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Beautiful Ohio teen Maddie Bell disappears 5 miles from home, car found across from destination · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: does a teen girl in Highland County, Ohio, just vanish
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning, leaving no trace behind. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: think there are traces to be found. Join us to
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  Speaker 1: analyze the clues left behind. Where is Madison? Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here on Fox Nation
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  Speaker 1: and Serious XM one eleven. Where's Madison Bell? Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friend Jessica Schmidt at Fox nineteen for
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  Speaker 1: Madison Belle's loved ones. The past twenty four hours have
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  Speaker 1: been draining. Her mother, Melissa, has barely gotten any sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, I'm tired, I'm worried, I'm stressed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've cried so many tears that there's none left. My
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  Speaker 1: eyes are just dry, There's none left. Eighteen year old Madison,
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  Speaker 1: known to many as Maddie, is missing. She left her
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  Speaker 1: house Sunday for a tanning appointment and never came home.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators in Highland County found her car abandoned in a
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  Speaker 1: church parking lot hours later, her key and cell phone
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  Speaker 1: still inside. I'm trying to stay strong for her because
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  Speaker 1: I have to and I have to bring her home.
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  Speaker 1: Search crews haven't stopped looking for Madison, using technology and
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  Speaker 1: different techniques to try to track her down. They brought
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  Speaker 1: in some dogs. We gave them some of the materials
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  Speaker 1: that she had that we found that this to get
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  Speaker 1: a cent of her, just to see if that would help,
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  Speaker 1: if they could like trace, find out any anything that way,
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  Speaker 1: any direction. Where is Maddie? With me an all star
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  Speaker 1: panel to break it down and put it back together again.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie shell Nutt twenty seven years Metro major case SWAT
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  Speaker 1: officer now lawyer, Doctor Daniel Bober, renowned forensic psychiatrists. She
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  Speaker 1: can find him on insta at doctor Daniel Bober, Director
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  Speaker 1: of the Cold Case Research Institute, Cheryl McCollum and crime
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  Speaker 1: scene expert Emily Nestor, crime reporter and podcast host of
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  Speaker 1: Mile Marker one eighty one. Special guests joy Us, Cody Man,
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  Speaker 1: this is Maddie's boyfriend and right now to Mattie's mom,
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Bell. Melissa, thank you for being with us. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. I appreciate this so much. Miss Bell, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate you being here. Thank you. Tell me what
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  Speaker 1: you recall the moment you heard Mattie was not where
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  Speaker 1: she was supposed to be well. I'm the one that
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  Speaker 1: discovered that Maddie was very I raised this girl to
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  Speaker 1: be very like. She was always reaching out to me,
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  Speaker 1: trusted in me, you know, always checking in with me.
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  Speaker 1: She knew I would worry. She's my only child. I
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  Speaker 1: knew when a certain amount of time had passed, because
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  Speaker 1: it was way more time than what was needed to
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  Speaker 1: drive to hand and back. And if she was going
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  Speaker 1: to be late, she would have texted me that. And
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  Speaker 1: that's consistent through her ever since she got her license.
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  Speaker 1: No matter even if she was with her faint cousins
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, she would always text me, I'm gonna be late, mom,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. I'm gonna be five minutes late. So after
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes pass, I've started to like think, while
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  Speaker 1: she should be home, you know, she should be coming
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  Speaker 1: home soon. But then I thought, no, you know, ease up.
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  Speaker 1: She's eighteen. Maybe she had to wait, or maybe she
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  Speaker 1: fell asleep in the painting bed. So I give it
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  Speaker 1: more time. And when I say more time, I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: like minutes, so you know, five, ten, fifteen minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: I just immediately after I tried to start texting. After
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes pass, approximately I start texting her, Mattie, Mattie,
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  Speaker 1: and then I said, Maddie, did you fall asleep? Because
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  Speaker 1: the day before she said she had fallen asleep in
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  Speaker 1: the painting bed, So that was my first did she
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  Speaker 1: fell asleep? And she didn't answer anything. I tried to call.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't answer. That's so unlike her, Melissa. I got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of pointed questions to ask you with me.
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  Speaker 1: Mattie's mom, Melissa Bell, also with me, her longtime boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: Cody Mann, and Emily Nestor, crime reporter. Back to Mattie's mom,
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  Speaker 1: miss Bell, you stated that she had been gone several
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  Speaker 1: minutes longer than you thought she should have been. Quick question,
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  Speaker 1: how close to your home where you live with Maddie?
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  Speaker 1: How close was the Tan Salon? Approximately? Maybe? Is it
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  Speaker 1: five miles out there? Five miles? Ten minutes? Max? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you said you cut out on me. You said she
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  Speaker 1: was how many minutes late? Did you say twenty five
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  Speaker 1: minutes or so? She had been gone forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: before I started to like, at forty five minutes, I
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  Speaker 1: started to worry because it's a twenty minute bed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes, ten minutes, And I started to just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like not worry but get I was like, ohom,
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  Speaker 1: she should be coming home, you know at forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Can I tell you just yesterday my son went fishing
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  Speaker 1: and you know, of course made sure he made it.
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  Speaker 1: He sent me a picture. Then after an hour I
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  Speaker 1: was doing the same thing. You just said, he's up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I let him go. But after an hour I started
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  Speaker 1: calling and texting because you know, I was worried. So
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  Speaker 1: that's just what you did. Now, did she call the
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  Speaker 1: Tanning Salon? I did not, because Manison has always answers.
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  Speaker 1: She always answers or text me always. Never has she
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  Speaker 1: not responded that. Did she ever make it to the
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  Speaker 1: Tanning salon? No not, according to surveillance footage. The surveillance
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  Speaker 1: fittish at the Tanning Salon. But yeah, that they caught
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  Speaker 1: of the parking lot. They did not see her car
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  Speaker 1: ever pull in there. Okay, that day you just got
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  Speaker 1: me past my next question. I was wondering if she
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  Speaker 1: ever came in. Certainly they would know if she came in, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they had a sign and she and she did not,
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  Speaker 1: So she never made it. Now to Emily nest Or
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  Speaker 1: Crime Reporter podcast, has Mile marker one eighty one. Emily
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  Speaker 1: tell me about where her car was found. So her
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  Speaker 1: car was found really in close proximity to where this
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  Speaker 1: tanning bed is, and this tanning this tanning salon is
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  Speaker 1: actually part of almost like a convenience store that sits
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  Speaker 1: in a fork in the road where two roads meet.
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  Speaker 1: And on that state route road there there is a
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  Speaker 1: large church with a large lot that wraps around and
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  Speaker 1: that lot has two ways to get in and out.
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  Speaker 1: Let me process what you're saying, large church, two ways
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  Speaker 1: in and what were you saying about the tanning salon.
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  Speaker 1: Tanning salon isn't just a tanning establishment. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: an assortment of things. I actually went in there last night.
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  Speaker 1: They saw everything from beer to cheesecake. There's a little
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  Speaker 1: deli counter and then there's tanning in the back. Gotcha
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  Speaker 1: where is ada in relation to the church. It's adjacent.
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  Speaker 1: It sits across the roadway in a fork in the road.
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  Speaker 1: Fork in the road. Okay, so on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the fort or in the middle of the fort
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  Speaker 1: in the middle actually, so really just across the street. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's within shouting distance. Gosh, guys, take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our phrase at WLWT five. This is Karen Johnson. Beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful, very responsible. Nettie Bell described by relatives as
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  Speaker 1: a good girl full of school spirit. She's the cheer
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  Speaker 1: captain at Greenfield's McLean High School, and her mother, Melissa Bell,
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  Speaker 1: says her daughter was looking forward to this week. This
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  Speaker 1: was senior week. She would not have missed these events
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  Speaker 1: for anything. Yesterday morning, around ten o'clock, Mattie left her
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  Speaker 1: home to go tanning here at the Country Corner Market,
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  Speaker 1: not far from her Greenfield home. She'd ever made it
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  Speaker 1: there that morning. She did not sign in. The two
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  Speaker 1: mornings before that she did, but that morning video surveillance
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  Speaker 1: doesn't show her car making it to the tanning area.
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  Speaker 1: When she didn't return home or answer her mother's tech
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  Speaker 1: store phone calls, Melissa says she went looking for her
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  Speaker 1: daughter and spotted her car in the parking lot of
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  Speaker 1: the Good Shepherd Church, which is across the street from
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  Speaker 1: the market. I noticed her phone laying in the car,
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  Speaker 1: her keys are in the ignition, and money that she
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  Speaker 1: had in the pull out thing was still there, and
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  Speaker 1: the car was unlocked. Mattie was nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy grace. Guys, won't you help us
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  Speaker 1: find this teen girl? Her name Madison Bell. She, as
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  Speaker 1: you just heard, is a cheerleading captain. It's senior week
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  Speaker 1: at school. Should never ever miss all that her mother
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  Speaker 1: is with me today begging for your help. The tip
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  Speaker 1: line is nine three seven three nine three fourteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: one repeat nine three seven three nine three one four
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  Speaker 1: two one or eight four four seven two seven nine
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  Speaker 1: one one one that's easy to remember eight four four
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  Speaker 1: seven two seven nine one one one with me, her mom, Melissa,
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  Speaker 1: and longtime boyfriend Cody Man Cody, would she have left
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  Speaker 1: her cell phone in the car? No, she would not have.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just ask your point blank, where were you
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  Speaker 1: at the time she went missing? Sleeping on our couch?
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping on what couch? Nick said, Mattie's house. So you
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  Speaker 1: were there with the mom? Correct? Yeah, because I live
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  Speaker 1: here with them, right. So when she left, was there
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  Speaker 1: anything unusual about her behavior her demeanor? No? I mean
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  Speaker 1: she was all spunk like she always was. Did you
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  Speaker 1: try to reach her? Yes? I did, and we had
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  Speaker 1: no answer at all. I tried calling twice to Madison
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  Speaker 1: Bill's mom, joining me Melissa, it's my understanding she's never
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  Speaker 1: been away overnight or for any period of time without
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  Speaker 1: you knowing where she was. That's absolutely good, Melissa, tell
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  Speaker 1: me about how you found the car. Well, when we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get any answer from her by call or text,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately was just like I knew something that's wrong
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  Speaker 1: because she would not that's not her. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: that far. I thought, I'm just gonna go and drive
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  Speaker 1: and make sure, because on the way to this market
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  Speaker 1: there's some like areas that are like really deep feets
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  Speaker 1: that she could have maybe wrecked. We didn't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, once she was sleeping at Hanning beds,
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  Speaker 1: did we leave and drive? And we first thought maybe
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  Speaker 1: she was in an accident or asleep, so we're looking
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  Speaker 1: for anything signs like that. We didn't see anything. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as we approached close to the church where we
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  Speaker 1: could see the lot, we noticed, I mean, we're not
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  Speaker 1: looking there. I'm looking more like right at country corner,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't miss it. And her boyfriend said, there's
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  Speaker 1: her car. And I looked over and it was just
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  Speaker 1: sitting there in an empty parking lot. No one else
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  Speaker 1: was there. Church was closed because of the quarantine, and
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  Speaker 1: I believe they would been like the online saying, so
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  Speaker 1: no one was there except her car. Can I ask you,
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Belle, how police brought out tracker dogs. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that it was the police. I mean they may have,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know that the people that brought the
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  Speaker 1: tracker dogs would have been the rest you the church
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  Speaker 1: and rescue company that are at the command center and
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  Speaker 1: working along with them. And what if anything that did
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  Speaker 1: the dogs suggest? I have not been told they're like
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  Speaker 1: I have not that no one has released any that
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  Speaker 1: information of what they found. Okay, what about surveillance camera video?
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  Speaker 1: Were any of the cameras at Country Market across the
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  Speaker 1: street trained in a position where they'd catch what was
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  Speaker 1: happening in the church parking lot? According to what I know,
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  Speaker 1: the only video surveillance that their cameras were able to
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  Speaker 1: get it was the picture of that Highland County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Department release I believe yesterday of the car. Now, are
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  Speaker 1: you referring to your daughter's car or a white knee
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  Speaker 1: solid California license plate? Gotcha? To Emily Nestor, Crime reporter
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  Speaker 1: podcast host Mile Marker one eighty one, what can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me about this vehicle with California license plates a
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  Speaker 1: white Nissan UM. Well, we we aren't able to see
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  Speaker 1: anything significant through the windows, is the first thing. And
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  Speaker 1: it is a four door UM. I think it's important
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  Speaker 1: to emphasize to you know, while it likely is a
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  Speaker 1: Nissan UM, if you're out there on the roadway, especially
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio, we're in the nearby surrounding states, you know,
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  Speaker 1: please keep your eyes open, you know, for a Nissan
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  Speaker 1: look alike as well. Let me understand to you, Cheryl McCollum, Director,
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  Speaker 1: Coal Case Research Institute and crime scene expert, what's your
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the white Nisana California plates, the location, the behavior,
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of this information? Well, the first
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  Speaker 1: thing that struck me was the location where the car
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  Speaker 1: was first seen by a witness, which which the suspect
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  Speaker 1: car the California plate. Okay, go ahead. So it's in
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  Speaker 1: the charge parking lot. Number one has dummy cameras, not
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  Speaker 1: real cameras, and number two there's no service there because,
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  Speaker 1: like the mom already said, because the quarantine, there's really
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  Speaker 1: nobody there. So this car is not at the strip
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  Speaker 1: mall that's got people and cameras. They're at a place
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  Speaker 1: where they're not going to be seen and also with
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  Speaker 1: their ten and windows. So what you've got to try
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  Speaker 1: to find out now is was this V sign with
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  Speaker 1: the California play stolen? Is it owned by the perpetrator
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  Speaker 1: or was it rented. It's really hard for me to
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  Speaker 1: take in that nobody can get a plate number because
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  Speaker 1: at red lights on businesses home security camera. Does everybody
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  Speaker 1: remember Molly Tibbets who was jogging and a home security
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  Speaker 1: camera caught her just briefly jogging by the driveway and
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  Speaker 1: then they saw a car going back and forth and
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  Speaker 1: back and forth along the same stretch and the car
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  Speaker 1: had I guess scratches or some identifiable marker on it,
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  Speaker 1: and they found the car and that's how they found
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  Speaker 1: the purp that took Molly. So let me understand to
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  Speaker 1: Emily nest Or, crime reporter and podcast host, what do
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  Speaker 1: we know of any potential video surveillance in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollough just told us the church has dummy cameras,
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  Speaker 1: which is dumb, but other surveillance video. So why I
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand when I pulled into Greenfield, Ohio, was how
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  Speaker 1: rural this area truly is. I come from a small
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  Speaker 1: town in West Virginia. But I had no idea this
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  Speaker 1: is a this is a village, this is like thirty
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  Speaker 1: five hundred people. So there aren't you know, a ton
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  Speaker 1: of cameras everywhere to be able to access like you
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  Speaker 1: would in a higher populated area. So I think at
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  Speaker 1: this point our best pances of getting good footage is
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  Speaker 1: going to come from things like ringing doorbells or blink
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  Speaker 1: cameras that people have on their actual homes. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that they have been going through some of that,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunately, the way that the house is normally sit
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  Speaker 1: on the road, you need not grab that license state
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  Speaker 1: because the way that the car is going to be
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  Speaker 1: angled as it passes. Let me go to James Shelnut
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven years met your major case to take your
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  Speaker 1: swat officer, Now, lawyer, what do you make of it?
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  Speaker 1: The fact I don't think she went anywhere willingly, James,
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  Speaker 1: because let's just pretend for a moment she was meeting
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  Speaker 1: somebody behind her boyfriend and her mom's back. Should take
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  Speaker 1: her cell phone. She would not leave her wallet, her
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  Speaker 1: money in her cell phone in her car where the
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  Speaker 1: car doors open. That wouldn't happen, So take it from there, James, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, and I'm on tread lightly here because I
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  Speaker 1: know we do that the family on the line. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, the first thing that came to my mind
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  Speaker 1: is is either she drove the car or there, or
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  Speaker 1: she didn't drive the car there. Okay, if she drove
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  Speaker 1: the car there, to me, there's no damage that I'm
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  Speaker 1: aware of that was on the car. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like somebody bumped her and she pulled in the church
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. She's right there, close to where she said
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  Speaker 1: that she was going. But she pulled into a parking
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  Speaker 1: spaces cars, not indidigitalous like it was voluntarily pulled in there.
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  Speaker 1: I would be very curious as to who she was
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  Speaker 1: meeting at that church, because that seems like a likely scenario.
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  Speaker 1: If she was meeting someone voluntarily at that church, it's
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  Speaker 1: possible that that person could have got out of the
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  Speaker 1: car and came to her window and pointed some type
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  Speaker 1: of weapon at her. As possible that she could have
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  Speaker 1: got out of her car voluntarily with the intent of
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  Speaker 1: getting back in it and got into the car with
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  Speaker 1: someone and then things got out of control and she
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  Speaker 1: was taken from the scene in that car. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the two possibilities to me that come to my most
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  Speaker 1: likely scenarios. Time Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the disappearance of a beautiful young girl, Madison Bell,
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  Speaker 1: a teen girl cheerleader captain senior week at school. She
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  Speaker 1: goes ten minutes away to a Tan salon, which is
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  Speaker 1: part of a Delhi convenience store, but her car is
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  Speaker 1: found by mom literally across the street to church parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Why um, Cody Man longtime boyfriend. Was there any damage
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  Speaker 1: to her car? Not that I had seen? And am
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  Speaker 1: I current there? A cell phone was in her car? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: And what kind of car did she drive? Hey? Two
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  Speaker 1: seventeen Twitter came color. It was like a burgundysh Rid
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Cameray Burgundy two door, four door four door.
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  Speaker 1: Any stickers on it, like I love manatees, Just anything
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  Speaker 1: at all stuck on the back an SPG sticker where
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  Speaker 1: she had bought or a guest swiler sticker where she
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  Speaker 1: had bought the car from the dealership. Okay, tell me
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that again, slowly repeat, there's a good a guest swiler deiler?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Is that w I L E R y U sticker
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: on the back of the car. Yes, no, yeah, but
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they've since sold the place and it's now SPG Toyota. Yeah,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: don't care. I'm just trying to get a visual on
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: anything that would make that burgundy Toyota four door camera
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: different from another one. Was there any damage to it?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Was a tail like missing, just any other stick or
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: anything about the car that makes it different. No, Like
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: my Miniman has a bike rack. We keep the Rudolph
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the reindeer nose on the front year round, so that
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: makes it different. Is there anything about her car, Miss Bell,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that would make it different that maybe someone saw what
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was happening that day? I mean, I don't know if
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: he mentioned aiden the dark tent on the windows on
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: her the only thing yet that car used to be
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: mine and I just recently gave it to her because
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: she was going to start college and I'm just gonna
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: get a new one. So I had when I had it,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I had the windows ten a dark So you know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it strikes me about this, Doctor Daniel Bober. Friends at
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: psychiatrists joining me. You can find him on instant doctor
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Daniel Bober. Doctor Bober, there was no damage to the car,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: so that tells me she did she pull the car
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: over willingly, because think it through with me, Bober. If
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: someone had approached her and gotten her in some other way,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: some other location, why would they take the car all
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the way to the salon across the street. That tells
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: me she drove the car. She was almost there. There's
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: no damage to the car, So it sounds to me
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: like she got out willingly. What do you make of it? Well,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: maybe it's started out well, maybe it started out willingly
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and then it became coerced after that. It's difficult to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: say such as, hey, can you help me, I've got
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a flat tire? Hey, I know you, weren't you a cheerleader?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Could you can I borrow your cell phone for a minute?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: There could be a million reasons she got out willingly.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Back to Cheryl McCallum, Director or Cold Case Research Institute.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: What about it, Cheryl? What are you making of what
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: we're learning right now? Well, Nancy again, you know I'm
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: interested in that cell phone. Hey. I don't like it
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: when you say again, because that means I've already told
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: you this. Why are you asking me again? I'm saying
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I know not at all. I'm focused on did she
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: send a message or receive a message through Snapchat or Instagram,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: not like a normal text message or phone call, because
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: it does seem to me like she pulled in there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: And I'll just ask Cody point blank, did she smoke
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: barrel on or would she go there to buy drugs
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: from somebody? Yes or no? No? Okay, So if that's
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: not the case and there's no damage to her car,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I doubt they'd be selling in exchanging dope in a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: church parking lot. Cheryl Mcclumno, all the places you could
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: do that. There's nobody there and there's no cameras. But
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm saying the car did not look like a police
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: officer vehicle. I don't know how they would get her
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to stop just short of her destination if it's not
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a fake rend. A million ways, a million ways, if
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: somebody waved at her and went, hey, you have a
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: flat she might pull in. There could be a million
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: decoy ways to get her out of that car. But
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I'm curious car was there before her. Keep that in mind. Okay,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: that's new? Is that correct? Melissa Belle? The white Nissan
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: with the California tags, which I believe it was a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Nissan CenTra or look like a Nissan on CenTra. That
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: car was there before there before Madison arrived. Yes, yeah, okay, yeah,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you're right, Cheryl McCallum. That changes things. Go ahead, Miss Bell.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Witnesses saw it there and approximately they said maybe a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: quarter till or ten till ten o'clock, so ninety five
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: fifty and I believe that that's what they said. And
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: question multiple witness saw that, what's the timeline on when
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: her car got there? Well, I think that she left.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I've never gave an exact time when she left because
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I was cleaning and she hollered that she was leaving.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I said be careful because I always say be careful
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: when she's driving. And I she left here approximately ten o'clock.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: So that car there is at nine fifty and the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: white CenTra California tags that we think her car according
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to witnesses. Really what witnesses, You don't have to give
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: me their nice But why did they notice it? Well,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: there was this multiple witness well, one was an elderly
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: couple that are members of the church, like a treasurer,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and they had to stop to go into the church
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to pick up, pick up or drop off an item.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And since they weren't having church Friday, and this was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: earlier in the day that I mean, I don't know
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: what time they were there, but when they were there,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: they noticed this man. That's how we got a description
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and the car and the California tag. What's the um?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: All I know is Caucasian. I'm not sure on heights specifically,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: but Caucasian and blonde hair. And I've heard rumors that
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: he might have been smoking a cigarette. I've heard rumors
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: that he had aviator glasses and slipped hair to the sides.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Then someone else said shaggy hair. I don't exactly know
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the exact description. Does everybody a grief? Why may all blonde? Yes?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Did anybody say what he was wearing? And a polo
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a polo shirt and clean cut like clean face. So
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: what color polo shirt? I believe white or gray? I've
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: heard those. No one's got a good look at him, Yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and no one's ever really I've heard so many people,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: but no authories have gave me earth. I believe it
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: at least a accurate You know, what would he they
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: in this small town, as Emily describes, a village with
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: California tags. Why who does he know there Emily Nestor.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Is this area anywhere near a major interstate? Um, you
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: have to take a lot of state roads before you
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: hit an interstate. But I think it is important to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: mention the proximity to Chill a Coffee and it's sturdy
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of missing women and possible drafficking situation. So you're you're
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about twenty twenty five minutes from Chilla Coffee. Guys, let's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: pause and take a listen to our friends at WLWT five.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Word of her disappearance spread quickly through this rural town.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Volunteers sarved yesterday and again today. They're focusing their efforts
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: within half a mile from where her car was found.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: As her mom there is something wrong, someone has or
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: she's somebody who has run away. She's not. This is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: not her behavior, and Maddie may have been wearing a
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: black north Face jacket. Now her mom says that she
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: may have had a bank card on her, but so
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: far there's been no activity on that card. There's also
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: been no activity on the Facebook account, and the sheriff
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: out here does say that they are looking for a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: white car because there was a white car scene coming
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and going from the church parking lot yesterday Crime Stories
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're on the hunt for a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: beautiful teen girl, Maddie Madison Bell. The tip line Madison
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: County is nine three seven three fourteen twenty one or
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: eight four four seven two seven nine one one one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You can find all this information at crime online dot com.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I want to circle back to Cody Man. This is
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Maddie's boyfriend. Do you or Mom Melissa Belle know anyone
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: that drives a white Nissan Sentra. No, Melissa, I do
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: not Let me ask you this police obviously got her
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: cell phone. Have they down loaded all the information from
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Aunt Melissa? I hadn't. They hadn't released, they didn't told
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: me anything. So then that that's exactly what they are doing.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And don't you think to James Shelnutt twenty seven years
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Metro major case now lawyer, that if she were going
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to meet someone, which I doubt that there would be
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a text message or a corresponding cell phone incoming or
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: outgoing call. Correct. Yes, no, there would be. You know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: but there's a lot of apps that you can use
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: nowadays that are very difficult to trace that that won't
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: show up on a text message log that you can
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: use online um and so that does present some difficulty sometimes.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Cody Man, longtime boyfriend. Were you guys having any trouble,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: talk of a breakup anything at all? No? Was she
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: planning on going to college? Do we know about that? Melissa? Yes,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: she has already been. She had already been except to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Ohio University at the Chill Coffee Branch to be in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the nursing program. She was going to be a registered nurse.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: How does she feel about that? How did she feel
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: about it? Yes, she was very excited. She has a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Pinterest account and I so I was looking at that
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: just I believe it was last night, and just to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: see what her last pens were. And she had created
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: a college board, and I know that she had been
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: talking to me about the last three weeks and telling
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: me that she was creating this board because she she
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: was getting excited and she was decided on her own
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that she was going to start studying different parts of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the body. So she was pinning like the arm and
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the vein arteries and veins in the arm and then
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: trying to learn that and then she was, you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: she was that's what she was doing, trying to just
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: study each part thinking that that would help prepare her
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: for school, and she was getting, you know, getting really
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: excited about that. This is what we know. Mattie Madison Bell,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: teen girl, last thing Sunday morning, told mom she's heading
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to the tanning salon at Country Corner Market. Her car
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: found at the Good Shepherd Church across the street, with
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: her cars in the ignition and the phone on the seat.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: What does that tell you, Cheryl McCollum. Keys still in ignition,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: cell phone on the car seat tells me she wasn't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: intending to go anywhere. She's just going to hop out
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: very quickly and get back in her car. Yeah, teenage
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: girls aren't going to leave that cell phone at all.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And again, the way the car is parked is perfect.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: It's not like she parked catty corner or crazy or
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: in a hurry. It looked like she just pulled straight
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to the left, straight left into that parking spot perfectly.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I think right now what police are doing is probably
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: swabbing the steering will swabbing the gearshift, doesn't the press
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to see if anybody else got in that car. But again,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: cash is visible, see her cell phone is visible, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: see the keys are in it. Doesn't look like stems
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: was an issue. I don't think she left on her
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: own at all. Names I don't either, And to you,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: doctor Daniel Bober, the incidents of crimes on Sunday mornings
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: is actually lower than other days and times of the week.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Why well, I think there's probably a lower stress out level,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: more leisure time. People are often going to religious groups
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: at that time, So I think it's probably just the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: nature of what people are doing at that time and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: during that day of the week. This Ohio high school
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: senior has vanished on her way to attending salon just
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: before her graduation. Her car found in the abandoned the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: keys still in the ignition. To mom, Madison Bell, what
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: does that tell you that her keys were still in
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the ignition? I just know you're a mother. You know
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you have a gut instinct, and I just have this guy.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I have this gut instinct from the moment because I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: know my child, I know her, and I know she is.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: This is a girl who's scared of her shadow. She
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: won't go to sleep at night until her boyfriend would
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: get home from work. She you know, she would never
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: pick up a stranger. She would never stop intentionally she
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: didn't take anything with her that would say that she's
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: planning to leave. Like she wears glasses to read. She
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: has prescription contacts that she didn't take those. The only
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: thing she had in was what she already had in
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: from the night before, which are colored contacts. She would
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: have taken her makeup, because she would hardly ever go
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: out without makeup. But she unless she was planning, you know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: but other than that, she would because she was planning
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to come back. She didn't take her medicine, and her
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: physician has her. You know, she takes a prescription every day.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: She didn't take that. I mean, she didn't take anything,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: any extra clothing any I mean I went through that,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I know of I mean I went through everything, and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I don't notice anything odd gone. I'm looking at her pictures.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: In her jacket, she takes her jacket everywhere, and because
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: she gets cold, she takes her jacket everywhere. I'm looking
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: at Maddie's photo right now. She's got on her high
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: school graduation cap and gown. It's white. She's just beautiful,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: her teeth perfect. Did she wear braces, No, there's just
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: natural born. She's beautiful, absolutely beautiful. She loved to play
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and makeup and doll up and um. You know she
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I will say, you know she didn't have um, she
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: had like im like she didn't never saw herself as
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: she you know, she was her worst critic on herself,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you know, looking at herself. But you know we all
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: knew how beautiful no matter what she had, whether makeup
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: or not. But she's just always war makeup. I mean,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: she wouldn't even go to the dollars world about makeup.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: What are police telling you, Melissa? Not a lot right now?
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: They haven't released you know that. I know that there.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I know they've been working diantly, you know, vigilantly together.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: They've spoken with me and ask me questions and stuff
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: like that. But I no, like, no, like real official
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: things have been released to me yet. I'm looking at
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: a photo of you, Melissa and longtime boyfriend Cody Man,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and his face is just contorted in tears. Tody, What
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: has this been like for you? In so unimaginable Melissa?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Tell me what you are learning from reports? What you
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: what's your current working theory? Because I always say Mom
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: knows best that and you know what, You're exactly right,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and I have said it and I've said it from
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: day once. Maybe she thought that was the only thing
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I can think of is maybe she misplaced this person.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: She thought that this was somebody that she knew. You know,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: she's been in quarantine. This is a girl who didn't
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: even go out of quarantine for two months until she
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: had to do her her you know, quarantine graduations thing
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that they did. So she was a homebody and she
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: would not stop for a stranger. So she had to
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: think that she knew this person, you know, she had to.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe I was thinking maybe she thought this was somebody
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: from school that they looked. You know, you were talking
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: about a white guy, blonde hair, well our school. I mean,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: you know you're going to find that. So maybe she
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: just thought it was someone and by the time she
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: pulled in and realized it wasn't you know. That's the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: only thing there has to be. My instinct, as her
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: mom is, there has to be there's a reason that
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: she pulled in. She would never ever pull in there
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: for no, for a stranger that I know. So to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Emily nest Or, Crime Reporter Podcast, How's mile marker one
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: eighty one? What more can you tell me? Emily? Well,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I really I've never seen anything like this as far
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: as community response, and the gentleman that is atting search
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and rescue for the past four days going on five,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: he said he'd never seen the type of community response either,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: So it's just it's amazing. The first day there were
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: over three hundred people. Even in the pouring rain, there
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: were over one hundred and fifty people. And so this
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: weekend they're going to be literally thousands. Texas Equisearch, you know,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a nonprofit that they are professionals in this. They are
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: coming in on horseback drones of physical ground searches and
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: that will be happening all through this weekend. I mean,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: no one is giving up here. It's also joining the search.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: The fb I tipline nine three seven three nine three
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  Speaker 1: fourteen twenty one or eight four four seven two seven
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: nine one one one our prayers that Mattie comes home safely.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off Goodbye friend,