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she 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 this note sitting on the back of her couch she was able to produce this note for investigators and hand it
over to the Chicago Police the note in childish handwriting said TI and Diamond were leaving the apartment to walk to a
nearby School playground and the juwel 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 in babysit three-year-old Diamond summer school ran
every day from breakfast time at 8:30 a.m. until classes ended at 12:30 p.m. TI 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 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 Tia 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 TI 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 1010 a.m. am 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 A4 to 7 we have the school calling at 1010 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 1010 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 juwel 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 6ish or maybe 7ish depending on what report you you
read note again we keep circling back to this that Tracy took about five maybe 6
and a half hours to summon the police yeah but once she starts talking to police she's not being truthful do we
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 end 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 to question how legit the note is because the the family is saying
look law enforce ment yeah here's this note we believe that TI the 10-year-old did write the note this is her
handwriting right 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 ti so
basically what they're saying is she wouldn't 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 is 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 TI 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 TI 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 fam's phone numbers and we also found a letter that Tiana had written about 6 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 10-year-old why would we if if I'm
abducting them why am I leaving a note anyways 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's going to say you can't say call your mom and oh
by the way don't tell her it's me that 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 the 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 play ground 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 it 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 rather the two locations hey if I put multiple
locations they're going to 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 then 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 abducted children from a we already talk 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 is 10 years old she's smart enough to know I can't be writing 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 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 3 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 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 tried to
pass it off as tiand 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 TI 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 iide with Sheila our champion and the extended family that say that this 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 TI 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 perfect scenario is okay law enforcement is telling 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 I 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 call me just call
me well something must have come up because later in the investigation we find out that TI 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 girl's
vanish 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 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 all together
it 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 jewels 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 the one of the other sisters
Victoria her birthday was the next day so was 10-year-old TI talking about George Washington who had just dropped
Mom off at work at a quarter to 7 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 juwes that convenience store that store nearby store to pick up a cake makes
sense to the 10-year-old her sister's birthdays 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 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 address this public publicly other than
to say that they heard the voicemail yeah but I wonder if if it's one of those things if it was 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 in one of the largest cities in the United States
to help you work a phone yeah but does it even matter if if 10 people from the family know what it says 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 George
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as we heard in Tracy's fourth story to the police her on again off again boyfriend George Washington came over
sometime around 3:00 a.m. maybe 4:00 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 of 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 a 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 could 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 Ive 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 6:00 in the morning he had drove Tracy to work and then he went
to his girlfriend's at around 97th Street and then he went and visited his mother then
approximately around noon 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 4
40 phone calls hot damn over a period of 24 hours that's a lot so from 4:30 a.m.
on the 6 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 700 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. remember what time did Tana call
her mother and leave a voicemail a little after 8: a.m. then from 5:00 p.m. p.m. 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 it you have all these arguments whether or not that your
daughter or not MH and if you don't want a daughter well guess what I'll just kill her dispose 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 cuz 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 A by a
nickname and the family Trac family says the girls and remember we have the two older sisters that 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 georgees here and we got to question both of them got to be concerned about both of them one of the
georgees 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 Tia 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 what 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
TI 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 them in the trunk sneak them in whole family goes and watches a
movie with in George's car uh we do that so we don't have to pay for the two little ones it 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 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 ohshit 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 5G 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 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 um
why you just punched me in my goddamn face cuz 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 that
investigators think could have 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 6th on the 7th George bought 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 55g 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 gon 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 you see what I'm saying like it's 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 bar and remember His prior statements to law enforcement I did not have a 55g drum I
did not burn anything um somebody burnt something in this garage well there's a lot of other
people that police 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 and kind of covering up for him 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 TI
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 Vis 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 charged 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 TI and Diamond are alive
and well at 10 p.m. 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 when 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 TI 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 coers and Co 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 55g 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 84 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 I have all these things pointing to this bag of [ __ ] right cadaver dogs do they did they use
them scent dogs did they use them M well I don't know if they use them but they use they use can9 units
looking for the girls that night and during the yeah but I'm 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 there was 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 to destroy a three-year-old to 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 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 that it may have never have happened before at
least with George and the two little girls and George'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 reserve 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 if 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 Indi 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 aunt 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 C 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 per 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 $110,000 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 TI 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 3 40 lb 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 10-year-old TI 4 fo2 70 lb TI has brown hair brown eyes has a quarter siiz 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 TI
and Diamond's disappearance the national Center for missing and exploited Children released new AG progressed
images of the girls they have TI seen at 30 years of age and Diamond at 23 age-enhanced images can be seen on our
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is give. missingkids.org True Crime garage the FBI ask anyone with information about The Disappearance of
these girls to contact Chicago Police Department detectives at 312 747 838 Z or your local FBI office in a Twist in a
update there has been a female that has come forward on Tik Tok 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 2 days ago so we will stay on that with any updates as far as if she
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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 and her boyfriend's suspicious actions.

Key points

The Mysterious Note. Tracy finds a note from her daughter Tiana, claiming they went to the playground.
Voicemail from Tiana. A voicemail from Tiana raises questions about her disappearance.
National Missing Children's Day. May 25th is National Missing Children's Day, established to raise awareness about missing children.
The Case of George Washington. George Washington, the father of the missing girl, becomes a prime suspect in the case.
Suspicious Behavior. George's actions raise red flags as he fails to provide a solid alibi.
The Search for Evidence. Investigators believe significant evidence may be hidden in Wolf Lake Memorial Park.

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 daughters' behavior.

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Tension

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