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(classical music playing)
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♪ ♪
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(line ringing)
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(Caller speaking)
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Hey, how are you?
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I'm good, I'm good.
I've wanted to check in
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to see how things are going.
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Okay.
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Right, do, do you think
they were sex trafficking
kids out of that house?
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Natalie Wilson:
When we first started
the organization,
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I think I cried every day.
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I am very emotional,
and very sensitive.
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I still have a hard time
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dealin' with a lot
of these stories.
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And the cases that
disturb me the most
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are cases of missing children.
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(somber music playing)
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Thank you.
Relisha Rudd
is still missing.
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Derrica Wilson:
Can I share this with you?
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Relisha disappeared
from this hotel
right here.
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Person in car:
Oh.
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Derrica Wilson:
Thank you.
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Natalie Wilson:
Relisha is a child
missing from our community.
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And there are so many
unanswered questions
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about her disappearance.
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Relisha is D.C.'s heartbeat,
D.C.'s baby.
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Producer:
Can I ask you a question or two?
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-How old are you--
-How did this get
in front of me?
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Producer:
Oh, that's recording your sound.
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It's gonna put it up on there?
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R-E-L-I-S-H-A.
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Producer:
That's a nice name.
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Derrica Wilson:
Relisha was a homeless kid
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livin' in a homeless shelter,
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you know, with her mom
and her stepfather.
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Cut.
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Antonio Wheeler:
Okay, well, my name
is Antonio Wheeler.
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I'm 33 years old.
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I'm from and born
in Washington D.C.,
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and Relisha is my stepdaughter.
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It's your dance!
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Shamika Young:
Do your dance,
Relisha, keep on.
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Go ahead and do
your dance, uh-huh.
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Go ahead and
do your dance.
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(indistinct)
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Wheeler:
Relisha was very
smart, energetic,
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full of life.
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Her smile can
brighten your day up.
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And she don't like when
people mispronounce her name.
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My little joke with her,
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it was always be "Ralisha."
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And, you know, she be like,
"No, Daddy. It's Relisha."
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I said, "Ralisha."
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I met Shamika on Facebook.
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I got close with her.
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She was a good mom,
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and she was lovin',
she was carin'.
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She did for her kids
the best she could.
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We eventually got together,
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and I met Relisha
when she was two.
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The first time
she called me Dad,
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I fixed her a bowl
of Oodles of Noodles,
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and she acted like
that was the best bowl
of noodles she ever had.
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I'll never forget that.
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I had a bit of a rough
childhood myself, um,
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I was in
the foster care system.
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I guess Relisha
seen somethin' in me
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that I didn't know
that was there.
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You know,
I can be a father.
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I took pride at that,
at that moment.
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Shamika, she was in a program.
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They provided her housing,
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but she was losin' her voucher,
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not obeyin' by
the program rules,
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so they kicked her
out the program,
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so we had to move
to the shelter, D.C. General.
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Producer:
If I say a couple
sentences to you,
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can you say them back?
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-Huh?
-Producer: So, you say,
"We live with our families."
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We live with our families.
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Producer:
Okay, then look right
over here and say,
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"The D.C. General
Family Shelter."
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The D.C. Family Gen--
Uh, D.C. General Family Shelter.
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Wheeler:
You know, that was my first
time, actually, in a shelter.
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It was scary
for me and my kids.
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We had mold, we had lice,
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you know, we had some,
you know,
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staff monitors not
abidin' by the rules,
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had staff monitors havin'
sex with the residents,
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havin' babies,
so we're just like,
it was just, it was awful.
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Derrica Wilson:
Relisha and her family
were caught in a cycle
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of poverty and homelessness.
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There is a lot of people
out here one paycheck
from being homeless.
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But Black folks are
far more vulnerable.
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Forty percent of homeless
people are Black,
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yet Black people make up
only 13% of the population.
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That number is alarming.
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Wheeler:
I was tryin' to save up money
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so we could move
out on our own,
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so I was always
out of town working,
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you know, at weeks
and months at a time.
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One day, I get back in town,
and Relisha wasn't around.
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I asked Shamika,
"Where's Relisha?"
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And, you know, she say,
"Oh, she's at Ashley's house,"
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which is Shamika's sister.
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But, as time went on,
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I went to go get my kids
and Relisha from school,
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and the school councilman,
Mr. Workman,
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he told me Relisha's absent.
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Laboné Workman:
Here's the thing, I would see
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the family constantly,
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I saw 'em every day,
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and I saw
the siblings every day.
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I just didn't see Relisha.
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I had a conversation
with the mom,
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and if I'm not mistaken,
the grandmother, too,
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and they told me that she was
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having these migraines.
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Wheeler:
I didn't know nothin'
about her gettin' headaches,
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so I didn't know
she was out of school.
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Workman:
When they gave me
the handwritten note
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that she was getting
looked at by a doctor...
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I knew there were
doctors at the shelter,
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but I needed
official documentation,
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so I told the family,
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"Let me get
the doctor's information."
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And then maybe
a couple days later,
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they provided me
with the scrap of piece
of paper that said
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that this is Dr. Tatum
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along with Dr. Tatum's
phone number.
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I called this Dr. Tatum,
I introduced myself,
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and told him
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that I was trying to get
documentation to excuse
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Relisha's absences from school
as they were amassing.
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So, it was a back
and forth with him
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on the phone trying
to get him to fax it.
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The Principal at the time,
Visom, said, she goes,
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"Just go down there
and get the letters."
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So, I hop in my truck,
and I go down.
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And this is where it got...
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(sighs)
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it just got crazy real quick.
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I'd called the counselor,
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they said that they
wouldn't be around,
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but I could leave the letter
with the dates missed
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with the security guard.
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I walk into the building,
and I ask for a security guard.
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I said, "This letter
is for Dr. Tatum."
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And she took the letter,
like it was poison.
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Took it like that.
And I'm still like,
"What's going on?"
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And I walked away,
but somethin' told me
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to turn around and come back.
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And lo and behold,
the counselor was right there.
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So, I said, "Listen,
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"I'm here to pick up some
excuse letters from Dr. Tatum
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for this girl, Relisha Rudd."
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And she, again, looked at me,
like I had two heads.
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And then, next thing I know,
she picked up the phone,
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and she says,
"Hello, Tatum,
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"uh, Mr. Workman's here
to pick up some letters
from you.
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Are you a doctor?"
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You ever heard
that thing where they say,
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all the blood rushes to you--
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I never had that
experience before,
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but when I tell you
I couldn't hear anything,
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I couldn't hear anything.
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(imitates static)
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All I could see was
that lady on the phone,
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and I sw-- It was like a tunnel.
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Jennifer Donelan:
Dr. Tatum.
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He was, actually, Kahlil Tatum,
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the janitor at the shelter.
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(tense music playing)
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It's the school social worker
that noticed that
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there was no Dr. Tatum,
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that Tatum was
actually a janitor.
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That's when it all breaks loose.
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Throughout that time,
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Shamika... and her family,
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and I have to say Shamika,
mainly, 'cause she's the mother,
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allowed Tatum to take Relisha
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off of the premises.
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He did that for a long time.
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He was buying her gifts,
and giving her things,
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and allowing her to come
and spend the night
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at his house and with his wife.
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Relisha's mother was
vulnerable to grooming
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living in a homeless shelter.
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He built trust with her,
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and she basically turned
her daughter over to him.
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Wheeler:
I didn't get a bad vibe
from Kahlil, you know,
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but I didn't never
approve of him spending
time with Shamika
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or my kids.
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She said,
"Oh, he givin' us money,
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"and he helpin', helpin' us
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look out for the kids."
I said, "We don't need no help.
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"So, why's you, you know,
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spendin' so much
time with this guy?"
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Then come to find out
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Kahlil got a long
criminal record:
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home invasions, all types
of criminal charges.
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He wasn't supposed to be
around kids or nothin'.
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So, how did he get a job there?
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Chanel Dickers:
The faculty at
the school contacted
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our Child and Family
Services Agency,
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and that's when we were
first alerted that, um,
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Relisha had been missing
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for like a month.
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(sirens wailing)
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Wheeler:
So, the same day that
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Relisha's reported missin',
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I see a bunch
of police officer cars
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at the shelter.
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So, I'm askin'
Shamika, you know,
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"What happened?
What's goin' on?
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Why these people
sayin' Relisha missin'?"
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She's still nonchalant about it,
not showin' no emotion.
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And come to find out,
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they found Kahlil's wife dead
at the Red Roof Inn Hotel.
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Donelan:
Relisha, she's
announced as missing,
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and then, that same day,
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the janitor that she was allowed
to leave the shelter with,
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his wife is murdered
in a hotel.
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And Mr. Kahlil Tatum...
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is the suspect.
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That's when
the coverage begins.
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News Announcer 1:
Tonight, an AMBER alert
has been issued
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for 8-year-old
Relisha Rudd
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and her possibly armed captor.
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News Announcer 2:
Police are now
intensely searching
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for a 1976 white GMC truck,
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the little girl,
and Kahlil Tatum.
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Donelan:
Then we find out that she
hasn't been to school in weeks.
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We find out the length
of time that she was last seen.
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How was a janitor able
to walk out of a shelter
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with an 8-year-old girl?
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Reporter:
Why did you
trust him?
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He didn't look like
that type of person.
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He looked like a good person.
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The way he played
with everybody kids,
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the way he did his job,
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when he needed to do
his job buffin' them floors.
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He didn't look like
an intimidizin' person.
He really didn't.
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Reporter:
Some people
would say,
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"Why didn't
you call police
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if your daughter
was missing?"
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I ain't wanna lose
my other three kids.
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That's why I didn't
call the police.
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There is no lack
in coverage, locally.
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Nationally, she,
she didn't get enough.
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News Announcer:
Police issued the AMBER alert
for Relisha...
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When this information came out,
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there was so many people
that was reaching out,
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you know, to let us know
about her disappearance.
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And I couldn't understand why
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it wasn't a national
AMBER alert.
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It was really
targeted, specifically,
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to the Washington area...
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but she can be anywhere.
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She can be in Atlanta,
she can be in Florida,
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she can be in California, Texas,
she can absolutely be anywhere,
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and if we're not putting
that information out there,
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people outside
of this area wouldn't
know that she's missing.
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Chief Cathy Lanier:
I actually looked into that
when I got that allegation.
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The AMBER alert was issued,
uh, as far north as
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Pennsylvania and Delaware,
and as far south as Florida.
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News Announcer:
We asked state police
in Pennsylvania,
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Delaware and Florida,
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North Carolina, South Carolina,
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New York, Maryland,
and Virginia, too.
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No AMBER alerts issued
there for Relisha Rudd.
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Natalie Wilson:
On March the 25th,
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the FBI issued a press release,
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and they showed surveillance
of 8-year-old Relisha...
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with Tatum
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walking down the hallway
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at the Holiday Inn Express
on New York Avenue,
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and this footage is from
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February 26th, a month earlier.
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Workman:
One of the worst images...
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is seeing her walk down
that nasty motel hallway.
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You know, it just--
It looks like one of those
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"No Tell" Motels, you know,
on the side of the road
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where people just
go for little trysts,
or... whatever.
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It just looked so nasty
and dank and dark.
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She's in that space
as a, as a little girl
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with a grown man that has
nothin' to do with her.
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There's, there's nothin'
good that can happen.
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Wheeler:
So the next few days,
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they go on searches,
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lookin' in woods.
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They looked in Kenilworth Park.
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News Announcer:
Police initially began
searching that park
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after they found out
Tatum had spent time there
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in early March
after buying large
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industrial-sized trash bags.
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Kenilworth Park Aquatic Gardens,
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it's 700 acres.
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It's huge.
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Derrick Butler:
The Metropolitan
Police Department,
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they called the community out
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to help them find
this little girl.
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News Announcer:
Black and Missing Foundation
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was one of the few
local organizations
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selected to help D.C. police
in their massive search effort
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at Kenilworth Park.
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Derrica Wilson:
So many people
have failed her,
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this system failed her,
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and we need people
looking for her.
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Natalie Wilson:
We show up at Kenilworth Park,
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MPD is leading,
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they've broken us
off into groups.
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There were 50 people that
were a part of the search,
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and it was just
a surreal moment.
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We weren't sure
what we would find.
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Derrica Wilson:
The goal was to try to canvass
as much ground as possible.
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Derrick Butler:
We're lookin' for any
children's articles,
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shovel, bags,
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just about anything that,
you know, that we thought
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might've been connected
to the, uh, case.
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Derrica Wilson:
And then all of a sudden...
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(radio chatter)
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on the radio,
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there was a call
that came out.
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Natalie Wilson:
We all needed to step away.
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(sirens wailing)
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Derrica Wilson:
A body was found in a park.
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Donelan:
I'm thinking...
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"I don't want it to be her.
Please don't let it be her."
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Chief Lanier:
In the course of
our search today,
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we did discover the body
of an adult male,
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uh, that is deceased.
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It's Kahlil Tatum.
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Butler:
The area that we
were searching,
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they found Kahlil's body
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where he had
actually killed himself.
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Donelan:
And the anger that I felt
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because he was the one,
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he's the one who knew.
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Natalie Wilson:
He is the missing
piece to Relisha.
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Donelan:
And now, he's taken
that away from everyone.
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It's selfish and a coward.
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That's what I think,
and I'm not supposed to have
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personal feelings
because I'm a reporter,
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but I can say that now.
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Wheeler:
There's no sign
or trace of Relisha.
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And this is a child
that calls me Daddy,
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and the thing
that I could think
about the most,
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even to this day,
she was scared, she would--
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Every time Relisha gets scared,
she would call out for me.
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So, that replays
in my head, too.
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News Announcer:
The search for 8-year-old
Relisha Rudd will wrap up
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here today at Kenilworth Park
in Northeast Washington.
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We're all a bit relieved that
we did not find Relisha here
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the way we anticipated
we would find her.
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Um, it's heart-wrenchingly
frustrating that we don't have
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answers as to where
she is right now.
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Brenda Brown:
There are politics
on the police force,
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in the mayor's office,
there are politics everywhere.
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They were horrified that
it happened under their watch.
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They were horrified that
they hadn't found her.
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They were horrified that
the school didn't know,
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or didn't report
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that she'd been out of school
for almost 30 days.
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So, what did they do?
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They shut down
to the community.
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That's what fired
the community up.
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Crowd (chanting):
Rally for respect!
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Rally for respect!
Rally for respect!
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News Announcer:
Dozens rallied outside
the D.C. General Shelter,
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activists from community
and faith-based groups,
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along with families
who live there,
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many of whom
told us conditions
are less than ideal.
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Some rooms don't
have no electric.
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Um, we had a flood.
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You only have six counselors
helpin' a whole big buildin'.
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News Announcer:
The city has announced
a plan to move
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500 families out of
the deteriorating shelter.
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Jim Graham:
This place just doesn't work,
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and we could spend tens
of millions of dollars
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trying to make it work,
and it still wouldn't work.
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Vince Warren:
If we were to strip away
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all of the...
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other things that contribute
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to the challenges that we're
facing with missing children,
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it comes down to poverty.
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We have generations
and generations
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in this country
of Black families
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that are deeply poor,
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and they're making decisions
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about survival.
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They're not making decisions
about strategic ways
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to get their kid
from elementary school
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into the college
of their choice,
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but getting today to tomorrow,
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keeping the family going
until the next paycheck.
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And those are the families
that are the most vulnerable.
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Natalie Wilson:
There's just a vicious cycle
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surrounding Relisha
and her family.
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Starting with her mother
being in foster care.
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As well as
her stepfather, Antonio.
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Callahan Walsh:
It makes it much more difficult
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for those children
of these families to succeed.
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When a child is
removed from the home,
and goin' to foster care,
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63% of the time,
it's because of neglect,
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and that neglect
oftentimes stems
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from those lack of resources,
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uh, that those communities
can't provide to the children,
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and then, they're taken
away from these families,
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and it's punishment
for being poor.
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My life been...
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it been hard...
and different.
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When they couldn't decide
on what happened with Relisha,
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they took all
the kids to foster care.
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They destroyed my family.
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They destroyed my life.
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Blaq Rose:
Relisha was 8 years old.
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Everybody was supposed
to have been protectin' her.
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She was in a place where
people are getting paid,
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okay, salaries to watch out
for the well-beings of families.
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They failed her.
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Natalie Wilson:
The city ultimately
conducted an investigation
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on what happened to Relisha.
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Their report indicated
that there were some
policies and processes
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that should have been followed.
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Tatum, he was a felon,
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and he was allowed
to work at the shelter.
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But despite all of that,
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the review found
that her disappearance
was nobody's fault.
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All of these
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agencies and processes
that have been put in place
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to protect these children,
and to protect Relisha...
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and it, it meant nothing.
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So that family is
victimized once again.
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And Relisha remains missing,
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and her brothers are now
in the foster care system.
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Relisha's mother, Shamika,
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she believes that
her daughter is still alive,
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and she says,
she'd never allowed Tatum
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to take Relisha
from the shelter.
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Relisha deserved
a life without poverty,
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and inequality,
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and she deserved to be
protected from Kahlil Tatum.
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Derrica Wilson:
I have a picture,
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and every time
I look at this picture,
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it makes me emotional.
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Of this little girl,
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who had just gotten off
the Metro with her mom,
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and, you know, we were
passin' out flyers,
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and she just stopped.
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She was staring at the flyer.
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I ask her, I said,
"Do you know her?"
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She looks up at me,
and she says,
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"She looks just like me."
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00:23:10,293 --> 00:23:13,334
(somber music playing)
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Donelan:
I'm so overwhelmingly
jaded at this point...
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that if you were to ask me,
"Could that happen again?"
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Hands down, yes.
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00:23:22,876 --> 00:23:26,793
Even after having
gone through all that,
hands down, yes.
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It can and, unfortunately,
it will happen again.
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♪ ♪
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Chantice Cotten:
We're prayin' right now
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as children are disappearin'...
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00:23:40,334 --> 00:23:43,709
we're prayin' right now
to an end to the violence,
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00:23:43,793 --> 00:23:47,043
we're prayin' right now for
the deception to be uncovered.
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We're prayin' right now
for those that are taken,
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we're prayin' for
everyone to be found.
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00:23:53,168 --> 00:23:55,334
We're praying that people
will no longer be comfortable
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with looking the other way.
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00:23:56,626 --> 00:23:58,584
We're praying right now
for witnesses to come forth.
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00:23:58,668 --> 00:24:01,668
We're praying right now that
people will not just be
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00:24:01,751 --> 00:24:04,376
complacent or, or just content.
477
00:24:05,668 --> 00:24:08,959
Hi there.
Can I give you a flyer?
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This young girl has been
missing for six years.
479
00:24:11,584 --> 00:24:12,959
Would this be
a picture that--
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00:24:13,043 --> 00:24:14,834
-This is a age
progression picture...
-Oh, okay, okay.
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00:24:14,918 --> 00:24:17,168
...so she would look like this.
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00:24:17,251 --> 00:24:18,959
-And you're
Relisha's grandmother?
-Melissa Young: Yes, ma'am.
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00:24:19,043 --> 00:24:22,251
Hi, I'm Natalie with
the Black and Missing
Foundation.
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00:24:22,334 --> 00:24:24,084
Nice to meet you.
How have you been?
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-Good.
-Good.
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00:24:26,168 --> 00:24:27,626
Derrica Wilson:
Not givin' up on your baby.
487
00:24:27,709 --> 00:24:30,251
-Oh no.
-Derrica Wilson: At all.
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00:24:30,334 --> 00:24:32,751
No ache, no pain ain't
goin' to keep me out here.
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00:24:32,834 --> 00:24:34,751
That's right,
that's right.
490
00:24:37,001 --> 00:24:40,168
You know, we continue
to hold on to hope that
491
00:24:40,251 --> 00:24:43,209
missing persons can be
found after many years.
492
00:24:43,293 --> 00:24:45,168
We have seen stories.
493
00:24:46,126 --> 00:24:48,334
Stories like Monique Smith.
494
00:24:49,793 --> 00:24:53,126
When I first met
Monique, she said,
495
00:24:53,209 --> 00:24:55,543
"I, too, am missing.
496
00:24:55,626 --> 00:24:58,543
"I don't know my family,
and I've been searching for them
497
00:24:58,626 --> 00:25:00,334
for many, many years."
498
00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:04,751
Monique Smith:
There's a population
of missing children
499
00:25:04,834 --> 00:25:06,418
that no one's thinkin' of,
500
00:25:06,501 --> 00:25:08,793
stories like Relisha's,
stories like mine
501
00:25:08,876 --> 00:25:10,126
with the long-term missin'.
502
00:25:10,209 --> 00:25:11,876
She's been missin'
for five years,
503
00:25:11,959 --> 00:25:13,626
I've, probably,
been missin' for...
504
00:25:13,709 --> 00:25:16,876
55 years, or 45 years.
505
00:25:16,959 --> 00:25:18,751
I really--
I honestly don't know.
506
00:25:18,834 --> 00:25:22,001
I'm standing here live
today to tell people
507
00:25:22,084 --> 00:25:23,501
to have hope...
508
00:25:24,668 --> 00:25:25,709
don't stop looking...
509
00:25:25,793 --> 00:25:27,709
to never give up
looking for us
510
00:25:27,793 --> 00:25:29,376
because we're here.
511
00:25:32,709 --> 00:25:35,459
I grew up in Baltimore City.
512
00:25:35,543 --> 00:25:38,751
There was, um,
an elderly lady who
513
00:25:38,834 --> 00:25:41,084
I considered my grandmother,
514
00:25:41,168 --> 00:25:45,334
um, that I kinda bonded with,
you know, over the years,
515
00:25:45,418 --> 00:25:48,126
and, um, the woman
who raised me,
516
00:25:48,209 --> 00:25:49,584
we never had a connection.
517
00:25:49,668 --> 00:25:51,334
Little did I know
518
00:25:51,418 --> 00:25:55,334
why there was never,
um, a bond or a connection.
519
00:25:58,001 --> 00:26:02,334
I was at the assumed
age of 28 or 29.
520
00:26:02,418 --> 00:26:05,084
I wanted to be
a daycare provider.
521
00:26:05,168 --> 00:26:06,084
But here was the problem,
522
00:26:06,168 --> 00:26:08,668
you have to be
licensed and bonded
523
00:26:08,751 --> 00:26:10,459
to be a daycare director.
524
00:26:10,543 --> 00:26:13,918
You cannot do it without
havin' a birth certificate,
525
00:26:14,001 --> 00:26:16,793
and I've never seen
my birth certificate.
526
00:26:16,876 --> 00:26:20,751
The woman who raised me
never present it to me.
527
00:26:20,834 --> 00:26:22,293
So, I checked
all the municipals,
528
00:26:22,376 --> 00:26:24,376
I had a social security number,
529
00:26:24,459 --> 00:26:26,043
um, I went to school,
so I said,
530
00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:27,751
"Well, the Board of Education."
531
00:26:29,334 --> 00:26:30,376
The mail all came in,
532
00:26:30,459 --> 00:26:32,084
and opened up
the first document,
533
00:26:32,168 --> 00:26:34,751
and I'm readin' it,
I'm like, "Hmm...
534
00:26:34,834 --> 00:26:36,709
that's not my birth date."
535
00:26:36,793 --> 00:26:38,334
You know, so I'm like
lookin' at it, lookin' at it,
536
00:26:38,418 --> 00:26:40,418
and I go open up
the next document.
537
00:26:41,751 --> 00:26:43,459
Well, that's not my name,
538
00:26:43,543 --> 00:26:45,668
well, that's not
my, my birth date.
539
00:26:46,668 --> 00:26:49,501
That's not her name.
540
00:26:49,584 --> 00:26:52,459
Doesn't match on that,
neither one of these
names are her name.
541
00:26:54,126 --> 00:26:56,293
And I open up
the third document...
542
00:26:56,376 --> 00:27:00,918
all three documents are
inconsistent with each other.
543
00:27:02,959 --> 00:27:05,751
The first thing I did
was I picked up the phone,
544
00:27:05,834 --> 00:27:07,501
and I called the grandmother.
545
00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:11,168
I said, um,
"I'm lookin' at this paperwork,
and it's all inconsistent.
546
00:27:11,251 --> 00:27:13,876
There's no consistency
with it whatsoever."
547
00:27:13,959 --> 00:27:15,543
And I said,
"What happened?"
548
00:27:15,626 --> 00:27:17,251
And she goes,
"Oh, she didn't tell you?"
549
00:27:17,334 --> 00:27:19,543
I said,
"What? Tell me what?"
550
00:27:19,626 --> 00:27:21,084
"Well, she just showed
up with you one day,
551
00:27:21,168 --> 00:27:24,626
and I'm pretty sure it's
somethin', I, I don't know."
552
00:27:26,584 --> 00:27:28,626
The woman who raised me,
553
00:27:28,709 --> 00:27:31,376
stole me from my mother.
554
00:27:33,168 --> 00:27:34,626
The year that I found that out
555
00:27:34,709 --> 00:27:37,751
is the year that
I confronted her about it.
556
00:27:37,834 --> 00:27:40,293
And she said she
would go to her grave
557
00:27:40,376 --> 00:27:42,334
before she says anything to me.
558
00:27:45,126 --> 00:27:49,209
I was spiralin' out of control
because, at that very minute,
559
00:27:49,293 --> 00:27:54,418
all of the abuse
populated in my head again.
560
00:27:54,501 --> 00:27:56,459
She would just pick up
a can of hairspray,
561
00:27:56,543 --> 00:27:58,834
and lung it across the room.
562
00:27:58,918 --> 00:28:02,959
You basically sit there,
and embrace it
563
00:28:03,043 --> 00:28:05,334
because, if not,
it could lead to somethin'
564
00:28:05,418 --> 00:28:07,709
more dramatic.
565
00:28:07,793 --> 00:28:11,376
It was so tormenting
that I was determined
566
00:28:11,459 --> 00:28:14,751
to figure out who I was,
like, "Who am I?"
567
00:28:14,834 --> 00:28:20,084
So, I tried every avenue.
I, I left no stone unturned.
568
00:28:20,168 --> 00:28:24,543
I made my very first
missin' person flyer in 1984.
569
00:28:26,543 --> 00:28:27,793
Over the years,
570
00:28:27,876 --> 00:28:29,751
I took every
financial penny I had,
571
00:28:29,834 --> 00:28:33,293
and I looked at those documents,
and I tried to trace back.
572
00:28:33,376 --> 00:28:35,543
I went to the National
Educational Centers,
573
00:28:35,626 --> 00:28:38,668
I went to the National Crime
and Information Center.
574
00:28:38,751 --> 00:28:41,376
I contacted the
National Center of
Missing/Exploited Children,
575
00:28:41,459 --> 00:28:43,751
"Unsolved Mysteries,"
nothin'.
576
00:28:45,293 --> 00:28:48,834
The Salvation Army sent me
a letter saying, basically,
577
00:28:48,918 --> 00:28:50,293
"You're a Jane Doe.
578
00:28:50,376 --> 00:28:52,709
♪ ♪
579
00:28:52,793 --> 00:28:55,376
No one will ever
be able to help you."
580
00:28:56,543 --> 00:28:59,334
I can just imagine her emotions
581
00:28:59,418 --> 00:29:01,751
not knowing who she is.
582
00:29:01,834 --> 00:29:03,793
I mean, you're walking down
the street,
583
00:29:03,876 --> 00:29:05,834
and you may see
someone that looks like you.
584
00:29:05,918 --> 00:29:08,959
You don't know if you're
related to that person,
585
00:29:09,043 --> 00:29:14,834
and the unknown has
to be... heartbreaking.
586
00:29:16,668 --> 00:29:19,834
Smith:
As time went on,
I'm thinkin' to myself,
587
00:29:19,918 --> 00:29:23,793
I need to get a, an active
police report, period.
588
00:29:23,876 --> 00:29:26,334
One of the organizations
that I contacted,
589
00:29:26,418 --> 00:29:29,668
they notified the state police.
590
00:29:29,751 --> 00:29:31,626
Deborah Flory:
The director came across
the hall and she said,
591
00:29:31,709 --> 00:29:33,543
(sighs)
"I have this lady on the line,
592
00:29:33,626 --> 00:29:37,959
"and... she's saying she
doesn't know who she is...
593
00:29:38,043 --> 00:29:39,626
and that she was abducted."
594
00:29:39,709 --> 00:29:41,918
And I was like, "Oh, boy, okay."
595
00:29:42,001 --> 00:29:46,668
We don't get too many adults
that don't know who they are.
596
00:29:46,751 --> 00:29:49,751
This is the original
FedEx envelope she sent me.
597
00:29:49,834 --> 00:29:54,584
This is every little article,
highlighted, that she sent.
598
00:29:55,918 --> 00:29:57,126
I knew she wasn't
playin' around,
599
00:29:57,209 --> 00:29:59,876
and I'm-- I said,
"Oh, I gotta help her."
600
00:29:59,959 --> 00:30:04,334
But it was a very slow process
to get anything done
601
00:30:04,418 --> 00:30:08,251
because there wasn't a crime
involved that we could show.
602
00:30:08,334 --> 00:30:10,584
So, we had to go other routes.
603
00:30:10,668 --> 00:30:15,751
Smith:
Ancestry.com and 23andMe
was an avenue.
604
00:30:15,834 --> 00:30:18,501
Got the kits,
did the saliva,
nothin' happened,
605
00:30:18,584 --> 00:30:21,209
so, in frustration,
the detective said,
606
00:30:21,293 --> 00:30:23,543
"I'm gonna reach out
to Cece Moore."
607
00:30:24,626 --> 00:30:26,584
It was back in September 2019,
608
00:30:26,668 --> 00:30:28,418
so I was digging
through my messages
609
00:30:28,501 --> 00:30:31,959
trying to figure out
how she contacted me.
610
00:30:32,043 --> 00:30:33,709
Flory:
Actually, went
through my Facebook,
611
00:30:33,793 --> 00:30:35,793
and, and just messaged her.
612
00:30:37,126 --> 00:30:39,793
She was, like,
completely willing to help.
613
00:30:39,876 --> 00:30:44,501
This was kind of a mixture
of my two different careers.
614
00:30:44,584 --> 00:30:46,793
My first career,
which was helping
615
00:30:46,876 --> 00:30:49,251
people find their
biological families,
616
00:30:49,334 --> 00:30:51,168
and then my work
with law enforcement
617
00:30:51,251 --> 00:30:56,376
where I started focusing
on identifying deceased people
or violent criminals.
618
00:30:56,459 --> 00:30:58,793
She had a fair amount
of information.
619
00:30:58,876 --> 00:31:02,709
She thought she might know
her birth parents' names.
620
00:31:02,793 --> 00:31:07,376
She knew that one
of her sisters had
a scar on her face.
621
00:31:07,459 --> 00:31:09,793
And there's about
35 million people
622
00:31:09,876 --> 00:31:12,084
that have taken
consumer DNA tests now,
623
00:31:12,168 --> 00:31:15,501
and so, we were able
to compare Monique's DNA
624
00:31:15,584 --> 00:31:18,418
against all of those
millions of people.
625
00:31:18,501 --> 00:31:23,084
She had a number of people
that were sharing DNA with her
626
00:31:23,168 --> 00:31:27,376
who descended from
a couple in the 1850s.
627
00:31:27,459 --> 00:31:30,168
And we built forward
from that couple, saying,
628
00:31:30,251 --> 00:31:33,418
"Okay, well, who are
their other descendants?"
629
00:31:33,501 --> 00:31:36,501
And we found a daughter
named Margaret,
630
00:31:36,584 --> 00:31:38,918
and then,
as we researched Margaret,
631
00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:42,709
we found she had a daughter
with a scar on her face.
632
00:31:42,793 --> 00:31:46,209
I cannot tell you
how excited we were.
633
00:31:46,293 --> 00:31:48,584
She called me,
and she said, "I got it."
634
00:31:48,668 --> 00:31:50,626
And I was like, "What?"
She's like, "Yeah."
635
00:31:50,709 --> 00:31:52,334
I said, "It's only been
like two days," you know?
636
00:31:52,418 --> 00:31:54,293
She's like, "I got it."
She goes I--
637
00:31:54,376 --> 00:31:55,918
She said there was
ties to New York,
638
00:31:56,001 --> 00:31:58,209
there was, uh,
six, seven siblings,
639
00:31:58,293 --> 00:31:59,543
or somethin' to that effect.
640
00:31:59,626 --> 00:32:04,209
We, actually, have a policy
where we don't interfere in
641
00:32:04,293 --> 00:32:06,334
biological families' reunions,
642
00:32:06,418 --> 00:32:09,376
so we tend to give
the information
643
00:32:09,459 --> 00:32:11,418
to Monique, in this case,
644
00:32:11,501 --> 00:32:12,751
to do the outreach.
645
00:32:13,751 --> 00:32:16,084
So, I pick up the phone,
646
00:32:16,168 --> 00:32:20,918
and I call the number,
and I said, "Hi, um...
647
00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:24,751
I'm lookin'
for Veronica Conyers."
648
00:32:24,834 --> 00:32:27,918
And she goes,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, what, what?"
649
00:32:30,084 --> 00:32:32,001
(mutters indistinctly)
650
00:32:32,084 --> 00:32:34,168
Veronica Conyers:
She called my cellphone,
651
00:32:34,251 --> 00:32:36,626
and, um, she was hesitatin',
652
00:32:36,709 --> 00:32:38,168
but she got it out fast.
653
00:32:38,251 --> 00:32:40,501
She, she, she was scared.
She was-- She babbled it.
654
00:32:40,584 --> 00:32:44,543
I said, "Oh, I'm sorry, um,
I'm workin' with a detective,
655
00:32:44,626 --> 00:32:46,251
and, um, they gave
me your information."
656
00:32:46,334 --> 00:32:49,043
"What do you mean?
Detective? What is this?
This better not be a game."
657
00:32:49,126 --> 00:32:50,501
I said, "No, it's not a game.
It's not a game."
658
00:32:50,584 --> 00:32:51,834
"No, I'm serious.
This better not be a game.
659
00:32:51,918 --> 00:32:53,376
I'm from New York.
I don't play games like this."
660
00:32:53,459 --> 00:32:54,709
I said, "No ma'am,
no ma'am, no ma'am."
661
00:32:54,793 --> 00:32:57,293
She called it out
the way I would call her.
662
00:32:57,376 --> 00:32:58,668
If it was me callin' her,
I would say,
663
00:32:58,751 --> 00:33:00,251
"I think you're my sister,"
664
00:33:00,334 --> 00:33:02,959
you know, "I have
some information here."
It was that simple.
665
00:33:03,043 --> 00:33:04,751
And I said, "I'm workin'
with the police department,
666
00:33:04,834 --> 00:33:06,001
"I'm workin' with
a DNA detective,
667
00:33:06,084 --> 00:33:08,043
"my ancestry
information came through,
668
00:33:08,126 --> 00:33:10,293
I was-- They said
that we are a match."
669
00:33:10,376 --> 00:33:11,709
And she goes,
"Well, what do you look like?"
670
00:33:11,793 --> 00:33:13,709
I said,
"I don't know who I look like."
671
00:33:13,793 --> 00:33:15,084
But I say,
672
00:33:15,168 --> 00:33:17,209
I said, "Send me somethin'."
673
00:33:17,293 --> 00:33:18,751
I said, "Send me somethin'."
674
00:33:18,834 --> 00:33:20,043
I said, "Don't even
tell me your name,
675
00:33:20,126 --> 00:33:22,918
just send me a picture,
just send me somethin'."
676
00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:24,418
And I said,
"Let's get off this phone."
677
00:33:24,501 --> 00:33:26,501
I said, "'Cause, obviously,
you must be some kin to me,"
678
00:33:26,584 --> 00:33:28,876
I said, "Because you're
super excited and so am I."
679
00:33:28,959 --> 00:33:31,626
So, and next thing you know,
she hung up on me.
680
00:33:33,209 --> 00:33:36,126
I just started uploadin'
my missin' person flyer
681
00:33:36,209 --> 00:33:38,918
that had all the pictures
of me as a child
682
00:33:39,001 --> 00:33:42,459
in hopes that someone
would recognize me.
683
00:33:42,543 --> 00:33:45,709
Conyers:
We just had that face
of when she was still a baby.
684
00:33:45,793 --> 00:33:47,834
We didn't even know
who she looked like.
685
00:33:47,918 --> 00:33:50,293
Which one of us that
she was gonna take after
686
00:33:50,376 --> 00:33:53,084
until we seen her,
and it's like, "Oh, it's me."
687
00:33:53,168 --> 00:33:55,209
So, she took
the shot of her...
688
00:33:56,793 --> 00:33:59,876
and the shot of me
side-by-side...
689
00:33:59,959 --> 00:34:02,334
and we look like
identical twins.
690
00:34:04,209 --> 00:34:05,584
And next thing you know...
691
00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:07,501
my phone rings...
692
00:34:09,084 --> 00:34:10,418
and she said...
693
00:34:14,501 --> 00:34:17,543
"I've been lookin'
for my sister...
694
00:34:17,626 --> 00:34:19,418
ever since I was
a little girl."
695
00:34:21,751 --> 00:34:24,459
And she said what she
thought my name was,
696
00:34:24,543 --> 00:34:27,376
which it was Symbolie Conyers.
697
00:34:29,126 --> 00:34:32,959
And, of course,
you know, a moment of...
698
00:34:33,043 --> 00:34:37,501
I couldn't believe it,
you know, I was still in awe.
699
00:34:37,584 --> 00:34:39,501
My children took me there.
700
00:34:39,584 --> 00:34:41,376
So, they said,
"Mom, go to the Washington area,
701
00:34:41,459 --> 00:34:44,251
go do it, you know,
you've been lookin'
for this all your life."
702
00:34:44,334 --> 00:34:46,376
(indistinct chatter)
703
00:34:48,543 --> 00:34:49,918
Mom, Mom.
704
00:34:55,668 --> 00:34:57,418
(cries)
705
00:34:58,501 --> 00:35:01,001
Oh my god!
706
00:35:08,543 --> 00:35:11,334
(sobbing)
707
00:35:13,168 --> 00:35:16,751
She look like me!
She look like me!
708
00:35:16,834 --> 00:35:18,084
No, you look like me.
709
00:35:18,168 --> 00:35:20,876
-(laughing)
-(indistinct chatter)
710
00:35:20,959 --> 00:35:22,251
You look like me.
711
00:35:22,334 --> 00:35:24,543
We got the same
skirt on!
712
00:35:25,876 --> 00:35:28,043
Look!
713
00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:31,418
Smith (on phone):
I'm amazed that
I get to act like this.
714
00:35:31,501 --> 00:35:33,709
Conyers (on phone):
You wanna see how I act.
715
00:35:33,793 --> 00:35:35,626
-It was really incredible.
-Yeah.
716
00:35:35,709 --> 00:35:37,918
(laughs)
717
00:35:38,001 --> 00:35:42,001
Smith:
Looking at...
each other side-by-side
718
00:35:42,084 --> 00:35:45,418
is just really wild,
and just to hear, um...
719
00:35:47,751 --> 00:35:49,168
that I look like my mother.
720
00:35:49,251 --> 00:35:50,709
-Like, that is--
-Yeah.
721
00:35:50,793 --> 00:35:55,084
Smith:
Because I was not around
when our mother passed,
722
00:35:55,168 --> 00:35:57,793
I had been missin'
for so long,
723
00:35:57,876 --> 00:36:00,709
and, you know,
Veronica validated,
724
00:36:00,793 --> 00:36:03,501
in a lot of ways,
my story.
725
00:36:03,584 --> 00:36:05,001
I know people
thought you was crazy,
726
00:36:05,084 --> 00:36:06,543
-they didn't believe you.
-(Smith laughs)
727
00:36:06,626 --> 00:36:08,168
That's the first
thing I said to you
when I met you,
728
00:36:08,251 --> 00:36:10,251
they probably thought
you was crazy, you know,
729
00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:13,834
and, um, you were
somewhere where you
wasn't supposed to be.
730
00:36:13,918 --> 00:36:16,293
You had to identify
yourself as who you are,
731
00:36:16,376 --> 00:36:18,293
a person,
a human being
on this Earth.
732
00:36:18,376 --> 00:36:20,834
-And I'm proud of you.
-You got me. I got you.
733
00:36:20,918 --> 00:36:23,334
-Okay, mm-hm.
-We got us. (laughs)
734
00:36:25,043 --> 00:36:29,001
Smith:
Since that time...
I still campaign,
735
00:36:29,084 --> 00:36:33,834
I lobby, I press forward
with the advocacy work.
736
00:36:33,918 --> 00:36:37,209
She's a great resource.
She's a big advocate
for missing kids.
737
00:36:37,293 --> 00:36:39,751
Somebody goes missin'
in the city or somethin',
738
00:36:39,834 --> 00:36:41,918
she would call me,
"Do I know about this?"
739
00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:44,126
News Announcer 1:
Monique Smith is a local
missing children's advocate
740
00:36:44,209 --> 00:36:47,793
who helped lobby for
the passing of the state's
missing children's act.
741
00:36:47,876 --> 00:36:49,668
News Announcer 2:
She wrote a book,
and donated all proceeds
742
00:36:49,751 --> 00:36:52,459
to the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children,
743
00:36:52,543 --> 00:36:57,209
and holds workshops
in schools to teach kids
how to protect themselves.
744
00:36:57,293 --> 00:36:59,834
Natalie Wilson:
I'm sure within our communities
745
00:36:59,918 --> 00:37:03,043
there are hundreds
of Monique Smiths.
746
00:37:04,084 --> 00:37:05,668
And it doesn't matter if it's
747
00:37:05,751 --> 00:37:11,959
one year, five, 10, 20,
we have seen miracles happen.
748
00:37:12,043 --> 00:37:15,793
Derrica Wilson:
We don't want families
to ever give up on hope.
749
00:37:15,876 --> 00:37:18,959
We want people to know
that they're not in this
by themselves.
750
00:37:19,043 --> 00:37:20,959
Here it is.
I was missin' for 50 years.
751
00:37:21,043 --> 00:37:23,543
Don't give up hope. Hope lives.
752
00:37:25,709 --> 00:37:29,876
♪ ♪
753
00:37:35,293 --> 00:37:39,418
Butler:
There's thousands of people
of color that's missing.
754
00:37:41,418 --> 00:37:43,501
Hope keeps people goin'.
755
00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:50,376
My mother, actually,
held on to the hope that
756
00:37:50,459 --> 00:37:53,209
Pam was alive...
757
00:37:53,293 --> 00:37:55,376
almost up until the very end.
758
00:37:56,876 --> 00:37:59,209
I miss all the gatherings
that we would have together,
759
00:37:59,293 --> 00:38:01,668
the things that she would
put together for the family
760
00:38:01,751 --> 00:38:03,668
to try to make sure
that we stayed together,
761
00:38:03,751 --> 00:38:07,001
and... had good times together.
762
00:38:07,084 --> 00:38:09,334
Someday we'll meet again...
763
00:38:09,918 --> 00:38:11,418
in heaven.
764
00:38:11,501 --> 00:38:13,668
I look at your picture...
765
00:38:13,751 --> 00:38:16,376
every day.
766
00:38:17,959 --> 00:38:20,626
Mike Fulton:
When Jose was locked up...
767
00:38:20,709 --> 00:38:23,584
Derrick and I had this very
brutally honest conversation,
768
00:38:23,668 --> 00:38:24,918
and I said to him,
769
00:38:25,001 --> 00:38:26,293
"What is the most important
770
00:38:26,376 --> 00:38:28,459
thing about this case?"
771
00:38:28,543 --> 00:38:30,668
He said, "Bring Pam home."
772
00:38:30,751 --> 00:38:32,834
Butler:
It was very important
to my mother...
773
00:38:32,918 --> 00:38:35,168
that we recover Pam's body,
774
00:38:35,251 --> 00:38:37,209
and give her
a proper resting place.
775
00:38:37,293 --> 00:38:39,126
And we knew that we
were not gonna get a body,
776
00:38:39,209 --> 00:38:41,251
or find out where she was
777
00:38:41,334 --> 00:38:45,709
without Jose givin' us
some kind of assistance.
778
00:38:45,793 --> 00:38:49,543
Glenn Kirschner:
Ultimately, we agreed
to give him a sentence
779
00:38:49,626 --> 00:38:51,043
of 12 years in prison,
780
00:38:51,126 --> 00:38:53,501
if and only if...
781
00:38:53,584 --> 00:38:56,126
he took us to Pam's body.
782
00:38:56,209 --> 00:38:57,543
And that was an agreement
783
00:38:57,626 --> 00:39:01,334
that Pam's family
was very supportive of.
784
00:39:01,418 --> 00:39:04,376
If she's layin' out somewhere,
she's still missing to us.
785
00:39:04,459 --> 00:39:07,334
We wanna bring her home,
and know exactly where she is.
786
00:39:08,876 --> 00:39:10,209
(Detective speaking)
787
00:39:11,209 --> 00:39:12,793
Jose Rodriguez-Cruz:
Um...
788
00:39:13,709 --> 00:39:18,168
(Jose speaking)
789
00:39:23,834 --> 00:39:25,918
(Detective speaking)
790
00:39:26,001 --> 00:39:27,751
(Jose speaking)
791
00:39:29,668 --> 00:39:31,751
(Detective speaking)
792
00:39:32,918 --> 00:39:36,293
(Jose speaking)
793
00:39:37,751 --> 00:39:41,376
(Detective speaking)
794
00:39:41,459 --> 00:39:42,876
(Jose speaking)
795
00:39:43,918 --> 00:39:46,168
(Detective speaking)
796
00:39:47,084 --> 00:39:49,751
(Jose speaking)
797
00:39:51,751 --> 00:39:53,584
News Announcer 1:
Prosecutors say the process
798
00:39:53,668 --> 00:39:58,001
to recover Pam's body
is now already underway.
799
00:39:58,084 --> 00:39:59,959
News Announcer 2:
The victim's brother,
Derrick Butler,
800
00:40:00,043 --> 00:40:03,334
was among those watching
the cadaver dogs search.
801
00:40:03,418 --> 00:40:05,668
He buried her
in a shallow grave.
802
00:40:05,751 --> 00:40:08,709
This is supposed
to be the spot here.
803
00:40:08,793 --> 00:40:12,251
Kirschner:
Even though Jose could
take us to the spot...
804
00:40:12,334 --> 00:40:14,001
everything had changed
805
00:40:14,084 --> 00:40:17,043
because the ground
had been dug up,
806
00:40:17,126 --> 00:40:19,418
and high-occupancy
vehicle lanes
807
00:40:19,501 --> 00:40:21,876
had been put in and paved.
808
00:40:21,959 --> 00:40:24,376
News Announcer:
We have disappointing
news tonight.
809
00:40:24,459 --> 00:40:26,043
I just spoke
with Derrick Butler.
810
00:40:26,126 --> 00:40:28,584
He just met with
the homicide division office
811
00:40:28,668 --> 00:40:29,834
here in Southwest D.C.,
812
00:40:29,918 --> 00:40:32,168
and he was told that, uh,
813
00:40:32,251 --> 00:40:35,626
Pam's body is unrecoverable.
814
00:40:37,793 --> 00:40:39,543
Butler:
We know that
a body was there,
815
00:40:39,626 --> 00:40:42,793
the cadaver dogs
are tellin' us that.
816
00:40:42,876 --> 00:40:47,584
But where she's at in some
parts of that strip of highway,
817
00:40:47,668 --> 00:40:50,543
they put up to 30 feet of dirt.
818
00:40:52,334 --> 00:40:56,168
Kirschner:
The remains weren't found,
but we decided Jose made
819
00:40:56,251 --> 00:41:01,626
all reasonable efforts to try
to take us to the remains.
820
00:41:01,709 --> 00:41:04,918
Butler:
So, in the end,
we didn't get a body,
821
00:41:05,001 --> 00:41:06,918
and he got 12 years for
822
00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:09,334
the murder of my sister.
823
00:41:09,418 --> 00:41:10,751
And I told him, I said,
824
00:41:10,834 --> 00:41:13,543
"Well, I'm mad
as hell about this."
825
00:41:13,626 --> 00:41:16,543
But Michael Fulton,
he assured me,
826
00:41:16,626 --> 00:41:18,001
this guy's not gonna come home.
827
00:41:18,084 --> 00:41:20,334
He's gonna do life...
828
00:41:20,418 --> 00:41:23,001
um, 'cause Virginia's
gonna get him...
829
00:41:23,084 --> 00:41:25,793
for the murder
of his first wife.
830
00:41:25,876 --> 00:41:28,543
Back up the story
just a little bit.
831
00:41:28,626 --> 00:41:30,126
We're out there,
and we're searching,
832
00:41:30,209 --> 00:41:32,043
and, at some point
durin' that thing,
833
00:41:32,126 --> 00:41:34,668
somebody out there says,
"You know...
834
00:41:34,751 --> 00:41:36,376
"there was a body recovered,
835
00:41:36,459 --> 00:41:38,168
"you know, about
a mile up this road,
836
00:41:38,251 --> 00:41:39,793
you know, way back when."
837
00:41:39,876 --> 00:41:42,959
(tense music playing)
838
00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:45,251
Kirschner:
In the early '90s...
839
00:41:45,334 --> 00:41:48,626
the Virginia
law enforcement
authorities
840
00:41:48,709 --> 00:41:50,376
had found human remains
841
00:41:50,459 --> 00:41:53,043
in between
the southbound lanes,
842
00:41:53,126 --> 00:41:57,459
and the northbound
lanes of 95.
843
00:41:57,543 --> 00:42:00,834
But those human remains
were never identified.
844
00:42:02,168 --> 00:42:04,918
When Hansel, who's Jose's son,
845
00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:07,501
decided that he would
cooperate with the police
846
00:42:07,584 --> 00:42:10,168
in the murder of my sister,
847
00:42:10,251 --> 00:42:13,209
they got Hansel's DNA.
848
00:42:13,293 --> 00:42:16,751
The DNA from Hansel
comes back to a match
849
00:42:16,834 --> 00:42:19,584
for the bones that were found
850
00:42:19,668 --> 00:42:22,626
about a mile up the road
from where Pam was found.
851
00:42:22,709 --> 00:42:26,209
And sure enough,
that was Marta...
852
00:42:26,293 --> 00:42:28,293
Jose's first wife.
853
00:42:28,376 --> 00:42:30,418
♪ ♪
854
00:42:30,501 --> 00:42:32,126
Hansel Rodriguez:
It's a mixed bag.
855
00:42:32,209 --> 00:42:34,168
You know, on one hand,
856
00:42:34,251 --> 00:42:35,626
you think, "Finally," you know,
857
00:42:35,709 --> 00:42:37,168
"Another piece of the puzzle,"
you know?
858
00:42:37,251 --> 00:42:41,459
At least she can be,
you know, laid to rest.
859
00:42:41,543 --> 00:42:44,418
But on the other hand,
it confirmed
something horrible.
860
00:42:47,668 --> 00:42:49,501
About six months go by,
861
00:42:49,584 --> 00:42:52,834
and I'm not hearin'
anything from Virginia.
862
00:42:52,918 --> 00:42:54,959
Fulton:
Virginia gets all
the information we have,
863
00:42:55,043 --> 00:42:59,126
and then, everything
kinda grinded to a halt.
864
00:42:59,209 --> 00:43:01,126
Why it grinded to a halt?
I don't know.
865
00:43:01,209 --> 00:43:03,293
Were we frustrated?
Absolutely.
866
00:43:03,376 --> 00:43:04,751
Butler:
I was startin' to think,
867
00:43:04,834 --> 00:43:07,251
"Here we go again,
it's a person of color.
868
00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:09,876
They're just
marginalizing us."
869
00:43:09,959 --> 00:43:13,209
Derrick started fighting
in Virginia for Jose's
870
00:43:13,293 --> 00:43:15,084
first wife, Marta's case.
871
00:43:16,751 --> 00:43:19,209
Rodriguez:
He reached out to me.
872
00:43:19,293 --> 00:43:21,918
I think part of me was just,
uh, kinda just beaten down,
873
00:43:22,001 --> 00:43:26,709
and, and cynical like,
"Oh, you know, it's been
30 years, what's the point?"
874
00:43:26,793 --> 00:43:29,043
I, um, started
makin' inquiries
875
00:43:29,126 --> 00:43:31,168
about, you know, what's
happening with this case,
876
00:43:31,251 --> 00:43:33,834
and nobody would talk to me.
877
00:43:33,918 --> 00:43:36,126
So, I told all
the major news stations
878
00:43:36,209 --> 00:43:37,959
that I wanted to go
down there and confront
879
00:43:38,043 --> 00:43:40,084
this Commonwealth's
attorney about it.
880
00:43:40,168 --> 00:43:43,084
News Announcer:
We followed Derrick Butler
on his journey for justice,
881
00:43:43,168 --> 00:43:45,168
hoping to meet with
the Commonwealth's attorney,
882
00:43:45,251 --> 00:43:46,293
Eric Olsen.
883
00:43:46,376 --> 00:43:47,668
Butler:
One of the things that I really
884
00:43:47,751 --> 00:43:49,376
wanted him to know that,
you know,
885
00:43:49,459 --> 00:43:51,543
this is a person of color
that went missing,
886
00:43:51,626 --> 00:43:54,418
and, too often, we don't
do anything about it.
887
00:43:56,251 --> 00:43:59,543
I was able to get Virginia
to proceed with Marta's case
888
00:43:59,626 --> 00:44:03,793
because of what I learned from
workin' with Black and Missing.
889
00:44:03,876 --> 00:44:07,126
Eric Olsen:
Today, Jose Rodriguez pleaded
guilty to second degree murder.
890
00:44:07,209 --> 00:44:11,043
The range of punishment for that
is five years to 40 years.
891
00:44:11,126 --> 00:44:12,876
There's no agreement
as to his punishment.
892
00:44:12,959 --> 00:44:15,168
It'll be up to
the judge to decide
893
00:44:15,251 --> 00:44:17,584
when he returns for sentencing.
894
00:44:19,084 --> 00:44:22,959
Butler:
I am sure without me
pushing Marta's case
895
00:44:23,043 --> 00:44:25,168
it would've
never went forward.
896
00:44:27,293 --> 00:44:30,459
I really believe had
Virginia police done
897
00:44:30,543 --> 00:44:33,793
their due diligence
at the very beginning...
898
00:44:33,876 --> 00:44:35,668
my sister would be alive today.
899
00:44:39,043 --> 00:44:41,418
That's what really affects me.
900
00:44:42,751 --> 00:44:49,626
I will not get excited until
we hear the sentencing.
901
00:44:49,709 --> 00:44:54,626
We're hoping he will spend
the rest of his life in jail.
902
00:44:58,834 --> 00:45:00,501
Natalie Wilson (on phone):
Hey, Derrick. Mornin'.
903
00:45:00,584 --> 00:45:02,418
Butler:
Good morning,
how are you?
904
00:45:02,501 --> 00:45:03,959
Natalie Wilson:
Good, how are you?
905
00:45:04,043 --> 00:45:06,126
Butler:
Fantastic, thanks for asking.
906
00:45:06,209 --> 00:45:07,626
Natalie Wilson:
I wanted to go over
907
00:45:07,709 --> 00:45:09,751
the statement that
I sent with you.
908
00:45:09,834 --> 00:45:12,084
Do you wanna go
over it one time,
909
00:45:12,168 --> 00:45:14,043
or do you wanna go
through it one time?
910
00:45:14,126 --> 00:45:15,459
Butler (on phone):
Yes, I do.
911
00:45:15,543 --> 00:45:17,209
Okay.
912
00:45:17,293 --> 00:45:18,584
It's hard to believe
913
00:45:18,668 --> 00:45:19,918
that my family lived
914
00:45:20,001 --> 00:45:23,459
the nightmare of my sister's
disappearance for 12 years.
915
00:45:24,584 --> 00:45:26,126
It's even harder to believe
916
00:45:26,209 --> 00:45:28,793
the pain that Hansel
has been living with
917
00:45:28,876 --> 00:45:31,709
about his mother's
disappearance.
918
00:45:34,376 --> 00:45:37,793
Gamini Felder:
Father, as we join hands
today with Hansel,
919
00:45:37,876 --> 00:45:39,293
we offer this prayer to you
920
00:45:39,376 --> 00:45:42,626
asking that Jose receive
the maximum time
921
00:45:42,709 --> 00:45:44,376
that the law will allow.
922
00:45:45,959 --> 00:45:49,918
Rodriguez:
I wasn't too happy about
the lowest number that I heard.
923
00:45:50,001 --> 00:45:51,168
But if it's in the upper range,
924
00:45:51,251 --> 00:45:54,376
that would, essentially,
be a life sentence.
925
00:45:55,626 --> 00:45:57,001
I don't want my mother's death,
926
00:45:57,084 --> 00:45:59,168
all of this time
and pain and suffering
927
00:45:59,251 --> 00:46:00,668
to be in vain.
928
00:46:09,959 --> 00:46:12,209
News Announcer:
Her death was a mystery.
929
00:46:12,293 --> 00:46:16,334
Thirty-two years later,
the killer brought to justice.
930
00:46:16,418 --> 00:46:19,209
Rodriguez-Cruz is 56 years old,
931
00:46:19,293 --> 00:46:23,501
and is now sentenced
to serve 40 years in prison.
932
00:46:23,584 --> 00:46:26,918
Um, I'm definitely
satisfied with
the sentencing,
933
00:46:27,001 --> 00:46:28,418
um...
934
00:46:28,501 --> 00:46:31,501
now nobody else will
have to worry about,
935
00:46:31,584 --> 00:46:34,168
uh, meeting
the same fate.
936
00:46:34,251 --> 00:46:36,209
I couldn't have done
it without Derrick,
937
00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:38,084
right here,
Mr. Derrick Butler.
938
00:46:38,168 --> 00:46:40,418
He was
very much my voice.
939
00:46:41,834 --> 00:46:44,459
Butler:
Forty years
was what I expected,
940
00:46:44,543 --> 00:46:47,501
however, nobody should
have to go through
941
00:46:47,584 --> 00:46:49,709
what I went through,
what Hansel went through.
942
00:46:49,793 --> 00:46:53,668
We cannot continue
to be marginalized,
943
00:46:53,751 --> 00:46:56,959
and looked at,
like we're just trash
944
00:46:57,043 --> 00:46:58,918
when these things happen.
945
00:46:59,001 --> 00:47:02,959
People of authority,
people that have power
946
00:47:03,043 --> 00:47:04,501
need to listen.
947
00:47:04,584 --> 00:47:06,168
I tried and I tried
948
00:47:06,251 --> 00:47:08,043
to do it the nice
way with them,
949
00:47:08,126 --> 00:47:10,084
nobody wanted to hear it.
950
00:47:11,668 --> 00:47:13,334
Rodriguez:
We did it, man.
We did it.
951
00:47:15,459 --> 00:47:17,293
(line ringing)
952
00:47:19,126 --> 00:47:20,668
Hello. How are you all?
953
00:47:21,709 --> 00:47:23,918
(Natalie Wilson speaking)
954
00:47:24,001 --> 00:47:28,584
I'm better, I'm better than
I have been in a long time.
955
00:47:28,668 --> 00:47:30,751
We got his ass.
We got it...
956
00:47:30,834 --> 00:47:34,209
-Yes.
-I feel good.
957
00:47:34,293 --> 00:47:37,293
One of the things that
I'm lookin' forward to is that
958
00:47:37,376 --> 00:47:39,251
I'm gonna get married.
959
00:47:39,334 --> 00:47:42,584
You know, I'm able to,
actually, enjoy life,
960
00:47:42,668 --> 00:47:44,751
and not have to
961
00:47:44,834 --> 00:47:46,543
worry about wrestling with this
962
00:47:46,626 --> 00:47:51,334
horrific situation that
I've been dealin' with
for the last 12 years.
963
00:47:51,418 --> 00:47:53,543
(Derrica Wilson speaking)
964
00:47:58,834 --> 00:48:01,418
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
965
00:48:01,501 --> 00:48:04,459
(Natalie Wilson speaking)
966
00:48:06,584 --> 00:48:08,209
Yeah, well, that's
what it's all about.
967
00:48:09,543 --> 00:48:12,418
No. I'm, I'm in
this for life now.
968
00:48:15,209 --> 00:48:18,293
I know that Derrica and Natalie
969
00:48:18,376 --> 00:48:20,876
have the same
commitment that I have.
970
00:48:23,043 --> 00:48:24,459
Both of them are still working
971
00:48:24,543 --> 00:48:27,251
eight-hour jobs,
five days a week.
972
00:48:28,584 --> 00:48:30,959
I know that they're
lookin' forward to retiring,
973
00:48:31,043 --> 00:48:32,793
and comin' home and,
974
00:48:32,876 --> 00:48:36,001
actually, workin' full-time
for Black and Missing.
975
00:48:36,084 --> 00:48:37,334
(doorbell rings)
976
00:48:40,293 --> 00:48:42,876
-Hey!
-Natalie Wilson:
Hey, good mornin'!
977
00:48:42,959 --> 00:48:46,751
Hi! Hi, man.
978
00:48:48,043 --> 00:48:49,876
(laughs)
979
00:48:49,959 --> 00:48:52,959
(overlapping greetings)
980
00:48:54,918 --> 00:48:56,751
Somebody's swingin'
golf clubs, huh?
981
00:48:56,834 --> 00:48:58,418
Look at you.
982
00:48:58,501 --> 00:49:00,001
Come here, EJ!
983
00:49:03,418 --> 00:49:06,209
Black and Missing Foundation,
it's a full-time job,
984
00:49:06,293 --> 00:49:09,626
and so many people
depend on us,
985
00:49:09,709 --> 00:49:14,168
and, and, sometimes,
it's hard, you know,
to balance, you know, with
986
00:49:14,251 --> 00:49:17,126
our personal lives,
and working full-time,
987
00:49:17,209 --> 00:49:18,251
and doin'
the organization.
988
00:49:18,334 --> 00:49:20,209
I mean, this is
our mission, our passion
989
00:49:20,293 --> 00:49:21,918
to be able to help
these people,
990
00:49:22,043 --> 00:49:25,251
-and to be able
to do this full-time...
-Mm-hm.
991
00:49:25,334 --> 00:49:27,751
you know, without
the other distractions
992
00:49:27,834 --> 00:49:31,043
-will, will benefit
so many other people.
-Natalie Wilson: Right.
993
00:49:31,126 --> 00:49:33,251
We're working on these
cases in the morning,
994
00:49:33,334 --> 00:49:35,418
and then, you have
to put that face on,
995
00:49:35,501 --> 00:49:39,293
and go into the office,
and be cordial and happy,
996
00:49:39,376 --> 00:49:41,084
and then, you come
home, and you're...
997
00:49:41,168 --> 00:49:42,876
going through it again.
It becomes a lot.
998
00:49:42,959 --> 00:49:47,376
Derrica Wilson:
Some cases rock me to the core
where I can't even sleep.
999
00:49:47,459 --> 00:49:49,084
Natalie Wilson:
You see these young girls
1000
00:49:49,168 --> 00:49:51,293
as young as 5 years old
1001
00:49:51,376 --> 00:49:53,376
-being kidnapped and raped.
-Derrica Wilson: Yeah.
1002
00:49:53,459 --> 00:49:55,668
I mean, it, it
does a lot to you.
1003
00:49:55,751 --> 00:49:58,418
Sometimes, Natalie
get phone calls,
1004
00:49:58,501 --> 00:49:59,834
and you can hear
these people cryin'
1005
00:49:59,918 --> 00:50:01,918
on the other end
of the phone.
1006
00:50:02,001 --> 00:50:04,376
I don't even
know how they
sleep at night.
1007
00:50:07,834 --> 00:50:11,293
You know, sometimes,
helping families,
1008
00:50:11,376 --> 00:50:13,376
because we're so
passionate about it,
1009
00:50:13,459 --> 00:50:15,584
it does take a toll on you.
1010
00:50:15,668 --> 00:50:17,209
Um, we have our own families,
1011
00:50:17,293 --> 00:50:19,501
and our own lives that
we are dealing with,
1012
00:50:19,584 --> 00:50:22,251
and we're not immune to,
1013
00:50:22,334 --> 00:50:24,459
you know, a trauma and tragedy,
1014
00:50:24,543 --> 00:50:27,376
and just life itself.
1015
00:50:29,501 --> 00:50:30,668
Mom:
Call who?
1016
00:50:31,751 --> 00:50:33,168
Mom:
You call him "Daddy."
1017
00:50:33,251 --> 00:50:36,001
EJ: Daddy! Daddy!
1018
00:50:37,001 --> 00:50:40,459
Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!
1019
00:50:40,543 --> 00:50:43,918
Our son, Elon, has
been incarcerated,
1020
00:50:44,001 --> 00:50:47,126
so our family is
going through it.
1021
00:50:47,209 --> 00:50:49,501
News Announcer:
Elon Wilson served
nearly two years
1022
00:50:49,584 --> 00:50:51,376
in jail after a traffic stop,
1023
00:50:51,459 --> 00:50:52,709
and now,
a Fairfax County judge
1024
00:50:52,793 --> 00:50:54,501
says the officer
who arrested him
1025
00:50:54,584 --> 00:50:56,668
lied on the police report.
1026
00:50:56,751 --> 00:50:58,959
Walter Royster:
We found out that
the prosecutor's begun
1027
00:50:59,043 --> 00:51:01,876
reviewing 400 cases
linked to Freitag.
1028
00:51:01,959 --> 00:51:04,709
News Announcer:
Prosecutors say
former Officer Freitag
1029
00:51:04,793 --> 00:51:07,418
pilfered evidence
from the property room,
1030
00:51:07,501 --> 00:51:09,334
and stopped dozens of people
1031
00:51:09,418 --> 00:51:12,084
because of the color
of their skin.
1032
00:51:12,168 --> 00:51:15,626
Natalie Wilson:
Freitag was never
charged with any crime,
1033
00:51:15,709 --> 00:51:18,459
and he maintains
he has done nothing wrong,
1034
00:51:18,543 --> 00:51:20,459
but according to
the Fairfax County
1035
00:51:20,543 --> 00:51:22,959
Commonwealth Attorney's office,
1036
00:51:23,043 --> 00:51:26,751
this investigation
is currently ongoing.
1037
00:51:26,834 --> 00:51:28,709
With Elon's case,
1038
00:51:28,793 --> 00:51:32,626
Elon never crossed
the double lines.
1039
00:51:32,709 --> 00:51:33,793
(sirens wailing)
1040
00:51:33,876 --> 00:51:38,543
And that was his reason
for stopping him.
1041
00:51:38,626 --> 00:51:41,001
News Announcer:
Freitag says while on patrol,
1042
00:51:41,084 --> 00:51:43,126
he would camp out
across the street
1043
00:51:43,209 --> 00:51:44,751
from a music recording studio,
1044
00:51:44,834 --> 00:51:48,001
and stop anyone who behaved
out of the ordinary.
1045
00:51:48,084 --> 00:51:49,209
(Officer Freitag speaking)
1046
00:51:49,293 --> 00:51:51,668
(Officer Freitag
and person speaking)
1047
00:51:51,751 --> 00:51:55,293
News Announcer:
This can be considered
a pre-textual traffic stop,
1048
00:51:55,376 --> 00:51:57,251
stopping someone for one reason
1049
00:51:57,334 --> 00:52:00,501
in order to conduct
an unrelated search.
1050
00:52:10,876 --> 00:52:13,084
He profiled him,
and he stopped him,
1051
00:52:13,168 --> 00:52:15,834
and he routinely did this.
1052
00:52:15,918 --> 00:52:17,251
Official:
This was a bad stop,
1053
00:52:17,334 --> 00:52:19,376
a bad prosecution that
never should've happened,
1054
00:52:19,459 --> 00:52:20,834
and that's why we're
movin' heaven and Earth
1055
00:52:20,918 --> 00:52:22,584
to get Elon Wilson
out of prison.
1056
00:52:22,668 --> 00:52:26,084
I think it was
three days later,
1057
00:52:26,168 --> 00:52:29,543
I get a call from
the correctional facility,
1058
00:52:29,626 --> 00:52:33,334
and the correctional officer
said, "Hold on...
1059
00:52:33,418 --> 00:52:36,418
um, your son needs
to speak with you."
1060
00:52:36,501 --> 00:52:39,501
And I heard Elon say,
"Mom, come get me now."
1061
00:52:39,584 --> 00:52:44,043
And I'm-- I am just
crying and panicking,
1062
00:52:44,126 --> 00:52:45,709
and I call Walter and I'm like,
1063
00:52:45,793 --> 00:52:46,876
"I don't know where you are,
1064
00:52:46,959 --> 00:52:50,376
you need to go
and get Elon now."
1065
00:52:51,751 --> 00:52:53,251
The press was
still at our house,
1066
00:52:53,334 --> 00:52:56,001
and we wanted to make sure
that Elon didn't run into that
1067
00:52:56,084 --> 00:52:58,459
because he wasn't
ready for that.
1068
00:52:58,543 --> 00:52:59,959
He wasn't prepped for it.
1069
00:53:00,043 --> 00:53:01,959
He does not like
speaking to the media,
1070
00:53:02,043 --> 00:53:05,584
so he did go
immediately to
1071
00:53:05,668 --> 00:53:07,209
see EJ.
1072
00:53:07,293 --> 00:53:09,293
-Mom: Hi.
-Elon: EJ!
1073
00:53:09,376 --> 00:53:13,959
-Mom:
Look, who's that? Who's that?
-Elon: Hey!
1074
00:53:17,251 --> 00:53:19,334
-Mom:
Who's that, Boo?
-What's up, baby?
1075
00:53:20,501 --> 00:53:22,543
What you up to?
1076
00:53:22,626 --> 00:53:25,876
You got so big, little boy.
1077
00:53:25,959 --> 00:53:28,334
Mom:
Who is that?
Say, "Daddy, look."
1078
00:53:28,418 --> 00:53:29,959
-What's up?
-Mom: Is that your Daddy?
1079
00:53:30,043 --> 00:53:31,918
EJ:
Hi.
1080
00:53:32,043 --> 00:53:34,334
Natalie Wilson:
We felt a sense of relief,
1081
00:53:34,418 --> 00:53:38,251
like, "Oh my god,
he's really, really home."
1082
00:53:40,918 --> 00:53:45,584
It was like all of our
hard work and efforts
had paid off.
1083
00:53:45,668 --> 00:53:46,793
I know you gave a lot,
1084
00:53:46,876 --> 00:53:50,626
we spent a lot of money
that we didn't have...
1085
00:53:50,709 --> 00:53:56,084
and we have suffered PTSD.
I'm still trying to...
1086
00:53:56,168 --> 00:53:57,834
you know, get myself together.
1087
00:53:57,918 --> 00:53:58,959
It, it's been a tough--
1088
00:53:59,043 --> 00:54:01,626
It was a tough,
and has been a tough
1089
00:54:01,709 --> 00:54:05,126
not only 20 months,
when he was incarcerated,
1090
00:54:05,209 --> 00:54:09,001
but everything leading up to it.
1091
00:54:09,084 --> 00:54:12,001
We know what these families
are going through, it's--
1092
00:54:12,084 --> 00:54:13,418
and it's-- it's a lot.
1093
00:54:20,209 --> 00:54:21,793
(line ringing)
1094
00:54:23,126 --> 00:54:24,918
Hey, lady. How are you?
1095
00:54:25,001 --> 00:54:28,626
(Person on phone speaking)
1096
00:54:28,709 --> 00:54:31,459
You still don't know where
your daughter is, right?
1097
00:54:31,543 --> 00:54:32,709
Person (on phone):
No.
1098
00:54:32,793 --> 00:54:34,834
So, what is
law enforcement saying?
1099
00:54:48,918 --> 00:54:51,001
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
1100
00:54:53,584 --> 00:54:56,751
Thank you, and that's
the power of the media.
1101
00:54:56,834 --> 00:54:58,126
So, I'm getting emotional now,
1102
00:54:58,209 --> 00:55:00,709
but that's what we've
been tryin' to do.
1103
00:55:02,918 --> 00:55:03,918
(sighs)
1104
00:55:05,126 --> 00:55:08,709
See? This is what we do,
how we do it.
1105
00:55:11,334 --> 00:55:12,418
Okay.
1106
00:55:13,834 --> 00:55:15,209
We've done some great things,
1107
00:55:15,293 --> 00:55:16,584
made great strides,
1108
00:55:16,668 --> 00:55:21,251
but we still have
a lot of work to do.
1109
00:55:21,334 --> 00:55:23,834
Derrica Wilson:
When Natalie and I
started the organization,
1110
00:55:23,918 --> 00:55:25,959
30% of missing persons
in the United States
1111
00:55:26,043 --> 00:55:27,043
were persons of color.
1112
00:55:27,126 --> 00:55:28,834
That number has since increased
1113
00:55:28,918 --> 00:55:31,084
to nearly 40%.
1114
00:55:31,168 --> 00:55:35,209
Natalie Wilson:
There are a lot of issues
in the African-American
1115
00:55:35,293 --> 00:55:37,584
community that
we need to tackle
1116
00:55:37,668 --> 00:55:41,668
because they result
in people going missing.
1117
00:55:41,751 --> 00:55:43,334
Mental health,
1118
00:55:43,418 --> 00:55:45,126
domestic violence,
1119
00:55:45,209 --> 00:55:49,126
poverty, police misconduct.
1120
00:55:49,209 --> 00:55:51,084
Vince Warren:
If we were to ask Black people
1121
00:55:51,168 --> 00:55:53,126
what's the solution
to the problem
1122
00:55:53,209 --> 00:55:54,918
for keeping their kids safe,
1123
00:55:55,001 --> 00:55:57,876
we would have the answers
to the questions.
1124
00:55:57,959 --> 00:56:01,793
The problem is, is that
because Black people
are saying them,
1125
00:56:01,876 --> 00:56:03,168
we're not listening.
1126
00:56:03,251 --> 00:56:05,918
We have developed
entire structures
1127
00:56:06,001 --> 00:56:09,959
around the concept
of missing white people.
1128
00:56:10,043 --> 00:56:15,251
And we have virtually nothing
except for the spit and grit
1129
00:56:15,334 --> 00:56:18,334
of Black folks
who are determined
1130
00:56:18,418 --> 00:56:20,209
that our people matter, too,
1131
00:56:20,293 --> 00:56:22,168
that our bodies
are not disposable,
1132
00:56:22,251 --> 00:56:24,751
that our families
deserve to be together.
1133
00:56:26,876 --> 00:56:29,001
Butler:
My hope for Black and Missing,
1134
00:56:29,084 --> 00:56:32,168
is that we die a natural death.
1135
00:56:32,251 --> 00:56:37,001
That there will be a time that
we don't need Black and Missing.
1136
00:56:37,084 --> 00:56:39,501
So, you and I,
we've talked about
1137
00:56:39,584 --> 00:56:41,626
you know,
doin' this full-time.
1138
00:56:41,709 --> 00:56:44,959
-Mm-hm.
-And I just want us
to be able to do more.
1139
00:56:45,043 --> 00:56:49,709
I want what we do to be
meaningful and impactful,
1140
00:56:49,793 --> 00:56:55,293
and I want God
to continue to use us
to be able to do this.
1141
00:56:55,376 --> 00:57:00,168
There are times when it feels
like we are against the world,
1142
00:57:00,251 --> 00:57:05,834
that there is no one coming to
our aid to help us fight this.
1143
00:57:05,918 --> 00:57:08,918
But then, you look
at those small moments
1144
00:57:09,001 --> 00:57:10,709
where you can rejoice
1145
00:57:10,793 --> 00:57:16,209
in knowing that you helped
bring closure to this family.
1146
00:57:16,293 --> 00:57:20,418
And that, right there,
fuels us to keep going.
1147
00:57:20,501 --> 00:57:23,001
Natalie Wilson:
There is a case that
came in yesterday,
1148
00:57:23,084 --> 00:57:25,584
and when I reached out
to law enforcement,
1149
00:57:25,668 --> 00:57:27,251
and they, they were givin'
me the run-around,
1150
00:57:27,334 --> 00:57:29,334
and I called back,
and I said, well, you know...
1151
00:57:33,543 --> 00:57:36,334
(classical music playing)
1152
00:57:48,334 --> 00:57:50,418
♪ ♪