion is with the Major Crimes Unit.
- 32:04Speaker 3: So that indicates that a crime or something that they
- 32:07Speaker 3: know that a crime has occurred.
- 32:10Speaker 1: So them saying they don't suspect foul play, you don't
- 32:13Speaker 1: believe that because this has gone to Major crimes.
- 32:15Speaker 3: Yeah, they never said that they don't suspect foul play
- 32:18Speaker 3: to me, they have not said that.
- 32:21Speaker 1: So the go Pro couple, you say you have not
- 32:24Speaker 1: met with them, though.
- 32:25Speaker 3: The police asked them not to have any further communication
- 32:28Speaker 3: with me after asking them if I could have the video.
- 32:32Speaker 1: So you asked for the video? What did they say?
- 32:34Speaker 4: The State Police asked them not to release it.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Why.
- 32:38Speaker 4: I don't suppose there is a why. I guess it's evidence.
- 32:43Speaker 3: I can't say they just I would watch that over
- 32:47Speaker 3: and over and over and over, and I've only been
- 32:50Speaker 3: given limited time to see it, in each time looking
- 32:54Speaker 3: for jewelry she had on, or looking at it differently,
- 32:58Speaker 3: but I've been allowed three times to see it.
- 33:02Speaker 7: Danielle Lopez is five foot four inches tall, one hundred
- 33:05Speaker 7: and thirty five pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
- 33:07Speaker 7: Danielle usually wears glasses and was last seen wearing a
- 33:10Speaker 7: black long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and light colored shoes.
- 33:14Speaker 7: Sue Quackenbush desperate to bring her daughter home and asking
- 33:17Speaker 7: the public for their health. There's a limited time five
- 33:19Speaker 7: thousand dollars reward for information leading directly to Danielle Lopez.
- 33:23Speaker 7: If you have any information on Danielle Lopez, please call
- 33:26Speaker 7: New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit six h nine
- 33:30Speaker 7: eight A two two thousand, extension twenty five fifty four,
- 33:33Speaker 7: or call the Community United Efforts Center twenty four hour
- 33:36Speaker 7: hotline at nine to one zero two three two one
- 33:39Speaker 7: six eighty seven.
- 33:40Speaker 1: There is a five thousand dollars reward in exchange for
- 33:45Speaker 1: information leading to Danielle Lopez is whereabouts now. Everyone that
- 33:51Speaker 1: seemingly passed her and did nothing is in farc is
- 33:55Speaker 1: in stark contrast to.
- 33:59Speaker 7: This September first, five days after Gabby of Patito leaves
- 34:03Speaker 7: a restaurant in Wyoming crying while Brian Laundry is angry
- 34:06Speaker 7: with staff, Brian Laundry arrives in the Northport home he
- 34:10Speaker 7: and Gabby Patito share with Laundry's parents. Brian Laundry has
- 34:13Speaker 7: driven Gabby of Potito's van back to Florida, but Gabby
- 34:17Speaker 7: is not with him. When he arrives, he.
- 34:19Speaker 15: Is apologizing, but I guess I said it in like
- 34:21Speaker 15: a mean tone, and he really frustrated with me, and
- 34:24Speaker 15: he bought a car and told me to let's take
- 34:26Speaker 15: a breathing, but I didn't want to see a breather
- 34:28Speaker 15: and I wanted to get going.
- 34:30Speaker 1: We're out of water. More upsets, Yah, didn't help? More
- 34:35Speaker 1: upset Yeah, And.
- 34:38Speaker 15: So our goal was to come here and come retil
- 34:41Speaker 15: our water.
- 34:42Speaker 1: Are you guys living the van right now? On travels?
- 34:45Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 34:46Speaker 9: Okay.
- 34:47Speaker 1: An opportunity for law enforcement to have saved Gabby Potito's life. Instead,
- 34:51Speaker 1: they named her the aggressor and sent the couple on
- 34:56Speaker 1: their way. She was then murdered by Brian Lawlaundry, who
- 35:01Speaker 1: then drove her for a transit back across the country
- 35:04Speaker 1: and started scheming and plotting to hide what had happened.
- 35:10Speaker 4: Ms.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Krackenbush, you state that you look at that go pro
- 35:15Speaker 1: video when you had the limited access to it over
- 35:19Speaker 1: and over and over again of your daughter.
- 35:22Speaker 4: Why it's the last known I have of her.
- 35:29Speaker 3: I'm just stuck by the fact that they didn't offer help.
- 35:37Speaker 3: I hope to see something new each time, but again
- 35:40Speaker 3: I don't have it, so I can't look at it.
- 35:42Speaker 3: I've only seen it three times.
- 35:49Speaker 4: Again.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Danielle's boyfriend didn't report her missing for several weeks after
- 35:54Speaker 3: I did, so there's wonder about that as well.
- 36:00Speaker 1: That's true, Sydney Soner. Her boyfriend did not report her missing.
- 36:04Speaker 10: Correct, Nancy. The boyfriend who apparently she was camping with
- 36:07Speaker 10: that weekend did not report her missing.
- 36:10Speaker 1: Sidney, do we know why he did not report her missing?
- 36:14Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they had split up, but why did
- 36:18Speaker 1: he leave her to start with?
- 36:19Speaker 10: Well, Nancy, we know that Danielle was not alone at
- 36:22Speaker 10: the wahahs, but police had not released who she was with.
- 36:26Speaker 10: She was traveling with someone Saturday morning, but correct by
- 36:30Speaker 10: four pm she was alone on Los Leanne Road. We
- 36:33Speaker 10: don't know why the boyfriend abandoned her, where he went,
- 36:37Speaker 10: if he truly abandoned her. We know that police have
- 36:40Speaker 10: spoken with him. He's given a statement, but police had
- 36:43Speaker 10: not released any details about what he told them.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Miss Quickenbush, you stated that go Pro is the last
- 36:50Speaker 1: known siding of Danielle. When you were watching it over
- 36:56Speaker 1: and over, what did you hope to learn again?
- 36:59Speaker 4: I only three times, but I don't know what's to learn.
- 37:06Speaker 3: But if I know the police have watched it hundreds
- 37:08Speaker 3: of times, I just hope if I saw anything something.
- 37:14Speaker 4: I know that her tent was removed from.
- 37:17Speaker 3: The campsite and she had been paid through some more time.
- 37:22Speaker 3: So I just would like to see the evidence or
- 37:28Speaker 3: the car. If there's no evidence, I'd like to see
- 37:30Speaker 3: her things that that might lead to something that maybe
- 37:33Speaker 3: only a mother knows and detectives don't.
- 37:37Speaker 4: I search.
- 37:38Speaker 3: I do something every day for this and getting the
- 37:41Speaker 3: billboards and trying to.
- 37:46Speaker 4: Come up with answers.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Where did you put together the money for the reward?
- 37:50Speaker 3: That is the Q Center the Community United Effort for
- 37:53Speaker 3: Missing Persons out of Wilmington, North Carolina that offered and
- 37:58Speaker 3: put up the reward. The billboard time was donated. After
- 38:02Speaker 3: many phone calls to billboard companies, they did donate that time.
- 38:06Speaker 4: The billboard will be up.
- 38:09Speaker 1: For thirty days. Brian, do you ever just get exhausted
- 38:17Speaker 1: with hearing moms and family members seemingly doing it all
- 38:21Speaker 1: on their own, all alone, trying to find their daughter.
- 38:25Speaker 9: It tears your heart out, Nancy, And that's one of
- 38:28Speaker 9: the reasons that we keep doing what we do at USPA,
- 38:33Speaker 9: is to provide a voice, in some shred of hope
- 38:37Speaker 9: to these families who have endured so much.
- 38:39Speaker 10: Ms.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Quick and Bush, I have a little girl. I cannot
- 38:42Speaker 1: imagine life without her or my son. What is your
- 38:49Speaker 1: message to everyone listening tonight to.
- 38:53Speaker 3: Please please reach out. Someone knows something. This someone he
- 39:00Speaker 3: knows something. I reached out to the Gabby Potito Foundation,
- 39:08Speaker 3: I reached out to many foundations just.
- 39:10Speaker 4: Wondering how to get more attention for this.
- 39:13Speaker 3: So, Nancy, I really appreciate you taking the time to
- 39:17Speaker 3: do this for Danielle. I just want people to know
- 39:23Speaker 3: that infectious smile, her kind and generous ways, how important
- 39:29Speaker 3: family is to her, that all matters. I love her deeply,
- 39:35Speaker 3: and I'll never stop doing whatever it is I can do.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Miss Rackenbush, We're not just airing this. We are praying
- 39:47Speaker 1: for answers and that somehow Danielle is brought back to
- 39:52Speaker 1: you again. The tip line is six zero nine eight
- 39:57Speaker 1: eight to two thousand, extension two five four repeat six
- 40:03Speaker 1: zero nine eight eight to two two thousand. There is
- 40:06Speaker 1: a five thousand dollars reward for information leading to Danielle Lopez.
- 40:14Speaker 1: We remember American hero Detective Terrence Green, Fulton County Sheriffs,
- 40:19Speaker 1: shot and killed in the line of duty, Survived by
- 40:23Speaker 1: wife turned widow, Chavelle, and sons Marquis, Isaiah, Willie and Samuel.
- 40:32Speaker 1: American hero Detective Terence Green, Nancy Grace signing off goodbye
- 40:38Speaker 1: for