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BOMBSHELL IN CASE OF MISSING TEEN GIRL DACARA AFTER CAR FOUND ABANDONED · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A beautiful young teen girl, Deacara, missing,
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  Speaker 1: her car found abandoned. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This
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  Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. How does a teen girl nineteen years old
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  Speaker 1: just disappear into thin air? I want you to look
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  Speaker 1: at this video. This video is obtained from a neighbor's
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  Speaker 1: surveillance like a ringe cam. Take a look at this
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  Speaker 1: surveillance footage shows Deacara parking her car on Jasmine Terrace, Hiasville. Now,
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  Speaker 1: her parents are convinced this is Jacara walking away and
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  Speaker 1: if you notice, if we get there, you go see
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  Speaker 1: the lights on her vehicle blank. She turns and locks
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  Speaker 1: her car. Now she also parks directly in front of
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  Speaker 1: a fire hydrant clearly marked do not park here. Then
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  Speaker 1: we see her walking out of the frame. She is
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  Speaker 1: by herself. She is not drunk, stumbling on drugs. She's
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  Speaker 1: walking purposely forward, even thinking to turn back and with
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  Speaker 1: her keyfob lock her vehicle. Okay, take a good long,
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  Speaker 1: hard look at this, joining me and all Star panel.
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  Speaker 1: But first, how did the whole thing start? Listen?
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  Speaker 2: Dakara Thompson is the nineteen year old daughter of Carmen
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  Speaker 2: and Daniel Thompson. The youngest of five siblings. Dakara is
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  Speaker 2: living with her father for the summer at his home
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  Speaker 2: in Lanta, Maryland. Around ten pm August twenty second, Nakara
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  Speaker 2: tells her dad she's going to run out for a bit,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll return shortly. Daniel calls Dakara at eleven fifty
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  Speaker 2: but gets no response, so he texts her, telling her.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to bed.
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  Speaker 2: She immediately texted back, I got gas and I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: I should be back soon.
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  Speaker 1: I love you too, good night. Straight out to Brian Fitzgibbons.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us Director Operations USPA Nationwide Security, he leads a
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  Speaker 1: team of investigators specializing and locating missing people at uspasecurity
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  Speaker 1: dot Com. Brian, thank you for being with us. I
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  Speaker 1: find that extremely probative, the fact that she's with dad.
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  Speaker 1: That is not unusual. She's spending the summer there. Parents
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  Speaker 1: are split in Atlanta, Maryland. First, I want to find
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  Speaker 1: out which I'll get from Dave mac the crime rate
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  Speaker 1: there and the crime rate in the area where her
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  Speaker 1: car's found. But it's just ten pm. She's nineteen years old, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have to be at school the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: so she tells dad she's going to run out. Then
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  Speaker 1: he calls her eleven to fifty pm and they text.
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  Speaker 1: She takes back immediately. I got gas and I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: I should be back soon. I love you too, good night.
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  Speaker 1: That's very probative to me, Brian. What do you make
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly you take this timeline, Nancy, and then you
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  Speaker 3: look at that surveillance video. First of all, you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: it in the intro that she was parked in front
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  Speaker 3: of a fire hydrant. One thing that wasn't mentioned is
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  Speaker 3: she was going the wrong direction of travel, all right,
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  Speaker 3: so she's parked in the opposite direction. This leads me
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  Speaker 3: to believe that she wasn't planning to be there long, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so that she could have been making a quick stop
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  Speaker 3: to do something or see someone prior to heading back
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  Speaker 3: to Lanham, which is only ten fifteen miles down the road.
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  Speaker 1: How often has someone parked in front of a fire hydrant,
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  Speaker 1: or on a yellow curve or on a ten minute
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  Speaker 1: parking only when you think, hey, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to run in and run out. I'll be back
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  Speaker 1: before they can tow my car. Maybe even put on
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  Speaker 1: your emergency flashers to suggest to the meter maid, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. You're right, that is significant, Brian Fitzgibbons.
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  Speaker 1: She clearly knows what she's doing and she parks there.
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  Speaker 1: Her parents agree that this was what they thought a
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  Speaker 1: quick eron and she would be right back. So you
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  Speaker 1: you ascertained all that from the way she parked, Brian, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at this to add, you know, to the
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  Speaker 3: narrative that in questions that we want answered that this
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  Speaker 3: looks like somebody who is not planning to stay there
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. Right, If you're parked in that manner,
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  Speaker 3: it definitely makes me believe that.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, if you know or think you know anything about
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  Speaker 1: this missing teen girl to Kara, please dial Prince George's
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  Speaker 1: County PD three zero one seven seven two eight nine
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  Speaker 1: seven zero repeat three zero one seven seven two eight
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  Speaker 1: nine seven zero. As we say in a law time
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  Speaker 1: is of the essence straight out to doctor Bethany Marshall
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  Speaker 1: joining us renow psycho analyst, joining us out of LA,
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  Speaker 1: author of deal Breaker. You can see her now on
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  Speaker 1: Peacock and find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany. I want to analyze very quickly before we
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  Speaker 1: move forward with more facts that I believe are pertinent
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  Speaker 1: what she said in her text to dad. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: she tells him she's going out. If this is not
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  Speaker 1: her sneaking out the window or surreptitiously sneaking out the
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  Speaker 1: front door in her sock so it as not to
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  Speaker 1: make a sound, and leaving with the lights off so
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know she's leaving. Around ten o'clock, she says, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to run out. I'll be right back. Then
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  Speaker 1: he calls her. About an hour and a half later,
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  Speaker 1: she didn't pick up. He texts and says, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bed. She takes back immediately, and it sounds like her.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've had those cases, like in Gabby Patito
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  Speaker 1: where Brian laundry. He's killed her, he's murdered her. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's driving her forward transit back across the country, and
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  Speaker 1: he's responding to her family's text. But he screws up.
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  Speaker 1: He refers to Grandpa by his full name, Like if
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  Speaker 1: I texted my sister and mentioned Daddy my dad, and
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  Speaker 1: she wrote writes back Yes. Walter Malcolm Gray Sr. Loved
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  Speaker 1: decaf at night. Okay, that would be wrong. He blew it,
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  Speaker 1: he mistexted. But this text sounds like her and dad
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  Speaker 1: believes it hurt her. And also she sounds upbeat. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got a gas, I'm out. I'll be back soon.
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  Speaker 1: I love you too, good night. Okay, analyze it. Help me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grasping at straws bethany.
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  Speaker 4: So the response to her dad suggests that she's oriented
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  Speaker 4: to space and time. In other words, she's not high,
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  Speaker 4: she's not drinking, nothing like that. The fact that her
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  Speaker 4: father was not alarmed until an hour and a half later,
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  Speaker 4: or perhaps not alarmed at all, just reached out to
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  Speaker 4: see where she was, suggests that this behavior wasn't unusual.
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  Speaker 4: Nineteen year olds are social, Nancy, so she could have
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  Speaker 4: been visiting friends, you know, sitting at a cafe, something
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 1: But also I would want to know.
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  Speaker 4: What is on that phone, you know, was she texting friends,
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  Speaker 4: did she visit?
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  Speaker 1: Did she visit somebody?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Her whereabouts in the hour and a half before her
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  Speaker 4: father reached out are very important, as her friends would
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  Speaker 4: also know. You know, nineteen year olds talked to their friends,
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  Speaker 4: So did she talk to anybody about where she was
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  Speaker 4: going and who she was seeing after she went to
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  Speaker 4: the gas station.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter. Have you seen the
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  Speaker 1: other women that have gone missing in the last weeks
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  Speaker 1: in the same jurisdiction, Erica Perry and Santia Desir They
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  Speaker 1: look a lot like her, and they're all missing.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't the last days, Nancy. We're not talking weeks here.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking the last days. These women are going missing.
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  Speaker 2: There's no consistency here other than the fact that they were.
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  Speaker 5: In one case, Erica.
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  Speaker 2: Was out walking at one in the afternoon, gone last
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  Speaker 2: time she's seen.
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  Speaker 5: All three of women look like they could be sisters.
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  Speaker 5: When you look at those pictures right there.
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  Speaker 2: They look like their sisters and all are now missing
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  Speaker 2: from Prince George's County, America.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hold that photo. Hold the photo, Bryan Fitzgibbons.
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  Speaker 1: Look how precious, Look how cute they are, and importantly,
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  Speaker 1: look at the similarities. Why do I care Because in
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  Speaker 1: my experience of having investigated and tried together over ten thousand,
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  Speaker 1: yes ten thousand, after over ten years trying cases in
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  Speaker 1: intercity Atlanta of cases, perps have a type and I
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  Speaker 1: hate to boil it down to a word, a type
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  Speaker 1: the people. Ted Bundy initially picked out many of his victims.
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  Speaker 1: All slight, thin, white females, long dark hair, typically part
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  Speaker 1: of in the middle, brown eyes. They all look alike,
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  Speaker 1: They all look similar. Look at the similarities in these
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  Speaker 1: three young girls. You cannot get away from it.
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  Speaker 3: Brian, shocking shocking similarities, Nancy, And what an anomaly to
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  Speaker 3: say that we have these three women missing within ten
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  Speaker 3: days of one another, in the same county, in the
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  Speaker 3: same jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 1: This is a major anomaly. What do you mean by
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  Speaker 1: major anomaly? Speak English Man. We're not all with USPA
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  Speaker 1: nationwide security. Okay, I act like you're talking to a
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  Speaker 1: person who's very fortunate. I like you and I that
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  Speaker 1: have never been exposed to violent Okay, this is out
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 3: Is another way to say it, that this is not
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  Speaker 3: a pattern you would expect, right, that this is something
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  Speaker 3: that you do not see often. Three women, similar descriptions
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  Speaker 3: from the same area going missing within ten days of
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  Speaker 3: one another, and that none of them have turned up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, todave mac, I want to talk about the area.
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  Speaker 1: We're saying three women similar in appearance go missing, all
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  Speaker 1: unsolved in the same county. We are talking about Prince
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  Speaker 1: George's county. What if anything, do we know about Prince
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  Speaker 1: George's county? And while hold on day, Matt, while you
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  Speaker 1: prepare that answer, I want to look at the video
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  Speaker 1: one more time. Another thing I'd want to know, and
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  Speaker 1: this is very significant. Randolph Rice is joining me from Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: Former prosecutor, defense attorney, civil attorney at Rice Mirtha Sourus.
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  Speaker 1: You can find them him at Rice LAWMD dot com
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  Speaker 1: or Randolph. When I look at similar transactions when I'm
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  Speaker 1: preparing a case for trial, and the defense attorney starts
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  Speaker 1: gnashing his teeth and switching his tail when I say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got eight similar transactions I want to bring in
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  Speaker 1: his evidence. You have to look to see are the
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  Speaker 1: victims similar? Are they similar in appearance? Are they similar
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  Speaker 1: in age? For instance, did they all go to the
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  Speaker 1: same school or were they all in the same class.
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  Speaker 1: Did they all work at the same spot or in
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  Speaker 1: the same area. One works at the library, one works
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  Speaker 1: at the Starbucks across from the library. You look at that,
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  Speaker 1: You look at the time of day or night. Did
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  Speaker 1: they go missing. You look at whether boyfriends were involved.
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  Speaker 1: You look at how they went missing. Were they all
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  Speaker 1: driving their own car? And you look at the area.
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  Speaker 1: Did they all disappear within three or four square blocks?
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  Speaker 1: It matters, That's what I'm talking about in the more
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  Speaker 1: points of similarity. Why do I care because it points
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  Speaker 1: to one per Nancy?
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  Speaker 6: Dare I say, we might have a serial kidnapper in
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  Speaker 6: that county?
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  Speaker 1: And you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 6: You know these consistencies, these are the things that prosecutors
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  Speaker 6: like you and I look for try to develop the
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  Speaker 6: pace against the person who has potentially taken these three women.
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  Speaker 6: So you're right, is it the race, is it the location?
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  Speaker 6: Is it a similar person they're meeting up with? And
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  Speaker 6: that's kind of what my theory is here, is that
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  Speaker 6: there is somebody that she is meeting, whether it be
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  Speaker 6: a potential boyfriend or a love interest or dare I say,
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  Speaker 6: was this something that she was out at one thirty
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  Speaker 6: in the morning, maybe meeting up with somebody that was
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  Speaker 6: a bit nefarious, something like a drug transaction, which I
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  Speaker 6: hope that's not the case.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hold on, stop everything, Rice, don't start with me.
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  Speaker 1: This young girl has no history. She doesn't even have
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  Speaker 1: a juvenile history, which is really hard to find out. No,
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  Speaker 1: juvenile history, no current history, no drug problem, know nothing.
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  Speaker 1: She's not out meeting a dope deal or what all
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  Speaker 1: three women are out meeting the same dope dealer. Just
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  Speaker 1: stop right there, Okay, do not drag the victim through
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  Speaker 1: the mud. We don't know anything like that.
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  Speaker 6: I understand, Nancy, But I just I think that there
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  Speaker 6: are obviously some more of this story, that there's possibly
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  Speaker 6: something going on. Like my mother always said, nothing good
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  Speaker 6: happens after midnight, Well this is after midnight, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: worried that something bad happened after midnight.
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  Speaker 1: You totally stole that from nearly every single closing argument
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  Speaker 1: I've ever given. And now you're saying you got it
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  Speaker 1: from your mother. All right, fine, you got it from
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  Speaker 1: your mother. That said, I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: area very quickly, and I agree with almost everything Randolph
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  Speaker 1: ri said that on trial. Lawyer, former felony prosecutor now
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  Speaker 1: defense and civil Dave mac tell me about this Prince
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  Speaker 1: George's county.
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  Speaker 2: Right, like every other county in America, it's pretty spread out, Nancy.
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  Speaker 5: And when you look at the area here we're.
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  Speaker 2: Looking at where Dakara was living with her dad is
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  Speaker 2: in Lanham in Prince George's county, Lanam has a very
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  Speaker 2: average crime rate, actually a.
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  Speaker 5: Little bit lower than in other areas.
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  Speaker 2: However, Hyattsville, Maryland, Okay, where we've got Dakara going missing,
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  Speaker 2: where we have Erica Green going missing, that it's almost
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  Speaker 2: double the crime rate in Hyattsville against the national average.
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  Speaker 2: So you have Lantam, Maryland, where Dakara is living with
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  Speaker 2: her dad, minimal crime rate or average. However, nine miles
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  Speaker 2: away in Hyattsville, you've got almost double the crime rate.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we have all three of these women
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  Speaker 2: now going missing from this area around Hyattsville and Riverdale.
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  Speaker 5: Those you know, they bought up against one another.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, Prince George's county, but in the community of
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  Speaker 2: Hyattsville and Riverdale where we've got our women going missing,
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  Speaker 2: much higher than the national average.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Ryan has gibbons. Let's analyze what he just said.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got the same perp snatching these women. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, if they're being lured, the crime rate area
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  Speaker 1: of the area doesn't matter. But see what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because it's not like random crime. They go out in
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  Speaker 1: a high crime rate area and they get mugged and
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  Speaker 1: killed or kidnapped, all right, it's high crime. But if
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  Speaker 1: it's the same purp, go with me on this. If
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  Speaker 1: it's the same perp that is alluring them in some way,
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  Speaker 1: he could be doing that from anywhere in Prince George,
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  Speaker 1: see what I mean. So crime rate does matter if
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  Speaker 1: it's not the same perp. If it is the same perp,
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  Speaker 1: then it's not as relevant. I mean, we cannot discount it. Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the relevant common connection is where the last known
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  Speaker 3: location of all three of these women was in Hyattsville. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So that's going to immediately and we know a general
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  Speaker 3: time for each of them, the date and a general
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  Speaker 3: time for each of them, and in the car is case,
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  Speaker 3: we have a very specific time. So that's going to
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  Speaker 3: lead investigators to be able to analyze traffic cam, license
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  Speaker 3: plate readers, any security footage around the last known locations
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  Speaker 3: of all three women.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness, or look, guys, look, look look at her.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to a dance or something. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: she's so beautiful. Where is Decara? Listen?
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  Speaker 7: Daniel Thompson wakes up around ten am on August twenty
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  Speaker 7: third and doesn't see his daughter or her car parked outside,
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  Speaker 7: calling and texting fails to get an answer or reply,
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  Speaker 7: so Daniel calls to Kara's mother, Carmen. She hasn't heard
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  Speaker 7: from Decara, so she immediately begins tracking Deacara's iPhone. Her
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  Speaker 7: current location was off, but it did show her last
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  Speaker 7: known location near the intersection of Jasmine Terrace and Riggs Road.
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  Speaker 1: In the last hours niece about Deacara, Dave mac what
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  Speaker 1: have you learned? Nancy?
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  Speaker 2: Police have been playing the investigation close to the vest,
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  Speaker 2: but in a shocking turn of events, police now say
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  Speaker 2: they were able to find additional surveillance video from the
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  Speaker 2: night Dakara Thompson parked her car in front of a
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  Speaker 2: fire hydrant facing the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 5: In this new video, it shows what.
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  Speaker 2: Happened after da Kara walks past the post office receptacle
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  Speaker 2: that was sitting there and it reveals another vehicle, a
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  Speaker 2: black SUV and the driver inside begins talking to Dakara. Now,
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  Speaker 2: something we've learned about Dakara and Nancy is that she's
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  Speaker 2: not a great driver, and considering the time of night
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  Speaker 2: it's like one point thirty in the morning when she
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  Speaker 2: parks her car, and how her car has parked in
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  Speaker 2: front of a fire hydrant. The wrong direction and you
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  Speaker 2: can tell it's parked several feet off the curb. Is
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  Speaker 2: it possible that she was confused and maybe even lost,
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  Speaker 2: and she's talking to the man in the black suv
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  Speaker 2: for just a moment and then gets in the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: He somehow can this is her to get in. Investigators
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  Speaker 2: are able to track that vehicle. This is the big
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  Speaker 2: issue here. Investigators are able to track that black suv
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  Speaker 2: to a home in the twelve thousand block of Cambridge
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  Speaker 2: Drive in Bowie, Maryland, more than twenty five miles away
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  Speaker 2: from where she parked her car in Hyattsville.
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  Speaker 1: Dave mac do we know a cod Nancy?
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  Speaker 2: A search warrant was served early today at the home
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  Speaker 2: on Cambridge Drive in Bowie, Maryland. In particular, they searched
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  Speaker 2: the room where Hugo Hernandez Mendez lives. Evidence indicates Dakara
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  Speaker 2: was murdered in that room, then her body was moved
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  Speaker 2: to the location where it was found. No cause of
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  Speaker 2: death has been released at this time.
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  Speaker 1: Dave may, I don't understand how her body is found
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  Speaker 1: twenty miles away, at least twenty miles away from her car.
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  Speaker 2: Still a lot of unanswered questions at this point. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know why. Suspect Hugo Hernandez Mendez was in Hyattsville,
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  Speaker 2: Maryland at the time he came in contact with Takara, However,
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  Speaker 2: does get in his suv.
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  Speaker 1: He takes her back to his room in.
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  Speaker 2: Bowie, where he allegedly kills her, and then drives another
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  Speaker 2: twenty miles from Bowie to where he dumps her body
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  Speaker 2: near Annapolis, Maryland. Dave matt who is the purp The
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  Speaker 2: suspect is Hugo Hernandez Mendez. He's thirty five years old
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: in the United States illegally. Here's the kicker. Hernandez Mendez
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: was arrested back in April on a dui charge, but
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: he was released pending his trial and appearance in court.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Now he's sitting in jail charged with first and second
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: degree murder. He is in custody and being held without bond.
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  Speaker 8: On September fifth, detectives from the Prince George's County Police
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: Department's Homicide Division developed probable cause to present charges for
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: the murder of Dakar Thompson. This morning, criminal charges were
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: issued for first degree and second degree.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Murder WUSA nine using to find my iPhone app Daniel
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to Thomson arrives at Jasmine Terrace and Riggs Road in
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Hyattsville and finds Dacara's twenty thirteen white Ford Edge parked
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: going the wrong direction in front of a fire hydrant,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: but Dakara is nowhere around. Daniel Thompson calls police. Inside
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the car, they find Dakara's purse with sixty dollars cash,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: her driver's license, debit cards, bank cards, and house keys.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: On September fourth, several search warrants were obtained and executed
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: pertaining to this case, which led detectives to obtain enough
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: probable cause to take Hugo ren Hernandez Mendez into custody
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: and present him to the Core Commissioner for the murder
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: of Dakar.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Thompson WSA nine Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. Back to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the facts of the case. Doctor Kendall Crowns is joining
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: US renowned medical examiner chief Medical Examiner in Terrance County.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: That's fort Worth. He is an esteemed lecturer at the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, and he's a starvenue
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: hit podcast Mayhem in the Morgue. All that's well and good,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: but what I care about is the literally thousands and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: thousands of autopsies and investigations he has performed, Doctor Kimdall Crowns.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: This is why I say I believe she was taken
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in a car or she's in a structure, because if
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: they are doing the search, as I believe that they are,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: cadaver dogs and scent dogs would have been brought out.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: A cadaver dog will hit on dead tissue, dead human tissue.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: How long would tissue a body? How long would it
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: take until a cadaver dog would sense it? When does
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that body start decomposing? There's really not a nice way
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to put this. When does the body begin to smell?
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: So bodies start decomposing the moment after they die, your
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: body starts breaking down. The minute your part stops ceasing,
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: you start breaking down. But what you're talking about is
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: when it gets to the moderate stage of decomposition, when
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: the body begins to bloat and gases begin to form,
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: and you start getting the smell of death, which people
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: like to talk about. So that would be at about
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: two days two to three days ish, depending on the weather.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: If it's hot outside of it'll be quicker, if it's
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: cold outside it'd be slower. But on average, under perfect circumstances,
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: about two to three days, you'll start seeing the bloat,
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: the green discoloration, and you'll start seeing the or you
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: start smelling the gases that are formed. That's usually when
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: the vultures start circling.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Dodgic Keittle Crowns. I'm going to ignore the vulture imagery
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and move forward with a scientific discussion of bloat. Why
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: does the body bloat? And is that when the body
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: begins to smell.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: So Bloating is the swelling of the body from the
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: decompositional gases produced by the bacteria in your body, breaking
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: you down into like a liquid form basically, and the
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: bloating that occurs. It causes the body to diffusely swell
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: the face, the breast, the abdomen, the genitalia, and that
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: is from the gas that is being formed. And the
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: gas being formed is what causes the smell.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, You've dealt with this literally thousands of times.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Are you saying that after two to three days, dogs
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: would absolutely cadaver dogs would absolutely have hit on her
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: if she were lying out in the open.
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: I would think so, yes.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns. Would it matter the cod cause of death?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Would her body be more quickly findable by cadaver dogs
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: if she had been shot versus asphyxiated versus ligature strangling
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: versus stabbed The manner the cause of death cause of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: death does that in any way enhance the smell for
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: dogs to find.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: So, decomposition rates can be affected by the manner or
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: the cause of which the individual died. In times when
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: they're beaten or strangled, or where there's a large amount
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: of like physical activity associated with the death, that will
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: actually increase the rate of decomposition and cause the individual
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: to decompose faster. So, yes, it matters if they're beaten
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: or strangled, but if they're shot or stabbed it may
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: not matter. Also, if they're using some sort of drug
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: like cocaine or methamphetamine, that can also increase the rate
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: of decomposition and make the smell occur quicker.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: You see where I'm going with this. Brian has givens
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: USPA nationwide security. That's why I'm saying she is not
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: lying out in a forested area or and a dump
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: or behind a Dixie dumpster. She hasn't been a throne
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: in a trash bag on the street behind one of
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: those buildings we were looking out of that video. Let's
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: take a look at the video again. Because dogs would
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: have found her immediately. They haven't. That tells me she
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: may have been taken in a vehicle or she's in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a structure. What do you think?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: And adding to your point, you know, this area that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: she was last seen is densely populated, number of large
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: apartment complexes nearby. If she were somewhere laying in that area,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: hidden in that area, she would have been discovered pretty quickly.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Once analyze this, Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter, the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: dad uses they find my iPhone app He arrives at
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Jasmine Terrace and rigs. Okay, important note right here the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: dad when he realizes he wakes up so she hasn't
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: responded to text and calls, he immediately calls nine one one.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: You know what that tells me that she hold on
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: let me go to Bethany on this, Dave, hold on Bethany.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: That tells me that this was not an every night occurrence,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: because if she routinely didn't show up the next morning,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't call police. He go, eh, she slept out again.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Not He immediately calls police. That tells me something, Bethany,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: she never stays out all night. This is extremely unusual
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: behavior for her. So something did happen to her the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: night before. That's what it tells me. Back to Dave
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Mac he uses find my iPhone app and we've seen
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that in a lot of other cases. And he gets
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to Jasmine Terrace in Riggs Road, that's Height School. He
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: finds her white forward edged part as pointed out earlier
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: by Fitzgibbons, wrong direction in front of a fire hydrant.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: He immediately calls police. In the car, they find, well,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you tell me what did they find in Ducara's car, Nancy.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: They found her purse with sixty dollars cash in it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: They found her car keys. They didn't find her keep bob,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: but we see when she's walking away it looks like
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: she's using the key bob to block it. They found
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: everything except her phone and again the key bob, everything
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: else left in the car and by the way it's
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: left on top of the seat. It was like she
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: got out but was planning to come right back, parked
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: in front of that fire hydrant going the wrong way.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Not known as a great driver.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: But it seems odd that she would leave all of
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: those things sitting right there, like she was just hopping
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: out for a minute. And when she but she never
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: comes back. That's why God love her. Her mother, Her mother Carmen,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: actually where they found the vehicle. She stayed there. She
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: stayed there waiting to see if her daughter would come
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: back for forty eight hours. Yet Nancy, for forty eight hours.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: This mother, Carmen, you see the picture of her right there.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: She waited for forty eight hours in that spot, praying,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: hoping her daughter would come back looking for her car.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You know, Dave Matt Mahart's already breaking, But to think
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of her mother refusing to leave the car's car, just
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: standing there waiting, pace, crying, begging, praying, waiting to see
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: her daughter walk around the corner of one of those
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: apartment complexes, had come back to Mom. To Randolph Rice
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: joining us, former prosecutor, current defense attorney and civil lawyer,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: this is important. Why do I care if she was
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: going to come straight back to the car. She wasn't
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: planning on leaving the jurisdiction. She wasn't going on a trip,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: She wasn't going away for the weekend, because nobody in
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: their right mind, and she was texting and speaking coherently
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and joyfully up until she disappeared. Nobody in the right
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: mind would leave money, their pocketbook, driver's license, debit cards,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: bank cars, and house keys on the seat. No, that
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: would not happen. This is telling us something. What about it, Randolph, Well.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: What this also tells us is this is not a
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: robbery or a theft. So the fact that those items
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: are still in our car or whatever happened the next step,
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: whatever we see outside, we don't see outside of this frame,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: didn't involve somebody coming back to the car to get
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: those items, which is very telling a prosecutor that could
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: be something that again, you know there's somebody else involved
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: outside of this frame. This is where cell phone records
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: come into play, because you've got the pinging off of
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: towers all around this area. And my thought is, if
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: I'm the prosecutor, I'm getting my detectives to start collecting
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: cell phone tower data immediately to try to find a connection.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: And with all of those apartments and businesses, clearly they've
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: got ring door cams, they have surveillance video. Where is
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: it I want to see it, guys, you were looking
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: at a nineteen year old teen girl who staying the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: summer with dad says Hey, I'm going out. I'll be
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: right back. She's never seen again. This as we now know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: three women disappearing over the last weeks in the same area.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: This was not a carjack. This was not a theft.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: What was it? Listen? Her purse was in her car.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: It had sixty dollars cash, and.
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: The only thing she had with her was her phone
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: and her keyfob.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Mom Carmen Thompson says since all of Dakara's money, wallet,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and purse were in the seat of her vehicle, she
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: thought she was coming right back. The only thing Dakara
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: has with her when she leaves her car is her
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: phone and keyfob. As the search begins for Dakara, her
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: mother won't leave and remains at the spot where her
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: SUV was parked for the next forty eight hours, waiting
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: for her daughter to return.
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: I sat there for two days for forty eight hours,
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: just to see if she or someone else would come
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: back to look for the car, and nobody ever came back.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: WUSA nine Crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: When she left her father's home the night of August
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: twenty second. She said she was going to get some
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: gas and be out for a bit, but would return shortly.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Investigators find surveillance footage at a Shell gas station at
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the Eastgate shopping Center in Lanam, Prince George's County, showing
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Dakara getting out of her twenty thirteen white Ford Edge
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: as she gets gassed. This is before the vehicle is
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: parked in front of a fire hydrant facing the wrong
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: direction in Hyattsville, about nine miles away from her father's
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: home in Lantam.
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: She hasn't used any money, so I'm like, what is
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: she eating? She has the same clothes for seven day.
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: Something has to be wrong. Somebody has her. Somebody has
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: that from our.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Friends at WUSA nine and you hear mom saying, what
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: is she eating? Is she starving? She hasn't used her money,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: her debit cards, credit cards, She's wearing the same clothes
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: for seven days. Something is wrong. Somebody has her. That's
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: what Mom is saying now in the last hours.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: Listen, we believe the murder occurred in the home on
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: Cambridge Drive, in her Nandez's bedroom. Her body was taken
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: to the location that it was recovered at by Hernandez.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: At that time.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: At this time, there are.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: No additional suspects.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: However, this investigation is ongoing.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: WUSA nine. Okay, Dave Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter. Let
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: me understand, a body has been found near another disabled car.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Authorities are saying the body is not connected to the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: disabled car. I'm not really sure how they know that,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: but that's what they're saying. They're also saying they have
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: not identified the body. All I want is a yes? No?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Is all that correct?
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Okay? Doctor Kendall Crown's joining me, Chief Medical Examiner Terrance
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: County and star Off Mayhem in the Morgue podcast. Doctor
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: crowns what they can't id the body? And now wait
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a minute, it has been several days, one, two, three, four,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: five days, going on six. You can get a DNA
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: match within twenty four hours. It's not going to be
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a one in five million DNA match, but it'll be
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a one in eight hundred DNA match. So if they
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: can't id the body, and why can't they look at
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the body and tell me? Is it her? Is she
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: wearing the same clothes? I can see her clothes that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: she's wearing. That makes me wonder is the body unclothed,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is the face disfigured? I mean we've had plenty of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: time for a DNA match, Doctor Krows, That's correct.
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: You can get DNA matches quite quickly on individuals with
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: the rapid DNA screens.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, what is that rapid DNA screen?
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: Rapid DNA it's the crime lambs that we use here
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: in Texas have rapid DNA screens where I know they
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: can do a rapid analysis to get identifications on bodies
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: quicker than the average DNA turnaround times.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, doctor Kendall, Crown's immediate DNA matches have been
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: made in times of war, promptly, immediately. This is not
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: new technology. So a DNA match can be made within hours. Again,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be one in eight octillion, it's
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: going to be one in eight hundred or one in
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: one thousand, which in this case is good enough. So
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that leads me to a whole host of questions to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: doctor Bethany. This could mean any number of things. All
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: they're saying is the body found is quote similar. What
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: does that mean? Remember Gabby Potito's body had been so
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: destroyed by animals eating her. There's just really not a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: lot of people say animal activity to make it somehow
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: sound better. Ryan Laundry left her dead body out there
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: for animals to tear apart. She was first identified by
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a unique T shirt that she was wearing. So we're
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: not getting a match to Takara. Why are we not
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: getting a match? It could be any number of things.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Well, what I'm thinking about it's hard to speak to that,
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: But what I'm thinking about is serial killers, serial killers
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: and was she the victim of one? And is there
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: a serial killer in the area who's going on a
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: killing spree. So here's the thing about serial killers. They
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: are very mobile. Once they've had victims in one city,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: they will drive and drive and drive to another one.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: They often go underground for long periods of time, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: then they strike, and often they'll have one, two, three
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: more victims, and then they go underground again. They have
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the same victim types. And these women look so similar.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: The two other women disappeared in the afternoon, Nancy like
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: they were snatched. Now, the fact that serial killers are
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: so mobile and they spend a lot of time looking
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: for just the right victim tells me that that possibly
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: there was some killer driving around these neighborhoods, just like
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Brian Koberger with the white Elantra. I think it's important
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: for the police or the investigators to look at all
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: the surveillance footage in the area and say who has
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: been driving driving driving around? That's what I think is important.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: And you don't fancy that video because you're playing it again,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: it looks like a mailbox in the corner.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Did you notice that?
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: And then she goes out of the frame, and she
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: also lifts her arm up to the right just a
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: little bit after she's already locked the car. So I
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: was wondering if she was pushing pulling a piece of
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: mail out. Also, I would ask her parents. You know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: nineteen year olds don't normally mail things. But did she
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: have an application, a college application or something that she
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: really needed to mail?
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: And was that something on her errand list to Randolph
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Rice joining Us former felony prosecutor now criminal and civil
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: defense attorney at Rice Mertha and Sourus Randolph, what do
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: you make of this The fact that they're saying I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: was similar. For all I know, is one of the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: two other victims that go missing in the same time
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: span as Takara or Lord help us a fourth person
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and Nancy. I was thinking the exact same thing because
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the state.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: Police and the Prince George's County Police Department are being
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: so tight lipped about the fact who thisinct actually is,
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: which body this is, It's possible it could be one
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: of these other women that have gone missing in the
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: past couple of weeks. So that same question arises when
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: I think about this body found out Root fifty, which
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: is a heavily travel road. This is the road that
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: connects Baltimore, Washington, d C. To the eastern shore of Maryland,
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: and this time of year there are thousands, tens of
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: thousands of cars traveling that road every single hour.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Now, what do you believe Brian Is Gibbons, USPA Nationwide
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Security jumping off what Randolph Rois just said, What does
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that have to do with this heavily heavily traveled area.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have three major roadways leading out of Hyattsville
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: heading to Route fifty in Anna Rundell County. You know,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: off the top of my head, I don't remember the
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: route numbers, but there are three major routes that are
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: going to have license plate readers that are going to
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: have surveillance cameras. So what I really think is that
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the police are going to hold back some information about
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: this body as they start to analyze who she could
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: have been meeting up with, who drove out of that
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: area in the days, you know, the hours following her disappearance.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: You know, another issue, Brian is the heavily populated area
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: where she walks away from her vehicle. Look, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing from that side. But what we're getting is
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  Speaker 1: clearly ring cam surveillance video from another dwelling. So you
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  Speaker 1: see the walkway leading right up to it. So she's
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  Speaker 1: walking through a lot of homes, a lot of residences.
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  Speaker 1: They've got to have ring cams. What can we learn?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you would think that there's more security footage as
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  Speaker 3: she heads towards Riggs Road here. And another thing to
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  Speaker 3: point out, you know, doctor Bethany, you know, pointed out
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  Speaker 3: that her arm was up. My first inclination there is
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  Speaker 3: is she communicating with somebody? Is she speaking to somebody
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  Speaker 3: who's off camera there? You know, that was my first
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: reaction to that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see anyone. What do you make of that,
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  Speaker 1: Dave mac I don't notice for speaking to anyone off camera.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that?
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  Speaker 2: I wait, no, I went frame by frame on that video, Nancy,
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  Speaker 2: to see what else could be found.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody in the car, and nobody's standing near the car. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Just I don't know why her arm was pointing out,
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  Speaker 2: maybe double checking the locking, I don't know, but sadly,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: that's all we have right now. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: this didn't come from the police. This actually was given
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  Speaker 2: to the family by the guys, by the man who
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: actually had this video, so he gave it to the
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: family and to a local TV station.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: That's how we got it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Another question that we didn't bring up is her phone
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: was disabled. Does that mean it was cut off? Does
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that mean it it was cut off? It didn't run
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: out of battery, Dave Mac, it was particularly it was
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: intentionally cut off.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we've been told, is that she was disconnected
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  Speaker 2: off no idea at this point.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: According to her family, she never cut her phone off.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Right, And that's that's why they tracked it by my
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: iPhone app because they gave him the last known location.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: But it was off from that moment. The minute she
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: gets there, her phone's off for whatever reason. Once she
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: gets past that mailbox.
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  Speaker 5: It's done.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: A search warrant was served early today at the home
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  Speaker 2: on Cambridge Drive in Bowie, Maryland. The suspect is Hugo
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Hernandez Mendez. He's thirty five years old in the United
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: States dates illegally. No cause of death has been released
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: at this time.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: disappearance of Dakara or the other ladies, please dial three
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: zero one seven seven two eight nine seven zero, repeat
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: three zero one seven seven to two eight nine seven zero.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: We remember an American Hero Officer, Tara Cook, Whitfield County, Georgia,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: killed in a light of duty, leaving behind a grieving husband,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Seth American Hero Officer Tara Cook Rest in peace. End
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: of Watch Nancy Gray signing off goodbye friend.