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00:00:08my name is Pamela Childs most people when they hear special victims unit think of television
00:00:15drama for me it's been my life since 2001 people have known me as someone who closes missing persons
00:00:26to cases but there's one case that has remained unsolved for 22 years since my first year as a
00:00:35detective on the job until now July 6 2001 Tracy Bradley leaves her daughter's home alone while
00:00:44she goes to work she returns to find a note saying they were headed for this school they never made
00:00:50we were all sent out every able body that's working for the Chicago Police Department a massive police
00:01:00investigation by air water and along the railroad track it was the biggest manhunt that the city of
00:01:08Chicago ever had 22 years five lead detectives several of them have died since these girls
00:01:19disappeared we've since seen 9-11 a housing crisis and a major pandemic and yet Diamond and Tionda
00:01:30Bradley are still missing from the very beginning there were elements to this story that just didn't
00:01:40sit right within the community at the south side of Chicago from what I understand there's been a great
00:01:46deal of suspicion against the mother that's not to say that she's guilty of anything this case has
00:01:52haunted me for 22 years at the heart of it the Bradley family has changed forever I saw my mom
00:02:03coming my
00:02:04way and she was just like Rita have you seen Tion and Diamond I'm like no and then she was
00:02:09like get up
00:02:09they miss it I was feeling like something something is wrong the mystery remains and the case is wide open
00:02:22and somebody knows what happened to Tionda and Diamond
00:02:37when the Bradley girls disappeared in 2001 I was a new detective I gave all of my missing persons cases
00:02:48the dedication everything I had to give for 29 years with the Chicago Police Department if a victim has
00:02:57been missing for a year or maybe nine months that is so unusual but for Tionda and Diamond these girls
00:03:10have
00:03:11been missing for 22 years my name is Ed Carroll I'm a retired Chicago police detective I was the Chicago
00:03:18police officer for 26 years I retired in 2013 I was a detective for 13 years I still miss the
00:03:27job
00:03:29I came upon the Bradley case when I got signed to Bradley in the cold case department
00:03:40this case did become the largest missing in persons investigation in Chicago that we had ever seen in the city
00:03:48at the time
00:03:49for the Bradley family the summer of 2001 was like any other the 4th of July was two days before
00:03:55the girls disappeared
00:03:57our July 4th celebrations in Chicago are very robust very loud very crowded no matter where you go you
00:04:06know you can ride down any street in any neighborhood and you can smell the barbecue coming from the grills
00:04:11you can hear the kids playing maybe you can see the ice cream truck you hear the fireworks the 4th
00:04:21of July 2001 was
00:04:22was one of the last times that the family was all together for Tracy the girl's mother it was a
00:04:30good day you guys had a family outing is that correct on the 4th of July
00:04:34yes where was that I watched it to park we had a little thing out there and we had fun
00:04:41you know okay like a family barbecue yes something like that
00:04:46me my mom and some of my cousins and my auntie now we had went to Washington Park that was
00:04:52the 4th of July
00:04:53we was by the uh lake water yeah because I remember we had a ball and diamond kept hitting the
00:04:58ball in the water so I remember that
00:05:02Tiana the only one had a different color that day we all had on purple Tiana had on green and
00:05:07diamond had purple
00:05:08yeah and how old were you in 2001 12 and Victoria eight nine it's essential with missing people to retrace
00:05:21their steps in the days leading up to their disappearance
00:05:24you never know what detail might emerge that breaks the case open
00:05:30this is Washington Park this is the park that Tracy Bradley and her family spent 4th of July together
00:05:39the last place that the family spent time with Tiana Diamond Victoria and Rita all together
00:05:53my niece Tracy had four kids we've always just been one big family oh lord have mercy um you know
00:06:02I I write them down as each baby is born
00:06:05at the time I was in my early 20s Tiana was 10 and Diamond was 3 Tiana was very outspoken
00:06:13very mature for her age she knew how to cook during that time
00:06:18um she was a little mini adult to be honest so she took that role of having a big personality
00:06:25so that way you knew who she were
00:06:30Diamond had borrets and beads all the time she was a baby she can talk as much as I would
00:06:37say at least 20 words
00:06:39Diamond was more the shy one
00:06:45at the time the girl's mom Tracy was dating a friend of hers named George Washington reexamining the facts of
00:06:55this case 22 years later I want to ask the family more about him
00:07:01let's talk a little bit about your relationship with George you have been dating him for how long
00:07:06oh wow since um 90 95 96 somewhere I've been there
00:07:14she didn't like George she loves him she was in love with George and I've never seen her as happy
00:07:22as I was with George
00:07:24what did he do it was just the attention the attention he would show up at her house and just
00:07:31spend time with her and talk with her
00:07:36we would go out for a little bit and at night time he would come and get me and we
00:07:40would just go to his house
00:07:42my understanding is that George was never close to the girls
00:07:47only time we probably been connected with George if we at my grandma house or he pick us up
00:07:52because mama she gonna pick us up from there she'll pick all of us up and take us home so
00:07:56we get ready and go to school
00:07:58I never been to his house never been to eat with him never in life
00:08:05moving on to the 5th of July yes you were home with all your daughters correct
00:08:12yes July 5th George Washington asked do we want to go camping
00:08:20he asked you on the 5th of July if he wanted to go camping okay
00:08:23I have to go back to refresh my memory
00:08:25okay
00:08:26it might have probably been about a week or a week ago or something like that so
00:08:31so a week prior to July 5th?
00:08:33right right it was his say so that he wanted to go camping it was going to be a weekend
00:08:40I did not know where I was at but I went to the store and bought some camping stuff like
00:08:46a tent
00:08:49George was planning to go on a camping trip but I was surprised that he cared enough to take Tracy
00:08:54and her kids
00:08:55probably really couple months before they just kept saying that we were all going to go camping
00:09:00but then down the line it was like we were going to take Tiana and Diamond first
00:09:02and then you and Victoria the next week
00:09:06cause my momma she wasn't struggling but come on you got four kids so
00:09:11you know it was a hard time and they just felt like they couldn't afford to take all four
00:09:20Victoria explained to me that Rita and Victoria were at the
00:09:24at their grandmother's house the night before the evening of the 5th of July
00:09:30and Tiana and Diamond stayed home with Tracy
00:09:35I didn't really understand that but I guess you know people have their reasoning for doing things that they do
00:09:43there have to be a logical reason why the four girls were separated
00:09:53we ended up dropping them off and I think we went back to the house
00:09:59Diamond and Tiana they was there they were sleeping on the bed
00:10:03what happened the rest of that evening?
00:10:05I just have to think back a little bit
00:10:07okay take your time
00:10:08we ended up dropping them off and I think we went back to the house or we either went somewhere
00:10:16we went to the house or somewhere we went that was it
00:10:19I got on the couch and laid down went to sleep
00:10:22the next day I told Tiana I'm going to work
00:10:26after that we go camping
00:10:29don't open the door for nobody
00:10:32George took me to work he dropped me off
00:10:34so you get to work at like about 7 in the morning?
00:10:38yes because I have to open up yes
00:10:40okay so you two adults are the only two people
00:10:44that had knowledge that Tiana and Diamond was in that apartment alone
00:10:50right
00:10:50when you left for work that morning
00:10:53yes they was there
00:10:54no one else knew?
00:10:56no
00:10:57Tracy was working the lunch what they used to call a lunch program
00:11:02yes
00:11:02after work she was going on a camping trip
00:11:05okay and you started checking in on the girls
00:11:10yes
00:11:10by calling
00:11:10yes after that in the morning
00:11:12I had like a little lunch break
00:11:14so I called and I called and I called
00:11:17it was no answer it just kept going
00:11:19voicemail voicemail voicemail
00:11:21I called my mom
00:11:23my mom and she kept calling
00:11:26she kept calling the house too
00:11:28okay at some point George Washington returns
00:11:32yes pick me up
00:11:34yes pick me up
00:11:34George picked me up from work
00:11:36and I'm coming home and the back door was open
00:11:40and we walked up the stairs and everything
00:11:42and I put my key in the door
00:11:44and I called for uh
00:11:46Diamantiondi
00:11:47so I was nervous and you know like
00:11:50where are they you know?
00:11:54when Tracy entered her apartment
00:11:56from work on the morning of the 6 around noonish
00:12:00there was a note that was discovered in the house
00:12:03there was a note on the back of the couch
00:12:06said that they were going to the school
00:12:08and they was going up to the store
00:12:11I find it odd
00:12:13when we went up the stairs
00:12:15my mom opened the door
00:12:16my mom just knocked the TV over
00:12:17and got the crying
00:12:18and got the call in the family
00:12:21my sister Marie
00:12:23told Tracy
00:12:25do not call the police
00:12:27let's just look for the kids
00:12:29because if you call the police
00:12:30they're going to take Vicki and Rita
00:12:32I was scared
00:12:33I wanted to find them
00:12:35you know like on my own
00:12:36to see if I can find them
00:12:38you know you know
00:12:39and see what
00:12:40who house they went to
00:12:42you know
00:12:42and just looking around
00:12:43so we went by the lake
00:12:45you know
00:12:45over there and everything
00:12:47you know searching and asking
00:12:48you know
00:12:49have you seen two little girls
00:12:50you know
00:12:51they're like no no
00:12:53and in your mind
00:12:55you're thinking
00:12:56you know
00:12:57I left them alone
00:12:58I could get in trouble for this
00:13:00yes
00:13:04to really reacquaint myself
00:13:06with this case
00:13:06I had to go back
00:13:08to where it all began
00:13:12I am here
00:13:13at the Lake Grove Village
00:13:15apartment complex
00:13:17this is the home
00:13:18of Tracy Bradley
00:13:20and her four children
00:13:22around the side of the building
00:13:24was a door
00:13:26a door
00:13:26a side door
00:13:27that was easy access
00:13:28from her apartment
00:13:29the side door
00:13:30that was always held open
00:13:32by a rock or something
00:13:34that they stuck in it
00:13:35to get in and out
00:13:36rarely did the kids
00:13:38use the front entrance
00:13:39which would be right here
00:13:42they always went around
00:13:43to the side entrance
00:13:44this is the back entrance
00:13:46to Tracy's building
00:13:48where back in 2001
00:13:502001
00:13:51this back door
00:13:52was always open
00:13:53and now it's
00:13:552023
00:13:56and the back door
00:13:58is still open
00:14:03I remember just going home
00:14:04and everybody just being there
00:14:07and
00:14:08everybody just looking so devastated
00:14:10because
00:14:12you really
00:14:12something like this happening
00:14:14you really wouldn't think
00:14:15it happened to our family
00:14:16but it did
00:14:17and just seeing my mama crying
00:14:20putting towels around her forehead
00:14:23just crying
00:14:24devastated
00:14:27since my kids been gone
00:14:29just put a
00:14:30totally
00:14:31stop on my life
00:14:35heartbreaking
00:14:35you know
00:14:36I just
00:14:38talked to my little daughter
00:14:39Jesus
00:14:39I didn't even come outside
00:14:41it was
00:14:43sad
00:14:45it had
00:14:46took a lot out of me
00:14:47you
00:14:48you gotta just
00:14:48just let it out
00:14:52I remember calling my mom
00:14:55said
00:14:56um
00:14:56call the police
00:14:58now mom knew before seven hours went by
00:15:01yeah
00:15:01okay mom came over
00:15:03yes
00:15:08I
00:15:09was
00:15:09in the detective division
00:15:11for
00:15:12approximately
00:15:13one month
00:15:14when the Bradley girls disappeared in 2001
00:15:17in my heart of hearts
00:15:19I felt like
00:15:21it was going to be a challenge
00:15:22to
00:15:24locate
00:15:26Tionda and Diamond Bradley
00:15:30we
00:15:31were all sent out
00:15:33after 7pm
00:15:34on that same evening
00:15:36according to their mom
00:15:37the girls
00:15:39were not
00:15:40in the apartment
00:15:40when she returned home from work
00:15:42at 11 o'clock in the morning
00:15:44that's an eight hour jump
00:15:46that
00:15:46any bad guy
00:15:47has
00:15:48on us
00:15:49to
00:15:50be successful
00:15:51in
00:15:52locating these girls
00:15:54and
00:15:54and tracking
00:15:55where they could possibly be
00:16:02when Chicago died
00:16:03the neighborhood is focused on two little girls
00:16:05who've been missing since Friday
00:16:06a
00:16:07massive police investigation followed
00:16:09by air
00:16:10water
00:16:11and along the railroad tracks
00:16:13canine search teams went through empty lots
00:16:15and more than 5,000 abandoned buildings
00:16:19the playgrounds on the south side of Chicago
00:16:22empty
00:16:23there's no kids out here
00:16:24it's like this now everyday since the children been missing
00:16:30that evening
00:16:31when people were getting home
00:16:32and in their business day
00:16:33that's when
00:16:34the city started to find out that
00:16:36the girls were missing
00:16:38so we sprang into action
00:16:39we went to Bronzeville
00:16:41to the scene
00:16:42where
00:16:43they say they were missing from
00:16:44to find out
00:16:45who knew something
00:16:47any small thing
00:16:48could help
00:16:49with pieces of this puzzle
00:16:56after having a briefing
00:16:58in our office
00:16:59we went out
00:17:00and we were on the scene
00:17:02we were in the apartment
00:17:04I observed
00:17:06the apartment
00:17:06was in normal disarray
00:17:09which means that
00:17:10tables weren't turned over
00:17:11it didn't appear to be a fight
00:17:12but it was just normal
00:17:14household items
00:17:16in the apartment
00:17:17family members were there
00:17:19other police officers were there
00:17:21it sort of became a scene
00:17:24of concern for all of the police
00:17:26that were involved
00:17:27I interviewed the mom
00:17:29Tracy Bradley
00:17:30for approximately an hour
00:17:34that morning
00:17:36Tracy Bradley leaves her home
00:17:38knowing that
00:17:39Teanda and Diamond
00:17:40is in the house by themselves
00:17:42and
00:17:44Tracy Bradley had with her
00:17:46her friend
00:17:47George Washington
00:17:48at approximately 6 o'clock
00:17:51a.m. when Tracy usually left for work
00:17:54they walked out of that apartment
00:17:56and closed that door
00:18:00you know in life
00:18:01especially when you have your own family
00:18:03any working family
00:18:05leave their children at home alone
00:18:06at that age
00:18:08it was common
00:18:10she
00:18:10when she had stuff to do
00:18:11yeah she had
00:18:12she left us in the house by herself
00:18:13you know
00:18:13she did
00:18:14okay but you were 12
00:18:16yeah I was old enough
00:18:21at the very beginning
00:18:23in the deepest part of me
00:18:25I felt that
00:18:27somebody had the girls
00:18:29there was no signs of
00:18:32forced entry at the house
00:18:35all types of things were being said
00:18:37but
00:18:39in my heart of hearts
00:18:41I felt like the girls were
00:18:43kidnapped
00:18:44by somebody that they knew
00:18:46and
00:18:48George and Tracy
00:18:48were the only two people
00:18:50that we can look at
00:18:51to
00:18:52bring
00:18:53more clarity
00:18:55to
00:18:56what happened
00:18:58to Teanda
00:18:59and Diamond
00:19:06when speaking to Tracy
00:19:08her demeanor range from
00:19:10distraught
00:19:11to afraid
00:19:12to defensive
00:19:15after a few hours
00:19:17of the investigation
00:19:18Tracy Bradley
00:19:19explained to me that
00:19:21everybody in the entire Bradley family
00:19:24knew that
00:19:25there was this mad search going on
00:19:27and George Washington
00:19:30Tracy's
00:19:31boyfriend
00:19:32never
00:19:33got
00:19:34involved
00:19:36did you start looking for the kids in the complex
00:19:38yes
00:19:38yes
00:19:40uh
00:19:40there's a lot of people searching
00:19:42looking
00:19:43all of us
00:19:43we all went out
00:19:45everybody in your family
00:19:46friends
00:19:47yes
00:19:47people you know
00:19:48is George with you?
00:19:49yes
00:19:50I was looking you know
00:19:51he just stayed in the car
00:19:52he stayed in the car
00:19:54he told Tracy
00:19:56to call him
00:19:59later
00:19:59let him know
00:20:01what's going on
00:20:02with Teanda
00:20:03and Diamond
00:20:04that evening
00:20:05he never returns
00:20:09Tracy Bradley
00:20:10and
00:20:11her boyfriend
00:20:12George Washington
00:20:14were the only two people
00:20:16who knew
00:20:17that
00:20:17the girls were
00:20:18left
00:20:19in that apartment
00:20:21on the morning of the 6th
00:20:23at approximately
00:20:246 o'clock
00:20:25a.m.
00:20:26when Tracy usually
00:20:27left for work
00:20:28Tracy comes back to her home
00:20:30the girls are not in the apartment
00:20:34George comes up with her
00:20:35to the apartment
00:20:41George decides to leave
00:20:43like everything else in this case
00:20:46it's hard to point at any one thing
00:20:48as indicative of innocence or guilt
00:20:51but
00:20:52the timing
00:20:54adds to
00:20:55the
00:20:56other
00:20:57suspicious
00:20:59activities
00:20:59and facts
00:21:00that
00:21:01have kind of been piling up
00:21:03in this case
00:21:04but
00:21:05it's important to note
00:21:06that George told the press
00:21:07that he
00:21:07quote
00:21:08tried to help investigators
00:21:09find them
00:21:10at the beginning
00:21:12according to their mom
00:21:14she didn't report them missing
00:21:16until after 7 p.m.
00:21:18that's almost 8 hours
00:21:20that those girls
00:21:22were gone
00:21:24so I needed to find out
00:21:26what Tracy was doing
00:21:27during those 8 hours
00:21:29before police got involved
00:21:32this is the 31st Street Beach area
00:21:34they're at 31st Street
00:21:36they lived at 35th Street
00:21:37so that's a 5 block radius
00:21:39this is one of the first areas
00:21:41that Tracy Bradley came to
00:21:43as she had again informed us
00:21:46that she was dropped off
00:21:48on the bridge
00:21:48by George Washington
00:21:51and she walked over to
00:21:52the lakefront
00:21:53this is the area that Tracy Bradley
00:21:55walked to
00:21:56this is the area that the
00:21:57Chicago Police Department searched
00:21:59and there were no signs of
00:22:01Tionden Diamond Bradley
00:22:05things kind of start kicking in
00:22:06for Tracy
00:22:07so she starts calling around
00:22:09to various neighbors
00:22:11various family members
00:22:12asking if they've seen the girls
00:22:15George Senor is the family friend
00:22:18who lived nearby Tracy and the daughters
00:22:23and he was a family friend
00:22:25he was known
00:22:25so he was also just part of the family
00:22:28but not part of the family
00:22:31would Tionden know enough
00:22:32to go over to like
00:22:33George Senor's apartment?
00:22:36yes
00:22:36yes she knows
00:22:37she knows
00:22:38right
00:22:38the kids used to call George Senor
00:22:40Porgy
00:22:40Porgy, exactly
00:22:41exactly
00:22:42did he babysit for you on occasion?
00:22:44uh, he
00:22:45a couple of times
00:22:46did you happen to go to his house that day?
00:22:48uh
00:22:48and ask him if he had seen the kids?
00:22:50I think I went up there
00:22:51or either I called
00:22:52or you called?
00:22:53okay
00:22:53and he told you he hadn't seen the kids?
00:22:54he said I ain't seen them
00:22:55he said I haven't seen them
00:22:57okay
00:23:00July 6, 2001
00:23:02Tracy Bradley leaves her daughter's home alone
00:23:04while she goes to work
00:23:05she returns to find a note
00:23:07saying they were headed for this school
00:23:09they never made it
00:23:11I remember my mom just kept saying
00:23:13she just left a letter
00:23:14and she just showed me the letter
00:23:15and me and Diamond and I going to the store
00:23:17and to the school
00:23:18and I remember the exact words
00:23:19because I read the letter
00:23:21the note said
00:23:23me going to the store
00:23:27what store
00:23:28what store?
00:23:28I was nervous
00:23:29and you know like
00:23:32where are they?
00:23:33you know?
00:23:33right, right, of course
00:23:36after speaking more with the family
00:23:38the note doesn't make a lot of sense to me
00:23:42Teanda was 10
00:23:44Diamond was only 3
00:23:45so it seems to me like a stretch
00:23:48that a 3 year old could walk very far
00:23:50so I decided to retrace the route
00:23:53the girls could have taken
00:23:55to go to the store
00:23:56to determine the plausibility
00:23:58of that theory
00:24:00this could have possibly been
00:24:02the store
00:24:04that Teanda and Diamond was going to
00:24:06amongst other stores
00:24:08that's in the area
00:24:10we are a few blocks away from the complex
00:24:13not a great distance for
00:24:15adults and children to walk
00:24:17but a great distance for
00:24:19children alone
00:24:20to walk
00:24:21to get to
00:24:22the Jewel food store
00:24:24I
00:24:25it
00:24:26it has not been
00:24:27been
00:24:27stated that
00:24:29this is the store
00:24:30that was indicated
00:24:31in the note
00:24:31but this is a store
00:24:33that's close by
00:24:34that could be
00:24:35the location
00:24:36that Teanda was speaking of
00:24:39another theory
00:24:40important to re-examine
00:24:42is that the girls went
00:24:43to the nearby school playground
00:24:46this is the James Doolittle
00:24:48elementary school
00:24:49that Teanda attended
00:24:51and Teanda was also enrolled
00:24:53in summer school
00:24:54in 2001
00:24:55but on July 6
00:24:57Teanda did not
00:24:58attend school
00:25:00we don't have
00:25:01any reliable information
00:25:03that they actually
00:25:05showed up there
00:25:07at least a dozen
00:25:08FBI agents
00:25:09have been working the case
00:25:10Diamond and Teanda's family
00:25:12found the note
00:25:13unusual
00:25:13because they said that
00:25:16the
00:25:16the way the note was
00:25:17written
00:25:18didn't reflect
00:25:19how she would
00:25:21usually
00:25:21have written
00:25:22something
00:25:23after the
00:25:24FBI got involved
00:25:26in the case
00:25:26fairly early on
00:25:28after the girl's
00:25:28disappearance
00:25:29they did take
00:25:31the note that Teanda wrote
00:25:33for handwriting analysis
00:25:35to confirm that
00:25:38it was Teanda's handwriting
00:25:40and not someone else's
00:25:43the results of which had not
00:25:44returned yet
00:25:47it wasn't going to come back
00:25:49for a little while
00:25:50and it's a process
00:25:51it takes time
00:25:58the next morning
00:26:00the morning of July 7th
00:26:02Faith who is Tracy's sister
00:26:05was there in the apartment
00:26:08and Faith had recently set up
00:26:11the all of the family's cell phones
00:26:13she decided to listen to Tracy's voicemail
00:26:16and the family was shocked to find
00:26:18there was a message from Teanda
00:26:20from the day of the disappearance
00:26:23does anybody know what time that message was left?
00:26:27does anybody recall?
00:26:29I remember
00:26:29it was either 8.02 or 8.20 a.m.
00:26:33I remembered that
00:26:35how did you guys come about?
00:26:38did she bring it to you?
00:26:39did she say hey
00:26:41listen to this?
00:26:42we were all sitting in Tracy's home
00:26:45on the couch
00:26:47when we heard it
00:26:48it was Faith myself
00:26:51it was my mom
00:26:53Tracy was in the other room
00:26:57and it was a few other people
00:26:59that was actually in the home
00:27:00during that time
00:27:01okay
00:27:02it was the majority of the family
00:27:04and then it was some of Tracy's closest friends
00:27:06and you don't recall who actually
00:27:08played the message?
00:27:08I don't recall
00:27:10did you hear the message?
00:27:11I did
00:27:12tell me about it
00:27:13it says mommy
00:27:15I'm going to the store with George
00:27:17but would it be unusual for George
00:27:20to show up at the door?
00:27:21George Washington
00:27:22to show up at this door
00:27:25trying to get her
00:27:26to open that door
00:27:28I would say yes it is
00:27:30do you know where the message is?
00:27:33supposedly it got into the wrong hands
00:27:35and it was deleted
00:27:35whose hands?
00:27:41Tracy said there was the voicemail left by Tianda
00:27:46the voicemail left so many questions unanswered
00:27:51and it actually lent to the speculation that they really were abducted
00:28:00this was orchestrated it was planned and they were trying to find out who
00:28:05did you hear the message?
00:28:08yeah I heard it
00:28:08I heard it
00:28:08and tell me what you remember
00:28:10she said
00:28:12mom after the phone
00:28:13George is at the door
00:28:14he said something about Victoria cake
00:28:17okay
00:28:19and did you hear it Victoria?
00:28:21yeah I heard the voicemail
00:28:22yeah that was about it
00:28:23was there anything mentioned about a cake?
00:28:26yeah her exact words were going to the store to pick up Vicki a cake with George
00:28:31when's your birthday?
00:28:34July 7th
00:28:35that'll be why they'll get her a cake or something
00:28:39the thing that's strange about the voicemail is that it mentions George
00:28:46so there's George Washington who was Tracy's boyfriend at the time
00:28:50there was also a neighbor named George
00:28:53this has caused some confusion in the media
00:28:56because people say you know what if she was talking about the other George
00:29:00perhaps he should be a suspect
00:29:02look at these two Georges ask them to take polygraphs
00:29:06another thing Nancy just because the girl said hey George is at the door
00:29:10doesn't necessarily mean that it was George at the door
00:29:13somebody may have presented themselves at George
00:29:17George the neighbor went by a very distinctive nickname
00:29:20that the girls would have called him by
00:29:23George Senor was also referred to by the family as Porgy
00:29:29we never called Porgy George
00:29:31never in our life
00:29:32we never went by that name
00:29:33so there's no misunderstanding
00:29:35no misunderstanding
00:29:36no
00:29:37no misunderstanding
00:29:38they found the note at 1150 or so
00:29:401150 Tudor at George Senor's house
00:29:43she tells George Senor that she's looking for the kids
00:29:47George Senor used to babysit the kids remember
00:29:49yes
00:29:50there's a lot of speculation in my mind
00:29:53Tianda had to be talking about George Washington
00:29:57Tracy's boyfriend at the time
00:30:00would it have been normal for George to want to buy a cake for Vicky's birthday?
00:30:05no
00:30:05okay so what do you think about the message?
00:30:10it was weird to me cause
00:30:11like how you supposed to go camping and you weren't about a cake?
00:30:14if they go to camping on the 6 or something
00:30:16why would you buy a cake for my birthday if y'all gonna be gone?
00:30:20I always found it odd
00:30:22that it was Victoria's birthday
00:30:25one of the days that they were supposed to go camping
00:30:29speaking with Rita and Victoria
00:30:31I'm impressed by how much they remember
00:30:34but I never stopped asking myself different questions as to
00:30:39if you're going on a camping trip
00:30:41why go to the grocery store for Victoria?
00:30:45another thing that's strange about the voicemail
00:30:49is that outside of the family
00:30:52no one has ever been able to confirm its existence
00:30:58some people say that it was accidentally deleted
00:31:02some people say it's in the possession of the FBI
00:31:05but no one that I've spoken to in law enforcement
00:31:10has been able to confirm the existence of the voicemail
00:31:15but multiple family members say that they did hear it
00:31:21I recorded it from the speaker on there with my phone
00:31:27okay
00:31:27and I took it and sent it to my email
00:31:33my email address as an audio file
00:31:37okay
00:31:38you sent the recording to your email?
00:31:40email, yes
00:31:41do you still have it?
00:31:42I do
00:31:44can we hear it?
00:31:45I can't
00:31:46I mean I would love to be able to access it
00:31:49but if I don't put the correct code in it to get it
00:31:52because I had some technical help to protect my emails
00:31:56if I could
00:31:58I would
00:31:59but I'm sure that it would destroy it
00:32:02okay
00:32:04while re-interviewing the family
00:32:06their statements have me questioning some things
00:32:10the note
00:32:10and the voicemail
00:32:12in my opinion
00:32:14it feels like everybody has a different story
00:32:18I have to explore this more
00:32:21Shalia Smith
00:32:24Tracy's aunt
00:32:25has a copy
00:32:27of the message
00:32:28I begged her to give that to me
00:32:29I told her I'd fly anywhere in the world on my own dime
00:32:32with a tech from Chicago to get that message
00:32:35and we have never to this day
00:32:37heard that message
00:32:39this whole situation is just
00:32:42and like I told you
00:32:43you know this is really
00:32:45a messed up
00:32:48situation
00:32:49she's holding on to it
00:32:51why would
00:32:52that doesn't make sense
00:32:53why would anybody hold that message
00:32:56what do you think about that message?
00:32:58well he's
00:32:59is it real?
00:33:00it had to be if she left
00:33:02if she left the message on the phone
00:33:04there is really a message that Teanda left
00:33:06right
00:33:06because George is at the door
00:33:10George Washington has also confirmed to the media
00:33:12that he quote
00:33:13took Tracy to work that morning
00:33:14but denied showing up at the apartment later
00:33:17when the girls allegedly called their mom to say someone was at the door
00:33:21I asked George Washington about that message
00:33:24what did he say?
00:33:25he said I don't know why she would say I was at the door
00:33:27I wasn't there
00:33:29did you ever speak with Tracy about what happened?
00:33:32well after I got there and she was still being questioned
00:33:38questioned by?
00:33:39the police department, Chicago police
00:33:45Bradley, a single mother of four
00:33:47she's had to withstand the subtle
00:33:49and not so subtle accusations
00:33:51that she somehow was to blame for the girl's disappearance
00:33:55how were you feeling about the police
00:33:58when they took you in to question you and talk to you
00:34:01more than one time
00:34:03am I right about it?
00:34:06how did you feel about that?
00:34:08I felt
00:34:11really
00:34:12kind of angry
00:34:14okay
00:34:14you felt like you were being tortured
00:34:16yeah
00:34:16hit the table
00:34:17you know where those damn kids at
00:34:20my first conversation with Tracy about that is
00:34:24um
00:34:25when they were
00:34:26questioning her
00:34:27and I had asked
00:34:28damn how long she been in there
00:34:30and she came back to the house
00:34:33and so I looked at Tracy
00:34:34and Tracy says
00:34:37uh
00:34:37why the f*** is everybody looking at me like I did something to my kids
00:34:42and at that point
00:34:43I think I was
00:34:44so angry
00:34:46like
00:34:46you supposed to know where your kids are
00:34:48you supposed to know what the hell happened
00:34:50okay
00:34:51so
00:34:51I jumped up to grab her
00:34:53cause I was gonna just push her off
00:34:57it's okay
00:34:58take your time
00:35:05I just wanted to push her out the window
00:35:10cause I felt if you wouldn't have left them they would be gone
00:35:16and uh
00:35:17Tracy left
00:35:20she waited till I went in the back and left out the door
00:35:23she didn't want to have a confrontation with you
00:35:26nobody wanted to have a confrontation with me
00:35:31Tracy couldn't deal with the questions for her
00:35:34in a citywide manhunt
00:35:36we're looking at everybody
00:35:39whether you're the mother
00:35:41the brother
00:35:42sister
00:35:43father
00:35:44it doesn't matter
00:35:45we need
00:35:47some answers
00:35:53Tracy shut down
00:35:55we were trying to identify
00:35:57certain things that
00:35:59we were told such as
00:36:01they were going on a camping trip
00:36:03later that evening
00:36:06I expected to see
00:36:07something that would say
00:36:09yes we are really doing this
00:36:11we're going on a camping trip
00:36:12but I didn't see anything
00:36:14that told me
00:36:17they were going camping
00:36:20I just wonder where the tent was at
00:36:21or were they just gonna go for a picnic and come back
00:36:24maybe that's what they call a camping trip
00:36:25it was Victoria's birthday
00:36:28one of the days that they were supposed to go camping
00:36:31so maybe mom was going to celebrate it when they got back
00:36:34but I always thought that that was odd
00:36:38I understand leaving Teanda with Diamond because Teanda and Diamond were very close
00:36:43but how they made the determination to take Rita and Vicky to Grandma's house that night
00:36:48usually when they would go over there the four of them would go together
00:36:51or at least three of the four
00:36:55how they determine that is I don't know
00:36:57I would love to find that out
00:36:58it's definitely a question that needs to be asked
00:37:02so Rita and Victoria were not going camping
00:37:05no
00:37:05and I get it that you say you don't really have an answer
00:37:08as to why all four girls were not going
00:37:12right
00:37:15there was not enough to charge Tracy with anything
00:37:19I suspected George Washington as being the offender of the two girls going missing
00:37:28I felt that way because he and Tracy knew that Teanda and Diamond were alone in the apartment when Tracy
00:37:38Bradley left
00:37:39and they were the only two people who knew
00:37:43there were several things going on in Tracy Bradley's life with George Washington
00:37:48that I don't think has ever really come to light as to why George would hurt these girls
00:37:55also it's since come out Tracy had sued George for paternity
00:38:00saying that you know Diamond was his
00:38:03I don't get the impression that George wanted to pay for a child
00:38:08so Tracy sued him for paternity they took his DNA
00:38:12the results of which had not returned yet
00:38:16when George found out that you had Diamond what was his reaction
00:38:21he was upset because I think during that time he was married
00:38:27he was married
00:38:28I believe that he didn't want Diamond
00:38:31and that's why he wasn't claiming her
00:38:33he didn't ever want Diamond
00:38:34I don't know if it's because he had a wife or he had other women
00:38:38I don't know what the case is but I feel like he just didn't want to be a
00:38:42he didn't want to deal with that
00:38:43so you were kind of going on your own with Diamond?
00:38:46yes, yes
00:38:46sometimes you don't know which way the anger this man is coming from
00:38:49what threats did he make?
00:38:52he used to always say if you leave me I'll kill you
00:38:55he always threw a lot of threats to me and my family
00:38:58do you think that he gave you the respect that you deserve?
00:39:03not at all, no respect
00:39:05but you still loved him?
00:39:06yes
00:39:06why?
00:39:08because I saw interest in him
00:39:11you know, it's like, I mean I just really loved this man
00:39:16you know what I'm saying?
00:39:17I thought that he needed to be the right one for me and I and everything
00:39:22he was the trickster in Tracy's life
00:39:26but Tracy loved him
00:39:28Tracy wanted him to be in her life
00:39:32but Tracy wanted more from him
00:39:35she wanted him to love her
00:39:37something that he was never going to do
00:39:42the investigation was starting to focus in on
00:39:47in George Washington
00:39:48several days after the girls disappeared
00:39:51George Washington's house and car were searched
00:39:55receipts that they found in his home indicate that on July 7th
00:40:00so the day after the girls' disappearance
00:40:02he went to a hardware store where he purchased a large package of industrial trash bags
00:40:09and two pairs of gloves
00:40:12when the police came to his home
00:40:14there were five trash bags missing from that roll
00:40:18and one of the pairs of gloves was never found
00:40:21George Washington told the police that the trash bags had been used in a home renovation project
00:40:28and that he had filled them and disposed of them in a dumpster in a nearby park
00:40:37this is the same location that George Washington claimed to have brought those garbage bags over to the lagoon area
00:40:49he rode with CPD detectives over here to give them the exact location as to where the garbage cans were
00:40:57and where the garbage was
00:40:58but by the time they got here it had been taken
00:41:04when they spoke to George's neighbors
00:41:07the neighbors said that they had seen George Washington burning something in a barrel in his garage
00:41:18I actually found one of the young men sitting on the porch
00:41:22and he said George Washington was burning the barrels in his backyard
00:41:26and had taken the barrel after it cooled and threw the barrel in the trunk
00:41:30George Washington denied that this ever happened and also denied even owning a barrel
00:41:34however when the FBI went to investigate they found evidence of charring on the rafters of his garage
00:41:42and in the trunk of his car they found striations that were consistent with the size and shape of an
00:41:51industrial barrel
00:41:52the kind of industrial barrel that his neighbors said that they saw him burning something in
00:42:11George Washington was really scrutinized but again nothing much led to him being a person of interest
00:42:21just questions and no answers
00:42:26George gave a statement to the media saying I don't know who did anything I just know that I had
00:42:33nothing to do with it
00:42:35but I have had a lot of different scenarios go through my mind as to why George would hurt these
00:42:44girls
00:42:45it has crossed my mind that it's the possibility George didn't want to pay Tracy child support
00:42:54kill Diamond and Tianda saw it
00:42:59therefore he had to kill Tianda as well
00:43:03is that a possibility?
00:43:06absolutely it is
00:43:17George Washington
00:43:18George Washington
00:43:18we put him on a polygraph back in 2001
00:43:20the brass of the police department just loved polygraphs
00:43:25I think they just thought the sun rose and set on them although they're not admissible
00:43:30polygraphs are a tool that we use they're not to be all end all
00:43:33I've seen people that I've known were guilty pass them
00:43:36I've seen people that were innocent fail them
00:43:39but in George's defense he passed a polygraph
00:43:45the consensus was
00:43:48wherever the girls are they went with someone that they knew
00:43:51and then all of the speculation at that time was around George Washington
00:43:57where
00:43:57it led all of us to believe
00:43:59if he didn't do it he knows something
00:44:01and what is he hiding
00:44:04George should we talk to you for just a moment?
00:44:06no comment at all
00:44:07there's no comment at all
00:44:09there was not enough to charge George with anything
00:44:13charge Tracy with anything
00:44:15at this point
00:44:17they're just two people that might have the answers to
00:44:20the last steps that Tionda and Diamond took
00:44:25inside of that apartment
00:44:29after a few days of the investigation
00:44:32Tracy shut down
00:44:34Tracy stopped communicating with the police department
00:44:37when the questions for her got tough
00:44:39I get it
00:44:41I understand that
00:44:42not being able to deal
00:44:44and just the initial trauma
00:44:49of dealing with your two daughters that's missing
00:44:52I understand that
00:44:54but as a detective
00:44:55I still need to do my due diligence
00:44:58and probe this further
00:45:01at some point
00:45:03you shut down
00:45:05and no longer wanted to communicate
00:45:07with the Chicago police department
00:45:09I feel like they took
00:45:15like I was a criminal
00:45:16and I wasn't
00:45:18you know
00:45:19you took
00:45:23me being afraid
00:45:25you know what I'm saying
00:45:26scared you know
00:45:28and
00:45:29tell me what you're afraid of
00:45:31you didn't want what to happen
00:45:35I go to jail
00:45:48I took Rita and Victoria to school
00:45:53well you know they follow me everywhere
00:45:55detectives and everything and then
00:45:58detectives get out the car
00:45:59threw me to the gate
00:46:05put me in the car
00:46:06had me handcuffed and everything
00:46:11they take me through a tunnel and stuff
00:46:13they take me out through there
00:46:17so this Sarge came in and
00:46:19he found out who I was
00:46:21and he told them
00:46:23take them damn handcuffs off right now
00:46:27why did they arrest you?
00:46:30for no reason
00:46:32no reason
00:46:33at all
00:46:34I didn't
00:46:36talk to them
00:46:37I didn't
00:46:38you know do anything to them
00:46:40and see that's another reason why
00:46:41I kinda went back a little bit
00:46:43cause I felt that you know
00:46:48you felt what?
00:46:51disrespectful
00:46:52disrespectful
00:46:55it's
00:46:56it's sad
00:46:57it's sad
00:46:58she shut the police department down
00:47:00when they were trying to help her
00:47:02but it doesn't make sense
00:47:03it just doesn't make sense
00:47:05she had
00:47:07I think two arrests her entire life
00:47:09I know that
00:47:10why would she shut us down?
00:47:13this case has always been very complex
00:47:15but one of the most solid leads we have to go on
00:47:18is the note that Tionda left in the apartment
00:47:24after a certain amount of time
00:47:26the note that Tionda left
00:47:28it was examined by law enforcement
00:47:31and it was confirmed that it was her handwriting
00:47:38would Tionda have left a note on her own?
00:47:40reading it I'm like
00:47:42nah that's not the way Tionda speaks
00:47:46well Tionda did have a minor reading disability
00:47:50okay okay
00:47:52that's why she was in summer school
00:47:54because she had reading problems
00:47:56okay
00:47:56for example if you said need
00:48:01write the word I need to go
00:48:03it'll be I need but it might have been N-E-I-D
00:48:07versus N-E-E-D
00:48:09do you think Tionda wrote the note?
00:48:11yeah
00:48:12I think she wrote it
00:48:13she was forced to write it but it was her handwriting
00:48:16because we never had to write a note
00:48:17when we knew my mom's number
00:48:19if we was always in the hospital
00:48:21we would call her
00:48:22my sister faked without another note
00:48:24that Tionda had wrote
00:48:26and compared the two
00:48:29the grammar doesn't sound like it
00:48:32it doesn't match
00:48:33it doesn't match
00:48:34I felt that it had to be
00:48:38somebody that they knew
00:48:39who forced Tionda
00:48:42but who?
00:48:51Chicago hasn't given up on Diamond and Tionda
00:48:54a private investigator even volunteered his services
00:48:59I'm Foster
00:49:00I'm a local private investor in the Chicago Illinois area
00:49:04late August of 2001
00:49:06I was asked to join the case
00:49:09to assist the local law enforcement agency
00:49:11interviewing people
00:49:13that did not have a good relationship
00:49:14with the Chicago Police Department at the time
00:49:17investigator Foster
00:49:18is an excellent investigator
00:49:20gave me a bridge to the family
00:49:22when I did my due diligence on them
00:49:24I found that they didn't have
00:49:26much contact with the police at all
00:49:29yeah I talked to Foster
00:49:32and we sit up on the phone
00:49:34until 10 to 12, 1 o'clock in the morning
00:49:36and I'd be crying
00:49:37and he gives me the advisement
00:49:40and then at the end of the day
00:49:41he'd pray with me
00:49:44I had got
00:49:47acquainted with investigator Foster
00:49:49and my mind was set that this would be the
00:49:51the firm that helped
00:49:54look for Tionda and Diamond
00:49:56these would be the private investigators
00:50:05with Diamond before her disappearance
00:50:10Tracy had asked George to take a paternity test
00:50:14and three weeks after the girls disappeared
00:50:17but after George Washington's house and car were searched
00:50:21the results of it came back
00:50:23DNA testing was completed
00:50:26and it is it's safe to say that the test came back positive
00:50:31that George Washington is the father of Diamond
00:50:35yes
00:50:36that right there you know makes makes you know
00:50:40the hairs kind of go up on my neck because you know
00:50:44there could be several things that could have taken place
00:50:47especially if George was so determined
00:50:50to not pay child support
00:50:52it just brings to life you know
00:50:54so many other conclusions that we can come to
00:50:58about what happened to Tionda and Diamond
00:51:02we're talking about a 3 year old and a 10 year old
00:51:04they just don't walk off the face of the earth
00:51:06the first thing that popped into my mind was to
00:51:09do more of a serious investigation of George Washington
00:51:17the paternity came back positive that George was the father of Diamond
00:51:22so he went Diamond and Tionda went missing
00:51:25George got out from underneath paying paternity
00:51:28George's first wife in Detroit was named Diamond
00:51:31when Tracy told me that in the interview
00:51:34you could have knocked me over with a feather
00:51:35I'm like oh boy this is
00:51:36this is getting interesting you know
00:51:39but he denied paternity so George knew he was
00:51:43he was going to end up paying
00:51:46George has maintained that he is not Diamond's father
00:51:49this has always perplexed me
00:51:52so I feel that I need to dig deeper on this
00:51:55he was married to a woman named Diamond
00:51:58yes and I named my baby after her
00:52:01uh huh because
00:52:06Mr. Norman
00:52:08Mr. Norman
00:52:09yeah I um
00:52:10he just didn't want
00:52:11I don't think he really wanted me to have that baby
00:52:14he was upset
00:52:15he was just upset you know
00:52:19he was upset
00:52:21he already lied
00:52:22he said he uh
00:52:23didn't have any kids cause he had a vasectomy
00:52:27you know
00:52:29so when Diamond came
00:52:30I knew he lied about that
00:52:32and then when
00:52:34he lied to you a lot didn't he
00:52:35yeah exactly
00:52:37but all the time the uh
00:52:40I never saw the wife
00:52:41but I think the wife when the wife found out about
00:52:46Diamond I think she
00:52:47completely left
00:52:51left
00:52:52and you've been in a relationship with this man for
00:52:55you know at least I mean Diamond's three
00:52:57three yes
00:52:58um
00:52:59so at least three years
00:53:02George Washington was the biological father of Diamond
00:53:05and it seems like all the evidence seems to point to George Washington
00:53:08but it's all that's been circumstantial evidence
00:53:10unfortunately we live in a world where there has to be certain evidence to meet the burden of proof
00:53:15a few months have passed
00:53:25um leads had gone cold
00:53:27and when leads start to go cold
00:53:29you know resources are diverted to
00:53:32other more pressing cases that are fresher
00:53:35without fresh leads
00:53:36there's not much more that they can do
00:53:49the unthinkable happened today the world trade center both towers gone and we are all witnesses to it and to
00:53:56some degrees degree we are all victims
00:54:03the girls disappeared on July 6th of 2001 and two months later was the September 11th attacks
00:54:16at the time huge amounts of resources were suddenly being diverted to you know potential terror attacks and that sort
00:54:25of thing and so not only did the media attention on the case dry up but I believe also some
00:54:32some of the interest from law enforcement because of kind of the situation in the rest of the country
00:54:49I think the further that the Bradley's got from the day of the disappearance the more difficult things became they
00:55:04were left almost on their own
00:55:12whoever you are
00:55:14whoever you are your family knows what you did
00:55:16y'all need to break the silence
00:55:19every year there's a vigil
00:55:22every year you know there's a little bit on the news and every year it becomes less and less
00:55:29we love you
00:55:31when my nieces were missing I was 39 going on 40
00:55:372001 was a felt like a death sentence 2002 felt like an execution 2003 felt like I was up on
00:55:44the chopping block but they still had it in their mind that they would probably find
00:55:48our case
00:55:49live at the moment
00:55:57or difficult years later Tracy Bradley's prayers have yet to be answered
00:56:06some leads were coming in that could just change the trajectory of an investigation
00:56:13including a discovery of some bones and when that came across it was immediate like you know
00:56:21let's find out what's going on well the missing person's case that's a total game changer
00:56:33back in May 2005 there was a major discovery on the south side of Chicago so I decide to drive
00:56:40out to that location about 20 minutes from the Bradleys home to see if anything new will come
00:56:46back to me there was some some workers working out here along these railroad tracks and some some
00:56:56bones were discovered and so you know of course the police department came out immediately and
00:57:03they brought forensics with them and they they did gather the the bones that were found human bones
00:57:11found at a far south side construction site are being sent to an FBI lab in Virginia for DNA testing
00:57:18it's possible that the bones could have belonged to one of the missing Bradley sisters news of the
00:57:23bones have been both good and unsettling at the Southside Church ten-year-old Tianda and three-year-old
00:57:29Diamond Bradley's family are members revered forensic scientist Dr. Clyde Snow best known for working
00:57:37with the John Wayne Gacy case was called in to analyze and test the bones that were found they were
00:57:45of a
00:57:45teenage girl there was a reason for concern because of her age and they didn't quite have her ethnic
00:57:54background profile worked up and you know of course I want to make sure that it wasn't Tianda you know
00:58:02because she would have been too old to be diamond according to bone sizes friends at the church say the
00:58:10girl's family would like some closure but at the same time they still hold out that Tianda and diamond are
00:58:17still alive of course you know the FBI came out forensics came out and the FBI did a DNA analysis
00:58:27on the
00:58:28remains that were found and it turned out to not be any association with Tianda or diamond Bradley
00:58:40it was not them there was a sigh of relief because that still gives you hope that the girls are
00:58:46still
00:59:02alive with a case that was this big I mean there's I think six file cabinets full of information on
00:59:11the case I still forged forward I would work leads when they came in and a very good bit of
00:59:19advice
00:59:19that the lieutenant gave me was start from the beginning so that's that's why I started and I came
00:59:24upon what I thought at the time was a tremendous piece of evidence there was a hairs recovered from
00:59:32the trunk of George Washington's car in 2001 when detectives had gone to George's house a couple of
00:59:37days after the after the kids had gone missing for some unknown reason the hairs were never submitted
00:59:43to the crime lab investigators did find evidence including a hair in the trunk of a car but nothing
00:59:51conclusive enough to make an arrest to know that there was evidence or potential evidence that was just
00:59:59sitting there knowingly untested is disappointing it's actually infuriating you have two girls that
01:00:10are missing whatever evidence you come across you make sure it's processed you don't leave it out you just
01:00:18don't this is the first positive piece of evidence that we've recovered in years and it was recovered from
01:00:27George's trunk so I submitted these hairs to the FBI crime lab at Quantico to see if it was a
01:00:33match
01:00:33to Teanda and Diamond I was sitting in the state's attorney's office with an assistant state's attorney that
01:00:47was I was keeping up to date on the case and we got a call that the hair came back
01:00:51a mitochondrial match
01:00:53to Teanda and Tracy and I was ecstatic and the state's attorney's office kind of tempered my
01:01:01enthusiasm by saying it wasn't going to be enough to bring anybody in and I'm not an expert on that
01:01:08kind of stuff so kind of burst my balloon at that point I still took it as a positive I
01:01:15was I was energized by it
01:01:18that does sound a bit incriminating when you hear it on its face but you know there are a variety
01:01:26of
01:01:26ways that may have happened the little girl may have put her backpack in Tracy's boyfriend's car on
01:01:33her way to school one day or she may have placed an object in the trunk that may have had
01:01:38a piece of her
01:01:39hair on it and so there just wasn't enough evidence George had always denied that the hairs were in
01:01:50his trunk for any suspicious reasons but I still have questions in a prior interview Washington had
01:02:00said he used to put the kids in the trunk and sneak them into the drive-in well I couldn't
01:02:06find any
01:02:06drive-ins that were open in the Chicagoland area back in 2001 most of them were closed did you and
01:02:14George and the girls ever go to a drive-in a drive-in theater that you can recall or a
01:02:21movie theater
01:02:22for that matter I can't recall I don't remember all right do you ever recall George putting your
01:02:31girls in the trunk of his car to sneak them into a drive-in no no why would he say
01:02:40he took your girls
01:02:42and you to a drive-in why would he say that I don't know when you say that he took
01:02:48me to a drive-in I
01:02:49don't recall you're taking me to no drive-in he said that never happened I talked to George about
01:03:02that I said George why was Tiana Harry in your car and he said that he snuck him into the
01:03:09movie theater
01:03:10and I say but Tracy said Charlie never went to the drive-in he said that's a damn lie he
01:03:16never put you
01:03:17in the trunk of his car I never get in his trunk or nothing never never never went to a
01:03:24movie with
01:03:24him never it was never like that that's all I know never went to the movies wham never got in
01:03:33his
01:03:33trunk never went nowhere in 2003 there was a very interesting development that piqued our interest
01:03:49Tracy had another baby with George Washington now there's a little boy George Jr and so George took her
01:03:59to court in 2011 to get custody I believe that George played mind games with Tracy he would make
01:04:08her feel like you know she he loved her at some sometimes and then at other times he would make
01:04:14her feel like you know she was the dirt under his feet eventually you had a second baby yes which
01:04:27is
01:04:27George jr yes you lost custody of George jr yes I did I fought the best fight I can I
01:04:35could and I
01:04:36didn't have a lawyer I did have no money you know I'm saying he disappointed you in your life yeah
01:04:43and
01:04:44you feel like he stole your children out of your life I feel like he snatched a lot of stuff
01:04:49for me
01:04:50okay my dignity my heart my mom I know she's passed away she's turning over now my children me knowing
01:05:04that
01:05:06the night in the house with me you know can't sleep sometimes to live in fear there's no way to
01:05:12live
01:05:18as time went on despite the case remaining unsolved occasionally the media would revisit the story
01:05:26which has helped in keeping this case present in people's minds and I do appreciate the national
01:05:34media outlets who did highlight this case all the time tv1 they had a show called find our missing
01:05:42and one episode was dedicated to diamond and tianda we reached out to george washington via facebook
01:05:49and he responded he said he wouldn't agree to an interview but he did say this it's funny that
01:05:57the family points the finger at me but the courts seem to feel differently
01:06:06a woman in indiana named leticia hicks commented on that piece on their website saying that she had
01:06:17information about where george washington was the day that the girls disappeared and that that information
01:06:26implicated him in their disappearance my next person that i'm going to bring up ed yes is miss leticia hicks
01:06:39what do you know about this lady leticia hicks so received the message from her stating that
01:06:49she had to get it off her chest that george showed up at her house he had been drinking
01:07:00he was shaken so received the message from her that she think george has something to do with it so
01:07:07you
01:07:08text her back yeah of course because i wanted answers well when i interviewed leticia
01:07:15she said that george had blood on him he had a pair of oversized gym shorts
01:07:22underneath his pants he took a shower at her house yes
01:07:32when police followed up with her about that however the timeline did not match up at all with
01:07:40the facts of the case so she first claimed that this incident had happened on the 4th of july
01:07:50which is two days before the girls disappeared
01:07:58in addition to that uh even even if she had gotten the date wrong so even if this uh alleged
01:08:06incident had
01:08:07happened on july 6th when the girls did disappear washington's cell phone records
01:08:14do not match up at all with her version of the story so she lives in indiana and his cell
01:08:22phone records
01:08:23show him to be definitively in the chicago area for the entirety of the day
01:08:34i'll be the first one to say i was i dismissed her too quickly i wouldn't be the first time
01:08:39i was wrong
01:08:40it won't be the last but i just the i again i just wish i could find something that ties
01:08:47her to him
01:08:48and that's that's why the negative nelly is coming okay
01:08:58despite the fact that this case is 22 years old every year brings new surprises and in may of 2023
01:09:05i learn of a new development good afternoon we begin today with a possible break in a chicago missing
01:09:13persons case that's more than 20 years old a woman claims she is diamond and she's gone to the fbi
01:09:19here with diamond bradley
01:09:24this is diamond bradley can i see your scar
01:09:29she didn't have the scar she didn't have the scar she didn't have the scar
01:09:31shalia bradley smith said this young woman submitted a swab of dna and fingerprints at an fbi
01:09:36office in texas earlier this week if what this woman in texas is saying is true
01:09:44this could be the biggest break in the case in 22 years
01:09:50the bradley family and i decide to fly to texas where this woman is located to try to meet
01:09:57her and see if there's any truth to her story so we're sitting here with tracy bradley and april bradley
01:10:06and investigator foster and we have traveled from chicago to houston texas all because a young lady
01:10:18she put on tiktok that she is diamond bradley and and tracy's feeling was that you wanted to come
01:10:29here to meet the girl that could possibly be your daughter yes just to meet my daughter this has been
01:10:39missing for 22 years and you would know immediately and i would know immediately if i mean to know that
01:10:44that's my daughter yes if she really are diamond i want to make sure that she gets the help that
01:10:50she needing to the bright peoples um so i end up facetiming her while i was at work um and
01:10:55i just
01:10:55asked her i said what made you think that you're diamond and her response was the way that she grew
01:11:01up and her parents are treating her wrong every time i ask a question about where i'm from and i
01:11:07said well
01:11:07you know what i have the right person for you to get in contact with so that's when i contact
01:11:11the
01:11:12detective foster okay so all of these conversations has has led us to where we are right now right here
01:11:20at this moment once in texas we set up a phone call with the young lady claiming to be diamond
01:11:31our hope
01:11:32is that she will meet with us that afternoon to reunite her with tracy and determine if she really is
01:11:39diamond after all yes i yes i'm here i'm here
01:11:59yeah because because the mother of diamond wants to meet her daughter that's all okay that's fine i know i
01:12:21understand that but why does she want to be her without her dna listen we we don't we don't know
01:12:27when the dna is going to come back at the end of the day we are here trying to unite
01:12:32a family
01:12:33family that's all we're here for yeah i'm sorry you said you said you're not comfortable until
01:12:45you get the results back yes to be honest and i honestly feel like we should all meet at the
01:12:51fbi
01:12:51office and that's what it's giving because i don't feel comfortable meeting anybody anywhere let me ask
01:12:56you this would you would you be comfortable doing a zoom right now or no why why would i do
01:13:02zoom and
01:13:03i haven't even got the dna back i don't keep getting stressed i've had to deactivate all my social media
01:13:08no i don't want to do anything i don't even want nobody to see i let my auntie see me
01:13:13and that was
01:13:13good enough until i get that dna back i don't want to see nobody i don't want to talk to
01:13:17nobody i don't
01:13:18need to know if y'all if you who you stay with oh my god i'm done okay no problem
01:13:25all right we just we
01:13:29damn
01:13:34now it makes me feel like it's just
01:13:41she's just say let's just say these people are backing off for whatever reason
01:13:46so we we they got all they they got all night until we leave tomorrow to make a decision
01:13:51i'm i'm just just just getting back and forth it's crazy
01:13:57yeah just and if anything whatever she want to meet again we'll fly back down
01:14:00if she ever want to meet again you know we're down for it
01:14:05father god as we stand here as humble as we are looking for a resolution
01:14:11yes father god guide us give us understanding give this mother father god your son's blood that
01:14:22the family is looking to reunite with this individual who claimed to be diamond
01:14:28the dna results did not come back while we were in texas and have yet to be revealed
01:14:46it will be 22 years in july that the sisters have been missing a long long journey and hopefully
01:15:04to me and my family another year has passed and still diamond and tanda bradley are not home
01:15:12i thank each and everyone for coming out again it has been 22 years and
01:15:19next year it's going to continue every year it's going to continue going on and on until
01:15:24we find diamond and tiandhi okay so we need i need you guys support i love you guys and continue
01:15:32supporting my family what do you think happened
01:15:38you're honest the honest truest what's in your heart man
01:15:49okay i think it's more so you really don't want to think the worst
01:15:55about a situation i still be thinking it's a possibility but i have my days
01:16:04when i feel like they're gone
01:16:10that's my mama's seed that's my mama's generation that's my mama's blood
01:16:20i can't let that go i will do what i have to do to find my niece
01:16:29these are my nieces everybody in the family should be as adamant as i am about finding tion
01:16:35and diamond everybody
01:16:42thousands of man hours from the chicago police department
01:16:46people like us have been put into this
01:16:49i'm going to ask you point blank do you know what happened to your kids no i would have told
01:16:54you
01:16:58i want justice for it for 21 years of suffering
01:17:08i don't know what happened to your kids i don't know what happened to your kids
01:17:08couldn't go outside without somebody saying they're gonna miss bradley she has something to do with
01:17:13them kids being missing and i'm strong and i'm better
01:17:44even though i was just in texas with tracy
01:17:47we've received some new information that sends our heads spinning about her phone records so i'm
01:17:53on my way to meet tracy for a follow-up interview to discuss an inconsistency in her story that has
01:17:59come to light i have to know what tracy doesn't want to say what tracy's afraid of
01:18:09on the evening of the fifth on the night he when he say the six he's talking about any time
01:18:15after
01:18:15midnight no i was at home you did not go to george washington's house no because i have to go
01:18:21to work the next day that's that day on that day midnight i mean i have to be at work
01:18:24at uh seven o'clock
01:18:29so here's the here's what's happening well you you have previously told me on the night of the
01:18:34fifth after dropping off victoria and rita that you were at your place is that we have some
01:18:41information that calls were made to your home between the hours of seven
01:18:51and 2 a.m that's right 2 17 to be exact i don't remember and you were not home on
01:18:59a fifth one well
01:19:012 17 a.m is the six yeah and so a.m yes yes and it's going into the sixth
01:19:07yes no i was there huh
01:19:10well we got the facts we just we just we just maybe i did maybe i did and you did
01:19:16well what's that
01:19:17uh mr washington house that night for the six
01:19:22the night of the six it's it it's possibility that you left tiani and diamond go ahead and listen
01:19:35yeah yeah boy how was that mr washington house tell me how you know because we read in the morning
01:19:42the
01:19:42song was shining mm-hmm and i remember us coming down state street we was coming down straight street
01:19:51early morning we took um we never did get on uh uh expressway okay i remember come us coming down
01:20:01you know we took the spread three and we was coming up from 47 ramp and we got off
01:20:09and he drove me off right in front of the job and you remember that now yeah okay what time
01:20:19was that
01:20:19do you remember i had to be able to get seven because i had to open up i had to
01:20:26open up and i had to uh
01:20:28because i was doing serving lunch for the summer school you know for the summer school stuff for the
01:20:32kids um like this to be mm-hmm it's all right it's all right come on we got to be
01:20:46strong here
01:20:52so while you were at george's house that night what did you guys do i don't know probably
01:20:58my god we probably get something to eat or you know just go back you know to the house
01:21:04daryl did you guys stop any place to get something to eat before you arrived at his house that night
01:21:09oh we stopped there are we at burkey or my dad i don't even know
01:21:14okay so the question still hasn't been answered the question is why did you tell the police department
01:21:21that you last saw your children that morning before you went to work i'm sorry okay then just say it
01:21:30tracy it's okay to say it it's all right to be afraid it's okay we're gonna see you through this
01:21:42tracy has been so inconsistent in her in her behavior in her interviews she nonetheless um is is now
01:21:55stating which is totally different from what what has ever been reported to cpd that she didn't leave
01:22:03her house at six in the morning and said teonda don't open the door and don't go outside for
01:22:08anybody she's telling me that she spent the night at george washington's house this means that the
01:22:17girls were on their own all night from the evening of july 5th all the way through july 6 with
01:22:25no
01:22:25supervision i was shocked simply because dad has been her story all along yes now part of the problem
01:22:35is that we can't establish some sort of timeline of what time did all of this actually occur we don't
01:22:43definitively know what time the kids are going missing
01:22:48now that the timeline for when the girls disappeared has changed
01:22:53i've decided to form a task force to get to the bottom of what really happened to the girls
01:22:58we can bring something to the table to try and find teonda and diamond
01:23:05at this point uh there's a lot of information that we're still seeking and we will bring a
01:23:10successful solution in prosecuting this case for the individuals that are responsible for diamond and
01:23:15tionda being missing and we are going to crack this thing wide open and we're going to bring some
01:23:24peace to this family some peace to this city and some peace to ourselves because this is what we've been
01:23:32waiting for
01:23:37we need to you know let the spiders out you know clear the webs let us get into your secrets
01:23:47everybody
01:23:48has secrets every family that's what we are going to do here with working this investigation i i want to
01:23:59know what you don't want me to know and somebody knows what happened to tionda and diamond
01:24:09so
01:24:13you
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