Jimmy Ryce /// Part 1 /// 518 | Forensic Files

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trade center the pentagon in a field in pennsylvania it was also a day when our constitutional freedoms were attacked 20
years have gone by we will not forget the date is also one of special remembrance and sorrow for one south
florida family for personal reasons this date for them too is a sad anniversary of personal and permanent
loss for the rice family the pain of that day started in 1995 when nine-year-old jimmy rice was
abducted jimmy's mother the late claudine rice used to say god sleeps on september 11.
in the days following jimmy's disappearance search helicopters filled the skies law
enforcement agencies went through thousands of leads from all over the country jimmy's photo was all over the news
and a missing person's flyer was being put up everywhere strangers offered up prayers for the
little boy this is true crime garage and this is the case of jimmy rice [Music] miami-dade county 1995.
our true crime story starts off on monday september 11. we're going to the city of homestead florida which is
primarily a miami suburb and a major agricultural area we will also be talking about a
neighboring unincorporated town called redland samuel james rice known to those close
to him as jimmy rice was a nine-year-old student enrolled in the gifted program at naranja elementary school in the
redland community of south florida jimmy was a very compassionate kid he was kind to others and wanted to help
people when he grew up telling his parents that after a career playing in the biggs major league
baseball that he wanted to cure diseases so he could help people jimmy as you can imagine was a good
baseball player and he was a die-hard miami dolphins fan the rice family were season ticket holders to the
dolphins games and jimmy was a true doll fan even saving up his money to hang a nice sized dan marino poster in his
bedroom jimmy had a great day at school on this monday it's only september 11 so
it's still very early in the school year jimmy's in the fifth grade at the end of his school day
jimmy like his other classmates rode the bus home his bus stop was located at southwest
232nd street and 162nd avenue this captain was just a mere five blocks north of his home now unfortunately
captain this will lead to be one of the last known whereabouts for jimmy and we see this a lot in missing persons
cases there is not a lot of information about what happened to the missing person well because
if there were a lot of information and detailed background for the story well then we would know what happened and
this kid would not be missing the short version of jimmy's story is he got dropped off at his normal bus stop
at about the normal time and then he never came home on that monday after school the long version is jimmy gets
off of the bus the bus stop is about five blocks from his house from my understanding captain there were
several other kids that get off at this same bus stop yeah around 10. but they're walking in a different direction
than jimmy jimmy will need to be walking southbound to get home now he's just about two
weeks shy of his 10th birthday he's caucasian 70 pounds brown hair blue eyes and on this day it was reported that
jimmy was wearing a white t-shirt blue jeans or blue shorts black and white high-top sneakers and
jimmy was carrying a dark brown book bag when jimmy rice went missing after his school bus dropped him off at his usual
stop around 3 30 p.m those who knew jimmy immediately suspected the worst friends said it's not like jimmy to get
lost and a local minister and family friend bill baguette said the family feels that someone took him they are
family in tears but they have not given up hope for his safe return a neighbor in homestead this is
annabelle pomereyers said she thought she saw jimmy around 3 40 p.m south of southwest
247th street and 162nd avenue she said she saw the boy walking alone he kept looking around like he was
disoriented miss pomereyers was out picking up her stepdaughter at the middle school that
is located in that very general area when she saw who she believes was jimmy rice walking alone okay so she
thinks she saw the boy walking alone but looking around like he was disoriented or something
and this to me captain seems like it was probably him that this was a good sighting because what we have here is
the kid according to the witness fits his description jimmy rice's description and the time is right this would put him
about halfway home and she says it was about 3 40 p.m so let's unpack this a little bit we have a
kid that gets off the bus with at least 10 people it could have been more but they all go into different directions i
i was luckily enough to just be dropped off right by my house and there wasn't a
bunch of people on my bus stop and i didn't have to travel that far five blocks is not
outrageous but i don't think he was probably disoriented he was probably just looking around being a young kid
taking in his surroundings he's 9 10 years old who knows i mean i walk down the street grown man i'm disoriented
right from my understanding there was a light rain that day but i don't get the vibe here captain that
that this is the type of kid that's just going to go wandering off or because there's a light rain and he's going to
allow that to affect his trek home and the sad situation is that it is only a five block trek for him but
as you said we have other kids getting off we have kids waving goodbye they're chatting as they kind of walk and
anybody that's had to walk home from school or has a bus stop that is any considerable distance from their home
they know that at some point if you're the the last guy if your house is the last one on the route well at some point
these friends and classmates start parting ways as you continue along on your journey but it seemed to me that
there was nobody that went jimmy's direction it was just him correct at some point he's by himself
walking by himself and this would be normal everything about this day so far is a normal day for jimmy rice when they
don't find jimmy at home this is alarming because we we have patterns that we start forming when we're kids
you know or especially with your parents if you're told hey when you get off the
bus come right home start working on your homework or get a snack or whatever you could do
but you're not playing with friends and it's not okay to go to your friend's house
it's not okay to follow one of your friends back to their house and start playing at this point even though yeah
he's young they probably already established a routine and a schedule with jimmy yes that's correct and a few
things that are surprising here one that is not but surprising that jimmy doesn't
show up at his house is he had things scheduled for later that afternoon so he had things that he would be either
looking forward to or things that were in as you said his routine and routine is going to be broken by him
disappearing the other thing that's surprising to me too is the fact that all of the friends and
family immediately are going well something's terribly wrong and we think maybe somebody took him
and it's not surprising that people make that leap that's not the surprise for me
the surprise for me is i looked at that walk that he would have taken that that five block
and one thing i do want to point out it i don't know five blocks does not mean the same thing to every person out there
right that's a little loosey-goosey on that description but it's always been said that it was
five blocks from his house that general area was a fairly busy area not like a lot of businesses
and stuff like that but an area that i would expect to see a lot of traffic and so i'm a little surprised that what
we have is just one eyewitness and if we do have a situation that leads to an abduction which we know that we do
that means that it happened in broad daylight in an area that there's a decent amount of traffic well and
another thing that's a little interesting is even with bus stops now if it's a busy area
they're more likely to break up the stops and not just have a one dump off spot right because they don't want the kid to
have to travel you know five to six blocks by themselves so we have this one witness
miss pomeranz who says that she believes she saw jimmy walking by himself this would be about
40 p.m now this area is semi-rural it's a very nice community though upscale the
rice family lives in a big house on over three and a half acres of land this story is a little weird though because
jimmy actually goes missing on a day when his mother and father are out of town they're both out of town
for work jimmy's parents are donald and claudine rice it's a family of five now jimmy is the baby and he's
considerably younger than his older brother and sister jimmy's older brother and sister are technically his half
brother and sister as they are donald's kids from his first marriage claudine though raised the two like they
were her own and jimmy was a welcome surprise because claudine in 1985 at the age of 43
found out that she was a few months pregnant this is when she went to the doctor believing that she was having
some kind of health issue she didn't feel right and they told her hey congratulations
not only are you healthy but you're also pregnant well i'm a little confused because you say that this is a high
traffic area but then you say jimmy lives on three acres yeah three and a half acres of land it looks to me like a lot
of the homes out there back in 95 in the early 90s would have been on larger plots of land
when i say a busy area again i specified and i don't mean lots of businesses or anything like that i when
i view it on the map i see a lot of community type things in that area we have schools we also have again it
because of it being a agricultural area i would expect there to be a lot of traffic not necessarily business and
things like that but a lot of people driving through this area so basically you think that at this bus stop they're
letting off these children at a a busier road instead of going back into the nooks and
crannies of the neighborhood to drop them off that's correct yep so where is jimmy and where are his parents on this
day as said they were out of town on business jimmy's parents are both attorneys
donald is age 52 he is an attorney for the city of winterhaven and claudine was an attorney with the irs for years but
retired she was retired by 1995. a family friend his name was fred and i failed to write down fred's last
name here captain he's an 18 year old guy kruger his when we say family friend he's a yes a
family friend but from my understanding it's actually his parents that were closer with the rice's than than he
would have been he is left in charge of watching both the rice home and jimmy while they are
gone because the parents were only to be gone a couple of nights and once it was reported that jimmy was
missing they are back in town almost immediately because they were actually due to be back that very night anyway
the way that this goes down is that jimmy is reported missing to the authorities
a little after 4 p.m so this is because fred goes to the house to the rice house
a little after three because he's going to be waiting there for jimmy when he gets home from
school that day so he gets there at the house actually he may have been running late or
whatever but he says when he got to the home he was expecting to find jimmy there or that jimmy would be there very
soon instead he finds no jimmy he finds jimmy's music teacher who was scheduled to give a piano lesson
that day these are regularly scheduled sessions claudine calls home around four o'clock
just to check on everything you know hey how's it going how's the house how's jimmy is is he in the middle of his
piano lesson normal stuff we're we're coming home tonight we're on schedule everything's
on track we'll be home at this time you think it's going to be a normal phone call
unfortunately claudine finds out very quickly from fred because fred says hey claudine
was jimmy supposed to do something today that that wasn't on the schedule because
his piano teacher's here and he's not here right and she goes no this is he should have
gotten off of the bus walked home did the piano lesson and as you said they have this is a pretty well
structured home and family dynamic here and immediately claudine says to fred what
do you mean he's not there fred says he never came home claudine says hang up the phone
call the police report him missing right now see this is surprising to me a little bit because
what's the first thing that you would assume if he's not at home ready for his piano recital well his
with his piano lesson i don't know because it's difficult to really hone in and analyze this very
specific situation because i did not know jimmy and what his tendencies were and looking at it from my perspective
though captain being a a guy and remembering how i was as a boy i was easily distracted
it didn't take a whole lot to talk me into going over to a friend's home but again i'm not jimmy i'm looking back
on my own experiences and i i'm a big believer though in gut feelings i've always said that on this
show and i'm also a big believer in mother's intuition i'm really into butt feelings
well that's disgusting but um i i'm a big believer in if you feel like something's wrong
make that phone call at the end of the day let's say that let's say that you screwed up and the
kid went off to somebody else's home just to goof off with one of his buddies for a little bit
no harm no foul right maybe you're taking up a little bit of time of the police departments but
if you think something's wrong don't hesitate because when there is something wrong
the minutes and seconds are extremely valuable what i was getting at is the first conclusion i would jump to
is jimmy never got on the bus he's still at school something something happened and he
never got on the bus because there are occasionally not that often but there was a cup a couple times in my
career as a student where i i missed the bus so that that's all i was saying is i
mean crisscross you missed the bus jump jump uh but that's so all i'm saying is i think it's a
little surprising that they're like hey get off the phone call the cops where i'd go call the school first see
if he yeah got for some reason like missed his bus well or got on the wrong body that's an
interesting point of view there because now when we talk about our own experiences i look back and i think of a
few times where i miss the bus either way either coming home or going to school and being rather independent rather than
mess up anybody else's day i just walked now it took me a lot of time to a long time to get there
and i think every time i did that i ended up getting in in trouble with my my mother who said
you know why wouldn't you just make a phone call and i'm like i thought i was doing you a favor i didn't bother
anybody i was going with my gut feeling right but also like you said in any missing person case the the minutes and
seconds are really valuable and a lot of times like you look at the shaffer case nobody really reacted for
multiple days because there was nothing on his schedule that he needed to be there for
so jimmy if he didn't have this family friend that came over to check in on him or be
there during this piano lesson or have the piano teacher be there and the parents aren't home who knows
how many hours jimmy would have been missing before he was even reported missing
right and what we have here captain is we have parents jumping into action immediately claudine says that she knew
instantly that something was wrong she says jimmy would never stray nor would he run away
all right welcome back you filthy animals cheers to everybody in the front the back
and cheers to you to the crispiest of the colonels cheers to you captain now we have a missing child situation
and police firefighters family and friends will spend all of monday night and all of tuesday
searching for jimmy or searching for any kind of clue that may lead to his whereabouts
by first thing wednesday morning september 14th around 20 fbi agents are at the rice household so we have 20 fbi
agents basically stationing themselves at the rice home this is less than 36 hours after the kid goes
missing according to fbi spokeswoman lucy vanderhaar the fbi had no reason to suspect jimmy had gotten lost or run
away but they also didn't have any evidence indicating foul play here and she said quote when it involves a
child we meaning the fbi do become active in the investigation after a 24-hour period
we initiated a kidnapping investigation and are working in conjunction with metro date police aggressively pursuing
all leads we can to locate the whereabouts of jimmy police and fbi agents mapped grids of places to search
and studied aerial maps of the area five german shepherd dogs who helped to search for victims in the oklahoma city
bombing just earlier that year were brought in to help in the search effort and one chihuahua hundreds of people
this included both first responders volunteers and even juvenile volunteers searched south dade groves while metro
dade fire rescue set up a task force and command post at the redland elementary school to coordinate volunteers who
scoured the area on foot on horseback and in all-terrain vehicles well like i said at first you want to make sure you
got on the bus so they did that so we have a bunch of eyewitnesses that place jimmy on the bus
but then you want to start questioning i mean one of the things that pops into my
head is you got both parents gone on on a monday yeah this is a business trip it's something that would be easy
to verify and as said they were planning on being back that night anyway yeah you're right you have a lot of
people to talk to right you want to talk to everybody at the school you want to talk to the bus driver the other kids on
the bus any kid that got off at that same stop just to see if they saw anything you want to know even what this
kid's demeanor was what was his behavior that day was he acting abnormal was there something going on
that maybe he was aware of that we could detect based off of the way he was acting that day and everybody on the bus
says that he was his normal self he was chatty he was upbeat and it was really only that strange
eyewitness situation of saying that they saw the boy walking alone and he appeared to be
disoriented i don't know how much of an observation this is i don't know the situation did this woman see
jimmy when she's out of her vehicle or was this just quickly in passing as she's driving to the school to pick up
her stepdaughter the other thing too here is you're going to be looking to the public right we see this in so many
situations it's so key and crucial and it will be in this case and it always seems to be when we have what
appears to be a child abduction we need the help of the public and as said earlier this is an area that
if he was abducted between point a and point b which is the bus stop and his home
and if you put a lot of weight into this eyewitness and what they saw well now it's
halfway between point a and point b that something happened to this kid and if he was abducted you're looking to the
public for any information this was in broad daylight did anybody see anything at all out of the ordinary or anything
that they questioned for any reason at all in this situation come forward let us know
also asking the kids is there any little nooks and crannies in these neighborhoods that jimmy would want to
go play down at a little creek or is there a little pond or something that jimmy liked to go to
that they could go investigate there you're going to do all the normal stuff you know when you
respond to this call you're checking the rice home immediately that's the first go-to for law enforcement and then
you're spreading out from there where was he supposed to be last what would be the bus stop so you're checking all
these known areas now by this point in our timeline we have the community that's really
stepping up and getting involved very early on so of course we have missing posters or flyers going up everywhere in
this area i saw a picture of a woman who made a sign out of one of those big this is probably like a six foot by four
foot piece of wood this she spray painted saying please help find jimmy and setting this up at a
a major intersection and it has several missing flyers already stapled to this piece of wood this sign that she created
people were putting up yellow ribbons within two days of him being missing in hopes that he would return hundreds
of people were volunteering their time to look for this boy even with these large party searches searching for kid
or clue they don't find jimmy and they never find any of his belongings that he had
with him that day like his clothing or his book bag and the book bag was something of major
concern for his parents in fact i think it was this item here captain that claudine his mother says
early on that she believed that someone took jimmy and the family stated that they believed it may have possibly been
two people that were responsible for his disappearance so the parents are stating
that they believe that someone took jimmy simply based off of the idea that both parents said
jimmy would not have gotten into a car on his own he would not have strayed he would not have run away
so they feared that it may have taken two people to abduct him because of a conversation that claudine had with
him just about a week or so before jimmy went missing this is when jimmy told his
mother that there were two men in a car that approached him and asked him for directions
and she said it was then that the two had a serious talk about not approaching strangers not talking to strangers and
if someone approaches you or tries to take you you should flee the scene immediately
scream yell drop your belongings and run and it was even jimmy's own words that he promised his mother should that
type of situation if he's ever presented with that type of situation that he would drop his book
bag and he would run so not finding the book bag was a major concern for the parents as well and
that's why they thought maybe this had to be two people he wouldn't have gone into a car this may have required
whatever happened to him may have required somebody getting out and somebody throwing the kid or grabbing
the kid and pulling him into a vehicle now or other possibilities that he knew the individual and that's why he would
get into the vehicle with him or possibly by some kind of other force with a knife or a gun jimmy's
disappearance shook the homestead community and indeed all of south florida a place where little boys didn't
just disappear from one minute to the next janine reynolds the owner of a local sandwich shop in
redland said this is serious this has never happened in our community this little boy is
important people out here take care of each other law enforcement was running polygraph tests on those close to the
case this would be people close to the family people close to jimmy at school i don't know who specifically
was polygraphed but it does say that several people were polygraphed in the first 48 hours i'm guessing the parents
no don and claudine were not two of the people that were polygraphed but wrong again captain both but both agreed
saying that if asked they were happy to take the test what about the piano teacher or their
the family friend that was there again they never specifically said who was polygraphed
the statement that was released was that there were people that were polygraphed
several people but the parents were not in that batch on day three of the search
a small amount of blood was found in the general area of where jimmy was last seen
so this is stemming from that tip that came in from a neighboring woman that lived in the
area that said hey i saw the boy in this area again it's about the halfway mark of where he would be walking home
and he looked to be disoriented they found a small amount of blood in this area these are listed simply as just some
drops of blood found on a loading dock so they bring in the forensic experts and the blood is tested and very quickly
they determined that this blood was not human it was in fact animal blood so even though this tip this eyewitness tip
is a good one the blood has nothing to do with our case on day four a reward was put up by some
local group offering 25 000 for tips leading to the missing boy and there was a tip hotline number that was announced
and listed in several of the local papers and with jimmy gone most of the week and
his parents saying unfortunately we believe he was taken on that friday we get a press conference
where the metro dade police are saying quote there is no indication that jimmy is
still in the area end quote short sweet and just absolutely heartbreaking a segment
ran that friday night on america's most wanted that featured the boy's parents and
wow how just how crazy is that we know that john walsh featured a lot unfortunately a lot of missing
kids segments over the years on that great show but america's most wanted he's sitting there speaking with parents
of a florida boy who are insistent that their child was taken it's really got to bring up all
kinds of memories for john walsh in that specific situation police took jimmy's bed sheets very
early on when they were looking for the boy and in this missing child investigation i
believe this was on day two but couldn't 100 confirm when that action took place
in these situations captain as you know they take the bed sheets because this is
a really good way for them to collect hair and skin samples should they need them
at any point in their investigation by this time the hotline had received over 400 tips
that the police were bringing in extra detectives and we already said that there were at least 20 fbi agents in the
area working the case so they're bringing in all kinds of extra help to really be efficient in their way of double
checking these tips and tracking down each piece of information that is coming in from the public because
as we know and as we've seen dozens of times on cases that we've covered here in the garage
in cases like this you are very reliant on the help of the public well they're very reliant on the public and they
continue to search for jimmy rice for months and months but they have no real big
break yeah and i want to as we see here in most cases there's a lot of action a lot of activity early on within about
that first week to 10 days of when a child goes missing and then from that point on it's very
repetitive and things kind of just taper off as you're hoping to find that big clue
or get that big break in your search for the missing person the miami herald captain did a fantastic
job covering jimmy rice's case they were there from the beginning and they continued to give us updates in their
story and in their coverage of this case for the next i mean up to this day we're sitting here
25 26 years later and they've continued to cover the story throughout those years
so if you will allow it i would like to read for everyone an article that came out on the sunday following
his disappearance so right now in the timeline we are about six days six and a half days into this missing persons
investigation and this article from the herald sums up what is going on in everything
that was going on looking for jimmy at this point very nicely read on colonel the article is titled parents and
friends of missing boy cling to hope subtitled efforts continued saturday in what was the last scheduled volunteer
search and it reads newspaper clippings missing child flyers notes of encouragement jimmy rice's mom
is saving them all in a scrapbook mementos of the nightmare she hopes will end soon with his safe return
quote it's for jimmy when he comes home claudine rice says matter-of-factly as there's no doubt he'll be walking
through the door saturday marked the fifth day since nine-year-old jimmy vanished without a
trace near his house in redland victim of an apparent kidnapping every minute that passes bodes poorly for his chances
but his parents refuse to give up hope they tick off the possible scenarios jimmy fell victim to family friend or a
business enemy of his parents he ran away from home he was kidnapped for ransom all of those options have been ruled out
his parents said leaving one inescapable conclusion we're just convinced it was a stranger
at random and that any child could have been the victim said don rice jimmy's father the problem is we don't know what
the motivation was we don't know who it was we don't know how it was done dozens of law enforcement officers
want the same answers metro date police and the fbi reported no breakthroughs in the case despite an
offer of 25 000 in reward money jimmy whose full name is samuel james rice was last seen monday getting off
the school bus at southwest 232nd street and 162nd avenue 3 tenths of a mile from his front door
he never made it home law officers are interviewing known child molesters and other sex offenders who live in south
dade they're also questioning all the children on jimmy's bus and the people who came to the rice home
which has been for sale during a real estate open house last sunday at night the fbi flies over
the area with an infrared camera looking for hot spots heat generated as a byproduct of a body that's decomposing
civilian efforts also continued saturday and what was the last scheduled volunteer search
a candlelight prayer service will be held at 7 30 pm at harrisfield in homestead with
generosity reminiscent of hurricane andrew recovery efforts more than 250 volunteer searchers broke into teams to
comb fields canals and groves they were fortified by mountains of donated food and drink and by a sense of
community that united even total strangers quote this community is a lot more bonded than others said liz minderman 24
a family friend who coordinated the search i'm not saying bad things can't happen
here but this is the first time this kind of thing has happened the outpouring of support has helped jimmy's
parents make it through these agonizing days in limbo still no matter how much goodwill there is his mother feels
powerless like a rat in a cage running in the same spot she aches for her son the simple rituals they shared
from bedtime prayers and piano practices to organizing his toys and carefully labeled storage bins
how will i feel doing the things we do together how can i go out to dinner to monkey jungle
to dolphins games without jimmy those are family activities where's jimmy [Music]
like always want to thank you for joining us here in the garage so much more to get to in part two of the jimmy
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Jimmy Ryce /// Part 1 /// 518

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September 11th is a difficult day for our country. For one family the sadness of that date began back in 1995. That was the day that Jimmy Ryce disappeared and he became the boy that everyone knew and was looking for. He became the boy that was taken. Everyone in south Florida was asking, “Where’s Jimmy?” Little did they know the answer to that question was much closer to home than they thought. Join us in the Garage as we discuss one of Florida's more infamous missing child cases.

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Brief Summary

Jimmy Rice went missing in 1995 after school, prompting extensive search efforts and community support amid fears of abduction.

Key points

The Tragic Events of September 11, 2001. A detailed account of the terrorist attacks that changed America forever.
The Disappearance of Jimmy Rice. A heartbreaking case of a young boy who went missing on September 11, 1995.
FBI Joins Search Efforts. Within 36 hours of Jimmy going missing, 20 FBI agents are deployed to assist in the investigation.
Parents' Heartbreaking Press Conference. During a press conference, Jimmy's parents express their fears and determination to find their son, revealing the emotional toll of the situation.
Community Rallies for Jimmy Rice. In the wake of Jimmy's disappearance, the community unites to search for him, showcasing an outpouring of support and hope.

Episode highlights

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We will not forget.

A reminder of the significance of September 11.

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Tension

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