Cold & Missing: Tionda & Diamond Bradley

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Hello everyone.

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Welcome back to Cold and Missing.

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So should we just jump in for this week?

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Yep.

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Okay, great.

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So we are covering a missing persons or missing persons case.

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We are going to be talking about Tionda and Diamond Bradley, and they have been missing

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since July of 2001.

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So 20 years, a little over 20 years they've been missing.

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Tionda was 10 years old when she was missing and she would now be 31 in 2022.

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And Diamond was three years old when she went missing and she would be 24 in the year 2022.

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So this case brings us back to Chicago.

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I promise we're going to cover cases all over the United States, the world, but this one

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has stuck with me ever since I first heard about it.

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I really wanted this to be one of the first cases that I talked about.

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So July 2001, the girls are living on the south side of Chicago and they are living

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in the Oakland neighborhood, which if you're from Chicago, it's directly east of Bronzeville

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and it runs along Lake Michigan there.

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And Tionda and Diamond are living with their mother Tracy and their two other sisters,

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Victoria and Rita.

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The family describes the girls as very smart and they're both athletic.

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Tionda had won several park district awards in running, tumbling, and gymnastics.

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And Tionda loved to dance.

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One of her great aunts would say, like, if you were down, it didn't matter where you

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were, if you just told Tionda to dance, she would dance.

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It didn't matter if she was waiting for the bus at church, didn't matter.

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She would just dance.

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They also described Tionda as a laugher, like she laughed at everything.

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And she was very outgoing with family, but shy with strangers.

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And Tionda and Diamond, out of the four sisters, they had a very special bond and Tionda would

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like often carry her around on her hip, like she was like her own little baby doll.

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So they were always together and neighbors, family, friends, like always put the two girls

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together.

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And Diamond, she was three years old when she went missing, but the family talked about

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how much energy she would have.

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She would jump from couch to couch, she would snatch food right off of your plate.

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She was always running after her older sisters to try to hang out with them.

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And Tionda, one of her teachers described her as being the shortest kid in class, but

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she acted the tallest, which I loved.

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And I know that person very well.

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Like I know that personality very well of short but mighty, you know?

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Neighbors also mentioned that Tionda was one of the few kids in the neighborhood that had

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a bike, but she was always sharing it with all the kids in the neighborhood so everyone

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could ride.

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So like these were just very sweet and very kind girls and loving sisters.

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So the day that they disappeared, the last day that we see them is Friday, July 6, 2001.

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Tracy, their mother, she wakes up and gets ready for work.

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And it's just Tionda and Diamond staying at the house with Tracy at this time.

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Their two other sisters are staying the night at their grandmother's house.

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So just Diamond and Tionda are at that house when Tracy wakes up.

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Tracy leaves for work at around 6 a.m., 6.30 a.m. it's reported.

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It's mostly reported as 6, but in an interview I'll talk about later, Tracy says she leaves

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at 6.30.

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Tionda and Diamond were sleeping on the couch in the living room because this is summertime

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in Chicago and it's hot and the AC unit was in the living room so the kids were sleeping

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on the couch, which makes complete sense.

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So Tracy wakes Tionda up before leaving and told her, I'm locking the door and I'll call

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you don't go out that door.

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So Tracy was leaving Tionda and Diamond by themselves while she went to work.

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And in 2022 that seems like unfathomable to like leave a 10 year old to watch a three

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year old.

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But in 2001 this feels way more common.

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Like I used to be left with my brother to watch and I remember watching kids pretty

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young while their parents were gone for a few hours.

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So like this is like pretty normal for the time period, even though just 20 years later

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it's very hard to imagine leaving a 10 year old to watch a three year old.

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So Tracy, their mother, arrives at work around 6.40 and her boyfriend has dropped her off

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at work.

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Her boyfriend is also Diamond's father and she recently had filed a paternity suit against

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him in June of 2001 in order to get child support payments just like dictated by the

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court from my understanding.

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So he drops her off at work at 6.40 and she works at the park district like getting lunches

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ready for summer camp program.

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So it's about a 10 minute drive from the apartment.

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So it makes sense if she leaves at 6.30 she arrives at 6.40.

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And the program director of this like summer camp program gets there at 8 and she said

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Tracy has been at work and is working when she gets there.

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So while Tracy's at work at around 8 a.m. she calls them from a work phone and there's

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no answer.

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So she would be calling like the landline.

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This is 2001 so people still have landlines.

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So she calls the apartment's landline.

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No answer.

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She calls back seven minutes later and there's still no answer at the apartment.

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She goes back to work and she calls again at around 8.45 and still nobody picks up.

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So she's worried but she's assumed that the girls have fallen back asleep at this point.

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That's what she's running on.

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And now we're going to get into a little bit of a murky area.

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So this is all of witnesses and what's been reported as Tiana and diamonds last known

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whereabouts of this day.

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The last time we for sure see them is you know their mother leaving at 6 a.m. to go

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to work.

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But these are all kind of stories that have not been confirmed by the police but have

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been reported in the media.

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So between 8 17 and 8 30.

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So this would be kind of in between the times that Tracy's calling from work.

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The family says Tiana called her mother's cell phone and left a voicemail.

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So Tracy's cell phone was not on her that day.

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She had left it with her mother who I believe is the grandmother that is watching Victoria

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and Rita the two other girls.

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So again for 2001 it was kind of common to like share a cell phone or to pass it along

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and let somebody else use it.

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I know my dad let me take his to orchestra camp for a week like I think this exact year

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in 2001.

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So it's like a common occurrence at that time for people to pass out the cell phone.

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The police never confirmed this voicemail.

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The police never say they have heard it.

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They really have no comment on it.

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But the family they all say around 10 of them heard it and they found it after the girls

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went missing Tracy was being questioned by the police and had left her cell phone with

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her family.

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So they decided to look through her cell phone and they found the voicemail from Tiana.

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The family says the police accidentally deleted the voicemail and police cannot confirm this.

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So maybe they did maybe they didn't.

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I don't know.

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But that's what the family says happened.

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And here's what they say was contained in the voicemail.

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It was Tiana and she says mama this is Tiana mom pick up the phone.

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George is at the door.

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Can I open the door?

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He said that we're going to Jules to pick up the cake there.

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We're coming to pick you up from work.

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And a voicemail.

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So George that could be Tracy's boyfriend Diamond's father.

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His name is George Washington.

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That could be him at the door.

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But a neighbor is also named George who often babysat the girls.

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So there's a neighbor also named George.

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But the family leans that it's she could be talking about Washington at the door because

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the girls had a nickname for their neighbor who babysat them that that's what they called

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them him by as opposed to George.

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I don't know what the nickname was.

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It's never said.

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But that's why the family thinks that it was Washington that Tiana is talking about in

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this voicemail.

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And George Washington denies that he ever went back to the apartment after dropping

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Tracy off at work.

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At 10 a.m. a neighbor says that Tiana knocked on his door and asked to play with his daughter.

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But he said that it was too early and that his daughter couldn't come out and play.

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Another neighbor told newspapers that she saw the girls between 2 30 and 3 o'clock playing

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at the apartment complex where they lived.

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And she says that Tiana ran up to her and asked if she had any juice or candy.

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And this neighbor was walking her kids to the beach.

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And then another witness report or witnesses report at a nearby elementary school do little

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elementary summer school program was going on there and the kids there say that they

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saw diamond and Tiana playing at 8 a.m. before school started.

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And then again around noon.

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But none of these sightings the neighbor that that Tiana came and knocked on the door to

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ask if she could play with his daughter.

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The neighbor that she asked if she had any juice or candy and then the school kids none

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of these have been confirmed by police as true sightings.

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They may have been confirmed but they are not telling us that.

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So how do you know?

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These have all been reported in newspapers.

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So reporters went out and your clippings and my clippings and my newspaper clippings clippings

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of a madman.

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Truly.

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OK.

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So that's the end of the murkiness as far as Tiana and diamonds last day or their last

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known day around.

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So now we we kind of get to jump back into like facts and things that we know have happened

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on this day because I think police were initially worried that witnesses or the children at

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the school were maybe confusing the day that they saw them.

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So maybe it wasn't Friday they saw them.

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Maybe it was Thursday and they're confusing it for Friday.

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I think there was some of that that they had to sort through in the beginning.

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But now we are jumping back into things that we know happened.

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So Tracy returns home.

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It's reported that she returned home at 11 with George Washington.

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So he drove her home.

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When she comes home the door is locked.

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The apartment door is locked but the girls are gone and she calls out for them and there's

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no response and she finds a note that she believes Tiana left on the couch near a bundle

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of clothes.

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In the beginning there's a lot of questions around this note and this note like is pretty

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important when it comes to this case because it's one of really the only clues we have

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as to what happened to Tiana and diamond that day.

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The note has never been publicly has never been published.

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We don't know verbatim what the note said like the exact language that was written on

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it.

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So essentially Tiana wrote that they were going to the school which is do little elementary

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which is about two blocks away or they were going to the Lake Meadows shopping center

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which is across the street from do little.

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Now in the beginning every time this notice talked about it's like an ant.

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It's like an or situation.

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So they talk about the note and it's like they were going to do little or the shopping

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center.

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So I don't know like what the verbiage is that kind of makes it unclear but later as

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the years progress it's written that the note says they are going to do little and then

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the shopping center.

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The school is important here in the note because Tiana this is the elementary school she attended

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throughout the year but she was also attending summer school in the summer of 2001 and had

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perfect attendance until this day.

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The school calls the apartment at 1010.

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So this would have been after Tracy was calling the apartment and this would have been after

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Tiana allegedly left the voicemail on her mother's cell phone.

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The school called the apartment at around 1010 and there was no answer.

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And Tracy acknowledges that she kept Tiana out of school that day to watch Diamond because

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there was a plan to go on a camping trip that Friday for the weekend to celebrate Victoria's

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birthday.

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So the plan was Tiana would stay home and watch Diamond.

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Tracy would come home with George.

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I believe he was supposed to be going on this trip as well.

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I believe the other two sisters were supposed to go because it was Victoria's birthday the

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next day so that Saturday while they were going to be on this camping trip.

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But in later articles it said that the other two sisters weren't going to be going so there's

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like I have some questions around this camping trip that's talked about as it's reported

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now Tracy kept Tiana out of school but that wasn't reported to the school because the

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school called you know asking where she was because she didn't show up for school in the

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voicemail said that they were going to jewel to get a cake because it was going to be Victoria's

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birthday that weekend and this camping trip was happening so I don't know but very specifically

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later on it said that the other two sisters weren't going so there's some questions around

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this we're going back to the note that was found at the apartment Tracy walks in finds

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this note that they're going to do little and or the shopping center that's across the

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street from do little elementary it's about two blocks from their apartment home and the

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family says it's highly unlikely that the girls wrote a note and they say that Tiana

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would call her mother's cell phone if she had something to tell her and they kind of

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point to the voicemail that she allegedly left being like well she called her earlier

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why wouldn't she call her again and the family says the language within the note it wasn't

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how Tiana spoke at all and family members were genuinely surprised to hear that a note

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had been left because it was just unlike Tiana to leave a note at this point she would call

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her mother's cell phone to like let her know if something was changing or to ask her a

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question she would not leave a note and then later on one of the girls ants she's quoted

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as saying quote the letter was Tiana's penmanship but truly in my heart I think she was coached

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into writing that letter when she wrote letters or certain words she wouldn't spell them correctly

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so this didn't match up with her writing and quote and Tiana was going to summer school

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specifically for her reading and writing the family speaks of specific grammar and spelling

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that like Tiana they don't think Tiana would have been using or would have been able to

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spell on her own without somebody coaching her the FBI will collect samples of Tiana's

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writing from school and also take Tracy's handwriting as a sample according to the FBI

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they believe Tiana did in fact write the note and that she was not under duress while she

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wrote it and this makes the family believe that it was somebody that she knew that was

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coaching her to write the letter that it wasn't a stranger and they also have described Tiana

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as being very street smart I mean this is a girl who grew up in the city of Chicago

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so she knows stranger danger she knows not to talk to strangers or let a stranger into

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the home so she's you know she's street smart and they believe that only somebody who she

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trusted would she have unlocked the apartment door for that day and their mother Tracy she's

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also said that the note is odd because it's not something that Tiana would normally do

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Tracy at this point is starting to feel a little panicked and she asks George Washington

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diamonds father to help look for the girls but he declines to do so and he just gets

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in his car and leaves so Tracy starts calling family members to begin searching in 2021

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I found a report that at around noon Tracy and George Washington had gone to jewel to

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buy food and that there is a receipt stamped 1221 so that does happen during this time

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period and later Tracy's timeline shifts a little bit when she talks to a reporter because

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it's all reported that she returns at 11 11 a.m. 11 a.m. 11 a.m. like that's repeated

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again and again but later she'll say that she got off work at 1140 which would give

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her the time to borrow $20 from a neighbor and go to jewel to buy the food and then come

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home at around 1230 which she'll say later is when she got home so that timeline allows

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for this but up until this point it had been 11 11 11 the whole time so that's a little

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question I have family continue to search for the girls throughout the apartment complex

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and at 6 p.m. the girls are officially reported missing and Tracy is nervous to call police

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because she's scared that she's going to get in trouble because she left the girls

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alone and she has two other daughters that she doesn't want them to get taken away so

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another family member had kind of advised her like hey you can't call them right away

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so that's why the phone call to the police comes so late is because she had been advised

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by family members that like she was going to get into a lot of trouble so she should

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try to look for them and find them herself but at 6 o'clock the police were called and

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because Tracy is scared she initially lies to police and says that she was in the apartment

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taking a nap and when she woke up the girls were gone and so this slows things down in

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the beginning because the police think that the girls left on their own accord and don't

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think that they think that if somebody came into the apartment and got the girls that

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Tracy would have woken up and heard it so it slows down the investigation in the beginning

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a little bit because they think the girls just walked away but eventually like the truth

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comes out that they were left alone like she was at work and so like that gets cleared

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up but it does slow down the investigation in like those first hours when the police

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are there which are always critical police begin canvassing the neighborhood that evening

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but they find no trace of them so that's Friday that's the last time Tiana and diamond are

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seen so this will lead us into Saturday Saturday is Tiana and diamond sisters birthday Victoria

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and later when she's in high school she'll give an interview and it like breaks my heart

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she never celebrates her birthday again after this because it's the day after her sisters

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go missing and like how could you celebrate your birthday like with this dark cloud above

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it but it is her birthday on July 7th and police do not suspect suspect foul play at

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this point and you know in the media in the news reports you know the police are kind

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of talking to Tiana and diamonds like you know if you're out there nobody's gonna be

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mad if you come home it's okay like just come home let somebody know you're okay like it's

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that kind of language where they think that the girls are just like hiding and maybe like

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scared to come home because they're in trouble there's been this like big commotion like

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that's really the language that is used that first Saturday after they go missing police

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interrogate Tracy on Saturday for around six hours and while that's happening other police

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are searching railroad tracks they utilize a helicopter over Lake Michigan and divers

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are searching all through Lake Michigan and neighbors are getting together and canvassing

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the neighborhood and passing out flyers so like not only are the police searching but

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like everybody in the neighborhood starting to come out and look for these girls it really

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becomes like a citywide effort to find them pretty quickly but definitely right away the

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family's looking the police are looking and the neighbors start to look very quickly for

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these girls and everyone's very aware that they're gone so Sunday July 8th there's a

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larger and earlier police presence around their home and dogs were starting to be used

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to sniff cars in the area and police focus their attention around 31st Street Beach on

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Lake Michigan and this comes from a witness that said he saw the girls walking towards

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the beach and in this area there's like a pedestrian bridge that goes from the neighborhoods

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onto the beach and there was the other neighbor who was walking her kids to the beach so it's

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very very close a neighbor at this time also begins organizing a search of her own and

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she creates new flyers because she doesn't think that the blurry black and white police

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bulletins like up to standard so she goes home and makes these like beautiful color

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flyers to pass out through the neighborhood so like everybody's jumping in to try to find

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these girls and their mother is questioned for eight hours by police on Sunday on Monday

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July 9th Chicago police officially asked the FBI to get involved in the case but the case

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continues to be handled as a missing person case and not as a kidnapping case so basically

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they are treating it like Tionda and Diamond walked away of their own accord or ran away

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and children aren't allowed to just go missing like that's that's not in your rights until

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you're 18 like you can't just go missing but police have no evidence at this time that

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they were abducted or kidnapped so they are treating it as a missing person case two neighbors

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come forward and say they saw the girls playing at the apartment complex as late as three

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p.m. on the day they went missing if that's true if they were playing at three p.m. that

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means that Tracy would have been home by this time so you would think that she would have

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been able to find them quickly if they had been playing but maybe the neighbors are confused

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on the day maybe she was missing them I don't know but there's this report of two neighbors

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saying they were playing around the apartment complex police and FBI are going door to door

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and the FBI brings in bloodhounds to search for the girls and to try to find their trace

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on Monday police questioned Tracy for six hours and they also start questioning other

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members of the families and this is when nightly prayer vigils also begin and are organized

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by neighbors so they say they're gonna hold a nightly prayer vigil every night until the

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girls return sadly that is not the case they now hold yearly vigils for the girls but in

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the beginning they were doing vigils every night for them no new leads as of Tuesday

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no no confirmed sightings and no evidence of the girls or rather on Monday so on Tuesday

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July 10th the police search is frenzied and expanded on this day so they really kick it

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up a notch and police will have a hundred officers on the case at all times rotating

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in and out of searching the Cook County Forest Preserve Police spot two dirt mounds in the

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Dan Ryan woods about two blocks apart the Dan Ryan woods are on the south side of Chicago

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and this would have been about eight miles south of where the girls apartment was and

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so police seal off the woods police FBI they bring up they bring in cadaver dogs to search

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the woods for the girls they locate the two mounds they were about two blocks apart within

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the woods and they search for a while in the woods but the mounds that they were originally

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called in for just ends up being landscaping and compost material but police say that these

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woods are known for like dumping and burying pets so it doesn't seem outside the norm that

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somebody would try to bury a body here and police also say they are focusing on woods

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and other wide open spaces because they are near a home of a relative that they are questioning

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the relative is not named like who they're questioning and why they're searching all

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these places near this relative but they'll question this person into Thursday so police

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also on this day search the Dan Ryan woods and then they focused on Washington Park searching

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the lagoon they had divers in the lagoon because a minister had called in and said while he

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was praying for the girls he had a vision of two bags being thrown into the lagoon so

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that prompted the police to dispatch divers into the lagoon nothing was found there and

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a radio station also received an anonymous tip that there were two dead bodies in an

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abandoned house near Vincent's Ave and 103rd so this is like I looked it up on Google Maps

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this is like South South barely Chicago anymore like almost to like the southern suburbs but

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when police arrive at this location there's no house at this location this corner so they

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expand out on a floor of four black radius and search all the nearby railroad tracks

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and wooded areas nearby but they don't come up with anything police also bring in dogs

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to search along railroad tracks they searched dumpsters along 87th Street all in all when

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this is said and done the police will have searched 42 tons of trash is what they say

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so this search this is like the biggest search on Tuesday between the Dan Ryan Woods Washington

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Park the Vincents and 103rd Avenue this is like kind of the biggest search day and the

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search turned up lots of child's clothing but none of it could be tied to Tionda and

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diamonds and unfortunately at the time the girls went missing nobody knew what they were

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wearing because Tracy left before they got dressed so that evening they were having their

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nightly prayer vigil Tracy pleads with whoever has her children to let them go and then after

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this prayer vigil police are going to take Tracy in for the fourth time to question her

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so on Wednesday July 11th police returned to the Dan Ryan Woods and finished searching

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the woods with cadaver dogs based off of the places they're looking like in the trash and

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bringing in cadaver dogs like they are to me that's looking for bodies and not trying

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to locate like a child who has wondered off and at this time the notes that Tionda left

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is still being analyzed by the police and the FBI so police are trying to review security

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footage to see if they can confirm the neighbor sightings of the girls at three playing around

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the apartment complex in 2021 it was actually reported that the security cameras at the

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apartment complex couldn't catch anything because they had been turned up to face the

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ceiling and there's no details of when that happened or if they think it's related to

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the crime or if maybe they had gotten turned up before and nobody had noticed and you know

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it just had stayed that way but the security cameras in the front of the apartment complex

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didn't catch anything I don't know security cameras in the back caught anything or if

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they caught anything from the apartment complex security cameras but they're not telling us

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so on Wednesday July 11th police seemed to zero in on George Washington who is Diamond's

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father and at the time Tracy's boyfriend on again off again boyfriend so police searched

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the home garage and car of Diamond's father George Washington and the focus of the search

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seemed to be centered around his garage and the police search his vehicle and they actually

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find hair in the trunk of his vehicle and testing reveals that the hair could have come

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from Tiana Diamond or Tracy so it's a little inconclusive but it came from one of them

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Washington says that the reason the hair is there is because he would sneak Tiana and

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Diamond and the other girls into drive-in movies around the city but at the time of

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this in 2001 there were no drive-ins in the city of Chicago there were in the suburbs

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but none in the city police also are asking Washington's neighbors about his comings and

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goings on Friday and specifically if they saw any fires and four teenagers and three

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neighbors say they saw him burning something in a 55 gallon drum in his backyard and then

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he took the barrel and put it in his trunk and drove off Washington says he never burned

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anything but he was doing home remodeling and would fill the drum with trash and debris

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then take it to Washington Park to dump in construction dumpsters there police searched

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those dumpsters nothing was ever found related to Tiana and Diamond to my knowledge and police

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also find a receipt from Home Depot for a purchase made shortly before the girls went

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missing that was for gloves construction garbage bags and bleach Washington says this is related

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to his home remodeling sure it's very questionable very questionable but Washington fully cooperates

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with the police and is let go it's reported that his polygraph comes back inconclusive

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but Tracy will continue to date Washington and she ends up having another child by him

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as well so there's also that so it's still Wednesday July 11th and police also find video

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surveillance taken from jewel but it'll take the family days to review it at this time

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Tracy was being questioned a lot by police so she hired a lawyer which I think is completely

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reasonable considering what we know about the Chicago Police Department as a whole on

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Wednesday the police come to her and ask her to watch this video and she says no on the

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council of her lawyer on Thursday the family goes to the police to watch the video but

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the police don't have it the FBI have it so they're not able to watch it on Thursday

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July 12th and on this day the police just continue to re-interview family members and

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neighbors looking for new leads so this is Friday July 13th 2001 so this is one week

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after Tiana and diamond were last seen Tracy meets with police and reviews the video of

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the surveillance footage and it's not the girls and the family ends up reviewing at

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least three surveillance videos that day two from July 6th which is the day the girls went

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missing and then the jewel tape which is the tape that's talked about here and the police

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now believe the girls did not leave on their own like oh really you're now getting there

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okay and a woman called police and said on July 6th the day the girls went missing she

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saw two young girls enter an abandoned church near her home so cadaver dogs were sent into

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the church and two mounds were discovered in the basement crawlspace one was about three

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feet one was about five feet which was matches the heights for Tiana and diamond at the time

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they went missing but after a five-hour search of the church and in the basement there's

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nothing it's just dirt no signs of Tiana and diamond on Saturday July 14th 2001 police

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officially expands the search to the entire city of Chicago so they had really been focusing

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just on the south side and in the girls neighborhood but now it's officially expanded to the entire

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city and the girls story airs on America's Most Wanted at the time so only just a week

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and one day after they go missing they get on America's Most Wanted which is great Sunday

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July 15th and Monday July 16th there's no updates and they get a few leads from America's

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Most Wanted but nothing to like write about in the news or anything to bring any hope

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to the family so on Tuesday July 17th the FBI has offered a reward for more info and

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Chicago Public Schools also kicks in money for the reward and the girls apartment complex

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as well puts money in for a reward so like all these like people want to find the girls

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and they want to find them alive and well so police on Tuesday order that every abandoned

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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
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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
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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
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The woman in Texas she is willing to take a DNA test to prove that she is Tiana but

662
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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.

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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
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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

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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

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father.

673
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I thought it was the neighbor.

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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

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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

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cake or can I leave.

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So that would have been Tiana.

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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

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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

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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.

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01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,440
You're great you're perfect.

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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.

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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.

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01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:07,080
And that's it.

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Will we be back next week?

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We will be back next week, next Monday with another story.

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So have a great week y'all.

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01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:17,760
Thanks for listening.

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Thank you for listening.