Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Missing Audrii, 11, Tied to Rock 'Swirling' in River, PANTS FOUND at RIVER'S EDGE
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grease.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Did eleven year old Audrey Cunningham ever have a chance?
- 0:25Speaker 2: Her mother is now posting heart wrenching messages about how
- 0:29Speaker 2: she quote failed her daughter.
- 0:35Speaker 3: The father had her.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Living in his home with his grandparents, and in the
- 0:40Speaker 2: backyard is a Nazi Aaryan brother covered in hate tattoos,
- 0:49Speaker 2: who would take her to school alone in the car.
- 0:53Speaker 4: With him with a sex offense.
- 0:56Speaker 2: In the last hours, we learned that this eleven year
- 1:00Speaker 2: old little girl.
- 1:01Speaker 3: Do any of you have little girls or.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Little boys that are or were eleven years old? This
- 1:10Speaker 2: little girl's body was weighted down with a rock tied
- 1:17Speaker 2: by rope to her body.
- 1:23Speaker 4: Who could do that to.
- 1:25Speaker 3: An eleven year old little girl?
- 1:28Speaker 4: I mean, take a look at this guy.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Would you leave your child alone with him, much less
- 1:36Speaker 2: put her in the car with him, give him access
- 1:40Speaker 2: to your home with your child asleep in the bed
- 1:45Speaker 2: around him.
- 1:45Speaker 3: I mean, think about it.
- 1:47Speaker 2: One of his last offenses on his rap sheet. Oh yeah,
- 1:52Speaker 2: he got a sweet plea deal, didn't have to register
- 1:56Speaker 2: as a sex offender.
- 1:57Speaker 4: And walked free over an over and over and over
- 2:00Speaker 4: and over. But this time he had access to a home.
- 2:05Speaker 2: And was caught in the bed with a minor child,
- 2:09Speaker 2: a girl, and had taken off her underwear and PJ bottoms.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Now he has access to Audrey, and now Audrey is
- 2:19Speaker 2: dead at the bottom of a river, weighted down by
- 2:23Speaker 2: a rock.
- 2:24Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Texas.
- 2:28Speaker 2: It's on you. You have the DP death penalty needle.
- 2:33Speaker 2: You're gonna use it?
- 2:35Speaker 4: Are you gonna let him.
- 2:36Speaker 3: Somehow slip out of this too?
- 2:38Speaker 2: Because all of his other crimes, most of them were
- 2:41Speaker 2: in Texas, and he walked, He skipped out of the
- 2:46Speaker 2: courthouse free as a bird.
- 2:48Speaker 4: He ran hopscotched.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Out of the jail each time. And now Audrey is dead,
- 2:56Speaker 2: I mean, is he Greace? This is crime Stories. Thank
- 2:58Speaker 2: you for being with us here stories and on serious
- 3:01Speaker 2: sex sem one eleven. Wow, what we have learned overnight
- 3:07Speaker 2: by taking a long hard look at a formal affidavit
- 3:12Speaker 2: used as an arrest warrant. Wait till they perform those searches,
- 3:17Speaker 2: but right now joining me in addition to an all
- 3:20Speaker 2: star panel to make sense of the evidence as we
- 3:23Speaker 2: know it. Right now, this lady is a hero, the
- 3:28Speaker 2: lady that called police when she spotted that's Nazi Arian
- 3:34Speaker 2: brother sex perv who I believe murdered an eleven year
- 3:40Speaker 2: old girl, Audrey. I believe he raped her, and I
- 3:45Speaker 2: believe he weighted her body down with a rock that
- 3:48Speaker 2: threw her body in the river. Joining me right now
- 3:52Speaker 2: is Leslie Gaskins. She is an ex Une employee and
- 3:58Speaker 2: she's the one that called nine one.
- 4:02Speaker 3: And landed his rear in behind bars.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Of course, then he started lying and lying and lying,
- 4:09Speaker 2: but despite his lies, police managed to find Audrey's body.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Leslie Gaskins, thank you for being with.
- 4:16Speaker 5: Us, Thank you for having me.
- 4:18Speaker 4: Les Gaskins.
- 4:19Speaker 2: This, ma'am, tell me what happened when you see the
- 4:24Speaker 2: defendant covered in all his tattoos. I don't know if
- 4:27Speaker 2: you could see his swastika or not, But tell me
- 4:31Speaker 2: what happened when he came into your exion.
- 4:33Speaker 5: So it was just a few dollars in change for gas,
- 4:37Speaker 5: it could have been a couple of beers on my
- 4:39Speaker 5: real sure, because I didn't know that he was significant,
- 4:43Speaker 5: that he was so ugly. I keep saying that he's
- 4:47Speaker 5: just so ugly and so creepy looking that you just
- 4:51Speaker 5: don't forget his face, and it just I don't know,
- 4:55Speaker 5: his face just stuck with me. And then the next
- 4:58Speaker 5: day when I saw his mug shot and they said
- 5:01Speaker 5: to call if you had seen him. I called right there,
- 5:05Speaker 5: didn't even hesitate.
- 5:07Speaker 2: What when he came into your ex son? Are you
- 5:10Speaker 2: saying that it was either for gas or beer?
- 5:13Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 5:15Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, Sam, And I'm.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Curious, hello, let me get right in him. What time
- 5:20Speaker 4: of the day did he come in?
- 5:23Speaker 5: It was after nine o'clock I believe, I'm.
- 5:28Speaker 4: Not real sure, nine am, nine pm.
- 5:31Speaker 5: Im. I am, my work today shift that day?
- 5:34Speaker 4: Question?
- 5:35Speaker 2: Was this on February fifteen, the day Audrey went missing?
- 5:41Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, I work today shift
- 5:45Speaker 5: that day.
- 5:46Speaker 4: What time do you go in?
- 5:47Speaker 5: I go in at five fifteen in the morning.
- 5:50Speaker 2: So you're their first thing in the morning. Now, February fifteen,
- 5:55Speaker 2: I believe was a Thursday, correct, yes, ma'am. So you're
- 5:58Speaker 2: there at five am, five fifteen. You get everything opened
- 6:02Speaker 2: up and ready.
- 6:03Speaker 4: What were you doing?
- 6:05Speaker 3: Were you behind the counter when he came in?
- 6:07Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
- 6:08Speaker 7: There was a line of people and he was just
- 6:10Speaker 7: in the middle of the line.
- 6:12Speaker 4: Did he smell of alcohol or anything else?
- 6:16Speaker 3: Pots? Cigarettes?
- 6:17Speaker 5: No?
- 6:18Speaker 7: No, I didn't notice, and he wasn't dirty like they said.
- 6:23Speaker 5: When he got went to the mechanic shop. He wasn't
- 6:27Speaker 5: dirty and all that either.
- 6:29Speaker 4: So this is nine a m.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Trying to place him that time in the line of
- 6:37Speaker 2: events that we have so far.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Do you recall what he was wearing.
- 6:40Speaker 5: I don't. I don't.
- 6:42Speaker 3: What about him stands out to you?
- 6:45Speaker 5: His face, his fear, his eyes. He has like a
- 6:51Speaker 5: crazy eye.
- 6:52Speaker 4: Yeah, does one look one way and one look the
- 6:54Speaker 4: other way?
- 6:55Speaker 5: It kind of does just them.
- 6:57Speaker 2: I've tried to figure that out because in some pictures
- 7:00Speaker 2: they look like they're both looking at you, and in
- 7:02Speaker 2: others one looks like it's looking off.
- 7:05Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 7:06Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think he's kind of was kind of
- 7:09Speaker 5: a regular here. I think I've seen him in here before.
- 7:13Speaker 4: What's your recollection?
- 7:14Speaker 7: Because I remember his eyes.
- 7:16Speaker 4: The eyes, Yeah, the first time I saw his eyes.
- 7:18Speaker 2: They're very light and blue and they're piercing and there's
- 7:24Speaker 2: just something off.
- 7:26Speaker 4: Now. Could you see all of his tattoos?
- 7:30Speaker 7: No, ma'am, I don't think I could. I think I
- 7:32Speaker 7: could see the like a little bit around his neck.
- 7:36Speaker 7: I think he had a T shirt on. He didn't
- 7:38Speaker 7: have a tank top.
- 7:39Speaker 4: Did you my chance see his hands?
- 7:41Speaker 5: Yeah, but I really didn't pay that much attention, darn.
- 7:46Speaker 2: I'm wondering if there were any scratches on his body,
- 7:50Speaker 2: on his neck, his chest, his arms, his hands.
- 7:53Speaker 4: He did he have on.
- 7:54Speaker 3: A long sleeve shirt?
- 7:55Speaker 8: No?
- 7:56Speaker 5: I don't think so.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Did he say anything to your recollection ever.
- 8:00Speaker 7: He was getting You know, it's four thirty three in gases?
- 8:06Speaker 7: Keep sticking in my head, okay, so or thirty three
- 8:09Speaker 7: in gas?
- 8:10Speaker 2: At that time you noticed him and you remembered him
- 8:12Speaker 2: because because of his eyes and his tattoos and what
- 8:17Speaker 2: happened next he leaves.
- 8:19Speaker 3: You don't think any more about it until when.
- 8:21Speaker 5: Until I saw him on the on the on Facebook
- 8:29Speaker 5: the next morning.
- 8:30Speaker 4: What did you say?
- 8:31Speaker 5: His my shot saying if you'd seen him, he was
- 8:36Speaker 5: the last scene with Audrey. If I had, if you
- 8:40Speaker 5: had seen him, please call and so I did you do.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Know that by you calling, that's how police found him, right, ma'am?
- 8:51Speaker 2: Are you concerned at all about the possibility of him
- 8:54Speaker 2: getting out on bond?
- 8:56Speaker 4: Now?
- 8:56Speaker 5: I would hope not. I would hope not. Please not.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Would it concern you if he gets out on bond,
- 9:03Speaker 2: if he's walking free.
- 9:05Speaker 5: Yes, yes, definitely yes. Why because he's dangerous, he's crazy.
- 9:10Speaker 5: He doesn't need to be out and.
- 9:12Speaker 4: You're a witness.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Yeah, did you ever meet or see Audrey or her
- 9:19Speaker 2: father or mother or grandparents?
- 9:21Speaker 7: I know my daughter is friends with Audrey's mother, and
- 9:26Speaker 7: we have known Audrey when she was smaller, but not
- 9:29Speaker 7: seen her here recently.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Why wasn't the mother living with her?
- 9:34Speaker 5: I have no idea. I have no idea because it
- 9:37Speaker 5: sounds late to me. She was in a worse situation
- 9:41Speaker 5: than if she would have been with her mother.
- 9:44Speaker 4: You know, does the mother live in town there?
- 9:46Speaker 5: He lives in Livingston, I believe.
- 9:48Speaker 2: Okay, with a population of a little over five thousand people,
- 9:51Speaker 2: how far away.
- 9:52Speaker 4: Could it be?
- 9:54Speaker 2: Do you know how the dad knows the perpetrator friend?
- 10:00Speaker 5: If you look on their face on his Facebook, they
- 10:03Speaker 5: have Uh he's been tagged in posts of the dads
- 10:09Speaker 5: for years. It looks like like they were friends.
- 10:13Speaker 4: So they go way back.
- 10:15Speaker 7: Yeah, and like, uh, the grandma.
- 10:18Speaker 5: I think it was posted a picture where he went
- 10:21Speaker 5: on vacation with them to Florida last year.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that.
- 10:24Speaker 5: Isn't that crazy? That is just I just don't understand.
- 10:27Speaker 3: I guess that's one word for it.
- 10:29Speaker 2: You are hearing the voice of Leslie Gaskins, the excellent
- 10:32Speaker 2: employee who saw the suspect on the morning that Augie
- 10:36Speaker 2: goes missing and called police. Miss Gaskins, thank you. I
- 10:42Speaker 2: hope you are prepared to testify.
- 10:44Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am, absolutely, I will do my part. He shouldn't
- 10:49Speaker 7: have never been out anyway, not with his rest. He
- 10:52Speaker 7: should have never been out.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Miss Gaskins, thank you so much.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Adjoining us sound all Star panel to make sense of
- 11:15Speaker 2: what we know right now but overnight, this is what
- 11:19Speaker 2: we learn.
- 11:20Speaker 3: Listen.
- 11:20Speaker 9: According to court documents, Don Stephen McDougall used a rope
- 11:24Speaker 9: consistent with a rope seen in his vehicle two days
- 11:27Speaker 9: earlier during a police traffic stop to tie a large
- 11:31Speaker 9: rock to the body of Audrey Cunningham to weigh it
- 11:34Speaker 9: down in the Trinity River.
- 11:35Speaker 10: Investigators were able to locate the body of Audrey Cunningham
- 11:39Speaker 10: in the Trinity River by using cell phone records and
- 11:42Speaker 10: video analysis, but they also needed help from the Trinity
- 11:45Speaker 10: River Authority to lower the level of the water on
- 11:47Speaker 10: the river so divers could find Audrey.
- 11:49Speaker 9: After removing her body from the Trinity River, Sheriff Byron
- 11:53Speaker 9: Lyons said she was taken to the Harris County Medical
- 11:56Speaker 9: Examiner's Office in Houston to determine the cause of death.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Running US an All Star panel, but first to Bob Price,
- 12:02Speaker 2: joining US associate editor senior news contributor Breitbart Texas.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Bob, thank you for being with us.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Tell me about the rock that was used to weigh
- 12:14Speaker 2: down this eleven year old girl's body.
- 12:16Speaker 11: So, Nancy, I suspected that he had used some kind
- 12:20Speaker 11: of a weight or device to tie her down. I
- 12:22Speaker 11: asked Sheriff Lyons about that during the press conference on
- 12:27Speaker 11: Tuesday when they announced that they had found her body,
- 12:30Speaker 11: and at that time he did not want to disclose
- 12:34Speaker 11: the information as to what he had used to weigh
- 12:36Speaker 11: her down, but he did not deny that she had
- 12:40Speaker 11: been held underwater by some type of apparatus and stuff.
- 12:43Speaker 11: So now we know that there was a rope used,
- 12:46Speaker 11: a rope that was seen in his vehicle two days
- 12:48Speaker 11: before during a traffic stop, which again re emphasizes that
- 12:53Speaker 11: the avoidability of this tragedy had there been an arrest
- 12:57Speaker 11: warrant for mister McDougall on an aggravated assault where he
- 13:01Speaker 11: stabbed an individual back in August and was identified by
- 13:05Speaker 11: the victims as the attacker in this assault, there would
- 13:09Speaker 11: have been a warrant for him during that traffic stop,
- 13:12Speaker 11: and he would have been in jail two days before
- 13:14Speaker 11: her death.
- 13:15Speaker 2: You know what, I've been torturing myself all night long
- 13:18Speaker 2: about could as should have? Would we have been looking
- 13:22Speaker 2: at the affidavit attached to a warrant and gleaning information
- 13:27Speaker 2: about the death of this eleven year old girl and
- 13:30Speaker 2: what was transpiring during the time after daddy leaves the
- 13:35Speaker 2: house and the defendant is there alone with the little girl.
- 13:41Speaker 3: Joining us right now.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Tim Miller, the founder of Texas Equa Search, who actually
- 13:47Speaker 2: went and searched, searching the waterways trying to find Audrey.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Tim Miller, thank you for being with us. You've done
- 13:56Speaker 2: so many water searches. Tell me about this search and
- 14:00Speaker 2: the discovery of her body. When you were using sonar
- 14:04Speaker 2: looking through the water there, which has a pretty good
- 14:08Speaker 2: current to it, could you tell at that time she
- 14:11Speaker 2: was weighted down?
- 14:12Speaker 12: Well, Nancy. When we got involved in that, the sheriff
- 14:15Speaker 12: actually called the Friday and said he needed our help,
- 14:18Speaker 12: and we had many many ground searches. Saturday, we found
- 14:22Speaker 12: something right along the shoreline which ended up as being evidence.
- 14:28Speaker 12: So where that was found. I decided I need to start, so.
- 14:31Speaker 2: Nark, Okay, why are you talking about the Hello Kitty backpack?
- 14:35Speaker 12: No, something else, not the backpack. What we found something
- 14:40Speaker 12: right at the edge of the I don't want to
- 14:42Speaker 12: disclose that. Now.
- 14:43Speaker 4: Was it a shoe? Was it clothing?
- 14:46Speaker 12: It was clothing? So I decided I wanted to start
- 14:51Speaker 12: so dark.
- 14:52Speaker 4: Was it odd? Was it a girl's clothing?
- 14:54Speaker 12: Yes, bam, and it definitely is evidence one said, is
- 15:00Speaker 12: it is?
- 15:00Speaker 2: I mean, hold on, just a second, hold on, just
- 15:02Speaker 2: a second, joining me, director of Victim Services. They're in Texas,
- 15:08Speaker 2: joining me out of Houston. Andy Cohn, longtime colleague, Andy,
- 15:13Speaker 2: the girl's clothing. He obviously the girl was sex assaulted.
- 15:21Speaker 2: That why would she not have clothing on? Why would
- 15:24Speaker 2: her clothing be separate from her body? Yeah, I mean,
- 15:27Speaker 2: this guy needs to be on death row.
- 15:33Speaker 4: It's not the first time. Andy. What in the hay
- 15:36Speaker 4: is going on in Texas?
- 15:38Speaker 2: This guy had a fence after offense, after a fence.
- 15:43Speaker 2: And now I'm hearing from Tim Miller article of clothing
- 15:49Speaker 2: found at the edge of the river. And Tim Miller, who,
- 15:53Speaker 2: by the ways, the crime victim himself, His daughter was
- 15:56Speaker 2: murdered is out there and sees this.
- 16:00Speaker 4: What's going on?
- 16:02Speaker 13: You know, Nancy, there's a reason we have the death
- 16:04Speaker 13: penalty in the state of Texas.
- 16:06Speaker 8: And McDougall is now the poster boy why we have
- 16:10Speaker 8: to death?
- 16:11Speaker 2: No, no, no, you can blow your horn about Texas
- 16:15Speaker 2: and justice.
- 16:16Speaker 4: But why was this guy of you? Why was he
- 16:19Speaker 4: out free?
- 16:20Speaker 2: He had already crawled in between the sheets with another
- 16:23Speaker 2: little girl and taken off for underwear and pjs.
- 16:26Speaker 4: He's got one offense after the next, after the next accidents.
- 16:29Speaker 2: The man is using meth for Pete's sake. I mean,
- 16:32Speaker 2: the Nazi tattoo alone should have gotten him kicked off
- 16:36Speaker 2: the property.
- 16:37Speaker 4: That didn't work.
- 16:38Speaker 2: But that said, don't start preaching to me about Texas
- 16:43Speaker 2: eyes of death penalty.
- 16:44Speaker 4: I wouldn't know what this guy's doing, not walking around.
- 16:46Speaker 8: To start with, the State of Texas failed eleven year
- 16:50Speaker 8: old Audrey Cunningham.
- 16:53Speaker 4: No issue or lah blah.
- 16:55Speaker 8: State of Texas failed this ten year old girl back
- 16:59Speaker 8: in two and seven, who he evidently was trying to
- 17:03Speaker 8: sexually assault, and he got a sweetheart deal. He got
- 17:07Speaker 8: sweetheart deal after sweetheart.
- 17:09Speaker 4: How did you know she was ten years old?
- 17:12Speaker 3: I didn't know that' had have been made public.
- 17:14Speaker 14: Yes it is.
- 17:14Speaker 8: I'm looking at it right now.
- 17:17Speaker 4: Yes, we were trying to protect her identity. I will
- 17:20Speaker 4: send you another ten year old girl. And you're very.
- 17:23Speaker 2: Similar to Audrey correct, very similar. And now this, I mean,
- 17:31Speaker 2: you know what, Andy khn.
- 17:33Speaker 4: My dad, God rest your soul.
- 17:36Speaker 2: Daddy would a killless guy if he had tried to
- 17:40Speaker 2: get in bed with me or my sister or brother.
- 17:44Speaker 2: I don't understand why he got a cheap pleader. And
- 17:46Speaker 2: on the cheap plead deal, Andy con he didn't even
- 17:49Speaker 2: say I'm guilty. They let him plead no loa contendre. No,
- 17:53Speaker 2: he wouldn't even admit what he did.
- 17:56Speaker 4: I mean, talk about a sweet deal, Texas.
- 17:59Speaker 3: Just this is my rariand and.
- 18:01Speaker 13: They cut it down to enticing a child, which isn't
- 18:04Speaker 13: even an offense that you have to register for. And
- 18:06Speaker 13: that brings us to what we're going to be doing
- 18:09Speaker 13: next legislative session. And I made a promise and I'm
- 18:12Speaker 13: going to continue their promise that we are going to
- 18:16Speaker 13: name a bill.
- 18:17Speaker 4: Please.
- 18:17Speaker 2: You know you think I trust a bunch of politicians
- 18:20Speaker 2: in a room together, No, I trust me.
- 18:23Speaker 4: I mean I trust you, Andy, I know you're going
- 18:25Speaker 4: to do the right thing to.
- 18:26Speaker 8: Make it happy.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Okay, Can I get to legislation? Let me guess it's
- 18:31Speaker 2: going to be called Audrey's Law. Yeah, that's I don't
- 18:34Speaker 2: love the child dead, so she could have a law
- 18:37Speaker 2: named after her.
- 18:38Speaker 3: I want her alive.
- 18:40Speaker 2: I can't have what I want now. The only thing
- 18:43Speaker 2: I can get is a death penalty. That's the only
- 18:47Speaker 2: thing we can work toward now. But that said, you
- 18:52Speaker 2: can tell me about your legislation later, and don't worry.
- 18:56Speaker 2: I respect what you're doing. I value what you're doing.
- 19:00Speaker 2: I want you to do it, but I guarantee you
- 19:03Speaker 2: if you leave one little crack in that legislation, some
- 19:08Speaker 2: defense attorney's going to find a way around it so
- 19:11Speaker 2: it won't apply to their client. Think about that, Tim Miller.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Can I get back to the search.
- 19:16Speaker 4: Yeah, you just.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Got me so upset thinking about her being separated from
- 19:22Speaker 2: her clothes. Now, I don't know what piece of clothing
- 19:26Speaker 2: it is. It could have been a shirt, it could
- 19:28Speaker 2: have been her pants, it could have been her underwear.
- 19:30Speaker 3: But when you.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Said it's definitely evidence, that makes me think it could.
- 19:35Speaker 3: Have been her underwear.
- 19:36Speaker 12: Well, it was definitely clothing. And it's definitely hers. So
- 19:40Speaker 12: I decided to start to it side Scamstone.
- 19:44Speaker 4: Is it her pants?
- 19:45Speaker 15: Uh?
- 19:45Speaker 12: Yeah?
- 19:46Speaker 4: Why does an eleven year old girl not have her
- 19:48Speaker 4: pants on?
- 19:49Speaker 2: He raped her? He raped her. This animal raped this
- 19:55Speaker 2: eleven year old girl. Okay, back to the search. Guys
- 20:01Speaker 2: who are talking about sonar, think about you've seen if
- 20:05Speaker 2: you have it, gone fishing yourself, You've seen it on
- 20:08Speaker 2: the fishing channel.
- 20:08Speaker 4: You can't miss that.
- 20:09Speaker 2: It's twenty four seven three sixty five people are fishing.
- 20:14Speaker 2: It looks like a blurry iPad screen. They even have them.
- 20:18Speaker 2: You can hold in your hand the size of a
- 20:21Speaker 2: cell phone and it looks great. But then you can
- 20:24Speaker 2: see black spots. Some are a lot more sophisticated, but
- 20:30Speaker 2: those spots are objects in the water. Now, Tim Miller
- 20:35Speaker 2: has state of the art. Okay, tell me what happened
- 20:38Speaker 2: to me?
- 20:38Speaker 12: Well, I started so round in that area, and of
- 20:41Speaker 12: course the railroad was high, the current was strong, and
- 20:44Speaker 12: it's like, oh my god, is she gonna wash away?
- 20:46Speaker 12: Or what? Sunday?
- 20:48Speaker 8: I got.
- 20:49Speaker 2: What I thought was, what did you see that made
- 20:51Speaker 2: you know it was Audrey Well?
- 20:54Speaker 12: On Sunday when I sold around, I didn't know it
- 20:58Speaker 12: was Audrey the conditions or the worst so you could
- 21:00Speaker 12: ever imagine it was Sonar. So I went back to
- 21:03Speaker 12: the same exact spat in the image I got. I
- 21:05Speaker 12: couldn't get it again. I couldn't get again. I literally
- 21:09Speaker 12: went through that area more than eighty times. And then
- 21:13Speaker 12: I got another image and I said, oh my god,
- 21:17Speaker 12: I said, I could make out Waids and arms.
- 21:20Speaker 4: Now hold on, Tim Miller.
- 21:21Speaker 2: You know we don't say OMJ on CS crime stories,
- 21:25Speaker 2: but go ahead. Oh what did it look like, Tim Miller?
- 21:29Speaker 2: How could you tell that it was a child versus
- 21:32Speaker 2: something else?
- 21:33Speaker 12: No, I could make out the body. So I went,
- 21:39Speaker 12: but it wasn't as clear because of the currents, because
- 21:42Speaker 12: of where it was. It was difficult at best. So
- 21:45Speaker 12: that I kept sold out and so on Arm. And
- 21:49Speaker 12: then Monday I so nut again.
- 21:50Speaker 2: It got Tim what went through your mind when you
- 21:53Speaker 2: spotted that?
- 21:54Speaker 12: You must have just I knew it was her, but
- 21:57Speaker 12: I couldn't repeat it. And it's like, how come if
- 22:00Speaker 12: they were shutting there, it's got to stay there. And
- 22:03Speaker 12: so I got with the divers on Monday and the
- 22:08Speaker 12: Texas Rangers. I showed them the image.
- 22:10Speaker 4: Did you go down yourself?
- 22:12Speaker 8: No?
- 22:12Speaker 12: I didn't dive. I don't even take a bath, but
- 22:15Speaker 12: I'm pretty good at shouldar.
- 22:16Speaker 4: But let me ask you a question.
- 22:19Speaker 2: So you guys are diving in a fast current in
- 22:23Speaker 2: the river.
- 22:23Speaker 3: Correct.
- 22:24Speaker 12: Well, on Monday, when I showed the damage and we
- 22:26Speaker 12: all got together, they said, oh my god, I think
- 22:30Speaker 12: you're right. I think it's abody. We have to dive
- 22:32Speaker 12: about it. Well, the currents were so strong and the
- 22:36Speaker 12: river was high that they could never get to that image.
- 22:41Speaker 12: So then they decided to shut the bed.
- 22:43Speaker 2: It's hard, man, I've done dives in fast currents and
- 22:46Speaker 2: rivers and it's it's not like on TV.
- 22:51Speaker 3: It's really hard to do that.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Much less to get was she all the way down
- 22:56Speaker 2: at the bottom because.
- 22:57Speaker 4: Of the rock?
- 22:58Speaker 12: It was tied off to that road.
- 23:00Speaker 4: She was tied onto the roape.
- 23:02Speaker 3: And at the other end of the road was a rock.
- 23:04Speaker 12: Yeah, And so then her body was the rock on.
- 23:07Speaker 4: Her body and tied to her body.
- 23:10Speaker 12: Now I was on the rope.
- 23:12Speaker 4: Okay, question, go ahead.
- 23:14Speaker 2: So the body, Audrey's body was not on the bottom
- 23:19Speaker 2: of the river on the river bed. The rot was
- 23:22Speaker 2: on the river bed, and she was in the water.
- 23:25Speaker 12: She was in the water, and so she was just
- 23:28Speaker 12: swirling and swirling in there, and that's why I could
- 23:31Speaker 12: never picked that saving image at the saving fast spot.
- 23:35Speaker 12: But I'm going to tell you the best thing he did, Nancy.
- 23:39Speaker 12: The best thing he did was tire off and weighth
- 23:42Speaker 12: her down because if he wouldn't have done that, and
- 23:46Speaker 12: she would have floated that current go four miles an hour,
- 23:53Speaker 12: in twenty four hours, she would have been ninety six
- 23:55Speaker 12: miles away, So.
- 23:57Speaker 3: That, just like Natalie Holloway, were fine.
- 24:00Speaker 12: The best thing he did for the search efforts was
- 24:04Speaker 12: to go ahead and waiter down otherwise again in that current,
- 24:09Speaker 12: and it's just take it. She would have popped up
- 24:12Speaker 12: at night when nobody was there in twelve hours, she
- 24:15Speaker 12: would have been fifty miles away. So you know, it
- 24:18Speaker 12: was a blessing in disguise. So yeah, when I got
- 24:24Speaker 12: that on it again, they dove on Monday. They could
- 24:26Speaker 12: not even get to it because of the occurrence. They decided
- 24:29Speaker 12: to shut the day and once the water go down
- 24:32Speaker 12: and the next day would I guided there. They found her.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Jim, what do you mean when you say she was
- 24:40Speaker 2: swirling and swirling?
- 24:42Speaker 12: Well, if you can imagine in a current and there's
- 24:46Speaker 12: a big swale there. It's between the railroad bridge and
- 24:49Speaker 12: fifty nine South Bridge, which is close together, so the
- 24:53Speaker 12: water coming around them pilings and stuff just created a
- 24:57Speaker 12: huge eddy So she was down there just basically almost
- 25:01Speaker 12: going in circles and moving around and moving around. And
- 25:06Speaker 12: that's why it was so hard to get her at
- 25:08Speaker 12: the very saved location because what her bodies at the bottom,
- 25:13Speaker 12: it's going to stay at the bottom until it starts
- 25:15Speaker 12: gasting up and then it'll start moving. So I would
- 25:19Speaker 12: go back to the same exact spot and she wasn't there.
- 25:23Speaker 12: I go again and then get it located in another area,
- 25:26Speaker 12: and she would.
- 25:27Speaker 14: She was just moving.
- 25:29Speaker 12: She's just moving around, and I anticipate if she wasn't
- 25:35Speaker 12: being found, of course she would have never floated, and
- 25:38Speaker 12: as bad as the sounds of fish life and turtles
- 25:41Speaker 12: and stuff would have you know, she would have just
- 25:46Speaker 12: ate that body and she would have been found. So
- 25:49Speaker 12: it was huge effort with everybody, and you know what, Nancy,
- 25:55Speaker 12: God just put us in the right place at the
- 25:58Speaker 12: right time.
- 25:58Speaker 4: Kim.
- 26:01Speaker 3: Not everyone knows that you lost your daughter.
- 26:07Speaker 2: So when you get a case like this, what does
- 26:11Speaker 2: it mean to you that you found Audrey? You're the
- 26:17Speaker 2: one who spotted her on sonar.
- 26:19Speaker 12: Well, you may get me a little bit choked up
- 26:22Speaker 12: right now. And when I got home, I said, Laura,
- 26:28Speaker 12: thank you, just thank you, because if you were still
- 26:32Speaker 12: like I wouldn't be doing this. Were you there, I said,
- 26:34Speaker 12: thank you, Laura, because of the image and what we got.
- 26:38Speaker 12: That's why the divers were there. And again I'm not
- 26:42Speaker 12: saying this to pat myself in the back. There's no
- 26:45Speaker 12: ego involved in it. Again, I've just been blessed by
- 26:50Speaker 12: God with a you know what He's given me, and
- 26:54Speaker 12: and I'm pretty good at that sonar. I'm not an expert.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Enna, you don't have to pat your own back.
- 27:01Speaker 2: If it had not been for you spotting her on
- 27:03Speaker 2: the sonar, she could have come loose from that rope
- 27:07Speaker 2: and she would have been gone, Like you said, in
- 27:09Speaker 2: twelve hours, she'd be fifty miles away and we would
- 27:14Speaker 2: never have the answer to what happened to Audrey Cunningham,
- 27:21Speaker 2: and this savage, this brute would walk free to attack
- 27:29Speaker 2: another child.
- 27:31Speaker 3: And you know another thing, Tim, we know.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Of these two little girls ten one, eleven, very similar
- 27:39Speaker 2: in physicality. We don't know how many others are out
- 27:42Speaker 2: there because you and I know Tim Miller, then only
- 27:46Speaker 2: one I'd of say eight or nine sex assault victims
- 27:51Speaker 2: come forward, and that is a conservative figure. You are
- 27:54Speaker 2: hearing Tim Miller, my friend, my longtime colleague who runs
- 28:00Speaker 2: Texas equ Research. Everybody on the panel jump in. We
- 28:06Speaker 2: got a lot to get through. First of all, to
- 28:09Speaker 2: Joe Scott Morgan, renowned professor Fresi is joining us out
- 28:13Speaker 2: of Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet
- 28:16Speaker 2: book on Amazon, and start of a hit series body
- 28:19Speaker 2: Bags with Joe Scott Morgan. Joe Scott. Right now, we
- 28:25Speaker 2: don't have a cod cause of death. She's still at
- 28:29Speaker 2: the Harris County morgue. But you know, and I know
- 28:34Speaker 2: they know the cause of death. They probably knew the
- 28:37Speaker 2: cause of death the moment they looked at her. I'm
- 28:40Speaker 2: guessing asphyxiation of some sort. But let me talk to
- 28:46Speaker 2: you about a toxicology. Did he dope her up with
- 28:50Speaker 2: let's just say ben a drill or.
- 28:52Speaker 3: Something like that.
- 28:54Speaker 2: B you heard what Tim Miller said from Texas EQ
- 28:58Speaker 2: Research the water tempts.
- 29:00Speaker 4: Were very low.
- 29:01Speaker 3: How did that help or hurt?
- 29:04Speaker 2: Had there been any fish activity on her? I don't
- 29:08Speaker 2: see how she's in a swirling eddie. Just you know what,
- 29:14Speaker 2: you know more than me on this. Joe Scott just
- 29:18Speaker 2: hit me.
- 29:19Speaker 14: First off, I hope that the knots were not untied,
- 29:22Speaker 14: that's seen. I hope that.
- 29:24Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes, yes, I hope.
- 29:27Speaker 14: I hope that the rock was not disengaged. Because when
- 29:31Speaker 14: when we work cases and they arrive at the morgue,
- 29:34Speaker 14: we want all of the elements present so that we
- 29:37Speaker 14: can fully appreciate, you know how, for instance, with her,
- 29:40Speaker 14: how she secured you think about the forensics of not tying.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Plus Joe Scott, what about potential DNA on the inside
- 29:49Speaker 2: of those knots.
- 29:50Speaker 14: Yeah, and that's quite interesting, depended upon how long she
- 29:54Speaker 14: had been in there, and not so much she but
- 29:57Speaker 14: those knots. Were there any protected faces in there? My
- 30:01Speaker 14: right now, my gut would say no. But Nancy, there's
- 30:03Speaker 14: a saving grace here. And Tim had brought this up.
- 30:06Speaker 14: And this is the beauty of this this you used
- 30:12Speaker 14: term savage. That was kind that article of clothing that
- 30:18Speaker 14: was left on the shore there, If it was relatively
- 30:24Speaker 14: intact and it was not super saturated with water, there
- 30:29Speaker 14: might be a chance that you can find some foreign
- 30:35Speaker 14: DNA on there and that may.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Can you place be it just got really completely drained case?
- 30:46Speaker 2: Please speak to me and regular talk.
- 30:49Speaker 3: Are you talking about when.
- 30:50Speaker 2: You say I don't you're talking about sperm, You're talking
- 30:55Speaker 2: about saliva. You're talking about epifilial skin cells, hair, any
- 31:02Speaker 2: fiber from his clothes, It could be on her pants.
- 31:06Speaker 4: Is there some other DNA I'm missing?
- 31:08Speaker 2: Hair, fiber, skin, sperm, blood, sweat.
- 31:15Speaker 4: Is there some other dnation I'm missing?
- 31:17Speaker 14: Well, also one of them?
- 31:19Speaker 4: Hold on, I think Tim's jumping in.
- 31:21Speaker 12: Tim, Yeah, can I break in real quick?
- 31:23Speaker 3: Please?
- 31:23Speaker 12: Actually whether the Texas Rangers yesterday and stuff's been doing
- 31:26Speaker 12: Alfi David and giving all the pictures to suffer the trial.
- 31:31Speaker 12: And one of the things that we talked about is
- 31:34Speaker 12: thank god that water was as cold as it was,
- 31:38Speaker 12: because if he's sexually as solted her, there's passively going
- 31:42Speaker 12: to be able to get steaming from her.
- 31:44Speaker 4: Good point.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Okay, Joe Scott, I hate to treat you like a computer,
- 31:49Speaker 2: but that's more data that has been input into that
- 31:51Speaker 2: brain of yours. Now spit it out as best as
- 31:54Speaker 2: you can.
- 31:54Speaker 3: We'll all try not to enter out. Go ahead unless
- 31:57Speaker 3: we have to.
- 31:57Speaker 14: No, that's okay?
- 31:58Speaker 7: Sure?
- 31:59Speaker 14: Yeah, So And one other thing here, I think that
- 32:02Speaker 14: that's that's really pertinent is the fact that that garment
- 32:06Speaker 14: was found on the shore. I'm really wondering, Nancy, if
- 32:09Speaker 14: he had not picked that spot to you know, commit
- 32:14Speaker 14: commit this savage attack on her, that that's the location
- 32:18Speaker 14: where he may have stripped her and have done whatever
- 32:21Speaker 14: he did to her that you had previously mentioned. And
- 32:25Speaker 14: if that's the.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Case, you see it right there.
- 32:26Speaker 2: I would think that he would attack her and sex
- 32:29Speaker 2: assault her in the car or in some covered area,
- 32:33Speaker 2: not in the open area along the river bank.
- 32:36Speaker 5: Right.
- 32:37Speaker 14: Yeah, but I think very there at this point. I
- 32:41Speaker 14: don't think that anything can be discounted though we don't
- 32:44Speaker 14: even have a cause.
- 32:45Speaker 2: You're right, But tell me what we do know, well,
- 32:48Speaker 2: what we will get from that body.
- 32:50Speaker 4: Yeah, well I can tell you this right.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Now when you don't know a horse. Look at his
- 32:53Speaker 2: track record. He tried to sex assault the other little girl.
- 32:58Speaker 2: So he tried to sex assault this little el Okay,
- 33:01Speaker 2: that's not a leap of imagination.
- 33:04Speaker 4: That's his track record.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Yes, And why else would he have her what to
- 33:09Speaker 2: sit in his car and play solitaire, to play tit
- 33:11Speaker 2: and watch TikTok Hell No, he attacked this girl. That's
- 33:15Speaker 2: why she didn't have her pants on. So what evidence
- 33:19Speaker 2: am I gonna get?
- 33:20Speaker 14: Well, given the fact that she is found in a
- 33:22Speaker 14: body of water, I think that it is going to
- 33:24Speaker 14: be very difficult to have success with a rape kit
- 33:28Speaker 14: if he ejaculated within her person. Okay, and she's nude
- 33:33Speaker 14: in the water. We don't know that at this point.
- 33:35Speaker 2: Are you telling me they can't retrieve sperm from her
- 33:38Speaker 2: vagina or rear?
- 33:39Speaker 4: End?
- 33:39Speaker 14: I mean, listen to what Tim just said. A second ago.
- 33:41Speaker 14: Her body was swirling around, Nancy, I.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Mean, would go into her vagina.
- 33:47Speaker 14: Of course it would. Of course it would, and it does.
- 33:50Speaker 14: And let me throw one more thing at you if
- 33:52Speaker 14: if that isn't enough, you're talking about a small child.
- 33:55Speaker 14: She's and I hate to say this, Nancy, but she's
- 33:58Speaker 14: greatly dilated at this point in time.
- 34:00Speaker 4: If in fact, she was talking about her vagina.
- 34:03Speaker 14: Yes, Nancy, I am. And so that's okay, man.
- 34:06Speaker 4: Spit it out. I just okay.
- 34:09Speaker 3: Now, Actually you're making sense.
- 34:10Speaker 2: If her vagina is dilated because of the water, is
- 34:13Speaker 2: that what you're saying?
- 34:14Speaker 14: No, No, because of the sexual assault, because of.
- 34:17Speaker 4: The sex assault.
- 34:18Speaker 2: You're saying that's how water could penetrate the because ladies,
- 34:21Speaker 2: think about it, When you get in the bathtub, you
- 34:23Speaker 2: do not get water in your vagina.
- 34:26Speaker 3: Same thing here.
- 34:27Speaker 2: But what Joe Scott is saying, I think is that
- 34:31Speaker 2: because she we believe, had been raped, her vagina is
- 34:35Speaker 2: now dilated and water could enter and destroy the evidence.
- 34:40Speaker 2: Oh dear lord, unless there's some evidence on her pants,
- 34:45Speaker 2: is that right?
- 34:46Speaker 14: Yes, it is in one other area here that might
- 34:48Speaker 14: be a bit more protected, believe it or not, might
- 34:51Speaker 14: be her fingernails. I think that with nail clippings in particular,
- 34:55Speaker 14: because that's kind of a hooded area. If everybody will
- 34:57Speaker 14: just look at their fingernails, if she scraped him, there
- 35:00Speaker 14: might be a possibilities that's still trapped beneath her fingernails.
- 35:04Speaker 14: That's kind of a long shot, but that's what I
- 35:06Speaker 14: would be thinking as well, Scott.
- 35:09Speaker 3: Why don't we have a CEOD yet?
- 35:11Speaker 14: I think that they're taking their time with it. You know,
- 35:14Speaker 14: one of the things I thought about, and you know
- 35:17Speaker 14: this is way off topic. I'm really and they have
- 35:21Speaker 14: to consider this. I wonder if she was placed in
- 35:23Speaker 14: there alive. I don't know that, and they're trying to
- 35:27Speaker 14: make a determination as to whether or not perhaps she
- 35:32Speaker 14: had taken on water in life and they would find
- 35:36Speaker 14: evidence of that in her lungs. Also, there's a test
- 35:39Speaker 14: that we do in the inner ear at autopsy that
- 35:43Speaker 14: we check for drowning. I think that part of that
- 35:47Speaker 14: is that's what's complicating this to this point.
- 35:51Speaker 4: And also the subitation a matter of removing the lungs
- 35:54Speaker 4: and weighing them to see if they're wet.
- 35:56Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah you can't and there's this standard empty.
- 36:02Speaker 14: Yeah it does. However, what they will want to do, Nancy.
- 36:06Speaker 14: Also with drowning to confirm it is we look for
- 36:10Speaker 14: what are called diatoms, and that's these little creatures that
- 36:14Speaker 14: exist in the water that you take on and you
- 36:17Speaker 14: have to look at them microscopically. So I'm wondering if
- 36:20Speaker 14: that might be part of it as well, NaNs.
- 36:22Speaker 2: I mean, whatever lives in the river water, whatever microscopic
- 36:28Speaker 2: organisms would now be.
- 36:29Speaker 3: In her lungs. Yeah, and that now what is the
- 36:31Speaker 3: inner ear test for drowning.
- 36:33Speaker 14: Well, that you would actually have water contained within the
- 36:37Speaker 14: inner ear, and so that's part of the drowning process
- 36:41Speaker 14: as well, And so that's something that we would want
- 36:43Speaker 14: to consider, and that they're looking at I can tell
- 36:46Speaker 14: you they're being very third with us.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Joe Scott jump in as we move along, But I
- 36:51Speaker 2: want to talk about this affidavit joining.
- 36:55Speaker 4: You right now.
- 36:55Speaker 2: High profile lawyer out of Livingston, Atlanta, Shadwick, former j
- 37:00Speaker 2: former prosecutor, legal analysts for Breitbart in Texas, Atlantashadwick dot
- 37:07Speaker 2: com LANDA thank.
- 37:07Speaker 3: You for being with us.
- 37:09Speaker 2: Have you read the Affidavid, I've got a few things
- 37:11Speaker 2: I want to ask you about.
- 37:12Speaker 4: This guy is so full of crap.
- 37:16Speaker 2: Because we hear police say this is where you're going
- 37:20Speaker 2: to come in Lee Reaber that they were able to
- 37:24Speaker 2: place a defendant with the victim. Now how through cell
- 37:30Speaker 2: phone data? We know that through other digital information and
- 37:38Speaker 2: through information from him. But I am telling you right
- 37:42Speaker 2: now he was lying through his teeth. The information they
- 37:47Speaker 2: likely got from him is from his cell phone. Because
- 37:51Speaker 2: triangulation doesn't lie, pings don't lie.
- 37:55Speaker 4: This guy lied through his teeth.
- 37:57Speaker 6: Well they've got him now. I mean he at the
- 38:00Speaker 6: bridge with cell phone data at the pens. I mean,
- 38:04Speaker 6: you can lie all you want to, but you know, unfortunately,
- 38:07Speaker 6: I mean, I mean unfortunately, he tied her to a
- 38:13Speaker 6: rock and that's where the body was found, they're going
- 38:16Speaker 6: to be able to ping his cell phone, get video
- 38:22Speaker 6: footage of that two thousand and three blue suburban and
- 38:28Speaker 6: placed him there. And now that vehicle is in the
- 38:32Speaker 6: custody of law enforcement authorities and you know they are
- 38:37Speaker 6: combing it.
- 38:38Speaker 4: You know, I want you to.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Look Lanta at paragraph five, Shell show through investigation, that's
- 38:45Speaker 2: the cop it's see. Affient investigations were able to determine
- 38:48Speaker 2: through cell phone data, video footage, and other forensic evidence
- 38:52Speaker 2: that McDougall lied about his whereabout guide and activities.
- 38:57Speaker 5: Yeah, they got him.
- 38:58Speaker 4: He flat out law all right.
- 39:00Speaker 2: And another thing, take a listen to our friend at
- 39:04Speaker 2: crime Online, Rachel Benia.
- 39:06Speaker 10: According to kat rk Don, Stephen McDougall was seen in
- 39:10Speaker 10: a Livingston mechanic shop near Highway fifty nine the day
- 39:13Speaker 10: Audrey went missing. Workers at the shop said McDougall was filthy,
- 39:17Speaker 10: covered in dirt and acting suspicious. He was there trying
- 39:20Speaker 10: to get a part for his blue Chevy Suburban.
- 39:23Speaker 2: So we know that he was completely filthy at mechanics shop.
- 39:28Speaker 2: What about that Lanta filthy with what because he had
- 39:31Speaker 2: been down there at the river bank getting rid of
- 39:33Speaker 2: a body.
- 39:34Speaker 6: Well, absolutely, that's evidence of where he was beyond you know,
- 39:39Speaker 6: having cell phone pigs and video footage.
- 39:43Speaker 4: Now they've got.
- 39:44Speaker 15: Him covered in a lake, river.
- 39:49Speaker 6: Mud and so saying he's stealthy. So the guy said smart,
- 39:54Speaker 6: he didn't even bother to clean up anything before he
- 39:57Speaker 6: goes out to get a part for a car.
- 40:13Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 40:16Speaker 3: I'm very curious about what we know.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Regarding that video footage and the cell phone pings. Bob
- 40:26Speaker 2: Price joining me, Associate editor, senior news contributor, Breitbart Texas. Bob,
- 40:32Speaker 2: do you know that the pings absolutely place him on
- 40:37Speaker 2: that bridge, because based on what Tim Miller is saying,
- 40:40Speaker 2: he didn't throw a body off a bridge, he went down.
- 40:43Speaker 11: On the river bank, right, and with the clothing found
- 40:47Speaker 11: on the river bank and not tangled up in the
- 40:49Speaker 11: grass along the river's edge, we know that he was
- 40:53Speaker 11: up on that bank and probably placed her or pushed
- 40:56Speaker 11: her into the water with that rock attached. Not only
- 41:00Speaker 11: the cell phone day to confirmed that though he took
- 41:02Speaker 11: the police to that location on Saturday and said that
- 41:06Speaker 11: that was one of the places they'd been. Now, he
- 41:08Speaker 11: lied about some other things, but he admitted that he
- 41:12Speaker 11: was at that location. The interesting thing about him.
- 41:15Speaker 4: Getting a part please, my dear sweet boy.
- 41:18Speaker 2: He only did that when they showed him, Hey, your
- 41:20Speaker 2: phone is paying right here?
- 41:22Speaker 11: Oh sure, probably probably so bad.
- 41:24Speaker 4: It volunteer, and he lied through his teeth man.
- 41:27Speaker 11: So he was at this car shop getting parts for
- 41:29Speaker 11: his car. He went on Facebook that day and started
- 41:33Speaker 11: selling off a bunch of his personal belongings. He was
- 41:35Speaker 11: planning to run at that point, and unfortunately the police
- 41:39Speaker 11: caught up with him before he had a chance to flee.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Lee Reber's joining us at a new Alexandria, Virginia mobile
- 41:46Speaker 2: device forensic expert and CEO of Oxygen Forensics, Inc. He
- 41:51Speaker 2: is the author off Listen to this Mobile Forensic Investigations,
- 41:57Speaker 2: and he's a host of a podcast which is great,
- 42:00Speaker 2: by the way, Forensic Happy Hour. Lee Reber, thank you
- 42:03Speaker 2: for being with us. Lee, Explain to me how much
- 42:08Speaker 2: can I rely on pings? How accurate are they? Can
- 42:12Speaker 2: they place him at that river bank? Hey, Tim Miller,
- 42:18Speaker 2: how close were Audrey's pants to the bridge? Were they
- 42:24Speaker 2: thrown from the bridge or would he have had to
- 42:26Speaker 2: go down to the river bank.
- 42:28Speaker 12: Got to go down to the river bank and it
- 42:31Speaker 12: was actually in the water, So it was saturated with water.
- 42:36Speaker 2: Oh, Joe Scott Morgan is not going to like that
- 42:38Speaker 2: because that could have gotten rid of any forensic evidence
- 42:40Speaker 2: linking the defendant back to her pants.
- 42:43Speaker 3: But that said, I'll go back to you in a second,
- 42:46Speaker 3: Joe Scott.
- 42:47Speaker 2: Lee Reeber explain to me how accurate is the pinging process?
- 42:52Speaker 16: Yeah, I think you know, if you look at the triangulation,
- 42:55Speaker 16: I mean that's it could be accurate. It could be
- 42:59Speaker 16: very accurate. What I think is more important is the
- 43:02Speaker 16: forensic evidence that's going to be from the device itself
- 43:05Speaker 16: when they go and do the collection of that, because
- 43:07Speaker 16: those are just GPS devices that could put you, i
- 43:11Speaker 16: mean a meter to the location. So I think that
- 43:14Speaker 16: utilizing obviously identifying being able to Kee's lying because it's
- 43:20Speaker 16: the location. But once they have that device in their
- 43:22Speaker 16: possession and do the processing of that, it's going to
- 43:25Speaker 16: show I mean, there might be photos, and the photos
- 43:28Speaker 16: have exit data, it can show location. They can have
- 43:32Speaker 16: just a simple from the data that's on the device,
- 43:37Speaker 16: any applications that we're utilized and showing GPS location. So
- 43:42Speaker 16: I think the data from the device itself will be
- 43:45Speaker 16: way more important than looking at, say the data from
- 43:49Speaker 16: the towers.
- 43:50Speaker 2: Great question, Bob Price joining us Breitbart, what year is
- 43:55Speaker 2: this Pervs Chevy suburban?
- 43:57Speaker 11: So the sheriff announced that they were looking for information
- 43:59Speaker 11: about this two thousand and three dark blue Chevy suburban
- 44:03Speaker 11: that he was seen driving in belongstick got it?
- 44:05Speaker 3: Two thousand and three?
- 44:07Speaker 2: Okay to Lee Reeber, mobile device forensic expert. Remember the
- 44:12Speaker 2: Alex Murdoch trial. How much we learn from his NAV system?
- 44:17Speaker 2: You can even tell Lee, and you and I talked
- 44:19Speaker 2: about this.
- 44:20Speaker 3: You were awesome.
- 44:22Speaker 4: When Murdach got in.
- 44:24Speaker 2: His car, his SUV, to leave the scene of the
- 44:27Speaker 2: double murder where he murdered his wife and son, the
- 44:31Speaker 2: NAV system will even show him opening the car door,
- 44:35Speaker 2: closing it, cranking up, putting the car in drive, driving,
- 44:41Speaker 2: screeching out of the crime scene, slow righting, driving like
- 44:46Speaker 2: a bat out of hell, slowing down. It showed when
- 44:51Speaker 2: he let his window down electronically, which I argue this
- 44:55Speaker 2: when he threw Maggie Murdoch's cell phone out the window,
- 44:58Speaker 2: let the window back up, and then high tailed it
- 45:01Speaker 2: to his mother's house twenty eight miles away. It showed
- 45:04Speaker 2: when he cranked back up, got back in and went
- 45:07Speaker 2: back to the crime scene and went, oh, dear Lord
- 45:10Speaker 2: in heaven, my wife and son or dad, let me
- 45:12Speaker 2: call nine one one. It was all a lie.
- 45:14Speaker 4: But those nav systems are amazing.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Is there such a na sism in a tooth NAV
- 45:18Speaker 2: system in a two thousand and three suburban?
- 45:20Speaker 16: Well, the vehicle itself. I mean in two thousand and four,
- 45:25Speaker 16: you know, or if you remember the on Star systems,
- 45:27Speaker 16: you know they had on Star systems. I know the
- 45:30Speaker 16: two thousand and four Chevy suburban has an on Star.
- 45:34Speaker 16: They all have computers with the nav systems.
- 45:37Speaker 4: Of the two thousand and three.
- 45:38Speaker 16: Yeah, even in two thousand and three, I'm just saying,
- 45:40Speaker 16: and you know, as old as the two thousand and
- 45:43Speaker 16: three we had on Star navigational systems that are running
- 45:47Speaker 16: on all those opening doors. It be treasure trove along
- 45:50Speaker 16: with the data from the mobile device busted.
- 45:55Speaker 17: For sure.
- 45:56Speaker 2: They better get on that subpoena to Chevy right now,
- 46:00Speaker 2: because remember at trial all that evidence. They had asked
- 46:04Speaker 2: for it long ahead of time, but they got it during.
- 46:07Speaker 3: The trial or right before the trial. The defense almost
- 46:10Speaker 3: got to keep it out.
- 46:12Speaker 2: Hey word to the wys in Texas Lanta, Andy Conye
- 46:15Speaker 2: passed this along. Get the nav system information. Now, by Price,
- 46:23Speaker 2: what can you tell me about text messages between Audrey's
- 46:27Speaker 2: bio mom and McDougall.
- 46:30Speaker 3: Apparently he was offering.
- 46:33Speaker 2: For the two of them to meet, stating that the
- 46:36Speaker 2: little girl wanted to see her mom and coincidentally offering
- 46:42Speaker 2: to meet at the spot by the river where the
- 46:47Speaker 2: little girl is found.
- 46:48Speaker 11: So I've seen some of those posted on social media,
- 46:52Speaker 11: and clearly he was trying to entice this mother down
- 46:56Speaker 11: to that river. Now that raises a question that about
- 46:59Speaker 11: when is the actual time of death for Audrey. Did
- 47:02Speaker 11: he do something to her the night before and was
- 47:05Speaker 11: trying to get the mom down there to do something
- 47:07Speaker 11: with her as well. You know, there's a lot of
- 47:09Speaker 11: things that could come into play here, but clearly he
- 47:12Speaker 11: was trying to meet up with her and using Audrey
- 47:15Speaker 11: as bait if you will, to get her down there
- 47:17Speaker 11: to meet with him.
- 47:19Speaker 2: We know from what we also, Bob Price kept stressing,
- 47:22Speaker 2: don't tell anybody. Quote as long as no one says
- 47:25Speaker 2: anything about it being set up, no one would even know,
- 47:28Speaker 2: and she Augie wouldn't say anything.
- 47:30Speaker 11: And that's the moo that this guy has. He grooms people,
- 47:34Speaker 11: family members, children. All of this We know from what
- 47:37Speaker 11: was said yesterday on the show, that he assaulted a
- 47:39Speaker 11: woman by groping her at a public party, a married
- 47:43Speaker 11: woman just months before this. We know that he was
- 47:47Speaker 11: at the birthday party of another eleven year old child
- 47:51Speaker 11: just months before this happened. He's hanging around all of
- 47:55Speaker 11: these types of people down there. The father has a
- 47:59Speaker 11: criminal conviction for assault causing bodily injury. You know, maybe
- 48:03Speaker 11: that's how they met somewhere.
- 48:05Speaker 3: But you're saying Audrey's father has that conviction.
- 48:07Speaker 2: Yes, so my speculation that they met in the penitentiary
- 48:10Speaker 2: could be accurate. What's another thing that's very disturbing about
- 48:14Speaker 2: these texts between Audrey's by a mom and the defendant
- 48:18Speaker 2: McDougall is he is saying, I will take her to
- 48:22Speaker 2: school and have you on the phone. I will take
- 48:25Speaker 2: her to school tomorrow. This is Wednesday night. The next
- 48:29Speaker 2: day is the day he was supposed to take her
- 48:30Speaker 2: to school, but whoops, she ended up.
- 48:32Speaker 3: Without her pants dead in the river.
- 48:35Speaker 2: And he's talking to the mom the following morning, the
- 48:39Speaker 2: day of the murders.
- 48:40Speaker 4: Good morning.
- 48:41Speaker 2: They're still planning to meet up with the girl, and
- 48:44Speaker 2: he says have you He says to her. Have you
- 48:48Speaker 2: seen Audrey? I dropped her off at the bus and
- 48:52Speaker 2: she didn't get on and hasn't gotten home.
- 48:56Speaker 3: So he's lying in these texts to the mother.
- 49:00Speaker 11: Bob, Yeah, if his lips are moving or his fingers
- 49:03Speaker 11: are touching a keypad, he's lying. And that's been consistent
- 49:07Speaker 11: throughout this whole thing, this whole area. The people in
- 49:11Speaker 11: the courthouse told me that there's thirteen sex offenders that
- 49:15Speaker 11: live within a very short radius of this house. This
- 49:19Speaker 11: father and another father are exposing their children to these
- 49:23Speaker 11: types of people on a regular basis and putting these
- 49:27Speaker 11: children in dangerous situation.
- 49:29Speaker 2: I got a question about a photo for you, Lana Shadwick.
- 49:34Speaker 2: Chris McDonough joining us from the Cold Case Foundation, former
- 49:38Speaker 2: homicide detective and host of the Interview Room on YouTube.
- 49:44Speaker 2: I've seen photos of the dad, according to Bob Price,
- 49:48Speaker 2: has a conviction for assault. Was it Aga Salt or
- 49:52Speaker 2: assault Bob.
- 49:53Speaker 11: The salt causing bodily injuring and misdemeanor misdemeanor.
- 49:56Speaker 3: Then they wouldn't have met in the pen maybe the
- 49:58Speaker 3: county jail.
- 50:00Speaker 2: But Atlanta and Chris, have you seen the photos of
- 50:06Speaker 2: Audrey's dad with the defendant.
- 50:09Speaker 17: Yes, I've seen the photo, Stancy.
- 50:11Speaker 2: Yes, the photo is of the defendant McDougal and Audrey's
- 50:17Speaker 2: dad with whom she lived. They've got their arms around
- 50:20Speaker 2: each other, all of his prison tattoos, his swaska, all that,
- 50:25Speaker 2: and plane view. They're hugging each other and they're shooting.
- 50:30Speaker 2: It looks like the ab Arian brother. But that said,
- 50:35Speaker 2: they're wearing matching bracelets.
- 50:37Speaker 4: What kind of romance do those two have?
- 50:39Speaker 17: You know, that photo is obviously pretty disturbing, Nancy, And
- 50:43Speaker 17: for this strip bag in order for the State of
- 50:47Speaker 17: Texas to quite frankly hang a millstone around his neck
- 50:51Speaker 17: and toss him into the seat, I think it's important
- 50:54Speaker 17: not only that they look at what we call suspectology
- 50:57Speaker 17: and kind of dissect what his past is, but I
- 51:00Speaker 17: think this case is going to revolve and end up,
- 51:04Speaker 17: you know, balancing out on whether or not that child
- 51:07Speaker 17: was alive when she was put into that water, because
- 51:10Speaker 17: that opens up a now an investigation into other potential
- 51:15Speaker 17: crime scene locations, the house, the car.
- 51:18Speaker 2: Why do you think at all handes on whether she's
- 51:20Speaker 2: dead or alive when she's done in the water, Because.
- 51:23Speaker 17: Dead now, because you have the like doctor Morgan was
- 51:26Speaker 17: talking about the chances of getting greater forensic and or
- 51:31Speaker 17: circumstantial evidence to put this guy away increase when you
- 51:37Speaker 17: have crime scenes that you can actually collect that type
- 51:40Speaker 17: of evidence. Like, let's just use the cigarette butts for
- 51:42Speaker 17: an example, that he bought at the gas station. Where
- 51:45Speaker 17: are those cigarette butts? If he bought cigarettes, where is
- 51:50Speaker 17: you know, his air filter? Is there evidence within that
- 51:53Speaker 17: air filter that placed him underneath that bridge through you know,
- 51:58Speaker 17: bringing in a botanist.
- 52:00Speaker 2: Well, we've got hold on, Please wait a minute, Chris McDonough.
- 52:06Speaker 2: We have his pings placing him at the location where
- 52:11Speaker 2: the child's body is found. Right, we have him being
- 52:16Speaker 2: the last one with.
- 52:17Speaker 17: Her, right, and that's all great evidence.
- 52:20Speaker 2: We have him stating he had her in the car.
- 52:24Speaker 2: So what did she do? Go tie a rock around
- 52:26Speaker 2: your waist and throw herself off the bridge?
- 52:28Speaker 17: No, but that's all great evidence.
- 52:29Speaker 3: No, there's evidence right now to convict him.
- 52:32Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? Totally agree? You think we can't
- 52:34Speaker 4: prove this case without DNA?
- 52:36Speaker 2: We can, But how would you like the DNA is
- 52:39Speaker 2: just the icing on the cake?
- 52:40Speaker 17: Auntie? How would we what I know? If I put
- 52:42Speaker 17: a package in front of you in court, you would
- 52:45Speaker 17: shred this guy. But how would you love to find
- 52:48Speaker 17: semen in his truck where maybe that's where the sexual
- 52:52Speaker 17: assault took place.
- 52:54Speaker 4: And maybe we find her DNA or on his clothing.
- 52:58Speaker 4: Have you thought of it?
- 52:59Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe Scott, we stopped at the body.
- 53:04Speaker 4: What about his clothing?
- 53:07Speaker 2: Well, you don't think there's any fibers from her on
- 53:11Speaker 2: his clothing? No epithilial cells, no blood, no nothing, hair, hair, anything?
- 53:19Speaker 4: What about it? Joe Scott helped me out.
- 53:21Speaker 14: Brother, It's possible that you could. Here's the problem, as
- 53:25Speaker 14: admitted earlier, you were talking. One of the guests had
- 53:29Speaker 14: mentioned how filthy he was and encrusted with all of
- 53:32Speaker 14: the s dirt.
- 53:34Speaker 4: But yet he was clean at the gas station.
- 53:36Speaker 3: Interesting, go ahead.
- 53:38Speaker 14: So we don't know what the status of the clothing are.
- 53:41Speaker 14: Is it possible that they could collect something from her,
- 53:45Speaker 14: from this precious little angel that may have made its
- 53:47Speaker 14: way onto him, Yes, that's within the realm of possibility,
- 53:51Speaker 14: But we don't know how much due care was taken
- 53:54Speaker 14: with us clothing, if in fact they have collected those
- 53:56Speaker 14: clothing from him or from wherever he was dombed solid
- 54:00Speaker 14: at the top.
- 54:01Speaker 4: Got something?
- 54:02Speaker 2: What about the rope, the rope. I mean, Lana Shadwick,
- 54:06Speaker 2: you're the high profile lawyer. Well, even a trash bag
- 54:10Speaker 2: can be traced back to the lot, the group of
- 54:15Speaker 2: trash bags that were created, manufactured at what plant, in
- 54:21Speaker 2: what city, on what day, and whether it was the
- 54:24Speaker 2: same thing with car paint. Yes, you think they can't
- 54:28Speaker 2: do the same thing on rope. You think they can't
- 54:30Speaker 2: match up the rope and you know he cut it.
- 54:34Speaker 2: You think that somebody like Joe Scott Morgan can't take
- 54:37Speaker 2: the one end of the rope that was tied around
- 54:39Speaker 2: her body and the other end of the rope that
- 54:41Speaker 2: was in his car. They already said it's the same
- 54:44Speaker 2: rope and put it together and see forensically that they
- 54:48Speaker 2: match perfectly.
- 54:50Speaker 6: I think he can.
- 54:51Speaker 7: He can.
- 54:52Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just a JD.
- 54:53Speaker 2: I'm not a crime lab scientist, but even I can
- 54:56Speaker 2: figure that out.
- 54:57Speaker 14: Nancy's here's another beauty part to the rope depended upon
- 55:01Speaker 14: how well they treated it and they removed it from
- 55:04Speaker 14: her body. Did you know that if she was tied
- 55:08Speaker 14: up with that rope anti mortem prior to death, there's
- 55:13Speaker 14: going to be evidence of that that you would not
- 55:16Speaker 14: necessarily see with a post mortem tie up, So she's
- 55:19Speaker 14: got an upbraided area that's got any associated hemorrhage with
- 55:22Speaker 14: it or anything that's an indication that she may have
- 55:24Speaker 14: been alive when she was tied up and secured at
- 55:27Speaker 14: that point.
- 55:28Speaker 2: I got another idea for you, Jackie can hold up
- 55:30Speaker 2: your note. I can't take credit. It's Jackie's something about
- 55:33Speaker 2: the fact that he was clean at the gas station
- 55:37Speaker 2: after he was filthy at the mechanics. Depending on which
- 55:42Speaker 2: was first the shacken or the egg, does that mean
- 55:47Speaker 2: he then disposed of the body and was the body in.
- 55:50Speaker 3: The truck for disposal.
- 55:52Speaker 2: I find it really hard to believe it's top at
- 55:53Speaker 2: a gas station with a dead body in the car.
- 55:56Speaker 2: That said that means something, Lena Shadwick, I don't know
- 56:00Speaker 2: what it means yet.
- 56:02Speaker 4: Well, but I will find out what.
- 56:03Speaker 6: It means in circumstantial.
- 56:06Speaker 15: Evidence and direct evidence of him being by the river,
- 56:11Speaker 15: by the lake, beyond the cell phone data and any
- 56:13Speaker 15: video footage and that sort of thing. You've got him
- 56:16Speaker 15: placed at a station where he's all clean in the video,
- 56:21Speaker 15: and then he's.
- 56:22Speaker 2: Tell me something I don't know, tell me something. Can
- 56:25Speaker 2: there be neglect charges or felony neglect charges neglect that
- 56:32Speaker 2: ends in death filed against the father and plays. Don't
- 56:36Speaker 2: everybody start screaming at me, you're blaming the victim.
- 56:39Speaker 4: I am a christ Okay, but I know this girl
- 56:41Speaker 4: is dead.
- 56:42Speaker 6: Injury to a child by negligence orough missions are fellony
- 56:46Speaker 6: one in the state of Texas.
- 56:49Speaker 2: So you will this fit that if the dad had
- 56:52Speaker 2: knowledge of his record, could he be charged with felony
- 56:57Speaker 2: the neglect ending in death on a child?
- 56:59Speaker 5: Certainly if knowledge?
- 57:01Speaker 4: Okay, but your father have knowledge?
- 57:04Speaker 6: They got a romance going on, that's right, got the
- 57:09Speaker 6: same headbands on the same bracelet, the same headbands.
- 57:13Speaker 2: Okay, Andy Cohn and a nutshell. You know how I
- 57:17Speaker 2: hate talking about legislation because of the Audrey case.
- 57:21Speaker 3: What do you hope to a help.
- 57:23Speaker 8: That we do end up bringing focus on offenders like mcdougle,
- 57:27Speaker 8: who somehow escaped from having the label of sex offender
- 57:31Speaker 8: on him. Maybe if he had to register back when
- 57:35Speaker 8: he committed the offense of enticing a child in decency
- 57:38Speaker 8: with a child, when he evidently was trying to sexually
- 57:41Speaker 8: assault a ten year old girl years ago, maybe that
- 57:45Speaker 8: would have raised alarm bells at this time. Maybe the
- 57:48Speaker 8: community would have known more about mcdoogle. Who knows, maybe
- 57:53Speaker 8: the parents, I don't know, but at least we would
- 57:55Speaker 8: have known about his criminal history and his propensity to
- 58:00Speaker 8: do sexual deviant acts around young girls. So what I
- 58:05Speaker 8: hope to do next session is to take this case,
- 58:09Speaker 8: make it a.
- 58:09Speaker 16: Catalyst for game.
- 58:10Speaker 8: I set a nuts shell, catalyst for change, and add
- 58:14Speaker 8: the offense.
- 58:15Speaker 4: You know what I hate, Andy Kahn?
- 58:18Speaker 3: You know what I hate?
- 58:20Speaker 2: Would a could a should have? Yes, I want you
- 58:25Speaker 2: to champion that and I want it to pass. Maybe
- 58:28Speaker 2: another little girl will be saved. Would a could a
- 58:32Speaker 2: should have? Can't bring Audrey cunning hand back.
- 58:37Speaker 8: Multiple opportunities were failed.
- 58:39Speaker 4: As thrill, We wait.
- 58:42Speaker 3: As justice unfolds. Goodbye,