Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / MOM BEGS FOR HELP TO FIND MISSING JAYDEN, 10, NOW HE'S FOUND IN SHALLOW GRAVE, MOM SUSPECT #1
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Mommy begs for help, begging the public to help find
- 0:12Speaker 2: her missing little boy, Jaden. Now he's found in a
- 0:16Speaker 2: shallow grave and Mommy is suspect number one. I'm Nancy Grace.
- 0:22Speaker 2: This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for
- 0:24Speaker 2: being with us.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Ten year old Jaden Speiser goes missing in the dead
- 0:29Speaker 3: of night. No witnesses, no streams, just a child gone
- 0:33Speaker 3: without a sound.
- 0:36Speaker 2: First of all, who exactly is mommy? Say that from
- 1:02Speaker 2: our new friend Ariel Hicks' his YouTube, and I would
- 1:06Speaker 2: like to see mommy at her finest again.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Let's just roll that beautiful footage.
- 1:27Speaker 5: Don't you ever say?
- 1:29Speaker 6: Just away always? Okay?
- 1:34Speaker 2: That is from our new friend Ariel Hicks YouTube. Can
- 1:39Speaker 2: we get back to the missing child? Just ten years old?
- 1:46Speaker 2: The world on its ear looking for Jaden, and this
- 1:51Speaker 2: is where it starts.
- 1:51Speaker 6: Listen, a ten year.
- 1:52Speaker 7: Old boy is missing and the Kentucky State Police is
- 1:55Speaker 7: asking for help to find him. Jaden Spicer was last
- 1:58Speaker 7: seen Tuesday night at nine pm. What you went to
- 2:00Speaker 7: bed and reported missing the next morning around nine to
- 2:02Speaker 7: twenty three am in the Panball Branch Road area. Trooper's
- 2:06Speaker 7: and local surgeon rescue teams are asking the public for help.
- 2:09Speaker 7: Jayden's five feet one inch tall, blonde hair, blue eyes,
- 2:12Speaker 7: slim build, glassing wearing a blue Sonic the Hedgehog, but
- 2:15Speaker 7: Jama pant in a matching shirt.
- 2:16Speaker 2: When I think about my twins at age ten, so sweet,
- 2:22Speaker 2: so innocent, just scrubbed in sunshine. What a wild goose chase,
- 2:29Speaker 2: the pain so many people endured looking for this sweet
- 2:35Speaker 2: little boy, joining me an all star panel as suddenly
- 2:40Speaker 2: the Kentucky State Police do an about face, a U turn,
- 2:44Speaker 2: coming to a screeching halt when they find this child's.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Body buried in a shallow grave.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Joining me first to Trooper Matt Gayheart with Kentucky State Police.
- 2:59Speaker 6: The KSP worked this.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Like dogs, using every possible means of detection. Trooper, I
- 3:09Speaker 2: know you've covered a lot of missing children cases, and
- 3:13Speaker 2: you have worked them tirelessly. When you find a child
- 3:19Speaker 2: obviously killed in a shallow grave, not a child that
- 3:24Speaker 2: gets lost in the forest, not a child that falls
- 3:27Speaker 2: in the pool by accident or drowns in a river,
- 3:30Speaker 2: all an accident been buried in a shallow grave. That
- 3:35Speaker 2: has gotten to be excruciating. After all, the hundreds of
- 3:39Speaker 2: man hours you guys put into finding this child.
- 3:42Speaker 8: That's tract. You know, anytime you have a miss a child,
- 3:45Speaker 8: you go into it with the most hope that you're
- 3:48Speaker 8: going to retrieve that child and ring home safely. And
- 3:51Speaker 8: to have an end like this is just absolutely tragic.
- 3:53Speaker 2: You're seeing shots of ten year old Jaden now, and
- 3:57Speaker 2: the internet is saturated with it because seemingly the world
- 4:03Speaker 2: joined in in the search for this little boy. This
- 4:06Speaker 2: as mommy begs for help the whole time she knew
- 4:12Speaker 2: where her child was.
- 4:13Speaker 6: Listen.
- 4:14Speaker 5: Jaden's mother, Felicia Gross, is too anxious to speak with
- 4:18Speaker 5: the media and ask police to share a letter instead.
- 4:21Speaker 5: She writes, we love Jaden and we want him.
- 4:24Speaker 6: Safe at home.
- 4:25Speaker 5: Please, if anyone sees my son Jaden Speicer, please report
- 4:29Speaker 5: it to the Jackson Police Department.
- 4:31Speaker 6: Thank you.
- 4:32Speaker 5: We love him very much. Please do the right thing,
- 4:35Speaker 5: call the police. Please Pray for us and my son Jayden.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Thank you, Okay, sometimes even now I'm spaceless.
- 4:42Speaker 6: Pray for us.
- 4:43Speaker 2: And the whole time Mommy, according to police, had just
- 4:48Speaker 2: dug a hole to put her ten year old boy in.
- 4:53Speaker 2: You know, Tripper Matt and Gayheart. Did anyone get suspicious
- 4:56Speaker 2: when mommy would not give a police a public plea
- 5:01Speaker 2: for help.
- 5:02Speaker 8: You know what, as we were searching, you know, the
- 5:04Speaker 8: first full day of surgeon, it takes a little while
- 5:06Speaker 8: to get all of your resources mobilized and on seemed
- 5:09Speaker 8: to start a conductive search at that time, and through
- 5:14Speaker 8: this first full day of surgeon, we started to think
- 5:17Speaker 8: that maybe he's not out there where we're looking.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Let me see the letter, please, I want to see
- 5:22Speaker 2: the letter that mommy put up.
- 5:24Speaker 6: This is a letter mommy.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Refused to speak publicly and issue a plea for help.
- 5:31Speaker 2: This is the letter she had police read to Sydney
- 5:35Speaker 2: Sumner joining US Crime Stories investigative reporter.
- 5:37Speaker 6: What exactly happened right there?
- 5:39Speaker 5: The media was contacting miss Felicia Gross, wanting her to
- 5:44Speaker 5: come out and speak with them about her missing son Jaden,
- 5:49Speaker 5: and she didn't want to go on TV, so instead
- 5:53Speaker 5: she wrote this letter asking for help.
- 5:58Speaker 6: She couldn't bring herself.
- 5:59Speaker 5: To be on TV because she had too much of
- 6:03Speaker 5: a guilty conscience. Because we know she wasn't camera shy.
- 6:06Speaker 5: We watched the other video. She clearly is pretty confident
- 6:12Speaker 5: in herself. So I'm thinking it was that guilty conscience
- 6:16Speaker 5: knowing that she falsely reported her son missing and had
- 6:20Speaker 5: people looking for him, she wasn't looking for him herself.
- 6:24Speaker 5: And we know that Jaden has siblings, but Miss Selicia
- 6:27Speaker 5: Gross wasn't out there looking.
- 6:28Speaker 6: For her own child.
- 6:30Speaker 5: So I think that's why she may have been a
- 6:32Speaker 5: little bit too nervous to go on TV.
- 6:34Speaker 6: Okay, you know what, I didn't know that. That's a
- 6:36Speaker 6: mean fact for me.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Trouper Matt Gayheart joining us helping to lead an exhaustive search.
- 6:42Speaker 6: For this child? Is that true?
- 6:44Speaker 2: Is that true that not only does she not speak
- 6:47Speaker 2: publicly asking people to help find her child or encouraging
- 6:51Speaker 2: all of the volunteers out there, she also did not
- 6:54Speaker 2: search herself.
- 6:56Speaker 8: In themediate area at all.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Okay, Ben Powers yet ready?
- 7:01Speaker 6: I hope you're ready for round one.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Powers veteran criminal defense attorney and you can find him
- 7:06Speaker 2: at legalpowers dot com. Ben, you know what, you need
- 7:11Speaker 2: to go ahead and finish that first book about how
- 7:13Speaker 2: not to behave when you've done something horrible and one
- 7:17Speaker 2: of those it reminds me of Scott Peterson.
- 7:20Speaker 6: Uh, that's like eating a dirt.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Sandwich, who wouldn't make a public plea for his wife's return,
- 7:26Speaker 2: and who also wouldn't go search for her? I mean
- 7:31Speaker 2: rule number one, at least pretend to search, at least pretend.
- 7:35Speaker 9: Well, so Nancy is a stressful situation, and you don't
- 7:38Speaker 9: know how you're going to react in.
- 7:40Speaker 10: That type of situation.
- 7:41Speaker 9: And so to read into all these things that, oh,
- 7:44Speaker 9: this must mean that because she acted this way, or
- 7:46Speaker 9: it must mean this one specific thing because she did
- 7:49Speaker 9: it do a certain thing. I mean, that's a lot
- 7:51Speaker 9: of speculation, and that's a very specific conclusion that you're
- 7:54Speaker 9: trying to reach on nothing other than your own opinion.
- 7:58Speaker 10: For the conclusion you already want.
- 7:59Speaker 2: To go to second verse, same as the first. So
- 8:02Speaker 2: do you have children? Are you blessed enough to have children?
- 8:05Speaker 6: Ben Powers? I do, okay?
- 8:07Speaker 2: And are you actually telling me if your child went missing,
- 8:10Speaker 2: you would sit on your can watching ESPN while other
- 8:15Speaker 2: people are out looking for your child.
- 8:17Speaker 6: Is that what you're trying to say?
- 8:18Speaker 10: I would think that I would go out.
- 8:20Speaker 9: But what I would say also is I've seen a
- 8:23Speaker 9: lot of different cases with a lot of different stressful, shocking,
- 8:26Speaker 9: panic situations, and you never know how someone's going to react.
- 8:30Speaker 9: Sometimes they react the way you expect, sometimes they don't
- 8:32Speaker 9: but you can't read into that a very specific conclusion
- 8:36Speaker 9: either way. It's just human nature is you never know
- 8:39Speaker 9: how you're going to react to stressful situations, to shocking situations.
- 8:44Speaker 9: I mean, I can't read anything into her reaction other
- 8:48Speaker 9: than that's how she reacted. And you can't say how
- 8:51Speaker 9: what the right reaction is or what the wrong reaction is.
- 8:55Speaker 10: The reaction is just the react right, and there's not
- 8:57Speaker 10: much w to it.
- 8:58Speaker 2: Okay, Ben Powers, you save that for a jury, Okay,
- 9:02Speaker 2: because that's where this is headed right now. After begging
- 9:05Speaker 2: the public, begging the public in a written plea to
- 9:09Speaker 2: help find her child, hundreds of volunteers out there, the
- 9:13Speaker 2: Kentucky State Police sweating bullets trying to find this child.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Let's take a look. Oh there's the letter. Please show me,
- 9:20Speaker 2: show me Jaden, Wait till you hear what she now
- 9:25Speaker 2: says happened to her little boy. And to doctor Sue
- 9:29Speaker 2: Cornblue joining us family expert, owner of doctor Sue and
- 9:34Speaker 2: You and author of Building Self Esteem and Children and
- 9:37Speaker 2: Teens Adopted or Fostered. And you can find her at
- 9:40Speaker 2: doctor Sue and You dot com. Amazing site. By the way,
- 9:45Speaker 2: doctor Sue, thank you for being with us. I'm just
- 9:49Speaker 2: a trial lawyer. I'm just a JD. You are the
- 9:54Speaker 2: veteran shrink. So maybe this is wrong to project, but
- 10:00Speaker 2: don't you know every juror that may end up hearing
- 10:03Speaker 2: this case is going to do the same thing. I
- 10:05Speaker 2: wouldn't sit on my rear end watching HGTV while one
- 10:09Speaker 2: of my twins were out there.
- 10:11Speaker 6: God only knows where.
- 10:12Speaker 2: No, no, no, And I can project a memory when
- 10:18Speaker 2: my son, my daughter, and I there were about two
- 10:21Speaker 2: or three, went to a big, huge Baby's or US
- 10:24Speaker 2: superstore looking for organic sun tannlotion because I got shamed
- 10:28Speaker 2: at the community pool for using regular suntanlotion. And I
- 10:33Speaker 2: looked up and Lucy was standing there, but there was
- 10:36Speaker 2: no John David. I picked her up like a football
- 10:39Speaker 2: like star quarterback and started running through this big warehouse, screaming,
- 10:44Speaker 2: my baby is missing, locked the doors. Everybody helped me,
- 10:48Speaker 2: screaming his name. I felt like electricity had run through me.
- 10:54Speaker 2: Little did I know he was playing a game with
- 10:57Speaker 2: mommy and hiding on a row a few up. But
- 11:00Speaker 2: I ran the other way right. I ran toward the door,
- 11:03Speaker 2: thinking if somebody had him, they would leave. When he
- 11:07Speaker 2: had was hiding the other way. So I'm projecting what
- 11:11Speaker 2: I went through in those moments. Don't you think a
- 11:14Speaker 2: jury would do the same thing.
- 11:16Speaker 11: I absolutely do, Nancy, And what you said is a
- 11:19Speaker 11: normal reaction to how a mother would feel if her
- 11:23Speaker 11: child was missing. So you know, I don't know what
- 11:27Speaker 11: this woman was feeling or wasn't feeling, but that note
- 11:32Speaker 11: that she wrote says that she.
- 11:35Speaker 6: Missed him and wanted everybody.
- 11:37Speaker 11: To go search for him. So with that in mind,
- 11:42Speaker 11: maybe the jewry will actually think she had some remorners.
- 11:46Speaker 11: But we'll have to find out and see what happens there.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask a troaper, Matt Gayheart Trouper again,
- 11:53Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. What was the reaction
- 11:57Speaker 2: amongst your people, super Gayheart when it was discovered that Jaden.
- 12:04Speaker 2: I haven't really let myself think about it because as
- 12:07Speaker 2: a mom, you tend to put yourself in those shoes,
- 12:12Speaker 2: and the thought of one of my children being in
- 12:19Speaker 2: a shallow grave is just too much. But I'm wondering
- 12:25Speaker 2: about the troopers and the volunteers that find him, that
- 12:30Speaker 2: find his little body. It had to be like a
- 12:35Speaker 2: gut punch, a kicked to the teeth after all you
- 12:40Speaker 2: guys had been through. I mean, you did it, all
- 12:43Speaker 2: the drones, the dogs, the bodies of water, the shoulder
- 12:47Speaker 2: to shoulder searches for him, and then it comes to this.
- 12:54Speaker 6: What was the reaction amongst the troopers?
- 12:58Speaker 8: Nice is the only way that I can describe It
- 13:00Speaker 8: is just pure, just gut rich and devastation. Like I said,
- 13:05Speaker 8: you know, we keep so much hope alive in the search,
- 13:08Speaker 8: and we're doing all these things trying to bring him
- 13:10Speaker 8: home safely, and when you see the ending is just
- 13:14Speaker 8: absolutely tragic. It is a father of young children, and
- 13:17Speaker 8: majority of our guys have young children. It's just such
- 13:21Speaker 8: a hard situation to do. But you have to put
- 13:25Speaker 8: that aside and try to maintain professionalism and make sure
- 13:28Speaker 8: that we do a thorough investigation that may make sure
- 13:32Speaker 8: that we bring justice to Jaden.
- 13:34Speaker 2: You know, another thing powers the defense attorney such as
- 13:37Speaker 2: yourself is going to have to deal with is the
- 13:39Speaker 2: fact of how many days, how many hours? You know,
- 13:42Speaker 2: I would break it down today's to hours to minutes.
- 13:47Speaker 2: How long mommy sat on her rear end when she
- 13:53Speaker 2: wasn't singing. I came in like a wrecking ball on video.
- 13:58Speaker 2: How long she sat still and said nothing. I'm going
- 14:02Speaker 2: to put it to you like it is powers and
- 14:05Speaker 2: let her child's body decompose in the dirt.
- 14:13Speaker 1: How long she sat there?
- 14:14Speaker 2: What did she have coffee in the morning? Did she
- 14:17Speaker 2: watch the morning shows? Did she kick back and watch
- 14:20Speaker 2: the Little Real Housewives? I would really be interested. She
- 14:25Speaker 2: rented a movie.
- 14:26Speaker 6: While everybody else.
- 14:27Speaker 2: That's a fun thing for you to do, Trooper, is
- 14:30Speaker 2: to find out what she was doing while everyone else
- 14:34Speaker 2: was searching.
- 14:35Speaker 6: For her child. Did she order Uber eats her door dash?
- 14:40Speaker 6: Did she online shop?
- 14:42Speaker 2: What was she doing while you, Trooper, were out looking
- 14:46Speaker 2: for her child, and more so knowing that with each
- 14:51Speaker 2: minute that passed, her baby's body was decomposing in the dirt,
- 14:58Speaker 2: unprotected from the element.
- 15:00Speaker 6: You ever thought about that?
- 15:02Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about tracing her activities while you
- 15:05Speaker 2: were out sweating bullets away from your family looking for
- 15:09Speaker 2: him this sweet little boy.
- 15:11Speaker 8: Yeah, all that stuff has been taken into consideration, and
- 15:14Speaker 8: you know her movements. We're being washed and tracked and
- 15:18Speaker 8: that's all part of the investigation and we hope to
- 15:21Speaker 8: be able to answer that in the future.
- 15:23Speaker 6: Guys.
- 15:23Speaker 2: In the last hours, we learned that after begging, begging,
- 15:28Speaker 2: the public, to help find her child. Mommy sat in
- 15:31Speaker 2: her house as her child decomposed, knowing he was buried
- 15:37Speaker 2: in a shallow grave. And if you can imagine it,
- 15:41Speaker 2: it gets worse. We are now hearing allegations she coached
- 15:46Speaker 2: her other children to lie about what happened. But when
- 15:53Speaker 2: police arrive at the scene, they immediately start the search.
- 15:58Speaker 8: Listen up born unitsils saying they immediately began a search
- 16:02Speaker 8: of the immediate area, followed by a larger scale search
- 16:06Speaker 8: that's been followed out in conjunction with the Breath County
- 16:09Speaker 8: Merchant Management along with multiple search and risk of teams
- 16:13Speaker 8: from Fox fifty six.
- 16:15Speaker 3: As detectives searched the woods and fields around his home,
- 16:19Speaker 3: Jade's mother issues a public statement begging for her son's
- 16:23Speaker 3: safe return while hiding a secret she thought would never
- 16:26Speaker 3: be uncovered.
- 16:29Speaker 2: In the last hours, we're learning a lot as we
- 16:31Speaker 2: go to air tonight. Tell me Sidney Sumner was mommy
- 16:35Speaker 2: spotted at McDonald's.
- 16:38Speaker 6: According to Facebook posts from some very.
- 16:41Speaker 5: Angry locals who spent their time volunteering who are familiar
- 16:46Speaker 5: with this family, she was spotted at McDonald's grabbing food
- 16:52Speaker 5: while others.
- 16:53Speaker 6: Were out in the heat in.
- 16:55Speaker 5: The wilderness, dealing with the bugs, going through very thick wood.
- 16:59Speaker 5: It is areas looking for any sign of Jaden. I
- 17:03Speaker 5: mean people were looking through piles of garbage for any
- 17:07Speaker 5: clue of any sign of this missing little boy. And
- 17:11Speaker 5: she's stuffing her face with a burger. Okay, you know
- 17:14Speaker 5: what that's bringing out? The horrible specter.
- 17:18Speaker 2: He's raising his head like a monster. Scott Peterson, remember
- 17:25Speaker 2: remember this, Sydney Sumner. You and I covered this together.
- 17:28Speaker 2: We about fell out when a detective told us. And
- 17:32Speaker 2: this was recent because it did not come in at
- 17:35Speaker 2: Lacey's murder trial, Lacey and Connor's. We were talking to
- 17:38Speaker 2: I think it was Brokeeni, you and I and he
- 17:44Speaker 2: said that when Scott Peterson was told, we just got
- 17:49Speaker 2: the DNA results from the two bodies that washed up
- 17:53Speaker 2: on San Francisco Bay and it is Lacey and Connor.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Within five minutes, within five minutes, Scott Peterson asked if
- 18:03Speaker 2: he could stop it in and out for a double
- 18:06Speaker 2: double with cheese, a large fry, and some kind of
- 18:10Speaker 2: a frosty drink. He just got told your wife and
- 18:16Speaker 2: child are dead. Those are their bodies, and he wanted
- 18:20Speaker 2: a double double whatever that is so obviously it did
- 18:26Speaker 2: not affect Mommy's appetite. Another thing Sidney summer, and again
- 18:31Speaker 2: I'm projecting in doctor Sue Cornblue's gonna have a field
- 18:33Speaker 2: day with this. After my fiance was murdered, I remember losing.
- 18:37Speaker 6: Down to eighty nine pounds.
- 18:40Speaker 2: The thought of food nauseated me, and I can still
- 18:44Speaker 2: remember the first thing I consumed. I was staying at
- 18:48Speaker 2: my mom and Dad said, and went into the fridge
- 18:51Speaker 2: and drank some orange juice. I remember that moment that
- 18:55Speaker 2: I finally wanted to drink something. Now tell me again,
- 19:01Speaker 2: how did we find out? You actually found out? How
- 19:04Speaker 2: did you find out? Mommy is chowing down and McDonald's
- 19:08Speaker 2: while her son is missing and she knows he's in
- 19:11Speaker 2: a shallow, gray, decomposing Jackson.
- 19:14Speaker 5: Locals who know this family, who are familiar with Jaden
- 19:17Speaker 5: from school, who have seen Felicia Gross around town are angry.
- 19:23Speaker 6: They are up.
- 19:24Speaker 5: And they are posting about all of the things that
- 19:27Speaker 5: she did and didn't.
- 19:29Speaker 6: Do during the search for her missing son.
- 19:32Speaker 5: So someone said, oh, I saw her at McDonald's getting
- 19:36Speaker 5: food while.
- 19:37Speaker 6: Other people are out looking for her kid. So people are.
- 19:41Speaker 5: Not happy about this situation and that she blatantly lied
- 19:46Speaker 5: and led people to believe there was hope to bring
- 19:50Speaker 5: Jaden home safely.
- 19:51Speaker 2: Well, another thing, taking Gayheart and all of his people
- 19:56Speaker 2: away from their families to look for her son the night,
- 20:01Speaker 2: through the elements, walking shoulder to shoulder, coming up with
- 20:06Speaker 2: everything they could. While she's said, McDonald's been powers. Now,
- 20:10Speaker 2: what were you saying about how people react? There's no
- 20:13Speaker 2: playbook for grief blood blah blah blah blah.
- 20:17Speaker 1: And now mommy spotted with a big mac chowing down.
- 20:22Speaker 10: I mean yeah, I mean that's still you gotta eat.
- 20:25Speaker 9: You can't just stop eating completely, So I mean I
- 20:28Speaker 9: can see how that can be spunny.
- 20:31Speaker 10: I mean the same is true. I mean you have
- 20:36Speaker 10: to eat. I mean she's got to keep living. I
- 20:41Speaker 10: mean that doesn't mean anything.
- 20:44Speaker 1: That nasty wet hay, and you spun it out into gold.
- 20:48Speaker 6: Rumble Stiltskin.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Crime stories with Nancy Greece, doctor Sue Cornblueth. We clearly
- 21:04Speaker 2: need a shrink. Okay, if mommy has taken to her
- 21:07Speaker 2: bed and can't even get out of bed because of grief,
- 21:10Speaker 2: I can understand that. But mommy chowing down at McDonald's
- 21:17Speaker 2: on a MacNeil.
- 21:19Speaker 1: That ain't gonna play with a jury.
- 21:21Speaker 6: Doctor. This is infuriating.
- 21:23Speaker 11: Okay, she's out having a big mac or whatever while
- 21:27Speaker 11: her child is missing. You know, Nancy, this is screaming
- 21:31Speaker 11: to me.
- 21:31Speaker 6: Liar liar. And I don't know what is going on here,
- 21:35Speaker 6: if it's a mental illness or what.
- 21:37Speaker 11: But I'm thinking about Canthany right now, and not in
- 21:40Speaker 11: a great way. That's some of the same stuff is
- 21:43Speaker 11: going on here, you know. To me, Nancy, seems like
- 21:46Speaker 11: it's a mother doesn't want her child.
- 21:50Speaker 2: Oh you just said something really really smart, doctor, Sue,
- 21:52Speaker 2: you just touched You just stepped on a landmine.
- 21:55Speaker 6: Because I've got some news for you.
- 21:58Speaker 2: But I want to first hold on a where I
- 22:00Speaker 2: lose this thought Trooper, Matt Gaheart joining us trouper. I'm
- 22:04Speaker 2: sure you love it when people give you suggestions for
- 22:09Speaker 2: your investigation. Why don't you and then they fill in
- 22:12Speaker 2: the blank, see a psychic consultantarot cars, blah blak.
- 22:16Speaker 6: It goes on forever.
- 22:17Speaker 1: But I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go out on
- 22:19Speaker 1: a limb.
- 22:20Speaker 2: I wish you guys would pull the McDonald's video and
- 22:25Speaker 2: just watch her demeanor. Maybe at the drive through was
- 22:29Speaker 2: she happy and cherry. What did she order?
- 22:31Speaker 6: Did she start eating.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Right then when she got in the food before she
- 22:34Speaker 2: could even get on the street.
- 22:35Speaker 6: Did she go in?
- 22:36Speaker 2: I hope she goes in so I could watch in
- 22:39Speaker 2: detail mommy chowing down while you're out looking for her son,
- 22:43Speaker 2: which she knows his remains are in a shallow gray.
- 22:46Speaker 2: So we've got the McDonald's videotape. I'm happy to get
- 22:49Speaker 2: it for you. I don't know how I'm gonna do it,
- 22:52Speaker 2: but I bet I could and her HBO, Showtime, Netflix,
- 22:57Speaker 2: Amazon usage while you're out searching. You know, she was
- 23:02Speaker 2: holed up in her room with Acon Chowandow on McDonald's
- 23:06Speaker 2: watching pay per view, and I want to find out
- 23:09Speaker 2: every single thing she wants. Just a thought, I got
- 23:14Speaker 2: some more news for you, Sidney Sumner. Doctor Sue Cornblooth
- 23:17Speaker 2: just said something really interesting.
- 23:20Speaker 1: She didn't want a child.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Okay, can you enlighten us about what you found out
- 23:25Speaker 2: about who was raising him up until three months ago.
- 23:29Speaker 5: Well, we don't know much, but we do know that
- 23:32Speaker 5: Jaden's grandmother was really his primary caretaker, and we don't
- 23:37Speaker 5: know much else about the home situation. Felicia Gross is
- 23:41Speaker 5: married to Josh Gross, and that is Jaden's stepdad. We
- 23:47Speaker 5: don't know much about Jaden's biological father, but it seems
- 23:52Speaker 5: that his grandmother was his primary caretaker.
- 23:55Speaker 6: And there's also.
- 23:56Speaker 5: Siblings in this family, maybe half siblings, maybe for siblings.
- 24:00Speaker 5: So it's unclear if Jaden ever really saw his mom
- 24:04Speaker 5: on a regular basis before his grandmother passed away.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Now isn't that quite the coincidence? Trooper Gayheart, another brick
- 24:11Speaker 2: in the wall, I'd be on that like White on Rice.
- 24:17Speaker 2: So grandma is raising the boy just ten years old,
- 24:21Speaker 2: he's still a baby. Mommy gets him and three months
- 24:26Speaker 2: later he's in a shallow grave dead, so obviously she
- 24:34Speaker 2: did not want him. She gets him back and then bam,
- 24:40Speaker 2: he's dead. Sid did the grandma pass away?
- 24:43Speaker 5: Actually just recently? And Felicia Gross also two years in jail,
- 24:49Speaker 5: so two years of Jaden's life. She was actually behind
- 24:53Speaker 5: bars on different charges, all child endangerment and then later
- 24:59Speaker 5: drug and wet in charges.
- 25:01Speaker 6: Strooper matt a Gayheart. I mean, the.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Grandma is clearly in feeling health and she gives Jaden
- 25:13Speaker 2: back to mom and within three months he's dead. I mean,
- 25:19Speaker 2: can you imagine the life he led before Grandma took him.
- 25:24Speaker 2: I mean, my grandmother, Lucy, who would named my daughter after,
- 25:28Speaker 2: helped raise us while my parents worked, and those were.
- 25:33Speaker 6: It was amazing. I mean, dirt poor.
- 25:36Speaker 2: But so much love, and that's what he had with
- 25:39Speaker 2: his grandma. Then she starts going downhill and dies, but
- 25:45Speaker 2: she gives the boy to mommy, and now he's dead.
- 25:49Speaker 2: I mean, just the heartbreak of that. I mean, do
- 25:54Speaker 2: you ever just sit in your car and cry and
- 25:57Speaker 2: just like, oh, how it could have been so easily avoidable,
- 26:02Speaker 2: but it wasn't.
- 26:03Speaker 8: I hate to sit and think about I'm just such
- 26:05Speaker 8: a senseless killing and such an innocent child losing his
- 26:08Speaker 8: life for no reason at all other than the fact
- 26:12Speaker 8: that you don't want to take responsibility and raise your child.
- 26:16Speaker 5: Day two of the search for ten year old Jada
- 26:19Speaker 5: includes an extensive search of his home and the area
- 26:21Speaker 5: is surrounding his home Kentucky State Police using aircraft, drones, canines,
- 26:27Speaker 5: and sonar. The area of searched is in the eastern
- 26:30Speaker 5: part of Kentucky, about an hour and a half southeast
- 26:33Speaker 5: of Lexington, in the community of Jackson in Breathitt County.
- 26:37Speaker 8: So we've utilized resources from KSPR draft. We've used drones
- 26:42Speaker 8: from multiple different sources. We've also used canines and people
- 26:48Speaker 8: walking all foot through the eels searching for any top
- 26:51Speaker 8: of clues or evidence where somebody may have been. We've
- 26:55Speaker 8: also used solar to check waterways in close proximity to
- 26:59Speaker 8: that is that spoil. We've also used flear, which is
- 27:03Speaker 8: a great technology search for missing.
- 27:06Speaker 6: People from our friends ed wk YT.
- 27:09Speaker 12: The area surrounding the home and areas he is most familiar,
- 27:12Speaker 12: searched by the best resources available. Now, the family of
- 27:15Speaker 12: Jaden's raising money for a reward to help bring the
- 27:18Speaker 12: boy home. Jaden's and Samantha Bunty launched to go fundme
- 27:21Speaker 12: campaign to raise for cash reward. Priest father Jim Sichko
- 27:25Speaker 12: is also offering a reward for the safe return of Jaden.
- 27:29Speaker 8: Unfortunately, we've not been able to locate a lot of
- 27:31Speaker 8: evidence suggests that he would be close by O Soul. Unfortunately,
- 27:35Speaker 8: we're kind of the same same support we were when
- 27:37Speaker 8: we started the search.
- 27:38Speaker 2: For our friends Fox fifty six and joining us is
- 27:42Speaker 2: that trooper helped leading the search, Trooper Matt Gayheart. I'm
- 27:46Speaker 2: going to go to Thomas, doctor Thomas Coin in just
- 27:48Speaker 2: a moment. But first Trooper Gayheart what raising money to
- 27:55Speaker 2: find Jaden, and Mommy just sits on our thumb while
- 28:01Speaker 2: money is being raised to help find Jada.
- 28:04Speaker 6: And you've even got the.
- 28:07Speaker 2: Priest father Jim offering his own money as a reward
- 28:14Speaker 2: for information, and Mommy sits there munching a burger.
- 28:19Speaker 6: Seriously, Yeah, you.
- 28:20Speaker 8: Know, we tried literally everything to get information in this investigation.
- 28:24Speaker 8: It turned to us right quickly that what we were
- 28:28Speaker 8: doing wasn't going to work. So the community together and
- 28:33Speaker 8: try to get some punts together to get somebody to
- 28:35Speaker 8: come forward with some information that would lead us to Jaden.
- 28:37Speaker 2: I would put my two eyes on that money because
- 28:42Speaker 2: if that money goes in mommy's pocket, oh yeah, all
- 28:45Speaker 2: htal going to break loose. In this studio, guys, listen
- 28:50Speaker 2: to the heartbreak that some of the troopers were going through.
- 28:55Speaker 2: As stated by our guest, Listen, you think about.
- 28:59Speaker 8: A ten year old chick who is if he wanted it,
- 29:02Speaker 8: away from the residents and is by himself walking through
- 29:06Speaker 8: the forest. He's gotten old resources with them, so you're
- 29:11Speaker 8: racing against the clock as far as getting him home safely.
- 29:14Speaker 8: We must continue, hope, but unfortunately at this point where
- 29:17Speaker 8: we're at an investigation, it's a race against the clock.
- 29:21Speaker 8: We're essentially at kind of our last leg. We need
- 29:25Speaker 8: to do how we relocate him immediately.
- 29:27Speaker 2: That's sound from our friends at Fox fifty six. It
- 29:29Speaker 2: really struck me as you're out there literally beating the bushes.
- 29:35Speaker 2: You use the dogs, you used radar, you did everything
- 29:40Speaker 2: you could, you organize search after search after search, and
- 29:45Speaker 2: you were talking at one point how you were thinking
- 29:49Speaker 2: about a ten year old child who's wandered away and
- 29:54Speaker 2: is alone in this forest. He's gotten nothing with him,
- 30:00Speaker 2: maybe not even shoes, nothing to drink, nothing to eat.
- 30:05Speaker 2: Tell me about the terrain you search, Trooper Gayheart.
- 30:10Speaker 8: Majority of that area is very steep, very rugged terrain.
- 30:14Speaker 8: It's very overgrown with dense vegetation. Soul for searchers, it
- 30:19Speaker 8: was really difficult to traverse that terrain. I can't imagine
- 30:22Speaker 8: a ten year old being able to just run them
- 30:25Speaker 8: up through it.
- 30:25Speaker 2: Ten years old, ten years old out in that rough
- 30:29Speaker 2: Kentucky terrain. When, if at all, did it go through
- 30:35Speaker 2: your mind, Trooper that he did not wander away.
- 30:39Speaker 8: We started having speculations around the second day of the search,
- 30:42Speaker 8: which was the first full day of having all of
- 30:45Speaker 8: our search and rescue crews out there about that time,
- 30:49Speaker 8: where we wouldn't find any evidence suggesting that anybody was
- 30:51Speaker 8: out there. So at that time we started thinking, maybe
- 30:56Speaker 8: we're looking at a situation where we're chasing our tails here.
- 31:00Speaker 2: Regardless of the mom there were two aunties that raised
- 31:06Speaker 2: the red flag.
- 31:07Speaker 1: Listen, there's some stuff.
- 31:08Speaker 10: That just doesn't ad a in this case.
- 31:11Speaker 13: And as two aunts and mothers, we've.
- 31:16Speaker 6: Questioned a lot of the information.
- 31:17Speaker 3: Ourselves, friends, neighbors, even politicians helping search.
- 31:20Speaker 6: For ten year old Jaden.
- 31:21Speaker 3: In a nightmare, two of Jaden's aunts, questioning information police
- 31:25Speaker 3: were told Jaden went to bed Tuesday night but was
- 31:27Speaker 3: missing Wednesday morning. Aunts Chai Sellers and Samantha Bunty say
- 31:31Speaker 3: a lot of the info doesn't add up. Jaden would
- 31:34Speaker 3: never venture out in the dark and climb the rugged
- 31:36Speaker 3: terrain surrounding his home.
- 31:38Speaker 6: Yes, who would?
- 31:39Speaker 2: And you know another thing that's interesting, and we've seen
- 31:41Speaker 2: this in other cases Sydney summer.
- 31:43Speaker 9: Oh.
- 31:43Speaker 2: By the way, that original sound was from our friends
- 31:45Speaker 2: at WSMV four Sidney. We've seen this in other cases
- 31:50Speaker 2: where children allegedly wandered out at night and all their
- 31:55Speaker 2: shoes were still in the home and the only thing
- 31:57Speaker 2: missing would be them and the piece days that they
- 32:00Speaker 2: were wearing the night before. So you've got to believe
- 32:04Speaker 2: this child would go out in the middle of the
- 32:06Speaker 2: night without shoes, not wearing any clothes, and wander so
- 32:12Speaker 2: far away from home, didn't wake up any dogs, nothing
- 32:14Speaker 2: like that, didn't set off a burglar alarm, nothing, and
- 32:18Speaker 2: gets lost in the middle of the night.
- 32:22Speaker 6: That's what we were supposed to believe. I mean, at
- 32:24Speaker 6: stuck time, haven't at the get go. It just doesn't
- 32:26Speaker 6: make sense.
- 32:28Speaker 5: His aunts say that Jaden was terrified of bugs, and
- 32:32Speaker 5: bugs are especially worse in the summertime. So for them
- 32:37Speaker 5: to say, to be told that Jayden wandered out of
- 32:41Speaker 5: the house in the middle of the night in the heat,
- 32:44Speaker 5: with all of the bugs that he's terrified of, they
- 32:47Speaker 5: immediately knew that something wasn't right. And for Jaden to
- 32:52Speaker 5: have not woken any of his siblings when he left
- 32:55Speaker 5: in the overnight hours or in the morning, and this
- 32:58Speaker 5: was a long period of time that nobody saw him.
- 33:01Speaker 5: Nine o'clock at night to nine am in the morning.
- 33:04Speaker 5: That's a long time for a child whose age to
- 33:06Speaker 5: sleep uninterrupted without making a keep. So I think people
- 33:11Speaker 5: were very suspicious of mommy's story from the very beginning.
- 33:16Speaker 2: You know, to Trooper Matt Gayheart, what was mommy's story
- 33:20Speaker 2: at the get go?
- 33:21Speaker 6: Did she ever mention, you know, I just don't see
- 33:24Speaker 6: him going out in that terrain.
- 33:26Speaker 2: He hates bugs and mosquitoes, He wouldn't do it. Did
- 33:30Speaker 2: she ever say anything like that? And then the Aunties
- 33:34Speaker 2: raise the alarm that this was just didn't make any sense.
- 33:38Speaker 2: What was her original story?
- 33:40Speaker 8: Trooper reported that while they were sleeping at the Fowell
- 33:45Speaker 8: family went to better just shortly after nine pm. At
- 33:49Speaker 8: some point during the night into the early morning hours,
- 33:52Speaker 8: Jaden had left the residence that was now missing. They
- 33:55Speaker 8: didn't check on that job until just a little after
- 33:59Speaker 8: nine am the following morning, so you have a twelve
- 34:01Speaker 8: hour gap there that we're trying to pin down exactly
- 34:04Speaker 8: maybe when this child left the residence.
- 34:06Speaker 2: So her story was he goes to sleep and she
- 34:09Speaker 2: wakes him up, goes to wake him up at nine am,
- 34:11Speaker 2: and he's not in his bed.
- 34:12Speaker 1: That's the story, right, that's correct.
- 34:14Speaker 6: You know.
- 34:14Speaker 2: Another fun thing for the troopers to do would be
- 34:18Speaker 2: to go in the home and see if any shoes
- 34:20Speaker 2: were taken. Actually, you don't need to do that because
- 34:22Speaker 2: you know how his body was found. What was he
- 34:26Speaker 2: wearing Trooper when his body was found?
- 34:29Speaker 8: That information we do don't though, just as part of
- 34:33Speaker 8: the investigation. A lot of that stuff it looked into.
- 34:36Speaker 8: That's taken to the Medical Exander's office for analysis. So
- 34:39Speaker 8: that's stuff we'll be able to answer a little further
- 34:42Speaker 8: down in an investigation.
- 34:43Speaker 2: You know doctor Sue, doctor Sue at Cornbluoth joining us
- 34:48Speaker 2: family Expert. You can find her at doctor Sue and
- 34:52Speaker 2: you dot com. See that's something a mom would know
- 34:57Speaker 2: or should know. For instance, mosquitos never my son. They
- 35:01Speaker 2: always bite my daughter always, and when she goes outside.
- 35:06Speaker 6: That's something she and I think about.
- 35:09Speaker 2: She would never do this, She would never go out
- 35:12Speaker 2: that way and get eaten up by mosquitoes. I'm just
- 35:17Speaker 2: I'm just thinking why it had to be the Aunties
- 35:21Speaker 2: that put this out there, that the story doesn't add up,
- 35:23Speaker 2: that he would never do this and not the mom.
- 35:27Speaker 2: And I know Ben Powers is going to say, that's
- 35:29Speaker 2: not hard direct evidence such as DNA or fingerprint, but
- 35:32Speaker 2: it's circumstantial evidence, very strong circumstantial evidence to me.
- 35:36Speaker 11: To me, this is a mom that doesn't know our
- 35:39Speaker 11: child at all. Look, Nancy, you know what's screaming at
- 35:42Speaker 11: me right now. One she was in jail for a
- 35:46Speaker 11: year for child endangerment. So we cannot just throw.
- 35:50Speaker 6: That out like that never happened.
- 35:53Speaker 11: You know, I don't know what happened, but to me,
- 35:55Speaker 11: it seems like she has the possibility of abusing her children.
- 35:58Speaker 6: I want to say.
- 35:59Speaker 11: One thing here that a lot of people don't know
- 36:01Speaker 11: this term, but it's called unwanted child fill aside.
- 36:06Speaker 6: And what that means is that you do not want your.
- 36:09Speaker 11: Child, and you want to go off and have a
- 36:11Speaker 11: life of freedom, and you see your child as an object,
- 36:17Speaker 11: not as a human being. And I'm just thinking to myself,
- 36:21Speaker 11: this is probably what is going on right here. This
- 36:24Speaker 11: is a mother that had a lot of problems, probably
- 36:27Speaker 11: didn't want to be a parent. He was acting out
- 36:30Speaker 11: and she is at it, and perhaps she said I'm
- 36:33Speaker 11: just going to discard him now.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Then a new lead emerges, Tector's responding to the location
- 36:41Speaker 2: and initiated a search.
- 36:43Speaker 8: Shortly thereafter, approximately three pu the remainings of Jaden's sponsor
- 36:48Speaker 8: were discovered buried at the set.
- 36:51Speaker 6: The brother.
- 36:52Speaker 8: Kuncorn's office responded and pronounce the child deceased. The remains
- 36:56Speaker 8: will be transported to the Medical Examiner's Office of Frankfort
- 36:59Speaker 8: for an autopsy. This insident has now transitioned from a
- 37:02Speaker 8: missing person investigation into an active and ongoing criminal investigation.
- 37:07Speaker 8: Is our top priority to protect the integrity of this
- 37:11Speaker 8: investigation and seek justice for Jacob.
- 37:14Speaker 14: Yes, my love, that there is a lady you come
- 37:16Speaker 14: up our door and she's some guy that jumping into
- 37:20Speaker 14: a red light of her car, put her two kids
- 37:23Speaker 14: in it, and he took off and he got out
- 37:25Speaker 14: of the car here at Ohio and he's got a head, Yes,
- 37:27Speaker 14: ma'am at her call, and I don't hear ripercle and
- 37:30Speaker 14: I I need to come along getting down here, and
- 37:33Speaker 14: a car is but we need to have the we
- 37:36Speaker 14: can of acting up.
- 37:39Speaker 11: A modal protege.
- 37:40Speaker 14: What color was it? A burgundy mignal protege.
- 37:44Speaker 10: We don't get him going pay him.
- 37:46Speaker 14: They got two keys.
- 37:46Speaker 6: I'll hoold to whoever has my children that they please,
- 37:54Speaker 6: I mean, please bring them home to us.
- 38:00Speaker 1: Save it.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Susan Smith, use that in your next appeal to get
- 38:05Speaker 2: out from behind bars. That's from our friends at wyff Wow,
- 38:09Speaker 2: an eerie similarity. While that mommy knows her sons are
- 38:15Speaker 2: at the bottom of a lake in her car, belted
- 38:18Speaker 2: in their seat belts by her, she's begging for the
- 38:23Speaker 2: public to help find them and actually blames some mythic
- 38:28Speaker 2: guy that comes up and carjacks them. But she's not
- 38:32Speaker 2: the only parent who kills their child and then begs
- 38:36Speaker 2: for people like Trooper Matt Gayheart to go find them.
- 38:40Speaker 15: Listen, Bella, Celeste, if you're out there, just just come back.
- 38:46Speaker 15: Like if somebody has her, just please bring her back.
- 38:49Speaker 15: I need to see everybody. I need to see everybody again.
- 38:52Speaker 15: This house is not complete without anybody here.
- 38:58Speaker 13: Daddy, you're well.
- 39:01Speaker 6: He helped me grow up. He helped me so good too.
- 39:09Speaker 13: He leaves me with time Nations, Great daddy, Daddy.
- 39:23Speaker 6: And love you from our friends.
- 39:25Speaker 2: At den verse seven, of course, that is the devil
- 39:30Speaker 2: Chris Watts, and he says, I need to see everybody again.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Well you're not because they're in heaven and that is
- 39:38Speaker 2: not where you're going, Watts. No, you're gonna be literally
- 39:43Speaker 2: on the hot seat having supper with Satan. He murdered
- 39:49Speaker 2: his wife, Shenan Watts. He murdered Bella and Celeste, his
- 39:54Speaker 2: little children, and forced their bodies into openings in oil
- 40:00Speaker 2: tankers at Darko oil fills. And the containers were about
- 40:07Speaker 2: that wide at the top, and he shoved their bodies down,
- 40:12Speaker 2: ripping the skin off the baby's arms. The wife, Shenan,
- 40:19Speaker 2: was pregnant. She was buried in a shallow grave and
- 40:23Speaker 2: severed coffin birth. She delivered baby Nico in the grave
- 40:28Speaker 2: post mortem.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, listen to this.
- 40:34Speaker 16: Oh my daughter Fayer, I need to find her.
- 40:39Speaker 6: Your daughter admitted that the baby is where.
- 40:42Speaker 16: You turd of took her month ago. To that my
- 40:44Speaker 16: daughter's been looking for I told you my daughter was
- 40:46Speaker 16: missing four months. I just found her today that I
- 40:48Speaker 16: can't find my granddaughter. She just admitted to me she's
- 40:52Speaker 16: been trying to find her herself. There's something wrong.
- 40:56Speaker 1: I found my daughter's.
- 40:57Speaker 16: Carts were day and then sent a dead body.
- 41:00Speaker 6: Okay, what is the three year old's name?
- 41:02Speaker 16: Kayley?
- 41:03Speaker 14: C A y l E E.
- 41:05Speaker 16: Anthony.
- 41:06Speaker 2: That, like the current case, was the loving grandmother Cindy Anthony.
- 41:12Speaker 6: She and husband.
- 41:13Speaker 2: George had been taking care of Kelley all along, while
- 41:16Speaker 2: top mom Casey Anthony sat on the sofa and eight
- 41:18Speaker 2: chips watching TV, pretending she had a job, even going
- 41:21Speaker 2: so far as to wear the uniform from Universal. I mean,
- 41:27Speaker 2: but here is taught mom herself on the phone asking
- 41:31Speaker 2: for help to find her.
- 41:33Speaker 1: Daughter that prosecutors say she killed.
- 41:37Speaker 6: Listen, you last saw.
- 41:38Speaker 16: Her a month ago forty one?
- 41:40Speaker 14: Dy from one? Who have her?
- 41:45Speaker 6: Do you a name?
- 41:47Speaker 16: Her name is Ravas Fernando's due wallis who is that?
- 41:52Speaker 5: Maybe?
- 41:53Speaker 16: She has been my nanny for.
- 41:55Speaker 14: Suty year and almost two years?
- 41:57Speaker 16: Why why are you calling now? Why didn't you call
- 41:59Speaker 16: three one day? As I've been looking for her and
- 42:02Speaker 16: has gone through other resources to try to find her.
- 42:05Speaker 10: So tr're stupid?
- 42:07Speaker 6: No, she wasn't.
- 42:08Speaker 2: She was slung up at her boyfriend's place, living with
- 42:10Speaker 2: him in his roommates. That's sexy, that said All the while,
- 42:18Speaker 2: Kelly's body was decomposing, as were Bella and Celeste, as
- 42:23Speaker 2: were Susan Smith's Little Boys.
- 42:32Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 42:38Speaker 6: To Dodger.
- 42:38Speaker 2: Thomas Coin, renowned chief Medical Examiner District to Medical Examiner's Office,
- 42:45Speaker 2: State of Florida. Never a lack of business in Florida.
- 42:48Speaker 2: A forensic pathologist, toxicologist, and euro pathologist. Doctor con Mommy
- 42:57Speaker 2: has said, Trooper, what did she say that Jaden died of?
- 43:03Speaker 2: What a medical emergency?
- 43:06Speaker 8: That's correct, from some sleeping medication.
- 43:08Speaker 2: As she had given him a medical emergency caused by her.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Okay, so translation, according to her.
- 43:18Speaker 2: She owed ed him on some kind of a sleeping
- 43:20Speaker 2: formula like Benadriel.
- 43:22Speaker 6: I don't know what it is yet.
- 43:23Speaker 2: So the medical emergency that we know of right now
- 43:28Speaker 2: is mommy IND's, doctor Thomas Coin. You know, when children
- 43:33Speaker 2: pass out or they are not waking up after they've
- 43:36Speaker 2: had too many mans, typically parents call nine one one. Okay,
- 43:44Speaker 2: We've seen this claim before at trial top mom Casey
- 43:48Speaker 2: Anthony claimed that Keilly died in the pool, but instead
- 43:52Speaker 2: of calling the ambulance or having a funeral, she was
- 43:56Speaker 2: just put in black plastic trash bags and thrown in swamp. Okay,
- 44:02Speaker 2: see that is just screams lie, doctor Thomas Coin, I
- 44:07Speaker 2: need you and I need you now. How since his
- 44:10Speaker 2: body has been decomposing, will we be able to get
- 44:14Speaker 2: a cod cause of TAM sure, hope.
- 44:16Speaker 17: So it depends upon the amount of decomposition. So I'm
- 44:20Speaker 17: assuming that since he was identified at the time the
- 44:23Speaker 17: body was recovered, that hopefully he has not decomposed enough
- 44:29Speaker 17: to still have tissue present.
- 44:30Speaker 10: The number one may allow.
- 44:31Speaker 17: You to see if he had any trauma, you know,
- 44:33Speaker 17: if he was asphyxiated or beaten, stab what have you.
- 44:37Speaker 17: But more importantly, with regards to toxicology, enough tissue left
- 44:41Speaker 17: to test for various substances, so you can test if
- 44:45Speaker 17: there's any blood or bodily fluids. You can certainly use that,
- 44:50Speaker 17: but we can also go to tissue, and we certainly
- 44:52Speaker 17: have hopefully tissue president that would allow us to find
- 44:56Speaker 17: those answers.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Okay, doctor Coin, I didn't want to interrupt. I didn't
- 44:59Speaker 2: want to the words you said, but could you please
- 45:02Speaker 2: break it down? When you say get tissue? What does
- 45:05Speaker 2: that mean? A fingernail, a toenail, hair, Is it blood?
- 45:10Speaker 6: Is it urine? And how do you get it? Is
- 45:11Speaker 6: it skin?
- 45:12Speaker 2: What do you mean by tissue? Do you go in it,
- 45:14Speaker 2: stuck out a part of the liver sale? What does
- 45:17Speaker 2: that mean? And how do you do it? And you
- 45:19Speaker 2: also said, I know this is a compound question disallowed
- 45:23Speaker 2: in court, but I think you can handle it. What
- 45:25Speaker 2: do you mean by determining if he was asphyxiated or
- 45:28Speaker 2: literature strangled or bludgeon. How do you look at the
- 45:31Speaker 2: body and tell that's what happened.
- 45:35Speaker 17: So let's assume this is a normal body who just
- 45:37Speaker 17: died recently. So you're going to begin with an external
- 45:40Speaker 17: examination looking at their body from head to toe, looking
- 45:43Speaker 17: for signs of injury, so bruising, sad marks, lacerations, any
- 45:48Speaker 17: particular injury. After the external examination is done, we proceed
- 45:52Speaker 17: inward and we look at all of the body cavities,
- 45:54Speaker 17: including with inside the skull, examine the brain, examine all
- 45:58Speaker 17: of the organs internally, the tissues after they're reflected, and
- 46:01Speaker 17: that allows us to see what injuries may be present.
- 46:04Speaker 17: So if a person was strangled, you may very well
- 46:06Speaker 17: see injuries on the neck, bruising on the outside of
- 46:08Speaker 17: the neck, abrasions, scratch marks. As we remove the skin
- 46:12Speaker 17: or reflect the skin backwards, you may see hemorrhaging in
- 46:15Speaker 17: the neck, muscles, fracturing of the cartilage or bones in
- 46:18Speaker 17: the neck, things that suggest that there were pressure applied
- 46:20Speaker 17: to the neck. You may also see soft signs like
- 46:23Speaker 17: particular hemorrhages in the face. But if the person was beaten,
- 46:28Speaker 17: you may see it fractures, bleeding within the head or
- 46:31Speaker 17: the brain itself. So those are the findings we look
- 46:34Speaker 17: for to identify injury. When a person is decomposed, it
- 46:37Speaker 17: gets much more difficult because as a tissue begins to
- 46:40Speaker 17: break down, fluids will travel throughout tissues. It's maybe hard
- 46:43Speaker 17: to identify an injury. Also, the injury may be gone,
- 46:47Speaker 17: so the person may have been stabbed and the area
- 46:50Speaker 17: that was stabbed, or a person was shot with the gun.
- 46:52Speaker 17: Let's say those tissues may be going simply due to decomposition,
- 46:56Speaker 17: but also due to scavenging activity from animals and insects.
- 47:00Speaker 17: With regards to toxicology, when we're doing the autopsy, we
- 47:03Speaker 17: can actually access the veins on the body using needles,
- 47:07Speaker 17: just like you wouldn't office setting to obtain blood. But
- 47:11Speaker 17: once we open the body, we have access to all
- 47:13Speaker 17: of their organs. We have access to the fluid and
- 47:15Speaker 17: the eye, We have access to the bile and the gallbladder,
- 47:19Speaker 17: and we can actually use the organ tissues themselves, for instance,
- 47:22Speaker 17: deliver the brain the kidney to also test for toxicology.
- 47:25Speaker 17: So that's what I mean by having access the tissue
- 47:28Speaker 17: and access to fluids, there's a lot of potential material
- 47:31Speaker 17: there that we can use to hopefully find that cause
- 47:33Speaker 17: of death.
- 47:34Speaker 2: Wow, now I know why you're the chief Medical Examiner
- 47:39Speaker 2: in District Team Medical Examiner's Office.
- 47:41Speaker 6: State of Florida. That was a lot.
- 47:44Speaker 2: I was taking notes as quickly as I could, but
- 47:47Speaker 2: needless to say, now I know how you get the samples.
- 47:50Speaker 2: I know what you mean and in your experience, isn't
- 47:53Speaker 2: it true, doctor Coin? That very often if there is
- 47:55Speaker 2: a ligature strangling or even a manual strangulation, you can
- 47:59Speaker 2: look at the body with the naked eye and tell
- 48:02Speaker 2: that's what happened. You don't have to look at the
- 48:04Speaker 2: particuari in the eye. Of course, you follow up with
- 48:07Speaker 2: that to see if it was burst. But you can
- 48:09Speaker 2: look and see the damage around the neck. You can
- 48:12Speaker 2: see stab wounds, you can see lant force trauma. I'm
- 48:18Speaker 2: just curious, but you did squirts a little perfume on
- 48:23Speaker 2: the pig there when you said scavenger activity break it down?
- 48:29Speaker 17: Sure? So I mean the second you die. First of all,
- 48:33Speaker 17: we are full of bacteria internally within our sinuses, our mouth,
- 48:37Speaker 17: within our gullet. So the second you die in your
- 48:40Speaker 17: immune system is no longer active. Your bacteria will begin
- 48:43Speaker 17: to eat you. And if you're outside in the heat,
- 48:45Speaker 17: that bacteria will grow exponentially, So that's the first thing. Secondarily,
- 48:51Speaker 17: you have insects all around you in the environment, especially below.
- 48:55Speaker 17: Flies will land the pie deposit eggs. Those eggs will
- 48:59Speaker 17: hatch and we'll assume the bodily tissues and bodily fluids.
- 49:02Speaker 17: But also you have other scavengers and by that I
- 49:05Speaker 17: mean birds like vultures, or you have rodents. You have
- 49:09Speaker 17: other predators that maybe in the area that come upon
- 49:12Speaker 17: the body, smell the process of decomposition, the volatile organic substances,
- 49:18Speaker 17: even in a shallow grave, they'll be looking for that
- 49:21Speaker 17: and they may actually walk away with portions of the body.
- 49:24Speaker 17: Sometimes they walk away with the portion of the body
- 49:27Speaker 17: that allows you to determine the cause of death. And
- 49:29Speaker 17: so you hope those processes don't occur, and if they do,
- 49:33Speaker 17: it may make it difficult for you to determine how
- 49:35Speaker 17: that person died.
- 49:36Speaker 2: Mindpowers, vultures, rodents, rats taking parts of this boy's body.
- 49:45Speaker 2: If they do not seek the DP, I will do
- 49:47Speaker 2: a backflip.
- 49:49Speaker 9: I mean, that's pretty aggressive to go to death penalty
- 49:52Speaker 9: based on what I mean.
- 49:56Speaker 10: What we have is a death that we don't know
- 49:59Speaker 10: the cause of death.
- 50:00Speaker 9: Yet you know she does have child endangerment in her
- 50:02Speaker 9: past that could be physical abuse, but it could be.
- 50:06Speaker 9: But she also has charges in her past for drugs
- 50:09Speaker 9: and having him around drugs and using drugs around the
- 50:11Speaker 9: child and this situation.
- 50:13Speaker 2: Please, are you about to say that she had a
- 50:15Speaker 2: drug habit and so I should feel sorry for her?
- 50:18Speaker 9: I know, well, her explanation so far is that she
- 50:22Speaker 9: gave sleeping medicine to her son. He may have gotten
- 50:25Speaker 9: into her drugs, or she may have given him a
- 50:27Speaker 9: drug she shouldn't have.
- 50:28Speaker 10: Had, freaked out and realized that's bad for her.
- 50:31Speaker 9: This is a bad situation, And so you're using everything
- 50:34Speaker 9: that happened after to try to say, oh, this is premeditated,
- 50:38Speaker 9: when really it could just be a panic reaction.
- 50:40Speaker 10: Plus there is a stepfather that we haven't been talking
- 50:42Speaker 10: about at all. I mean, I'm hard pressed.
- 50:45Speaker 9: To believe this mother alone in the dead of night,
- 50:48Speaker 9: drove twenty miles to the thick woods, dug a shallow grave,
- 50:52Speaker 9: and got home before anyone knew she was gone by herself.
- 50:56Speaker 10: I mean, there's a lot more to them.
- 50:57Speaker 18: So she worn't coach the children to lie hold on
- 51:00Speaker 18: Sidney Sumner, there may be witnesses, and I'm sure Gayheart
- 51:03Speaker 18: doesn't relish the idea of questioning and interrogating little children,
- 51:08Speaker 18: but that's his duty, whether.
- 51:11Speaker 2: He likes it or not. Isn't it true that mommy
- 51:14Speaker 2: is also accused of tampering with witnesses, i e. The siblings,
- 51:18Speaker 2: telling them to lie about what happened.
- 51:21Speaker 6: Yes, yes, she is.
- 51:22Speaker 5: She is charged with tampering with witnesses for coaching Jaden's
- 51:26Speaker 5: siblings on what to say to police about what happened
- 51:30Speaker 5: to him. So we don't know what they saw. We
- 51:34Speaker 5: don't know if they were in the car while she
- 51:36Speaker 5: made this trip, if Jaden was asleep next to them.
- 51:40Speaker 6: In bed and didn't wake up.
- 51:42Speaker 5: We don't know what these children witnessed and what she
- 51:47Speaker 5: told them to not think about, or how she explained
- 51:51Speaker 5: this way to them.
- 51:53Speaker 6: I'm sure it's a nightmare.
- 51:54Speaker 2: No matter what you say it, Sydney, coaching them, you
- 51:59Speaker 2: mean asking them to lie. That would be my argument
- 52:01Speaker 2: at trial, and I want to stress and I can't
- 52:03Speaker 2: stress it enough.
- 52:05Speaker 6: She is innocent.
- 52:06Speaker 1: Tonight as we go to air, she is innocent.
- 52:10Speaker 2: It is the duty of the state to prove her
- 52:14Speaker 2: guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Now, what be Empowers doesn't
- 52:18Speaker 2: want you to hear is the rest of that statement
- 52:20Speaker 2: to prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. She's presumed
- 52:23Speaker 2: innocent unless and until the state pierces the presumption of
- 52:29Speaker 2: innocence with proof. Trooper Gayheart, the thought of this boy
- 52:38Speaker 2: out there in the elements, and when I heard doctor
- 52:40Speaker 2: con talk about rodents, rats, vultures potentially taking pieces of
- 52:50Speaker 2: his body, it's you know, I think I would just
- 52:57Speaker 2: go jump off a cliff if I didn't have my twins.
- 53:02Speaker 6: To live for.
- 53:04Speaker 1: About the meanness in the world. And you know we
- 53:09Speaker 1: earlier reported you got a tip that led.
- 53:12Speaker 6: You to this location? Who led you to the body?
- 53:18Speaker 8: So information that we received came from Mom herself. She
- 53:22Speaker 8: give us the location of where she had taken Jaden
- 53:26Speaker 8: and buried him.
- 53:27Speaker 2: Okay, Trooper Gayheart is not revealing secret facts. We found
- 53:32Speaker 2: that out from other sources. So I'm sure of being
- 53:38Speaker 2: Powers defense attorney will want Mammy to get a gold
- 53:41Speaker 2: star for leading to the body. Oh, that's not happening.
- 53:45Speaker 2: I'm going to use that against her. How does she
- 53:50Speaker 2: know where the body was?
- 53:51Speaker 1: I guess you're going to conjure up the stepfather and
- 53:52Speaker 1: say she was along for the ride.
- 53:54Speaker 9: She made very well then, I mean she made the
- 53:56Speaker 9: initial board with the public letter asking for help him.
- 54:01Speaker 9: You know, I know you made a big deal about
- 54:02Speaker 9: her going to McDonald's. But she does have the other children.
- 54:05Speaker 9: I mean, if she's coaching them to a lot, she's
- 54:07Speaker 9: got to feed them, and kids like McDonald's, and you
- 54:09Speaker 9: want to make a big deal about her, you know
- 54:11Speaker 9: movies that she rented, Well, if she's renting movies that
- 54:13Speaker 9: kids would watch.
- 54:14Speaker 10: That shows that she's taking care of the kids that
- 54:16Speaker 10: she has with her.
- 54:18Speaker 9: And so then she makes the ultimate report that leads
- 54:20Speaker 9: investigators to the exact site of this young boy, and
- 54:24Speaker 9: so that certainly has to raise questions of what was
- 54:28Speaker 9: her role, who else might be involved, what really happened here?
- 54:32Speaker 10: And I think a lot of.
- 54:33Speaker 9: That might be answered through what I'm sure investigators are doing,
- 54:37Speaker 9: which is getting search warts for phones for the home
- 54:40Speaker 9: and waiting on the forensics from the autopsy to come
- 54:42Speaker 9: back to maybe get a more clear story. And again
- 54:46Speaker 9: I have a hard time believing that she would have
- 54:48Speaker 9: done all this by herself without anyone knowing, you know.
- 54:53Speaker 9: And so there's a lot more to the story. But
- 54:55Speaker 9: she did make the initial report, and she made the
- 54:57Speaker 9: ultimate report that found her son. It sounds like in
- 55:01Speaker 9: between she was taking care of for other kids, and
- 55:03Speaker 9: so I think that certainly colors the picture in a
- 55:06Speaker 9: different way than you know, what you were saying about
- 55:09Speaker 9: the death penalty and things like that.
- 55:10Speaker 1: I think that's oh yeah, she was taking care of
- 55:12Speaker 1: her children in powers.
- 55:14Speaker 6: Hey, I'll give you a cheeseburger if you lie to
- 55:16Speaker 6: the cops. That works.
- 55:19Speaker 9: I can't really love that because there's a bigger story
- 55:23Speaker 9: to it with others involved.
- 55:24Speaker 2: I'm only laughing because my alternative is to cry or
- 55:27Speaker 2: to just my head blow off. Right now, we are
- 55:31Speaker 2: now learning that earlier today, mommy makes a first appearance
- 55:37Speaker 2: in court.
- 55:38Speaker 6: What happened? Said?
- 55:39Speaker 5: Felicia Gross pleaded not guilty to all of the charges
- 55:43Speaker 5: against her.
- 55:44Speaker 6: So she appeared in court. She was read her rights
- 55:47Speaker 6: and her charges, and she said, I did not do
- 55:50Speaker 6: this and this will eventually go to a jury trial.
- 55:54Speaker 2: Yes, you're seeing video from our friends at WK. Why
- 56:00Speaker 2: Mommy in court saying what, I'm not guilty.
- 56:04Speaker 6: I had nothing to do with it.
- 56:06Speaker 2: Oh you know, I get asked online all the time,
- 56:11Speaker 2: how can someone confess and then play not guilty.
- 56:14Speaker 6: You know what? That is the way our system works.
- 56:18Speaker 2: That is how Ben Powers wins so many of his cases.
- 56:25Speaker 2: The jury may never know that they confessed. They may
- 56:28Speaker 2: try to get a play deal to get the death
- 56:30Speaker 2: penalty off the table.
- 56:31Speaker 6: There are a million, There is a myriad.
- 56:35Speaker 2: Of legal loopholes. But Mommy just in court claiming not guilty.
- 56:45Speaker 2: And that's her right because right now she's innocent. Just
- 56:51Speaker 2: wait and find out if a jury agrees with that.
- 56:56Speaker 2: This case is ongoing. The Kentucky State Troopers, Trooper Gayheart,
- 57:03Speaker 2: and many many others are still amassing evidence.
- 57:07Speaker 6: What happened before, during and after? What time was this
- 57:12Speaker 6: body taken to this remote location?
- 57:14Speaker 2: Is their video from door cams, from red lights, from
- 57:20Speaker 2: businesses that mommy may have passed with.
- 57:24Speaker 6: The body in the car?
- 57:26Speaker 2: Did she take her children? What about her current nav system?
- 57:29Speaker 2: What about her cell phone? What if anything did you
- 57:32Speaker 2: see hear or notice that tip line six zero six
- 57:36Speaker 2: four three five six zero six nine repeat six zero
- 57:41Speaker 2: six four three five six zero six nine. If you
- 57:45Speaker 2: want justice for Jaden, let your voice be heard and
- 57:51Speaker 2: we wait as justice unfolds.
- 57:53Speaker 6: But now we remember an American.
- 57:55Speaker 2: Hero officerje Lopez PELLAMPD, Alabama, killed in a line of
- 58:01Speaker 2: duty after fifteen years in LA law enforcement, leaving behind
- 58:07Speaker 2: a grieving wife, Katie, and two children, Abby and Eli.
- 58:14Speaker 2: American Hero Officer Juan Lopez Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,