Detrez Green /// Part 1 /// 525 | Forensic Files

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[Music] thank you [Music] there are a few things more terrifying than a tornado when the sirens go off
and the clamoring whale warns of an impending force of nature strong enough to lift a home off of its foundation the
human instinct is to run take cover and pray we are all taught at a young age to
love Mother Nature but but to fear her wrath as well when it comes to a tornado our parents
taught us to take shelter in our basements at school we would take cover under desk but what
about a two-year-old little kids have to rely on the protection of a parent or the help of a caring adult
the southern states are typically more prone to experienced tornadoes due to atmospheric conditions and other
meteorological forces we won't pretend to understand the state of Georgia suffers its share averaging about 20
tornadoes a year the storms cause a range of damage some result in minor damage to property taking down trees and
power lines and others are more destructive buying waste to entire buildings but even in those cases rarely
are people killed Warning Systems are in place notifying all to seek shelter in a
bunker or basement to wait out the twists are above usually at least 20 minutes notice is given and is
sufficient to allow everyone to find a safe place to ride the storm out but in Georgia on January 21st and 22nd of 2017
40 tornadoes touched down in just under 48 hours strongest was an ef-3 with Winds of 150
miles per hour and a mild wide path the damage was Indescribable in the wake of the storms the state resembled A
Wasteland and was declared a state of emergency FEMA and the National Guard were called
in damage estimates were around 100 million dollars but even more important than the destruction of homes farm
houses Barns and buildings was the loss of life 15 people died in the state of Georgia and five others in other
Southern States as a result of these Twisters which left total devastation in their wake entire neighborhoods were
flattened by the storm one of the areas hit in Dougherty County was a mobile home park located in Albany this was
Piney Woods estate's mobile home park occupying the 3500 block of Sylvester Road
as you can imagine the combination of a powerful tornado and mobile homes many of which are not permanently attached to
a foundation is deadly around 3 15 p.m on Sunday January 22nd the tornado directly hit the mobile home
park according to the Albany Herald it stayed on the ground for 71 miles ripping
across the county and within minutes most of the mobile home park was pretty much wiped out some of the trailers were
reduced to match stick size pieces of debris trees from the woods surrounding the park were everywhere sinks toilets
grills and Furniture were stuck in trees and cars were overturned it looked like
a zombie apocalypse with disoriented people staggering for help one CNN reporter described it as looking
like a nuclear bomb went off 145 people who were displaced by the storm sought shelter at the Albany Civic
Center turned into a makeshift hostel for the newly homeless it was chaos and displaced residents despaired at the
total loss of their homes and their belongings this week's True Crime Story is less
about those terrible storms that affected so many people and more about what was brewing behind closed doors
this is true crime garage and this is the case of the Tres green foreign [Music]
homes in the park located at 3527 Sylvester Road Lot Number Eight was occupied by a family of five on Sunday
January 22nd young parents Kevin Greene and adasia Rainey and their three young children two boys and a newborn girl
weathered the storm in their mobile home they had decided not to heed the evacuation warnings that had blared
throughout the park although their trailer still stood After the Storm passed through it was declared a total
loss because of a large oak tree that fell through the roof into the kitchen area of the home as described by the
Albany Herald rainey's home like the rest of Piney Woods estate was a disaster area after the storm
photos of the wrecked trailer show dirt litter shoes and toys amid piles of debris and as they pick themselves up
and came to their senses in the new quiet After the Storm Kavanaugh and adasia noted the absence of their
two-year-old son detrez so we have here Captain the Green family it's going to be a family of five
we have Kevin a green and his partner adasia Rainey often I want to point out that in a lot of these news articles and
new summaries of this story that we're going to be quoting and mentioning throughout our story and our timeline of
this case they will often refer to adasia Rainey as simply by her last name Rainey and often Kevin Greene by his
last name green so I don't want anybody to get confused as we move our way through this uh this story here standing
outside of what was the left of his home Kevin green described for a CNN reporter
the last time he saw his son detrez now keep in mind to trez is two years old quote last time I saw him he was playing
with the toy I just hope they can find him you know I've been crying man but I don't want to cry in front of the
cameras you know this is what kavana tells the reporter he goes on speaking with the reporter to say see that tree
right here it kind of divided me and then he's asked were you with your two-year-old when this happened he
responds no sir well we were in the same area but we weren't together Kevin explained the last time I saw him he was
right by that door I was cooking and he was kind of right by me kind of it's real difficult I can't find my son don't
got a place to stay those were his statements to CNN Jerry green Kevin's brother he told the following story to
the Atlanta Journal Constitution according to Jerry green Kevin had told him later they were watching TV when the
storm hit and the trez was playing with a remote control car on the kitchen floor quote he said he could hear the
storm and strong winds and everything blowing detrez was near the kitchen door when it flung open
about the same time a massive tree fell and split the trailer separating parents
from the child on the other side adasia started toward detrez but Kavanaugh was afraid should get hurt and threw her
down with the kitchen door open the wind pounded the parents screamed in the darkened afternoon and wondered how they
would save their boy until quote it snatched my nephew out of the trailer Jerry green said the treze's mother
adasia never spoke to the media it sounds to me Captain like did she not speak to the media on that day
I don't think nor could I find anywhere that she ever spoke with the media in regards to this situation we have a lot
of her statements that are coming second hand through people that know her yes she could be just too heartbroken to
speak on the matter she's reportedly to have told investigators that detrez slipped away from her and walked into
the kitchen area toward the back door of the trailer just before the massive oak
tree crashed through the roof nowadaysia told emergency responders that she did not see the Child leave the home or get
swept away but believe that indeed he had been carried off by the storm and this is what she told her family well
same kind of story but sort of so Willie Rainey this is adasia's Grandfather he tells the media quote adasia told me
that he meaning detrez kind of got spooked from the storm and that he ran toward the kitchen the tree hit the
house and the back door flew open and the storm pulled him out of the house end quote this was theoretically
possible of course after all the average two-year-old weighs about 27 pounds literally nothing too powerful for an
ef-3 tornado everyone agreed that the storm that powerful a storm that powerful could take a trailer off the
ground so it certainly could have taken a two-year-old child well think about the pounds of pressure would take just
to open up the door we don't know if that door was locked or or unlocked but or latched yeah and then
also the pounds of pressure and the force that would have to to rip a tree out and smash into the mobile home and I
want to be clear about something before we move on here Captain when we say adasia told emergency responders
emergency responders are responding to that area immediately after the tornado leaves the area these are not statements
that she gave to those responders when they are arriving on scene and we'll see how that breaks down as we go through
our timeline here now Captain here's a breakdown of day one of the search for little detrez green So within an hour
this is exactly what I'm talking about right here within an hour after the storm hit the park Emergency Management
officials convened on Dougherty County to survey the damage and to assist people who were injured stranded or
otherwise although first responders were swamped and overwhelmed by the number of
people needing Aid after the storms passed through on Sunday Afternoon Of course a missing toddler swept up by the
storm will take top priority Sunday night note the times here the tornado rolls through there about 3 15 that
afternoon within an hour emergency services are in the area they're at this mobile home park it's not until that
night that they're searching for detress and we'll find out why here in a bit but
by Sunday night Captain it was all hands on deck in the search for detrez green we have dozens of Albany search and
rescue Personnel members of state agencies we have Civil Air Patrol and specially trained search and rescue
firefighters descending on that Piney Woods estates Mobile Home Park and mobilize to scour the area for Detroit's
but I'm also guessing at this time there's no electricity in that area no but the personnel that we're describing
here would be used to that type of situation and given the area you know the the southern states are more prone
to these types of Storms and tornadoes than up in the north and other parts of our country this is not their first
rodeo and so they know what they're doing and they're experienced right they know where to look and we have this
statement that kind of backs this up this comes from the Dougherty County search and rescue team member Lan Scala
who told wtxl quote we started working this area based on the rotation of the Winds If the child was taken out of the
home and sucked over to the side where we thought he might have landed so we took all these debris Fields apart and
the Georgia search and rescue team came in and went back to the house the child was supposedly living in and took that
debris field and house apart we covered out to the Northwest going out to the bypass just to make sure that the child
was not carried out in that direction of the storm so what he's saying here is based off of the information that we had
based off of the information and of the storm itself right in the direction that
it was traveling and what we've seen in from previous storms and previous Damage
Done by these types of tornadoes we had a good idea of what area to prioritize when looking for this little boy and so
he's saying we started with this area we didn't find a treze we didn't find any trace of him right we're not finding
clothing or shoes or anything belonging to the boy or anything to indicate to us
that he ended up in this area so then we're moving on to the next most likely area that he would be to the point where
eventually they're finding themselves at the next prioritized area being the trailer itself being his home itself to
make sure hey he's not under the tree he's not you know he's not remaining in that area
so the Searchers basically dismantled what was left of the family's destroyed mobile home making sure that detrez
wasn't under that fallen tree or in the rubble of the home itself either injured
scared and hiding or otherwise now per w-a-l-b rescue crews searched through every inch of that home and both cadaver
and search dogs were brought into Aid in the search for detrez green but a very difficult situation because like you
said he's under 30 pounds he's a small little child we have big pieces of debris that are have fallen all over the
place have been moved all around this is a very difficult search extremely difficult
you're absolutely right now let's go through days two and three because day one unsuccessful now they didn't get
started until Sunday night but let's see what happens with days two and three as
the intense searches continued for detrez green so we have Searchers combing through what was left of the
surrounding homes the surrounding homes next to Green's parents home and the woods that is
around the park itself the mobile home park itself in total the search parameter was a half mile in diameter
quote we are doing everything we can to try to find this child and hopefully alive stated Dougherty County Emergency
Management agency officials on Tuesday helicopters hovered over Piney Woods Estates and the surrounding woodlands
and swamps searching for any sign of the boy now Captain Bobby Spargo of the Albany fire department told the Albany
Herald quote we have our Georgia search and rescue teams in here today they have
gritted off the search area and they are taking it inch by inch they're not moving a foot forward until they see
dirt it is going to be a long drawn out process as far as we know the boy is the
only missing person from this area it was tough going because this area is swampy with areas covered in thickets
and brush as you said Captain debris was everywhere and parts of the surrounding
landscape were actually flooded with storm Waters from four inches of rain that the area received over that weekend
now search Crews had to hack their way through the brush and cut through downed trees it was basically like searching
for a needle in a very complex dangerous Haystack Lane Scala the Dougherty County
search and rescue team member told Fox 31 we ran some time grid searches this morning my understanding is that
Georgia's search and rescue is getting ready to start taking debris Fields apart we're going to cut them up pull
them apart piece by piece to make sure we get a thorough search of this area the search and rescue teams had to cut
paths into the debris field to clear a way for cadaver and live search dogs into these areas all to look for this
missing little boy with their standing water around this area right in Parts yeah in parts so they received four
inches of rain over the course of that weekend in our search we're now to Tuesday so there's been some time for
the earth to absorb some of that rain for it to run off so yeah they have parts that are still
holding some water we're not talking you know feet of water we would be talking inches of water and as said there are
some swamp areas that are would be in the Woodland area that surrounds this mobile home park so
those areas are always very difficult and as you pointed out I mean it's it's just a really incredibly difficult
situation number one you're looking for a small boy that's a different kind of search than if you were looking for an
adult and then compound that with the storm that came through and you know when you see these
when you see these mobile home parks and the devastation that a ef3 tornado can cause anywhere but especially in these
mobile home parks you see it on CNN or Fox News or your local channel and you go wow I mean it's just it's incredibly
shocking and I think it also kind of reminds us just how small we are individually right that that we aren't
that powerful and that when mother nature comes in man she can make a big mess and she certainly did hear in this
situation at that mobile home come on looks with some of the overviews that I'm I'm looking at here it does look
like there are some deeper areas of water almost like a like ponds yes there is a pond that is in that same area the
other thing though too you know we talk about these dogs coming in be it cadaver
dogs or live search and rescue dogs and you have already this complex situation but now you have a situation
where you're being told that the boy was in his mobile home he's near the door the door gets kicked open by the storm
somehow and then either he depending on which story you want to give more weight to Dad's story or the
mom story either he sucked out of the trailer or he made his way to the door and then got lifted by the tornado we
have to take into consideration here you've brought in these dogs to look for a scent or to find this boy they're
having to clear Pathways for the dogs to have something to smell to have something to kind of Trace to look for
the trash right and this is not going to be a quick process this is going to be a
a long time consuming process top that off with we've covered plenty of cases where
you have a person that goes missing and they bring in Scent dogs or you know somebody may have been abducted and they
bring in dogs to try to track the person or track what happened to them and they
have a scent to follow they have somebody who walked on the ground to to get to where they were going or even a
child being lifted by an adult and carried away you still have something to trace
and here if if you have a boy that's been lifted up off of the ground and carried away by a tornado I don't know
what there would be to to trace for these dogs to track I guess with a cadaver dog they're trained to find a
cadaver so if that were the situation they don't technically need a scent to follow
they're going to be looking for sense of human remains you know someone that that
has expired but again like you said there's so much debris on some level that has to throw off their proficiency
the other difficult thing too is and we'll get into the details of this as we go through our timeline and through the
details of the case but what were they using to give to the dogs to have them track the boy there's
no mention of that and I think that there's probably pretty good reason for that and I think we'll see that as we go
on yeah because overhead view of this area goes from a mobile park home neighborhood to it basically looks like
a trash dump yeah it's like looking for looking for a small person in a junkyard
and it's a junkyard that was just created hours ago and he could be under any of that Rubble now I want to mention
something here because we kind of Breeze through it a little bit and I think that
it it would be a disservice to not really underline and Echo and point this this fact out we have the search and
rescue expert the the teams that were brought in the face of that search and rescue effort the media person is
telling the media the Tres is the only person in this storm that has not been found now that was on Tuesday right the
storms went took place on Sunday on Tuesday this person is telling the media he's the only person that's not
been found this storm wreaked havoc on the area there were people that lost their lives uh maybe not in this
immediate area but in the in the overall spectrum of where this tornado hit there
were people that lost their lives basically without going into too much information here what that person is
telling us is we found all of the other people that were carried away or affected by the storm be it dead or
alive we've located everybody else this is the only person that we have not been
able to locate number one and number two we don't have any trace of this boy as well it's very bizarre and we're going
to see some more bizarre activity as we continue on death by tornado is is kind of all over the map uh 2021 we have 73
deaths in 2000 2020 we have a 7 26 people that perished in tornadoes compared to
42 and 2019 so they're kind of all over the map but it's obviously very rare rare and it's going to be completely
based off of you know how many tornadoes you have and then the severity of those
storms themselves right because if you know we have statistics on car accidents and people that die in vehicle-related
incidents right if nobody drove Vehicles then that number would go to zero you know so it's it's a very it's it's a
difficult thing to put a number on right to say that there's an average number for that because it's all based off of
weather and storms that we all hope don't happen well again the fluctuation varies just in the amount of tornadoes
that we have a thousand one year to 1500 the next year wow I mean that's a significant jump you know it's not like
we can say well we know for certain there's going to be 1500 tornadoes every year I've been very lucky I've
experienced a lot of tornado warnings and really only two real tornadoes that hit my immediate area that I can recall
you know I couldn't imagine that's that's one of those things I love those Southern States man in the summertime
I'm reminded when I when you flip on the news it's just heartbreaking you hear of
some some years you know you you referenced 1500 tornadoes one year some years it feels like you turn on the
TV and it's those storms are too frequent and too devastating yeah or people that have to also experience
hurricanes on to days four and five the searches for detrez resumed at dawn with even more hands on deck civilian
volunteers who turned out in droves to help look for the missing toddler after hearing about him on the news we're
permitted to help at this time days four and five Crews searched through the debris and demolished homes looking for
any sign of detrez video is available of Rescuers in fatigues chopping through dense brush and downed branches
to look for him I mean it was a mess Wednesday's search was described by the Dayton Daily News as search and rescue
workers in Albany were looking for the missing toddler from dawn until dusk rescue crews had combed through the
rubble of the boy's home but found nothing on Wednesday they were still sifting through debris of neighboring
homes Albany fire Captain Bobby Spargo said that Searchers were trying to maintain a positive attitude but it was
not easy according to wfxl search dogs reacted to a pod this is the the water area that you were talking about reacted
to a pond behind the trailer park so they decided to go ahead and drain this pond pumps were brought in and ran all
night long dropping the water level by eight feet then the Lowndes County dive team was
brought in to comb the depths of the shallow murky water searches continued for five full days and during these five
full days of searching for little detrez green there was no sign of the missing child well if you just do a simple
Google search on the power of tornadoes tornadoes have picked people and items up carried them some distance and set
them down sometimes without injury but they also have been known to pick up people and animals and have transported
them up to a quarter mile with more serious injuries I couldn't imagine being carried a quarter of a mile
away I mean just just insane now Searchers for detres found nothing as we said there was some evidence of him or
of a child anyway inside the home that he lived in photos of the wreckage show children's
shoes and such but detrez was nowhere to be seen and as we pointed out he's supposed to be one of three children
living in that trailer so to say that they found evidence of him I think they're going out of their way here to
tell us Captain we found evidence of a child not specifically detrez green right Lon Scala told wtxl that there was
very that it was very rare for a person to vanish Without a Trace during a tornado saying in a search situation
usually we find some clothing we find some human articles we can tie to the victim in this case we didn't find
anything do we have a report on what he was wearing though because he's a toddler so it's like you know how many
times you go to your friend's house when they have a little one and and he's just kind
of walking around in diapers or maybe a onesie right and that's I mean again we're going to see the
complexities of this case get even more complex as we go because what we don't have here captain
is we don't have parents in the area helping with the search we don't have parents
speaking with law enforcement and search and rescue to help in any way with the search
right so we have this incredibly difficult search going on and Mom and Dad are M.I.A right what are
search expert is saying here basically what he means is that normally things belonging to the missing person be it an
adult or a child or what have you clothes and so on should have been found in the search area somewhere but they
these weren't found nothing was located in this situation and yes it's a complex
area it's a needle in a haystack situation but again this is not these people's first rodeo when it comes to
these types of searches they're familiar with tornadoes they're familiar with the
damage that they do and they're familiar with how to find people as quick and as
soon as possible and they've spent a lot of time building strategies to conduct these types of search and rescue efforts
yeah and it's not like these experts are coming to the parents and saying hey look there's no hope don't worry about
searching for them there's there's no hope there's no sign of him and there's no hope when you have experienced like
like you said train experts it's it's hard to know how one would react especially if you saw him or look
like you said this is a traumatic situation there could be things that they they maybe they did see him get
Swept Away by the tornado and they just can't remember it with details because it's a traumatic thing but so maybe
subconsciously they know that they're child is gone and we don't have to there's no point of
searching for him but if it was me I'm I'm looking as long as I can stand as long as I can
move as long as I can keep walking I am looking for this child everybody out there in Parts Unknown please make note
of this if I go missing I want the captain in charge of the search and rescue efforts he's not stopping until
the colonel or whoever he's looking for is located and that's what these search and rescue Personnel were attempting to
do with the Tres green but don't you find it strange that these strangers are willing to put more effort into
searching for this child than his own family members well and of course and that caused that will lead to all kinds
of questions in regards to the family the family Dynamic the Tres green what was going on with the family are we
to believe any of these stories that we're hearing of him being Swept Away in the storm
because after more than five days of intense costly and frantic searching officials felt that they had exhausted
all search Avenues Dougherty County Emergency Management agency director Ron Rowe said in his Friday daily press
conference this is to update the public about the storm cleanup and search Endeavors for detrez that they had done
all that they could possibly do and said that the case of missing detrez green was being remanded to the
Dougherty County Police Department [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] all right we are back cheers mates
cheers to everybody in the front there to the sides especially the sides cheers how'd you all get in the sides yeah
Standing Room on cheers to you Mr captain now we have a statement here in regards to where we left off right where
we have the emergency agency director Ron Rowe telling us you know we've done all we could and now we're handing this
over to the police department to the Dougherty County Police Department and his statement is as such we've had over
200 Personnel here in town including Georgia's search and rescue teams working hours and hours doing a search
and rescue operation we've cleared all three areas a b and c divisions that were gridded off we have cleared an area
to ground level and Below at least 150 yards away from the site we've drained a pond to where you could walk through it
we have put dive teams in other sections of it we have been a mile and a half Downstream
we have been hundreds of yards past this Pond area we've literally cleared the ground to dirt
we have completed this and we've officially ended our search for the missing child we have completed our
mission it is in our best expert judgment that in this area the missing person is not there at this time again
that last line was the missing person is not there at this time so this statement
is pretty unequivocal right now per the Albany Herald Dougherty County police chief Jackie Battle
said that going forward to treze's case would be handled by the dcpd as a missing person's case saying quote the
information we were given is that this child was lost in the storm and of course we called in search and rescue
and as you've heard they've exhausted Everything Chief battle said that the dcpd investigation would continue and
that they were in the process of conducting interviews about detrez so now Captain after the official searches
for detrez were called off investigators began to question what they had been told about detreza's disappearance
itself there were some red flags they told the media and Sergeant David McVeigh who was
the chief dcpd detective on the case said they pulled out all the stops in the searches for detrez which went on
for five days involved hundreds of personnel and cost several millions in Manpower and Equipment we're pretty
confident we would have come across his remains he said but the Oddity of the child Vanishing Into Thin Air wasn't the
only thing that raised investigators eyebrows something was wrong here and it started
it started with the parents kavana and adasia right and now in our timeline the media starts to read between the lines
and the official statements about the boy right which hinted that all was not right and so some members of the media
started to do some digging of their own here's an excerpt from the Atlanta Journal Constitution when the wind died
down residents emerged to see the devastation Chris Tyrell 33 who lived near Detroit's family told the Atlanta
Journal Constitution he went to help Neighbors at rainy and grain's trailer so he's at
Detroit's family's trailer he says that there he helped extract a baby girl who was apparently unharmed
between a fallen dresser and the wall Terrell said he then asked two men in front of the trailer if they needed more
help one of those men was Kevin Greene the other a neighbor to which both said no okay so to be
clear what this statement means is we have parents right we have one of the parents is there with another person
standing in front of the trailer this man just pulled your little girl your baby girl from the trailer who was
lodged under debris inside the home this is immediately after the storm Kevin a green supposedly has a missing
two-year-old at this time immediately after the storm the storm that supposedly took the child
according to his statements and his eyeballs what he says he saw with those eyeballs and he's asked if he needed any
help and apparently nope we're all good right what parent in their right mind who could not find their child would say
no to an immediate offering of help he saw it with his own balls but he doesn't need help he when he says
hey I'm all good here we're all good we don't need no help it's because they ain't looking
so if you ain't looking then why would you need help looking they ain't looking and part of me wonders have they not
come up with this scenario yet right have they not come up with the idea that their child was taken by the
storm because it was too fresh it was too new and old dad ain't that quick then we have others who also noted the
disinterested reaction of both of dutrez's parents they go on the record to tell us what
they were witnessing now the following is all from the Atlanta Journal Constitution so we have Lisa Cooley this
is a deja's aunt these two were very close with Lisa being a mother figure to the young woman
Lisa told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that her niece and Kevin's Behavior after the tornado was awed Lisa
said she never saw a Deja cry and she was shocked by how soon her niece referred to detrez in the past tense
and Lisa's sister Whitney Rainey said she confronted their niece about the tres they were having a video chat and a Deja
wouldn't look her in the eye while telling those last moments talking about those last moments in the trailer well I
was just going to say I mean the these are major red flags you you're not asking for help you're not even looking
you don't seem to be concerned you seem to have no emotion and now when you're talking to a family member you can't
even look at them straight into the to the eyes and what I find so interesting about this here Captain is in regards to
caveat but more importantly here with adasia is that we have people saying look this doesn't feel right
something's wrong here and that's not just law enforcement or the search and rescue teams now it's her
own family people that she was close with people that would have her back they're the ones saying there's
something off here there's something strange going on yeah I think the first question for law enforcement is is it
possible for this child to be swept away by the tornado and you go yes and then even with the expertise of the
search team you start going is it possible that that this child was picked up moved we
know that the actual like adults have been picked up by tornadoes and moved a quarter of a mile you if you have this
child move to to actual moving body of water if he hits that water you know then he could even travel
further and he just would never find them so is that possible yes is this possible it's so it's possible the
tornado took him away it's possible that the tornado took him into a situation that these these expert Searchers were
not able to find him that is all possible but why doesn't the parents care why does it seem like this child
wasn't even in the trailer exactly and that's where we have to call everything into question you're 100 right it is
possible that he was swept away and they just couldn't find him doesn't seem to be likely from what the experts are
telling us but possible and then you have not just law enforcement questioning the parents themselves
neighbors questioning the parents but you have adasia's family right like I mean if somebody if somebody walked up
to you on the street some person you never met in in your life walks up smacked him in the face walks
up to you and says so and so is a real a a real turd burglar or Turd Ferguson or somebody that you've
known forever right you've known me forever if I walk up to you and say so and so is a real a real Turd Ferguson
aren't you going to believe me like doesn't my statement carry a lot more weight than just some stranger or some
Rando person that you've met with in the last day this is her family saying something's not right here we don't
believe her we have Sergeant McVeigh the detective he said he was concerned because in his assessment the parents
emotions weren't in it he also noted that Kevin and adasia gave conflicting statements about what happened to detrez
then we have Willie Rainey a Deja rainey's Grandfather said that what he noted was Kevin complaining
about a missing cell phone After the Storm saying that Kevin was intent on looking
for the phone but not his missing son and here's where it gets really interesting this is per the Atlanta
Journal Constitution Article six days after the tornado a child welfare worker took custody of Detroit's three-year-old
brother and infant sister asked why the kids were taken the DFCS spokeswoman would simply say that the
agency listens to police seems like a pretty simple and forward answer maybe we have to read between the
lines a little bit but sounds to me like they have caused to believe that the other children could be in danger based
off of what police are telling them so someone had alerted DFCS that the remaining children of Kevin and adasia
might be could be in possible danger in the care of their parents yeah could you
imagine being that grandfather and hearing that you're caveat or however you want to say a stupid name
is looking for a cell phone and it's upsell said about a cell phone but doesn't seem
to be upset about his two-year-old son we do have Kevin's brother Jerry green who refutes all of this he kind of goes
to Kevin's defense saying that he remembers his brother and the deja crying inconsolably after detrez's
disappearance he told the newspaper don't anybody know my brother like I do he ain't lying but I don't know
regardless to me Captain it seems like that there's so much more than just the lack of emotion on the part of the
parents that raises suspicion to me and obviously to many others out there well what do they say you know hurt me once
shame on me hurt me twice you're dead to me hurt me three times your family maybe
there's some riffs between son and father and and he's not and the grandfather is not giving an accurate
depiction of actually what happened yeah I mean it's a tricky situation you have
like you were saying the the police have a hunch the neighbors have a hunch and now family members have a hunch yeah and
basically what I see here is you like you just said everybody has a hunch the only one that seems to be coming to the
defense of of these two of the parents is Kevin's brother Jerry green everybody else is calling it everything into
question the you know her grandfather uh her her Aunt her other family members everybody else is saying
again that there's just something that's suspicious here incredibly suspicious let's take that suspicion a step further
because detrez's parents they stopped talking to the media after that one initial clip in which Kevin
told them that he hoped they would find his son so that that brief little CNN spot is the only time that I could find
that either parents spoke with the media in regards to their missing son which is
right we've been doing this long enough to know that that's an incredibly bizarre behavior
we have the statements of law enforcement saying that this is the only time that any of them spoke with yeah I
don't I don't really have a problem with that because I think if my child went missing
especially a two-year-old I I don't think I'd want to talk to anybody other than search teams
law enforcement family members that would be the only people that I'd be talking to right uh I and it's not a
situation that I'm thinking that my child was abducted if I thought my child was
abducted now of course I'm talking to the media and I'm and I'm talking I'm doing press conferences to talk to that
individual that I think maybe abducted my child but that it's this is a different situation I agree but wouldn't
you agree that it starts off as a different situation than after six or seven days and search and rescue
Personnel telling you we should have found him or a trace of him by now right as a parent aren't you going okay
well anything's possible maybe maybe the storm took him and somebody found him a
bad person found him I mean wouldn't you be willing to shift gears make adjustments and do anything pull out all
the stops after I mean I I get it after day one and day two maybe day three but at some point I'm going this [ __ ] ain't
working let's try something new here and I mean let's take it a step further as from a law enforcement perspective
they're hoping and praying that the parents will speak with media why because they ain't talking to law
enforcement so if if they're going to get any statements at all they're hoping that it will come by way of media and
despite the news media TV cameras and Crews and reporters being all over the mobile home park staking out the
families destroyed residents and talking to neighbors no one was found this is the other bizarre thing no one was found
at the Piney Woods Estates where they lived whoever recalled seeing detrez ever no one ever recalled seeing him at
any point any of the neighbors so one network Fox 31 did back up a second I'm trying to
follow what you're saying there they've never seen the child ever so the place where they lived now they didn't live
there for the entirety of detrez Green's life but they lived there for a long time
the media reporters are going around and asking neighbors questions because again the
parents aren't speaking with the media either so they the media wants to tell this story this is a story of interest
it's a missing toddler and a storm is to blame it's a rare situation they're in the business of telling stories
fascinating stories that are rare stories and this here that's what you have so it was of interest to the media
they're begging the parents for a statement or to do an interview and outside of that one interview that the
father does with CNN they got nothing so they're interviewing neighbors that lived in this trailer
park in this mobile home park and saying tell us about the family tell us what you think happened uh tell us about the
concern in the community for this little boy and every person after person after
person neighbor after neighbor after neighbor are all saying the same thing all the time that they lived here I
never saw that little boy I've never once seen him they couldn't find anybody that lived in that mobile park to go on
record or camera saying that they had seen the kid at any time ever well it also becomes a tricky situation because
they had two other children that were taken away from them a toddler an infant and a three-year-old was that correct so
detrez was the middle child there was an there was an older child slightly older
and then we have the little baby girl that after detrez is missing and the parents are not cooperating with the
search and rescue effort right supposedly according to Child Services they're told something by police and
they make a determination that look these other kids could be in danger based off of what could have happened to
detrez so let's go in there and take these kids and but I also wonder if they use that as a a tactic if we take their
other kids maybe they'll start trying to cooperate with us maybe they'll start trying to talk to us so here's a
breakdown of what I could find in regards to people saying that they've seen detres or have not right so the oh
so we have one person right I did find a comment from detrez's Aunt kashada Griffin she told a news station that the
Tres was friendly and he would walk up to you and hold on to you but then we have the search and rescue worker who
tells a different news station quote we talk to people in the mobile home park nobody
said they had ever seen either parent with the child although they had seen the parents buying diapers nobody in the
mobile home park had ever come up and said yes we saw that child here that day so that made it difficult for us end
quote now so what they're buying diapers we just went through who lives in the family we
have two other small children hopefully they're buying diapers yeah they had three children
that would all be in Diapers at that time so I think Captain we can just outwardly say here right like so again
despite the news media TV cameras and Crews and reporters being all over the the the park can't find anybody to say
that we saw him and then we have the actions or reactions of the parents themselves
they stopped talking to the media after that one interview by CNN with the father
and then you start to you start to remind yourself this is not how concerned parents act and therefore you
know we don't have the parents out creating publicity we don't have them handing out flyers we don't have them
posting on social media or doing anything at all to spread awareness of their missing little boy it's almost
like if it went down the way they said it went down it seems to me like they're fine with it or they're just going to
sit back and do nothing and allow everybody else to search but they're not going to do anything not actively anyway
so I think we can just say what everybody listening at work and in their cars is thinking right because as you
can see this boy is missing no doubt about that but just six days or so into the search for two-year-old detrez green
people started to wonder when was detrez really seen last [Music] thank you so much for joining us and
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On January 21st and 22nd of 2017, forty tornadoes touched down in just under forty eight hours in the state of Georgia. The strongest was an EF-3 tornado with winds of one hundred and fifty miles per hour. FEMA and the National Guard were called in to support the rescue efforts. Damage estimates were around one hundred million dollars. Fifteen people died in Georgia and five more in other southern states as a result of these twisters. When the EF-3 tornado hit the Piney Woods Estates Mobile Home Park, two parents claimed the storm took their two year old boy Detrez Green. Join us in the Garage as we take a look at the parents strange story and discuss what really happened to little Detrez. Beer of the Week - Rally Point Bohemian Style Pilsner by Service Brewing Company Garage Grade - 3 & 3 quarter bottle caps out of 5 Our other show - True Crime Garage “Off the Record” is available only on Stitcher Premium. For a FREE month of listening go to http://stitcherpremium.com/truecrimegarage and use promo code GARAGE

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Brief Summary

The episode covers the disappearance of two-year-old Detrez Green after a tornado in Georgia, raising suspicions about his parents' involvement.

Key points

Tornado Devastation in Georgia. A tornado wreaks havoc in Georgia, causing widespread destruction and loss of life.
The Search for Detrez Green Begins. After the tornado, the search for a missing toddler begins amidst chaos and destruction.
Search Efforts Intensify. Days four and five of searching for Detrez saw an influx of civilian volunteers.
Official Search Called Off. After five days of searching, officials declared the search for Detrez officially over.
Suspicion Arises. Investigators begin to question the circumstances of Detrez's disappearance.
Child Welfare Involvement. Days after the tornado, authorities took custody of Detrez's siblings.

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Episode quotes

It looked like a nuclear bomb went off.

CNN reporter describing the tornado's aftermath.

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