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DID MOM TRADE DAUGHTER, 14, FOR DRUGS? WHERE’S DANIELLE? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Did mom trade her little girl to fourteen for drugs?
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  Speaker 1: Tonight? Where is Danielle?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I want to
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  Speaker 2: thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: In September of two thousand and one, Danielle vanished without
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  Speaker 3: a trace, leaving behind a mystery that has left her
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  Speaker 3: loved ones desperate for answers.
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  Speaker 2: As we all gather together this holiday season, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: around a major scene, a Christmas tree, or a menora,
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  Speaker 2: we're together as a family. Not everyone has that blessing,
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  Speaker 2: that luxury to be together during the holidays. Tonight, please
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  Speaker 2: help us bring them home for Christmas. People across our
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  Speaker 2: country missing, sometimes for days, sometimes for hours, sometimes for years.
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  Speaker 2: Won't you help us bring them home for Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Did her mother exchange her?
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  Speaker 4: That really doesn't even sound like the right.
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  Speaker 1: Verb for drugs? Tonight? Where is fourteen year old Danielle?
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  Speaker 1: Let's start at the.
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  Speaker 4: Beginning, listen.
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  Speaker 5: Danielle is outgoing and popular, a cheerleader with friends, love
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  Speaker 5: spending time with her older sister, Bonnie. Danielle's home life
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  Speaker 5: with mother Susan is less than straight. Susan doesn't always
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  Speaker 5: know where her daughter is Susan's older daughter. Bonnie says
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  Speaker 5: Susan is a drug addict and plans have been made
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  Speaker 5: for Danielle to move in with her father, Matt Bell.
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  Speaker 2: That must be excruciating for a parent to have to
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  Speaker 2: let the child, the apple of their either heart be
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  Speaker 2: with another parent that is a known drug addict, possibly
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  Speaker 2: worse appruciating.
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  Speaker 1: So what does dad do?
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  Speaker 2: He launches a battle to get Danielle with him, joining
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  Speaker 2: me an incredible guest, Danielle's father, Matt, and another incredible guest,
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  Speaker 2: her sister Bonnie. To Matt and Bonnie, I want to
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  Speaker 2: thank you for being with us and apologize to you
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  Speaker 2: that you have somehow. I'm sure this wasn't your life
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  Speaker 2: plan to end up on National TV looking for Danielle.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot even imagine that. I thought I knew everything
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  Speaker 2: after my fiance was murdered, everything about grief until I
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  Speaker 2: had children, and the thought of losing one of them is.
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  Speaker 4: Just I can't take it.
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  Speaker 2: To Matt Bell joining me, this is Danielle's father. When
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  Speaker 2: do you decide that you had to get Danielle with
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  Speaker 2: you full time?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I went over to Danielle and I bought her
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  Speaker 6: groceries every week I got her. You know, I always
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  Speaker 6: had her insurance and kept out of thing, paid for
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  Speaker 6: for whatever she needed, and she would call me and say, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I don't have any groceries.
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  Speaker 7: I mean.
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  Speaker 6: I tried to get her to come live with me,
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  Speaker 6: but she said, well, you know, I don't really want
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  Speaker 6: to leave mom. And I said, well, I said when
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  Speaker 6: you get ready, you let me know and you can
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  Speaker 6: come to my house. So the friday before she came
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  Speaker 6: up missing, I seen her and she said she had
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  Speaker 6: had enough of her mom's mess and was ready to
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  Speaker 6: come live with me. And I said, pack your stuff,
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  Speaker 6: let's go, and she said, well, I want to go
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  Speaker 6: spend time with Jennifer, which Jennifer was one of her
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  Speaker 6: best friends, and she was the sweetest little girl, and
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  Speaker 6: said she wanted to spend time with her over the weekend.
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  Speaker 7: And I said, well that's fine. I said that's what
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  Speaker 7: you want to do.
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  Speaker 6: So I gave some money and I said, just ride
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  Speaker 6: home with your brother Monday from school. And then I
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  Speaker 6: got a call Sunday night from my ex saying, hey,
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  Speaker 6: Danielle didn't come home and she wanted to know if
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  Speaker 6: I thought she needed to call the police. I said, really,
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  Speaker 6: I said, you called me Sunday night. You know my
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  Speaker 6: daughter didn't show. I'm sorry, and so I told her
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  Speaker 6: to call the police and I was on my way
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  Speaker 6: and that's just when it all started. And I've you know,
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  Speaker 6: heard some horrible things and I don't it's hard to
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  Speaker 6: even go back there with that. But just for anybody
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  Speaker 6: with any kind of information for Danielle, just please bring
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  Speaker 6: her home. The not knowing that is the hardest part.
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  Speaker 6: And that's Bonnie's heart.
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  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 6: She's put in some time with podcasts and talking to
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  Speaker 6: everybody trying to get this solved. And you know, we
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  Speaker 6: went through all the investigators and we keep talking to
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  Speaker 6: them and talking to them, and it just seems like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, there's a new investigator every time we turn around,
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  Speaker 6: so we always have to wait on them to get
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  Speaker 6: caught up with the case.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, we just like some closure. That's what
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  Speaker 7: we would like.
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  Speaker 4: Matt.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand the justice system. Sometimes it's like a
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  Speaker 2: kick in the teeth because I have been the justice
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  Speaker 2: system my whole legal career. Why does a system insist
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  Speaker 2: that the mother is the one that should have the
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  Speaker 2: children when she's clearly I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I died in the wool drug addict, possibly worse.
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  Speaker 2: And I hear what you're saying that Danielle said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to leave mom. That's the child feeling responsible
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  Speaker 2: for taking care of them all when that's completely best
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  Speaker 2: Awkwards Matt right. Bonnie Baill joining us. This is Danielle's sister, Bonnie.
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  Speaker 2: What has this been like your struggle and I may struggle.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you're.
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  Speaker 2: Fighting your way through chewing them to get to justice.
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  Speaker 2: What has it been like and what keeps you going
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  Speaker 2: trying to find Danielle?
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  Speaker 8: For me, what I want to say is that it
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  Speaker 8: does feel like an uphill battle. You know, for me,
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  Speaker 8: I have tried to take a common sense approach with this.
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  Speaker 8: There haven't been leads that I don't feel have been
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  Speaker 8: followed up on, and you know, there are some days
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  Speaker 8: it's really really difficult. I think for me, that keeps
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  Speaker 8: me going is the fact that my mom didn't give
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  Speaker 8: my sister a fair shot at life right. And so
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  Speaker 8: I'm the one that has come out and said I
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  Speaker 8: believe that my mom traffic my sister to these two men.
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  Speaker 8: And if it has not been something that's been easy
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  Speaker 8: to digest, and you know, seeing our dad on here
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  Speaker 8: get so emotional is really hard for me as well.
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  Speaker 8: So I think all of knowing that we have family
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  Speaker 8: and at daniel Hosse's friends that want to solved, and
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  Speaker 8: I truly believe like we have an idea of what
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  Speaker 8: happened to her.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what, Bonnie bell I think you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, these two, the dad Matt and the sister.
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  Speaker 2: Bonnie, have done nothing but try to find Danielle. If
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  Speaker 2: you know or think you know anything about this missing girl,
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  Speaker 2: please dial eight five zero four three six nine six
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  Speaker 2: two zero repeat eight five zero four three.
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  Speaker 4: Six nine six two zero. Listen.
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  Speaker 5: Danielle meets Alfredo Sanchez and she begins to change friends.
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  Speaker 5: Don't like that he is twenty four and Danielle is
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  Speaker 5: just fourteen. Danielle begins to drift from her friends, spending
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  Speaker 5: more time with Sanchez and his older friends.
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  Speaker 2: This little girl is with a twenty four year old man.
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  Speaker 2: What in the h E double l a twenty four
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  Speaker 2: year old man, Matt, did you have any idea that
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  Speaker 2: your little girl's with a grown man?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 7: When I came back over to her house the monday
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  Speaker 7: after the weekend she went missing, those two were actually
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  Speaker 7: at Susan's house, and she said, that's Danielle's friends. I said,
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  Speaker 7: that is not Danielle's friends. I said, she don't have
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  Speaker 7: friends like this. I said, y'all need to leave. Y'all
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  Speaker 7: don't need to be here. So I had no idea
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  Speaker 7: who these people even were.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, Matt, for throwing their bonny asses out.
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  Speaker 2: Your daughter didn't need grown men as friends. Let me
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  Speaker 2: this is something I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Are you telling me when your daughter goes missing? The
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  Speaker 4: men many people.
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  Speaker 2: Believe are responsible for her disappearance were with your ex.
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  Speaker 1: They were with her.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, all of them. But it was Alfredo and Roel.
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  Speaker 6: Robert wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a struggle of parents that are forced
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  Speaker 2: crammed down their throat to let an unfit parent take
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  Speaker 2: their child.
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  Speaker 1: They're stuck with it. There's nothing they can do.
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  Speaker 2: He comes over, Danielle is missing, and there's a grown
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  Speaker 2: man there, and that's her friend. What's the grown man
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  Speaker 2: doing with the little girl? Nothing good.
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  Speaker 5: On Friday, September twenty eighth, Danielle is at Heritage Park
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  Speaker 5: near the Sanchez home, hanging out with Sanchez. When they
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  Speaker 5: decide to go to a party at the home of
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  Speaker 5: Sanchez's friend, Robert Bassett. Danielle gets into a white Lincoln
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  Speaker 5: town car with sanchez younger brother Alex and drive to
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  Speaker 5: five eighty eight Cedar Tree Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh no no, no, uh uh, Bonny Bell, this
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  Speaker 2: is Danielle's sister. When my twins go somewhere, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: where are you going? I say it in a nice way, like, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 4: What I mean is who are you with? Where are
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  Speaker 4: you going?
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  Speaker 1: Leave your phone on?
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  Speaker 4: I've got you on Life three sixty. That's what I
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  Speaker 4: really mean.
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  Speaker 1: They don't walk out.
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  Speaker 2: Without knowing where they're going. Here they're going with They
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  Speaker 2: get a warning.
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  Speaker 4: If anybody drinks or you see one joint, you have
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  Speaker 4: to leave.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: Attack the people, you don't have to say anything. You
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  Speaker 2: just have to leave.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you have a car.
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  Speaker 1: Leave.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, I say it in a nice way,
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  Speaker 4: but how in.
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  Speaker 2: The world is your little sister fourteen years old going
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  Speaker 2: to some party in a park with grown men?
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  Speaker 4: What was your mother doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hi?
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, she was for sure. Hi. I mean, I
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  Speaker 8: have no doubt about that. And I think it's it's
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  Speaker 8: important to note that this wasn't an uncommon occurrence that
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  Speaker 8: we found out. You know, like my dad just told you.
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  Speaker 8: He came over on Monday, right those Alfredo Sanchez was
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  Speaker 8: there to.
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  Speaker 1: All the listeners and viewers tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You think this can't happen to you. You think I
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  Speaker 2: would never let my child out with a grown man.
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  Speaker 2: You don't always know where they're going, like in this case,
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  Speaker 2: the mom knew she was fraternizing. This was her friend
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  Speaker 2: that she was handing her daughter over to you on
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  Speaker 2: a silver platter.
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  Speaker 4: This was mommy's friend.
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  Speaker 2: They were right up in mommy's home after Danielle disappears.
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  Speaker 4: What does that tell you.
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  Speaker 2: You think it can't happen.
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  Speaker 1: It can happen.
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  Speaker 2: You heard Bonnie just state no national media has covered
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  Speaker 2: this case.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: You may think that you are far removed from this
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  Speaker 2: happening to you or your family, and you're a nice
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  Speaker 2: home or you're a nice apartment with your well behaved children.
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  Speaker 2: It's not your child that's the issue. It's their friends
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  Speaker 2: and their friends' friends.
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  Speaker 4: That's who you have to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're hearing Bonnie and Matt talk about what happens
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday night after she Danielle goes missing.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 5: Danielle's father, Matt, expects Danielle to move Monday, October first.
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  Speaker 5: He gets a call Sunday night from Danielle's mother, who
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  Speaker 5: tells Matt Danielle has n't come home.
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  Speaker 1: She asks Matt if.
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  Speaker 5: She should call police, and also calls her mother asking
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  Speaker 5: if she should report Danielle missing. Her own mother and
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  Speaker 5: Danielle's father furious she hasn't already reported Danielle missing.
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  Speaker 6: Sunday night, I get a call about nine o'clock said, hey,
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  Speaker 6: Danielle never came home Friday, So you think.
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  Speaker 7: I ought to call along?
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  Speaker 6: I said, he Kidney, I said, you call me on
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  Speaker 6: Sunday let me know my daughter to come home for
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  Speaker 6: to day.
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  Speaker 7: I said, yes, you call alone.
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  Speaker 2: That from my friends at w E A R TV
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  Speaker 2: straight to Matt Bell number one.
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  Speaker 4: What strikes me about what I just heard.
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  Speaker 2: Is you were this close, this close to having her
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  Speaker 2: full time. She was to move in with you on
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  Speaker 2: Monday Sunday night, you get this call, tell me what happened.
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  Speaker 6: I just went over there. She said that she tried
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  Speaker 6: to to call all the friends that you're supposed to
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  Speaker 6: stay with a little Jennifer and all this, and nobody
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  Speaker 6: said she sent her since she went to a party.
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  Speaker 7: I said, what party? I thought you one to Jennifer's house.
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  Speaker 6: And so she says, well, she ended up going to
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  Speaker 6: some party, and now nobody's seen her. And when you
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  Speaker 6: talk to the police, they're like, hey, this happens all
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  Speaker 6: the time.
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  Speaker 7: You know, kids are be kids.
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  Speaker 6: They said, they'll go away for a couple of days
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  Speaker 6: and then they'll be back and they never know that
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  Speaker 6: this is the one that's not going to come back.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's complete and total. Bs. Some party, Okay, right there,
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  Speaker 2: Mommy needs to be strung up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just putting it out there. She went to some party,
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  Speaker 4: What party?
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  Speaker 1: Where with?
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  Speaker 8: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Who's driving?
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  Speaker 4: Are they wearing a seat milt?
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  Speaker 1: Are they drunk?
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  Speaker 4: Are they high? I need to know more than some party.
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  Speaker 2: And then for a cop to say and believe me,
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  Speaker 2: I have been law enforcement in my whole life, So
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  Speaker 2: I don't like saying this happens all the time. If
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  Speaker 2: my twins are not at the supper table with a
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  Speaker 2: home cooked meal by me every night of the week,
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  Speaker 2: all HBL gonna break loose, because that will mean one
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  Speaker 2: thing and one thing only they're missing. It does not
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  Speaker 2: happen quote all the time. That's not true. That's not true, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh thinking about it is.
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  Speaker 6: I go to work every day, and when I go
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  Speaker 6: to work, I go right by both of their roads
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  Speaker 6: and go to their houses. So it's a constant reminder
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  Speaker 6: every day, you know. And it's just when I go
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  Speaker 6: by there, I say a little prayer every day, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that she'd.
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  Speaker 7: Come back to us. I just need some clothesure, I
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  Speaker 7: need to bring her home.
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  Speaker 2: Me and Bonnie do wait to call police? Should mommy
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  Speaker 2: call police? Yeah, this is what sister Bonnie said.
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  Speaker 9: Danielle does not come home. Our mother does not call
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  Speaker 9: the police until Sunday, September thirtieth. This is after she
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  Speaker 9: calls Danielle's dad. I was like, should I call the cops?
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  Speaker 9: And my grandmother, my mom's mom also said she had
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  Speaker 9: to encourage her to call the police. So you'll see
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  Speaker 9: reports that Danielle went missing on September thirtieth, which was
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  Speaker 9: actually inaccurate. The last time she was seen was September
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  Speaker 9: twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 4: Bonnie, I can't tell you how.
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  Speaker 2: It just burns me up on the inside that we
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  Speaker 2: didn't even have the right timeline, the beginning of the timeline,
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  Speaker 2: because that's where you start, where you don't know where
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  Speaker 2: to start, you start tracking down when was she last
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  Speaker 2: saying alive? What in the h double L is wrong
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  Speaker 2: with the mother? Should I call police? Thirty six hours later?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you should call police?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean And that was something that's always gotten
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  Speaker 8: me about what happened, is that she didn't call the police.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't find out that my sister was missing until
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  Speaker 8: Monday morning, when I just happened to call because I
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  Speaker 8: had gotten into an argument with my sister like two
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  Speaker 8: weeks prior, and I called just to see how things
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  Speaker 8: were going early in the morning. And my mom is
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  Speaker 8: hysterical when she answers the phone, I can't make out
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  Speaker 8: what she's saying. My grandmother gets on the phone and says,
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  Speaker 8: you need to come over here. Your sister's been missing
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  Speaker 8: since Friday night, and I'm like, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: My sister's been missing since Friday night? No one bothered
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  Speaker 8: to tell me, and so my mom, looking back at everything,
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  Speaker 8: I'm not surprised. I wish I had answers as to
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  Speaker 8: why why she was the way she was, but she
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  Speaker 8: just was the way she was. Unfortunately, because my sister
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  Speaker 8: is no longer here because of.
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  Speaker 9: Her, it was not uncommon for our mom to let
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  Speaker 9: Danielle go off for an entire weekend and she would
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  Speaker 9: be with Alfredo sanchut Am.
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  Speaker 2: I the only one that finds it unusual, coincidental or
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  Speaker 2: no probative. It proves something that the weekend Danielle goes missing.
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  Speaker 2: The two guys suspected in her disappearance, of course, they're
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  Speaker 2: innocent until proven guilty. Or at mommy's house, Danielle's gone,
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  Speaker 2: but there there and Mommy delays reporting her little girl
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  Speaker 2: missing for thirty six hours.
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  Speaker 1: Did she know that they were what?
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  Speaker 2: Sex trafficking the little girl, having their way with her
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  Speaker 2: before getting rid of her.
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  Speaker 1: Why were they at mommy's house?
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  Speaker 2: Why did she let her daughter go or did she
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  Speaker 2: send her daughter to be with them on weekends?
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie?
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  Speaker 2: Did I just hear you state it's not uncommon for
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  Speaker 2: mom to let Danielle offer a whole weekend with a
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  Speaker 2: grown man.
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  Speaker 1: Sanchez?
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  Speaker 8: Uh? Yeah, Come to find out after this fact that
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  Speaker 8: it was not uncommon. You know, I had talked to
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  Speaker 8: some of her friends from school and they said that
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  Speaker 8: Danielle would come on Fridays with a Duffle bag or
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  Speaker 8: a backpack of clothes and say that she was going
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  Speaker 8: to go hang out with her boyfriend for the weekend
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  Speaker 8: and that her mom didn't care.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's hear what mommy Susan Bell has to say.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: I knew Friday something was not right when she did
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: not come back, or she didn't come home, or I didn't.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Hear from hermine.
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: But by Sunday evening, I knew, and that's when I
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: called nine one.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: One mm hmmmm from our forensic w k r G.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Let's analyze what we just heard. By Sunday night, she
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: knew something was wrong. She didn't know that at three
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: am on Friday night or three am Saturday morning, that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: her daughter hadn't come home.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: The daughter would mommy would send her to school.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: On Friday's with a Duffel bag and she would be
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: sent to a grown man.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: All weekend crime stores with Nancy Grace, fourteen year old
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: little girl.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: This started when she was thirteen. Listen a report finally filed.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: A missing person report filed the night of September thirtieth,
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: and investigators immediately begin searching a timeline of activity is built,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: starting with Danielle in Heritage Park with Sanchez getting into
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: a white Lincoln town car. Witnesses report Danielle at the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: home of Robert Bassett the last time Danielle seen.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just getting chills down my spine thinking of my
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: little girl alone and unchaperoned, not with her little friend
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: boy from high school, but with a group of grown
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: men and her at their home. No, what was mommy thinking?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Was it negligence? Did she just not care? Or is
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: it more nefarious?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Matt Bell? Did your wife have a job.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Off and on, just working at convenience stores and stuff
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: like that. She worked at a VCR rental place, so
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: she never really had a good staying job.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: But yet she had a place to live, she had
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a vehicle, she had food.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Where was she getting all that?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Was she compensated in any way for sending her daughter
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: away on weekends with grown ment Okay, let's pick it
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: up at that party where she is seen last listen at.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: The party Danielle's and Tiffany is ready to go home.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Sanchez drives the girls to Tiffany's between one thirty and
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: two am, but drops Tiffany off and takes Danielle back
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: to the party.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: So let me understand, Bonnie. She goes to this so
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: called party in a park with grown men and the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: little friend Tiffany doesn't like it and wants to go home.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: So the little friend goes home.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I don't blame her, but Danielle is still at the party.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: It reminds me there is Danielle cheerleading a little scrubbed
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: in sunshine. Reminds me of Natalie Holloway. When Natalie left
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the bar the casino with Yourn Van der Schlute and
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the Colpo brothers. Her friends were no longer with her,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and then she's alone, and tonight we learn making matters
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: much worse.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Prior to Danielle's disappearance, she reported to her and several
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: of her friends that she thought she was pregnant.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: She was allegedly pregnant by a grown man. Matt Bell,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: did you have any idea this was going on?
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: No?
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I had no idea. Oh a lot of this stuff
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: I found out way after. It was weeks after, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: monks after Danielle came up missing.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: The last sighting of Danielle was at a party with
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: her twenty four year old boyfriend Amid whispers that she
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: was pregnant with his child. After that, she was never
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: heard from again.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know why people keep referring to him as
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a twenty four year old boyfriend. I mean, any relationship,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: any sex relationship they had is statutory rape. So, Bonnie,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: while this was happening, did Danielle's mom ever reveal to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you what was going on or the nature of mommy's
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: relationship with Sanchez.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: No. As a matter of fact, about two weeks before
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Danielle went missing, I had taken her to Pensacola Beach
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: to have photos made. When we got back to mom
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: tells Danielle asked her if she could have a friend
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: come over, and my mom said, yes, I was there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: I may a plate of food I was eating. Next
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: thing I know, my sister comes in from outside. I
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: asked my mom, I said, what is she doing hanging
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: out with this guy? Because my sister additionally asked if
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: they could go for a ride, and my mom consents
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: it to that. It's Sunday night at like a thirty
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: nine o'clock. So I asked my mom, why is she
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: hanging out with this guy that's older than me? And
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: my mom says she babysits for him. From there, my
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: sister gets around at me before, right.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: So your mom actively lied to you about who Sanchez was.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: She didn't say anything about her own.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Relationship with Sanchez, nothing at all, right, and she actively
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: lied about it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, right, And so.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: My sister gets mad at me. Is like, Bonnie, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: your mind your own business and stay out of it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: So we didn't. That's the last time I saw my sister.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: I walked out the door and I didn't hear from
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: my sister for two weeks, weeks, which was uncommon. I mean,
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: we talked often, and I saw her on you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: at least twice a week, or if it wasn't me,
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: it was one of my friends that saw her. And
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: I didn't find out that my sister was involved in
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: any way other than babysitting Alfredo Sanchez until she goes missing.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: And then that's when I find out.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: That day, my mom.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Tells us that my sister told her she was pregnant.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: It hadn't been confirmed because she had a doctor's appointment
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: the following week, and that it was because Alfredo Santos
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: had been giving her drugs and alcohol, and it was
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: at that time, I'm like, I just saw you let
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: her be with him two weeks prior to this comes
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: to find out her timeline changes. It was two weeks
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: before she went missing that she found out three weeks
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: and it just kept changing and it never added up.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So the irony is this doctor appointment. Doctor's appointment was
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: just set just after she goes missing, so before the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: pregnancy could be confirmed by a doctor, she disappears, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: it is literally she's reported missing the night before she's
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: set to move in with her dad, which would have
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: ended any relationship sex relationship with the minor in exchange for.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Drugs deal that was going on.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I wonder, matt Bell, how many times you play this
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: over in your mind?
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Would have, could have?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Should have you asked her to move home with you?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: You gave them money, you gave them food. You what
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: keeps you up at night, mister Bell?
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Failing my daughter.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Because they are supposed to protect their children, and I
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: felt like I failed. You know the last words she
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: said to me when she walked away from my truck
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: and I told her just ride home, Matthew, she just
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: turned around and told me she loved me. And that
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: was the last time I seen her and I live
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: that every day. So, Hm, it's the biggest regret I got.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Bonnie, what memory? What vid the most vivid.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Memory of Danielle keeps you awake at night?
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: That was the last day that we spent together. And
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: on the way home, she asked me if I would
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: stop at a payphone so she could call her friend.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: I told her, no, I'm taking you back where I
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: got you. And I wish I would have not taken
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: her back where I got her. I should have.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Taken her with.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: Me, and she should have been with her dad, you know.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: And that's kind of I wish I would have just
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: taken her right then. I wish I never would have
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: drove her to that house, is what I wish I
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: would have done.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we know mom was negligent, if not worse, But
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: now a very sinister allegation arises.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: It is my belief that our mother, Susan Bell, willingly
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: let her daughter be involved with Alfredo Sanchez in exchange
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: for free drugs.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Bonny Bell.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Why do you believe mommy traded Danielle for drugs?
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Well, I think one, if we go through the timeline
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: leading up to it, the inconsistencies and my mother's words
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: and her just changes in the descriptions of the relationship
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: that she had or that my sister had with Alfredo Santez.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: You know, at that time, I didn't it didn't dawn
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: on me that she had would have traded my sister
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: for drugs. And I called my mom and I confronted
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: her about it, and she basically told me she didn't
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: know what I was talking about. She denied anywhere I'm
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: doing with my sister. That's why I believe it's, you know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: at least, like you said, wilful ignorance. I mean, possibly,
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: but I don't think so.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I think Bonnie is right because what we hear from
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: mommy is this, but I mean everybody but herself.
• 30:42
  Speaker 10: Listen, they have messed this case up from the very beginning,
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: literally messed this case up. They've lost evidence, we've lost paperwork,
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: they it's just been ongoing with them.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: You know, at the time, I.
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: Could understand because they were scared, So you would be
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: okay with somebody doing this to your kid, is how
• 31:05
  Speaker 10: I'm taking it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: So there, she's blaming law enforcement for messing the case up,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: that she messed up by not reporting her daughter missing
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and by allowing her basically sending her off, packing her
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: off literally on weekends with a group of grown men
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: at just thirteen to fourteen years old. That sound was
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: from w k RG our friends there.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: This guy is no good? How can mommy not know?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: He was charged with molesting another little girl? Listen.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: After Danielle's disappearance, Sanchez denied knowing. The team investigators uncover
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: enough evidence to charge Sanchez with felony sex offense against
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: a child after multiple people recount knowing about his relationship
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: with Danielle and witnessing them together as a couple. Sanchez
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: is tried and convicted of charges of leut and lascivious
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: molestation of a child, also of sexual battery on a child.
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: There was some tremendous focus on some of those suspects,
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: and they were never eliminated from being possibly responsible for
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: her disappearance.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: From wa RTV Matt Bell.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: What does that mean? They were never eliminated? What they
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: just ended it there? Yeah, we have some suspects. They
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: were never eliminated.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Where's the investigation? What's happening now?
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: It was a tough start and whenever Mark Smester took over.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: He was the one who actually he was the best.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: He went after all of them and he found all
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: the evidence against them.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: One lead takes investigators to a septic tank.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: The disappearance of Danielle Bell remains an open case and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: police have followed up on tips received. Police searched the
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: septic tank at Bassett's home, where Danielle was last seen.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Investigators did not reveal what led them to the septic tank.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Nothing was found. Later, remains were recovered off a dirt
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: road near the home of Sanjez, but we're determined to
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: not be Danielle's. Bassett responded to a question on social media,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: where is Danielle, that missing white girl you was last
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: seen with? His reply was, quote in the hog pen blank,
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: where your ugly blank need to be?
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: To Bonnie Bell.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Where does the investigation into your sister's disappearance stand now?
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: Well, according to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, it is
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: currently an active investigation. I have been challenging them to
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: define what active means, and that's kind of where it sits,
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: you know. I feel that there are several leads that
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: have not been followed up on, and that the ball
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: has been dropped in a couple of different air there is.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: And so for me, I want them to show me
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: what an active investigation means from what are the next steps?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I don't understand the stonewalling To Matt Bell, what does
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: law enforcement tell you when you call begging for answers?
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Your daughter could be alive right now and some hell
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: hole of a hotel being used as a prostitute.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: We don't know where she is.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Like I was saying before, when I talked to investigator,
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: there's a new one on there now, and it wasn't
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: too long ago that there was another investigator on there.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: And it's like it changes so often that and there's
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: so much information. They tell you that this is the
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: case has got the most information on it of any
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: case that they have, and so they have to go
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: through everything to find out, you know, what leads have
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: been followed up on, what leads have not been followed
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: up on. So when you give them something, they need
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: to research and see if that's already been done.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Or not done. I'm saying, well, this is new for me,
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: so it should be new for you, you know. So, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: there's a lot of things.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's some things that's in the works to
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: wait towards winter time when the ground's better to do
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: some searches and stuff. So we're just kind of in
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: Limbaugh right now, just kind of waiting on them them
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: to go through everything.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Matt, if your daughter can hear you tonight, what is
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: your message to Danielle?
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: Please come home. We love you so much. We don't
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: worry about what's happening. You are our precious gold and
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: we just want you back home. We'll deal with whatever
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: problem there is. We just love you and miss you
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: so much. Please come back.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about this case,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: look at Danielle. Please, we are begging call eight five
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: zero four three six nine six zero repeat eight five
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: zero four, three six nine six two zero.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: We wait as justice un false.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: We remember an American hero, Deputy Shriff Joshua Bushars, Jackson
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: County Sheriffs, Mississippi, killed in the line of duty after
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: twenty one years on the force, leaving behind two children
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: without a dad. Deputy Shriff Joshua Bhars Nancy Gray signing
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: off good byfriend