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Tennessee teen Savannah Leigh Pruitt disappears from bedroom, FBI searches 4 states · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: as she looks, that's how her soul was. It's very beautiful.
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Speaker 1: please anybody knows anything he's come forward, help with the investigation.
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Speaker 1: No lead is too small. We cannot rest and until
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Speaker 1: we know something about our Savannah. Please come home, Savannah
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Speaker 1: for sure. It's just unimaginable to tell you how it
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Speaker 1: feels to lose one of yours. You can't think, you
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Speaker 1: can't eat, you can't sleep, say parents who are in
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Speaker 1: agony as a multi state search unfold for a missing
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Speaker 1: fourteen year old little girl. You just heard the parents
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Speaker 1: of savannahly Prue speaking to our friends at wat E
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Speaker 1: N Knoxville. Savannah, where are you? I mean, see Grace,
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Speaker 1: That really upset me when I heard the mom say
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Speaker 1: she was to they already believe fourteen year old Savannah
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Speaker 1: is dead. This is still a search, not a recovery.
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Speaker 1: This is a search and it has across many states.
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Speaker 1: Joining me right now, doctor Brian Russell, you know him well, psychologist,
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Speaker 1: lawyer and host of id's hit show Fatal Vows. Forensics expert.
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Speaker 1: Joining me from the Florida jurisdiction, Karen Smith and joining
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Speaker 1: me right now. Crime online dot Com, where you can
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Speaker 1: Robin Willinski, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. She's the
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Speaker 1: author of Beautiful Life, The Cside behind the Casey Anthony Trial.
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Speaker 1: Robin Willinski, I haven't been hearing a lot about Savannah's disappearance,
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Speaker 1: but I want to change that right now for those
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Speaker 1: h E L. Pete and boy do we need help
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Speaker 1: write now? This little girl has been missing for days.
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Speaker 1: Robin will Lensky. Start at the beginning, please. She is
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Speaker 1: fourteen years old. She's adorable, she's in school. She's a
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Speaker 1: good kid. By all accounts, Dancy goes to school liked
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Speaker 1: by the teachers, an honor student. Was originally living in Lawrenceville, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: up until Christmas time till December and then she has
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Speaker 1: a love of animals. This little girl, Savanteleie Pruett, she
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Speaker 1: loves animals, so her parents moved to Madisonville, Tennessee. She's
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Speaker 1: the oldest of four children. Dancy oh Ritt. You know, Robin,
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Speaker 1: I told you this when I was pregnant. I always
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Speaker 1: wanted four children. That was my dream to have four children.
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Speaker 1: But I'm happy that I have the two. And my
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Speaker 1: husband's theory was to cut our losses. We got so
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Speaker 1: blow and so lucky less. Don't tempt fate. But she
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Speaker 1: hit the lottery the jack Pott. She has four children,
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Speaker 1: Savannah Lee prut one of four. Go ahead, Robin, Yes,
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Speaker 1: And she's the oldest of the four. And her mom, Christina,
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Speaker 1: describes her as a ray of sunshine. Her dad the same,
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Speaker 1: like his heart is broken. They don't understand it. All
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, they see her go to bed January thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: around eleven o'clock at night. The next morning, four o'clock
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Speaker 1: in the morning on the fourteenth, she is missing, gone, vanished.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, make him my flow chart, Robin, hold on,
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Speaker 1: hold on, Robin Willlenski. She eleven PM, goes to bed,
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Speaker 1: and I have to confess. I'm sure doctor Brian Russell
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Speaker 1: is going to give me h double all about this.
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Speaker 1: But sometimes on weeknights, I have let the children step
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Speaker 1: as late as eleven o'clock. They're only eleven. But so
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Speaker 1: she's up at eleven PM. One of the parents is
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Speaker 1: up at four am. She's gone, okay, so I've got
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Speaker 1: a five hour window, all right, go ahead, dear. And
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Speaker 1: then the next thing you know, they look in her
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Speaker 1: room and she's gone, nowhere to be found, and it
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Speaker 1: is the parents that call nine one one for the
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Speaker 1: police for help. Now it's my understanding that the younger
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Speaker 1: sister is the one that discovered her missing, not a parent. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is possible, but then alerted the parents that she
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Speaker 1: was not there. I'm curious, do you know, Robin, if
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Speaker 1: they shared the room together, you know, I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: about that. It is possible, you know, with four kids,
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Speaker 1: a lot of times, you know, kids double up in rooms,
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Speaker 1: so it is very possible that they did. But I
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Speaker 1: know this, she was nowhere to be found at four
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. You know, I'm curious about another
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Speaker 1: thing before we go further in the timeline. What can
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Speaker 1: you tell me about Madisonville? Tell me about Madison Vall
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Speaker 1: sort of a rural area, farms, lots of animals, which
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Speaker 1: is why they moved there in the first place. Horses, chickens,
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Speaker 1: that sort of a thing, a rural area, not a city. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is what we know, the little bit that I
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Speaker 1: do know about Massonville. It is a city, although not large,
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Speaker 1: and it's the county seat of Monroe County, Tennessee. The
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Speaker 1: population was around five thousand in two ten, so let's
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Speaker 1: just say it's tripled to ten thousand. It reminds me
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Speaker 1: a little bit Doctor Brian Russell. And there's a reason
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Speaker 1: I'm going here, Doctor Brian Russell's psychologist, lawyer, host of
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Speaker 1: Id's Fatal Vows. I grew up out in the middle
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Speaker 1: of rural bib County and the city was making which
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Speaker 1: is quote the county seat. Basically, that means that's where
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Speaker 1: the drug store and the courthouse is. That's what the
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Speaker 1: county seat is, and maybe the dairy queen. So my
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Speaker 1: point is, even though we're saying it's a city, and
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Speaker 1: Madisonville is the county seat of Monroe County. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean it's a metropolis. And it gives you a certain
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Speaker 1: mindset of safety and security. I mean, I'm thinking about
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Speaker 1: Molly Tibbots. Remember, very very rural area, and she was
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Speaker 1: at the home of her boyfriend and his brother, both
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Speaker 1: of them were gone out of town. She goes jogging,
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Speaker 1: she's never seen again, very rural area. And as that
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Speaker 1: turned out, now charged is a guy, an immigrant that
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Speaker 1: was working. I believe it a chicken farm or a
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Speaker 1: farm nearby. And my point is, long story short, you're
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Speaker 1: crime hits everywhere. That's true, that's true. I think in
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Speaker 1: the Tibbots case, of course, he came at her while
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Speaker 1: she was out jogging. And in this case, you know,
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Speaker 1: the girl went disappearing, went missing from the house. And
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Speaker 1: you know, it's always interesting what we saw, you know,
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Speaker 1: the horrific case that ended in a as happy of
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Speaker 1: an ending as it could have with Jamie Class, where
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Speaker 1: there was you know, this incredibly rare home invasion, murder
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Speaker 1: of the parents and kidnapping of the girl. You know,
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Speaker 1: and there was all kinds of evidence, of course that
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Speaker 1: someone had entered that house. Uh, you know, who wasn't
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Speaker 1: supposed to be there here in this case, apparently you know,
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Speaker 1: there's not a lot. It's always fascinating to me when
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Speaker 1: you know somebody goes missing from a house and there's
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Speaker 1: really not an indication. Yeah. And as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Bryant, I have that same fascination when Isabel Silice
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Speaker 1: was taken out of her home. I could not understand.
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Speaker 1: I thought, Wow, this has to be an inside job,
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Speaker 1: a relative of a a friend, some family member. No, it
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Speaker 1: was not. And then of course there's Elizabeth Smart that
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Speaker 1: we always refer back to. But it's not just Smart.
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Speaker 1: There are so many others. And this is a young
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Speaker 1: girl that had never given her family any trouble at all.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to her parents speaking to our friends
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Speaker 1: at Inside Edition. The fourteen year old hasn't been seen
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Speaker 1: or heard from in about two weeks. Please come home, wait,
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Speaker 1: they mean she terribly Sitting in their living room, Savannah's
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Speaker 1: parents plead for her safe return, holding photos of their
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Speaker 1: oldest child, who they believe wouldn't just run away. She
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Speaker 1: has never misbehaveden a mad kid ever in her life.
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Speaker 1: And this is just really way out and left field
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Speaker 1: for her. Investigators in Tennessee say so far their trail
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Speaker 1: for her has gone cold, usually relocate them within twenty
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Speaker 1: four to forty eight hours a cell phone ping neural
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Speaker 1: Welcome center in Corbin, Kentucky, about one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: miles from their Madison Bill home. You're on a sunshine
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Speaker 1: and you'll always be my friendshinet By on what Savannah
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Speaker 1: Pruitt is described as five three, one hundred ten pounds
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Speaker 1: with blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information on
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Speaker 1: her whereabouts should call police. Her family was emotional, understandably
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Speaker 1: as you could understand. Anyone whose child has gone missing
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Speaker 1: is understandably distraught, and the Pruitts are no difference. We
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Speaker 1: do have some details, new information. They have been following
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Speaker 1: a few leads and looking into several people, but they
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Speaker 1: do not have any suspects just yet. This is a
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Speaker 1: big part of why they are now reaching out to
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Speaker 1: us and you the public. They've done as much as
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Speaker 1: they can and they need more help. They need you
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Speaker 1: all to be their eyes and their ears. This investigation
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Speaker 1: is now spanning across four states. Imagine the amount of
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Speaker 1: people at those state lines that could see something, say something.
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Speaker 1: We know that her cell phone was last pinned at
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Speaker 1: five thirty in the morning in the Corbin, Kentucky area.
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Speaker 1: All the Pruets want is their daughter back home on
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Speaker 1: their farm in Madisonville. Is It's just unimaginable to tell
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Speaker 1: you how it feels to lose one of yours. There
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Speaker 1: is no explanation unless you've went through it. She brought
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Speaker 1: the sunshine up in the morning. I mean, just like
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Speaker 1: having your cup of coffee in my life just not
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Speaker 1: the same without Savannah. She was my sunshine. But the
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Speaker 1: Facebook and now lesliensons she's watching a point in time.
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Speaker 1: Is there anything you guys have wanted her so that
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Speaker 1: we love her dearly? And we wonder whole what have
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Speaker 1: you even come home? For sure? Now the prue it's
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Speaker 1: just left here about an hour and a half ago.
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Speaker 1: They're going to go keep on passing out even more
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Speaker 1: and more flyers. Christina Pruett, Savannah's mom. Her husband is
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Speaker 1: a trucker. He will be passing out flyers at truck
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Speaker 1: stop rest areas. You'll soon start to see them everywhere.
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Speaker 1: We're told that Savannah loved all animals. That was part
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Speaker 1: of the reason why they moved back from Georgia to
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Speaker 1: Tennessee was so that she could have a farm, and
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Speaker 1: looking at her animals right now is just too difficult
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Speaker 1: for her parents. That is the family of missing Savannah
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Speaker 1: prue It speaking to our friends at wat E N
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Speaker 1: Knoxville Rapporter, Gabriella Pegan, Oh gosh, when I hear the
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Speaker 1: mom talking, it's just it's brutal. And the dad because
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Speaker 1: in the morning, it'll be about five AM and I
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Speaker 1: wake up and I think, oh, I'm gonna go put
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Speaker 1: on some tea and get ready for John Davis and
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Speaker 1: Lucy waking up and that is what gets me to
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Speaker 1: put my feet on the floor. Guys, we were talking
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Speaker 1: about a beautiful young girl, Savannah Lee Pruett. There is
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Speaker 1: no indication whatsoever that she went willingly tipline four two
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Speaker 1: three four four two three nine one one four two
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Speaker 1: three four four two Help joining me, doctor Brian Russell,
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Speaker 1: Karen Smith, Robin Willinsky and right now joining me Judge
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Speaker 1: a lawyer. You can find her at Ashley Wilcott dot
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Speaker 1: com Ashley Wilcott Ashley that the thought of waking up
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Speaker 1: and you're a girl being gaunt just gone. I mean,
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Speaker 1: because of what I do I'm constantly looking in on
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Speaker 1: the twins, and I always make sure I see two
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Speaker 1: lumps in the bed. I've just now managed to stop
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Speaker 1: going closer to make sure they're breathing, okay, because even
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Speaker 1: I know that's a little too weird. But can you
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Speaker 1: imagine going in and there's no lump in the bed? No? No,
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it for anyone. Nancy, and I just
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Speaker 1: feel for these parents and all my sympathy in terms
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Speaker 1: of having to go through this. But there are a
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Speaker 1: few things that bother me. I do a lot of
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Speaker 1: prevention work, and a lot of people are going to
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Speaker 1: look at this case frankly and say, oh, she's a runaway,
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Speaker 1: she just ran away. She's probably trouble at home. No,
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Speaker 1: she's a victim. Even if she ran away, she's a
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Speaker 1: victim because there is someone who knows what happened to her.
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Speaker 1: There's likely a predator involved in this. She is a victim,
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Speaker 1: and with God, everybody's got to be looking for her.
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Speaker 1: You to take a listen to what our friends are
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Speaker 1: learning regarding her cell phone data. We've already reached out
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Speaker 1: to all these sell your phone carriers and social media
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Speaker 1: outlets and have produced an excess of two thousand pages
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Speaker 1: of reporting. Myself, the Phobier of Investigation Knoxville Office, and
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Speaker 1: the TBI have gone through each and every page of
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Speaker 1: that reporting and there hasn't been nothing in any of
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Speaker 1: that reporting that led us to believe that she intended
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Speaker 1: to run away or speaking to anybody that would try
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Speaker 1: to abduct her. So at this point, where's this is.
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Speaker 1: This is a missing person's case. She's not being upgrade
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Speaker 1: to an endangered child at this point because we don't
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Speaker 1: have any information as far as her being in any
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Speaker 1: direct danger. Any and all tips that come in will
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Speaker 1: be followed up by myself, the FBI, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to continue to be checking with her phone services to
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Speaker 1: see if those phones do reactivate. They also have information
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Speaker 1: in their systems to defy us if there's an activation immediately.
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Speaker 1: So at this point, we're just waiting on her phones
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Speaker 1: to activate and waiting on tips and information, but we
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Speaker 1: just keep looking. We got authorities in several different states
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Speaker 1: already working on the case. Yes, we reached out to
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Speaker 1: authorities in four different states. That's Detective Jason phil Yaw
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Speaker 1: with Monroe County Sheriff's Office will get back in that
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Speaker 1: press are in just one moment. That is very extensive,
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Speaker 1: a very extensive media search and device search. To Karen Smith,
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Speaker 1: forensics expert, joining me, you heard detective Jason Philia and
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Speaker 1: they say them when Roe County Sheriff's Office have obtained
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Speaker 1: all of her cell phone data and text messages and
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Speaker 1: her social media pages two thousand pages worth, and there
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Speaker 1: is no indication she was going to run away from home.
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Speaker 1: Karen Smith, what more can you tell us? This is
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Speaker 1: a head scratcher, Nancy, And I'll tell you what When
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Speaker 1: they're going through two thousand pages of social media. You know,
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Speaker 1: some carry keep your text messages, other cell carriers do not,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know how much of that is actually text.
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Speaker 1: The problem is the cell phones are missing, and apparently
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Speaker 1: they've either been turned off or they've powered down, and
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Speaker 1: they were last seen in Corbin, Kentucky. They were last
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Speaker 1: heard from in Corbon, So you know, first of all,
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Speaker 1: they need to find the cellphones if they can. Just
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Speaker 1: because the cell phones were there doesn't mean they were
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Speaker 1: with Savannah. To doctor Brian Russell, psychologists, a lawyer and
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Speaker 1: host of the hit series on investigation Discovery, Fatal Vows.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Bryant I mean, it speaks volumes to me that
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Speaker 1: they've sifted through two thousand pages of cell phone data,
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Speaker 1: social media data, all of that, and they found nothing
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Speaker 1: INOTI and G to suggest she ran away. One of
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Speaker 1: the things about social media that is so insidious these days, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: is that kids can have contact with predators who are
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Speaker 1: posing as other kids. So you can look at somebody's
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Speaker 1: social media and it looks like, oh, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: they're they're just having contact with same age peers. You know,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't look like anything alarming. But you know, people
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Speaker 1: are not necessarily who they portray themselves to be on
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Speaker 1: social media. And so you can have a kid suggest
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Speaker 1: to another kid that, hey, wouldn't it be fun to
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Speaker 1: you know, sneak out in the middle of the night
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Speaker 1: and meet up in the park and have a coke
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Speaker 1: and and you know, the one kid runs off to
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Speaker 1: do it, and the other kid turns out to be
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Speaker 1: a recently released sex offender from prison. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: just because it doesn't there's nothing obvious in the social media,
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Speaker 1: I don't think necessarily means there wasn't some contact there
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Speaker 1: that we'll find out about later on. Well, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you recall just recently I met with
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Speaker 1: Alicia Kusko, who is the personification of that scenario. She's gorgeous,
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Speaker 1: she's brilliant. She's now an activist. She was online as
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Speaker 1: a teen girl and taught for a long month to
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Speaker 1: some other girl. Then she discovered the hard way who
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Speaker 1: she was really speaking to. She came out of the
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Speaker 1: house one night after a family dinner around Christmas, and
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Speaker 1: the teen girl was there and grabbed her, put her
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Speaker 1: in his car, held her captive, raped, molested, chamber to
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Speaker 1: the floor. Had planned to kill her that evening when
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Speaker 1: the FEDS saved her life. I want to talk about
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Speaker 1: that cell phone ping. Will a cell phone ping crack
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Speaker 1: this case? What was the date that you pained her
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Speaker 1: cell phone? It was about five fifteen to five thirty
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Speaker 1: on the morning of the fourteen, So the morning she
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Speaker 1: was missing, you were able to pay herself. Yes, as
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Speaker 1: soon as you noticed that was in Corben, did you
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Speaker 1: That's her phone still on. No her phone has been
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Speaker 1: is there any reason to believe or know why she
22:08
Speaker 1: would be in Kentucky or what she could be doing
22:10
Speaker 1: in Kentucky? None at all. Now you are hearing Detective
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Speaker 1: Jason Phillia with a Monroe County Sheriff suppressor as he
22:19
Speaker 1: is describing the last ping back to Robert Wilinsky, Crime
22:22
Speaker 1: Online dot Com investigative reporter, author of Beautiful Life CSI,
22:27
Speaker 1: Behind the Casey Anthony Trial on Amazon. Robert Wolinsky, A
22:30
Speaker 1: ping and A. I think I heard him say, welcome
22:34
Speaker 1: center just across the state line in Kentucky, right. A
22:38
Speaker 1: welcome center is one of those places, Nancy, where you
22:40
Speaker 1: cross over into the next state and you can stop
22:43
Speaker 1: and use the facilities, pick up a map, you know,
22:47
Speaker 1: kind of stretch your legs. So to me, it would
22:49
Speaker 1: be a place where there would be people walking around,
22:53
Speaker 1: possibly even at that in the wee hours, at five
22:56
Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning. I've driven across country many times,
23:00
Speaker 1: and these welcome centers are normally a very good place
23:03
Speaker 1: kind of to stretch your legs and use the bathroom.
23:05
Speaker 1: Well that's that's interesting because in the book I'm writing
23:08
Speaker 1: nonfiction about fighting crime, I say, do not go to
23:11
Speaker 1: a rest stop. It's a predator's playground. I mean, when
23:15
Speaker 1: I was growing up, would stop at Stucky's and it
23:19
Speaker 1: was the Stucky family and they were known for their
23:21
Speaker 1: peak on logs. Okay, that was a big big deal
23:24
Speaker 1: to get a Stucky's peak on log at a the
23:26
Speaker 1: only place you could get and was a welcome center.
23:29
Speaker 1: Those days are long gone. But Robin Willinsky, you go
23:32
Speaker 1: right on ahead, and you stop at that rest center,
23:35
Speaker 1: and you just keep my number and nine one one
23:38
Speaker 1: on speed dial. I'm probably taking my life in my hands.
23:41
Speaker 1: The ones in the state of New Jersey where I'm
23:43
Speaker 1: from are pretty safe and have cameras on them. Good
23:48
Speaker 1: because you know, I'll be playing that surveillance video over
23:51
Speaker 1: and over and over saying where's Robin Wilinski. But go ahead.
23:55
Speaker 1: What time of the day was this early morning when
23:58
Speaker 1: her phone Savanta only prew its phone pinged in Kentucky
24:02
Speaker 1: just across the Tennessee line between five fifteen am and
24:05
Speaker 1: five thirty And what I find interesting about this is
24:09
Speaker 1: that this is a hundred and forty miles away from
24:12
Speaker 1: the house. So if you do the math, you know
24:15
Speaker 1: this is a couple of hours drives away from where
24:18
Speaker 1: she's living. Okay, one hundred and forty miles away from
24:21
Speaker 1: the home. She goes missing between eleven PM and four am,
24:26
Speaker 1: which means if she had headed whoever has her head
24:29
Speaker 1: headed straight out one hundred and forty divided by sixty
24:33
Speaker 1: miles an hour, it's about two and a half hours ish,
24:37
Speaker 1: which puts her leaving. Wow, that pussy you could get
24:43
Speaker 1: there in that window. Yeah, absolutely, because if she pins
24:48
Speaker 1: at four what time there was it, did you say
24:51
Speaker 1: five fifteen am? Five fifteen? Backing up two hours, that's
24:55
Speaker 1: about and two and a half that's around two thirty
24:57
Speaker 1: in the morning. Yeah, you're right. So pinged not long
25:02
Speaker 1: after she went to bed. It's almost as if someone
25:05
Speaker 1: was looking in her window or saw her go to bed,
25:09
Speaker 1: waited until the lights were off and everything was dark,
25:12
Speaker 1: like everybody was asleep, grabbed her right then, say eleven thirty,
25:17
Speaker 1: eleven forty five midnight, and took off. Now, the family
25:22
Speaker 1: has said repeatedly they do not know anyone in Kentucky.
25:27
Speaker 1: The Sheriff's office. Repeat says Savannah's phone has not been
25:31
Speaker 1: active since that last ping, the day she went missing.
25:36
Speaker 1: She has not used her cell phone or presented herself
25:40
Speaker 1: on social media since the time she went missing. Detectives
25:44
Speaker 1: say she had two phones, one from her old residence
25:48
Speaker 1: in Georgia and another one she got right when her
25:51
Speaker 1: family moved to Monroe County, Tennessee. They moved there, Repeat
25:56
Speaker 1: so she could have more space for all of her animals.
26:00
Speaker 1: I get it. Why do you think I clean guinea
26:02
Speaker 1: pig cages every morning at seven am because it's my
26:06
Speaker 1: daughter's dream. She wants to be a veterinarian. We got
26:09
Speaker 1: a dog, we got a cat, we got guineas, and
26:11
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen next. Please don't
26:14
Speaker 1: let it be rabbits. But this is what I know.
26:17
Speaker 1: You'll do anything for your children. They moved so she
26:21
Speaker 1: could have more space to have all of her animals.
26:24
Speaker 1: She has never run away before. We also know that
26:29
Speaker 1: a window was open. A window was open. What does
26:36
Speaker 1: it mean to you? To Karen Smith, forensics expert, that
26:40
Speaker 1: her phone either went dead or was turned off after
26:45
Speaker 1: that ping, It means that either the phone batteries at
26:50
Speaker 1: the same time went dead, which is highly unlikely, or
26:54
Speaker 1: somebody physically turned those phones off for a reason, they
26:59
Speaker 1: realized that she had these phones, took them from her
27:02
Speaker 1: and shut them down. Now, what I want to know
27:05
Speaker 1: is in Corbin, Kentucky, where they were pinged. What kind
27:08
Speaker 1: of a search was done? Did they search around the
27:11
Speaker 1: entire rest area? Did they search every garbage camp? Did
27:14
Speaker 1: they search every nook and cranny, Did they search the dumpsters?
27:17
Speaker 1: Did they search the field? Those cell phones are somewhere.
27:21
Speaker 1: We need to find them, you know they are. And
27:24
Speaker 1: I don't want to be bleak, but you know, Robin
27:29
Speaker 1: Willinskey and I've been covering the case of missing Colorado
27:32
Speaker 1: mom Kelsey Barrett. We still don't have her cell phone,
27:36
Speaker 1: and we know the area where it last pained and
27:38
Speaker 1: where I think it was discarded near Gooding and Twins Falls,
27:42
Speaker 1: Twin Falls, Idaho. Still don't have it. Yeah, sometimes the
27:46
Speaker 1: criminal mind, some of these people can just dump it
27:49
Speaker 1: in a dumpster and then it gets taken you to
27:51
Speaker 1: a landfill and never to be seen again or tossed
27:54
Speaker 1: at a body of water. You know, I don't believe
27:57
Speaker 1: the family had This is a yes, no rob and
28:00
Speaker 1: do we know if they had surveillance cameras in the home.
28:03
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Speaker 1: January fourteenth, twenty nineteen, Span up Lead through It fourteen
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Speaker 1: year old email Tomorrow County. Let's reported missing by your parents,
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Speaker 1: Christina and Randall prewage are. Investigation has basically led us
30:02
Speaker 1: to this point. She was last observed by cell phone
30:08
Speaker 1: GPS to be in the Corbin, Kentucky area, possibly moving
30:14
Speaker 1: north to an unknown destination. From there, we are we
30:21
Speaker 1: would like to ask the public's help in any way
30:24
Speaker 1: with tips that lead to the you know, to the
30:28
Speaker 1: location safe return of Savannah to her parents again. Savannah
30:34
Speaker 1: is described as a white female fourteen years of age.
30:39
Speaker 1: She is five foot three inches tall, one hundred and
30:42
Speaker 1: ten pounds, strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes. That's the description
30:47
Speaker 1: we are getting from Detective Jason Phillyalwa, Monroe County Sheriff's
30:50
Speaker 1: office at his pressor. We'll get back into that in
30:52
Speaker 1: a moment. But what we know is Savannah Lee Pruitt,
30:57
Speaker 1: missing fourteen years old from Madison of Old Tennessee, has
31:00
Speaker 1: never run away. But we also know a window was open.
31:07
Speaker 1: We know that apparently her clothes and the bedsheets were
31:13
Speaker 1: taken out. Who did that? Her mom says, yes, there
31:20
Speaker 1: is a possibility she ran away, but I can tell
31:25
Speaker 1: you this, even if that's true, a fourteen year old
31:27
Speaker 1: little girl is not gonna last long in a big,
31:31
Speaker 1: mean world. On Facebook, Savannah writes about quote loving parents
31:37
Speaker 1: who teach me right from wrong Deli. Her first Facebook
31:42
Speaker 1: page has practically nothing publicly viewable except there are two photos.
31:46
Speaker 1: A profile photo with a heart around it. A second
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Speaker 1: page with the same profile picture says I'm the daughter
31:54
Speaker 1: of two amazing, loving parents who teach me right from wrong.
31:57
Speaker 1: DELI Love you guys. The cover photo on one of
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Speaker 1: the two pages is the Holy Cross. Other photos in
32:05
Speaker 1: the page say things like family is Everything. It discusses
32:09
Speaker 1: books she's reading, shares some selfies. One friend wrote, you
32:15
Speaker 1: like you look like the sweet little girl. You are pretty.
32:20
Speaker 1: Her mom calls her sunshine. Is it possible she ran away,
32:26
Speaker 1: I don't know. The mom says she's counting the days
32:29
Speaker 1: on the calendar, and they're starting to blend together. To
32:33
Speaker 1: doctor Brian Russell, psychologist and lawyer, host of Id's Fatal Vows,
32:38
Speaker 1: Doctor Brian, a little girl like this straight off a
32:42
Speaker 1: farm in Madisonville, Tennessee. How long you think she's gonna
32:45
Speaker 1: survive on the streets? Not long if she's trying to
32:49
Speaker 1: survive by herself. You know, I think any parent who
32:55
Speaker 1: has a teenager at home and has not seen I
32:58
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen the movie search but any
33:01
Speaker 1: parent who has not seen the movie Searching, you ought
33:06
Speaker 1: to watch it. If it's freezing cold where you are
33:09
Speaker 1: this week, there's something great to do inside stream the
33:12
Speaker 1: movie Searching. Watch it, and then, if you think it's appropriate,
33:15
Speaker 1: watch it with your teen I think both of you
33:18
Speaker 1: could learn something really potentially life saving, because it's about
33:23
Speaker 1: just exactly the kind of situation that we're talking about,
33:26
Speaker 1: where a young girl leaves her home, you know, not
33:31
Speaker 1: with any intention of never coming back, and then gets
33:34
Speaker 1: caught up in something that she had, you know, she
33:37
Speaker 1: never could have planned for. And so and it all
33:42
Speaker 1: starts on social media. So it's it's very eye opening.
33:46
Speaker 1: I think for people well Ashley Wilcot at Ashley Wilcot
33:50
Speaker 1: dot com, judge, lawyer and anchor Ashley. The social media
33:56
Speaker 1: they've come through two thousand pages of it indicate nothing
34:00
Speaker 1: about running away. So here's the thing, Nancy, I am
34:04
Speaker 1: not accusing anyone, but we see in our line away
34:07
Speaker 1: now I've noticed you always say that right before you
34:09
Speaker 1: accuse some money. Over and over and over again, we
34:13
Speaker 1: see circumstances that are the worst case scenario we'd never
34:16
Speaker 1: think could happen. I am not saying these parents are involved,
34:20
Speaker 1: but I am going to point out a few things.
34:22
Speaker 1: First of all, both of them talk about her in
34:24
Speaker 1: the past tense. She was our life. We've lost her. Yes,
34:30
Speaker 1: she's missing, but I think most parents are going to
34:33
Speaker 1: hang on to hope, beyond hope, that she's really okay
34:36
Speaker 1: and she's going to be found. So that bothered me.
34:39
Speaker 1: The other piece of this is, no, she's never run
34:42
Speaker 1: away before, but somebody knows something, whether there's foul play
34:46
Speaker 1: or not, someone knows something, So anything they know, whether
34:51
Speaker 1: it's about her, the family dynamics, whatever, they need to
34:56
Speaker 1: come forward. In the last hours her family says her parents.
35:00
Speaker 1: They have no reason to believe she ran away. Back
35:02
Speaker 1: to Robin Molinsky, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, let's
35:06
Speaker 1: go through what we know about her disappearance, about the home,
35:09
Speaker 1: about the community. What evidence do we have right now, Robin,
35:12
Speaker 1: This is like you say, it is a city, but
35:15
Speaker 1: it is a rural area where the home is. There's
35:19
Speaker 1: four kids living there with the two parents. They are married.
35:22
Speaker 1: These are there four biological children. There's all sorts of animals,
35:27
Speaker 1: which is why they moved there in the first place,
35:29
Speaker 1: a little more space than where they were living in
35:31
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia up until the Christmas break and
35:35
Speaker 1: then they move. Well, I know this, I know, Philly Yaw.
35:38
Speaker 1: Detective Phillyaw says they have no evidence and they do
35:43
Speaker 1: not believe that she was in touch with anyone. So
35:48
Speaker 1: I mean to me, if she's not in touch with anybody,
35:52
Speaker 1: how did she get or her phone get that far
35:56
Speaker 1: away one hundred and thirty hundred and forty miles away
36:00
Speaker 1: by five o'clock in the morning or four o'clock in
36:03
Speaker 1: the morning. So, if she's not in touch with anybody
36:06
Speaker 1: who has her you know what, Nancy, It reminds me
36:08
Speaker 1: of a case we did recently where someone in the
36:12
Speaker 1: neighborhood sees this girl. She's extremely attractive, and perhaps they
36:17
Speaker 1: had eyes on the house and we're watching the patterns.
36:20
Speaker 1: One are the lights on, one are the lights off.
36:23
Speaker 1: Maybe they had eyes on this home and we're watching
36:25
Speaker 1: this girl just like we've seen with Elizabeth Smart. Well,
36:28
Speaker 1: that's interesting, Robin, that's very interesting. I'm gonna throw this
36:32
Speaker 1: to Karen Smith forensics expert Jackie Howard here and the
36:35
Speaker 1: studio has pointed out something I find very interesting. They
36:38
Speaker 1: had only been in that home four weeks. In that home, remember,
36:43
Speaker 1: they had just moved there from Lawrenceville, Georgia to a
36:47
Speaker 1: bigger plot of Lance so she could have all of
36:48
Speaker 1: her animals. She wanted just four weeks. And what Robin
36:52
Speaker 1: is saying that I was alluding to earlier, she said
36:56
Speaker 1: it much better they had just gone asleep. If you
36:59
Speaker 1: look at the time timing, the timing she goes to
37:02
Speaker 1: bed at eleven PM. At four am, sister notices she's gone.
37:06
Speaker 1: That gives me a five hour window her phone, her
37:09
Speaker 1: cell phone is peeed around five am, two and a
37:13
Speaker 1: half hours away, Okay, which means you know she probably
37:17
Speaker 1: left pretty quickly. After the lights went out, and they
37:23
Speaker 1: an intruder could have seen the lights go out. Gives
37:26
Speaker 1: it forty minutes or so for everybody to settle in
37:28
Speaker 1: and go to sleep and bam in the window and gone.
37:32
Speaker 1: That's exactly the way it happened with Elizabeth Smart. You're right,
37:37
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. And I'll tell you what, Nancy. I
37:41
Speaker 1: go back to the open window, and I go back
37:44
Speaker 1: to the fact that her bed sheets and clothes were missing. Now,
37:49
Speaker 1: I don't know of a teenager that's going to sneak
37:51
Speaker 1: out in the middle of the night and take their
37:52
Speaker 1: bed sheets with them. The hairs on the back of
37:55
Speaker 1: my neck stood off when I read that. And here's
37:58
Speaker 1: the thing that window, the forensics that maybe gleaned from it.
38:02
Speaker 1: We are talking DNA, we're talking hairs and fibers. If
38:06
Speaker 1: somebody came in that window and then exited with her,
38:10
Speaker 1: they need to look at all of the minute traits
38:12
Speaker 1: evidence that may have been left behind, and you know, fingerprints,
38:15
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not, But you have to look at her bedroom,
38:20
Speaker 1: you have to look at the window. You have to
38:22
Speaker 1: look at whether it's the first floor a second floor.
38:24
Speaker 1: Were there any shoeprints outside? Was there any tire tracks
38:28
Speaker 1: of foreign car. Explain to me why it disturbs you
38:32
Speaker 1: so much, because I feel the same way about her
38:35
Speaker 1: bed sheets missing. Who takes their bed sheets? You know, listen,
38:38
Speaker 1: I was a teenager, we all were. I snuck out,
38:41
Speaker 1: didn't ever take my bed sheets with me. I just
38:44
Speaker 1: went out my life. I never snuck out, and neither
38:46
Speaker 1: did Jackie snuck out. Well, I did. I would go
38:50
Speaker 1: to the neighborhood pool with all the kids that at midnight,
38:53
Speaker 1: and you know, we'd swim around and be stupid. But
38:56
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that somebody took me. And I never
38:58
Speaker 1: took my bed sheets. That tells me that somebody may
39:02
Speaker 1: have This is my speculation here. Somebody may have maybe
39:06
Speaker 1: subdued her in the room and then wrapped her in
39:08
Speaker 1: the sheet and taken her. You know what, here's another issue.
39:11
Speaker 1: We know some clothes were taken, but we have no
39:13
Speaker 1: indication a coat was taken. And it's cold, guys, please
39:18
Speaker 1: help us. Her parents say it's like having their soul
39:22
Speaker 1: ripped out. Fourteen year old Savannah Lee Pruitt is missing.
39:27
Speaker 1: Desperation growing to find fourteen year old Savannah Lee Pruitt
39:31
Speaker 1: Nearly three weeks after she mysteriously vanished. She was our life,
39:36
Speaker 1: and our life is gone. It's hard. I mean it's
39:42
Speaker 1: hard to eat, it's hard to sleep, it's hard to think. Pruitt,
39:45
Speaker 1: who was homeschooled, last seen January thirteenth, heading to bed
39:48
Speaker 1: around eleven PM. Typical ordinary day, I mean, no signs
39:54
Speaker 1: of anything. Just before five the next morning, her family
39:57
Speaker 1: discovering Savannah was gone, her bedroom window open, and some
40:01
Speaker 1: of her clothes and bedsheets missing. Authorities believe the team
40:05
Speaker 1: may have traveled roughly one hundred forty miles from her
40:08
Speaker 1: home in Madisonville, Tennessee, to Corbin, Kentucky, her cell phone
40:12
Speaker 1: pinging in that area around five fifteen that morning with
40:16
Speaker 1: no activity. Since, there has been no presence on social media,
40:20
Speaker 1: either through Facebook or any other outlets that we've investigated.
40:23
Speaker 1: The Pruets clinging to hope she'll return home soon. Savannah,
40:27
Speaker 1: I love you and we want you to come home.
40:31
Speaker 1: Where is Savannah Lee? A Pruet? This little Tennessee girls,
40:35
Speaker 1: just fourteen years old, was quote her normal bubbly self
40:38
Speaker 1: before she vanished over two weeks ago. By Nancy Grace.
40:43
Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories tipline four two three four four
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Speaker 1: four two h LP. Can't sleep, can't eat, can't think?
40:56
Speaker 1: The parents in agony? Where is Savannah? Joining me right
41:02
Speaker 1: now on the scene. Special guest Detective Jason Philiall from
41:06
Speaker 1: the Monroe County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department, detective, thank you so
41:10
Speaker 1: much for being with us. Well, how did you first
41:13
Speaker 1: find out Savannah was missing? Her parents had nine one one.
41:17
Speaker 1: We had a deft respond to the scene take down
41:21
Speaker 1: missing children information and he reported it to me. As
41:27
Speaker 1: I am the investigator that deals with all of our
41:31
Speaker 1: juvenile child abuse type cases. I've got a question for
41:35
Speaker 1: you everyone with me From Monroe County, Tennessee's Detective Jason
41:38
Speaker 1: phil Yall detective. When they called nine one one, what
41:43
Speaker 1: time was it? They called nine one one by at
41:47
Speaker 1: six thirty seven am sixty Yes, ma'am. The stuff father
41:54
Speaker 1: had already tried to stect the area to see if
41:56
Speaker 1: she had wandered away from the house. They have horses
42:00
Speaker 1: in a barn and she takes care of the horses,
42:01
Speaker 1: so he had done have to check those areas things
42:03
Speaker 1: of that nature before they called nine one one who
42:07
Speaker 1: discovered her missing? Detector Fiel y'all. Her twelve year old
42:10
Speaker 1: sister initially found her bedroom empty, and then she told
42:13
Speaker 1: her parents that she wasn't there. And then the twelve
42:16
Speaker 1: year old sister and her father went into the bedroom
42:18
Speaker 1: and found the window open. The window open. What kind
42:21
Speaker 1: of window was it? Detect to fill y'all, it was
42:24
Speaker 1: just a vinyl type single sash window and the window
42:29
Speaker 1: the sash was raised and the screen had been cut.
42:32
Speaker 1: The screen had been cut. I find that interesting. You know,
42:36
Speaker 1: they can actually tell if the screen was cut from
42:39
Speaker 1: the inside or the outside by looking at the way
42:44
Speaker 1: the tiny pieces of metal are bent. For instance, if
42:49
Speaker 1: you cut from the inside, you'll see just I have
42:53
Speaker 1: to look at it under a microscope. I can't just
42:57
Speaker 1: look at it. I can feel it if I barely
43:01
Speaker 1: touch it with my fingers. But see that's dangerous because
43:04
Speaker 1: if there is any fingerprint on there, you're messing that up.
43:08
Speaker 1: But I have felt a replica, and if you feel
43:11
Speaker 1: it really carefully, like from the bottom up the screen,
43:15
Speaker 1: you can feel which way it was cut, just barely.
43:19
Speaker 1: Do you have a determination about which way it was cut?
43:22
Speaker 1: The preliminary determination it was cut from the inside of
43:25
Speaker 1: the residents We have the Photopial of Investigation in the
43:29
Speaker 1: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation assisting in the case, and we
43:32
Speaker 1: have special agents that are working on that right now.
43:35
Speaker 1: You know what else, Detective Jason Filyall. And you probably
43:38
Speaker 1: already know this, of course you do. But for our
43:40
Speaker 1: listeners another way that you can tell if a screen
43:43
Speaker 1: was in it from the outside or the inside. Was
43:46
Speaker 1: it pushed out from the inside or was it taken down?
43:49
Speaker 1: It's where it's lying, because if you push it out
43:53
Speaker 1: from the inside, generally it'll go straight down. If you're
43:57
Speaker 1: taking it off from the outside, an intruder will cast
44:00
Speaker 1: it aside. Am I making myself clear? Detective Yes, when
44:05
Speaker 1: you went in the room, what was the first thing
44:09
Speaker 1: you noticed? Detective fill y'alls missing? Now, that can be
44:15
Speaker 1: taken in many, many different ways, correct, many different ways,
44:19
Speaker 1: because if you're on the run, why would you take
44:23
Speaker 1: your bed sheets? Can I can I ask you? Did
44:27
Speaker 1: you see that the fitted sheet and the sheet you
44:31
Speaker 1: pull up over you we're both missing? Or just one
44:38
Speaker 1: appeared just to be a fitted sheet on the bed.
44:40
Speaker 1: So there are also two blankets that were pushed down
44:43
Speaker 1: towards the foot of the bed. So just the fitted sheet.
44:47
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I know this is a small detail, but
44:50
Speaker 1: the fitted sheet which goes down over the mattress was gone.
44:54
Speaker 1: The sheet you pull over you was it still tucked in?
44:58
Speaker 1: I'm just curious at the bottom. No, it was an
45:01
Speaker 1: awesome and neither were the blankets or the cover. No,
45:05
Speaker 1: were both the pillows still there? Yes, with me. Detective
45:09
Speaker 1: Jason philly Off from the Monroe County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department
45:12
Speaker 1: tip life for this missing girl, fourteen year olds of
45:15
Speaker 1: entele Pruett. Parents just moved there to have more land
45:18
Speaker 1: for all of her animals. I've been through the same
45:20
Speaker 1: thing with my daughter, Lucy Elizabeth Lynch. He is from
45:25
Speaker 1: the Monroe County Sheriff's and the tip line there is
45:27
Speaker 1: four two three four four two three nine one one.
45:30
Speaker 1: I know these seem like small details, but that they
45:33
Speaker 1: mean something to me. Now. Did she know how to drive,
45:37
Speaker 1: Detective No, No, other than just having four wheelers around
45:43
Speaker 1: the property. She hadn't been learning to drive yet, according
45:46
Speaker 1: to the parents. And do they have uber or left
45:49
Speaker 1: in that area. No. Man, we are a large county,
45:53
Speaker 1: but we're very rural. I'm with you, Detective. I grew
45:56
Speaker 1: up in Bibb County. There's nothing as far as I
45:59
Speaker 1: could see but soy beans and pine trees. Okay, somebody
46:02
Speaker 1: has said left. I would have no idea what they
46:04
Speaker 1: were talking about. So, Detective, so we know she did
46:08
Speaker 1: not leave by left or uber or taxi. We know
46:13
Speaker 1: she can't drive. Now, don't judge me, but my children,
46:16
Speaker 1: who are eleven, have been driving for three years. Okay, now,
46:19
Speaker 1: don't judge me because when I take them home to Macon,
46:23
Speaker 1: there's a big field and they go out there in
46:25
Speaker 1: my Mini Venil and ride around in circles. Okay, don't
46:29
Speaker 1: judge me. But they know how to crank up. They
46:31
Speaker 1: know how to put on the brake, the works. Okay, No,
46:36
Speaker 1: I'm not letting him out on the street, but they
46:37
Speaker 1: do know how to do that. My point is she
46:40
Speaker 1: had access to four wheelers. She does know a little bit,
46:43
Speaker 1: but no vehicles are missing, so that that crosses that
46:48
Speaker 1: awful list. Correct, correct? So I understand, Detective, that you
46:52
Speaker 1: guys have come through about two thousand pages of digital data.
46:56
Speaker 1: Is that true? Yes, good lord have And let me
47:00
Speaker 1: ask you this, what are you looking for and what
47:02
Speaker 1: if anything did you find? At this point we've found
47:06
Speaker 1: literally nothing to lead us in any direction in the investigation.
47:11
Speaker 1: We have sent out several more requests for new, more
47:14
Speaker 1: current information to all the cell phone providers and sell
47:18
Speaker 1: your phone tower systems, and we are actually all you're
47:22
Speaker 1: receiving that information this morning, and I'll be sitting down
47:25
Speaker 1: with special agents from the FBI and TBI to start
47:28
Speaker 1: going through the new information to try to kind of
47:31
Speaker 1: cast a broader net. Let me ask you another question, Detective.
47:34
Speaker 1: I know you've been through two thousand pages, but I'm
47:38
Speaker 1: taking what you just responded to me that does not
47:41
Speaker 1: include her most current cell phone data. That's correct when
47:44
Speaker 1: I first sent out the request at the beginning of
47:47
Speaker 1: the investigation. Does requests have an expiration point? So you
47:51
Speaker 1: actually have to update the request in search warrants to
47:55
Speaker 1: the different data outlet. So do you have the data
47:59
Speaker 1: until the night she went missing? We do, okay, So
48:02
Speaker 1: you would know if she has sent any text like hey,
48:04
Speaker 1: I'll meet you then of the driveway at two am,
48:07
Speaker 1: you would have you have her text You've got her
48:08
Speaker 1: texts and her sell phone calls. We have her text messages,
48:12
Speaker 1: we have her phone calls. We even have her I
48:15
Speaker 1: Cloud contents. And unless she has as a lot of
48:20
Speaker 1: fourteen year old you know teenagers do these days, unless
48:24
Speaker 1: she has an app, you know, an application that kind
48:27
Speaker 1: of hides that information from us grown ups. Oh, let
48:31
Speaker 1: me tell you. I got two eleven year old and
48:33
Speaker 1: I don't know what Sanma was thinking when they got
48:35
Speaker 1: an iPhone. I'll tell you what when I get my
48:36
Speaker 1: hands around his neck with me. Special Guest Attective Jason
48:40
Speaker 1: phill Yamanroae County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department leading this investigation. Detective. Yeah,
48:45
Speaker 1: there're things like what's app? Just talk home something. There's
48:51
Speaker 1: so many of them that they get in these little
48:55
Speaker 1: chat rooms and talk. So what I'm wondering is anybody
49:00
Speaker 1: two things. One are any particular clothes missing, like her
49:05
Speaker 1: favorite blue jeans that she would never have gone without?
49:09
Speaker 1: And Two what about any of her little friends? Are
49:12
Speaker 1: they missing? What do we know? As far as question one,
49:17
Speaker 1: her parents weren't able to tell us specifically which clothes
49:21
Speaker 1: were missing. They just notice that some of her clothes
49:23
Speaker 1: were missing. According apparently to them, they said that she
49:27
Speaker 1: was doing laundry the day of the thirteenth, the day
49:29
Speaker 1: prior to were doing missing. She'd been doing laundry, and
49:32
Speaker 1: she still had them all kind of piled up in
49:34
Speaker 1: her laundry bag and hadn't folded and put away. So
49:36
Speaker 1: that there's another thing, Detective, do you have a daughter?
49:39
Speaker 1: I have to Okay, Well, then you know the deal. Now,
49:42
Speaker 1: there are a lot of them. In addition to jeans,
49:44
Speaker 1: they wear things they look like jeans, but they're actually
49:48
Speaker 1: tights or leggings. And then of course everybody has to
49:51
Speaker 1: have black ones. My daughter has so many black tights
49:54
Speaker 1: over the years, and navy blue ones. If she went
49:57
Speaker 1: in one of them, you know, I would no, it's missing,
50:00
Speaker 1: because she has you know, seven or eight pair that
50:03
Speaker 1: all looked just alike. So if she has something like that,
50:06
Speaker 1: they wouldn't know. Now what about her pj's. Were they missing, Detective?
50:11
Speaker 1: They did not. They they appeared to be wadded up
50:13
Speaker 1: on the floor beside her cell phone charger. Speaking of
50:17
Speaker 1: cell phone, she has two cell phones. Why one cell
50:20
Speaker 1: phone was from Georgia where they had moved up from
50:23
Speaker 1: three weeks prior to her disappearance, and they found that
50:27
Speaker 1: that phone service didn't work as well as another carrier,
50:30
Speaker 1: so they went and got phones locally on the other
50:34
Speaker 1: carrier and just hadn't discontinued the contract on the previous phone.
50:39
Speaker 1: Both of those physical phones missing, both of them. Gone, yes, ma'am,
50:43
Speaker 1: but the charger's still there, right, yes, you know, any
50:47
Speaker 1: any child in the right mind would not take that charger.
50:50
Speaker 1: I find that interesting. Anything else missing that we know of,
50:55
Speaker 1: like a fitbit, an Apple watch, anything like that that
51:00
Speaker 1: she may have taken with her to suggest she left her.
51:04
Speaker 1: The only thing this thing is the two phones, the clothing,
51:06
Speaker 1: and in the bed sheet. Here's the conundrum. Here's the conundrum.
51:10
Speaker 1: Who drove her? Who took her? It's entirely possible somebody
51:16
Speaker 1: comes in that house and goes out that window. A question.
51:19
Speaker 1: Detective Jason fill y'all with me Moreau County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department,
51:23
Speaker 1: and we're trying to get every question out of him
51:24
Speaker 1: before he has to go back into meetings about this
51:27
Speaker 1: very case. Detective, so many thoughts running through my mind.
51:32
Speaker 1: She didn't drive, she's not on foot. We don't know
51:36
Speaker 1: if or who came into that home. What's your thought
51:40
Speaker 1: on who she may have been in contact with because
51:44
Speaker 1: they hadn't only lived there like four weeks? Is that right?
51:46
Speaker 1: That's correct. We've been tracking down leads in the Georgia
51:51
Speaker 1: area that they've moved up from. We have ABI agents
51:54
Speaker 1: that are working down there to follow up on those leads.
51:57
Speaker 1: Check with her school that she was enrolled in down Bay.
52:00
Speaker 1: We also have agents working in the Kentucky area where
52:04
Speaker 1: the last pings of her phone both phones, were checking
52:08
Speaker 1: leads and checking for traffic cameras things of that nature.
52:11
Speaker 1: Also have agents checking an area up in south or
52:14
Speaker 1: northeast Tennessee where the family was known to visit and
52:18
Speaker 1: had had some family friends up there where she had
52:20
Speaker 1: spent some time with them during the summer, to see
52:24
Speaker 1: if there were any leads up there. As far as
52:27
Speaker 1: here in Tennessee, she was homeschool for the three weeks
52:31
Speaker 1: that they were here, and they were they had had
52:33
Speaker 1: her enrolled in school, but she hadn't started yet. Is
52:37
Speaker 1: there more to the reasons? Okay, so you're focusing on
52:41
Speaker 1: other areas than right there. Okay, that makes perfect sense.
52:45
Speaker 1: I've got a feeling about the whole george of the
52:47
Speaker 1: Lawrenceville connection. Is there more to their move than we know?
52:52
Speaker 1: Did they move for any other reason other than wanting
52:54
Speaker 1: more land? The father was starting to have some health
52:59
Speaker 1: Is not severe health issues with some health issues and
53:01
Speaker 1: want to be closer to his family and her. The
53:03
Speaker 1: mother's family is from kind of in our area too,
53:06
Speaker 1: so it kind of got the more centrally located to relatives.
53:10
Speaker 1: Now we got information, it may be misinformation, that she
53:14
Speaker 1: had the two cell phones and they had both pained
53:17
Speaker 1: in Corban, Kentucky between five fifteen and five thirty. Oh,
53:21
Speaker 1: I thought she left one. She took both of them
53:23
Speaker 1: with her, yes, ma'am, and they both pained, yes. And
53:28
Speaker 1: then it's in about eight minutes of each other in
53:30
Speaker 1: the same county. We got to be she had a
53:35
Speaker 1: phone from at and t That phone peeinged clothed, you know,
53:38
Speaker 1: depending on what tale it hits at what time, but
53:41
Speaker 1: it showed closer to the welcome center in Kentucky, which
53:45
Speaker 1: is just about one point seven miles inside the state
53:48
Speaker 1: of Kentucky from Tennessee. And the other phone, her Verizon phone,
53:52
Speaker 1: tamed closer to the actual city of Orbin. Detective Jason
53:57
Speaker 1: phil y'a Moreau County, Tennessee Sheriff's Departments, I want to
54:00
Speaker 1: tell you one thing before you go. We didn't have
54:02
Speaker 1: a name for it at the time. I first encountered it.
54:05
Speaker 1: But I remember when I prosecuted two as we call
54:10
Speaker 1: them pimps, but they were much worse than that. They
54:13
Speaker 1: were child sex traffickers, and they had lured a thirteen
54:17
Speaker 1: year old girl under false pretenses, and when she went
54:20
Speaker 1: she was forced into prostitution in inner city Atlanta. It
54:24
Speaker 1: took me forever to find that girl. I had her
54:26
Speaker 1: school picture, gorgeous little girl with braids down the side
54:30
Speaker 1: of her head, gorgeous, big brown eyes. It took me
54:34
Speaker 1: three months working with vice. We went into a flophouse.
54:37
Speaker 1: They went, we think she's in there. I walked in.
54:40
Speaker 1: I came out once she's not in there. I s
54:42
Speaker 1: a bunch of grown women and went go back and
54:44
Speaker 1: look at the one in the white boots. I went back.
54:47
Speaker 1: I looked, she likes she's thirty five years old, Detective.
54:52
Speaker 1: She had a weave all down her back, high boots,
54:55
Speaker 1: tons of makeup, and a mini skirt. And I looked
54:59
Speaker 1: at her and could not believe that was the little girl.
55:04
Speaker 1: Got a mistrial in my opening statement, that's all right.
55:08
Speaker 1: I had it reindicted by the grand jury and they
55:10
Speaker 1: both got twenty to life. That's my fear, right now,
55:16
Speaker 1: Why is Savannah gone? Where is Savannah Lee? Pruitt with
55:21
Speaker 1: me Special guest Detective Jason pheel y'all spearheading this investigation
55:26
Speaker 1: from Monroe County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department, Detective I can't thank
55:30
Speaker 1: you enough. Is there anything else you want to tell
55:33
Speaker 1: our listeners across the country, including Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia
55:37
Speaker 1: right now, just please call in if you have any information,
55:40
Speaker 1: if you feel that you've seen anybody that looks like her,
55:43
Speaker 1: if you believe that you saw her yesterday, it doesn't matter.
55:47
Speaker 1: Any tip is an important tip. Please call in. Give
55:50
Speaker 1: us the information. It will be followed up on and
55:53
Speaker 1: taken seriously. I just am imagining my little girl. She's
55:57
Speaker 1: almost twelve now, this little girl just two years older,
56:01
Speaker 1: out in the public on an interstate with God only
56:07
Speaker 1: knows who. Thank you, Detective tipline four two three four
56:11
Speaker 1: four two three nine one one with me in addition
56:15
Speaker 1: to Detector Jason Philly offer them in Road County, Tennessee
56:17
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department. Special guest Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville
56:23
Speaker 1: State University and author of Blood Beneath My Feet on
56:26
Speaker 1: Amazon tell me what you believe forensics experts should be
56:31
Speaker 1: looking for in the home, specifically the bedroom, the window,
56:34
Speaker 1: the kitchen, the front door, the works. Yeah, we've kind
56:38
Speaker 1: of covered the screen. The thing that really bothers me
56:41
Speaker 1: about this case, Nancy, is the fact that that fitted
56:44
Speaker 1: sheet is missing. I want to know what was the
56:49
Speaker 1: rationale for taking taking that sheet. And so with that said,
56:54
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that all of that betting has been carefully
56:58
Speaker 1: collected to look for DNA. And I'd like to know
57:02
Speaker 1: what the surface of that mattress looks like. And uh,
57:06
Speaker 1: you know, I have thoughts that are running right now
57:08
Speaker 1: relative to things like sexual assault and all of these
57:11
Speaker 1: things that this young girl may have been lured out
57:13
Speaker 1: of the house, may have been assaulted, somebody had been
57:16
Speaker 1: targeting her. That that kind of sends a chill up
57:20
Speaker 1: my spine. Another thing, to the point of the cell phones,
57:25
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm this world is a very electronic savvy world. Now,
57:31
Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced that she was necessarily had those
57:35
Speaker 1: phones in her possession if there was somebody else with
57:38
Speaker 1: her for all I know, and I think that there
57:40
Speaker 1: is a main thoroughfare that runs from their location directly
57:44
Speaker 1: toward Corbyn. Corbyn's a point of entry for Kentucky coming
57:48
Speaker 1: out of Tennessee. I'm wondering if maybe those cell phones
57:52
Speaker 1: weren't on another vehicle the connection back in Georgia. I
57:57
Speaker 1: don't know if there's somebody down there that has a
57:59
Speaker 1: connection to her romantically, relationship wise, maybe she's headed in
58:04
Speaker 1: the other directions. So all of these things have to
58:06
Speaker 1: be considered in their totality here and as we sign off,
58:10
Speaker 1: we are getting information from WKOA has a suspect in
58:18
Speaker 1: the disappearance of this little girl been detained and Lynchfield,
58:24
Speaker 1: Kentucky has occurred. What we're waiting to find out according
58:30
Speaker 1: to w KOA, and we're still trying to confirm. A
58:33
Speaker 1: Marathon gas station employee who was working at the gas
58:36
Speaker 1: station at the time, says a mail entered the store
58:40
Speaker 1: at the gas station late Wednesday evening and made a purchase.
58:44
Speaker 1: When he exited and returned to his vehicle, which was
58:47
Speaker 1: a gray four passenger car, he was immediately surrounded put
58:52
Speaker 1: on the ground by FBI. The suspect was the only
58:58
Speaker 1: person observed in the vehicle. Go to crime online dot com,
59:03
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