00:00Alright, it's 7.20 this morning. Six-year-old Gracie Walsh was abducted from her front yard.
00:07Fifteen minutes ago, a manager of a motel responded to the Amber Alert, saying he saw Gracie being dragged screaming into a room by this guy, Jared Whitlock.
00:15He's got a long list of felony convictions.
00:17Any of those felonies child-related?
00:19Assault with a deadly weapon, forcible coercion. It's not clear from this if any of the charges involve minors.
00:25Detectives are already at the hotel. I told them to set up a perimeter, warned them to stay back and out of sight.
00:29Does the suspect have any connection to Gracie?
00:31No, it doesn't seem like it. Looks like stranger abduction.
00:35With most stranger abductions, the victim winds up dead. Seventy-four percent are killed within the first three hours.
00:40We're not giving Whitlock a chance to use this kid as a hostage or do anything worse. Y'all copy?
00:45Roger.
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