Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Family Not Giving up on Washington State Mom, Mikayla VANISHES After Frantic 911 Call

Transcript

Family Not Giving up on Washington State Mom, Mikayla VANISHES After Frantic 911 Call · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:05
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:15
Speaker 2: A gorgeous twenty five year old Mikaela goes missing a
0:23
Speaker 2: chilling final message from her. Does it supply any clues
0:32
Speaker 2: left behind? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank
0:35
Speaker 2: you for being with us here at Fox Nation in
0:38
Speaker 2: series x SEM one eleven. First of all, take a
0:41
Speaker 2: listen to this. Mikayla.
0:43
Speaker 3: If you see this and you're out there, we just
0:45
Speaker 3: want you to know that you are loved very very much.
0:48
Speaker 4: It's been almost a week since anyone has seen or
0:50
Speaker 4: heard from twenty five year old Mikayla Standry.
0:53
Speaker 2: It's just a horrible name of our family's going through.
0:56
Speaker 3: You don't think that this is going to happen to
0:58
Speaker 3: your family, and then when it does, it's it's a
1:01
Speaker 3: night Eric.
1:02
Speaker 4: Now friends and family are taking it upon themselves to
1:04
Speaker 4: search for her, called me the area she was last
1:07
Speaker 4: seeing it, even handing out these flyers with their own
1:10
Speaker 4: personal numbers on them.
1:11
Speaker 2: You are hearing our friends at k I R and
1:14
Speaker 2: the voice Michaela's aunt Marty Marton. Miss Marton, thank you
1:20
Speaker 2: for being with us. When did you first suspect something
1:24
Speaker 2: was wrong?
1:25
Speaker 5: The day did she went missing? April twenty first.
1:28
Speaker 2: Was she supposed to see you? Did she not text
1:30
Speaker 2: you or call you as you expected? What happened?
1:33
Speaker 5: My brother got a hold of me and he said
1:36
Speaker 5: that his daughter was missing and that she was supposed
1:41
Speaker 5: to call him. He was supposed to go pick her
1:43
Speaker 5: up from the house she was at, and he didn't
1:47
Speaker 5: hear from her.
1:48
Speaker 2: In addition to a very disturbing message, there is also
1:56
Speaker 2: a nine to one one call. Guys, take a look
2:00
Speaker 2: and now to our friends at Fox thirteen the schedule.
2:02
Speaker 6: County Sheriff Francis wants you're help finding a missing woman.
2:05
Speaker 6: This is twenty five year old Michayla Standridge. Detective save
2:08
Speaker 6: that someone called nine to one one from her phone
2:10
Speaker 6: on April twenty first, and dispatch heard a woman scream
2:13
Speaker 6: and ask for help. Her phone was found near the
2:16
Speaker 6: Scadget River, but Standridge was nowhere.
2:18
Speaker 5: To be found.
2:19
Speaker 6: Deputy searched the area you using boats, drones, even a helicopter,
2:22
Speaker 6: but they haven't been.
2:23
Speaker 7: Able to find her.
2:24
Speaker 6: If you know anything that might help, or if you
2:26
Speaker 6: see MICHAELA, You're asked to call Crime Stoppers or submitted
2:28
Speaker 6: tip through the P three tips app.
2:30
Speaker 2: Guys, that tip number is three six zero four one
2:34
Speaker 2: six one nine one one repeat three six zero four
2:38
Speaker 2: one six nine one one straight out to crime online
2:42
Speaker 2: dot Com investigative reporter Nicole Parton, Nicole, what happened on
2:46
Speaker 2: April twenty one.
2:48
Speaker 8: So the nine one one call comes in and the
2:51
Speaker 8: dispatcher can hear screaming in the background, and they can
2:54
Speaker 8: hear Michayla screaming for help, screaming for help. Once that
2:58
Speaker 8: dispatcher is connected, that call immediately goes dead.
3:04
Speaker 9: That's it.
3:04
Speaker 8: Communication is lost. Now we know that we're being told
3:10
Speaker 8: that someone inside the home said that Michayla was screaming.
3:14
Speaker 8: There's also a neighbor that said they heard screaming her
3:17
Speaker 8: crying for help. Someone in the home said she ran
3:21
Speaker 8: out barefooted, screaming for help. And then that call comes
3:25
Speaker 8: in to nine one one, disconnected and that's it.
3:28
Speaker 2: That's very odd to me, joining me high profile lawyer
3:34
Speaker 2: IRV Miller with the Miller Firm, Legal Alyss, CBS two,
3:39
Speaker 2: wbb MTV and legal advisor to The Good Wife and
3:45
Speaker 2: The Good Fight or Miller, thank you for being with us.
3:47
Speaker 2: That sounds like a lot of evidence. And I mean,
3:52
Speaker 2: people hear her screaming, someone saw enough to say that
3:58
Speaker 2: she ran out of the home and she was screaming.
4:03
Speaker 2: We know she called nine one one. It's really hard
4:06
Speaker 2: for me to get my head around why this woman
4:09
Speaker 2: hasn't been found.
4:10
Speaker 7: Well, this is more than a missing person case. Based
4:13
Speaker 7: on all the information you just provided. There's something nefary
4:18
Speaker 7: is going on that he happened to this young lady,
4:20
Speaker 7: and I think it's incumbent upon the police department involved
4:23
Speaker 7: to be a little bit more transparent. I don't know
4:26
Speaker 7: if they've released at the copy or recording of that
4:29
Speaker 7: nine to one one tape, but certainly it should be
4:31
Speaker 7: released to let the public actually know what's going on,
4:35
Speaker 7: because I think what the ant in this case and
4:37
Speaker 7: bringing this case to the public's attention is outstanding investigative
4:42
Speaker 7: work that should have been done by the local police department,
4:45
Speaker 7: not by her.
4:46
Speaker 2: Jason Gensen joining us Salt Lake City, Utah, private investigator,
4:50
Speaker 2: owner of Jensen Private Investigations and the co founder of
4:54
Speaker 2: Cold Case Coalition. Jason, thank you for being with us
4:57
Speaker 2: when I will want call is made. Isn't it true
5:03
Speaker 2: that there is call a ID on the other end
5:07
Speaker 2: and that that call can also be pinged a traced
5:11
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely.
5:12
Speaker 10: They know exactly the IP location where that call was played,
5:17
Speaker 10: So for them to be checking in the vicinity of
5:21
Speaker 10: the home makes sense because they're realizing that was her
5:25
Speaker 10: last known location.
5:26
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something, Jason Jensen. The other night,
5:30
Speaker 2: You know, my twins are now fifteen. So we John
5:34
Speaker 2: David my son wanted to practice drive at night, so
5:38
Speaker 2: out we went at about a quarter of nine. So
5:41
Speaker 2: we drove all through the neighborhood and he said, let's
5:46
Speaker 2: cross the highway and drive over to the church. So
5:51
Speaker 2: I said, okay, it's right there, resigning, we crossed over
5:54
Speaker 2: and we went to the parking lot of the church,
5:56
Speaker 2: and we're driving around and lo and behold, right there
6:00
Speaker 2: in the back parking lot where the big Boy Scout
6:03
Speaker 2: camper van is parked, there was a guy. Of course,
6:08
Speaker 2: I got his description, hunched down in the driver's seat
6:12
Speaker 2: of what appeared to be a gray Silver Tacoma at
6:17
Speaker 2: nine point thirty at night, hiding behind a Boy Scout
6:21
Speaker 2: camper van. So when you drove by the church you
6:25
Speaker 2: couldn't see him. Well, of course, I call a nine
6:28
Speaker 2: one one. This is what I'm circuitously working up to
6:32
Speaker 2: a point. Jason, within about five minutes, I got a
6:37
Speaker 2: call back on my cell phone. They said, why were you?
6:41
Speaker 2: Suspecial said, I know, I've never seen that car in
6:45
Speaker 2: that parking lot before. The guy was hunched down in
6:48
Speaker 2: his car seat like he didn't want me to see him.
6:51
Speaker 2: And he's part about a foot away from a boy
6:55
Speaker 2: scout camper. That's not normal. Why is he in our
6:59
Speaker 2: church parking lot? Well, anyway, they say, can you give
7:02
Speaker 2: us a description because we're looking for a white male
7:05
Speaker 2: right now in that area. Anyway, My point is you
7:09
Speaker 2: darn too, and they've got your phone number even if
7:12
Speaker 2: you punched Star six seven and try to block it,
7:14
Speaker 2: and they will find you. And I don't understand why
7:17
Speaker 2: when this woman calls nine to one one from this area,
7:20
Speaker 2: why they didn't go immediately to the area. Help me, Jason.
7:23
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's bewildering because according to what reports have claimed
7:28
Speaker 10: is that she was literally yelling for nine to one one,
7:32
Speaker 10: help me, help me, help me. So she's obviously in distress,
7:36
Speaker 10: she knows she is, so something's afoot.
7:39
Speaker 2: Okay, how would that happen, though, Ermil, or how would
7:41
Speaker 2: they actually go about getting her a location? They obviously
7:45
Speaker 2: had her phone number and did nothing.
7:46
Speaker 7: Well, the technology that the police departments have these days
7:49
Speaker 7: is just amazing. I'm not sure how advanced this particular
7:53
Speaker 7: department is that received this nine to one one call.
7:56
Speaker 7: Every department that I've either been associated with or having
8:00
Speaker 7: subpoened their records for a case, they managed to have
8:04
Speaker 7: unbelievable information as far as the actual towers that the
8:08
Speaker 7: phone calls are connected to. The phone is connected to,
8:12
Speaker 7: they can track your location within a matter of feet.
8:16
Speaker 7: And I can't explain why this police department didn't do
8:19
Speaker 7: the type of work that they were supposed to do
8:21
Speaker 7: when a nine one one call comes in, I know
8:23
Speaker 7: they prioritize the various cases.
8:25
Speaker 10: That come in.
8:26
Speaker 7: There's a difference between some call and a shoplifting case
8:30
Speaker 7: and a woman screaming for help, and to me, that's
8:33
Speaker 7: priority number one.
8:34
Speaker 2: I guess everybody on this panel has heard the name
8:36
Speaker 2: Kitty GENEVESI, a woman was stamped multiple times screaming and
8:46
Speaker 2: begging for help when people were looking out their windows
8:50
Speaker 2: just watching her get murdered. That was in nineteen sixty four,
8:57
Speaker 2: and the so called bystander effect has been a point
9:00
Speaker 2: of discussion ever since. What liability, if any do the
9:05
Speaker 2: people have that stand by and watch. Most's the ones
9:08
Speaker 2: that video record everything that's happening. Nicole Parton, joining us
9:11
Speaker 2: investigative reporter with Crime Online dot Com. You said that
9:14
Speaker 2: people observed her running out, screaming, and nobody did a thing.
9:21
Speaker 8: That's right, Nancy. So, her boyfriend in the home where
9:26
Speaker 8: she was last seen, his story is that he saw
9:30
Speaker 8: her run out, he heard her screaming. Yet to my knowledge,
9:34
Speaker 8: he made no nine to one one call himself. He
9:38
Speaker 8: admits that he didn't go out to see what the
9:41
Speaker 8: screaming was or if she was okay. He didn't follow
9:45
Speaker 8: up on that. But there is that witness.
9:48
Speaker 9: Who says, yes, I saw.
9:50
Speaker 8: Her leave the home, and yes I did hear screaming.
9:53
Speaker 1: Outside time stories with Nancy Grace.
10:10
Speaker 2: Guys, this is just a woman that you know, we
10:14
Speaker 2: can't find that she's quote run off with her boyfriend.
10:17
Speaker 2: I'll never get over Drea Peterson saying that over and
10:19
Speaker 2: over and over about his wife, Stacy, his fourth wife, Stacy.
10:24
Speaker 2: She's dead. He killed her, but he kept saying, oh,
10:28
Speaker 2: she just left, She left behind her children, her car,
10:31
Speaker 2: her clothes, She just ran off with her her nee boyfriend.
10:35
Speaker 2: There is no new boyfriend. He killed her. This woman
10:39
Speaker 2: ran from the home. This she's a girl as far
10:43
Speaker 2: as I'm concerned. She's twenty five years old, and she's beautiful.
10:48
Speaker 2: She's got the bluest blue eyes I have ever seen.
10:53
Speaker 2: She's gorgeous. She didn't just run off with a new boyfriend.
11:00
Speaker 2: Foul play has befallen her again. The tip line is
11:03
Speaker 2: three six zero four one six one one. Now take
11:08
Speaker 2: a listen to our friend Jake Chapman.
11:11
Speaker 4: Her aunt tells us she'd been staying in this neighborhood
11:13
Speaker 4: recently and was trying to call for help last Friday,
11:16
Speaker 4: but sadly, that call never went through. The Skedgy County
11:19
Speaker 4: Sheriff's Office confirmed that information as they continue their search,
11:23
Speaker 4: Deputy showing us where they've been looking the past week,
11:26
Speaker 4: hoping to find anything that can lead to Machayla. Even
11:29
Speaker 4: though this has been a tough time for the family.
11:31
Speaker 3: You know, what may seem like we're not understanding what
11:33
Speaker 3: they're doing, is it not? You know, we don't think
11:35
Speaker 3: it's happening fast enough. But this is our kid that's missing.
11:38
Speaker 2: Okay, we keep hearing the call didn't go through, The
11:40
Speaker 2: call didn't go through. The call did go through. She
11:44
Speaker 2: was started screaming into the phone to nine one one.
11:48
Speaker 2: Now why nothing was done with that, I don't know,
11:51
Speaker 2: but that call did go through. I'm following up on
11:56
Speaker 2: what you just heard from Jake Chapman at Cairo seven.
11:59
Speaker 2: Mike's is with us, president founder of Peace River Canine
12:03
Speaker 2: Search and Rescue. You can find them at p r
12:06
Speaker 2: sa R Peace River Search and Canine Rescue dot org. Mike,
12:12
Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. Sure, I find it
12:14
Speaker 2: very curious that the family is having to go out
12:20
Speaker 2: and search for Mikaela. I don't understand what's happening with
12:25
Speaker 2: law enforcement in this area Concrete, Washington, But the family
12:32
Speaker 2: is out and even handing out flyers with their personal
12:34
Speaker 2: names on the flyers. What should be happening in the
12:39
Speaker 2: search right now? What should LA law enforcement be doing?
12:44
Speaker 11: Well, Speaking from my experience, generally, when a call like
12:47
Speaker 11: this comes in, we are dispatched within three to four
12:50
Speaker 11: hours after that call comes in. There's going to be
12:53
Speaker 11: an initial deputy that goes out there. He's going to
12:56
Speaker 11: make the call, and they're going to start calling resources
12:58
Speaker 11: in and we're all going to be out in the
13:00
Speaker 11: River of the Woods. Everything within three to four hours
13:03
Speaker 11: after that call comes in. I do not understand why
13:06
Speaker 11: it took so long to get star teams. I think
13:08
Speaker 11: it was three days before the actual search and rescue
13:12
Speaker 11: teams got out there. Now, in the state of Washington,
13:15
Speaker 11: they are excellent star teams there, I mean, they have
13:18
Speaker 11: some of the best in the country in that state.
13:21
Speaker 11: And why they're not out there, I don't know why
13:24
Speaker 11: they're not out there. The law enforcement appears to have
13:27
Speaker 11: dropped the ball on this one.
13:29
Speaker 5: I mean, I really do.
13:30
Speaker 11: But it happens, especially in some of these smaller law
13:34
Speaker 11: enforcement agencies. The report comes in, it gets put on
13:38
Speaker 11: the missing person detective's desk. He's not back in until
13:41
Speaker 11: Monday morning, so nothing happens until Monday morning, and so
13:45
Speaker 11: it should have been those areas should have been come
13:47
Speaker 11: within three to four hours after the call came in.
13:49
Speaker 2: We also know that upon her running from the home
13:52
Speaker 2: screaming calling nine one one witnesses heard a car scratch off,
13:58
Speaker 2: leading authorities she may have been in the car, which
14:02
Speaker 2: completely alters the search. Joining us again, Michaela's aunt, Marty Marteau, again,
14:10
Speaker 2: this is Martin. Thank you for being with us. How
14:12
Speaker 2: long did it take authorities to start looking for her.
14:17
Speaker 10: Well.
14:17
Speaker 5: First off, Mikayla's now twenty six. She had a birthday
14:19
Speaker 5: on June nineteenth. And first off, when she made the
14:25
Speaker 5: nine one one call, authorities knew Mikayla and they knew
14:29
Speaker 5: her boyfriend very well. They knew that she was staying
14:32
Speaker 5: in that house. And when after the nine one one call,
14:37
Speaker 5: they went out and they did search the area of
14:40
Speaker 5: the nine to one one call, just up and down
14:43
Speaker 5: the road right there, but they didn't go knock on
14:45
Speaker 5: the door. And that to me is that's heartbreaking right there,
14:53
Speaker 5: because if they would have went and knocked on that
14:55
Speaker 5: door and asked if Mikayla was okay, they may have
14:58
Speaker 5: found her right there because they knew and they just
15:05
Speaker 5: left the area. And after we called nine to one
15:08
Speaker 5: one that evening, uh, they said that she she'll probably
15:12
Speaker 5: come back. Don't worry about it. It's only been twelve hours.
15:18
Speaker 5: Deputy was you know, the couple deputies went out kind
15:22
Speaker 5: of just looked around and we told them we were
15:24
Speaker 5: gonna knock on doors, and you know, they said we
15:27
Speaker 5: could do that. They went knocked on a couple doors.
15:30
Speaker 5: Detective was assigned Monday. She went missing Friday. The detective
15:35
Speaker 5: was assigned Monday. A small search and rescue team, not
15:39
Speaker 5: not the actual Star team, just a small foot team
15:42
Speaker 5: was assigned on Tuesday and they just kind of looked around,
15:49
Speaker 5: and I believe her phone was found two or three
15:53
Speaker 5: days after that, So like Wednesday or Thursday, her phone
15:58
Speaker 5: was found and it was down the river. It was
16:02
Speaker 5: in some bushes, and it was in an area that
16:04
Speaker 5: we had already searched. We had already been all along
16:07
Speaker 5: the banks of the river. That was the first place
16:08
Speaker 5: the family searched was all along the river. As matter
16:11
Speaker 5: of fact, it was where we did the Cairo the
16:14
Speaker 5: Kiro interview. We were standing right there where they found
16:18
Speaker 5: the blanket. There was a blanket there in her phone.
16:21
Speaker 5: We were already there. That phone was planted there. I
16:24
Speaker 5: guarantee that phone was planted there. I put my life
16:27
Speaker 5: on it. And we searched all along that area. And
16:34
Speaker 5: then two weeks after Michayla went missing, the family hired
16:41
Speaker 5: our own search dog team. The family did and we
16:45
Speaker 5: searched all along the river banks up along the boyfriend's
16:49
Speaker 5: property and we didn't find anything. And then three weeks
16:54
Speaker 5: after Mikayla went missing, that's when the Sheriff's office finally
16:58
Speaker 5: deployed the actual Stars team with the dogs, quads, boats,
17:05
Speaker 5: all of that they did have like that. Before that,
17:09
Speaker 5: they put some boats in the river. They had a
17:11
Speaker 5: helicopter up after. That's after they found her phone. After
17:14
Speaker 5: they found her phone, which was probably within five to
17:18
Speaker 5: seven days after she went missing, that's when they put
17:21
Speaker 5: the boats in the water in a helicopter and a
17:23
Speaker 5: couple of them walked around. That's that's when they That's
17:28
Speaker 5: when there was nothing done. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, there
17:34
Speaker 5: was a couple of detectives assigned and we were told
17:39
Speaker 5: that if we went up there, we'd be impeding an investigation.
17:42
Speaker 5: I've been threatened with charges.
17:44
Speaker 2: You were actually threatened with being charged with impeding.
17:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been threatened with impeating an investigation. I've been
17:52
Speaker 5: threatened with burglary because I've knocked on people's doors and said, hey,
17:57
Speaker 5: you know, Michayla could be hiding in an outshd or
17:59
Speaker 5: a trade.
18:00
Speaker 2: Or why would she be hiding in a shed.
18:03
Speaker 5: She was running, She was running, screaming, trying to get
18:06
Speaker 5: away from somebody, we think, but shed not now. But
18:10
Speaker 5: this was like the first couple of days she could
18:13
Speaker 5: be hiding. It was a very violent situation that she
18:18
Speaker 5: was in. She was that night she was calling for
18:21
Speaker 5: a ride to get out of that house. She was
18:23
Speaker 5: trying to get out of that house. That's what was
18:26
Speaker 5: going on then. That's why she was afraid. She was
18:30
Speaker 5: afraid of something that There was the phone call that
18:34
Speaker 5: she made to her dad at two thirty in the morning.
18:36
Speaker 5: This was going on from two thirty in the morning
18:37
Speaker 5: on she was she was trying to call for ride home.
18:40
Speaker 5: Her brother's car was broke down. She called her dad
18:44
Speaker 5: and he said that he was going to get up
18:45
Speaker 5: and get ready for work and come get her. Another
18:49
Speaker 5: thing that hasn't been mentioned much is after the nine
18:52
Speaker 5: to one one phone call about it was thirteen minutes
18:55
Speaker 5: or seventeen minutes later she made another phone call. She
18:59
Speaker 5: made that phone call to her dad and he was
19:02
Speaker 5: in the shower getting ready for work, and he didn't
19:03
Speaker 5: get the phone call. So there was another phone call
19:06
Speaker 5: made after nine one one.
19:07
Speaker 2: What does she say to her dad He.
19:09
Speaker 5: Didn't answer the phone, he was in the shower.
19:11
Speaker 2: Does she leave a message, No, huh.
19:13
Speaker 5: She just made a phone call or her phone made
19:15
Speaker 5: a phone call. We're not even sure if it was
19:16
Speaker 5: her or her phone made a phone call. So after
19:19
Speaker 5: nine one one, the phone wasn't dead, it was it was.
19:23
Speaker 5: We don't know if it was taken from her and
19:24
Speaker 5: stopped or what. But on his phone log, we've all
19:29
Speaker 5: seen it, and the police has seen it too. So
19:31
Speaker 5: about fifteen minutes after nine one one, she made another
19:34
Speaker 5: phone call to her dad, and the boyfriend has three
19:39
Speaker 5: different stories. She went running out of the house barefoot
19:42
Speaker 5: and he'd let her go, and then the second story
19:47
Speaker 5: is he ran out after her and hear a car
19:49
Speaker 5: taking off. And now there's another story that he supposedly
19:53
Speaker 5: saw a silver car take off. So that's you know.
19:58
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stories coming from It's never good
20:01
Speaker 2: when someone changes their story or Miller, would you agree
20:05
Speaker 2: with that. You're a veteran trial lawyer. It's one thing
20:08
Speaker 2: if you embellish or add to your story upon questioning,
20:13
Speaker 2: but when you actually change the facts, your original facts,
20:17
Speaker 2: that's not good.
20:18
Speaker 7: That's not good. And that's why law enforcement would consider
20:23
Speaker 7: witness testimony as the least powerful testimony.
20:28
Speaker 10: There could be.
20:29
Speaker 7: I prefer fight forensic testimony, I prefer expert testimony. I
20:33
Speaker 7: prefer cell phone videos, the recordings and nine one on recordings.
20:37
Speaker 7: But witnesses lie and other types of evidence, you don't
20:41
Speaker 7: have to worry about credibility issues like you have to
20:43
Speaker 7: do with a witness. Certainly, the boyfriend in this case,
20:46
Speaker 7: I think his credibility is probably down to zero at
20:49
Speaker 7: this point in time.
20:50
Speaker 2: Well, the first time he changed his story, actually the
20:53
Speaker 2: first time he reportedly did nothing when she ran from
20:57
Speaker 2: the home screaming and calling nine one one, he lost
21:01
Speaker 2: all credibility right there. But then when he changed your
21:04
Speaker 2: story the first time, no, completely incredible. Karen Start is
21:09
Speaker 2: joining me renowned psychologists out of the Manhattan jurisdiction. You
21:13
Speaker 2: can find her at karenst com Karen with us. See Karen,
21:17
Speaker 2: how many times have you and I heard that police
21:20
Speaker 2: first reaction when a woman goes missing is she'll be
21:23
Speaker 2: back and nanty.
21:25
Speaker 9: They don't just do that. They do that all the
21:27
Speaker 9: time with missing kids. Don't worry, they'll be back. The
21:31
Speaker 9: thing that you mentioned before about the boyfriend is what's
21:35
Speaker 9: most disturbing to me, because he's changed his story so
21:39
Speaker 9: many times, and supposedly she was fighting with him and
21:43
Speaker 9: that was the reason that she left. So there's something
21:45
Speaker 9: up there that there's something the farious it seems to
21:49
Speaker 9: me and not credible about him, and I just wonder
21:53
Speaker 9: what was really going on between the two of them
21:56
Speaker 9: and what was it that he witnessed. This is such
22:00
Speaker 9: a bizarre story and so unfair to the family.
22:04
Speaker 2: Another issue is, of course, no one has been charged,
22:07
Speaker 2: no one has been named a POI person of interest.
22:10
Speaker 2: Another issue, to Nicole Parton joining us Crime online dot
22:15
Speaker 2: Com investigative reporter, is a very disturbing post that Mikila
22:22
Speaker 2: made just days before she seemingly vanished into thin air
22:29
Speaker 2: after screaming into the phone to nine one one. That
22:33
Speaker 2: post says something to the effect, if I ever go missing,
22:37
Speaker 2: just know I didn't leave. What can you tell me?
22:41
Speaker 2: Nicole Parton about this post?
22:43
Speaker 8: Absolutely so. She had posted that on her social media
22:46
Speaker 8: and those were the exact words. If I ever go missing,
22:50
Speaker 8: I didn't leave. I think it's also important to note,
22:54
Speaker 8: Nancy this Makayla is a mother. I'm a mother, You're
22:59
Speaker 8: a mother. We just don't leave our children. Mikayla has
23:02
Speaker 8: a beautiful two year old child. She's not just going
23:06
Speaker 8: to run away and leave this child that she adores
23:10
Speaker 8: that message as though she was telling the world, if
23:14
Speaker 8: I ever go missing, I didn't just leave. It's very
23:19
Speaker 8: haunting at this point.
23:20
Speaker 2: Well, it also goes without saying that no one within
23:27
Speaker 2: that home reported her missing, no one followed up on
23:32
Speaker 2: the nine one one call, and left behind is a
23:35
Speaker 2: three year old little boy that you're talking about, Nicole parton,
23:40
Speaker 2: a three year old taught boy that she would never
23:45
Speaker 2: have left behind. Nicole. Also, can you tell me about Concrete, Washington?
23:51
Speaker 2: What do we know about it?
23:52
Speaker 8: One of the most disturbing things that I found about
23:56
Speaker 8: this area is I was shocked to see how much
24:00
Speaker 8: human trafficking is happening in this very small area of Concrete, Washington,
24:07
Speaker 8: to the point that this small town has detective that
24:12
Speaker 8: just work these human trafficking cases, and I believe one
24:16
Speaker 8: of those detectives has been assigned to this case. Also
24:20
Speaker 8: in that area, without going into too much detail, that
24:24
Speaker 8: we can't discuss, in that community, in that area where
24:27
Speaker 8: she went missing, detectives have in prior time toned in
24:33
Speaker 8: because there have been cases of human trafficking out of
24:37
Speaker 8: that very community where she went missing.
24:40
Speaker 2: Concrete is in north central Skaggy County in Washington. Its
24:46
Speaker 2: population is seven hundred and five, not seven hundred five thousand,
24:53
Speaker 2: not seven hundred and five thousand, seven hundred and five
24:58
Speaker 2: people concrete. Okay, let that soak in. That greatly reduces
25:08
Speaker 2: a potential suspect pool. Would you agree, Jason Jensen.
25:13
Speaker 10: Well, yes, that's a very small finite number to work with.
25:16
Speaker 10: I mean, it's almost reminiscent of one of the first
25:20
Speaker 10: DNA cases in England where they were able to test
25:24
Speaker 10: the entire community. Because there's such a small population here,
25:30
Speaker 10: I'm sure law enforcements very familiar with who are the
25:34
Speaker 10: good people, who are the criminals, and they can definitely
25:39
Speaker 10: start from a smaller group and work wider tearing down
25:44
Speaker 10: different suspects. But I find interesting about this post about
25:48
Speaker 10: if something happens to me, it really is reminiscent to
25:53
Speaker 10: the Susan coxs Palll case that I worked on, where clearly,
25:59
Speaker 10: as we all knows power Josh Powell her husband had
26:04
Speaker 10: something to do with it. That the number one reason
26:07
Speaker 10: why a woman goes misseners and distresses usually from domestic violence,
26:14
Speaker 10: somebody that she's familiar with, the family member, a boyfriend,
26:19
Speaker 10: husband thinks of that nature. Those are typically the first
26:22
Speaker 10: people that law enforcement needs to rule out.
26:25
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about the human traffic angle, the aspect
26:29
Speaker 2: that Nicole Parton brought up. As a matter of fact,
26:33
Speaker 2: the county is so concerned about human trafficking and the
26:38
Speaker 2: numbers there that the Skaggatt County Coalition Against Trafficking Turning
26:43
Speaker 2: Off the Red Light has been formed. Now you've got
26:47
Speaker 2: the human trafficking problem that is, for some reason, heavily
26:53
Speaker 2: heavily evident there in Concrete, Washington. But you also have
26:59
Speaker 2: this bizarre post. If anything happens to me, I didn't leave.
27:05
Speaker 2: Marty Marteau is with us. This is Mikhaiela's aunt, Miss Marteau.
27:10
Speaker 2: What did that mean?
27:11
Speaker 5: Michaela knew about she. She talked about human trafficking to
27:17
Speaker 5: myself and her mother.
27:18
Speaker 2: Miss Marteau. When you say she discussed human trafficking, was
27:23
Speaker 2: she afraid of being human trafficked?
27:26
Speaker 5: She she was afraid. She was. She was afraid. She
27:31
Speaker 5: she was. She had spoke to her brother about all
27:33
Speaker 5: the missing girls, and she actually wanted to help find
27:37
Speaker 5: missing girls. That was one of her That was one
27:41
Speaker 5: of her goals. Actually, she wanted to help people. And
27:46
Speaker 5: you know, we told her that her brother told her
27:48
Speaker 5: that it was dangerous and that she you know, she
27:52
Speaker 5: asked him to take her up there and to help
27:54
Speaker 5: look for missing girls, and she didn't want to He
27:58
Speaker 5: didn't want her to do that.
28:00
Speaker 2: Of course, the reality is Jason Jensen, that once someone
28:04
Speaker 2: is kidnapped and put into sex trafficking, they're gone. They're
28:09
Speaker 2: typically taken from the area. Would you agree with that, Oh, yeah.
28:13
Speaker 10: One hundred percent, I would agree with that. The biggest problem,
28:17
Speaker 10: the piece of this puzzle that throws me into the
28:21
Speaker 10: different direction, is the fact that her cell phone was
28:24
Speaker 10: found near her residence, you know, in a bush that
28:29
Speaker 10: seems to be states there. And if she's being trafficked,
28:33
Speaker 10: why go back to the scene of her last known
28:37
Speaker 10: you know location. It seems to be too convenient to
28:42
Speaker 10: find the phone near the house.
28:44
Speaker 2: And thrown in a bush, in my mind, indicating that
28:47
Speaker 2: she had somehow ended up in that river. Guys, the
28:51
Speaker 2: search did commence maybe too late. Take a listen to
28:57
Speaker 2: our friends at k I R. Seven.
29:00
Speaker 4: Chapman Police have wrapped up their search efforts for the day,
29:03
Speaker 4: but they plan to be back out here tomorrow. But
29:05
Speaker 4: they've combed this entire area we're standing in right now.
29:08
Speaker 4: They've even taken their search to the Scadget River, which
29:10
Speaker 4: is right over my shoulder here. They've had boats going
29:12
Speaker 4: up and down. They've even taken their search to the
29:15
Speaker 4: skies with drones, and they had a helicopter fly over
29:18
Speaker 4: here just this afternoon. But right now, family of friends
29:21
Speaker 4: who've traveled near and far to search for Mikayles say
29:23
Speaker 4: they're going to be out here for as long as
29:25
Speaker 4: it takes.
29:39
Speaker 12: Time.
29:40
Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace.
29:43
Speaker 2: Hik to you Mike had Sel, president founder Peace River
29:46
Speaker 2: Canine Search and Rescue. It sounds like they did get
29:49
Speaker 2: into the search, but was it too late? She goes
29:52
Speaker 2: missing on Friday and it's Tuesday before they really get
29:57
Speaker 2: in motion.
29:58
Speaker 11: Well, at that stage, they're going to run two different
30:00
Speaker 11: types of dogs. They're going to run the live find
30:03
Speaker 11: dogs and the cadaver dogs, both they should be anyway.
30:09
Speaker 11: And then they're going to have the grid teams out
30:10
Speaker 11: checking the wooded areas looking for anything that they can.
30:13
Speaker 11: I agree with the other gentleman that the cell phone
30:16
Speaker 11: is staged. That's pretty common that they go back and
30:21
Speaker 11: drop something like that.
30:23
Speaker 2: Well, who is they?
30:24
Speaker 11: Well, the criminal elements, and I'll offer my theory that
30:28
Speaker 11: crime is dumb and a lot of times they do
30:30
Speaker 11: things that they don't seem to make sense, but to
30:33
Speaker 11: them it does. And you know, trying to indicate that
30:36
Speaker 11: she's somehow in the river, but that river is it moves,
30:40
Speaker 11: but it's fairly shallow. It wouldn't be hard to find
30:42
Speaker 11: her remains if they were in there.
30:43
Speaker 2: So she's not in the river. Would you agree, Mike
30:46
Speaker 2: Hatseel she's not in the river? If the river is
30:49
Speaker 2: effect shallow, they would have found her by now.
30:51
Speaker 11: Yes, I would agree with that. And I also think,
30:54
Speaker 11: as far as I can tell, no one's ever searched
30:56
Speaker 11: the boyfriend's home.
30:57
Speaker 2: That is one of my questions. Was the home ever searched?
31:01
Speaker 2: Because we know this woman twenty five years old now
31:05
Speaker 2: twenty six is just before twenty sixth birthday missing since
31:08
Speaker 2: she ran out of that house and call nine one one,
31:12
Speaker 2: only for her phone line to suddenly go dead, rendering
31:17
Speaker 2: local cops unable to find her. According to them, what
31:20
Speaker 2: do you know, Nicole Parton, was the home ever searched?
31:23
Speaker 8: The home was not searched, and even when the search
31:27
Speaker 8: dogs came out, a gentleman in the home refused to
31:31
Speaker 8: allow those to come in. The detective did not pursue
31:35
Speaker 8: searching inside the home early on when that nine to
31:38
Speaker 8: one one call was made, or even after the fact.
31:41
Speaker 2: Erv Miller, that is complete incompetence. They should have gone
31:45
Speaker 2: to the home with a search warrant and see they.
31:48
Speaker 7: Didn't have a consent to search, which would be required
31:52
Speaker 7: absence of search warrant. And a search warrant should be
31:56
Speaker 7: done quickly because once as time progresses and information that
32:00
Speaker 7: could lead to problem to cause become stale and you're
32:02
Speaker 7: not going to get a search warrant. So that should
32:05
Speaker 7: have been done asap, as you've said.
32:07
Speaker 2: But the reality is it's not too late, knowing what
32:11
Speaker 2: we know, I mean, you can still get a search warrant. Oh, absolutely,
32:14
Speaker 2: you can still get a search warrant. Now has evidence
32:17
Speaker 2: been destroyed if there was any, Probably, But I've learned,
32:21
Speaker 2: we've all learned that it's very, very hard to get
32:25
Speaker 2: rid of certain evidence. And I'm referring specifically to blood evidence.
32:30
Speaker 10: That's very true.
32:31
Speaker 7: And I've actually participated in searches of apartments so with
32:35
Speaker 7: forensic teams from the Chicago Police Department that the apartment
32:38
Speaker 7: looked pristine to the naked eye. But there's certain ways
32:42
Speaker 7: that forensic teams have ways to determine if there has
32:46
Speaker 7: been blood there, if there had been any type of
32:49
Speaker 7: efforts to remove the blood from the scene. Even using
32:53
Speaker 7: bleach doesn't necessarily totally eliminate the law enforcement abilities took.
32:59
Speaker 2: It needs something more like myriadic acid. Bleach doesn't cut it,
33:02
Speaker 2: something like a black swan. Myriadic acid does the trick.
33:07
Speaker 2: Marty Martine joining me, this is Mikhaila's aunt. Was that
33:11
Speaker 2: home ever searched?
33:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did. They did do a search on the
33:16
Speaker 5: boyfriend's residence. It was later on. It wasn't immediate. I
33:21
Speaker 5: don't know exactly what they took out of there, but
33:23
Speaker 5: they did go in there after. I know it was
33:28
Speaker 5: at least a week the day that we all showed
33:32
Speaker 5: up there.
33:32
Speaker 10: Though.
33:33
Speaker 5: The boyfriend had an ex girlfriend in the home who
33:37
Speaker 5: is a professional house cleaner, which was really odd to us.
33:41
Speaker 2: A professional house cleaner in the home. Yeah, okay, what
33:46
Speaker 2: we know. Mikaela Standridge Beautiful Blue Eyes is about one
33:54
Speaker 2: hundred pounds, a tiny little slip of a girl, and
34:00
Speaker 2: leaving behind this now twenty six year old mom is
34:04
Speaker 2: a three year old little boy. This is eerily reminiscent
34:09
Speaker 2: of the case of Michelle Russ. Take a listen our
34:13
Speaker 2: cut seven wmar.
34:15
Speaker 13: Michelle Russ disappeared on the day of what was supposed
34:18
Speaker 13: to be her son's third birthday party. Her husband told
34:21
Speaker 13: police she left their Hailthorpe home to go to the
34:24
Speaker 13: store that morning. Later that day, Michelle's nineteen ninety eight
34:27
Speaker 13: green Dodge caravan was found along a street by Hillcrest
34:31
Speaker 13: Park in nearby Lansdown.
34:33
Speaker 12: The key actually was in the driver's side door broken
34:36
Speaker 12: off inside of that caravan when it was found. Neighbors
34:39
Speaker 12: in the area were questioned about anything that they may
34:41
Speaker 12: have seen, and unfortunately, nobody saw anything relating to how
34:44
Speaker 12: that van got there and more.
34:47
Speaker 13: As far as what happened to the twenty four year
34:49
Speaker 13: old missing mom after that. Baltimore County Police Corporal Donna
34:52
Speaker 13: Carter explains why detectives believe Michelle fell victim to foul play.
34:57
Speaker 12: Her credit cards were never used, there was no age activity,
35:01
Speaker 12: her checking account never had checks written against it, so
35:04
Speaker 12: foul play was assumed. Also, she was diabetic, and she
35:07
Speaker 12: was a devoted mother, so it just doesn't make sense.
35:09
Speaker 2: That case a Michelle never found. It goes on and
35:16
Speaker 2: on and on. Here's another victim. Take a listen to
35:20
Speaker 2: our cut thirteen WRCB.
35:22
Speaker 14: She had so many dreams. She wanted to be a
35:24
Speaker 14: marine biologist and she got detoured. I think the answers
35:30
Speaker 14: will come out on the people that's involved.
35:34
Speaker 9: We just don't understand exactly what happened, you know, just
35:39
Speaker 9: where it went wrong.
35:40
Speaker 15: He's Lynn was last known to be at the Flying
35:42
Speaker 15: Jay truck stop in Resaca, Georgia. That's where police found
35:45
Speaker 15: her car. Inside were her keys, her book bag, and
35:48
Speaker 15: her wallet, but she was nowhere to be found.
35:50
Speaker 2: Keys and Roberts to this day not found. And what
35:54
Speaker 2: about Gretchen Fleming? Take a listen our cut fifteen WCCHS.
35:58
Speaker 16: The Parkersburg Police Department is asking for your help in
36:01
Speaker 16: finding twenty seven year old Gretchen Fleming of Vienna. Detectives
36:04
Speaker 16: say she was last seeing the night of December third
36:06
Speaker 16: and fourth, but relatives didn't realize she was gone quickly
36:09
Speaker 16: and did not report it until this week. Police located
36:12
Speaker 16: her purse and phone, amping up concern. Detectives have worked
36:15
Speaker 16: around the clock since then to cultivate information, and the
36:19
Speaker 16: public has really stepped up in regard to tip and.
36:22
Speaker 2: Of course, Jane Johnson coming from a small area much
36:26
Speaker 2: like Concrete, Washington, where the neighbors say nothing like that
36:31
Speaker 2: ever happens here. Take a listen to our cut nineteen.
36:34
Speaker 2: Our friends at kr QE.
36:36
Speaker 15: People just don't go missing like that around here.
36:39
Speaker 17: They've spent months searching all around Lincoln County looking for
36:45
Speaker 17: any clues to tell the hundreds of volunteers what may
36:49
Speaker 17: have happened Gene Johnson.
36:50
Speaker 8: I mean, he just kind of shook everybody up a
36:53
Speaker 8: little bit, like who.
36:53
Speaker 10: You know who would do this?
36:54
Speaker 5: And what did they do?
36:55
Speaker 10: And would you know? Where is she? It's just it
36:58
Speaker 10: just makes no sense.
37:00
Speaker 2: Leading the search. Johnson's daughter, Heidi's like.
37:02
Speaker 5: Looking for a needle and a stack, but I can't stop
37:04
Speaker 5: looking for.
37:05
Speaker 2: To Marty Marton, this is Mikhaila Standridge's aunt. Marty, do
37:11
Speaker 2: you believe Mikaela is still alive.
37:16
Speaker 5: I'm hoping and praying that she is with everything that
37:19
Speaker 5: I've got. That's what we're really hoping for.
37:21
Speaker 2: Have you spoken Have you spoken to the boyfriend?
37:26
Speaker 5: I haven't spoken to him in over a month. I
37:28
Speaker 5: tried to. Last time I spoke to him, it wasn't.
37:32
Speaker 5: He told me that I need to get my sources straight.
37:36
Speaker 5: I was asking who someone was and it wasn't a
37:40
Speaker 5: good conversation. He told me that he wanted to talk
37:43
Speaker 5: to me personally, one on one. I told him that
37:47
Speaker 5: he was responsible. He was supposed to take care of
37:51
Speaker 5: my niece and for someone to hear someone who he
37:55
Speaker 5: supposedly loves yell help, help, help, and go running off
37:58
Speaker 5: into the night and not call or not go after her,
38:02
Speaker 5: that makes him guilty in my eyes.
38:04
Speaker 2: At this juncture, no one has been named a person
38:07
Speaker 2: of interest, no one has been charged. The search for
38:11
Speaker 2: Mikila Standridge goes on while her little boy waits for
38:18
Speaker 2: mommy to come home. The tip line in this case
38:22
Speaker 2: is three six zero four one six one nine one
38:26
Speaker 2: one repeat three six zero four one six one nine
38:32
Speaker 2: one one. Goodbye friend,