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STILL MISSING: PREGNANT TEEN WITH 40-YEAR-OLD SEX PREDATOR - Where is Sophia? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a missing pregnant girl believed
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Speaker 1: to be with a forty year old sex predator.
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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: being with us.
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Speaker 3: A Wisconsin family desperately searching for answers as to the
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Speaker 3: whereabouts of their missing team. Where is Sophia Franklin.
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Speaker 1: Like so many parents, they think everything's fine, their daughter
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Speaker 1: making great grades in school, attending their little Baptist church
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Speaker 1: with them every Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Everything seems to be going.
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Speaker 1: Along normally in their minds, and then this listen tonight,
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Speaker 1: there's an active amber alert for sixteen year old Sophia
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Speaker 1: Martin Franklin in Arkansas, more than seven hundred.
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Speaker 4: Miles from her home in beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Sophia is
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Speaker 4: five foot nine, one hundred and eighty six pounds, with
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Speaker 4: brown hair and blue eyes. The teenager is believed to
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Speaker 4: be traveling in a black twenty fourteen Buick Lacrosse with
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Speaker 4: Pennsylvania plate number KGW five one A six. The driver,
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Speaker 4: forty year old abductor Gary Day, the father of Sophia's
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Speaker 4: unborn child.
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Speaker 1: A teen girl pregnant by a forty year old sex
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Speaker 1: predator with.
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Speaker 2: A rap sheet. Right now, we don't know what state
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Speaker 2: they could be in, we don't know where they're headed.
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Speaker 1: And we know that he has a history of changing
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Speaker 1: his car tags twenty fourteen Buick unless he's changed it out.
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Speaker 2: And I like to point out that.
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Speaker 1: This big loser is driving his mother's car.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: I did a search on this car and it is
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Speaker 1: actually registered to his mother. Joining me in an all
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Speaker 1: star panel to make sense of what we know right now,
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Speaker 1: but to explain.
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Speaker 2: How serious this is.
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Speaker 1: Joining me first is Shauna Burns out of North Carolina.
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Speaker 1: This is the mother of a little girl named Haley Burns.
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Speaker 1: Her daughter was also lured online by a much older
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Speaker 1: sex predator when her daughter, Haley, had just turned sixteen. Shauna,
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Speaker 1: what happened in Haley's case?
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Speaker 5: Haley did not recognize the danger in this situation that
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Speaker 5: she was getting herself into when she was going to
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Speaker 5: stay with a friend and ended up being held against
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Speaker 5: her wills for three hundred and ninety nine days.
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Speaker 6: And the person that took her was anything but a friend.
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Speaker 2: What exactly happened to Haley, SHAWNA.
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Speaker 6: He took her and put her in a room first,
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Speaker 6: and then ultimately kept her in a dog cage, He
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Speaker 6: starved her, did horrible things to her. Things I can't
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Speaker 6: go into because there are two graphics. But the worst
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Speaker 6: things that you could imagine, those are what he did
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Speaker 6: to my child.
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Speaker 1: With me is a broken hearted mother, Shawna Burns joining
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Speaker 1: us out of North Carolina. Her little girl, Haley, just sixteen,
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Speaker 1: was abducted by a man, a predator, a sex predator
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Speaker 1: that she met online. And to make matters worse, Shawna Burns,
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Speaker 1: isn't it true that Haley met her kidnapper and rapist
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Speaker 1: in a chat room where he was targeting young girls
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Speaker 1: with eating disorders.
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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, he prayed. He prayed on a lot of
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Speaker 6: women in that chat room.
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Speaker 2: How long did he have your daughter?
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Speaker 6: Three hundred and ninety nine days?
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Speaker 1: And during that time we did our best to help
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Speaker 1: find Haley.
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Speaker 2: And when she was found, how much weight had she lost? Shauna?
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Speaker 7: She weighed a bit about eighty six to eighty seven
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Speaker 7: pounds when she came back, and she was a I
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Speaker 7: cook every night, I cook every single night.
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Speaker 6: So my kid was a healthy weight when she left,
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Speaker 6: and she came back skin and bones. And one of
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Speaker 6: the hardest things was having to reintroduce food to her
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Speaker 6: because he had not let her have meat or dairy
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Speaker 6: or produce or.
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Speaker 7: Anything like that on any regular basis, so she could
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Speaker 7: not eat it.
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Speaker 6: She had to very slowly. We had to do rice
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Speaker 6: and then chicken. And that was the hardest part because
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Speaker 6: she'd been starved for so long. When she came home,
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Speaker 6: she just wanted to eat, but she couldn't because then
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Speaker 6: she would get sick.
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Speaker 1: Shawna, isn't it true that Haley's kidnap her who met
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Speaker 1: her online kept her locked up and would only give
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Speaker 1: her food in exchange for enforced sex.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 6: And the more violent that the acts were, the more
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Speaker 6: food she got.
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Speaker 1: Guys, you're hearing Shawna Burns describing what happened to her
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Speaker 1: daughter after she met a second predator online.
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Speaker 2: Same thing here.
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Speaker 1: This girl, now pregnant by the predator, has been kidnapped.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to Alexis Tereschuk, joining US Crime online dot
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Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter, I want to go through what happened
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Speaker 1: when Sophia goes missing. Listen Sunday night.
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Speaker 9: Sofia says her usual good nights and turns in around
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Speaker 9: nine pm Monday morning. Around eight am, Sofia's sister spots
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Speaker 9: Gary Days black buick idling a block down the street.
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Speaker 2: While she calls police.
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Speaker 9: A family member goes to check on Sophia and finds
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Speaker 9: her room empty. The family reviews surveillance footage and at
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Speaker 9: seven forty eight am, the camera catches Day walking up
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Speaker 9: the driveway then running up to the home. The Franklins
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Speaker 9: immediately report Sophia missing. Me on the lookout for this
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Speaker 9: sex predator.
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Speaker 1: A forty year old male traveling in a twenty fourteen
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Speaker 1: Buick Lacrosse.
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Speaker 2: He has chained license plates.
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Speaker 1: He started off with an Arkansas plate B Brother B
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Speaker 1: brother R read to zero L Lucy repeat bb R
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Speaker 1: two zero L. We believe, based on intelligence we have received,
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Speaker 1: he is now using a Pennsylvania plate k g W
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Speaker 1: five one eight six, but is known to change plates. Alexis,
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to that Sunday evening when Sophia said
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Speaker 1: good night to her family and goes to bed.
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Speaker 2: What happened then.
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Speaker 10: A regular Sunday night, cold winter night. She goes to
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Speaker 10: sleep at nine o'clock. You know, nothing unusual, Her parents did.
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Speaker 10: Nothing was unusual that night. They wake up in the
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Speaker 10: next morning, they go into her room. She is not there.
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Speaker 10: Everybody panics. Her sister notices about a block away from
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Speaker 10: the house that there is a car that she thinks
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Speaker 10: is very suspicious. So they go back. Sister's not in
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Speaker 10: the house, They search the house, They look around the house.
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Speaker 10: Her dad pulls up their security footage whether they have
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Speaker 10: cameras outside the house, and they see a man of
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Speaker 10: outside their house kind of running towards their backyard on
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Speaker 10: their security footage that morning. They instantly are terrified for
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Speaker 10: her and they call nine to one one and report
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Speaker 10: her missing. And she is only sixteen years old.
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Speaker 2: Brian just turned just turned sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Brian Fitzgibbons joining me Director Operations USPA Nationwide Security.
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Speaker 2: He leads a team of.
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Speaker 1: Investigators specializing and locating missing people. Brian, this guy had
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Speaker 1: the whole thing planted, by the way, he has a
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Speaker 1: rap sheet. He is a sex predator. This guy was
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Speaker 1: idling the sister. Sophia's sister noticed a black butte Lacrosse
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Speaker 1: engine running about a block away from the home when
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Speaker 1: they pull up that morning's video. As Alexis Terrestut was describing,
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Speaker 1: around seven ish that more, they see day the perp walking.
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Speaker 2: Up to the home.
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Speaker 1: As he nears the home, he starts running towards the
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Speaker 1: back of the home.
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Speaker 2: The fact that he was lying in wait is very disturbing.
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Speaker 8: Forsgibbons, Absolutely, Nancy, and that leads me to believe that
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Speaker 8: he was in communication.
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Speaker 2: With Sophia prior to this pickup.
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Speaker 8: We also know that he had an ankle monitoring bracelet
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Speaker 8: that he had removed or allowed to the battery to
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Speaker 8: die that day earlier that day, within twenty four hours.
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Speaker 1: Brian, when I hear ankle monitor, my blood boils. Okay,
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Speaker 1: why because people disable them and strict them.
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Speaker 2: All the time. All the time we.
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Speaker 1: Hear about it discarded or cut off or disabled ankle monitor,
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Speaker 1: Yet we still continue.
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Speaker 2: To do it.
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Speaker 1: And now Sophia is gone pregnant. Can I tell you, Brian,
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Speaker 1: how many cases just like this and a shootout and
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Speaker 1: badly when the sex predator realizes he's cornered, he's caught,
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Speaker 1: he takes himself.
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Speaker 2: And a little girl down with him.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, this is an extremely perilous time for Sophia, especially
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Speaker 8: with Day being desperate enough to remove his ankle monitor.
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Speaker 1: I'm very surprised, and I'm going to get off. Ankle
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Speaker 1: monitor has got bigger fish to fry. Brian, But I'm
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Speaker 1: very surprised when he removed his ankle monitor it did
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Speaker 1: not send some immediate alert to the monitor's supervisor.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't that have happened?
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Speaker 1: I mean, once you see the monitor doesn't move for
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Speaker 1: a period of time, and when it is taken off,
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Speaker 1: it should send a disabling frequency to the monitor.
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Speaker 8: In this case, I believe it did. Nancy within forty
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Speaker 8: eight hours. You can see in court documents that his
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Speaker 8: probation officer was already filing paperwork to that effect. So
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Speaker 8: forty's in Arkansas and you definitely.
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Speaker 2: Need it here in ZAP Forty eight hours. Forty eight hours.
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Speaker 1: Brian, You and I know the stats backwards and forwards.
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Speaker 1: The first three days, really, the first twenty four hours
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Speaker 1: are crucial.
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Speaker 2: Forty eight hours.
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Speaker 1: You might as well say forty eight days as far
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Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. Just think about it, Brian, sixty mph,
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Speaker 1: hour after hour after hour, they are on the run.
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Speaker 2: Forty eight hours. Seriously, that's what you've got for me.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that radius gets bigger and biggers. As you're saying,
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Speaker 8: you know, forty eight hours is a massive amount of
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Speaker 8: time here.
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Speaker 2: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. Can we talk about Brian
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Speaker 2: Fitzgibbons very quickly before.
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Speaker 1: I who this guy really is that has a sixteen
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Speaker 1: year old just turned sixteen pregnant we think three months pregnant.
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Speaker 2: By him and they're on the run.
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Speaker 1: Can we talk about in the vehicle because I believe
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Speaker 1: that's the best possibility, the best chance we've got of
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Speaker 1: finding Sophia alive. Okay, tell me what you know about
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Speaker 1: this black Buick Lacrosse and what's the possibility of a
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Speaker 1: navigation nav system in this So.
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Speaker 8: These twenty fourteen Buick Lacrosse are equipped with an Intelllink
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Speaker 8: navigation system. Now the important piece here is that the
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Speaker 8: Intello link, the brain behind it that communicates to both
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Speaker 8: cellular and satellite data, is driven by on Star.
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Speaker 2: That on Star module, whether or not Day has.
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Speaker 8: An active subscription, can be located with a cord order,
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Speaker 8: So on Star he's able to.
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Speaker 2: Pause, pause, pause.
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Speaker 1: See, not everybody knows what you're talking about. But when
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Speaker 1: you said court order, let me tell everybody, and I
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Speaker 1: have series XM, serious XM and others can't be forced
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Speaker 1: to hand over their tracking information, including nav systems. We
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Speaker 1: just saw this in the Alex Murlock double murder trial
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Speaker 1: where his nav system in his suburban told us everything
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Speaker 1: we needed to know about the time he gunned down
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Speaker 1: his wife Maggie and son Paul and then took off
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Speaker 1: to hide out at Mommy's house.
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Speaker 2: Really, you could even see.
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Speaker 1: When he opened the door to leave the crime scene,
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Speaker 1: when he turned the car on, put it in drive,
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Speaker 1: took off, when he lowered the window on the passenger
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Speaker 1: site to throw out his wife's cell phone, then let
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Speaker 1: the window back up and took off. It's very advanced,
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Speaker 1: but that was in a brand new suburban. This is
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Speaker 1: a twenty fourteen Buick Lacrosse. And you said, and tell
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Speaker 1: a link what how old is INTELLNK And isn't it
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Speaker 1: true they have to be updated in order to remain current.
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Speaker 1: What is intellerinc? And how does that help me find
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Speaker 1: this vehicle?
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Speaker 8: So intell Alink is effectively the interface that the driver
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Speaker 8: is going to use to connect their phone to use
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Speaker 8: navigation systems. And just like you said, those maps would
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Speaker 8: need to be updated now driver behavior Nowadays, not many
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Speaker 8: people are actually using the navigation system on the dash.
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Speaker 8: That being said, the Intellolink system is driven by the
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Speaker 8: GPS that on Star is communicating out to the satellite
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Speaker 8: or cellular networks to give that vehicle a brain.
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Speaker 2: For lack of a better.
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Speaker 11: Term, it's not a good dude. He targets young females
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Speaker 11: uses the Internet. As you see, he traveled to Wisconsin
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Speaker 11: and bag once.
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Speaker 4: Gary Day, forty, lives in Cabin, Arkansas and has been
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Speaker 4: divorced for tis, most recently from the mother of his
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Speaker 4: two sons, ages three and four. Day is still serving
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Speaker 4: probation for endangering the welfare of his oldest son and
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Speaker 4: was recently charged with domestic battery against the child. Day
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Speaker 4: is not permitted to leave the state of Arkansas without
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Speaker 4: permission from his probation officer.
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Speaker 2: Well he did.
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Speaker 1: That was from our friends at News three now and
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Speaker 1: we're learning more.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 4: Law enforcement discovers the black Buick Lacrosse is registered to
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Speaker 4: Day's mother and should have Arkansas plate number BBR two
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Speaker 4: zero L, But forty five minutes later, the car has
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Speaker 4: spotted heading south on Highway one fifty one near sun Prairie,
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Speaker 4: Wisconsin with Pennsylvania plate number KGW five one eighty six.
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Speaker 4: Police advice that Day may continue to switch license plates
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Speaker 4: and believe he may be traveling back to Arkansas because
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Speaker 4: his mother lives there, but cannot say that with complete certainty.
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Speaker 4: Drivers in Illinois and Missouri are asked to keep a
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Speaker 4: close eye out for the twenty fourteen lacrosse.
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Speaker 12: We do know that he's switching plates right now and
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Speaker 12: putting different plates on the which makes it a little
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Speaker 12: bit more difficult for law enforcement. But we're still working through
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Speaker 12: the logistics of that.
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Speaker 2: Our friends News three.
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Speaker 1: Now, guys, that is beaver Dan Police Chief John Cruisier. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let me make sense of what I'm hearing straight out
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Speaker 1: to doctor Bethany Marshall. Renowned psycho Ana's joining us from
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Speaker 1: La author of deal Breaker, and you can see her
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Speaker 1: now on Peacock. Doctor Bethany, thank you for being with us,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know, I.
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Speaker 1: Might as well get comfortable for you to tell me
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Speaker 1: everything that's going on up here right now.
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Speaker 2: But just jumping out at me.
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Speaker 1: He's forty he's almost forty one years old, and he's
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Speaker 1: driving his mommy's harm Let's just.
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Speaker 2: Start with that. I caught that too, Nancy.
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Speaker 13: I mean, this is a guy, you know, I think
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Speaker 13: he's probably so prolifically involved in his perversion and his
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Speaker 13: sex addiction and pursuing underage girls that he probably doesn't
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Speaker 13: even I know he has a job, he's an insurance
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Speaker 13: home inspector, but I doubt he even functions very highly in.
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Speaker 2: Society, Nancy.
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Speaker 13: He probably lives off his mother, and the fact that
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Speaker 13: he has child abuse charges against his own son, and
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Speaker 13: then he's gravitating towards minor women tells me that this
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Speaker 13: guy likes to have a lot of power over his victims.
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Speaker 13: He's probably all syrupy and sweet when he meets these girls.
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Speaker 2: He probably tries to.
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Speaker 13: Alienate them from their parents. He probably tells them that
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Speaker 13: he understands them, that nobody else understands them. But the
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Speaker 13: minute Sophia disagrees with him, I'm sure this is one
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Speaker 13: menacing individual. This is a guy who looks nice on
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Speaker 13: the outside but is very cruel deep down. And the
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Speaker 13: idling in front of the house, I mean, that is
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Speaker 13: so creepy to me, Nancy. His whole day is spent
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Speaker 13: just canvassing for girls. I don't even know how he
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Speaker 13: has time to do much else, because his whole perversion,
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Speaker 13: his whole obsession, is wrapped around this.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of joining me is veteran trial lawyer, former felony prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: now defense attorney Darryl Cohen, a partner with Cohen Cooper
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Speaker 1: A step and Allan. Darryl, thank you for being with us, Darryl.
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Speaker 1: How many times and a bond fourfeiture calendar when somebody
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Speaker 1: wouldn't show for court would say go to his mom's house.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's hiding under the bed or in the
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Speaker 1: closet right now. I mean another thing, aside from his
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Speaker 1: driving his mother's car. Didn't his employer I believe that
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Speaker 1: he worked at insurance company? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 1: Alexis and doctor Bethany, didn't they notice the big fat
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Speaker 1: ankle monitor he was wearing. Why would you keep someone
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Speaker 1: employed not just with a police arrest, but with a conviction,
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Speaker 1: with a conviction and a big honkin ankle monitor.
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Speaker 14: Nancy, these things have. When you have an ankle monitor
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Speaker 14: because you're not a terrible criminal as far as the
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Speaker 14: system is concerned. You have an ankle monitor because they
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Speaker 14: don't want to incarcerate you. You have an ankle monitor so
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Speaker 14: you can be tracked. They have an ankle monitor that
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Speaker 14: shouldn't come off, that shouldn't lose its battery. But if
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Speaker 14: and when it does, that's when the company that owns
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Speaker 14: those ankle Monitors should immediately immediately notify law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: Okay, see, we all know what you did right there.
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Speaker 1: I know you got your law degree, But is there
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Speaker 1: a magician hiding deep inside your soul? Because you I
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Speaker 1: ask you this and you try to show me that
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Speaker 1: it's like pulling a different rabbit out of the hat.
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Speaker 2: That's not what I asked for.
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Speaker 1: You're talking about what a great person he is, and
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Speaker 1: you're suddenly talking about it's the ankle Monitors companies fault
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Speaker 1: that they didn't catch him. Let's just hear who we're
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Speaker 1: dealing with.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 15: Gary and Grace Day bring their four year old baby
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Speaker 15: Carter to the emergency room with what they think is
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Speaker 15: a broken leg. Doctors do not believe the parents's story
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Speaker 15: that Carter's foot got caught in the sink drain during
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Speaker 15: a bath, and also discover bruising on Carter's cheeks and ears.
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Speaker 15: Arkansas DCFS gets involved in the case, and Gary Day
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Speaker 15: claims he was not present when Carter's sustaining the injury,
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Speaker 15: but admits it happened several days ago. Both parents are
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Speaker 15: charged with endangering the welfare of a minor for not
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Speaker 15: seeking medical attention for the baby earlier.
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Speaker 1: Before Darryl Coe in defense attorney pipes in and tries
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Speaker 1: to blame the baby for that getting his foot caught.
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Speaker 2: In a drain.
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Speaker 1: Joining me right now is special guest doctor Stacy Vaughn,
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Speaker 1: a vice president of Growth and Prevention at child help
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Speaker 1: dot org, one of my favorite groups, child help dot org.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Stacey Vaughn, thank you for being with us. Did
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Speaker 1: you hear that this incident occurred days before? And they
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Speaker 1: are just bringing him to the emergency room with what
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Speaker 1: they believe.
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Speaker 2: Said broken leg. The child has been suffering.
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Speaker 1: It's only four months old with a potential broken leg,
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Speaker 1: and they try to say his foot got caught in
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Speaker 1: the sink drain, the sink drain during a bath.
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Speaker 2: Wow, I wonder if his ear and his face got
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Speaker 2: caught in the drain too, because they're covered in bruises.
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Speaker 2: But guess what they get to take the baby home?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, Nancy, And that's so typical of what happens when
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Speaker 16: children are brought into emergency rooms with a cover story
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Speaker 16: and we learn, you know, through medical exams and tests
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Speaker 16: that there are multiple injuries prior. But why this wasn't
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Speaker 16: reported to dcf S in that state and why that
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Speaker 16: child wasn't removed.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand that.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, doctor Stacey Vaughn, it didn't end there.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 17: Four years later, Grace Day files a police report claiming
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Speaker 17: her husband hurt Carter. Grace tells officers she found bruises
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Speaker 17: on the four year old's arm and shoulder, and Gary
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Speaker 17: Day admitted he lost it when he found Carter climbing
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Speaker 17: on a piece of furniture after he cleaned up a
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Speaker 17: mess Carter made in the bathroom with toothpaste. Carter tells
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Speaker 17: cops his dad sometimes turns into the Hulk and says
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Speaker 17: this isn't the first time Day has hurt him. Gary
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Speaker 17: Day is charged with domestic battery, but the state does
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Speaker 17: not have enough evidence to prove the case, and the
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Speaker 17: charges are dismissed.
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Speaker 2: I do not understand that at all.
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Speaker 1: Darryl Kohen, can you just take your defense hat off
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Speaker 1: for just one moment and go back to your glory
21:48
Speaker 1: days when you were on the right side of the law.
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Speaker 2: Really, they didn't have enough evidence.
21:53
Speaker 1: You've got a child with a prior where he brought
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Speaker 1: the child down with a potential broken leg. Now this
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Speaker 1: same child is covered in bruises, the mom brings him
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Speaker 1: in and they don't have enough evidence to go forward.
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Speaker 14: Why maybe, Nancy, they felt like they had enough to
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Speaker 14: push it enough to have him arrested and to give
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Speaker 14: him DA's time, let him be on perrobation, which really
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Speaker 14: means I am waiting trial. Maybe they didn't feel that
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Speaker 14: they could prove it was him who did it as
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Speaker 14: opposed to mom. And maybe just maybe they were too
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Speaker 14: lazy or didn't have enough forensic evidence to prove it
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Speaker 14: was either one of them, and they didn't want to
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Speaker 14: take the child away.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Darryl, Yes, No, do you have any facts supporting
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Speaker 1: anything you just said? Are you just spinning it out
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Speaker 1: like Rubel Stillskin?
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Speaker 14: Right, You're spinning no facts, just basic knowledge of the law,
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Speaker 14: you see, Nancy, Basic knowledge of the way the system worked,
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Speaker 14: whether we like it or not.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall before Darryl can say something else, it's
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Speaker 1: the same for second verse, same as the first. The
23:10
Speaker 1: child is brought in at four months. The child is
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Speaker 1: covered in bruises with potential broken leg at four months,
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Speaker 1: with some kakamamie story that his foot got caught in
23:20
Speaker 1: the sink drain. The sink drain is about that big okay,
23:24
Speaker 1: but he's got a potentially broken leg. Then four years later,
23:28
Speaker 1: targeting the same child out of the family, the child
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Speaker 1: is covered in bruises and the state doesn't go forward
23:36
Speaker 1: with it.
23:37
Speaker 2: He walks away and now so.
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Speaker 1: Theia is pregnant and missing with a known predator.
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Speaker 2: You know, Nuncy.
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Speaker 13: It made me wonder if he is in pregnating women
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Speaker 13: so that he can have access to children. I mean,
23:53
Speaker 13: the crime doesn't just stop with, you know, predating on
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Speaker 13: underage women. It's also in pray them so he can
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Speaker 13: have more children around him, so that he can abuse
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Speaker 13: them and be cruel to them. Nancy, we know of
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Speaker 13: the two crimes against the four year old. Where are
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Speaker 13: all the other undergage girls that he's probably predating upon two?
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Speaker 13: This is just the tip of the iceberg, Nancy. This
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Speaker 13: is Sophia and this is a four year old. There
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Speaker 13: are other girls out there. There are other heartbroken parents
24:25
Speaker 13: who's trying to alien they alienate their daughters from them.
24:29
Speaker 13: This story is going to grow and spread. This guy
24:31
Speaker 13: has a lot of time on his hands to take
24:33
Speaker 13: advantage of children.
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Speaker 3: Trouble unfolds in Wisconsin when sixteen year old Sophia Franklin
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Speaker 3: is lured from her home by an older man. Police
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Speaker 3: plead for help in finding Sophia.
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Speaker 1: What is he talking about? An older man? It makes
24:49
Speaker 1: it sound like maybe he's twenty one, he's going on
24:52
Speaker 1: forty one, as she has just turned sixteen and she
24:57
Speaker 1: is at least four months so he started statutorily raping
25:04
Speaker 1: her when she was fifteen. Fifteen, guys, there were so
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Speaker 1: many red flags listen.
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Speaker 9: Days before her disappearance, Sophia's parents discover a strange Google
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Speaker 9: account on her phone and give Beaver Dampde permission to
25:21
Speaker 9: investigate it. They find disturbing messages between Sophia and Day.
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Speaker 9: Dave repeatedly threatened suicide, and Sophia attempts to console him,
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Speaker 9: telling Day he needs to live for their daughter, who
25:32
Speaker 9: she is preemptively named Ava quote. I know how much
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Speaker 9: you wanted a girl, and I know how much you
25:38
Speaker 9: care for your children. Day simply responds, tell her, I'm dead.
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Speaker 1: Okay, right, Tell the unborn baby girl that they just
25:46
Speaker 1: turned sixteen year old. Little girl is Carrie, he says,
25:50
Speaker 1: Tell her, I'm dead. Threats of suicide are common amongst
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Speaker 1: child sex predators, and here it is again joining me
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Speaker 1: right now a special guest. In addition to doctor Bethany
26:04
Speaker 1: Marshall and Shawna Burns, to Tanya Jordan joining us. She
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Speaker 1: is the chief parent Officer at BARK Parental Controls, author
26:13
Speaker 1: of Parenting in a Tech World. The parents noticed strange
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Speaker 1: Google accounts that couldn't break in, so they bring in
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Speaker 1: the sheriff and what they find is very distressing.
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Speaker 2: It's not a new story to Tanya.
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Speaker 18: It's not a new story, Nancy. Unfortunately, so many children
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Speaker 18: are being harmed by predators online in places and spaces
26:37
Speaker 18: that parents have no idea exists. So the reason that
26:41
Speaker 18: we know about the rate at which children are harmed
26:44
Speaker 18: online on places like Gmail, et cetera, is because at
26:49
Speaker 18: BARK we helped to protect over seven point four million
26:51
Speaker 18: children across the nation, and just over the course of
26:54
Speaker 18: twenty twenty four, we analyzed almost eight billion activities across
26:58
Speaker 18: places like Gmail, Google Docs, text, email, YouTube, over thirty apps,
27:04
Speaker 18: and children are being harmed and groomed in places that
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Speaker 18: parents might think are perfectly safe.
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Speaker 1: Straight out to Shawna Burns joining us, Shauna's daughter Haley
27:15
Speaker 1: was lured online. She was missing approximately a year. She
27:21
Speaker 1: was kept in a cage, starved, sex abused, beaten, Shauna.
27:27
Speaker 1: Before your daughter was kidnapped, her perp was lying about
27:32
Speaker 1: who he was and contacting her online, and you had
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Speaker 1: no idea.
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Speaker 6: No, we had absolutely no idea.
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Speaker 19: It's it's exactly what your prosecutor friend was saying earlier.
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Speaker 19: He presented it to her that we would never understand her,
27:48
Speaker 19: we would never be able.
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Speaker 6: To just accept her the way that she.
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Speaker 12: Was, and.
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Speaker 19: That he could and that he could help her with
27:57
Speaker 19: her anorexia and can help her to get to her
28:01
Speaker 19: ideal weight, and that we were always gonna learn to
28:04
Speaker 19: find deal weight.
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Speaker 2: Her ideal weight. She's just a little girl.
28:08
Speaker 1: She doesn't need to be worried about her ideal weight.
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Speaker 1: He preyed upon her, finding her in a chat room.
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Speaker 1: She was actually, as I recall, using a computer at school.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that right, Shauna?
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 19: Every bit of communication happened with them at school, so you.
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Speaker 1: Had no way of knowing, and in your mind, Haley
28:29
Speaker 1: was perfectly fine, no indication that this was happening. Guys,
28:36
Speaker 1: same thing here with Sophia.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 15: Sophia Franklin, sixteen is raised in beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in
28:42
Speaker 15: a large, loving family. She's the second oldest of her
28:45
Speaker 15: six siblings. A proud golden beaver at beaver Dam High
28:49
Speaker 15: sings in choir and attends church with her family at
28:52
Speaker 15: Bible Baptist every Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Alexis Tereschuk joining me in Crimeonline dot Com investigative reporter.
28:58
Speaker 1: This little girl, Sophia, who is now probably being held
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Speaker 1: and some interstate motel with the car hidden somewhere and
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Speaker 1: being brought an egg McMuffin from McDonald's in exchange for
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Speaker 1: statutory rapes all day long.
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Speaker 2: That's what's happening to her right now. That's true.
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Speaker 10: She has been missing. She was taken from her home.
29:23
Speaker 10: She is pregnant by this man who is as you said,
29:25
Speaker 10: he's almost forty one years old. This has been ongoing
29:28
Speaker 10: for months. Her parents have tried to stop this. They
29:30
Speaker 10: contacted the police immediately. They showed the police their phone.
29:34
Speaker 10: They said, she is still talking to this predator. Nothing
29:37
Speaker 10: is stopping him. Nothing. He has an ankle monitor only
29:40
Speaker 10: he is able to drive, He's able to go out
29:43
Speaker 10: in public. He is able to get to her. He's
29:45
Speaker 10: cross state lines, violated every bit of probation, and still
29:49
Speaker 10: was able to get her and she left her home
29:52
Speaker 10: and she is not old enough to, according to law,
29:55
Speaker 10: to be able to be making these decisions on her own.
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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace, a missing teen girl we
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Speaker 1: believe about four months pregnant by a known child predator.
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Speaker 1: He has kidnapped her and they are on the run
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Speaker 1: in a twenty fourteen black Buick Lacrosse.
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Speaker 2: Joining me an all star panel.
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Speaker 1: But let me just tell you all the warnings were there,
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Speaker 1: and there's a backstory.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 9: Gary Day is four years into a six year probation
30:39
Speaker 9: sentence and is used to surprise visits from his probation officer.
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Speaker 9: But in December, the forty year old seems extremely nervous.
30:47
Speaker 9: When the officer stops by, the supervisor also catches a
30:51
Speaker 9: glimpse of a woman running out the back door. He
30:53
Speaker 9: immediately chases her down and after an intense line of questioning,
30:57
Speaker 9: gets out that she is just sixteen years old and
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Speaker 9: from Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: This is what happened.
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Speaker 1: By the way, when you are on probation or parole,
31:06
Speaker 1: you are subject to surprise visits from probation or parole officers.
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Speaker 1: That's what happened here, and the perp i' to very
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Speaker 1: nervous when the probation parole came to the door and
31:21
Speaker 1: then little girl runs out the back who Sophia listen When.
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Speaker 11: They went a check on him, somebody round out the
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Speaker 11: back door, and that turned out to be a sixteen
31:32
Speaker 11: year old female from Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: Sophia Franklin is removed from Day's home and taken from
31:38
Speaker 4: a medical examination while authorities contact her family. Her parents
31:41
Speaker 4: are shocked and horrified to learn their daughter has been
31:44
Speaker 4: with a predator, and even more a paul to learn
31:47
Speaker 4: she's pregnant. Sophia is returned to Wisconsin as quickly as possible,
31:51
Speaker 4: and her parents take every step possible to protect her
31:53
Speaker 4: from Day and help their daughter heal.
31:55
Speaker 1: Def from our friends at CBA Chicago and let'sus terrez
31:59
Speaker 1: Chuk join usclimonline dot com Alexis, how did she end.
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Speaker 2: Up in his home before the kidnapped?
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Speaker 10: They started talking to each other online. She then convinced
32:13
Speaker 10: her parents that she wanted to go stay with a friend.
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Speaker 10: It was summertime, she wanted to go visit and stay
32:18
Speaker 10: with his friend, so they said okay. They believed she
32:21
Speaker 10: was going to stay with his friend. In the meantime,
32:23
Speaker 10: he had been telling her that he was going to
32:26
Speaker 10: come get her.
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Speaker 18: He did.
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Speaker 10: He came and got her. She went and stayed at
32:29
Speaker 10: his house. He crossed state lines to get her. He
32:31
Speaker 10: took her back to Arkansas from Wisconsin. And that's where
32:35
Speaker 10: she was saying, and her friend was helping her lie
32:38
Speaker 10: to her parents. They were all lying and saying that
32:41
Speaker 10: she was with a friend. Nobody knew that she was
32:43
Speaker 10: with this old man predator.
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Speaker 2: Oh my stars, doctor Bethany Marshall.
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Speaker 1: One little week or two sleep away during the summer
32:53
Speaker 1: turns into this.
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Speaker 2: And when of his parole probation officer knocks on the door,
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Speaker 2: would they say, a girl running out in the back.
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Speaker 2: It's her.
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Speaker 1: He has been targeting her and statutorly raping her.
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Speaker 2: For so long. That's how she got pregnant.
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Speaker 13: He was grooming her. He was alienating her from her parents.
33:18
Speaker 13: He was making her feel special and unique and desirable
33:23
Speaker 13: and understood in ways that she imagines nobody else can.
33:28
Speaker 13: He made her feel that the family going to the
33:30
Speaker 13: Baptist church was sort of all wrong in a perverse
33:34
Speaker 13: kind of life, and that the life he could offer
33:36
Speaker 13: her was great. Little does he know, does she? Little
33:39
Speaker 13: does she know? He's driving his mother's car. He probably
33:43
Speaker 13: has no money, nothing to offer her. He's a pervert,
33:46
Speaker 13: he's abusive. He doesn't even treat his own children kindly.
33:51
Speaker 13: He probably has other girls he's grooming, so when she
33:54
Speaker 13: ages out, he can move on to the next victim, Nancy,
33:57
Speaker 13: because that's what they do. They only victimize for a
34:00
Speaker 13: certain period of time until the control slips. Then they
34:04
Speaker 13: lose interest in the victim and they go on to
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Speaker 13: another one. It's not like stalkers who stay in love
34:10
Speaker 13: with the victim, maybe for years at a time. These
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Speaker 13: predators only want the children as long as they can
34:17
Speaker 13: have power over them and alienate them from the parents,
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Speaker 13: and then when that power slips, Nancy, they are not
34:23
Speaker 13: interested anymore.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm worried about.
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Speaker 1: When she wakes up in that roadside motel and realizes
34:30
Speaker 1: she wants to go home, he's already threatened to commit suicide.
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Speaker 1: What will happen then? To Tania Jordan joining US Chief
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Speaker 1: Parent Office at BART Parental Controls, author of Parenting in
34:42
Speaker 1: a Tech World, to Tanya, it's always lies, and these
34:47
Speaker 1: predators actually target the child online. They find things out
34:52
Speaker 1: about them, like oh, she goes to Bible Baptist church.
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Speaker 1: Oh she plays soccer. Oh, she goes to beaver Dam
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Speaker 1: High High School. They find out things by looking up
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Speaker 1: the child's profile online. Then they start befriending the child.
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Speaker 1: Oh I play soccer too, Oh I was a beaver
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Speaker 1: My cousin goes to that high school.
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Speaker 2: So she graduated last year. You probably don't know her.
35:17
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, and they start spanning the tale.
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Speaker 18: To Tanya Nancy, it is so important for every parent
35:26
Speaker 18: and every caregiver to realize that there's over half a
35:28
Speaker 18: million predators online at any given time that we know of,
35:33
Speaker 18: and that's according to the FBI. So please don't think
35:36
Speaker 18: not my child. It's not a matter of if, but
35:39
Speaker 18: when they're going to encounter somebody trying to message them
35:42
Speaker 18: online to groom them, befriend them, and worse. And that's
35:46
Speaker 18: why we've got to have these conversations proactively. Please don't
35:49
Speaker 18: think not my kid.
35:50
Speaker 2: There's a very famous quote that says, if that is
35:53
Speaker 2: the law, then the law is an ass. Truer words
35:57
Speaker 2: were never spoken. Listen to that.
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Speaker 15: Unfortunately, law enforcement has a hard time holding Day accountable
36:03
Speaker 15: at the age of content in Arkansas sixteen, So Day
36:05
Speaker 15: is not committed a chargeable sex crime. Day is charged
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Speaker 15: with violating this probation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor,
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Speaker 15: and interfering with custody. The Franklins push for more serious
36:15
Speaker 15: charges in Wisconsin, but for now are only able to
36:18
Speaker 15: obtain a no contact order with Day.
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Speaker 11: It's an antiquated law rules. We're going to work on
36:26
Speaker 11: changing that. I'm going to work with some of our legislators.
36:28
Speaker 11: I'm gonna reach out to them and let um know
36:29
Speaker 11: that that's something we we probably should change, especially with
36:32
Speaker 11: all the trafficking and the issues that we have.
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Speaker 2: Probably should change.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's the Arkansas Sheriff John Steally, and that's my
36:41
Speaker 1: friends at five News and antiquated law Daryl Cohen and
36:48
Speaker 1: antiquated law that you know that says to me, it's
36:50
Speaker 1: been around so long, you should know.
36:53
Speaker 2: You have to fix it, but nobody's done anything.
36:56
Speaker 1: And now Sophia is with a forty one soon to
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Speaker 1: be forty one year old predator in some motel getting
37:06
Speaker 1: statutorily raped in exchange her in egg McMuffin.
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Speaker 2: That's what's happening.
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Speaker 14: And see in Arkansas, it is not statutorily raped. Whether
37:14
Speaker 14: we like it or not, and I don't. She has
37:18
Speaker 14: the right as a sixteen year old to engage in
37:21
Speaker 14: sex as long as it's voluntary other states.
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Speaker 2: In Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: In Arkansas, but wait a minute, Wait a minute, in Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: the age of consent is eighteen. I believe they started
37:34
Speaker 1: having sex relations if you can call it that, when
37:37
Speaker 1: she's fifteen, because she's sixteen and four months pregnant.
37:40
Speaker 2: But that said, so you're telling.
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Speaker 1: Me it's okay for him to go and get her
37:45
Speaker 1: out of Wisconsin, where the age of consent is eighteen,
37:48
Speaker 1: take her across state lines to Arkansas and rape her,
37:51
Speaker 1: and that's okay.
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Speaker 14: I'm not saying it's okay. I'm saying little like you
37:55
Speaker 14: want not prevent Well, it sounds like I am, but
37:58
Speaker 14: I'm not. I'm saying losses that she can engage voluntarily
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Speaker 14: in sex in Arkansas when she is sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Or okay, let me rephrase my question. Isn't it a
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Speaker 1: felony to take a minor across state lines for the
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Speaker 1: purposes of sex?
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Speaker 2: Think Jared Fogel, the Subway guy? Does that?
38:21
Speaker 1: Jog your recollection regarding the black and White letter of
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Speaker 1: the law, Daryl Cohen.
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Speaker 14: Do I like what happened.
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Speaker 2: No, the Man Act is the man answering.
38:30
Speaker 14: That is a federal law. Did he violate? Okay, you
38:34
Speaker 14: know what likely he did.
38:36
Speaker 2: If I held.
38:38
Speaker 1: You over a fire with your toes dangling in the flames,
38:43
Speaker 1: you would never admit what he.
38:45
Speaker 2: Did is a crime. Okay, let's deal with reality.
38:49
Speaker 1: Brian Fitzgibbons, I'm never going to get the right answer
38:53
Speaker 1: out of Daryl Cohen. I completely understand that. That's why
38:56
Speaker 1: I win so many cases. Can we talk about how
38:58
Speaker 1: we're going to find her.
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Speaker 8: At this point, Nancy, We've got to be looking at
39:02
Speaker 8: number one, can we track the vehicle? If that's impossible,
39:07
Speaker 8: we have to start looking at cell phones? Where is
39:11
Speaker 8: Gary Day getting money to survive? At this point, those
39:14
Speaker 8: are the three top issues that I would be looking at.
39:17
Speaker 8: It's number one, the vehicle tracking, number two cell phone tracking,
39:21
Speaker 8: and then the third the third spot would be how
39:24
Speaker 8: is he staying alive here? How are they eating? Where
39:27
Speaker 8: are they staying? Where is he getting funding?
39:29
Speaker 14: Well?
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Speaker 1: I can guarantee you this, Pitz Givevens, they ain't at
39:31
Speaker 1: the Ritz. If you know or think you know anything
39:35
Speaker 1: about the location of Sophia, please dial Beaver d MPD
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Speaker 1: nine two zero, eight eight seven four six one two
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Speaker 1: repeat nine two zero eight eight seven four six one two,
39:51
Speaker 1: or the Amber Alert tip Line eight eight eight three
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Speaker 1: zero four three nine three six repeat eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: three zero four three nine three six, or reach out
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Speaker 1: to our friends at childhelp dot org. You can find
40:08
Speaker 1: them online or at eight hundred for a Child eight
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Speaker 1: hundred four two two four four five eight.
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Speaker 2: I can't stress how many cases like this end in
40:22
Speaker 2: further tragedy. Nancy Gray signing off goodbye friend