1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,240 The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:09,920 All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,220 Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages and is intended for a mature 4 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:15,600 audience. 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,640 Listener discretion is advised. 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,240 Hello everyone. 7 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:21,800 Welcome back to Cold and Missing. 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,320 This is our second episode. 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,900 Thank you all so much for the response to our first episode. 10 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,200 It's been amazing. 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,680 We've had a lot of downloads and a lot of interactions with our content. 12 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:35,800 So thank you so much. 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,200 I'm completely blown 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00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:31,680 So he's here to ask questions that you as an audience member might have as you're listening 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,900 to this because sometimes I can get a little lost in the weeds with my research. 27 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:41,560 So he helps me stay on track and stay focused and tell a cohesive story. 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,640 So should we just jump in for this week? 29 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,640 Yep. 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:45,640 Okay, great. 31 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,520 So we are covering a missing persons or missing persons case. 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:58,540 We are going to be talking about Tionda and Diamond Bradley, and they have been missing 33 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:01,740 since July of 2001. 34 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:07,560 So 20 years, a little over 20 years they've been missing. 35 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:14,800 Tionda was 10 years old when she was missing and she would now be 31 in 2022. 36 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:22,920 And Diamond was three years old when she went missing and she would be 24 in the year 2022. 37 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:26,320 So this case brings us back to Chicago. 38 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:33,280 I promise we're going to cover cases all over the United States, the world, but this one 39 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,520 has stuck with me ever since I first heard about it. 40 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,060 I really wanted this to be one of the first cases that I talked about. 41 00:02:39,060 --> 00:02:44,040 So July 2001, the girls are living on the south side of Chicago and they are living 42 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:50,160 in the Oakland neighborhood, which if you're from Chicago, it's directly east of Bronzeville 43 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,640 and it runs along Lake Michigan there. 44 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:58,200 And Tionda and Diamond are living with their mother Tracy and their two other sisters, 45 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,780 Victoria and Rita. 46 00:03:00,780 --> 00:03:07,120 The family describes the girls as very smart and they're both athletic. 47 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:13,120 Tionda had won several park district awards in running, tumbling, and gymnastics. 48 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,720 And Tionda loved to dance. 49 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,400 One of her great aunts would say, like, if you were down, it didn't matter where you 50 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,240 were, if you just told Tionda to dance, she would dance. 51 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,680 It didn't matter if she was waiting for the bus at church, didn't matter. 52 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,500 She would just dance. 53 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:31,920 They also described Tionda as a laugher, like she laughed at everything. 54 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:37,040 And she was very outgoing with family, but shy with strangers. 55 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,440 And Tionda and Diamond, out of the four sisters, they had a very special bond and Tionda would 56 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:47,060 like often carry her around on her hip, like she was like her own little baby doll. 57 00:03:47,060 --> 00:03:52,280 So they were always together and neighbors, family, friends, like always put the two girls 58 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:53,280 together. 59 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,000 And Diamond, she was three years old when she went missing, but the family talked about 60 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,540 how much energy she would have. 61 00:04:00,540 --> 00:04:05,080 She would jump from couch to couch, she would snatch food right off of your plate. 62 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:11,400 She was always running after her older sisters to try to hang out with them. 63 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:18,760 And Tionda, one of her teachers described her as being the shortest kid in class, but 64 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,760 she acted the tallest, which I loved. 65 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,440 And I know that person very well. 66 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:30,720 Like I know that personality very well of short but mighty, you know? 67 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,260 Neighbors also mentioned that Tionda was one of the few kids in the neighborhood that had 68 00:04:36,260 --> 00:04:40,640 a bike, but she was always sharing it with all the kids in the neighborhood so everyone 69 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,640 could ride. 70 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:49,200 So like these were just very sweet and very kind girls and loving sisters. 71 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:58,520 So the day that they disappeared, the last day that we see them is Friday, July 6, 2001. 72 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:03,080 Tracy, their mother, she wakes up and gets ready for work. 73 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:09,080 And it's just Tionda and Diamond staying at the house with Tracy at this time. 74 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:14,920 Their two other sisters are staying the night at their grandmother's house. 75 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,520 So just Diamond and Tionda are at that house when Tracy wakes up. 76 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:25,140 Tracy leaves for work at around 6 a.m., 6.30 a.m. it's reported. 77 00:05:25,140 --> 00:05:30,960 It's mostly reported as 6, but in an interview I'll talk about later, Tracy says she leaves 78 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:31,960 at 6.30. 79 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,680 Tionda and Diamond were sleeping on the couch in the living room because this is summertime 80 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:43,080 in Chicago and it's hot and the AC unit was in the living room so the kids were sleeping 81 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,940 on the couch, which makes complete sense. 82 00:05:45,940 --> 00:05:51,360 So Tracy wakes Tionda up before leaving and told her, I'm locking the door and I'll call 83 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,800 you don't go out that door. 84 00:05:53,800 --> 00:06:00,040 So Tracy was leaving Tionda and Diamond by themselves while she went to work. 85 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:06,600 And in 2022 that seems like unfathomable to like leave a 10 year old to watch a three 86 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:07,720 year old. 87 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:13,240 But in 2001 this feels way more common. 88 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:19,040 Like I used to be left with my brother to watch and I remember watching kids pretty 89 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,320 young while their parents were gone for a few hours. 90 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:28,380 So like this is like pretty normal for the time period, even though just 20 years later 91 00:06:28,380 --> 00:06:32,400 it's very hard to imagine leaving a 10 year old to watch a three year old. 92 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:39,480 So Tracy, their mother, arrives at work around 6.40 and her boyfriend has dropped her off 93 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,560 at work. 94 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:46,880 Her boyfriend is also Diamond's father and she recently had filed a paternity suit against 95 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:53,440 him in June of 2001 in order to get child support payments just like dictated by the 96 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,320 court from my understanding. 97 00:06:55,320 --> 00:07:03,520 So he drops her off at work at 6.40 and she works at the park district like getting lunches 98 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,620 ready for summer camp program. 99 00:07:05,620 --> 00:07:07,800 So it's about a 10 minute drive from the apartment. 100 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,940 So it makes sense if she leaves at 6.30 she arrives at 6.40. 101 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:16,960 And the program director of this like summer camp program gets there at 8 and she said 102 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,300 Tracy has been at work and is working when she gets there. 103 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:26,780 So while Tracy's at work at around 8 a.m. she calls them from a work phone and there's 104 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:28,420 no answer. 105 00:07:28,420 --> 00:07:30,640 So she would be calling like the landline. 106 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,880 This is 2001 so people still have landlines. 107 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,320 So she calls the apartment's landline. 108 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:37,960 No answer. 109 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:43,600 She calls back seven minutes later and there's still no answer at the apartment. 110 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:49,660 She goes back to work and she calls again at around 8.45 and still nobody picks up. 111 00:07:49,660 --> 00:07:54,760 So she's worried but she's assumed that the girls have fallen back asleep at this point. 112 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,120 That's what she's running on. 113 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:02,760 And now we're going to get into a little bit of a murky area. 114 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:10,100 So this is all of witnesses and what's been reported as Tiana and diamonds last known 115 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:11,880 whereabouts of this day. 116 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:17,100 The last time we for sure see them is you know their mother leaving at 6 a.m. to go 117 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:18,100 to work. 118 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:22,160 But these are all kind of stories that have not been confirmed by the police but have 119 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:23,840 been reported in the media. 120 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,580 So between 8 17 and 8 30. 121 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:32,440 So this would be kind of in between the times that Tracy's calling from work. 122 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:37,960 The family says Tiana called her mother's cell phone and left a voicemail. 123 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,860 So Tracy's cell phone was not on her that day. 124 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:48,080 She had left it with her mother who I believe is the grandmother that is watching Victoria 125 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,400 and Rita the two other girls. 126 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:57,120 So again for 2001 it was kind of common to like share a cell phone or to pass it along 127 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,080 and let somebody else use it. 128 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:04,720 I know my dad let me take his to orchestra camp for a week like I think this exact year 129 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:05,920 in 2001. 130 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:12,860 So it's like a common occurrence at that time for people to pass out the cell phone. 131 00:09:12,860 --> 00:09:15,100 The police never confirmed this voicemail. 132 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:18,560 The police never say they have heard it. 133 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:20,660 They really have no comment on it. 134 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:25,640 But the family they all say around 10 of them heard it and they found it after the girls 135 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,560 went missing Tracy was being questioned by the police and had left her cell phone with 136 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:31,140 her family. 137 00:09:31,140 --> 00:09:37,480 So they decided to look through her cell phone and they found the voicemail from Tiana. 138 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:44,220 The family says the police accidentally deleted the voicemail and police cannot confirm this. 139 00:09:44,220 --> 00:09:47,040 So maybe they did maybe they didn't. 140 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,040 I don't know. 141 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,360 But that's what the family says happened. 142 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,520 And here's what they say was contained in the voicemail. 143 00:09:54,520 --> 00:10:00,180 It was Tiana and she says mama this is Tiana mom pick up the phone. 144 00:10:00,180 --> 00:10:01,420 George is at the door. 145 00:10:01,420 --> 00:10:02,820 Can I open the door? 146 00:10:02,820 --> 00:10:05,880 He said that we're going to Jules to pick up the cake there. 147 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,600 We're coming to pick you up from work. 148 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:09,760 And a voicemail. 149 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:16,680 So George that could be Tracy's boyfriend Diamond's father. 150 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,900 His name is George Washington. 151 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:23,000 That could be him at the door. 152 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,240 But a neighbor is also named George who often babysat the girls. 153 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,100 So there's a neighbor also named George. 154 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:38,000 But the family leans that it's she could be talking about Washington at the door because 155 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,080 the girls had a nickname for their neighbor who babysat them that that's what they called 156 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,320 them him by as opposed to George. 157 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:46,680 I don't know what the nickname was. 158 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:47,680 It's never said. 159 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:53,680 But that's why the family thinks that it was Washington that Tiana is talking about in 160 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:55,880 this voicemail. 161 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,720 And George Washington denies that he ever went back to the apartment after dropping 162 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,120 Tracy off at work. 163 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:11,040 At 10 a.m. a neighbor says that Tiana knocked on his door and asked to play with his daughter. 164 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:16,400 But he said that it was too early and that his daughter couldn't come out and play. 165 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:23,280 Another neighbor told newspapers that she saw the girls between 2 30 and 3 o'clock playing 166 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,920 at the apartment complex where they lived. 167 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:32,280 And she says that Tiana ran up to her and asked if she had any juice or candy. 168 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,880 And this neighbor was walking her kids to the beach. 169 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:43,720 And then another witness report or witnesses report at a nearby elementary school do little 170 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:48,880 elementary summer school program was going on there and the kids there say that they 171 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:55,260 saw diamond and Tiana playing at 8 a.m. before school started. 172 00:11:55,260 --> 00:11:58,080 And then again around noon. 173 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:03,600 But none of these sightings the neighbor that that Tiana came and knocked on the door to 174 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,200 ask if she could play with his daughter. 175 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:11,280 The neighbor that she asked if she had any juice or candy and then the school kids none 176 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:17,280 of these have been confirmed by police as true sightings. 177 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:22,040 They may have been confirmed but they are not telling us that. 178 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,400 So how do you know? 179 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,000 These have all been reported in newspapers. 180 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,880 So reporters went out and your clippings and my clippings and my newspaper clippings clippings 181 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,680 of a madman. 182 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:35,680 Truly. 183 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:36,680 OK. 184 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:44,880 So that's the end of the murkiness as far as Tiana and diamonds last day or their last 185 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,760 known day around. 186 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:54,080 So now we we kind of get to jump back into like facts and things that we know have happened 187 00:12:54,080 --> 00:13:00,720 on this day because I think police were initially worried that witnesses or the children at 188 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,760 the school were maybe confusing the day that they saw them. 189 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,800 So maybe it wasn't Friday they saw them. 190 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,080 Maybe it was Thursday and they're confusing it for Friday. 191 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,740 I think there was some of that that they had to sort through in the beginning. 192 00:13:13,740 --> 00:13:17,480 But now we are jumping back into things that we know happened. 193 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,840 So Tracy returns home. 194 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,600 It's reported that she returned home at 11 with George Washington. 195 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,040 So he drove her home. 196 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,200 When she comes home the door is locked. 197 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:36,000 The apartment door is locked but the girls are gone and she calls out for them and there's 198 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:44,800 no response and she finds a note that she believes Tiana left on the couch near a bundle 199 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,320 of clothes. 200 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:51,200 In the beginning there's a lot of questions around this note and this note like is pretty 201 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:58,080 important when it comes to this case because it's one of really the only clues we have 202 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,960 as to what happened to Tiana and diamond that day. 203 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:07,120 The note has never been publicly has never been published. 204 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,720 We don't know verbatim what the note said like the exact language that was written on 205 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:12,720 it. 206 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:20,880 So essentially Tiana wrote that they were going to the school which is do little elementary 207 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:26,840 which is about two blocks away or they were going to the Lake Meadows shopping center 208 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,800 which is across the street from do little. 209 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:35,000 Now in the beginning every time this notice talked about it's like an ant. 210 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,440 It's like an or situation. 211 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:41,260 So they talk about the note and it's like they were going to do little or the shopping 212 00:14:41,260 --> 00:14:43,240 center. 213 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:49,200 So I don't know like what the verbiage is that kind of makes it unclear but later as 214 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:57,200 the years progress it's written that the note says they are going to do little and then 215 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,760 the shopping center. 216 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:06,360 The school is important here in the note because Tiana this is the elementary school she attended 217 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,400 throughout the year but she was also attending summer school in the summer of 2001 and had 218 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,360 perfect attendance until this day. 219 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:19,840 The school calls the apartment at 1010. 220 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:25,900 So this would have been after Tracy was calling the apartment and this would have been after 221 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:30,300 Tiana allegedly left the voicemail on her mother's cell phone. 222 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:35,680 The school called the apartment at around 1010 and there was no answer. 223 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:42,640 And Tracy acknowledges that she kept Tiana out of school that day to watch Diamond because 224 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:50,600 there was a plan to go on a camping trip that Friday for the weekend to celebrate Victoria's 225 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,040 birthday. 226 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:57,280 So the plan was Tiana would stay home and watch Diamond. 227 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,800 Tracy would come home with George. 228 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,040 I believe he was supposed to be going on this trip as well. 229 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:09,120 I believe the other two sisters were supposed to go because it was Victoria's birthday the 230 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,400 next day so that Saturday while they were going to be on this camping trip. 231 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:18,120 But in later articles it said that the other two sisters weren't going to be going so there's 232 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:24,680 like I have some questions around this camping trip that's talked about as it's reported 233 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:30,200 now Tracy kept Tiana out of school but that wasn't reported to the school because the 234 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:35,360 school called you know asking where she was because she didn't show up for school in the 235 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:41,560 voicemail said that they were going to jewel to get a cake because it was going to be Victoria's 236 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:49,240 birthday that weekend and this camping trip was happening so I don't know but very specifically 237 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:53,240 later on it said that the other two sisters weren't going so there's some questions around 238 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:59,560 this we're going back to the note that was found at the apartment Tracy walks in finds 239 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,280 this note that they're going to do little and or the shopping center that's across the 240 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:09,040 street from do little elementary it's about two blocks from their apartment home and the 241 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:15,920 family says it's highly unlikely that the girls wrote a note and they say that Tiana 242 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,880 would call her mother's cell phone if she had something to tell her and they kind of 243 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,120 point to the voicemail that she allegedly left being like well she called her earlier 244 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:30,420 why wouldn't she call her again and the family says the language within the note it wasn't 245 00:17:30,420 --> 00:17:35,480 how Tiana spoke at all and family members were genuinely surprised to hear that a note 246 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:40,800 had been left because it was just unlike Tiana to leave a note at this point she would call 247 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:45,840 her mother's cell phone to like let her know if something was changing or to ask her a 248 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:52,720 question she would not leave a note and then later on one of the girls ants she's quoted 249 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:58,680 as saying quote the letter was Tiana's penmanship but truly in my heart I think she was coached 250 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:04,240 into writing that letter when she wrote letters or certain words she wouldn't spell them correctly 251 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:11,520 so this didn't match up with her writing and quote and Tiana was going to summer school 252 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:17,640 specifically for her reading and writing the family speaks of specific grammar and spelling 253 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:23,160 that like Tiana they don't think Tiana would have been using or would have been able to 254 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,960 spell on her own without somebody coaching her the FBI will collect samples of Tiana's 255 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:35,840 writing from school and also take Tracy's handwriting as a sample according to the FBI 256 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:40,400 they believe Tiana did in fact write the note and that she was not under duress while she 257 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:46,280 wrote it and this makes the family believe that it was somebody that she knew that was 258 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:51,840 coaching her to write the letter that it wasn't a stranger and they also have described Tiana 259 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:56,400 as being very street smart I mean this is a girl who grew up in the city of Chicago 260 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:01,280 so she knows stranger danger she knows not to talk to strangers or let a stranger into 261 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:08,100 the home so she's you know she's street smart and they believe that only somebody who she 262 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:14,540 trusted would she have unlocked the apartment door for that day and their mother Tracy she's 263 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:20,160 also said that the note is odd because it's not something that Tiana would normally do 264 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:26,340 Tracy at this point is starting to feel a little panicked and she asks George Washington 265 00:19:26,340 --> 00:19:33,280 diamonds father to help look for the girls but he declines to do so and he just gets 266 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:40,400 in his car and leaves so Tracy starts calling family members to begin searching in 2021 267 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:50,600 I found a report that at around noon Tracy and George Washington had gone to jewel to 268 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:57,200 buy food and that there is a receipt stamped 1221 so that does happen during this time 269 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:05,840 period and later Tracy's timeline shifts a little bit when she talks to a reporter because 270 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:12,040 it's all reported that she returns at 11 11 a.m. 11 a.m. 11 a.m. like that's repeated 271 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:18,560 again and again but later she'll say that she got off work at 1140 which would give 272 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:24,960 her the time to borrow $20 from a neighbor and go to jewel to buy the food and then come 273 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:30,800 home at around 1230 which she'll say later is when she got home so that timeline allows 274 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:39,400 for this but up until this point it had been 11 11 11 the whole time so that's a little 275 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,960 question I have family continue to search for the girls throughout the apartment complex 276 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:52,000 and at 6 p.m. the girls are officially reported missing and Tracy is nervous to call police 277 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,460 because she's scared that she's going to get in trouble because she left the girls 278 00:20:55,460 --> 00:21:00,720 alone and she has two other daughters that she doesn't want them to get taken away so 279 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,720 another family member had kind of advised her like hey you can't call them right away 280 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:13,240 so that's why the phone call to the police comes so late is because she had been advised 281 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,520 by family members that like she was going to get into a lot of trouble so she should 282 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:23,240 try to look for them and find them herself but at 6 o'clock the police were called and 283 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:31,100 because Tracy is scared she initially lies to police and says that she was in the apartment 284 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:36,760 taking a nap and when she woke up the girls were gone and so this slows things down in 285 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:42,320 the beginning because the police think that the girls left on their own accord and don't 286 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,580 think that they think that if somebody came into the apartment and got the girls that 287 00:21:46,580 --> 00:21:52,600 Tracy would have woken up and heard it so it slows down the investigation in the beginning 288 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:57,640 a little bit because they think the girls just walked away but eventually like the truth 289 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,880 comes out that they were left alone like she was at work and so like that gets cleared 290 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,860 up but it does slow down the investigation in like those first hours when the police 291 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:12,760 are there which are always critical police begin canvassing the neighborhood that evening 292 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:20,040 but they find no trace of them so that's Friday that's the last time Tiana and diamond are 293 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:28,040 seen so this will lead us into Saturday Saturday is Tiana and diamond sisters birthday Victoria 294 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:35,000 and later when she's in high school she'll give an interview and it like breaks my heart 295 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,800 she never celebrates her birthday again after this because it's the day after her sisters 296 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:46,700 go missing and like how could you celebrate your birthday like with this dark cloud above 297 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:54,920 it but it is her birthday on July 7th and police do not suspect suspect foul play at 298 00:22:54,920 --> 00:23:03,720 this point and you know in the media in the news reports you know the police are kind 299 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,200 of talking to Tiana and diamonds like you know if you're out there nobody's gonna be 300 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,800 mad if you come home it's okay like just come home let somebody know you're okay like it's 301 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,480 that kind of language where they think that the girls are just like hiding and maybe like 302 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,960 scared to come home because they're in trouble there's been this like big commotion like 303 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:28,600 that's really the language that is used that first Saturday after they go missing police 304 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:34,240 interrogate Tracy on Saturday for around six hours and while that's happening other police 305 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:40,440 are searching railroad tracks they utilize a helicopter over Lake Michigan and divers 306 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:46,720 are searching all through Lake Michigan and neighbors are getting together and canvassing 307 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,100 the neighborhood and passing out flyers so like not only are the police searching but 308 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:55,940 like everybody in the neighborhood starting to come out and look for these girls it really 309 00:23:55,940 --> 00:24:02,400 becomes like a citywide effort to find them pretty quickly but definitely right away the 310 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,320 family's looking the police are looking and the neighbors start to look very quickly for 311 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:12,800 these girls and everyone's very aware that they're gone so Sunday July 8th there's a 312 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:19,520 larger and earlier police presence around their home and dogs were starting to be used 313 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:25,600 to sniff cars in the area and police focus their attention around 31st Street Beach on 314 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:31,920 Lake Michigan and this comes from a witness that said he saw the girls walking towards 315 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:37,280 the beach and in this area there's like a pedestrian bridge that goes from the neighborhoods 316 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,920 onto the beach and there was the other neighbor who was walking her kids to the beach so it's 317 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:48,560 very very close a neighbor at this time also begins organizing a search of her own and 318 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:55,000 she creates new flyers because she doesn't think that the blurry black and white police 319 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,280 bulletins like up to standard so she goes home and makes these like beautiful color 320 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,880 flyers to pass out through the neighborhood so like everybody's jumping in to try to find 321 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:11,680 these girls and their mother is questioned for eight hours by police on Sunday on Monday 322 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:18,840 July 9th Chicago police officially asked the FBI to get involved in the case but the case 323 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:27,760 continues to be handled as a missing person case and not as a kidnapping case so basically 324 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:33,880 they are treating it like Tionda and Diamond walked away of their own accord or ran away 325 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,520 and children aren't allowed to just go missing like that's that's not in your rights until 326 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:45,520 you're 18 like you can't just go missing but police have no evidence at this time that 327 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:52,220 they were abducted or kidnapped so they are treating it as a missing person case two neighbors 328 00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:57,620 come forward and say they saw the girls playing at the apartment complex as late as three 329 00:25:57,620 --> 00:26:03,220 p.m. on the day they went missing if that's true if they were playing at three p.m. that 330 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:06,520 means that Tracy would have been home by this time so you would think that she would have 331 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:12,520 been able to find them quickly if they had been playing but maybe the neighbors are confused 332 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:18,800 on the day maybe she was missing them I don't know but there's this report of two neighbors 333 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:26,080 saying they were playing around the apartment complex police and FBI are going door to door 334 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,440 and the FBI brings in bloodhounds to search for the girls and to try to find their trace 335 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,720 on Monday police questioned Tracy for six hours and they also start questioning other 336 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:44,320 members of the families and this is when nightly prayer vigils also begin and are organized 337 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:50,680 by neighbors so they say they're gonna hold a nightly prayer vigil every night until the 338 00:26:50,680 --> 00:27:00,480 girls return sadly that is not the case they now hold yearly vigils for the girls but in 339 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:06,040 the beginning they were doing vigils every night for them no new leads as of Tuesday 340 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:13,160 no no confirmed sightings and no evidence of the girls or rather on Monday so on Tuesday 341 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:21,640 July 10th the police search is frenzied and expanded on this day so they really kick it 342 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:28,080 up a notch and police will have a hundred officers on the case at all times rotating 343 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:35,760 in and out of searching the Cook County Forest Preserve Police spot two dirt mounds in the 344 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:43,280 Dan Ryan woods about two blocks apart the Dan Ryan woods are on the south side of Chicago 345 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:49,040 and this would have been about eight miles south of where the girls apartment was and 346 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:55,760 so police seal off the woods police FBI they bring up they bring in cadaver dogs to search 347 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:02,680 the woods for the girls they locate the two mounds they were about two blocks apart within 348 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:12,520 the woods and they search for a while in the woods but the mounds that they were originally 349 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:20,440 called in for just ends up being landscaping and compost material but police say that these 350 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:31,440 woods are known for like dumping and burying pets so it doesn't seem outside the norm that 351 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:36,760 somebody would try to bury a body here and police also say they are focusing on woods 352 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:44,040 and other wide open spaces because they are near a home of a relative that they are questioning 353 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,280 the relative is not named like who they're questioning and why they're searching all 354 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:55,600 these places near this relative but they'll question this person into Thursday so police 355 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:04,160 also on this day search the Dan Ryan woods and then they focused on Washington Park searching 356 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:10,160 the lagoon they had divers in the lagoon because a minister had called in and said while he 357 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,840 was praying for the girls he had a vision of two bags being thrown into the lagoon so 358 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:23,120 that prompted the police to dispatch divers into the lagoon nothing was found there and 359 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:29,320 a radio station also received an anonymous tip that there were two dead bodies in an 360 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:36,040 abandoned house near Vincent's Ave and 103rd so this is like I looked it up on Google Maps 361 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:43,640 this is like South South barely Chicago anymore like almost to like the southern suburbs but 362 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:51,200 when police arrive at this location there's no house at this location this corner so they 363 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:58,640 expand out on a floor of four black radius and search all the nearby railroad tracks 364 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:04,140 and wooded areas nearby but they don't come up with anything police also bring in dogs 365 00:30:04,140 --> 00:30:11,960 to search along railroad tracks they searched dumpsters along 87th Street all in all when 366 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:19,960 this is said and done the police will have searched 42 tons of trash is what they say 367 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:28,560 so this search this is like the biggest search on Tuesday between the Dan Ryan Woods Washington 368 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:34,760 Park the Vincents and 103rd Avenue this is like kind of the biggest search day and the 369 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:40,440 search turned up lots of child's clothing but none of it could be tied to Tionda and 370 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:46,320 diamonds and unfortunately at the time the girls went missing nobody knew what they were 371 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:52,560 wearing because Tracy left before they got dressed so that evening they were having their 372 00:30:52,560 --> 00:31:00,960 nightly prayer vigil Tracy pleads with whoever has her children to let them go and then after 373 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,480 this prayer vigil police are going to take Tracy in for the fourth time to question her 374 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:12,040 so on Wednesday July 11th police returned to the Dan Ryan Woods and finished searching 375 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:17,340 the woods with cadaver dogs based off of the places they're looking like in the trash and 376 00:31:17,340 --> 00:31:23,280 bringing in cadaver dogs like they are to me that's looking for bodies and not trying 377 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:29,880 to locate like a child who has wondered off and at this time the notes that Tionda left 378 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:35,500 is still being analyzed by the police and the FBI so police are trying to review security 379 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:43,500 footage to see if they can confirm the neighbor sightings of the girls at three playing around 380 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:50,760 the apartment complex in 2021 it was actually reported that the security cameras at the 381 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,120 apartment complex couldn't catch anything because they had been turned up to face the 382 00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:02,040 ceiling and there's no details of when that happened or if they think it's related to 383 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:09,320 the crime or if maybe they had gotten turned up before and nobody had noticed and you know 384 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,320 it just had stayed that way but the security cameras in the front of the apartment complex 385 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,440 didn't catch anything I don't know security cameras in the back caught anything or if 386 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:26,160 they caught anything from the apartment complex security cameras but they're not telling us 387 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:35,620 so on Wednesday July 11th police seemed to zero in on George Washington who is Diamond's 388 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:41,920 father and at the time Tracy's boyfriend on again off again boyfriend so police searched 389 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:49,240 the home garage and car of Diamond's father George Washington and the focus of the search 390 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:55,520 seemed to be centered around his garage and the police search his vehicle and they actually 391 00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:02,800 find hair in the trunk of his vehicle and testing reveals that the hair could have come 392 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:11,440 from Tiana Diamond or Tracy so it's a little inconclusive but it came from one of them 393 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:17,720 Washington says that the reason the hair is there is because he would sneak Tiana and 394 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:25,360 Diamond and the other girls into drive-in movies around the city but at the time of 395 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:31,320 this in 2001 there were no drive-ins in the city of Chicago there were in the suburbs 396 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:39,040 but none in the city police also are asking Washington's neighbors about his comings and 397 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:46,760 goings on Friday and specifically if they saw any fires and four teenagers and three 398 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:53,880 neighbors say they saw him burning something in a 55 gallon drum in his backyard and then 399 00:33:53,880 --> 00:34:00,800 he took the barrel and put it in his trunk and drove off Washington says he never burned 400 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,680 anything but he was doing home remodeling and would fill the drum with trash and debris 401 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:11,800 then take it to Washington Park to dump in construction dumpsters there police searched 402 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:18,560 those dumpsters nothing was ever found related to Tiana and Diamond to my knowledge and police 403 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:25,240 also find a receipt from Home Depot for a purchase made shortly before the girls went 404 00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:33,460 missing that was for gloves construction garbage bags and bleach Washington says this is related 405 00:34:33,460 --> 00:34:44,240 to his home remodeling sure it's very questionable very questionable but Washington fully cooperates 406 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:52,320 with the police and is let go it's reported that his polygraph comes back inconclusive 407 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:58,200 but Tracy will continue to date Washington and she ends up having another child by him 408 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:08,080 as well so there's also that so it's still Wednesday July 11th and police also find video 409 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:15,160 surveillance taken from jewel but it'll take the family days to review it at this time 410 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:23,000 Tracy was being questioned a lot by police so she hired a lawyer which I think is completely 411 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,840 reasonable considering what we know about the Chicago Police Department as a whole on 412 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:35,040 Wednesday the police come to her and ask her to watch this video and she says no on the 413 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:41,960 council of her lawyer on Thursday the family goes to the police to watch the video but 414 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:46,720 the police don't have it the FBI have it so they're not able to watch it on Thursday 415 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:52,800 July 12th and on this day the police just continue to re-interview family members and 416 00:35:52,800 --> 00:36:00,080 neighbors looking for new leads so this is Friday July 13th 2001 so this is one week 417 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:06,520 after Tiana and diamond were last seen Tracy meets with police and reviews the video of 418 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,600 the surveillance footage and it's not the girls and the family ends up reviewing at 419 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:17,180 least three surveillance videos that day two from July 6th which is the day the girls went 420 00:36:17,180 --> 00:36:23,080 missing and then the jewel tape which is the tape that's talked about here and the police 421 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:28,120 now believe the girls did not leave on their own like oh really you're now getting there 422 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:34,040 okay and a woman called police and said on July 6th the day the girls went missing she 423 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:39,600 saw two young girls enter an abandoned church near her home so cadaver dogs were sent into 424 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:46,100 the church and two mounds were discovered in the basement crawlspace one was about three 425 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:52,240 feet one was about five feet which was matches the heights for Tiana and diamond at the time 426 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:57,280 they went missing but after a five-hour search of the church and in the basement there's 427 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:04,600 nothing it's just dirt no signs of Tiana and diamond on Saturday July 14th 2001 police 428 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,240 officially expands the search to the entire city of Chicago so they had really been focusing 429 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:16,200 just on the south side and in the girls neighborhood but now it's officially expanded to the entire 430 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:23,680 city and the girls story airs on America's Most Wanted at the time so only just a week 431 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:28,340 and one day after they go missing they get on America's Most Wanted which is great Sunday 432 00:37:28,340 --> 00:37:33,920 July 15th and Monday July 16th there's no updates and they get a few leads from America's 433 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:39,280 Most Wanted but nothing to like write about in the news or anything to bring any hope 434 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:48,680 to the family so on Tuesday July 17th the FBI has offered a reward for more info and 435 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:55,240 Chicago Public Schools also kicks in money for the reward and the girls apartment complex 436 00:37:55,240 --> 00:38:01,180 as well puts money in for a reward so like all these like people want to find the girls 437 00:38:01,180 --> 00:38:07,720 and they want to find them alive and well so police on Tuesday order that every abandoned 438 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:14,080 building in the city be searched so every district would be in charge of like their 439 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:22,520 abandoned buildings and all in all over 5600 abandoned buildings were searched which I 440 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:27,120 was like there's that many abandoned buildings in Chicago like give them to people that's 441 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:32,900 crazy like let people live in those houses that's nuts the notes that Tiana left is 442 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:39,400 still being analyzed by the FBI Wednesday July 18th the police continue their search 443 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:44,240 of abandoned houses on this day but they actually end up wrapping it up so it only took two 444 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:50,560 days to search every abandoned house in Chicago which is crazy fast I feel like I think of 445 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:57,120 how fucking big the police forces I guess that's fair that they have the money to do 446 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:04,680 this shit so Thursday July 19th just shy of two weeks after the girls were last seen the 447 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:09,800 FBI makes their official announcement that Tiana did in fact write the letter and Tracy 448 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:16,640 goes on a radio show and talks about the psychological torture from the police and she says quote 449 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,720 they didn't beat me up they dogged me out they were trying to make me a suspect and 450 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:28,680 quote a lot of people want to cast Tracy in a bad light and say she was like not cooperating 451 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:33,600 with police but like that's not true like she was cooperating with police but they were 452 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:38,200 like trying to railroad her so she got a lawyer and got help and we know the Chicago Police 453 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:46,840 Department loves to railroad people's I do not think Tracy is perfect in this but I definitely 454 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:53,020 do not blame her for being cautious in her interactions with the police if I was suddenly 455 00:39:53,020 --> 00:39:59,000 in under investigation I would not look perfect either no none of us would know everything 456 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:05,560 you do look suspicious all of a sudden so Friday July 20th 2001 this would be officially 457 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:12,080 two weeks after the girls were last seen police search the city's pounds with cadaver dogs 458 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,560 and they say this is impromptu by any tip but they're just checking logical places 459 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:25,200 that the girls could have been hidden which is a horrible sentence and this search of 460 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:33,440 the auto pounds continues into Saturday July 21st and wraps up that day the next day Sunday 461 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,040 July 22nd the police announced that they are going to be expanding their search to Wolf 462 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:45,680 Lake which is in Indiana but it's right on the border of Illinois as well and again they 463 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:51,320 say that there's no tip that they just want to search it so on Monday July 23rd police 464 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:56,640 search Wolf Lake and they bring a very large police presence so not only the Chicago Police 465 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:02,200 Department but the FBI is there and they also bring in recruits from like the police academy 466 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:08,040 to search Wolf Lake so it's really big and the police say like they want a big presence 467 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:12,720 because they want media to cover it but then they're really quick to say like this isn't 468 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:19,040 staged though we're not just doing this as like a staged thing so why they were out there 469 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:25,480 if they found anything nothing was reported and they also walked along the Dan Ryan Express 470 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:32,160 Way that day as well looking for clues or signs of the girls so after the Wolf Lake 471 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:39,760 search it really slows down as far as physical presence in the community and like searching 472 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:46,400 for the girls Tuesday July 24th there's no news Wednesday the police say that they are 473 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:51,520 shifting their focus to behind the scenes work but insists that they're not scaling 474 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,680 back at all. 475 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:58,760 I've never heard of a search like this this big in Chicago. 476 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:04,120 This is one of the largest searches ever in Chicago history but it got into the hands 477 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,120 of the FBI. 478 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:13,040 Yes the FBI was called in three days after the girls went missing so Thursday July 26th 479 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:19,920 the case is officially reclassified as a kidnapping case because of how long the girls have been 480 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:25,960 missing but the police claim that they have been handling it as if it were a kidnapping 481 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:31,000 from the beginning but I don't think that's true and the family doesn't think it's true 482 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:38,080 either because the home like the girls apartment was not sealed off and fingerprinted for days 483 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:43,120 after they had disappeared whereas if they had treated it as a kidnapping they would 484 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,240 have sealed it off fingerprinted that day but that didn't happen until several days 485 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:51,960 after and at that point you know police had already been through their family had been 486 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:57,000 through their neighbors have stopped by like it had been a place of high activity at that 487 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,640 point but the police are still holding out hope that they're alive and they say they 488 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,680 have no indication that would say otherwise. 489 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:11,880 Friday July 26th 2001 this is three weeks after the girls have been missing Tracy is 490 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,880 interviewed by the Chicago Tribune and this is where the timeline shifts a little bit 491 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:22,640 so previously everything had been saying she left at 6 she was gone by 6 she left the girls 492 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:31,720 at 6 but now she left at 630 which makes sense to her arriving at 640 and originally it was 493 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:39,120 reported she was home at 11 but now it's she was off work at 1150 George and her stopped 494 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:47,320 by the supermarket which is supported by that receipt and she also says in this interview 495 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:54,000 that the note was on the table but everywhere else any other time it's mentioned the note 496 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,800 is on the back of the couch like it's very specifically on the back of the couch but 497 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,120 in this interview Tracy says that she found it on the table. 498 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:07,720 I don't know if she was just mistaken or if there is a discrepancy there I'm not sure 499 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:13,000 and then originally the police were called at 6 but in this interview she says they were 500 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:20,920 called at 630 that's really easily like easy to confirm police have records of when she 501 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,080 called but they never really say like they are saying 6 but in this interview she is 502 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:30,880 saying 630 so I don't really know what time the girls are officially reported but I feel 503 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:37,600 it's safe to assume it's sometime between 6 and 630 that day and then after that month 504 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:46,400 the case really drops off so August 2001 police collect DNA evidence and hair samples in the 505 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:52,120 events that they need to ID them because the girls don't have any dental records so they 506 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:58,560 have to have the girls DNA in order to identify them later if they were to find human remains 507 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,840 that they would suspect would be them. 508 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:07,640 Police search a trailer yard near McCormick Place which is near the lake in Chicago and 509 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:13,240 it's near museum campus where all of like the big named museums in Chicago are so the 510 00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:19,360 Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium it's 511 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:25,080 near there it's where the Chicago Auto Show is held every year so it's like a convention 512 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:30,960 a very well known convention center in Chicago so near there they searched that area and 513 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:36,160 they found nothing but during the month of August the prayer vigils at the family's home 514 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:41,320 continue every night but they do begin to dwindle in attendance and neighbors lose hope 515 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:50,280 that the girls are coming home alive and then September 2001 9-11 happens and all media 516 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:57,440 coverage is completely dropped for the girls at this point and 9-11 dominates the news 517 00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:03,760 from that point out and the girls aren't really mentioned in the news. 518 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:09,800 It's like the staircase that was right when Kathleen died that December. 519 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:10,800 Yeah. 520 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:17,440 It's not really brought up again in the news until the six month anniversary of the girls 521 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,760 being missing and at that point there's no news. 522 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:27,720 The police say that they have received 504 tips at the six month point and it's during 523 00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:35,680 the year of 2002 that police also go to ask Tracy some questions about her daughters and 524 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,240 after she says that she needs to talk with a lawyer before she you know she wants to 525 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:46,000 talk to a lawyer before she answers them they witnesses say the police shoved her against 526 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:53,560 a fence and roughly handcuffed her and swore at her and the police say she pushed her or 527 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,560 she pushed them of course. 528 00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,400 She pushed all of them. 529 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,920 She pushed the two plain clothes police officers with guns on them. 530 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:10,000 She pushed them but no charges are ever put against her and she's released that evening 531 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:16,120 so like the relationship between the police and Tracy are just not good and like for obvious 532 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:22,520 reason like they are treating her poorly like the mother of these missing children and Tracy 533 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:28,820 will go on to file a complaint about this incident later but I don't know what becomes 534 00:47:28,820 --> 00:47:29,820 of that complaint. 535 00:47:29,820 --> 00:47:33,760 Nothing is reported on it at the one year mark. 536 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:40,400 162 leads have been received at that point but still no signs of the girls. 537 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:52,720 2003 there's no real updates and then in 2004 on April 5th 2004 a possible sighting in Indiana 538 00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:58,560 is said to have happened of the girls so they are reported to be seen at a Walmart near 539 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:07,480 Indianapolis and then on April 25th 2004 another possible sighting of the girls at an event 540 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:14,160 at Garfield Park in Indianapolis and then there's a third unspecific sighting also in 541 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:15,160 Indiana. 542 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,280 I don't know if it's Indianapolis but it's also in Indiana. 543 00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:25,120 So police and the family's private investigator look into this but nothing turns up and the 544 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,920 case is officially moved into the cold case unit for the Chicago police. 545 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:35,320 2005 Tracy is interviewed by a local news station and she talks about a reoccurring 546 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,240 dream where Tiana is there and Tracy asks her where Diamond is. 547 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:46,880 Tiana says I'll take you there and then the dream ends and then at this point they've 548 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,840 been doing yearly prayer vigils. 549 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:56,720 At the 2005 yearly prayer vigil the group walked to a bridge where the girls were last 550 00:48:56,720 --> 00:49:04,200 seen and this is the only time this bridge is mentioned that I found is in this prayer 551 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:08,720 vigil they walked to a bridge where the girls were last seen. 552 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:14,680 I don't know what bridge I don't know where that comes from I don't know if there's a 553 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:19,800 confirmed sighting of the girls that the police have of them being on a bridge. 554 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:28,380 I wonder if that bridge is a bridge that because some people some folks said that they spotted 555 00:49:28,380 --> 00:49:30,320 them playing correct. 556 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,320 Yes. 557 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:38,080 I wonder if there's a bridge near wherever that space was that they were playing at. 558 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:46,380 Well there is a pedestrian bridge that goes to the beach very close by that some did say 559 00:49:46,380 --> 00:49:52,280 the girls were on and they did comb the beach 31st Street Beach specifically which is where 560 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,360 this bridge leads to. 561 00:49:54,360 --> 00:50:00,180 They combed that beach pretty extensively and sent in divers so it could be but this 562 00:50:00,180 --> 00:50:05,480 is the only time I see the bridge mentioned as the last place the girls were seen outside 563 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,800 of their apartment by their mother. 564 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:15,400 So in 2006 this is five years since the girls have been missing and at the one year anniversary 565 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:21,840 the police say the only recent tip they've gotten is a caller who had a dream and was 566 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:27,240 calling to tell them about the dream about Tiana and diamonds but I just mentioned that 567 00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:31,220 because it's like there really are no leads coming in like I feel like when you're getting 568 00:50:31,220 --> 00:50:36,680 to people's dreams like you're really scraping the bottom of the lead barrel you know not 569 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:41,520 to say that people can't have premonitions or visions but like I think when you're investigating 570 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:47,080 those it means you've run out of like other concrete like I think I saw them at this place 571 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:51,920 I saw them here at this time you know like you've run out of those if you're tracking 572 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,200 down dreams and visions. 573 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:59,480 Well yeah in like classic cold cases even cold cases back from like 60s 70s 80s when 574 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:10,320 like genetic evidence is that the word I'm looking for? 575 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:11,320 Like DNA. 576 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:20,440 DNA thank you before public school before DNA was like really prevalent they would turn 577 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:25,280 to like. 578 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:26,280 Like psychics. 579 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:27,280 Yeah. 580 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:34,720 And you know there are psychics that like assist with the FBI and I assume that they 581 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:39,280 like hit it right if they like are continuously called in you know for cases again and again 582 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:40,280 and again. 583 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,080 I assume there have been moments of success. 584 00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,080 Totally. 585 00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:48,520 I'm not one to turn away mystical revelations. 586 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,760 I'm not too good to turn away a mystical revelation no. 587 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,000 Not at all. 588 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,400 But that was 2006. 589 00:51:55,400 --> 00:52:02,920 In 2007 Shalya the girl's great aunt Tiana and Diamond's great aunt she receives an email 590 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:08,480 that says this is Tiana and the word is is spelled with a Z. 591 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:14,960 So investigators track this email to a MySpace page and the young woman whose MySpace page 592 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:21,720 this is looks just like the age progress photos of Tiana I mean looks just like her. 593 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:26,680 When kids in the family see the MySpace photos they ask if Tiana had been found. 594 00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:32,920 That's how immediately recognizable this person was as Tiana and a forensic artist was asked 595 00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,360 to compare the MySpace photos with Tiana. 596 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:41,520 And so she went in trying to disprove and to not give any false hope to the family. 597 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:46,440 So she really was trying to prove that this MySpace person wasn't her. 598 00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:52,660 But slowly she compares three MySpace photos and five photos of Tiana before she disappeared 599 00:52:52,660 --> 00:52:56,080 and she says oh my god it's her. 600 00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:03,880 So this bleeds into 2008 and the Chicago police department they disagree with the sketch artist 601 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:10,720 and eventually in 2008 the MySpace girl's father comes forward and says like this is 602 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:18,200 not Tiana and he even offers to give his DNA to the FBI to like. 603 00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,720 How is he contacted. 604 00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:25,720 It's just says that like he comes forward so I don't know like I'm sure police were 605 00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:33,320 like contacting this person who's ever MySpace it is and like you know it is said that they 606 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:39,200 got the IP addresses so they would know where it was coming from. 607 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:45,480 They didn't know if the picture had started circulating and it was like. 608 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:50,060 No it remained within the police I believe. 609 00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:55,200 So yeah he offers his DNA but I don't know if the FBI ever take it but they seem very 610 00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:00,620 satisfied and knowing that this is not Tiana and not related to the case at all. 611 00:54:00,620 --> 00:54:05,200 And so when the sketch artist was later asked about like the misidentifications she said 612 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,920 that this was the first time she had been wrong in her career. 613 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:13,280 So that was like the big news of 2007 2008. 614 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:24,200 There's no real updates in 2009 nothing in 2010 2011 nothing really. 615 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:30,040 Victoria Bradley which is Tiana and Diamond's sister and that's whose birthday it was the 616 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,480 next day after the girls went missing. 617 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:38,640 She becomes like a local high school like superstar in basketball and she's very good 618 00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:44,540 at it and so she's interviewed in a paper about like how basketball has helped her deal 619 00:54:44,540 --> 00:54:46,600 with her sister's disappearance. 620 00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:54,920 But that's really all the media coverage for 2011 nothing in 2012 in 2013 Shalya this is 621 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:59,240 the great aunt again and she's really becomes like a spokesperson for the family and like 622 00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:02,720 the main driver in keeping this in the media. 623 00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:10,920 She's amazing but Shalya receives an email from a woman in Gary Indiana and the woman 624 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:18,160 said that she needed to clear her conscious and the woman wrote or told Shalya that her 625 00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:23,840 boyfriend was unaccounted for on the morning that the girls went missing and when he returned 626 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:29,960 home he was visibly shaken and upset and he had said that he had done something messed up. 627 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:36,000 And then he says quote she saw it I had to kill her end quote. 628 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:42,800 So police have never talked about this tip and pretty quickly after the woman stops cooperating 629 00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:50,640 with police and stops responding to the family but the police never talk about this tip or 630 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:56,840 what it's related to or who it's related to or if it's related to the girls at all. 631 00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:04,440 But that is something that happens in 2013 and in 2013 the police officer Ed Carroll 632 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:10,000 he retires from the Chicago Police Department after 26 years and he had been working on 633 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:15,840 this case since the beginning and on and off throughout his entire career and this is what 634 00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:21,280 he said about the case quote almost every case I've ever worked especially the violent 635 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:27,520 crimes you're always able to either include someone or exclude someone and this was the 636 00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:33,360 only case I worked in my entire career where I couldn't exclude anyone or include anyone 637 00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:34,360 end quote. 638 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:42,920 2015 nothing happens but there is noticeable difference in the family they talk less about 639 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:48,880 them coming home alive and just like wanting to find them and bury them and know where 640 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:50,120 they are. 641 00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:56,500 In 2016 the yearly vigil is still being held every year on the anniversary that the girls 642 00:56:56,500 --> 00:57:04,540 went missing and this year Shalia was interviewed at the vigil and she mentions that two men 643 00:57:04,540 --> 00:57:09,040 were in the apartment after Tracy left that morning. 644 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:16,880 This is the only mention of it at this point but Shalia says that two men were in the apartment 645 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,560 after Tracy had left that day. 646 00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:26,300 In 2017 Jim Miller who was the family's PI and who had been working on the case pro bono 647 00:57:26,300 --> 00:57:32,080 since the beginning he dies and this is a big blow to the family because he had been 648 00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:40,840 working this case for free but he had also gone to Mexico, Morocco like different countries 649 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:46,600 following tips in regards to Tiana and diamond so like he was able to do just like what the 650 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,760 police weren't and he focused so much of his time on it. 651 00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:55,400 So it was a big blow to the family when he died in 2017. 652 00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,240 2018 nothing no news. 653 00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:04,460 In 2019 a woman in Texas comes forward claiming to be Tiana. 654 00:58:04,460 --> 00:58:10,440 She reaches out to Shalia the great aunt and this is like reported in the news and on the 655 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:16,880 news they had like Shalia showed her texts with this woman from Texas that was claiming 656 00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:28,200 to be Tiana and I paused it so I could read the whole screen because I am Snoopy and Shalia 657 00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:37,800 asks this woman in the text who did your mom leave you with question mark and the woman 658 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:43,280 responds back that they were left alone but I thought that question was really interesting 659 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:50,800 considering that in 2016 Shalia also mentions that there were two men in the apartment so 660 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,680 were the girls left with somebody was somebody supposed to come watch them. 661 00:58:54,680 --> 00:59:00,560 The woman in Texas she is willing to take a DNA test to prove that she is Tiana but 662 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:06,320 it ends up being a lie she just reached out to kind of fuck with the family which is messed 663 00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:07,320 up. 664 00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:13,520 2020 no updates obviously that's the year COVID happened there's no coverage about the 665 00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:14,520 yearly vigil. 666 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:21,700 2021 this is 20 years after the girls had gone missing and there were a lot of media 667 00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:29,280 stories about them and in 2021 the police cast doubts around the note because of how 668 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:34,520 well written it is and that goes back to like the family commenting on the grammar and commenting 669 00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:40,880 on the spelling of the letter police believe it was someone they know that the girls knew 670 00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:44,280 because they would not have opened the door for a stranger. 671 00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:52,680 Now in this case I think the main suspect that jumps out is George Washington Diamond's 672 00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:53,680 father. 673 00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,760 I thought it was the neighbor. 674 00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,200 The neighbor George. 675 00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:05,160 Well so these are some of the other suspects in the case so the neighbor George is also 676 01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:09,360 like a suspect or somebody the family has considered a suspect. 677 01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:15,080 What makes me think that is that who was it that called to ask like can I leave for the 678 01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,780 cake or can I leave. 679 01:00:17,780 --> 01:00:20,600 So that would have been Tiana. 680 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,820 Which she was nine or ten. 681 01:00:22,820 --> 01:00:24,840 She was ten yeah. 682 01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:30,840 But George Washington isn't her father so she would call him George. 683 01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,320 Okay never mind. 684 01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:41,120 Yes so she would call him George and the girls called their neighbor George by a nickname. 685 01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:46,840 So the other suspects in this case a registered sex offender spent time around the girls and 686 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,880 would later dedicate a book to them. 687 01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:54,960 Yeah Eli's face is very disgusted by that. 688 01:00:54,960 --> 01:01:00,560 Some family claim that Tracy paid a family member five dollars to watch the girls that 689 01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:07,960 day and so this brings into question the comments that Shalya their great aunt made of there 690 01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:11,080 were two men left in the apartment after Tracy left. 691 01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:15,800 Could that be the family members that were asked to come watch them. 692 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:21,240 And then also when Shalya asked the woman from Texas who did your mother leave you with. 693 01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:24,660 It's only been reported that they were left alone. 694 01:01:24,660 --> 01:01:29,760 So something that only you know they would know somebody close to the crime or Tiana 695 01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,920 and Diamond would be if they were left with somebody actually. 696 01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:42,800 But yeah it's that is a rumor that some family claim the neighbor George who would babysit 697 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:47,320 the girls once made a comment that something bad would happen if Tracy kept leaving them 698 01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:51,960 alone which again it's like everything is suspicious after somebody goes missing or 699 01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,520 somebody is murdered right. 700 01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:58,720 Like everything can be suspicious but it's like you have to like you have to hold up 701 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:03,520 everything to the light and make sure that like it passes you know. 702 01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:12,560 Another suspect is a man that had once been believed to be Tiana's father and it's reported 703 01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:20,080 that he even had paid child support for a time for her as her father and he is from 704 01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:21,240 Morocco. 705 01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:27,080 He's a Morocco immigrant investigators and the P.I. traveled to Morocco to look for the 706 01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:34,640 girls but there's no evidence that they were ever there and the kids that claim they saw 707 01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,780 Tiana and Diamond playing on the playground the day they went missing. 708 01:02:38,780 --> 01:02:46,080 The kids claim to have seen a light skinned man in a trench coat approach Tiana and Diamond 709 01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:50,680 to talk to them and then saw the girls leave with him. 710 01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:56,660 Those are kind of the suspects in this case but to date no trace of them has ever been 711 01:02:56,660 --> 01:03:04,280 found no trace that's ever been reported and Tiana she would be 31 years old she was four 712 01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:09,920 foot two inches when she disappeared obviously that is not the height she is now but she 713 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:16,200 does have brown hair brown eyes she has a burn scar on her left forearm about the size 714 01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:21,840 of a quarter and she was last seen with green ponytail holders and a scrape on her left 715 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,600 calf. 716 01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:31,360 Diamond she would be 24 years old today she was three feet tall when she went missing 717 01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:38,680 she has black hair and brown eyes she has a scar on the left side of her scalp and she 718 01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:41,720 has very deep set eyes. 719 01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:48,040 Anyone with any information regarding Tiana and Diamond Bradley are encouraged to contact 720 01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:56,520 the Chicago FBI office and that is at 312-421-6700. 721 01:03:56,520 --> 01:04:04,280 And today's sources for today's podcast or the sources for today's podcast come from 722 01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:09,240 a lot a lot of newspapers so the Chicago Tribune, the Times, the Dispatch, the Daily Chronicle, 723 01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:14,960 Iowa City Press, USA Today, Journal Gazette, Courier Post, the Indianapolis Star, the Baltimore 724 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:20,720 Sun, the St. Louis Dispatch, Des Moines Register, the Daily Herald, Quad City Times, Arizona 725 01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:25,080 Republic, the YouTube channel, did you say Des Moines? 726 01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:26,080 Des Moines. 727 01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:27,080 You said Des Moines. 728 01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:28,080 Oh did I? 729 01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:31,000 The Des Moines Register. 730 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,440 You're great you're perfect. 731 01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:39,280 The YouTube channel Truly Criminal, Case Files Chicago, CBS Chicago, the National Center 732 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:45,880 for Missing and Exploited Children, Fox 32 Chicago WGN News, and Block Club Chicago are 733 01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,400 all sources for today's podcasts. 734 01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:54,480 And again if you know anything about the disappearance of Tiana and Diamond Bradley either from the 735 01:04:54,480 --> 01:05:06,080 day they went missing to where they are now please contact the Chicago FBI office at 312-421-6700. 736 01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:07,080 And that's it. 737 01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:08,480 Will we be back next week? 738 01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:14,600 We will be back next week, next Monday with another story. 739 01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,760 So have a great week y'all. 740 01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:17,760 Thanks for listening. 741 01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:39,120 Thank you for listening.