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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A miracle, a miracle, nine
- 0:16Speaker 1: year old Charlotte Charlotte Senna has been found alive.
- 0:24Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Foxination and
- 0:29Speaker 1: Serious XM one eleven. Actually that's the story. Charlotte is alive.
- 0:37Speaker 1: But who, what, where?
- 0:39Speaker 2: Why? When? Take a listen to this.
- 0:41Speaker 3: Just an incredible end to this two day long search.
- 0:45Speaker 3: It was about six forty five Eastern when we started
- 0:48Speaker 3: to notice see police troopers leaving here where they have
- 0:51Speaker 3: been searching with their lights going peeling out of here.
- 0:55Speaker 3: And then we got confirmation from the New York State
- 0:57Speaker 3: Police that nine year old Charlotte Senna has.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Been found alive. They do have a suspect in custody.
- 1:03Speaker 4: The case started to break at four twenty am this morning.
- 1:10Speaker 5: When the family's home that was being guarded by state police,
- 1:14Speaker 5: when the parents were still starting another day at the
- 1:20Speaker 5: campsite where they'd last seen their daughter.
- 1:24Speaker 4: Four am, the car pulls up to a mailbox.
- 1:28Speaker 5: Something is left. State police immediately go to the mailbox
- 1:34Speaker 5: and identify what is a ransom note that it left
- 1:39Speaker 5: behind for Charlotte.
- 1:41Speaker 1: You're hearing not only our friends at NBC, but a
- 1:44Speaker 1: presser regarding the discovery of this nine year old little
- 1:49Speaker 1: girl found in a cabinet in a camper inhabited by
- 1:58Speaker 1: the kidnapper. Again, thank you for being with us. Without
- 2:01Speaker 1: any further ado, let me go straight to the scene.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Joining me right now, Chris Everhart joining us from Fox
- 2:07Speaker 1: News Digital. Chris, thank you for being with us. What happened?
- 2:11Speaker 1: Tell me everything so question. The police were staking out
- 2:16Speaker 1: Charlotte's home while her parents were still at the camp
- 2:20Speaker 1: out scene, and that is when they did they observe
- 2:24Speaker 1: someone come and put something in the mailbox.
- 2:26Speaker 2: What happened on not.
- 2:28Speaker 6: One hundred percent sure if it was the police that
- 2:30Speaker 6: saw it or the neighbors that saw it. I got
- 2:32Speaker 6: coflicting messages from the residents. But yeah, apparently they just
- 2:36Speaker 6: guy put this ransom note in the mailbox, and they.
- 2:40Speaker 7: Were able to use fingerprints and hit back to.
- 2:43Speaker 6: A late nineties Dui and that's how they were able
- 2:46Speaker 6: to identify on about four to twenty in the morning.
- 2:49Speaker 7: He dropped that.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Off four twenty a m.
- 2:52Speaker 1: In the morning, and that's just the beginning of the
- 2:56Speaker 1: search that led to Charlotte alive.
- 3:00Speaker 5: Listen State police worked diligently trying to find a match
- 3:05Speaker 5: for a fingerprint.
- 3:06Speaker 4: First one tried wasn't successful.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Second one was to identify any other prince in the
- 3:12Speaker 5: New York State database that.
- 3:13Speaker 4: Would be a match. The hit came at two thirty
- 3:17Speaker 4: in the afternoon. There had been.
- 3:20Speaker 5: A DWI nineteen ninety nine in the city of Saratoga.
- 3:27Speaker 4: A fingerprint was found.
- 3:30Speaker 5: That matched what was found on the ransom note. So
- 3:36Speaker 5: the more research work identify the location and identifying the
- 3:43Speaker 5: fact that there was a hall that could visit. They
- 3:47Speaker 5: found a double wide house with a woman who suspect's mother.
- 3:54Speaker 5: Suspect lived in the camphor behind.
- 3:56Speaker 1: What we're learning, this nine year old little girl was
- 3:59Speaker 1: found in a cabinet in a camper van owned by
- 4:04Speaker 1: the kidnapper. His name Craig Ross Junior, aged forty seven.
- 4:10Speaker 1: We believe he left a ransom note in the parents' mailbox.
- 4:14Speaker 1: What does that mean? Had he been staking them out,
- 4:17Speaker 1: had he been stalking this little girl or did he
- 4:20Speaker 1: just see her at the campsite and get the home
- 4:22Speaker 1: address out of her That triggered a swat helicopter rescue.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Before I go to an all star panel, I'm going
- 4:30Speaker 1: to go back to Chris Eberhart joining us from Fox
- 4:32Speaker 1: News Digital. Tell me about the rescue, Chris.
- 4:35Speaker 7: It was this pretty wild eye.
- 4:37Speaker 6: I talked to a resident so the street that he's
- 4:39Speaker 6: actually on, it's called Brett Road, that was blocked off,
- 4:42Speaker 6: but right outside of there there was a few homes
- 4:45Speaker 6: and I talked to one of the residents and they
- 4:47Speaker 6: started noticing cops just kind of idling a couple blocks
- 4:51Speaker 6: over from their house, and it was like two or
- 4:53Speaker 6: three and then all of a sudden, an ambulance started
- 4:55Speaker 6: coming up. Then they sold chopper, and then all of
- 4:57Speaker 6: a sudden, a whole bunch of law enforcement vehicle started
- 5:00Speaker 6: rolling through their neighborhood.
- 5:01Speaker 7: And they at that point, they didn't even have to
- 5:03Speaker 7: check the news.
- 5:04Speaker 6: They knew that, you know, Charlotte had to be close by,
- 5:06Speaker 6: and this was all connected to that.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, Chris Aberhart, you're giving me a lot
- 5:10Speaker 1: of information at once. Slowly tell me again what you
- 5:14Speaker 1: know about the rescue. What time do the rescue go down.
- 5:17Speaker 6: Rescue went down sometime in the evening, around maybe six
- 5:21Speaker 6: seven o'clock.
- 5:22Speaker 1: So it sounds like a convergence of swat police cars
- 5:26Speaker 1: overhead helicopters. Tell me again, really slowly, and you're learning
- 5:30Speaker 1: this from neighbors.
- 5:32Speaker 6: Yes, there was a couple of neighbors that were in
- 5:34Speaker 6: the area that spoke to me real late last night
- 5:38Speaker 6: and they said that they started slowly seeing a larger
- 5:42Speaker 6: and larger police presidence.
- 5:43Speaker 7: There was a couple.
- 5:44Speaker 6: Idling cops in the area, not really doing much. They
- 5:48Speaker 6: thought it was out of the norm, but they didn't
- 5:49Speaker 6: really think much of it. Then an ambulance came by
- 5:54Speaker 6: really around the same area. Then later that evening. That's
- 5:58Speaker 6: when they don't remember the exact with time, but there
- 6:00Speaker 6: was a lot of law enforcement vehicles rolling through the area,
- 6:05Speaker 6: which is fun.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Like that spot Joining me right now.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Former Federal Task Force Officer for the us DJ formerly
- 6:13Speaker 1: with the DEA and the Miami Field Division, now owner
- 6:18Speaker 1: and operator of Crispin Special Investigations at Crispin Investigations dot com.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Focus on former Federal Task Force Officer Robert Crispin. How
- 6:29Speaker 1: did this thing? I know, you heard everything that Christopher
- 6:31Speaker 1: Eberhart just said, Interpret it for me. Decipher what the
- 6:36Speaker 1: police were doing. Did you hear the neighbors say it
- 6:39Speaker 1: started off very quietly with cops blocking off either end
- 6:43Speaker 1: of the street and slowly, slowly, very quietly, in the
- 6:47Speaker 1: dark of the evening, gathering forces and then bam, all
- 6:51Speaker 1: of a sudden, there's the helicopter overhead, there's swat, there's crazy, chaotic,
- 6:56Speaker 1: shambolic proceedings going down.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Explain what were they.
- 7:00Speaker 8: Doing so, Nancy, the note was the beginning of the
- 7:05Speaker 8: end to rescue this girl. And it's super glue to
- 7:09Speaker 8: the rescue. And what do I mean by that? Because
- 7:12Speaker 8: that note was put into a fish tank type environment
- 7:18Speaker 8: in a lab slowed down.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Hold on the note, the ransom note, right that we
- 7:23Speaker 1: believe the perp left in the family's mailbox.
- 7:26Speaker 2: This is important.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Remember the girl is swiped, kidnapped from a campground and
- 7:31Speaker 1: then the note isn't taken to the parents' car back
- 7:34Speaker 1: to the campground where we think they are waiting, but
- 7:38Speaker 1: to their home. So he finds out the home address
- 7:42Speaker 1: or had he been stalking the little girl for some time? Okay,
- 7:46Speaker 1: so he goes to the home in the early morning hours.
- 7:49Speaker 1: We think, I think Chris Everhart sent around four to
- 7:51Speaker 1: twenty eight m right or wrong? Chris Everhart correct and
- 7:55Speaker 1: leaves it in their mailbox. Go ahead, you said something
- 7:59Speaker 1: about a fish tank pick it up right there.
- 8:02Speaker 8: So in a lab, especially when you have ransom notes,
- 8:05Speaker 8: you have notes that people leave when they're robbing a bank,
- 8:09Speaker 8: you can take that note, which is paper, and you
- 8:11Speaker 8: can put it into a fish tank type environment in
- 8:14Speaker 8: the lab and then good o' super glue. The vapors
- 8:18Speaker 8: as they start to evaporate, will circle through the tank
- 8:22Speaker 8: and those will actually start to react and attached to
- 8:26Speaker 8: the organic compounds of the fingerprint residue in the moisture
- 8:31Speaker 8: and lo and behold, a print will start to appear,
- 8:35Speaker 8: which will then allow forensic investigators to take high resolution
- 8:40Speaker 8: photographs of that fingerprint and compare it in a system
- 8:44Speaker 8: called APHIS. Aphis is a nationally recognized and a national
- 8:50Speaker 8: database of everyone's fingerprints that's been arrested. And this is
- 8:54Speaker 8: how this systematically started to break down, and they were
- 8:57Speaker 8: able to get a hit from the nineteen NINETYUY. Once
- 9:01Speaker 8: they had that, once they knew who it was, then
- 9:04Speaker 8: they started going into locating where does that person live?
- 9:08Speaker 8: Immediately and I'm telling you, Nancy, from doing these types
- 9:11Speaker 8: of cases, within thirty minutes, that house was surrounded by
- 9:16Speaker 8: undercovers initiating surveillance and then the rest systematically started to
- 9:21Speaker 8: come together as they put a rescue team together. Now
- 9:25Speaker 8: we don't know what they saw when they were doing
- 9:28Speaker 8: undercover surveillants there, but I guarantee you there was an
- 9:31Speaker 8: undercover surveunts team at that location once they identified and
- 9:35Speaker 8: had their manage.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Okay, So it goes from getting the ransom note, putting
- 9:40Speaker 1: the note as you say, and you know, everybody's wearing gloves,
- 9:44Speaker 1: and picking it up with twezers. That's real what you
- 9:47Speaker 1: see on TV and in movies, that's real. You pick
- 9:50Speaker 1: it up with tweezers because even with a glove on,
- 9:54Speaker 1: you could smear a print.
- 9:56Speaker 2: You don't want that. You don't want to get your
- 9:59Speaker 2: print on it.
- 9:59Speaker 1: So you were gloves, but you don't want to smear
- 10:01Speaker 1: the print that's already on it if the perp didn't
- 10:04Speaker 1: think to wear gloves. So you pick it up with sweezers,
- 10:08Speaker 1: and you put it, as you hear Christmas say, into
- 10:10Speaker 1: a fish tank environment. Now, and what I've seen is
- 10:15Speaker 1: it is a glass so the scientists can see what's happening,
- 10:19Speaker 1: but they put a top on let's just call it
- 10:22Speaker 1: the fish tank, so those fumes.
- 10:25Speaker 2: Don't go out into the room.
- 10:27Speaker 1: You need to keep it in the tank so it
- 10:29Speaker 1: will begin circulating. As you see, let's just say, smoke
- 10:32Speaker 1: from a fire or a cigarette begins to circulate in
- 10:35Speaker 1: the room. It does that, and right there, right there,
- 10:40Speaker 1: Robert Crispin, the fumes from the superglue, the chemical in
- 10:44Speaker 1: those fumes attached to what.
- 10:47Speaker 8: It attached to, the moisture in the organic compounds of
- 10:50Speaker 8: a fingerprint residue.
- 10:51Speaker 1: So they attach immediately to the oils. As he's saying,
- 10:55Speaker 1: the organic compounds. No matter how dry you think your
- 10:58Speaker 1: hands are, the oil in your hands leave a fingerprint.
- 11:02Speaker 1: That's what leaves the fingerprint. It attaches to that. I
- 11:05Speaker 1: don't know why. I'm not a scientist, but I know
- 11:08Speaker 1: what happens. Then once it attaches, then what happens, Chrispin.
- 11:13Speaker 8: Then there's high resolution photographs that can take a picture
- 11:16Speaker 8: of that print and that can get inputed into APIs,
- 11:22Speaker 8: which is which is the biometric database in the world
- 11:25Speaker 8: containing fingerprints from all kinds of criminal histories of everybody
- 11:30Speaker 8: in the US, almost like a DNA database.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace Chris Everhart joining us Foxty's
- 11:52Speaker 1: Digital along with the licensed to redshut Crime Online dot
- 11:55Speaker 1: com the first time they tried to get a match,
- 11:57Speaker 1: it didn't work.
- 11:58Speaker 2: What happened, Chris.
- 11:58Speaker 9: Everheart the first time they couldn't get a match. That
- 12:02Speaker 9: I'm not one hundred percent sure. Well, I'm sorry about that.
- 12:06Speaker 9: All I can know is that the dui from the
- 12:08Speaker 9: nineteen ninety nine one.
- 12:10Speaker 1: It's okay because the reality is they did get a match.
- 12:13Speaker 1: And there's a lot of explanations why they may not
- 12:16Speaker 1: have gotten a match the first time, and it doesn't matter.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Give me an example, Robert Crispin there, you cannot get
- 12:23Speaker 1: a match the first time, that's no big deal because
- 12:26Speaker 1: they got it the second time.
- 12:27Speaker 10: So listen.
- 12:28Speaker 8: So we don't know how many people touch this note
- 12:30Speaker 8: before it got to the lab, so they may they
- 12:34Speaker 8: may have tried to do a print comparison with two
- 12:37Speaker 8: different prints that were on the note, one being the
- 12:41Speaker 8: neighbor or the cop who handed the note to the technician,
- 12:44Speaker 8: because he wasn't wearing gloves and now we have to
- 12:46Speaker 8: do his fingerprints to do a comparison to discount him.
- 12:49Speaker 1: There's a million reasons, but the reality is they got
- 12:52Speaker 1: the print and they were right because that's where Charlotte was.
- 12:57Speaker 1: So the fingerprint match was dead on one hundred percent correct.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Listen to this.
- 13:03Speaker 4: They have what they call it dynamic.
- 13:05Speaker 5: Entry, a tactical maneuver, and within the camphor they located
- 13:12Speaker 5: the suspect. After some resistance, the suspect was taken into custody,
- 13:21Speaker 5: and immediately the little girl was found in a cabinet covered.
- 13:28Speaker 5: She was rescued, and she knew she was being rescued.
- 13:32Speaker 5: She knew that she was in safe hands.
- 13:40Speaker 4: Her parents were imediately notified.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Secured At six thirty two this evening, the suspect, forty
- 13:51Speaker 5: seven year old male named Craig Nelson Ross Junior, is
- 13:57Speaker 5: still being questioned.
- 13:58Speaker 1: You are hearing more of that press conference from We're
- 14:01Speaker 1: learning a lot of information and you can hear Hutchell
- 14:05Speaker 1: speaking very methodically and very slowly. What can I say?
- 14:09Speaker 1: What should I say? What should I not reveal? At
- 14:12Speaker 1: this juncture. She's being really really careful, Uh, and she
- 14:17Speaker 1: should be Dynamic entry Does that mean, basically, Chris Eberhart,
- 14:24Speaker 1: Fox Digital, they tore the door, They tore the door down,
- 14:27Speaker 1: dynamic entry. That sounds like airbrushing. They tore the place up.
- 14:32Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's that's That's what I'm hearing is that
- 14:35Speaker 6: it was.
- 14:37Speaker 7: It was a very it was a fourth entry. They
- 14:38Speaker 7: got in there pretty good.
- 14:40Speaker 2: What is it, Chrispin?
- 14:41Speaker 8: The element of surprise was on law enforcement's side, and
- 14:44Speaker 8: it was a dynamic entry with probably some flash bangs
- 14:48Speaker 8: to stun the suspect, give them the opportunity to get
- 14:52Speaker 8: in get him into custody before he could go for
- 14:54Speaker 8: a weapon, because his world was coming to and end
- 14:56Speaker 8: as soon as they came through that door.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Man, you're not kidding, and it should right now.
- 15:02Speaker 1: We believe there is a charge of kidnapping that can
- 15:05Speaker 1: be amended to add other charges. We're waiting to find
- 15:08Speaker 1: out about that. But hey, Robert Crispin, not everybody lives
- 15:11Speaker 1: in our world. What do you mean by flash bang?
- 15:13Speaker 8: So flash bangs are a cercussion device that are thrown
- 15:18Speaker 8: into a building and it's a very loud explosion, one
- 15:22Speaker 8: hundred m m eight fireworks going off, and it literally
- 15:25Speaker 8: the flash in the sound stuns you and you just breeze.
- 15:30Speaker 8: That gives law enforcement the edge of the element of
- 15:32Speaker 8: surprise to take you.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Down to Franci Hakes joining me, former federal prosecutor, first
- 15:37Speaker 1: ever National coordinator for child exploitation. You can find her
- 15:41Speaker 1: at Franciheaks dot com. Francie, long time, no here, but
- 15:47Speaker 1: we need you now way in Francie, Well Nanpy.
- 15:51Speaker 11: This is such an incredible relief, and it really illustrates
- 15:56Speaker 11: the power of law enforcement. When everyone, state and local
- 16:01Speaker 11: are all working together to find one little nine year
- 16:05Speaker 11: old girl. That is the very best that this country
- 16:08Speaker 11: has to offer. When a nine year old girl goes missing,
- 16:12Speaker 11: everyone moves heaven and earth to find her. And they
- 16:15Speaker 11: did find her. And Nancy, as you know, as a
- 16:18Speaker 11: former prosecutor, just like me, we don't like to stay
- 16:21Speaker 11: cases or slam dunks. We never like to say that
- 16:24Speaker 11: because there's almost never really a slam dunk. But that
- 16:27Speaker 11: little girl was found in his house where he was.
- 16:31Speaker 11: This is a slam dunk case, and I'm relieved to
- 16:34Speaker 11: see it too.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Trace sergeant joining us start to rescue recovery expert PhD
- 16:39Speaker 1: Psychology focusing on criminal profiling. I couldn't help but wonder
- 16:44Speaker 1: about putting the little girl, a little Charlotte in a cabinet.
- 16:48Speaker 1: You know, she didn't go there on her own.
- 16:50Speaker 12: Yes, Ny, and she in this regard when we talk
- 16:54Speaker 12: about a situation like this, in any situation where someone disappears,
- 16:58Speaker 12: particularly if their females. We look at the victimology of
- 17:02Speaker 12: that individual. Her being a nine year old female alone
- 17:06Speaker 12: put her at the highest risk of victimology. And in
- 17:10Speaker 12: that situation, he saw a crime of opportunity so to speak.
- 17:15Speaker 12: We don't know for sure if he was stalking her,
- 17:18Speaker 12: her family, if he knew her and her family, but
- 17:22Speaker 12: the essence is he saw an opportunity, he took advantage
- 17:25Speaker 12: of it. He also understands that he is committing a crime,
- 17:30Speaker 12: a very serious crime, and he doesn't want to get caught.
- 17:33Speaker 12: So how does he prevent from getting caught. He hides
- 17:36Speaker 12: the evidence, so to speak. In this case, it is
- 17:39Speaker 12: the little girl, Charlotte, and hiding her in the cabinet,
- 17:42Speaker 12: either from his mother or from others, or even keeping
- 17:46Speaker 12: her in a contained environment where she can't escape. Maybe
- 17:50Speaker 12: she tried to get away, we don't know. So that
- 17:54Speaker 12: provides a lot of situations, goals, and objectives for him
- 17:58Speaker 12: to hide her, paying her, and to keep from his
- 18:02Speaker 12: crime being found.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Now very curious.
- 18:05Speaker 1: We know that there's a kidnapping charge right now, we
- 18:07Speaker 1: don't know if other charges are going to be added.
- 18:10Speaker 1: I also have been told that the parents do not
- 18:13Speaker 1: want her health information to be released.
- 18:17Speaker 2: What does that mean? It could be a lot. I
- 18:19Speaker 2: want to go back very quickly. Scott A.
- 18:21Speaker 1: Johnson joining me forensic psychologist thirty two years specializing in
- 18:25Speaker 1: addressing preductors just like this at Forensic Consultation dot org.
- 18:30Speaker 1: Scott Johnson, thank you for being with us. Quick question
- 18:34Speaker 1: to Alexis tereshut crime online dot com before I go
- 18:37Speaker 1: to Scott Alexis, do we know whether Charlotte was clothed
- 18:43Speaker 1: or unclothed at the time she was rescued.
- 18:46Speaker 13: The police have not said what she was wearing when
- 18:49Speaker 13: she was rescued. They have only said she was locked
- 18:51Speaker 13: in a cabinet, which and.
- 18:53Speaker 12: She's She's a tall girl.
- 18:55Speaker 13: She is five feet tall. She's only nine years old,
- 18:57Speaker 13: but she's five feet tall. She's ninety pound, which is
- 19:00Speaker 13: nothing at all.
- 19:01Speaker 12: But she is tall.
- 19:02Speaker 13: So imagine this tall girl stuck inside a cabinet in
- 19:06Speaker 13: a trailer which cannot possibly have something too big. But
- 19:10Speaker 13: you know, this was only I want to point out
- 19:12Speaker 13: this was less than twenty miles away from where she
- 19:15Speaker 13: was taken. It's in the Moroa Lake State Park. Milton
- 19:18Speaker 13: is only seventeen miles south of there, so he did
- 19:21Speaker 13: not take her very far, So it was not far
- 19:24Speaker 13: for him to go up there to capture her and
- 19:26Speaker 13: snatch her away from her family. It's like a local
- 19:28Speaker 13: park for him.
- 19:29Speaker 1: That's a really good point, Alexis Terestchuk Chris Eberhart Fox
- 19:33Speaker 1: Day's digital twenty.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Miles from Moreau State Park.
- 19:39Speaker 1: But how far was his camper that he's got part
- 19:42Speaker 1: in the back of his mom's place?
- 19:44Speaker 2: How far was it from the family home?
- 19:47Speaker 7: Between ken and fifteen miles?
- 19:49Speaker 6: It was closed And actually I think I think from
- 19:53Speaker 6: what I've seen and heard before, I think she's seen
- 19:57Speaker 6: him before in the neighborhood or something, so there was
- 19:59Speaker 6: a a little bit of familiarity.
- 20:01Speaker 1: Wow, that's the first I'm hearing that. Okay, tell me
- 20:06Speaker 1: what you know about that. And we understand that this
- 20:09Speaker 1: may change, it may not be correct right now. I
- 20:12Speaker 1: know that you're getting information from neighbors and relatives and
- 20:16Speaker 1: your ends at the police force.
- 20:17Speaker 2: I get it.
- 20:18Speaker 1: But are you telling me that she thought there's a
- 20:22Speaker 1: chance that she thought she recognized him from her neighborhood.
- 20:26Speaker 7: Right, And I'm glad you clarified that.
- 20:29Speaker 6: Again, this is nothing official from police or anything.
- 20:32Speaker 7: Like that, but there was some talk that she had.
- 20:35Speaker 6: Seen him before, but again that's unconfirmed from anybody else.
- 20:39Speaker 7: But it would be interesting because.
- 20:42Speaker 6: When you go that area where she was from Loop A,
- 20:45Speaker 6: in that park, it's very close to the street and
- 20:49Speaker 6: that it's only separated by a very small amount of
- 20:53Speaker 6: grass and then a fence that you can literally just
- 20:55Speaker 6: step over. So the curious thing is that she did
- 20:58Speaker 6: know him.
- 21:00Speaker 7: Maybe he went.
- 21:00Speaker 6: Over closer to the fence where it was easier for
- 21:02Speaker 6: him to get or did he jump over the fence.
- 21:05Speaker 10: We don't know, but again that was the theory that.
- 21:07Speaker 6: Some of the residents were pointing out, and especially given
- 21:10Speaker 6: the close proximity.
- 21:11Speaker 1: Loop A, close to the street, just separated by grass,
- 21:15Speaker 1: and like, what a chain link fence.
- 21:17Speaker 7: It's not even a chain link fence. It's hard to describe.
- 21:19Speaker 7: It's like a it's a rusted, very brittle metal type fence.
- 21:24Speaker 6: And I mean, if I wanted to, I could just
- 21:26Speaker 6: step on it and it would just crush underneath me.
- 21:29Speaker 2: So how tall is the fence?
- 21:30Speaker 6: It took me maybe about fifteen steps from the road to.
- 21:33Speaker 7: Get that fence.
- 21:34Speaker 2: How tall is the fence.
- 21:36Speaker 7: Came up to right about my chest, a little lower
- 21:38Speaker 7: than my chest.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha, gotcha. I'm trying to figure out Scott A.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Johnson joining me, forensic psychologist, how close the defendant lived
- 21:48Speaker 1: to her and I'm understanding that was about ten miles
- 21:52Speaker 1: and Jackie's showing me a note that the home was
- 21:56Speaker 1: about thirty minutes to the camp site.
- 21:58Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying?
- 21:59Speaker 1: So, now that we hear from Chris Everhart, unconfirmed reports
- 22:04Speaker 1: she may have seen this guy in the neighborhood, not
- 22:07Speaker 1: to know him, but to see him like I would
- 22:10Speaker 1: know the grocery store checkout guy or woman. I would
- 22:13Speaker 1: know them because I see them all the time. That
- 22:16Speaker 1: doesn't mean I know a lot about them. I might
- 22:19Speaker 1: remember their name from their tag on their shirt. But
- 22:22Speaker 1: that type of familiarity that may play into this. And
- 22:26Speaker 1: it's very hard for me to believe in anybody on.
- 22:28Speaker 2: The panel jump in.
- 22:31Speaker 1: It's very hard for me to believe that he lived
- 22:34Speaker 1: the defendant lived fifteen ten to fifteen minutes away from
- 22:38Speaker 1: her home and he had never seen her before that.
- 22:42Speaker 1: He just happened, Like Anela and Haystack, this happened to
- 22:46Speaker 1: be the same girl he kidnaps at a campsite.
- 22:49Speaker 14: No correct, he likely has seen her in the neighborhood
- 22:53Speaker 14: and the opportunity presented itself where he could have duct her.
- 22:57Speaker 14: But this was something in the making. Likely already had
- 23:02Speaker 14: planned to take her. He likely already knew where he
- 23:04Speaker 14: would take her. And so when we catch these people,
- 23:09Speaker 14: there's usually that element of, you know, the planning that
- 23:12Speaker 14: comes out. You know that this wasn't just a happenstance victim.
- 23:18Speaker 14: This was someone that they had seen in the community
- 23:21Speaker 14: and had already developed sexual fantasies for and or the
- 23:26Speaker 14: possibility for ransom.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Guys, I'm just very curious. Scott Johnson joining me, forensic psychologist.
- 23:33Speaker 1: This is rare for us that we actually get a
- 23:36Speaker 1: stranger on stranger child kidnapping resolved with the child alive, alive,
- 23:45Speaker 1: and I've been besieged with questions.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Was she raped, was she attacked? I don't know the answer.
- 23:52Speaker 1: That, but I know this she survived.
- 23:57Speaker 2: She survived.
- 23:58Speaker 1: That hardly ever happens with stranger own stranger child kidnappings.
- 24:04Speaker 1: Scott Johnson, I'd like to get in, if you can,
- 24:07Speaker 1: the mind of the perp that would take a child
- 24:11Speaker 1: with no thought to what it's going to do to
- 24:13Speaker 1: the family or the child and end up forcing her
- 24:16Speaker 1: into a cabinet. And this guy, I mean it's the
- 24:20Speaker 1: proverbial guy in his mom's basement. This is a guy
- 24:24Speaker 1: living in a camper in his forties, forty six years old,
- 24:28Speaker 1: in the back of mommy's yard.
- 24:29Speaker 14: Right, And so you have someone here who's, if you will,
- 24:32Speaker 14: psychologically regressed. He's not mature enough to meet people his
- 24:37Speaker 14: own age. He's fantasizing about younger people who he can
- 24:41Speaker 14: more easily control subdue without having to invest a lot of,
- 24:46Speaker 14: for example, relational communication skills, and so to abduct her
- 24:52Speaker 14: means he's got his wishes fulfilled as far as he
- 24:56Speaker 14: may not be a child specifically focused on that age
- 25:02Speaker 14: of a victim, but this happened to be the victim
- 25:05Speaker 14: that he found, but someone that he could easily control,
- 25:08Speaker 14: subdue and then perhaps the secondary game here of trying
- 25:13Speaker 14: to get some money, which obviously money was an issue
- 25:16Speaker 14: for him living in a trailer around his mommy's lot.
- 25:19Speaker 14: But someone who's very psychologically regressed, and unfortunately, the things
- 25:24Speaker 14: that they could do to their victim in their own
- 25:26Speaker 14: head are you kind of get horrendous.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Guys, you are hearing Scott A. Johnson, what more do
- 25:32Speaker 1: we know about this guy, Chris Eberhart? Does he have
- 25:35Speaker 1: a job, did he work? Did he function normally? At
- 25:39Speaker 1: first it came out that he was a sex offender.
- 25:41Speaker 1: That's not true. That must have been a different Craig Ross.
- 25:46Speaker 1: This guy does have a record, thank Heaven. Or we
- 25:50Speaker 1: may not have had his fingerprint. So there's a lot
- 25:53Speaker 1: swirling right now and we don't know the truth of
- 25:56Speaker 1: any of it. All we really know is she's alive.
- 26:00Speaker 1: I was in his camper behind his mom's place, which
- 26:03Speaker 1: leads me to another question. Mommy didn't know there was
- 26:06Speaker 1: a little girl in the backyard being held in a camper.
- 26:10Speaker 1: So that's a good question. But what more do we
- 26:13Speaker 1: know about this guy? Chris Eberhart? Or on lexis terrest truck.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Anybody jump in.
- 26:17Speaker 6: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing today. I'm actually up
- 26:20Speaker 6: here right now while I'm talking to you. I'm driving
- 26:23Speaker 6: over to the house right now. It was all blocked
- 26:26Speaker 6: off last night. They had a cop block in that
- 26:29Speaker 6: entrance of the Barrett Road. I also do want to
- 26:33Speaker 6: just let you know, Nancy, I did get a response
- 26:36Speaker 6: back from police and they have said that authorities so
- 26:40Speaker 6: far have found no connection between Ross and the girls
- 26:43Speaker 6: family doesn't mean that they haven't seen each other in
- 26:46Speaker 6: the neighborhood.
- 26:47Speaker 7: Or something like that.
- 26:47Speaker 6: But as of right now, the officials is that there
- 26:50Speaker 6: is no connection.
- 26:51Speaker 1: That's important. Hold on, let me write that down. It's
- 26:54Speaker 1: no connection between him and family. Okay, I get it.
- 26:59Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he was skulking around her neighborhood, driving around.
- 27:02Speaker 1: We know he's got access to a car. And you
- 27:04Speaker 1: know what we called it yesterday? She was taken in
- 27:08Speaker 1: a vehicle. Why because dogs did not pick up her scent.
- 27:14Speaker 1: In addition to search, rescue, recovery, Tracy's sergeant also is
- 27:20Speaker 1: an expert dog handler. That's how I first met her,
- 27:23Speaker 1: and I tried to trip her up every way to
- 27:25Speaker 1: a to Z with her dog. Could the dog find this?
- 27:29Speaker 1: And we did experiments. I did experiments to see if
- 27:32Speaker 1: I could trip her and her dog up.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Not one worked.
- 27:36Speaker 1: I tried hiding drugs inside of meat. I tried hiding
- 27:38Speaker 1: it at different places. I tried drugs in bags. I
- 27:41Speaker 1: tried all sorts of things. The dog never messed up,
- 27:45Speaker 1: and neither did Tracy. So, Tracy, what do you make
- 27:49Speaker 1: of what you're just hearing?
- 27:51Speaker 12: When Anty what happened with the dog situation is classic.
- 27:56Speaker 12: So I have actually worked these very vec scenarios where
- 28:00Speaker 12: where someone disappeared, and in fact, the runaway Bride was
- 28:04Speaker 12: the one that I worked that came to mind where
- 28:07Speaker 12: my dog tracked her route and then it stopped, and
- 28:12Speaker 12: I advised the officials that it appears that she got
- 28:16Speaker 12: into a vehicle here. I don't know if it was
- 28:18Speaker 12: willingly or unwillingly. So what they did with that particular
- 28:23Speaker 12: resource in this case a K nine resources, which are
- 28:26Speaker 12: great resources in these kinds of situations, told them a
- 28:30Speaker 12: lot of things. They told them that listen, she didn't
- 28:33Speaker 12: get off of her bike to go into the woods
- 28:36Speaker 12: to use the restroom to throw a rabbit or a butterfly.
- 28:39Speaker 12: That encouraged her to go into the woods to do
- 28:43Speaker 12: some exploring, and maybe she fell in her herself. The
- 28:46Speaker 12: dog told them what they needed to know, and that
- 28:49Speaker 12: was this is not a innocent situation where this girl
- 28:56Speaker 12: walked into the woods. It appears by all accounts that
- 28:59Speaker 12: she is than a vehicle, and a nine year old
- 29:02Speaker 12: in most cases are not going to get in the
- 29:05Speaker 12: vehicle by themselves, so that increases the danger and the
- 29:10Speaker 12: safety and the concern level very much in this kind
- 29:14Speaker 12: of situation. So the dog was a great resource that
- 29:17Speaker 12: exactly what they needed to do, gave them the answers
- 29:20Speaker 12: that the officials need to really transition instead of maybe
- 29:24Speaker 12: a missing lost child to a missing and danger child.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Or Charlotte being in one of the many bodies of
- 29:31Speaker 1: water they are at Moro State Park. You're absolutely right
- 29:35Speaker 1: that trail just ended, which told everybody that it's in
- 29:39Speaker 1: this business that she was put in the vehicle.
- 29:41Speaker 2: Is there a connection, take a listen.
- 29:43Speaker 4: To this was a suspect known to the family. It
- 29:47Speaker 4: has not been determined that the suspect was known in
- 29:49Speaker 4: the family.
- 29:50Speaker 13: Okay, well, Charlotte, greater deternament or you know.
- 29:58Speaker 4: That is what will be revealed as a more extensive questioning.
- 30:02Speaker 5: The vehicle registered to the suspect.
- 30:06Speaker 4: The address from the.
- 30:08Speaker 5: Database was two miles from Charlotte's home, but it is
- 30:12Speaker 5: not known at this time whether he knew her or
- 30:14Speaker 5: had her under surveillance for any.
- 30:16Speaker 4: Length of time.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace chrispher Eberhart Foxy's Digital we
- 30:36Speaker 1: are hearing Hotchel saying that the defendant's home registered in
- 30:43Speaker 1: the DMV department motor vehicle's database was two one two,
- 30:49Speaker 1: two miles from Charlotte's home, not ten.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Have you been saying two? Oh along? I thought you
- 30:54Speaker 2: said ten.
- 30:55Speaker 6: Well, the actual address that we're given is between ten
- 31:00Speaker 6: and fifteen, but that trailer is probably it could be closer.
- 31:03Speaker 1: I understand. I understand the vehicle regiter to the suspect.
- 31:07Speaker 1: The address in the database was two miles from Charlotte's home.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Right now, we don't know if the defendant had Charlotte
- 31:16Speaker 1: or her family under surveillance. The family's saying from our
- 31:19Speaker 1: sources that there was no connection between them and the defendant.
- 31:23Speaker 1: What if anything more do we know about the defendant
- 31:27Speaker 1: the fact that he lives in his mom's backyard in
- 31:29Speaker 1: the camper. Do we know anything about him having a
- 31:33Speaker 1: job to Alexis or Chris? What about an Alexis?
- 31:36Speaker 2: Who is this guy?
- 31:37Speaker 13: We do not know that he has a job yet
- 31:39Speaker 13: he as you can see from his mugshot, he has
- 31:42Speaker 13: a beard and a mustache and unruly hair. You know,
- 31:46Speaker 13: maybe not a job where he has to go do
- 31:47Speaker 13: an office every day. But I'm just speculating on that one.
- 31:51Speaker 13: We have not been told anything, and no coworkers have
- 31:53Speaker 13: come forward, and also to want to point out his
- 31:55Speaker 13: mother has not been arrested yet, so she may not
- 31:59Speaker 13: have known what is going on. She may not have
- 32:02Speaker 13: seen it, Charlotte, she may not have heard her. She
- 32:05Speaker 13: obviously didn't call the police to report anything. Because he
- 32:08Speaker 13: is the only one from the property show far that
- 32:11Speaker 13: he's been arrested.
- 32:11Speaker 1: I believe if they thought she had anything to do
- 32:14Speaker 1: with it or knew about it, that she would be arrested.
- 32:17Speaker 1: I agree with you, Alexis Terrestrict. You know, I keep asking,
- 32:20Speaker 1: what do you know about this guy? Has anybody thought
- 32:22Speaker 1: to mention he has to pass arrest for aggravated harassment
- 32:26Speaker 1: and criminal obstruction of breathing and see, I had never
- 32:31Speaker 1: heard of that. I had to look it up. It's
- 32:33Speaker 1: a New York state penal code law when you have
- 32:36Speaker 1: struck someone's nose or mouth that is in his history.
- 32:41Speaker 1: They are arrests. I don't know that they're convictions, but
- 32:45Speaker 1: he's arrested for those things. Okay, what about it, Chris,
- 32:50Speaker 1: I jailed.
- 32:51Speaker 10: You didn't kick me off because I had not heard
- 32:53Speaker 10: that one before. That's what I'm working on today and
- 32:58Speaker 10: trying to be together. We know if he did have
- 33:01Speaker 10: a job, what he was doing, any criminal history, also
- 33:05Speaker 10: to try to find out if his mom was even
- 33:06Speaker 10: always the time that.
- 33:08Speaker 7: We don't know either.
- 33:09Speaker 2: Guys.
- 33:09Speaker 1: We're telling you what we're learning now, and it could
- 33:14Speaker 1: be confirmed or debunked, because at the beginning, isn't this
- 33:19Speaker 1: two like Sisterestchuk. It was reported everywhere that this guy
- 33:23Speaker 1: was a registered sex offender with two attacks, and I
- 33:26Speaker 1: believe it was on young boys and that turned out
- 33:29Speaker 1: to be a completely different maybe same name or same
- 33:33Speaker 1: variation variation on that name, but it's not this guy.
- 33:37Speaker 1: But we are learning that this guy has these arrests.
- 33:41Speaker 1: We think, what.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Do you know?
- 33:43Speaker 13: Originally everybody was under the impression that it was a
- 33:46Speaker 13: man who was fifty one years old, he had an arrest,
- 33:48Speaker 13: he had been arrested for sexually assaulting young boy, so
- 33:52Speaker 13: he was a registered sex offender. That is not so far.
- 33:56Speaker 13: What has been revealed about mister Ross who has been arrested.
- 33:59Speaker 13: He is forty six. His arrest was for a duy.
- 34:04Speaker 13: And then you are saying that this criminal breathing now.
- 34:08Speaker 13: The thing is the police have not revealed that I
- 34:11Speaker 13: have not seen.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Those Well, I'll say where it's coming from. It's the
- 34:14Speaker 1: Sarah Togan The Sarah toogin, which is a news outlet.
- 34:18Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, a Craig n Ross was arrested for obstruction.
- 34:24Speaker 1: At that time he was forty of Corinth was arrested
- 34:29Speaker 1: in April twenty one charged with criminal obstruction of breathing,
- 34:32Speaker 1: which is a misdemeanor. Also a Craig n Ross of
- 34:37Speaker 1: Corinth arrested in twenty sixteen or second degree aggravated harassment.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Do those dates jive with being this guy Chris Everhart
- 34:47Speaker 1: if he's forty years old in twenty seventeen, Yeah, the.
- 34:50Speaker 10: Dates with jibe. Like I said, that's why I'll be
- 34:53Speaker 10: have little pushes on what we say about him, just
- 34:57Speaker 10: because we're still piecing it together. I mean, going back
- 35:00Speaker 10: to what you guys were talking about before, where they
- 35:02Speaker 10: originally thought it was this fifty one year old sex defender.
- 35:05Speaker 10: There was a wild circulation on social media because somebody,
- 35:09Speaker 10: a sex offender, was talking about the.
- 35:11Speaker 7: Case on I don't know which.
- 35:14Speaker 10: Social media platform, but that got picked up by a
- 35:18Speaker 10: lot of places. I don't know if you were controlling
- 35:20Speaker 10: news outlet. I don't know what he was doing, but
- 35:24Speaker 10: that's where a lot of that confusion came in. So
- 35:27Speaker 10: that's why I'm being a little courses and to making
- 35:31Speaker 10: sure that we need everything accurately.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely, But I just want to clarify one
- 35:36Speaker 1: thing with you, Chris Everheart, Fox News Digital, who is
- 35:39Speaker 1: actually in his.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Car right now heading toward the scene.
- 35:44Speaker 1: You're telling me, and I want to clarify this in
- 35:48Speaker 1: my own mind because I'm trying to work up a
- 35:51Speaker 1: scenario of what happened. You're telling me the defendant's home
- 35:56Speaker 1: is about ten miles from the victim's family home.
- 35:59Speaker 2: Is that right?
- 36:01Speaker 10: That's the way that I haven't yet?
- 36:03Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Hey maybe you know more than the governor.
- 36:06Speaker 1: That's absolutely possible. Guys, I want to jump forward to
- 36:12Speaker 1: our cuts, and I want to go to our cuts
- 36:15Speaker 1: twenty eight and beyond. But first, Franci haiks fifteen minutes,
- 36:20Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, and Chrispin, I want you to jump in
- 36:22Speaker 1: on this. After Francie, she was on her bike doing
- 36:26Speaker 1: one more loop around the campsite. We've been told that
- 36:29Speaker 1: loop was about one third of a mile. How many
- 36:33Speaker 1: times Francie have I gone camping r ving with the twins?
- 36:38Speaker 2: John David always wants to take his bike and.
- 36:41Speaker 1: He does a loop, one more loop, and usually I
- 36:45Speaker 1: go out and I walk the loop while he's riding
- 36:48Speaker 1: his bike. And these are RV parks all over the country.
- 36:53Speaker 1: But sometimes he would be out of my view. Sometimes
- 36:57Speaker 1: he would come back around the loop behind me and
- 36:59Speaker 1: pass me again. In fifteen minutes, she was gone, Francy gone.
- 37:06Speaker 4: Yeah, Nancy.
- 37:07Speaker 11: It's a shocking coincidence. But I wonder. It really makes
- 37:11Speaker 11: me wonder whether he let her on stalking the child.
- 37:15Speaker 11: Will eventually find out, because I'm sure the police are
- 37:18Speaker 11: right now exploding all the digital media computers, laptops, iPad
- 37:23Speaker 11: phones he had at his house to see if there
- 37:25Speaker 11: are photographs of this child, for example. But he might
- 37:29Speaker 11: have been just stalking the location, that kind of campsite,
- 37:32Speaker 11: like you said, you and your kids. Lots of people
- 37:35Speaker 11: take their children there, so it looks like what we
- 37:38Speaker 11: would call a target rich environment. So I'm sure police
- 37:41Speaker 11: right now are doing a forensic Sometimes today we'll be
- 37:44Speaker 11: doing a forensic interview of that child to find out
- 37:48Speaker 11: exactly what happened, the kind of things he said, whether
- 37:52Speaker 11: or not the mother was present, whether he mentioned the
- 37:54Speaker 11: mother to the child. She is an incredibly valuable witness,
- 37:59Speaker 11: not just what happened to her, but what she says
- 38:02Speaker 11: he told her and how he took her, and whether
- 38:05Speaker 11: she recognized him. But I suspect we may find out
- 38:09Speaker 11: that there are images of children from that campground, because
- 38:14Speaker 11: I think he's probably been set up there and waiting
- 38:17Speaker 11: for the opportunity to snatch a child.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Okay, Robert Crispin final thought.
- 38:22Speaker 10: Yeah, I just wanted to go. I thought about real quick.
- 38:27Speaker 10: I had a you know, I'm coming up from you know,
- 38:29Speaker 10: like the border of New York City and Wigesson the County.
- 38:31Speaker 10: So I called up a profile or just to try
- 38:33Speaker 10: to get his thoughts real quick on the whole case.
- 38:36Speaker 10: And he thought it was interesting that she would taken
- 38:40Speaker 10: after her friends left, So maybe he was waiting for
- 38:43Speaker 10: an opportunity. Maybe he was looking at her and then
- 38:46Speaker 10: all of a sudden, that last look.
- 38:48Speaker 7: He did by herself.
- 38:49Speaker 10: The other ones were in her friends, and then on
- 38:51Speaker 10: that last loop by herself, and that's when he was taken.
- 38:54Speaker 10: That was kind of an interesting thing that I've kept
- 38:56Speaker 10: in the back of my head that he told me.
- 38:58Speaker 1: Chris, Chris Everhart, you are so right. It's like the hyena.
- 39:05Speaker 1: Robert Crispin at the watering hole out in the Serengetti
- 39:08Speaker 1: just waiting for the youngest or the slowest, the most
- 39:13Speaker 1: infirm gazelle, and then when all the others leave, he
- 39:18Speaker 1: attacks that one. He waits for just the right moment.
- 39:22Speaker 1: It's like a jackal.
- 39:23Speaker 4: Listen.
- 39:24Speaker 8: The window to grab her was very small, and he
- 39:28Speaker 8: took it. But a collaboration between local, state, and federal
- 39:31Speaker 8: officials and technology today solved this case and brought this
- 39:36Speaker 8: girl home to her family where she can grow up
- 39:39Speaker 8: and be an amazing woman and have kids and be
- 39:42Speaker 8: married and just enjoy life. A collaboration of everyone came together.
- 39:48Speaker 2: All I can say is p t L, Praise the Lord.
- 39:56Speaker 2: Goodbye Friend
- 40:00Speaker 14: Nine.