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[Music] crime [Music] recent analysis of missing children cases over the course of a 2-year period
tells us that there is hope out there 3,147 children were recovered after being missing for 6 months or longer 151
children were recovered after having been missing for a decade or longer while those numbers are
delightfully surprising please keep in mind that 98% of these cases involve children who either ran away from home
or were abducted by a family member but that still leaves 2% 2% of the missing kids who were
abducted by a non-am member who were recovered returned to their home and to their families that's over 60 kids who
got to come home family abduction cases have the longest average time missing with an average time of 326 days versus
cases of runaways which average the shortest time missing at 61 days and then there are the cases that we talk
about here in the garage cases that don't exactly fit either of those descriptions maybe a case like today
there is help out there for parents and families of missing kids and equally important there is assistance and
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exist due to the effort to keep our kids safe one of the best organizations I know of is the national Center for
missing and exploited children or Nick Mech every child deserves a safe childhood on the evening of July 6 2001
a 911 call came in to the Chicago Police the caller was a woman and she was calling to report that her two young
daughters were missing Chicago PD Cedric Bailey Special Victims Unit detective was working the
night shift Cedric caught the call and was sent to the mother's apartment Bailey headed out to the 3500 block of
South Cottage Grove on the south side of Chicago once there he met with the female caller the apartment was located
in the lak Grobe Village complex the mother of the two girls Tracy Bradley said that her daughters ages 10 and
three were missing for several hours the last time she had seen them according to her statement the two were
at home safe in the apartment when Tracy returned she found the apartment empty no girls just a
note and this ignited one of the largest missing child cases in the windy City's
history two beautiful little girls Two Loving sisters tiand and Diamond Bradley are still missing and this is true crime
garage [Music] this is from the Chicago Sun Times article dated October 23 2007 Cedric Bailey Special Victims Unit
detective got a call from downtown on the night of July 6 2001 that's a call that he will never
forget two little girls were missing but that's not the only problem that Cedric
had with the information that was coming to him that night it was 900 p.m. on that Friday night when he got the call
at minimum the call came into Chicago PD 2 hours prior maybe more depending on which report you choose to believe even
more disturbingly the two girls were missing for several hours before the call was even placed for detective
Bailey right out of the gate there was going to be a lot of horeshit to sift through the detective was angry at all
of the time that had passed the search for the two missing girls was going to be a battle the uphill kind and he was
not sure who was trying to help the search or who was trying to hide something the girls were missing and
there was no doubt about that their mother Tracy had been looking for them for several hours and even Enlisted the
help of family friends and neighbors the search was officially on according to the police a search of the apartment in
the surrounding areas proved that this was a legit call and there was solid reason for great
concern one of the biggest problems Tiana age 10 and her little sister Diamond age3 were last seen at
approximately 6 a.m. that morning they were reportedly left alone by their mother as she went off to work
Tracy Bradley's initial call to police came in about 6:00 p.m. or 700 p.m. again depending on which report you
listen to some of this time could be accounted for because Tracy along with some family and friends were looking for
the girls and for some of that time probably believed that they would find them this in part due to a note left by
the oldest girl Tiana the note said that the two sisters went to a nearby Elementary School playground and then to
a nearby store however no one could find them at either location well the detective knows as well as we know that
no matter how small you are no matter what age you're at you don't just disappear Into Thin Air police According
to some treated Tracy the mother almost like a suspect from the beginning she was questioned four times
in the first few days of this investigation for a total of 22 hours so that night that she is there to answer
the detectives questions while they are searching for the girls on that Friday night the detectives talked to Tracy
Bradley for two hours that night the initial story that Tracy told police well captain and we don't like to hear
this it changed several times well that's fishy Tracy does not hide from this fact in fact she admits this that
she changed her story saying that she was worried that she would lose her kids if she told the truth right out the gate
and the truth was that she left them home alone while she went to work that day well these investigations to me are
a double-edged sword because we know statistically the younger the victim the more likelihood that somebody in the
family or somebody close to them and we have to remind ourselves when we have a young
victim we have a smaller Circle they have a smaller Social Circle than what me or the colonel would have so it's not
out of line to start questioning people close to them especially their mother but it's the mother's job it's the
parents's job to protect their child and so when you're being questioned by law enforcement you want to be honest you
want to be honest in a situation like this because it's an emergency situation so what are some of the other stories
that their mother was was telling law enforcement real quick Captain before we get into that I should clear one thing
up here that this apartment where Tracy and her children lived together there are supposed to be five people living in
this apartment so it's Tracy Bradley and her four daughters she actually has two
daughters that are older than Tiana and Diamond now on that Thursday night her two older daughters were staying at her
mother's apartment which is very nearby but Tracy tells police and this is her first story that Tia and Diamond
they were at her house on that Thursday night they went to bed as usual on July 5th the other two girls again staying at
their Grandma's house she says that on that Friday she slept until 1100 a.m. and when she got up diamond and TI were
gone so she looked for them and then called the police Again part of the problem with that story is she saying
that she got up at 11:00 a.m. this phone call is made at 6:00 p.m. or 700 p.m. according to different reports so
that's a lot of time to go by if she wakes up and they are gone yeah if I woke up in the morning and my children
are not there especially young children you're calling police right away her revised story Tracy admitted that she
got up and left for work at 6:00 a.m. and and diamond and TI were asleep at this time Tia was enrolled in a summer
school program at a nearby elementary school but she was not going to be going to that program that day because she had
to stay home to watch her little sister the three-year-old Diamond Tracy says that she got home sometime between 11:
and 11:30 a.m. and when she came home the girls were gone that leads us to Story number three in her third story
she said said essentially the following and this is taken from an actual media interview quote I was at home during the
time when they and this I'm going to struggle with this because these are her words quote I was at home during the
time when they was there I had to be at work at 6:30 or A4 to 7 so I left the house about 6:30 to make it to work to
A4 to 7 to meet The Troop that I have to put that I have to put out for to feed the kids at the program that I worked at
so my work schedule is from 7:00 a.m. to noon so I get off at 12:00 and I'd say I made it home about
12:00 12:30 something like in between that time so when I got in come in from work I put my key in the door and I
unlocked my door and I called for TI and Diamond so I didn't get no response so that was a story that's Story number
three that she said to the media to clear some things up here Captain Tracy Bradley Works nearby in fact she works
at the large apartment complex where her mother lives and they run like a summer program
because remember at summertime the kids are home from school they run a summer program where they have workers come in
that oversee some of these kids it's kind of like a summer camp one of her job duties is to get there a little
early quar to 7 and she prepares lunches and S such for the kids that attend this
summer program and she watches these children and stays till noon so when you hear these times right
she's saying a lot of times that are very close in proximity you know I I left at 6:30 to be there at a quar till
7: I get off work at noon so I got home at noon or 12:30 then that's because this her work is very close by it's it's
practically walking distance from where her apartment is yeah but even if you take all three of her stories don't you
find it odd that it's taken her hours to contact law enforcement yes I do uh number one but number two that's a poop
you also have to keep in mind I'm sure some of those minutes were gobbled up by her and her family trying to locate her
girls and probably thinking that they might even be able to yeah that makes sense in the fourth story we get Story
number four she admitted that her boyfriend George Washington um and this was not the
founder of our country was there at her home her apartment that morning he came over between 3 and 4:30 a.m. according
to Tracy and drove her to work after 6:00 a.m. this raises all kinds of questions
right we have a bunch of questions and I'm sure that police have the same question as we do first off why did she
lie I in part believe captain that we have a scenario where maybe she thought my kids are missing it's legit I've not
done anything wrong it doesn't necessarily matter exactly to the story of how they went missing where they may
be as to what I was up to prior to calling the police it doesn't look favorable to her that she's telling
different stories but we're going to get into that here in just a second but for
law enforcement to do a proper investigation they need to know the truth because if she has gone to work
multiple times with leaving her children at home that is a a schedule or that's a
routine that other individuals would know in the family so or people that were close to them so those individuals
that know that schedule know that pattern become people of interest that law enforcement would want to talk to
exactly and we have all all kinds of questions here Captain one why do we have two daughters staying at Grandma's
and not the other two the one girl the oldest one TI 10 years old is supposed to be going to a summer program or to a
summer school class that day so in that equation you really only need a sitter for one child the three-year-old but it
sounds like she made a decision to have the 10-year-old watch the three-year-old
leave them both home alone my head if if if she's working this summer program at a nearby
apartment complex that her grandmother lives at my head goes to why not just bring the two kids with you or let Tiana
go to her class or her summer school program that day and take the little three-year-old with you I'm sure it
wouldn't be the first time that a mother or a father got stuck with a tiny little
kid and had to bring them with them to work on a on a single day let's introduce Sheila
Bradley here's Sheila Bradley she's our champion here Captain she's the missing girl's great aunt and she has been
extremely vocal and a wonderful advocate for both of these girls since day one Sheila went on Nancy Grace's TV show
while there Nancy Grace asked Sheila why would Tracy lie to the police why did she lie to the police and Sheila's
answer quote well first of all Tracy was told by another family member who had some previous run-ins with
DCFS that's the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services this family member tells Tracy that you should just
look for the girls because if you call the police the Department of Child and Family Services they are going to
probably put you in jail and or take your kids totally so that's the explanation that Sheila says that she
got from her relative Tracy as to why she changed her stories but not only had Tracy
lied but as the captain points out and as we've already said she waited more than 5 hours to call police about her
missing daughters possibly more than 6 hours if the reports that she called 911 are closer to 7 p.m. if those reports
are true right so Tracy was considered suspicious right from Jump Street the police stated publicly that she was
initially Cooperative but then had stopped being cooperative with their investigation however multiple reliable
sources have reported that regardless of her her inconsistent statements that Tracy Bradley passed a polygraph exam
well every time a polygraph test gets brought up I feel like we're a broken record can't use them in court but I I
do feel like it's a nice barometer for law enforcement well especially in this case where you're going she's told us
multiple stories we have to figure out some way of can we believe this woman or not so
let's bring in a air quotes X expert to help us make an educated decision on that aspect of our investigation now
proof of her passing the polygraph comes from the Chicago Sun Times this is a July 12th 2001 article this says quote
the mother Tracy Bradley has been interviewed at least four times and submitted to a polygraph test which she
passed according to a police Source after that Tracy obtained an attorney and police contact with her was required
to go through that attorney so let's talk about that for a second here Captain what we have here is exactly
what you said earlier it's a double edge sword for law enforcement yep I'm right
again they need to know all of the details they need to know who is responsible for the girls having gone
missing and you very quickly learn after talking to the mother that she's telling
you multiple stories so what is she hiding then on then let's take a look at across
the table from that detective across the table we have a mother who if she is innocent if she has no knowledge as to
where her children are or where they've gone or who has taken them or why they are missing then we have across the
table from us a victim who is sitting there going why are you spending so much time on me you should be out looking for
my kids she was questioned for 22 hours total over the course of the first 4 days of
this investigation 2 hours that Friday night and then on one occasion on uh the following day 6 hours then eight hours
on Sunday and then another six hours on Monday so 22 hours that the detective talked to her now keep in
mind they are out actively looking for these girls on the streets in the Parks and everywhere they can think of why
while they are talking to the mother now we should also point out too captain that not only did Tracy pass the
polygraph but what about an alibi Tracy was underline that word was verified to be at work on the morning in question
but let's keep in mind that that alibi only covers Tracy for that morning when she is working from a quarter to 7 till
noon her own words yeah yeah cuz it's possible that the girls were still at home and she comes home and an accident
happens or she does something to the girls and during that noon to 6: p.m. window she's responsible for them going
missing not just that I think the problem that we need to truly be looking at as well as the problem you just
pointed out let's know let's open up the window a little bit here Captain because
the way I see it no one but Tracy and her so-called boyf friend George had seen the girls since 1 p.m. the night
before on Thursday Tracy has consistently maintained that she had nothing to do with her girl's disappearance but her
shifting stories and some other interesting behaviors gave her a reputation as a non-cooperative parent
and people in the neighborhood who initially rallied around her started to turn we have roughly a timeline of the
night before that they went missing like you said the mother and the the boyfriend of the mother didn't see the
children after 10 p.m. yes so police learned that friends of Tracy's had come over to watch the Cubs game on Thursday
night so this is very interesting to our investigation now we have other people with not really a dog in the fight other
other than to find the little girls and to hope that the little girls are found safe and sound who are confirming to
police and telling police the following we went over to Tracy's home we watched the Cubs game that Thursday night and
most of them are saying we you know we left around 10 p.m. so that gives us that solid time of the girls are alive
and well and everything's fine at 10 p.m. Thursday night the friends were questioned and reported that they saw
both diamond and TI there at the apartment and reporting that both were fine and acting normal at that time now
to further back that up the Cubs finished the 2001 season 88-74 not terrible and on that Thursday
night they beat the Mets 13-4 this according to backt toe.com which is amazing website by the way the
game lasted 3 hours and 10 minutes the game was played at sha Stadium in New York city so keep in mind the time
change from New York to Chicago that night it was a s 10 pitch New York time so the game was over at
9:20 Chicago time which makes perfect sense that the friends would be ushering out of Tracy's apartment around the
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rich one as much as you can a poor one this next part Captain let's call it phone records but put a nice bold
question mark after the word records right Tracy told investigators that while she was at work on that Friday the
the morning in question that she called her own apartment three times in the early morning hours but never got an
answer so she's calling home she knows she left her girls alone at home nobody's picking up the
phone it's unknown whether police verified that these calls actually happened but if they did verify that
these calls happened it makes it even all the more alarming that Tracy didn't go home to see what was going on or what
was wrong with her girls that they're not answering the phone now according to a
2021 article in Oprah daily police pulled the phone records at Tracy's apartment and they indicated quote that
several calls from other numbers to Tracy's apartment went unanswered over the course of the morning and there were
two Hang-Ups end quote so Tracy Bradley has a cell phone we know that they pulled the records based off of this
Oprah daily article no where does it State 100% that they verified the three calls coming from Tracy's cell phone to
her own apartment but we know they were looking into the phone calls there was an incredibly huge an
extensive search a huge search effort for these two little girls was underway during the whole course of the early
parts of this investigation and in fact at first at the very first the Bradley girls were considered quote missing by
the police the police who felt with some evidence that they had walked off that the girls had walked off and perhaps
just gotten lost or distracted this again from Oprah daily which of course is not usually one of
our go-to sources but reporter Lee kungle did a very informative and lengthy article in 2021 Gang Busters
work as we say here in the garage so we relied on that article quite a bit well this was a huge story out of Chicago and
where is my ex-girlfriend from Chicago and look I tried to lock it down but the problem was we were we were so uh there
was too much passion that we that we had to separate it so uh we had to separate so Oprah
could go on to have a good career according to Lee's article the Chicago Police responded immediately and again
according to Lee's article he says this statistically is unusual for a case involving missing black children the
initial search for the girls involved three police cars two supervisors and two K9 units which combed the
neighborhood which included dumpsters yards vacant Lots businesses and the lakefront that is there on July 10th
this is with the girls now missing for 4 days an FBI spokesman this is Ross rice
told the Chicago Tribune quote we're still trying to find out what happened and we don't know the family pushed back
arguing that the girls had been abducted the FBI agent goes on to say I didn't want the community to overlook it
like oh it's two kids who ran away Sheila the aunt the great aunt told USA Today no these kids were taken
Sheila has become she went on to become uh the most present and vocal advocate for the two girls keeping their case in
the spotlight and successfully getting the Chicago PD and the FBI to reclassify the investigation just after
a few days as missing SL endangered and unfortunately that is the status still the status of this case to
this day by July 12th it was officially termed a criminal missing person's investigation detective Ed Carroll who
worked the case for several years years said to the Chicago Tribune State Police
FBI Chicago they threw everything they had at it they set up a hotline they set up a command post as far as I know there
were entire tactical teams and detectives detailed to this investigation at least for the first
month if not longer well one of the things that we like to do and one of the things I've learned from your expertise
throughout these last seven years is trying to break down the timeline and make it shorter make our window shorter
and so but there's no signs of force entry there's no signs of breaking in right are we to assume that when the the
mother and the boyfriend wake up that they just didn't check on the daughters or do they just not remember
checking on them no according to the mom she spoke with both of the girls especially the 10-year-old before
leaving for work that day so then that would put our window at about 6:30 a.m. correct if again though we're sitting
here yes she passed the polygraph but it it Still Remains difficult to believe her every word or any word right
and so all we have is the window remains wide open and and a big window at this point because
truly the last confirmed sighting by somebody other than George or other than their mother is roughly 10: p.m. the
night before and there's no 100% confirmed sightings other than George and Tracy after that 1 pm. time after the
Cubs game that night and here's look here's another thing that always aggravates us right surveillance cameras
at the apartment complex they're not working they're not working again it's the it's the false sense of security
that you give to your residence you have security cameras you just choose to not
use them but this is another reason why you might want to look into the parents because they would have known that the
cameras of the apartment complex or possibly would have known that the cameras at the apartment complex didn't
work it's it's aggravating as hell there's a chance that we could have saved two little girls lives or at least
know where they are bring them home had you just bothered to make sure that your
security cameras your surveillance cameras at your apartment complex were working and guess what they don't do at
the apartment complex Captain they don't do it anywhere when the cameras stop working they leave them up false sense
of security they don't go around to every resident and say oh by the way those cameras stop working or we ain't
changing the tapes no more we ain't paying for digital recording no more they don't tell anybody that they leave
you with feeling feeling a false sense of security investigators canvased the playground so we mentioned this in at
the top of the show there was a note that was left when Tracy Bradley comes home and does not
find her girls she finds a note and this note is saying that the notes written from TI saying me and Diamond we are
going to a playground and then we're going to go to the store and they never come home they
never return and of course Tracy and her family and friends checked the playground the nearest playground or or
the playground they believe that Tiana was talking about and the store that they believe that she was talking about
we get some conflicting reports when police start going around and canvasing the neighborhood and talking to people
they couldn't from my understand find anybody at the store that had ever said that they had seen the girls they did
find one or two people most of them children that said that they saw the kids saw the girls at the
playground but as we all know kids can be easily confused especially when you start asking about dates and about times
I can't say I can't sit here and say captain that the kids that were interviewed were interviewed at 9:00
p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m. that Friday night they likely couldn't track down these kids who were at this
playground this local playground that is shared by everybody in the community they wouldn't know who to ask that night
so these children that are saying yeah we saw the girls at the playground this could be the following day two days
later three or four days later I'm sure they saw the girls at a playground at the playground at one
time I just can't say that they were actually seen on the day in question and we know that adults can confuse dates
and times as well in fact the neighbor of of the Bradley's this is Fred Ramsey told the press that Tiana knocked on his
door around 10:00 a.m. asking if his daughter could come out and play and he told her it was too early another
neighbor Sheila Adams no relation different Sheila said that she saw both girls playing with other children in the
in the complex between 2:30 and 3:00 on that Friday the girls had asked her if if she had any candy or
juice again none of these sightings including the two neighbors that we just discussed have ever been confirmed so
there is and there is not 100% verified sightings of the girl since 10 p.m. on Thursday
night it was if they had completely evaporated well if we buy what the mother is telling us that she saw her
daughter she left for work if we buy maybe even the neighbor hey one of the girls came by to see if
my daughter can play now they're out into the world at this complex with how many
people are connected to this apartment complex it's a big apartment complex and more importantly the apartment complex
where Tracy's mother the girl's grandmother lives at is I believe it's said to be one of the largest if not the
largest complex in the United States so yeah then we get like you said Chicago is not a small City my friend it's a
heavily populated area and this is the south side of Chicago so yeah we have now one large apartment
unit the space between that unit and the next unit and then maybe the one of the
largest apartment complexes in the world in the United States yeah and and now you have to deal with all those people
because the proximity become people of Interest well and what we do know Captain is that according to reports
over five 500 officers searched a massive area and interviewed more than 1,000 people this including 30 relatives
of the two girls 100 detectives worked the case around the clock 20 Agents from the FBI's violent crimes task force
joined in the investigation and the FBI handled all of the evidence so FBI is in
charge of all the physical evidence but one thing that's missing from these reports speaking of evidence one thing
that I have not seen not heard anything about is whether Tracy's apartment was searched for any signs of
blood or whether anything other than the little girls were missing from the apartment well like I was saying before
if she came home and there was some kind of accident that maybe she's responsible
for or the younger girls responsible for or the boyfriend is responsible for does
it become a cover up situation they could have detected that if they had searched the apartment from top to
bottom 824 tips Captain came in the first week in the first few weeks of this investigation and according to
reports every one of those 824 tips were followed up on the national Center for missing and exploited children published
in circulated flyers for each of the girls the girls were featured on America's Most Wanted on Saturday July
14th 2001 so they go missing on the 6th their story their images their faces are
on America's Most Wanted on July 14th 8 days later and what we learn is fewer than
one dozen tips actually come in after the Airing of that episode so where they were hoping for this to lead to
something good in the investigation it didn't pan out well it's so frustrating too because you can see
where the lies to law enforcement from the mother initially make the case way more
complex because like you said if you can believe what the mother says then you're
shortening that time period and you're shortening your suspects and and where to look mhm there
is a reward that's still available in this case yeah very quickly Captain we have
$17,500 that was put up as reward money for information in the case and that money came from $10,000 from the
FBI $5,000 from the Chicago public school system and $2500 from the apartment building management company
itself now we have the FBI very quickly in this investigation going on record this is
Late July saying our speculation is that someone out there knows something but perhaps they have not come forward
because they're afraid that their information will not be confidential what we're saying is the
information will be confidential we will offer money for it two little girls who
have gone missing in this way didn't just walk down the street and disappear someone saw something and the FBI
believes that someone will know where they are located this statement could not be more truthful could not be more
honest because the way I see it if in fact if the girls were left alone that day while Tracy Bradley went off to work
then very likely what we had happened if the girls left the apartment on their own some somebody should have seen them
if they left with an abductor or were carried out of the apartment with an abductor or
abductors somebody should have seen them hell if you would have had surveillance
cameras well oh wait you did but they weren't working you would have had some footage of what actually happened that
day yeah so initially law enforcement is thinking H these girls ran away or they went outside to
play but we're probably going to find them MH but when you start talking and you start asking questions to the mother
and she's being untruthful this I mean this just starts sparking red flags all over the place
there's a lot of red flags here interesting though that the Chicago Police 20 days after the girls go
missing they labeled the case a kidnapping they do say publicly that they found nothing specifically pointing
to f play but as far as their investigation went and along with the search and the
searches for the girls turning up nothing it's looking more and more to detectives and investigators like the
girls were taken away by someone possibly that they trusted that the two girls trusted and so at this point in
your investigation if you are labeling it a kidnapping you are hoping that the two are alive somewhere and in the care
of some someone who took them again someone that they knew and if I'm law enforcement I
am harping on the idea of was this a normal action was this a normal part of your routine did you leave your
daughter's home alone before did was there a schedule where you left them home and if so who knew about
this because there's no sign of breaking in energ mhm but if you know the girls mhm and you know this schedule and you
know that they're going to be alone and you're a horrible pile of [ __ ] you might use this as a
opportunity to do something horrible well think about the phone records that we discussed Captain according to police
what they're saying about the phone records was that there were several hang-up calls that were reported uh on
that record and think about that for a minute if you see if you live in the apartment complex and you see Mom going
off to work well then you go all right well there there could be four girls in that
apartment there could be three there could be two there could be one or zero um how about I call that number I know
them let's see if somebody picks up and if they do who picks up the phone and if
it ain't mom or a an adult I'm going to make my move because here's my window of opportunity you're
exactly right if somebody was watching them when we say somebody that they trusted it doesn't have to be a family
member it doesn't have to be a family friend it could be a neighbor or somebody that lives there that they know
that they've talked to before yeah or somebody that they might know posing as somebody that they would be
comfortable opening up the door for before we continue to flesh out this timeline a little bit more we should
make clear that the Department of Child and Family Services had never been called to Tracy's apartment before that
doesn't we don't know what was going on inside of that apartment we don't know the relationship or how the girls were
treated all we know at this point is they were missing and there's not been any speculation of any kind of abuse
leading up to this point there's been no zero zero reports of that leading up to
the girls going missing now we do know that Tracy said that her air quotes boyfriend George picked her up from work
on Friday and took her to get a cake this at a juel Osco store uhhuh and investigators located a receipt from the
store which was stamped timestamped 12:21 p.m. Tracy had said earlier that she tried to call TI at the apartment
several times and got no answer so it does seem a little weird to call home after leaving your
girl's Home Alone getting no answer and then deciding that you know what rather than going directly home rather than
leaving work and going home sometime during my workday let's stop off at the pastry
shop real quick at the uh juel Osco and go pastry shopping before coming home to
find the apartment empty and she does say that when she arrived at the apartment George was with her so George
goes into the apartment with her she says that immediately she started searching for the girls when asked why
she didn't call police immediately she said that she assumed that they were playing somewhere in the complex
remember we do have that note saying that they might be playing somewhere in the complex she and her sisters Tracy
and her sisters and other family members searched all over this including the Ida B Wells complex where the girls
had friends this is a nearby complex they also searched the shores of Lake Michigan which was just blocks away they
searched there because the girls like to go there and play sometimes in the water
police found footage of a pair of girls who actually looked like Tracy's daughters at the juel Osco store located
at 35th in King Drive the police said there's a resemblance it's close enough to Peak the interest of
investigators again though we don't have anybody saying that they saw the actual
girls there at that store that day well like you said this this case is getting attention and when you're getting
attention but there's not much information coming back to you there has to be a level of
frustration that's Rising for law enforcement and it if and if I was a detective in this case now I'm not so
worried about looking outward I'm looking at at looking inward at family and friends that are connected to these
two victims well and it's been said that the investigation was complicated by the
fact that each of Tracy's four daughters have different fathers it's believed that Tracy at the time may have had
multiple boyfriends herself we know of George Washington who is referred to as her
boyfriend per Tracy's words there is a man named Daniel Torres who is a security guard or was a security guard
at the time that the girls went missing he professed to be Tia's real father this in an interview but also said that
he and Tracy had not been in contact and he had not seen TI for S years leading up to the girl
disappearance she's 10 at the time that she goes missing he told the Tribune he I mean he's being honest he says quote I
ain't been around people look at me as a lowi but I love my daughter he goes on to say her name is tattooed on my right
arm congratulations sir you got a tattoo of your daughter's name instead of spending time with her or supporting her
yeah or maybe take that money that you're going to spend on the tattoo and uh support your daughter yeah put it in
an envelope drop it off at Mom's house that would be a step in the right direction according to the Tribune Tracy
Bradley had filed two paternity suits against two different men trying to establish who the father of diamond was
the youngest girl this is according to court records the first lawsuit was dismissed after DNA testing ruled one of
the men out the second lawsuit was filed in June against the man whose home was searched
on the second lawsuit was filed in June so the month or weeks or days before the
girls go missing and was filed against a man who you've heard his name before Captain
George Washington his job at the time He's listed as a welder he's the man the boyfriend if you want to call him that
who drove Tracy to work that morning and picked her up this on the day that the girls vanished but one thing I've
learned about you my friend is any case that involves a note your ears perk up that's exactly right and that's one
thing that we've not really dissected yet it's the note because remember that Mom Tracy Bradley says that when she
came home from work that day that she found a note that was to her from her girls explaining why they were not in
the apartment and where they would be and here's the deal Captain if this note is legit then that proves that could be
proof that when Tracy Bradley left that morning for work that her girls were in fact alive and well after she left the
apartment that day and we know that Tracy Bradley was at work that day that was verified by law enforcement with
multiple other people and sources Tracy Bradley comes home she doesn't find her girls she simp L finds
a note that says that TI and Diamond were leaving the apartment to go to a nearby School playground and to go to
the juwel Osco store but does the Note actually exist and if so who actually wrote that
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Sisters Tionda and Diamond have been missing for over twenty years now. Their mother left the two little girls home alone on work day in the summer of 2001. When she returned home, the girls were gone and a note was left saying the two had gone to the playground. Tionda was ten years old and Diamond was just three. This week we go through the complicated timeline of events surrounding their disappearance. This case has been labeled missing and endangered. We believe the girls may have been abducted by someone they knew. The F.B.I. asks that anyone with information about the disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley contact the Chicago Police Department detectives at 312-747-8380 OR your local F.B.I. office. The family’s private detective can be reached at 847-579-9771.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the case of missing sisters Tiana and Diamond Bradley and the investigation's challenges due to their mother's conflicting statements.

Key points

Hope for Missing Children. Over 3,000 children were recovered after being missing for six months or longer.
The Disappearance of Tiana and Diamond. Two young sisters went missing, igniting a major investigation in Chicago.
Tracy Bradley's Inconsistent Stories. The mother of the missing girls changed her story multiple times during the investigation.
The Polygraph Dilemma. Tracy Bradley passed a polygraph test, raising questions about her involvement.
Tracy's Shifting Stories. Tracy's inconsistent accounts raise suspicions about her involvement in her daughters' disappearance.
The Role of Surveillance. Non-working security cameras at the apartment complex raise questions about the investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Every child deserves a safe childhood.

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