Tionda & Diamond Bradley /// Part 2 /// 673 | Forensic Files

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arrived at her apartment she could not find her daughters but instead she found a note and she says that 10 year old
Tiana wrote this note and had left it for her Tracy says when she gets to the apartment on Friday she finds this note
sitting on the back of her couch she was able to produce this note four investigators and hand it over to the
Chicago Police the note in childish handwriting said Tiana and Diamond were leaving the apartment to walk to a
nearby School playground and the Jewel-Osco store in the Lake Meadows Shopping Center Tiana was enrolled in a
summer school program at a nearby elementary school but remember her mom told her that she could not go to school
that day because she had to stay home and babysit three-year-old diamond summer school ran every day from
breakfast time at 8 30 a.m until classes ended at 12 30 pm Tiana was marked absent
that day for the first time ever according to records so this was not a typical thing
that she's making Tiana to stay home to watch diamond the note said that she was bringing Diamond along with
her to head over to the playground so they did not know Tracy Bradley the mom and friends and
family did not know exactly which playground it didn't specify the note didn't clarify what playground this
was just that it was a school playground and so she made the assumption that it was the playground of
the elementary school where Tiana was going to the summer program that makes the most sense according to the
Personnel working at that school they say that they had not seen Tiana obviously at the school because she's
marked absent but also never saw her at any time that day on their playground we
do know that the school called the Bradley apartment at 10 10 A.M and they received no answer as well so
this is where you start to think all right okay Mom produces this note we know that Mom goes off to work at a
quarter to seven we have the school calling at 10 10 a.m we're starting to shrink our window a little bit right
Captain if something happened to the girls if they left that apartment by themselves or if they left with somebody
else it would seem to stand to reason that they probably left before this 10 10 a.m call yeah I think that makes the
most sense now we do know this that there was no time written on the Note Tracy said that she immediately went to
the Jewel Osco store and immediately to the playground looking for her girls once she found the note she checked with
neighbors and called family her sister Faith helped her search the neighborhood and then finally she called
the police at six-ish or maybe sevenish depending on what report you read note again we keep circling back to this that
Tracy took about five maybe six and a half hours to summon the police yeah but once she starts talking to police
she's not being truthful do you have any indication from law enforcement that the mother turned this note over to law
enforcement remember she did she produced the note and did in fact hand it over to law enforcement and in fact
in a statement that she gave to the USA Today she says quote I taught my kids damn well and my kids wouldn't just up
and leave and then leave a note and quote this is very interesting about this whole note thing and I think that
this may point to something else going on in this situation so the extended family
said that yes the note is legit however we got a question how legit the note is because the the family is saying look
law enforcement yeah here's this note we believe that Tiana the 10 year old did write the note this is her handwriting
however we don't think that she wrote this note by herself we think that somebody told her what to write
somebody was coaching her what to write right because the families these are grown-ups they're telling the police and
the investigators look all of the spelling is correct and the grammar is not that of 10 year
old Tiana so basically what they're saying is she wouldn't have been able to spell these words without some help
probably some of the words in fact we have a direct quote from one of the family members saying her writing a full
letter with correct grammar question mark it's not appropriate for her keep in mind she's only 10 years old and the
family member went on to say I'm quite sure whoever took them she was very comfortable with them that's so sad
that's interesting because Tiana's 10 years old she's in charge of little three-year-old diamond
if you are going to take these girls you're either going to have to fight Tiana or you're going to have to convince her
that it's okay to leave with me or leave with us and oh by the way I need you to write
this note we we should probably leave a note for for mom when she gets home and she doesn't find you
uh in case she gets worried so she won't worry I'll have you back to the apartment in no time at all but just in
case mom comes home let's write her out a nice little note but their aunt had more to say about this note right
correct remember she's on the Nancy Grace show talking about the note Sheila says I had told the investigators
early on when I first arrived on the scene that if that note was written that it was coached she was coerced meaning
Tiana and she was told exactly what to write Nancy Grace says why do you say that Sheila Sheila responds well because
Tiana had access to her mom's cell phone remember Tracy's at work with her cell phone
and Sheila goes on to say Tiana had access to her grandmother's phone number and other families phone numbers and we
also found a letter that Tiana had written about six months prior to that saying that grammatically the structure
of the previous note previous letter was nothing like the one that was left that
day on the couch we have a family member and this is backed up later by other family members and all the while Tracy
is saying the same thing my kids don't leave notes for me if they need to get a hold of me they call me on
my cell phone if they can't get a hold of me they call Grandma's number they call other family
members phones this is the way that things went down in our apartment well let's unpack this for
a second because if I have a three-year-old and a ten-year-old why would we if if I'm abducting them
why am I leaving a note anyways to buy time if you're I mean I understand why you
wouldn't want them to call their mother because you can't control what that 10 year old is going to say you can't say
call your mom and oh by the way don't tell her it's me that's here right don't call your grandma uh because
you know I can't control what you're going to tell your grandma on the phone I get why there's no call made to the
mom or their grandmother but it seems odd to me that somebody would coach them into
coach them into writing a letter that I don't I don't see how it buys you much time you're not thinking like a criminal
you're not thinking like somebody that needs to hide something that would be very bad for them to be caught with
so if the child writes a note instinctively most parents are going to go darn kid left the house told him not to
leave the house they went to the playground makes sense kids go to the playground all the time went to the
nearest convenience store makes sense kids go to the convenience store all the time guess what happens with most
parents at this point in the ball game they don't pick up the phone and call police they go to the playground they
don't pick up the phone and call police they go to the store now you've just bought yourself some
time and you're probably wanting to get those kids as far away from that apartment as you can or conceal them
because you do know at some point that people will be looking for these children and it won't just be mom
anymore it will be law enforcement the people that you do not want to find you with these kids well that makes more
sense because like you were saying the two locations exactly yeah I mean but that's a pretty
high level of sophistication don't you think I don't know I I I don't know because it's it's because of the two
locations hey if I put multiple locations they're gonna go look at the playground then they might go to the
convenience store and then if they're at the playground or if they're at the convenience store and
they can't find them they might be going oh well maybe they're back at the playground I think that what happened
here is that we either have somebody that planned to take the little girls because they may have known in advance
that they were going to be alone that day and if in fact they knew in advance and that means they are very close to
this family very close to this mother could even be working in cahoots with the mother
the other thing you have here is if somebody didn't plan it prior to that morning or prior to learning of that the
girls would be alone that day on that day then what we have here is we have somebody that these girls knew well
enough that they either let them into the apartment or had access to get into the apartment
and knew the family well enough to say that these are the places that the kids went because they were places that this
person knew that they had gone before and keep in mind if you are abducting children from a we
already talked about talked about the population in this area this is the middle of the day you are
likely to be seen leaving with these girls you do not want to be seen running out
of the building with them in your arms kicking and screaming no you want them to think that you're
taking them somewhere that they enjoy going you're here all day by yourself well
that's got to be boring let's go down to the playground for a little bit let's go over to the store
I'll get you some juice and some candy right we'll have a good old time we'll pass the time I'll have you back here
before Mom even shows up but just in case kids let's write Mom a note and tell her where we're going we don't
want her to worry and of course Tiana's 10 years old she's smart enough to know I can't be right mom a note saying we're
going to X and Y while this dude or this lady already told me that we're going to
a and b that's not registering that doesn't make any sense that raises flags so I think what you have here Captain is
a situation somebody's covering their tracks somebody's buying time and I think that that you have one of two
situations either this person knew in advance that they were going to be alone that day or figured it out on that day
and came up with a plan but if I'm reading you right you're also saying that this isn't excluding
the possibility of the involvement that their mother or the boyfriend has something to do with it correct because
those two would have known for certain that the two girls would be home alone that day they likely knew in advance the
night before that the two girls would be home alone that day that's when you got
to start narrowing this down okay was it somebody that spotted the mom and the boyfriend leaving and figured out oh
there's kids alone in that apartment I don't know if it's four three two or one kids but there's kids alone in that
apartment and I'm interested in that or there's very few people very few people on this list that would have known prior
to that morning that there would be kids left alone in that apartment and if there was some plan put in place in
advance then you you have to believe it can be traced back to one or multiple people the in that small group that knew
the day before or even days before that the girls might be home alone that day the police
very astutely Captain made Tracy write this message the same little note over and over and over again because they
wanted to decide if Tracy had wrote this note and try to pass it off as Tiana wrote the note
eventually the note is sent to the FBI for analysis in comparison to other writings by the little girl
now I know how suspicious everybody probably is of Tracy at this point but this is just fact people
the FBI came back and according to their experts They concluded that tianda did in fact
did in fact write that note further They concluded that Tiana's fingerprints were on the Note as well
so the note is legit I side with Sheila our champion and the extended family that say that this note
was probably coerced and coached by somebody else so it was beginning to look like Tracy's
story might have been spot on Tiana decided to take her little sister with her and left
her mom a note but again you have to say was this coerced and I think that it was based
off of everything everything that all of the other family members are saying I think one of the reasons why this case
has been covered like you said it was covered in the Oprah Magazine or the Oprah publication
is the more you learn about the events the more you learn about the people involved the more questions you have
it feels like you just you don't come to like a dead end where you where a question is
solved in a perfect scenarios okay law enforcement has taught us that the 10 year old wrote the note
but that doesn't tell us if somebody helped her somebody coached her we know from family
members that the main line of communication would have been through cell phones not just to the mother but
to also to the grandmother in that same Oprah daily article you have one of the older daughters slightly older daughter
of Tracy's her name is Rita listen to this quote she says we never in our lives wrote a letter for our mom
if we needed to get a hold of mom we called her on her phone now listen to this we know according to Tracy Bradley what
she told law enforcement she said to law enforcement look yes I left my little ones home alone that day but I told them
don't open the door for anybody and if something comes up call me just call me well something must have come up because
later in the investigation we find out that Tiana did call Tracy Bradley while she was at work
however Tracy didn't pick up the phone it goes to voicemail so a few days after the girls vanished
Captain Tracy gave her cell phone to her mother her mother's name is Mary Bradley
it's unclear why she gave the phone to her mother but her mom had the phone a few days after the girls were missing
and according to the family there's 10 of them that are sitting around trying to figure out how to find the girls
they're having a family meeting how do we find these little girls right that makes sense one of the family members
looks at Tracy's phone and notices that she has a voicemail that has not been listened to yet
now we're all guilty of this right we get a voicemail we fail to listen to it right away when we get it time goes by
we kind of forget about it I have thousands of them maybe we didn't even notice that we missed a call that's what
happens to me I set my phone down I don't even notice that I missed the call sometimes I don't even notice that I
have a voicemail well what we have going on here though is the family says that they checked the
voicemail and the voicemail was from Tiana the missing 10 year old girl and the call came in at 8 17 on the day that
the two girls disappeared what did it say 10 extended family members say that they
heard this voicemail altogether was played out loud all 10 of them that were in their family meeting that day trying
to find the girls come up with a way how to find the girls heard this voicemail together Sheila summed it up on her
appearance on Nancy Grace and she says the message said Mama this is Tiana mom pick up the phone George is at the door
can I open the door he said that we are going to Jules to pick up the cake there
we're coming to pick you up from work here's the problem there's many problems this story makes
some sense yeah these one of the other sisters Victoria her birthday was the next day
so was 10 year old Tiana talking about George Washington who had just dropped Mom off at work at
a quarter to seven that he's outside the apartment at the door she's calling Mom can I open up the
door George says that we're going to jewels that convenience store that store nearby store to pick up a cake
makes sense to the 10 year old her sister's birthday is the next day yeah and if George is saying hey we're
going to go to the play at the park and then we're going to go to the store and she tries to call Mom and nobody answers
and then she goes I'll just write a note I'll make sure I write a note according to the media Captain this
voicemail somehow got erased so the Chicago Police Department has never addressed
how this happened uh according to the family and according to police they said they did hear the voicemail and somehow
it got erased if 10 members of a family all tell the same story I have no reason to believe that they're
lying well we don't have to question them because we do have the Chicago Police Department saying we heard the
voicemail they heard it as well it sounds to me like the voicemail got erased once the phone was given to the
police department you know sometimes when you're talking I should pay a little bit more attention hey you don't
know how you missed that and apparently the Chicago Police Department does not know how the voicemail got erased they
they never addressed this public publicly other than to say that they heard the voicemail yeah but I wonder if
it's one of those things if it's played so many times and you don't hit save every time
you know if it just goes away who who knows you got to get one of these uh digital forensic people in your big
giant Police Department there and one of the largest cities in the United States
to help you work a phone yeah but does it even matter if 10 people from the family know what it says right you're
right and law enforcement knows what it says then George has a lot of answering to do as a wise man once said you are
absolutely right now as you pointed out the problem with this case is that there
are it's a large equation and there's a different argument for each item that we look at in this case
and here we have what we think is evidence of who we should be going after however we learn
that there are in fact Two Georges [Music] [Music] in New Orleans 2012 Bruce kachera drove
to an address someone had given him that didn't exist as he stood in the parking
lot where the address should have been he was shot and killed I'm Delia diambra join me for the newest season of
counterclock as I dive into the motive behind Bruce's murder and a series of events that have never been fully
investigated until now binge all 14 episodes of counterclock season 5 wherever you listen to podcasts
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cans in the air they're captured cheers now as we heard in Tracy's fourth story through the police her on again
off-again boyfriend George Washington came over sometime around 3 A.M maybe 4 a.m that morning on that Friday the two
spent some time together and then Tracy got ready for work George drove her to her job and dropped her off at work at
about 6 30 6 45 a.m that morning now we do need to tell all the wonderful listeners out there that yes in fact
George Washington is was Diamond's father so we hear this voicemail evidence did George head right back to the
apartment to take care of his little girl for the day while Mom was at work remember the voicemail right George is
here should I let him in was George playing the good responsible father taking care of his child nope not
according to Mr George George agreed to come in for questioning with police sat down for a series of interviews with
police he spent two entire days being questioned George told police that he never went back to the apartment never
saw the girls that day nor did he participate in the searches for the girls when Tracy discovered that they
were missing he said it wasn't his problem because he did not believe that diamond was his child in fact he said
that he and Tracy had argued about who the father was and he insisted on taking a paternity test so it sounds to me
Captain like we may have found out after the girls are missing that he is in fact
the father of three-year-old Diamond well congratulations George that you didn't come back to watch your daughter
or the daughter that you weren't claiming but where were you did somebody see you do you have an alibi
what where did you go well and as said he was questioned for two days and then George lawyered up after that and we had
said earlier that there I think it's hilarious can't pay for their own kids but hey I can pay for a lawyer well and
I know something that you're worried about here Captain it's unclear whether George had any legit kind of
Alibi for the morning in question this is from the Nancy Grace interview with a James Miller he's a former detective who
worked the case as a private investigator Miller told Nancy Grace the story goes that George Washington came about 4
30 in the morning to see Tracy and they left together for about an hour and a half they had about six in the morning
he had drove Tracy to work and then he went to his girlfriends at around 97th Street and then he went and visited
his mother then approximately around noon I'm reading from the transcript so forgive me everybody out there Grace
Nancy Grace interrupts Mr Miller saying wait wait wait what girlfriend top mom you're talking about the boyfriend
George Washington the boyfriend of the mom right Miller responds you know Tracy and
George were boyfriend and girlfriend but you know I don't know if they had a serious relationship or not
he says the detective goes on to say after Tracy's shift he picked up Tracy with two co-workers he then dropped them
off at their various locations around 47th Street then he and Tracy drove back to the apartment
and there's more this from the Oprah article police pulled George's cell phone records he
was on his phone a lot but there were some spots some time periods that he's not on the phone at
all so beginning at 4 30 a.m on July 6th he made at least 40 phone calls hot damn
over a period of 24 hours that's a lot so from 4 30 a.m on the 6th when the girls go missing to 4 30 a.m on the 7th
he makes 40 phone calls in that 24-hour time period there are two stretches during which he called no one this is
from 7 A.M to 9 A.M remember what time did Tiana call her mother and leave a voicemail a little
after 8 A.M then from 5 PM to 6 30 P.M he's not calling anyone but his phone is actively pinging off of cell towers on
the far south side of the city near multiple forest preserves and a river which makes no sense on why
he would be there unless he did something to these girls I mean think about you have all these arguments
whether or not that's your daughter or not and if you don't want a daughter well guess what
I'll just kill her suppose of the body we won't have to have that argument ever again especially
if we're talking about just the month prior captain that we have the mother saying look this is your daughter and
she's filed paternity lawsuit against you yeah because if you don't stick with her you're going to be paying child
support or in some cases you just pay child support anyways because you're not married
and so what are you doing in these Woods Mr George you chopping down a cherry tree
well and I know that all the listeners are saying but guys you said that there are two Georges who is this other George
we need to consider him as a possible suspect as well well you're exactly right so this guy's name we got George
Washington who we've talked about at length the problem with this other George he's referred to and described as
a close family friend and this is a guy that the girls and their sisters the older sisters had
routinely gone over to this man's apartment this for to be babysat or a very brief period of time if Tracy
had to run out and grab something the problem with this other George is that he was known to the family and
by a nickname and the family Tracy's family says the girls and remember we have the two
older sisters that that can tell us the same story and back all of this up they all say we never called him George
some of the family didn't even know that that was his name his first name they all refer to him as by his nickname so
where you have to go okay well we got Two Georges here and we gotta question both of them got to be concerned about
both of them one of the Georges is not looking so good right now uh based off of his cell phone records the other one
is not looking so good as a suspect because everybody in the family is saying we never called him George tianda
would not have said George is here well and think about that I mean even even when you're 10 years old
when you hear somebody not call your mom mom but they call her by her real name it freaks you out a little bit
like oh yeah my mom's name isn't mom you know I mean so if you have a family friend that
you've been calling we have no way of knowing if she even knew this individual's name was George
other than his nickname and then listen to this this is all from the Chicago Sun Times summarizing a
wicked long piece in the USA Today in this piece they did not name George Washington they just left it as we got a
suspect here they don't name him but of course we call it like it is here in the garage so
we will name George Washington and the article reads as follows several pieces of evidence this is actual evidence
captain several pieces of evidence have pointed investigators in George's direction for
one investigators found a hair matching Tiana and Tracy's DNA in his vehicle's trunk
he tells police that he would sneak the girls into the drive-in theater in the city you know put him in the
trunk sneak him in the whole family goes and watches a movie with in George's car
we do that so we don't have to pay for the two little ones that sounds a little bullshitty well the problem with this
statement is not does it just sound like [ __ ] it smells like [ __ ] too there because the investigators are
pointing out look the closest drive-in at the time is in the suburbs it's not in the city
yeah and then to back that up Tracy's family's saying we've never heard of Tracy and the girls ever going
to a drive-in movie theater yeah so that story doesn't seem to hold a lot of water [ __ ] then George offered
up to law enforcement conflicting stories about his actions on the day that the girls went missing more
[ __ ] four teenagers and three Neighbors on that day said that they saw him setting fire to something in a 55-gallon
drum in his backyard garage so he's got an unattached garage to his home he lives about 10 miles south of the
girl's apartment we have according to this report seven people that say on that day they saw him
burning something in a five gallon drum not in his backyard in the garage that's
located in his backyard then we have some of those people saying that they saw him at some point putting
a barrel into the trunk of his car and driving away with this Barrel now George as we said earlier is a
welder and a machinist he claimed that he had never burned anything in a drum or even had a drum Barrel but again
police are saying that they have persons that are saying that there was a barrel
and now after the girls are missing this Barrel is missing from his property as well well I'd really love to know his
explanation for the cell phone pings here's some other things you're going to want to know explanations for here
Captain yeah just you know just uh oh you just punched me in my goddamn face because you're really pissing me
off so armed with this information police are going to search George's home and his property and his vehicle and
George said that he gave the investigators and surrendered the keys to his car and his house
now investigators are saying in his garage they found recently purchased rubber gloves contractor trash bags and bleach
all from a Home Depot the investigators think could have been a way of cleaning up after the girls
went missing police have the receipt for the purchase so they go missing on the sixth on the
seventh George bot contractor trash bags gardening gloves and protective neoprene
gloves when police searched his home several days later they find the receipt and there are five bags missing from the
roll and the gardening gloves were not found at all remember we have reports that say that
he burned something in a 55 gallon drum which then other Witnesses say that they
saw him loading this drum into his car and that he left for about 45 minutes and he and his car come back to his home
about 45 minutes after leaving with this 55 gallon drum I have a big issue with George when he
says I didn't even own this Barrel so these eyewitnesses are just making that up
he you see what I'm saying like it becomes way more suspicious because it's like right I would even buy I don't
really know what they're talking about maybe I own one I I don't remember what I did with it
anything other than that never existed I never had one of those I don't know what
you're talking about well and there's other proof too to back up some of these eyewitnesses stories and statements
police found burn marks at the top of his garage right smoke heat Fire Rises and the witnesses say he was burning
something not in the backyard but inside the garage of his backyard and later police find burn marks
on the Rafters in the ceiling of that garage and why would you do that because you'd want to conceal
what was in that barrel and remember His prior statements to law enforcement I did not have a 55 gallon drum I did not
burn anything um somebody burnt something in this garage well there's a lot of other people that
please look into but it's hard to turn away from George Washington and then the other issue becomes
because the mother isn't being that honest with anybody let alone law enforcement it makes you wonder is she a
part of this or or is she just dumb and and kind of covering up for them or trying
to protect him in in some way or some of this stuff too you wonder Captain is she
is she smart and just preoccupied with the fact that her kids are missing and might be an emotional wreck very
distracted so but let's kind of piece all this together what we do have here is suspicious behavior and movements by
George Washington Tiana leaving a voicemail for her mother saying that George is at the door
so this is somebody that either through the door vocally identifies himself as George to the kids or
I don't know if there's a peephole or if there's a way for the children to see outside of the front door to the
apartment and she is Visa visibly identifying this person as George to her mother on the voicemail there's a if
it's not George Washington there's a lot of coincidences here pointing to him right and too many so that I think that
that this has got to be the number one suspect and we do know that at some point there were several people
that pushed and pushed and pushed for prosecutors to charge George with the kidnappings
and they decided that there was not enough concrete evidence to charge George Washington with anything
but then I want to point out a few things that we've already kind of circled around before
I'm a little suspicious of anyone that would have known that the girls would have been alone in the apartment prior
to the day that they went missing yeah the sisters aren't there the older sisters are conveniently not there and
they're at Grandma's house friends are over the night before to confirm that tianda and Diamond are
alive and well at 10 pm Thursday night then we have Tracy who goes off to work and tells four different stories
when she comes home and does not find her kids four different stories to police and the thing is it's I feel like the
best person the best suspect is probably hiding right there in the shadows of one
of these stories one of Mom's four stories to police so who is missing from three of those stories George
she tells three different stories before getting to the fourth story that includes George Washington's name to
police and then Tiana calls saying that George is at the door George has suspicious
Behavior his cell phone record activity looks strange does Mom know is she covering for George
is she purposely leaving George's name out of the equation early on in the investigation the other thing who else's
name is missing from some of those stories in fact this person's name is missing from all of the stories
Sheila tells Nancy Grace why would Tracy lie well it's simple Nancy and I know and I believe in my heart of
hearts that Sheila believes this I believe in my heart of hearts that Tracy told her this
Sheila tells Nancy Grace Tracy lied because a family friend somebody close to our family who has had
run-ins with Illinois Department of Child and Family Services told her just go look for your kids don't call it
in because if you tell them that you left your kids your 10 year old your three-year-old Home Alone that day while
you went off to work they're going to throw you in jail and or they're going to take your kids
from you right well that person is not mentioned by Tracy to police that portion of the story of why she
lied is not mentioned to police who is that person's name is that person George Washington
who could that person be why would a person tell Mom don't call the police for the same reason that somebody would
coerce and Coach a 10 year old to write a note and leave a note for Mom the other thing too that we know that
happened in this case there Captain is Wolf Lake Memorial Park was searched extensively on more than one occasion
we have witnesses that say that they saw George Washington burning something in a
55-gallon drum in his garage and then loading that drum up into the back of his car and driving off and then coming
back without the drum 45 minutes later guess where Wolf Lake Memorial Park is 22 to 24 minute drive from George's home
I think that police were on to something I think that there's a chance that they
were in the right location this area is huge this area is huge and maybe it's just
too big maybe they didn't find what they were looking for and oh by the way Wolf
Lake is huge itself it's an 804 acre large lake I would not be surprised that if George
Washington dumped and disposed of a drum that contains significant evidence to this
case I would not be surprised if it's eventually found and recovered in that Wolf Lake Memorial Park but I like to go
back as as if I'm law enforcement if if I'm law enforcement and I have all these
things pointing to this bag of [ __ ] right cadaver dogs do they do they use them scent dogs did
they use them well I don't know if they use them but they use they use canine units looking
for the girls that night and during the day yeah but I'm guessing they're not looking for their bodies in those parks
and and I wish they would and again I think this is one of those situations and that's why
a lot of these other Persons of Interest you know this other George those kind of
Fall by the wayside because I think law enforcement once they got on the scent of George Washington and
it's like here here's a situation where the victim by leaving that voicemail is giving you the information that you
need to point you in the right direction now all you have to do is collect enough
evidence to charge this monster and he's a monster to to destroy a three-year-old to just
destroy a 10 year old I mean I I think it's one of those cases where all the evidence points in this
direction but can we prosecute him you have to hope if in fact that that somebody wanted to get rid of the two
girls that maybe they gave them away rather than got rid of them you have to hope and pray that that
could be a possible scenario here and that maybe if George is the best suspect that he was burning evidence rather than
something else FBI profiler Pat Brown spoke to Nancy Grace about this case and before we get into
what she said we should point out that Tracy and George Washington said that they were going to be taking the two
little girls on a camping trip a lot of the family found this to be weird because
it's my understanding that this was not a regular activity and it may have never have happened
before at least with George and the two little girls in Georgia's defense police did find
evidence proof positive that he did in fact either purchase or borrow some camping equipment this would indicate
that maybe that there is some truth to that story that that weekend we were going to go camping however what police
also did not uncover was any prior arrangements they didn't preserve a campsite even though it's near
Fourth of July weekend which Fourth of July that that year was on a Wednesday so the weekend prior and the
weekend after are going to be very busy camping weekends now maybe George Washington is not a camper and would not
know it's in our best interest to reserve a site before we drive out there but listen to this where they were
supposedly going to go camping or according to George where they were going to go camping was ending in
Indiana Wolf Lake Memorial Park sits right on the state line it's about half in Indiana and half in Illinois and
we already pointed out the proximity to George George's home to that Park to that large outdoor
Nature Preserve Pat Brown on Nancy Grace says that she believes that the ant who has taken up the fight for these
girls Sheila she says Sheila is exactly right Sheila is right on the money she believes this is not a stranger
abduction Pat Brown says I believe it's not a stranger abduction I believe that it goes right back to
those Georges Pat Brown says my guess is George Washington the father of diamond
they ought to be looking there at him and they also ought to be looking in Indiana where they supposedly were going
camping why would that state come up into somebody's mind if they had never camped before Indiana look over there
and they're not going to be alive sadly Pat Brown says Brown pointed out that if
the girls were abducted by a random stranger they would have been dumped within hours
and the killer would not have been afraid to discard them in a public place because he had no link to them we've
talked about that plenty of times on this show The closer the perp to the victim the more effort that they put
into concealing the body she goes on to say someone took great care to hide these bodies someone who
knew those girls were home alone someone who the girls were comfortable with someone who either knew to pose as a guy
named George or who was a guy named George as the captain pointed out the FBI is still offering a ten thousand
dollar reward for information about the Bradley sisters and their disappearance a statement to Oprah daily reads the FBI
is still actively providing investigative assistance to the Chicago Police Department with respect to The
Disappearance of diamond and Tiana Bradley there have been Personnel changes at the Cook County State's
Attorney's Office since the girls vanished and many hope that a new regime will mean charges will be brought in
this case according to our friends at the Charlie project based off of information of when the
girls went missing diamond is three foot 40 pounds black hair brown eyes she has a scar on
the left side of her hairline she normally wears her hair braided in the back with four ponytails Diamond has
deep set eyes ten-year-old Tiana four foot two 70 pounds Tiana has brown hair brown eyes
has a quarter-sized burn scar on her left forearm she had a scrape on her left calf at the time of her
Disappearance in July of 2001 and she normally wears her hair in Long ponytails she loved to dance and loved
gymnastics in 2021 to Mark the 20th anniversary of tianda and Diamond's disappearance the
national Center for missing and exploited Children released new age progressed images of the girls they have
Tiana seen at 30 years of age in Diamond at 23. age enhanced images can be seen on our true crime garage National Center
for missing and exploited children fundraising page again that web address is give dot
missingkids.org True Crime garage the FBI asks anyone with information about The Disappearance of these girls to
contact Chicago Police Department detectives at 312-747-8380 or your local FBI office
and a Twist and an update there has been a female that has come forward on Tick Tock claiming that it's possible that
she is the three-year-old girl that was missing and she has contacted the FBI to
try to get DNA testing done now the family came out and said well we've actually had at least a dozen
girls come forward and say I might have been one of the abducted girls or kidnapped girls
but none of them have gone as far as to contact the FBI to get DNA testing done that just happened two days ago so we
will stay on that with any updates as far as if she is one of the missing girls or not
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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 investigates the disappearance of Tiana and Diamond Bradley, focusing on their mother Tracy and father George's suspicious actions.

Key points

The Mysterious Note. A note left by 10-year-old Tiana raises questions about her disappearance.
Voicemail from Tiana. A voicemail from Tiana on the day she disappeared adds a new layer to the mystery.
Two Georges, One Case. The investigation reveals the existence of two Georges, complicating the search for answers.
The Voicemail Mystery. The voicemail evidence raises questions about George's involvement and whereabouts.
Suspicious Behavior. George's actions and cell phone records raise red flags during the investigation.
The Search for Evidence. The search for the girls leads to a massive area, raising questions about what was missed.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I taught my kids damn well and my kids wouldn't just up and leave.

Tracy Bradley's statement about her children leaving a note.

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Tension

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