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Violent Mom Held on $1M Bond, Search for Alabama Tot Continues | Crime Alert 02.20.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner, Alabama. Mother Adrian Reid remains jailed on
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  Speaker 2: a one million dollar bond as the search for enterprise
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  Speaker 2: toddler Genesis Reed continues. A Coffee County judge set the
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  Speaker 2: bond Thursday morning via video. Reed's daughter, Genesis, has not
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  Speaker 2: been seen by neighbors since January, but Reid claimed she
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  Speaker 2: last saw her early Monday morning. Reid said she discovered
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  Speaker 2: Genesis missing from bed on February sixteenth and noticed their
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  Speaker 2: front door was open. Reid reported Genesis missing at three
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  Speaker 2: ten am that morning, according to police. Neighbors reportedly said
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  Speaker 2: that prior to January, they saw Genesis many times while
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  Speaker 2: out on walks with her mother.
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  Speaker 1: The last time we have seen her Abouttom Minico.
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  Speaker 2: She's a walker and down and roll, liftus child and
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  Speaker 2: everything and now out of served.
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  Speaker 1: Now the child is seen missing.
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  Speaker 2: A friend at the meadow Brook apartment says her daughter
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  Speaker 2: hasn't played with Genesis since before Christmas. I've seen it
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  Speaker 2: baby since Crasys Way.
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  Speaker 1: It's my friend, so I would never You don't go
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  Speaker 1: against what she's saying. My bigus concern is getting a
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  Speaker 1: baby home.
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  Speaker 2: Another neighbor says he runs into Red shopping alone on
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  Speaker 2: Valentine's Day. When he asks where her daughter is, Adrian replies,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know and abruptly walks away. On Tuesday, police
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  Speaker 2: arrested Reid on a felony charge of providing false information
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  Speaker 2: to law enforcement. Specifically, she's accused of fabricating the story
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  Speaker 2: involving Genesis missing from her bed and an open door.
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  Speaker 2: Law Enforcement, with the assistance of the East Alabama Canine
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  Speaker 2: Search and Recovery, searched around an apartment complex Wednesday where
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  Speaker 2: Reid lives with her daughter at two one Apache Drive
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  Speaker 2: during the morning hours.
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  Speaker 1: We completed the number of searches of the area in
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  Speaker 1: close proximity to the residents here.
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  Speaker 2: The dogs trained to detect human remains also searched a
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  Speaker 2: nearby wooded area. Enterprise Police Chief Michael Moore said that
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  Speaker 2: utilizing search dogs is standard.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to get a timeline and would appreciate that information.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't necessarily stated that Genesis has been missing for
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  Speaker 1: thirty days, but that's what we're asking everybody is to
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  Speaker 1: provide that information.
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  Speaker 2: Police are now asking anyone who saw Genesis over the
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  Speaker 2: past month to come forward while they seek assistance and
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  Speaker 2: finding a woman named Mariah who is possibly connected to
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  Speaker 2: the case. Police said the woman is not a suspect
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  Speaker 2: at this time, but a person of interest. During a
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday news conference, Coffee County District Attorney James Tarback stated
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  Speaker 2: that at this time, Reid is the only known suspect quote,
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Reid is the only person who knows where Genesis is.
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  Speaker 2: Police are also asking anyone who knows Red and interacted
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  Speaker 2: with her between December twenty fourth to February sixteenth to
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  Speaker 2: contact law enforcement. Under bond conditions, Reid is under GPS monitoring,
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  Speaker 2: required to check in daily with police and undergo drug screening.
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  Speaker 2: Reid's rap sheet includes a stabbing attack on her mother,
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  Speaker 2: which left a five inch cut among other injuries. Red
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  Speaker 2: later pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor chart. Genesis is
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  Speaker 2: described as a light skinned, black female who stands two
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  Speaker 2: feet five inches tall and weighs around twenty five pounds.
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  Speaker 2: She has black hair and brown eyes. Police said she
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  Speaker 2: had on pink mini mouse pajamas at the time of
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  Speaker 2: her disappearance. Adrian Reid remains behind bars at the Coffee
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  Speaker 2: County Jail. Anyone with information is urged to contact Enterprise
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  Speaker 2: Police at three three four three four seven two two
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  Speaker 2: two two more crime and justice news after this. Earlier
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  Speaker 2: this month, a Michigan man admitted to killing a pregnant
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  Speaker 2: thirteen year old girl who vanished in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: and was never found. Last Thursday, Jarvis Butts agreed to
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  Speaker 2: plead guilty to Naziah Harris's second degree murder in to
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  Speaker 2: five separate sexual assault cases. Additional sexual misconduct charges were
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  Speaker 2: dropped as part of the plea deal. Harris was last
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  Speaker 2: seen at a Detroit bus stop in January twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators believe Butts started grooming Harris in June twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two and murdered her after learning he impregnated her in
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  Speaker 2: September twenty twenty three. They suspect Harris killed the teen
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  Speaker 2: to prevent her from having his baby while he was
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  Speaker 2: incarcerated on an unrelated gun charge. Prosecutors claimed they uncovered
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  Speaker 2: text messages in which Harris expressed concern about her pregnancy
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  Speaker 2: being discovered. Quote, I don't know what your problem is,
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  Speaker 2: but I need you to bring me what I need tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard doing all of this gims with this baby
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  Speaker 2: and if I don't do him, I'm gonna get an
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  Speaker 2: f Before Harris's presumed slaying, Butts allegedly searched online about abortion's,
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  Speaker 2: abortion pills and drinking antifreeze. Text messages suggested Butts told
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  Speaker 2: Harris he would pick her up from school on January ninth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the last day she was seen alive.
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  Speaker 2: Buds was traced to the Rogue River in Detroit a
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  Speaker 2: day after Harris's disappearance. A single shoe belonging to Harris
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  Speaker 2: was found at the river. Detroit Police Sergeant Melanie O'Rourke
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  Speaker 2: said Harris's school I D Card was found in the
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  Speaker 2: area where Bus's phone was traced between January tenth and eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Harris's clothes were also discovered in the vicinity,
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  Speaker 2: with US Border Patrol agent Wyatt Barnes alleging that a
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  Speaker 2: black hoodie had both Harris and Butt's blood on it. Butts,
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  Speaker 2: a registered sex offender, was named in at least five
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  Speaker 2: reports made to Child Protective Services since twenty fifteen. A
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  Speaker 2: report from twenty twenty two accused Butts of inappropriately touching Harris.
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  Speaker 2: None of the reports made to CPS about molestation and
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  Speaker 2: sexual abuse were substantiated. In addition to the sexual abuse
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  Speaker 2: allegations involving Harris, prosecutor said he assaulted an eight year
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  Speaker 2: old family member and gave chlamydia to his girlfriend's four
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  Speaker 2: year old daughter. Harris's body has not been found, despite
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  Speaker 2: Butts confessing to dumping her body in the Rogue River.
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  Speaker 2: Butt sentencing is scheduled for March twelfth. Anyone with information
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  Speaker 2: regarding Harris's whereabouts is asked to call Detroit Police at
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  Speaker 2: three one three five nine six eighteen hundred. For the
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  Speaker 2: with this crime Alert, I'm Sydney Sumner.