The Homicide Files: Shaniya Davis

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime
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you doing? Are you ready for? Literally a really good case that's horrifically

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wonderful. It's not even wonderful is
the wrong word. It's horrifically just it's

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awful. That's all I can tell
you. And I got so frickin' mad

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writ in it. Ugh my god. But before I get into that,

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I have to give some shout outs, and I'm gonna start in Oklahoma with

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Miss Gwendolen Stonewall. Hey, Miss
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your stuff today and I appreciate you
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me. And then right here in
Louisiana, I've got miss Holly McDonald.

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Hi, Holly, a fellow Louisianian. Glad to have you. And then

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okay, now this is a Wisconsin
friend, and I'm gonna give the Southern

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way I would read this, but
if I get it wrong, tell me,

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okay, because I'm doing my best. But I'm gonna say hello in

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Wisconsin to Miss Jenna Bouyon. How
you doing. Did I get it right?

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I hope? So if I got
it wrong, I'm sorry. But

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that's Bouyon like the cubes, you
know, where you make your little your

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little what's it called Jim? Yeah? But what's it broth? Yes,

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Hey, Jenna, I'm so happy
to have you. And then oh wait,

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I gotta tell you something, girl. Okay, just me and you,

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nobody else listen. Okay, So
one of my best friends is named

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Jenna, and I call her Virgina
and she's in my phone as Virgina.

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And her last name before she got
married was herd Liqa, So she's in

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my phone as Virgina, heard Liqua, and I hope you enjoy that as

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much as I do. Jenna,
Sorry, my other Jenna, Sorry for

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calling you out, but I love
it so Hey Jenna, Hey Elijah.

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To everybody out in the oil field, I said hey, and then to

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Jenna Boyon, Hey girl, all
the way in Wisconsin. I'm so thankful

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to have you also in Cypress,
Texas, Miss Lisa Williams, Hey,

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miss Lisa, thank you so much
for joining my crime family. I've got

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a friend of mine right here from
Denim Springs, Louisiana. We go to

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church together, and that's gonna be
Miss Alicia trey Hann, Hey girl or

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Trahan if you want to be fancy, right, Hey Alicia, Hey,

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y'all tell you little boy, I
said, hey too, because he's a

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just a little cutie pie. And
the support I get from you makes all

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the difference. It really does.
And I know people say that, but

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you have to understand, especially in
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y'all. It's just me and you. So everything you do to support

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me means the difference. And I
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heart real quick. For a start, like I said, I mailed out

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long I'm gonna be able to do
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Teddy. He's a bird. He's
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your life. And he and I
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And I said, they hate us
because they ain't us, because we

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just look like straight thugs. But
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for the girlies who who want to
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show. All right, this case
is going to take place in two thousand

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and nine in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home of the Davis family. And

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the family was small, all right. It just comprised of mom Antoinette and

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her two children. There was five
year old Shanayah and her seven year old

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brother. She actually, if I'm
going to tell the whole story here,

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she actually had a total of four
brothers and two sisters, but they were

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all from different sets of combined parents, Okay, and I don't have that.

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If I did, it wouldn't matter
anyway. Their children and I don't

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want to tell all their details,
but there was a mix and match of

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parents throughout separations and whatnot. So
half siblings she had, but mainly from

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her mother Antoinette. It was her
and her other brother. So when I

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tell you a precious child, I
am not exaggerating. For this show,

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you must look up pictures of this
little angel. She is the sweetest little

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thing. She's got this precious little
smile, curly little ringlets, chubby cheeks,

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happy little girl, friendly and loving, and y'all, this was one

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of those little sweethearts. Obviously I
never met her, but I can tell

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you from the discs rription I've read
from family members about her that this little

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baby girl was a joy to be
around. She was known as being a

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good little helper around the house.
She would do her little chores. She

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would help out when she was asked. Now she was five years old,

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and being five years old, she
loved to play dress up. She loved

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to do the girly things like fixing
her hair. She played with her barbie

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dolls, and if if she had
a choice of where she would be,

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she loved being outside and riding her
scooter. The scooter was where it was

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at. And y'all, we're in
a phase in my house right now where

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scooters are where it's at. And
I got scooters from one end of my

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house to the other. The neighborhood
kids come scooting over. My kids are

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scooting. Everybody's doing a little scooting. So I know how much fun that

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had to be for her. And
if she had to pick something out,

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you could guarantee her choice would be
something that included her favorite colors, which

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were pink and yellow, precious little
heart. She was a kindergarten student at

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Morganton Road Elementary School and needless to
say, you can tell it just from

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my voice. She was a good
girl and she was meeting every milestone for

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her age. Now, in September
of two thousand and nine, her mother

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and her brother lived in a trailer
of her mother's sister. Her name was

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Miss Brenda Davis. And this was
and I don't even know if this would

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be called foreshadowing, but hopefully I
have that right. But the name of

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the trailer park was Sleepy Hollow Trailer
Park, and that just oozes scary to

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me. And I know you're not
supposed to judge by names, but Sleepy

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Hollow sounds scary. I imagine a
man, you know, riding his horse

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with a punkin on his head.
It just sounds creepy. But based on

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my research. I did go to
this trailer park because I wanted to kind

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of get a feel for it and
see what it was like, because you

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know, different areas have different what
you know, ways of living, and

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like, we have a local trailer
park that I'm thinking about in Walker,

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Louisiana, and it's really nice.
It's got nice homes in it. It's

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surrounded by a nice wooden fence.
There's nice entry ways, and so I

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wanted to go kind of see what
was Shanaya seeing when she lived there,

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what was it like when she was
outside playing. Well, based on my

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research, this trailer park was lower
end living. So it's a big mobile

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home park and it's within range of
Fort Bragg. I think it was maybe

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an hour or maybe forty five minutes
from Fort Bragg. There's a Walmart nearby,

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which is always a plus. I
love Walmart. But most of the

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trailers in this park were owned by
people owned by the park, and people

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just rented the trailers. They didn't
move their own in. They certainly don't

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look new by any means, but
certainly livable and anyone could make a happy

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home there. Money, we know, does not make a home, right,

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Love makes a home and They all
looked kind of similar eighties model cream

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up and down, vertical type metal
paneling on the outside, green trim,

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and you know, just average,
I guess, lower income America. And

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the specific trailer that they lived in. It wasn't large, but they were

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making it work. And money was
scarce, no doubt. Money was scarce,

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and rent was something that everyone had
to contribute to if they were going

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to be able to make ends meet. Now, Brenda the aunt, she

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wasn't married, but she was dating
a man named Jerroy Smith, who was

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also the father of her children,
So you know, I guess committed relationship,

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you would say, and they had
children together, but they were not

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married. But Brenda or her baby
daddy, however you want to word it,

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Brenda, her children, and her
baby's father, and then Antoinette and

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her two children were all living in
this small trailer. But they wanted to

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make sure that everybody had their their
own space I guess in the home.

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So Brenda Gerroi and their children stayed
in the back bedroom, while Antoinette and

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her two children stayed in the front
room of the trailer. Now a little

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bit about Antoinette. She had been
in a previous relationship with a man by

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the name of Brad Lockhart, and
together they had Shania. It didn't work

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out and they split, but they
still were gonna co parent and do the

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best that they could for Shania.
Now, I know someone's going to reach

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out and be like, well,
what about the brother. Honestly, I

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am not sure of the father of
the brother, and I'm not gonna say

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the brother's name, just out of
respect for him, because he's still young,

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and it's it's of no true consequence
whether you know his name or not,

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Okay, And I don't believe Shanaia's
father is the same father, and

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you'll see why in the story as
we go. So there was no formal

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custody agreement between Antoinette and Brad,
but Shania lived primarily with her father,

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but would often visit her mother at
that sleepy hollow trailer park. Now call

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me judgy, call me mean,
call me, oh, call me.

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What's on my share right now?
It says beautiful, baan ass, call

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me whatever you want to call me. I don't care, but it says

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something to me, just as an
outsider looking in. It says something to

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me that a mother would not have
main domicillary custody of her daughter. And

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I'll just let you summer on that. You can think what you think.

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But I remember when I first was
investigating this story that did strike me.

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Why would a dad have custody of
the daughter? That said, Brad Lockhart

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is a good and decent man,
And I thought, you know, I'm

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a product of a divorced family,
and I can assure you it did not

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go well when I was younger.
I was very impressed with Brad in that

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he openly said, look, I
don't look at Antoinette as a bad parent.

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She's never really lived in the best
neighborhoods, which was certainly concerning to

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Brad because their daughter was going to
be obviously visiting the mom. But he

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wasn't concerned about her caring for Shanaiah
as a mother. It just he didn't

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really like the locations where she typically
lived, so on weekends that was primarily

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when Antoinette would have her daughter.
Both parents came across as loving and were

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trying to do what was best for
Shania and Shanaia loved her mama and she

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loved her daddy, and she wanted
to see them both, so they did

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the best that they could to make
that happen for their little girl. Kudos

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to these two, and that there
was no formal custody agreement and they still

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made it happen. Now, about
two months after moving in with Antoinette's sister

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Brenda, everyone in the trailer was
in bed and they were sleeping for the

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night, but about five point thirty
the next morning, so they went to

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bed on the ninth. Five thirty
the morning of November the tenth, Brenda

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woke up because she thought she heard
a bedroom door open and shut, so

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she kind of sat up listened.
She shook Jerroi and was like, hey,

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I heard something. So they both
kind of listened for a minute.

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They determined, hey, it's probably
nothing, and then they both went back

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to sleep. But around six o'clock, about thirty minutes later, Antoinette came

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into their room and said, hey, have you seen Shanaya And they both

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said no, we've been in bed. So Antoinette said, well, look,

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I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna
go look for her. I guess

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in the around the trailer park,
and so a little bit later she came

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back in and was really nervous.
She said, look, I've knocked on

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all the doors of all of the
people that live nearby, and nobody has

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seen Shanaia. I can't find her. So Aunt Brenda is alarmed. What

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do you mean you can't find her? Right, it's early in the morning.

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What do you can't find her?
We have to call the police,

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call now, but Antoinette was kind
of hesitant to do so, I mean,

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is it really that serious yet?
So obviously you're listening right now armchair

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quarterbacking with me, and you know
that this is going to be serious because

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you're listening to a true crime podcast. But in the moment, Mom wasn't

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quite sure. Maybe she's hiding,
maybe she's playing. I don't want to

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overdo this. Something else that I'm
going to tell you again, I'm armchair

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quarterbacking this again, is that Antoinette
had a history with drug abuse, and

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so I also feel like maybe that
might have played into not wanting to call

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the police as well. No one
has told me that. I haven't read

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that anywhere, certainly, but I
get that feeling, right just having just

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on experience. So Brenda and GERROI
get up, they go outside and they're

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kind of hanging around looking for where
Antoinette could be. And that's when they

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noticed something on the stairs and on
the railing of the trailer that lead up

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to the door, and it had
not been there the night before. It

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appeared that there was feces smeared on
the railing as well as on the stairs,

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and then inside of that feces seemed
to be what looked like illegible yellow

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scribbling within it. Now, by
yellow, what do I mean by that?

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I don't know if that means the
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or if something like uh, chalk, like sidewalk yellow sidewalk chalk was

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scribbled in it. I genuinely don't
know, but I'm just telling you what

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the report said was found. So
when this was discovered, completely unnerved,

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Antoinette called the police. It was
about six fifty two a m. At

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the urging of her sister, and
within ten minutes the police were there.

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Well, say, I'm not getting
your anger as clearanty to flow down a

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little bit and tell me again,
okay, ma'am, how can I help

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you? I woke up and my
daughter was not in I don't know if

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she walked out. I don't know
what's going on. With night here?

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How is that order by mail?
What time did you wake up? When

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did you last there last night?
Thirty last night? That when you put

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her a van, yes, ma'am. No, when she went back to

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be that was five this morning.
That was the India. Now, okay,

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were there any doors open or anything
like that? She know how to

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lock the front door? Tain?
What is her name? Tell that name

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for me? The white white black
heir his band she's dirat. What was

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she wearing? She's wearing just no
blue, big old black blue circuit designs

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on the front. But I hear
it out, mkay. Did she have

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on I needed? She didn't take
no shoes, no pants, no nothing?

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Did you have on underwear yet?
Mail? Can do you know what

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color? There? White? And
got people? But I guess I can't.

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I can't live. But they're like
white with pete designs on the okay?

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Okay? And you said under the
doors were open? No, ma'am,

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there were a lot that he knows
how to unlocked the front door?

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Were they closed? Going there and
get around five thirty pm? You had

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the neighborhood. I take everywhere and
I haven't the I'm just I don't know

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what else to do. I'm so
funny. I don't know what to do

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there anymore juveneles inside the home.
Okay, And your doing was not unlock

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as you you're telling me, No, it was not lot But I'm telling

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you she knows kind of unlike I'm
hoping that you'd luck and walk out.

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Okay, your calling from now,
Okay, we already got your calling.

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We're going to get someone out.
You tell her her hair was out.

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It's a how much does she wait? You know, I don't know,

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I don't remember. Okay, all
right now, just trying to you know,

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check your home again and check around
the neigborhood. If anything change it,

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call ups back. But we already
got the call in and we're going

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to get someone out of so as
we can. Okay, all right,

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all right now, thank you.
And they began searching for Shanaya. They

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had canine'es, they brought the brought
out the works to try to look for

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this little girl. Now, just
a quick little lesson on canine's. Canine

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specialize in what they do. So
there's two main types of canine's. Really,

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you have the single purpose and you
have the dual purpose. Single purpose

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really focuses on doing one thing,
for example, like apprehension. Those are

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the ones that bite your ass when
you run right or you try to hurt

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the police officer and they will smoke
you. I love watching the videos of

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K nine's in action. Does anyone
else get wrapped up in those videos on

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TikTok of these fricking fur missiles just
taking down the bad guys? Because I

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love it all right. Dual purpose
dogs can do things like search for what

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are called articles, that's like clothing
or guns or credit cards. Or they

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can also look at drug you know, find drugs, stuff like that.

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In my parish, by the way, I have to give a shout out

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to a sweet little pup named k
C. The letters KC. He's a

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purpose, a single purpose dog.
He's a K nine obviously, and he's

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a little black lab sweet as a
button. I always bring him into my

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class and the kids just love him. I'll post some pictures, how about

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that. I'll post some pictures of
KC for y'all. But single purpose,

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great pup, fun to be around. But we also have tons of Belgian

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mallinwaws, which are like the badass
canines that can jump fences and they go

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apprehend the bad guys, and they
can do some pretty wild and out stuff,

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right. You see those in the
military too. Those are like the

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the t Rex, badass dogs of
the police force. So they sent these

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canines out. They're looking for Shaniyah, and that's when the police start doing

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what they do by interviewing anybody that
they can who might can give them some

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information about what may have happened to
her. In the meantime, the Fayette

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police officer named Elizabeth Culver, she
was on scene and she noticed that the

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feces on the railing of that front
porch now looked smooth, and so she

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approached Antoinette, and she noticed that
she had a cooking pot in her hand,

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and she realized that Antoinette was pouring
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hey, not everybody's the sharpest tool
in the shit, okay, but most

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people would know you don't mess with
a crime scene or a potential crime scene

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in fecal matter. When your child
is missing on the railings, seems like

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something I would want to know.
And so Antoinette was trying to wash it

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off. And that's whenever Officer Culver
said, don't do that again. Don't

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touch anything so during the search they
went to a trash can of what was

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going to be the unit number of
one one, one nine, And when

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they were searching in that trash can, they found a blanket that had been

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thrown away in it. And this
caught the attention of police, not just

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because it was a blanket, but
because they saw readily that it had feces

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smeared on it as well. That's
called a clue. So they grabbed the

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blanket, they bring it out to
Antoinette and Antoinette says, yes, that

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is our blanket. Oh my god. So Gerroi Smith also recognized it and

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said that had been in the living
room last night. That was in our

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living room. It was not out
in a trash can. So it was

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a thick child's comforter type blank it. So it kind of seemed like maybe

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Shanaia had been wrapped up in it
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it was with her mixed with the
fecal matter. Now we have what's a

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problem, right, this isn't normal. So during questioning, Officer Culver spoke

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with all of the adults and also
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and he would answer questions, no
problem when the officers would ask. But

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the officers noticed that he seemed really
distracted whenever he was questioned, but also

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that before he would answer their question, he would look up at his aunt

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Brenda, almost for permission to answer
the question. So in and of itself,

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that doesn't mean anything, but it
is something that you would notice,

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you know, why does the kid
feel like he needs to ask permission from

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an adult before he answers any of
the questions. Brenda always told him answer

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the questions, answer the questions,
and he said, I remember coming to

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bed, but I don't remember her
leaving the bedroom. Okay. So,

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Antoinette and Brenda were understandably super upset. They were constantly looking at their phones.

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They were texting while they were being
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this became a big enough issue that
Officer Culver started getting a little frustrated and

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was like, look, I'm having
a hard time. I need you to

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focus on these questions. So the
lieutenant at the scene, she kind of

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appealed to her lieutenant who said,
yes, take them down to the police

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station. Let's give them a more
quiet, you know, area to sit

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and maybe they can answer the questions
better there. So in the first interview,

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Antoinette was interviewed for six hours and
nine minutes, a long interview,

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right, because we've got to get
all the information we possibly can. And

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so this was done by a detective
Bowman, and she told him, look,

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you know, I don't know what's
going on. I don't know where

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Shanaia is. I don't know if
somebody took her. I don't have any

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answers for you. You. I
put her to bed around six a m.

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That morning, which was kind of
odd. What you put your bed,

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your kid to bed at six am? Right now, I'll say this.

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Maybe there's a typo in the report
when I was reading it, but

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that's what it said. I put
her to bed around you know, five

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point thirty six am, and then
her brother came and told me that she

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wasn't in the bed anymore. That's
when I got up. I went and

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asked my sister. I went in
searched the neighborhood. And so by the

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end of the six hours, Antoinette
became very angry. She started getting upset

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with the police officers. Was very
frustrated and said, why is this taking

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so long? I need to be
out there looking for my daughter. I've

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been here for six hours answering your
questions. So Detective bub And looks at

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her and says, you can leave
any time you want to. We're trying

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to collect any information we can use
to try to help. And so,

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although she was very upset, she
never left the police station. She stayed,

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she answered the questions, and then
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So Officer Culver back at the scene. She was working with a partner

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named Daniel Suggs, and they stayed
at the trailer park. They went to

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the main office to see, you
know, is there any camera out there

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or do they have any security footage
that maybe we could look at, hopefully

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to see Shania roaming the area around
the trailer park. And they also wanted

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to identify any vehicles that came in
and out of the trailer park during the

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time that they believe Shania went missing. The day eventually just turned tonight and

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there was no sign of shaniah upset, frustrated, worried. You know,

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five year olds don't get to go
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But she wasn't found. So day
turned to night, night, then

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turned today, and the following morning, about seven am, this would have

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been November eleventh, there was a
shift change taking place at a local comfort

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inn in Sandford. So there was
an employee there, her name was Regina

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Bikani, and she was taking her
place behind the counter to start helping customers

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in and out of the hotel.
There was another worker that was there.

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She came in and she took her
place. So as she settled in,

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you know, to her morning checklist
to look things over, she noticed that

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an Amber alert popped up on the
hotel's computer screen. So if you're not

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familiar with an Amber alert, those
started around nineteen ninety six, and the

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purpose of the Amber alert it really
started out as a voluntary partnership between law

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enforcement, you know, broadcasters,
transportation companies in serious child abduction cases,

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which is a beautiful thing because those
are going to be the people that notice

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kids or have the ability to put
the information out there to alert a lot

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of us at one time, oh
my god, this kid is missing.

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Well, over time, those Amber
alert programs evolved into all so sharing information

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with companies that likely may see a
child during a transport, including hotels.

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It's genius, right, so hotels
are near interstates for travelers. Well,

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if this is an abduction, that
just might be where someone would take a

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child. So that Amber alert popped
up on the screen, and when Regina

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looked at it, she thought,
oh my god, that picture looks like

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a child that I saw here the
previous morning. So Amber alert, right,

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it says Shania Nicole Davis, five
year old female, mixed race.

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Kelly, why are you bringing the
race up? I need to tell you

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it matters. Shania's father was white
and Shania's mother was black, so that

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would come to play a role in
this. She's approximately four feet tall,

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sixty pounds, brown eyes, so
looking into the records, right, she

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gets on the computer and she starts
looking to the records, and she felt

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like that was the child that she
had seen with an adult male in room

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two one. So she was so
convinced in fact that this was the child

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she had seen that she got on
the phone and she reported it to the

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Amber Alert hotline. Back at the
police station, Shanai's aunt, Brenda kept

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thinking about something that her nephew told
her back at the trailer. When they

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realized that Shanai was gone, and
the stress of figuring out where she was

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was happening. She remembered that the
boy said something that didn't quite register at

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the time, but now that she
was sitting there kind of rehashing things,

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he had said that Mono had been
at the home that morning. And I

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don't mean the kissing disease, I
mean a person. Okay, Mono was

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the nickname of Brenda's ex boyfriend,
Mario McNeil. Now that certainly didn't make

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any sense at the time. They
kind of blew it off. Brenda was

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with her living boyfriend and in her
kid's father, Jerroi, and at the

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trailer all night and she wasn't messing
with Mario. Mario was not at the

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trailer. Brenda and Gerroi had been
in the house and while his mother,

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the little boy's mother, Antoinette,
was outside, he had come to her

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and told Brenda Mario had been there
the previous night, and so Jerroi looked

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up and said, are you sure
about that Mono was here? Mario was

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here, and the little boy shook
his head, yes, he was here.

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So Brenda had immediately texted Mario Hey. All the text said was hey,

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but he didn't answer. So she
also had called Mario right after the

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boy said that, but Mario never
answered, so GERROI at the exact time,

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same time Brenda was texting Mario,
he called Mario's girlfriend. Her name

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was April Autrey, and that's who
Mario lived with and was also the mother

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of Mario's eighteen month old daughter,
so he had, you know, kids

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with somebody else. And April answered
the phone, and he's like, hey,

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where's Mario And she says, he's
not home. He's not here.

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So the two sat there kind of
perplexed as to the thought that could Mario

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have actually been in the home?
He certainly had not been invited over,

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00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.920
and it was almost laughable. So
they kind of thought maybe maybe the boy

405
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.880
was confused, or he was remembering
something from another day maybe or something,

406
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:45.200
But why had he said that?
Now a little bit more back information.

407
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.559
Mono had given Brenda some money in
the past because he had planned on moving

408
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:53.240
into the trailer, but that was
no longer an option. That had come

409
00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:57.839
and gone and he was living with
April. They had a child together,

410
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:00.880
so that was old new. There
was no reason that he was going to

411
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.480
move into the trailer anymore. And
that was kind of like in the past,

412
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.839
but now at the police station.
Brenda was rethinking what her nephew had

413
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:15.079
said. And when Mono finally responded
to her calls and her texts from earlier,

414
00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:19.039
it was about eight thirty three am
now, and Brenda had sent a

415
00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:22.160
text message back to Mario that said, and these are direct quotes from the

416
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:29.759
phone company. You been to my
house? Question mark? Mario says no,

417
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:37.079
why, Brenda responds you lion?
Mario said no, can I come

418
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.799
though? And Brenna says hell no, And Mario says, damn, it's

419
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:48.920
like that, and then Brenda says, don't text me no mo. Mario

420
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:53.000
then sends a message back to Brenda
saying, sure, whatever, but why

421
00:30:53.039 --> 00:31:00.680
your baby daddy calling my baby mama
asking for me? This was at about

422
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.000
nine forty eight am. He then
texts again, what the hell's going on?

423
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.240
So Brenda was so fed up that
she just stopped responding with him.

424
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.400
Whatever, you idiot, I don't
have time to deal with your shit.

425
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:12.079
You know, Shanai is missing.
I don't even want to be talking to

426
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:18.480
you. Well. Meanwhile, back
at the Comfort ins or the Comfort Suites

427
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.640
hotel, the police had arrived there
because of that Amber alert. Remember,

428
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.839
the worker had put in a notice
through the Amber Alert hotline. So they

429
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.200
showed up and they were ready to
interview the hotel staff and why did they

430
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.920
think that they had seen Shanaiah?
But they were convinced that it was a

431
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:38.319
good lead based on what the worker
had said to her had said to them,

432
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:44.200
and part of that was because the
hair of the child that the worker

433
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:48.839
had seen struck her as the hair
of a mixed child. So they asked

434
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.720
to see the security video of the
child and they readily pulled it up for

435
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.640
them. So what they saw was
shortly after six am, a blackmail arrived

436
00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.640
at the Comfort Suites and he comes
into the hotel but he's by himself,

437
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:05.039
and he walks up to the desk. He provides his identification and he checks

438
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.920
into room two oh one under his
own name. Guess what the name was,

439
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:16.279
Mario McNeil. So during small talk
with that desk clerk, her name

440
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:20.759
was Jacqueline Lee. He just told
her, yeah, I'm traveling with my

441
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:22.960
daughter. I'm taking her to go
meet with her mother in Virginia. We're

442
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.960
just passing through. So after they
check in, he went to his car

443
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:31.720
and he came back in the hotel
carrying a child but the child was covered

444
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.079
up in a blue blanket, and
Miss Lee, like I said, happened

445
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.920
to see the hair of the child
and she noticed the texture of it and

446
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:45.160
she thought to herself, that's a
mixed baby. Cool whatever. So that

447
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:51.440
chance viewing of her hair is what
had them calling and making that Amber alert

448
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:55.720
for Shanaya. They didn't in that
live moment see her face, but then

449
00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.519
later on they see photos of her
or video of her, and they're like,

450
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.200
man, I think this is that
child. So at the hotel's morning

451
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.839
shift change, that's when Regina Bakani
took Miss Lee's spot at the front desk

452
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:13.359
and they pull up more video which
shows Mario go to the breakfast area alone

453
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:16.200
where he got a banana, some
juice and a muffin, and then he

454
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:21.839
went back to his room. So
Charles Kimball, he was the captain at

455
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:25.960
the time of the Fayetteville Police Department, He was in charge of the investigation

456
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.759
for Shania and he was really tasked
with the logistics of finding her. So

457
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.240
based on the new video from that
hotel, the police believed that Mario was

458
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.640
the one who had taken Shanaia and
that she was at least alive or at

459
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.759
least the night before on that video
of him checking in, but he was

460
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.880
by himself when he got the breakfast
the next morning. So the video I

461
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.839
want you to know is gut wrenching
from a mama's point of view, from

462
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:58.200
a parent's point of view. And
there's a still frame that I will share,

463
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:02.920
okay, a still frame, and
it's of Mario holding Shanaya. And

464
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.240
I want you to tell you,
I just want you to feel this.

465
00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:09.320
It's just not right. I don't
know how to explain it to you.

466
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:13.519
I've got goosebumps right now. I
know you can't see it in a podcast,

467
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:16.360
but I've got goosebumps right now because
it's just First of all, she's

468
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:21.000
five. She's five years old.
She's big enough to be walking on her

469
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:25.400
own. And the carry is just
awkward, the way he's holding her.

470
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:30.079
He's holding her with his arms out
in front of him, like you know,

471
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:35.360
like just bent, and she's sitting
in his arms, and she looks

472
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:38.239
like she's in an oversized T shirt. She has no pants on, or

473
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.559
at least they can't be seen.
You can't see anything else. You can't

474
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:46.360
see her panties or anything. But
her hair is messy. It's not kept.

475
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:52.280
She's barefoot, and she looks like
she's just woken up. And her

476
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:58.239
body language in that photo is almost
like it's like she knows him, but

477
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:05.079
she's not normally care So it's like
awkward the way he's holding her and her

478
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.800
her little face she's been held by
him, and her hand is her hands

479
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:13.039
kind of bent on his shoulder.
But I'm just telling you, it's not

480
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:16.360
the same type of hold when you
see a parent hold a kid. It's

481
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:21.199
just not so. When the police
questioned any patrons at the hotel if they

482
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:23.960
had any information, a man by
the name of Seth Chambers came forward.

483
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:29.119
He was staying there for a business
trip and he said, oh, yeah,

484
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:32.159
I saw a black guy carrying a
child, and it was near room

485
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:36.800
twoh one. This was around six
thirty in the morning. Now he didn't

486
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:38.480
see anything else, but it did
just catch his attention. Yeah, I

487
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:44.920
saw him carrying this this little girl. So around seven thirty am that next

488
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.000
morning, the video cameras show him
leaving the room and he goes to the

489
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:53.079
elevator with Shanaiah. They then exit
the side door of the hotel and then

490
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:59.719
they walk down a sidewalk, but
he's carrying her the whole time. Now,

491
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.880
if you're the parent of a five
year old, I don't. I

492
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:08.920
never carried my daughter at five everywhere
five is big enough to walk, and

493
00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:15.760
it's cumbersome, you know. It's
just weird to me. So another man

494
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:20.719
was there and his name was Matthew
Argyle. He was a hotel's maintenance the

495
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:25.559
hotel's maintenance worker, and it caught
his attention too, so he even went

496
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:28.960
to the police and said, look, I was outside that side door.

497
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:32.079
I was picking up cigarette butts and
trash whenever I saw I'm gonna name him

498
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:36.760
Mario for the podcast, but he
just said that guy, right. But

499
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:39.320
I saw Mario come out with what
looked to be a five or six year

500
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:43.840
old girl, and at the time
I saw her, he had her up

501
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:49.480
on his shoulders, but he had
her covered. So Matthew says, I

502
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.920
thought she was asleep, he said, but I said hello to the guy,

503
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:58.119
and the guy made eye contact with
me, but then he looked away

504
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:00.880
without saying anything in response. And
I talk about gut instincts all the time

505
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:07.000
on this podcast. They're there for
a reason, and the gut instinct of

506
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.079
Matthew was that this is weird,
Like he just the whole thing was kind

507
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.480
of weird. He acknowledged him with
his eyes, but he didn't say anything

508
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:17.920
to him, and then he just
continued to walk towards the parking lot.

509
00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.079
So Matt's gut told him that something
and this is a direct quote from him,

510
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:25.639
something was a miss. And so
he says, I continued to watch

511
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.039
him without trying to be obvious about
it. So he was just, you

512
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:32.840
know, doing some bs little stuff
standing there, but he was watching out

513
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.599
of the corner of his eye,
and he watched Mario put Shanaya into the

514
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.639
rear passenger seat of the car.
He got into the driver's seat, but

515
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.119
then he just sat there for a
minute, and it looked like he was

516
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:51.159
smoking either a cigarette or a cigar
of some tighte. So matt continues acting

517
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:53.400
like he's doing some kind of busy
work, and he continues to watch just

518
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:59.519
because it didn't sit right with him. And then he watched Mario drive to

519
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.320
the pa billion of the front entrance
of the hotel. He puts out that

520
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:07.360
cigarette and then he walks back inside, and that's when the cameras pick it

521
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.079
back up again and Mario goes to
the front desk and he's wanting his security

522
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:15.000
to posit back well again. He's
talking to the lady at the front desk

523
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.280
and he's like, yep, taking
my daughter. Now we're going to meet

524
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:24.119
her mother. The camera footage shows
him sign the ticket for cash back and

525
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:31.280
he gets his money from the clerk. This all happened before they all realized

526
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:37.280
that this was a missing child and
was likely Shanaya. Now, the housekeeper

527
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:43.079
had been cleaning the room. This
is after Mario left. She had gone

528
00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.159
in to clean the room, and
she comes back to the office because she

529
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:52.119
found two small, clear, open
plastic packets with what she thought to be

530
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.639
cocaine residue in them. So she
brought him up to the office to tell

531
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.519
the boss there, look what I
found in this. The hotel security cameras

532
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:06.679
showed Mario leaving the hotel's front entrance. He gets into his car. This

533
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:10.719
is around seven forty am and then
the car turns left out of the driveway

534
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:17.119
and it drives off. Shanaia is
in the back seat by yourself, unaware

535
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:22.960
of what her future is about to
hold. So once they nailed down the

536
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:27.480
room they had been in the hotel
manager checked the cleaning records and told the

537
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.239
police, look, the bedding has
not been changed. We did dump the

538
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:35.239
trash already, and there was a
towel that's already been removed from the room,

539
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.840
but the bedding has not been changed. There were two comforters in that

540
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:42.400
room two oh one, and they
had not been laundered either, so they

541
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:45.639
were taken in for evidence. The
rest of the room was going to be

542
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:51.360
processed for forensic evidence as well.
So we're now at November eleventh. It's

543
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:55.400
five twenty five pm and Antoinette,
Shanaia's mom is being interviewed again. This

544
00:39:55.480 --> 00:40:00.960
only lasts about thirty minutes. This
time, police now have more information Shanaio

545
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:05.360
is alive, but is with Mario. They already know this, so they

546
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:09.599
bring Antoinette at Antoinette end to interview
her and during this interview she opens up

547
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.000
and she says, look, my
boyfriend. His name is Clarence Coe.

548
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:20.719
He goes by Coe. He took
Shania. She then revealed that he hits

549
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:25.320
Shanaia in the face in the early
morning hours of November tenth, after she

550
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:30.599
and co had been arguing, and
Antoinette says, look, I tried to

551
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.960
stop him, but CO took off
with Shania and her best guess was that

552
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.880
they were probably around the Murchison Road
area. Well, the police are going

553
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:45.000
to call bullshit right then now I'm
not saying they say it out loud,

554
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:49.679
but they know that CO does not
have Shanaia. They've already got the video.

555
00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:55.639
So Detective Bowman takes this into account
because you never know, maybe CO

556
00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:00.639
did take Shanaia and then give give
Mario a give her to Mario. So

557
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:04.320
he writes all this down, he
takes it into account and then he goes

558
00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.199
back. Antoinette leaves and he goes
to check to see if there's any new

559
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:14.920
developments on the case. In the
meantime, So after Shania's aunt, Brenda

560
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:21.159
was then brought into the loop of
the video that shows Mario holding Shanaiah.

561
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:27.599
Her stomach dropped. Shania's brother,
that seven year old brother was right,

562
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:34.199
Mario must have been in my house
that morning. Immediately she and Jeroi Smith

563
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.639
told the police. Oh my god, my nephew told us. He said

564
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.920
that Mario had been in the trailer, in the trailer that morning that Shanaia

565
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.519
went missing. But they we just
thought he was mistaken. We thought he

566
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.280
would never be at our trailer.
Why would he be there? But he

567
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:54.400
must have been right. Brenda also
realized something that she had heard Antoinette say

568
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:59.920
in the last twenty four forty eight
hours at their aunt's house, and it

569
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:04.199
must have had more meaning than she
realized in the moment. And remember,

570
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.119
I'm not hating on this aunt,
Brenda, because she's trying to put the

571
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.880
pieces together two of what's going on. In the hours after Shanaiah went missing,

572
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:15.079
they were gone to the police station, and then they went by their

573
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:22.559
aunt's house. So Brenda and Antoinette's
ant's house, and at some point Mario

574
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:29.400
had shown up at the ant's house
and she Antoinette and Mario had words,

575
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.000
and Antoinette yelled at him and this
is a direct quote, I don't have

576
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:36.039
shit to say to you. I
just want to know where my mother fucking

577
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.880
baby's at. And Mario looked at
her and said, I all right,

578
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.599
and then he jumped in his car
and he sped away. Now, right

579
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.960
now, as a good human being, your spidey senses should be firing off.

580
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.239
First of all, I don't refer
to my children as my mother fucking

581
00:42:55.400 --> 00:43:02.519
babies. And I don't know any
more. Who does They're not property,

582
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.880
they're not things that you know.
I tell somebody, maybe I want to

583
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.400
know where my mother fucking car's at
if you steal my car, but not

584
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:21.639
my children. Not my children.
So Brenda now starts thinking, oh,

585
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:27.360
my god, I think Antoinette is
lying. She's not telling the truth about

586
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.920
what she knows or what she's saying
that she knows. And after this sick

587
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:37.760
guttural realization of what's going on,
Brenda and her sister Antoinette get into a

588
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:42.320
huge argument. And I wasn't there, but I'm sure went something like,

589
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:46.519
where is Shanaya? What do you
know? We need her? She's five,

590
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:52.079
she's with Mario possibly, why does
he have your baby? Why does

591
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:58.679
he have my niece? Tell me
what's going on. So I'm sure she

592
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:02.360
felt defeated and scared and realized,
my god, I can't even trust my

593
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:07.480
sister to tell me what's going on. So in the evening hours of now

594
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:13.719
November twelfth, Brenda takes off to
the detective's office and wants to talk to

595
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:16.440
them again. She hands over her
phone. She says, take pictures,

596
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:21.800
take whatever you need, and she
shows those text messages that she and Mario

597
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:27.039
had exchanged before she realized that he
knows more than he obviously said to her.

598
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:32.599
She gave over the phone and that
same day police found Mario and he

599
00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:36.800
agreed, I'll come up to the
police station and I will talk to you

600
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.360
about that same time, as all
of this is kind of coming to fruition,

601
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.559
and remember Shanaia is nowhere to be
found at this time. They also

602
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:53.440
located his Mitsubishi Galant, conveniently parked
or backed into a space at the Mount

603
00:44:53.480 --> 00:45:02.960
Sinai Apartments, nowhere near his residence
where he lived on Washington Drive. So

604
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:08.440
police did what's called an exigent circumstance
search of the vehicle's trunk. An exigent

605
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:14.559
circumstance means basically that it's not practical
to go take the time it would take

606
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:19.280
to file a warrant because it's time
sensitive, and that in this instance a

607
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.440
child may be killed or maybe you
know, dead, we need to get

608
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:28.639
a hold of her. So they
did this warrantless search and popped the trunk

609
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:31.840
open to see if she was in
the car, but Shanayah wasn't there.

610
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.679
So they tow the car to the
police department and they start processing it for

611
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:42.920
forensic evidence, and this included taking
soil samples from the wheel wells. They

612
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.199
took break and gas pedal covers.
They took samples from those to see if

613
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:50.320
there was any substance analysis that they
could do, maybe, you know,

614
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:53.400
shoe samples of where Mario had been
walking compared to the soil samples that were

615
00:45:53.400 --> 00:46:00.679
on possibly those those pedals. And
beginning around nine thirty pm that say evening,

616
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:06.480
several detectives interviewed Mario, praying that
they could get some information of where

617
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:12.119
Shanaiah was. Y'all, it's now
been two days. They're praying to find

618
00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:16.679
this baby alive. And the officers
didn't handcuff Mario. He wasn't arrested yet.

619
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.159
They also had his cell phone or
they excuse me, they didn't have

620
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:24.639
his cell phone. He had his
cell phone, and he continued to receive

621
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:30.119
messages and to text and to make
phone calls and chat with people the whole

622
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.840
time that he was at the police
station. So they finally got down to

623
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.239
the brass tax of things and they
said, look, we need to know,

624
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:43.039
we know you had this child or
you were with her. You better

625
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.320
talk And he says, look,
I was at Sleepy Hollow trailer park just

626
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:52.440
after midnight on November ninth, rolling
into November tenth. That's true, but

627
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.760
I never went to Brenda Davis's trailer
I never saw Shania, he says,

628
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:00.079
I didn't. I don't even know
Shania. I've never even seen Shanaiah.

629
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:04.559
And he said, and she also
was never in my car, and I

630
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:07.440
didn't leave the city limits, and
I never was at a hotel. It

631
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:14.480
didn't happen. So after he makes
these very direct claims, that's when the

632
00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:20.239
detectives turn a photograph around and slide
it across the table to him, and

633
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:22.239
they say, well, why don't
you take a look at this, this

634
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:29.639
photo of you with her at the
hotel. How about you explain that?

635
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:32.840
And Mario looks at the picture and
he says, well, I can because

636
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:39.760
that's not me. Weird. That's
really weird, Mario, because the person

637
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:45.239
who signed into the hotel not only
looks identical to you, but he also

638
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:55.800
checked in under the name Mario McNeil. He also showed your ID, and

639
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:01.920
he also gave your home address.
And Mario says, well, it wasn't

640
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:07.199
me, and it couldn't have been
me because I lost my license. Yeah,

641
00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:19.840
you ever just watched someone bald face
lie to you and it's the most

642
00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:27.320
ridiculous thing you've ever A three year
old could have done better. So the

643
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:31.679
police obviously knew he's lying held the
devil himself. The devil himself probably shook

644
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:36.320
his head and was like this motherfucker
here, dude, I'm on your side,

645
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:37.400
right the Devil's on his side and
knows, bro, you gotta do

646
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:44.360
better than that. Come on.
So the questioning continued for fifty four more

647
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:49.280
minutes. They really put the pressure
on him, and that's when Mario finally

648
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:54.440
broke and admitted, Okay, yeah, I was at the hotel with shanayah,

649
00:48:54.559 --> 00:49:01.119
Okay, why why were you there? Why were you there with Shania?

650
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:05.079
And he said, well, I
got a text message. I'd been

651
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:08.239
texting, okay, and he said, I thought I got a text message

652
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:14.039
from Brenda. It said come to
Sleepy Hollow and pick up Shania on the

653
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:17.760
porch, and so I did I
and I took her to the hotel.

654
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.719
Okay, why why are you saying
you got this text message from Brenda,

655
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:27.039
which, by the way, they
knew wasn't true because they already had Brenda's

656
00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:30.320
cell phone, who she willingly came
and turned it over and said you can

657
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:32.719
have anything in the phone, Please
find Shania you can look at it.

658
00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:36.239
So they knew that that wasn't true. He said, well, I thought

659
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:39.840
it was from Brenda and it said
come get Shaniya off the porch, and

660
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.280
so he went and got her.
Okay, so you just randomly got a

661
00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:45.920
text message. It said come take
the five year old to a hotel and

662
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.480
you do it? Can you expand
on that? And he says, okay,

663
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:52.559
well, look, I'd been doing
cocaine all night and that's when I

664
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:59.400
got to call her. A text
message from some unknown people that told me

665
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:07.679
to bring Shia to a dry cleaning
establishment at the corner of country Club Drive

666
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.679
and Ramsey Street. And so he
said all I was doing was taking Shania

667
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:17.039
and I was delivering her to these
unknown people, and that they were driving

668
00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:27.840
a gray Nissan Maxima. Oh okay, okay, who are they? How

669
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:30.159
did they get your number? Why
were they messaging you? What did they

670
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:31.679
want with Shanaia? And he says, oh, I don't know. I

671
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:35.599
mean I was just waiting to get
the call to come get her, to

672
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.960
kill her. But then the police
are like, wait, what excuse me?

673
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:44.159
Hello? What to come kill her. But after he made that statement,

674
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.440
he then would not expand anymore,
even though they kept trying. Police

675
00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:52.079
kept trying, what are you talking
about? This doesn't make any sense.

676
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.800
You've got to explain more. But
he wouldn't. He wouldn't say anything.

677
00:50:55.679 --> 00:51:00.719
So police had enough at that point
and they make the arrest on Maria because

678
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:04.920
hell or high water, buddy,
you ain't walking out of here. This

679
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:09.559
isn't driving. So police go and
they checked the phone records. There were

680
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:15.199
no messages, nothing to Brenda,
nothing about picking up Shanaiah on the porch.

681
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:21.679
There were also no text messages nor
any calls to Mario's phone from any

682
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:27.840
unknown numbers or unidentifiable people. So
a quick summary of what was found on

683
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:32.280
the phone in the early morning hours
of November the tenth, After admittedly snorting

684
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:36.320
cocaine, he also said that he
had had a couple of shots of liquor.

685
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:42.760
Mario had started texting every woman in
his phone. So I don't know

686
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.840
if you're starting to build the picture
here, but basically, he's doing drugs,

687
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:46.800
he's getting drunk, and now he's
trying to go find a piece of

688
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:50.840
ass, even though he's living with
his girlfriend. In April. He's in

689
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:54.320
his phone freakin' dog out there trying
to find women I guess to hook up

690
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:59.320
with, and he tried Brenda,
he did, but her phone was off

691
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:04.480
so she never answered him. He
then texted a woman named Taja mclan.

692
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:09.320
Taja McClain also lived in Sleepy Hollow. She eventually invited him over. He

693
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:13.440
made his way over there, but
it wasn't until about two point fifty two

694
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:17.079
am that he got there, and
so he was texting Taja, hello,

695
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:22.039
you know I'm here, and turns
out she had fallen asleep, so she

696
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:27.519
never answered the phone. So around
three oh six am, that's when Mario

697
00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:34.920
texted goodnight to Tasia, and then
at three oh seven am, Mario again

698
00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:42.679
attempted to text Brenda. Now,
something important about that text was that he

699
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:50.360
was right near the trailer where Shanaya
was sleeping. He also knew how to

700
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:53.719
get in to that trailer because remember
he had previously planned to move into it,

701
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:58.000
and he had given money to Brenda
as the deposit to move in,

702
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:01.039
even though he never did. He
did, however, know how to get

703
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:05.519
into that trailer. And this is
the really important part. He knew how

704
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:09.760
to get into that trailer even when
it was locked. He knew the trick

705
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:16.960
to get in shortly after six am
that morning, though Brenda didn't answer him.

706
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:22.400
But shortly after six am that morning, that's when Mario arrived with Shanaiah

707
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:28.320
at the Comfort Inn and Suites.
There's no denying it. The records and

708
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:34.039
video corroborate that. What was also
in the text messages and in the phone

709
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:38.440
records was that at approximately eight twenty
two am, the day after she was

710
00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:45.119
kidnapped, more texts happened and cell
phone tower pings were available, and this

711
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:51.679
meant locations would be available too,
because cell phone towers have you know,

712
00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:57.079
they have geographic locations to them and
they only service a certain geographical area.

713
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:02.199
So Antoinette, mom of Shania is
now brought in again for a third interview,

714
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.039
and this was at eight thirty eight
pm on that day. It lasted

715
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:13.360
about forty six minutes and Detective Bowman
now cut to the chase. He wasn't

716
00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:15.400
playing games with her. He says, look, we know you're lying about

717
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:22.519
what happened to Shanaia. We have
a photograph of Shanaio with Shania with Mario

718
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:28.920
McNeil, So she's sitting there hearing
this information, and he asks her directly,

719
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:31.119
what do you think He calls him
Mono, But what do you think

720
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:37.159
Mono would say when he's caught.
What do you think he would say when

721
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:43.920
he's caught with Shania? So she
looks at the photo of her baby girl

722
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:47.639
being held by Mario, and that's
when she says, Okay, look,

723
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.320
I've been lying. Co. My
boyfriend had nothing to do with it.

724
00:54:52.880 --> 00:55:00.599
Wow, step aside from the fact
that your daughter is missing in the hands

725
00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:07.000
of another man and you haven't helped. You knew that this whole time.

726
00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:13.159
And on top of that, you're
willing to throw an innocent man under the

727
00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:16.480
bus, someone you supposedly care about. Your boyfriend. You throw him under

728
00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:21.760
the bus so that he can take
the rap for kidnapping your child and abusing

729
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.800
her, supposedly hitting her in the
face. What are we dealing with here?

730
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:29.599
What kind of monster are we really
dealing with here? So Detective Bowman

731
00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:32.400
told her, look, your lies
are causing a lot of problems. First

732
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:37.480
of all, co has been arrested
and he's locked up because of what you

733
00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:40.519
said, which is now not true. By the way, lying to a

734
00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:46.079
federal agent is a federal offense.
Dude. I mean, you're facing punishment

735
00:55:46.159 --> 00:55:52.679
up to five years in prison just
for lying. Maybe maybe you ought to

736
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:58.119
tell the truth. I mean that
aside, y'all, she's framing an innocent

737
00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:01.840
man, all while her child is
missing. So her response to that,

738
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:10.000
I'm thirsty. I need some water. And I sat on that for a

739
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:15.400
second, thinking, I wonder if
Snaia is thirsty while you're sitting there lying.

740
00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:23.280
She then told Detective Bowman that Mono
had a relationship with her sister Brenda.

741
00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:27.440
Well, great, no shit,
Sherlock, we already know that.

742
00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:32.679
What does that have to do with
anything right now? So Detective Bowmen then

743
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.440
just tried to appeal to her emotion
and said, look, your lies are

744
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:43.199
wasting time, time that we don't
have, and you don't know what's going

745
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:46.480
to happen to Shanaia as a result
of the lies that you keep telling your

746
00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:52.039
little girl. All we care about
right now is finding your little girl.

747
00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:59.239
And Antoinette never really said anything else
of any value, you know, she

748
00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:04.800
just kind of things and then she
eventually thanked Detective Bowman for trying to find

749
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:08.280
her little girl, and she left
the police station. Now, if you're

750
00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:12.079
screaming at me right now on the
podcast. Why didn't they arrest her?

751
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:15.239
Why didn't they arrest her? Y'all? Sometimes you have to kind of play

752
00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:19.199
the game because we don't need her
locking up if she knows something, she's

753
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:24.719
lying, Why are you lying?
Why are you lying? And Shanaia finding

754
00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:30.920
her is more important right now.
So the search for Shanaia was still in

755
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:36.719
full force, regardless of her mother's
lying and what seems to be lack of

756
00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:39.440
urgency about what's going on. So
now I want you to know this too.

757
00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:45.159
When the FBI receives a notification of
a missing child like an Amber alert,

758
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:51.639
agents will immediately reach out to that
local law enforcement agency to offer their

759
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:58.880
assistance because they have much better resources. They have a wide gamut of things

760
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.719
that they can do outside of local
law enforcement to help find this missing child.

761
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.599
And so FBI special agent, his
name was Frank Brostrom, he contacted

762
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:13.400
a sergeant Chris Corson of the Fayetteville
Police Department and said, what can I

763
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:15.440
do? I'd like to offer my
assistance. Is there anything I can do?

764
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:20.320
And they immediately said, yes,
please come help us. We've got

765
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:23.079
to find her. And that Frank
Brostrom, that special agent jumped on it,

766
00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:27.000
immediately got on a plane and headed
down there to see what he could

767
00:58:27.039 --> 00:58:31.719
do. Now, I mentioned exigent
circumstances earlier, and under that same concept,

768
00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:37.079
the FBI can quickly obtain things like
cell phone data, okay, and

769
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:44.000
that's going to include GPS information,
toll records, and cell tower records,

770
00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:46.760
which are invaluable when we're trying to
find a child and make sure that she's

771
00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:55.559
alive. And he got everything everything
very quickly. This included call times from

772
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.280
all of the people involved, okay, their cell phone all times. Cell

773
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:07.400
phone tower locations. This included longitude
and latitude for those cell towers. It

774
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:13.679
was the perfect information to get assuming
that Shanaiah had been with Mario as he

775
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:17.880
made these texts and these cell phone
calls. Another special agent at the same

776
00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:22.840
time, his name was Michael Sutton. He worked for the FBIS what's called

777
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:28.519
their CAST team, like a cast
on your arm cellular analysis survey team.

778
00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:35.079
He took those tower records from Agent
Brostrom and then he applied to them the

779
00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:39.400
local mapping sectors to pinpoint a more
exact location. And I hope that you're

780
00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:45.840
feeling this with me, that so
many agencies work together things behind the scenes

781
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:51.039
to try to save people things that
you'll never know, that you'll never hear

782
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:54.360
about. All of these people working
together to try to say where could she

783
00:59:54.519 --> 01:00:00.559
possibly be, and he was able
to create a rough draft map the scene

784
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.760
which directed them to an area specifically
between what would have been Highway eighty seven

785
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:10.519
and along a Highway twenty seven.
They were very close to one another.

786
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:15.559
Specifically, he honed it in on
a three what was kind of like a

787
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:20.559
three way stop intersection of a Highway
eighty seven, a Highway twenty four and

788
01:00:20.639 --> 01:00:23.320
a Highway twenty seven. So if
you're from that area, you would know

789
01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:30.519
this as the Johnsonville and Barbecue area. Also, in the meantime, tons

790
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:36.760
of volunteers and different law enforcement agencies
were part of a massive search and rescue

791
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:43.440
effort. And this also included a
Sanford company that was training canine officers from

792
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:51.960
the Virgin Islands and they volunteered their
assistance while they trained. Literally no help

793
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:55.199
was turned down. Everyone wanted to
find this baby girl and they wanted to

794
01:00:55.239 --> 01:01:00.800
return her to her parents. That
lead investigator on the case, his name

795
01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:07.360
was Kimball. He knew Mario had
been arrested by now, even though Shanaia

796
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:13.320
hadn't been found yet, he knew, okay, they've taken they've taken him

797
01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:22.440
into custody. So he got word
from a man named Alan Rodgers, who

798
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:25.400
was a Fayetteville defense attorney, that
I need to be in contact with you

799
01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:29.760
because I may have some information that
can help you on the search. This

800
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:37.880
Alan Rodgers had represented Mario at his
first court appearance following his arrest, and

801
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:43.880
so that included kidnapping charges, right. So another attorney also in the mix.

802
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:49.719
His name was koy Brewer. Koy
Brewer directed Kimball, look when you're

803
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.920
searching that area, I need you
to look for green Porta potties and I

804
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:59.119
need you to look for these green
Porta potties one Highway eighty seven. So

805
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:05.760
Kimberle immediately took that information and went
out there related to the search teams.

806
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:08.800
But what they found immediately was that
there was a ton of them and this

807
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:13.559
is a big area. So he
called back and he's like, look,

808
01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:16.679
the information is way too vague.
I need something a little more specific.

809
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.320
And so the attorney went back and
he spoke with Mario and that's when the

810
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:28.000
attorney called investigator Kimball back and said, look for the green porta potties in

811
01:02:28.039 --> 01:02:35.159
an area near where they killed deer
on Highway eighty seven between spring Lake and

812
01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:43.079
Sandford, where people dress deer after
they kill them. And I don't know

813
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:47.079
about you, but that's a very
alarming statement to me, because if this

814
01:02:47.159 --> 01:02:52.440
is an area where you slaughter deer, where you dress deer, what do

815
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:57.159
you leave there? What do you
leave after you've dressed the deer. If

816
01:02:57.199 --> 01:03:00.719
this is an area where they do
it, and this is an area where

817
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:07.280
they leave the carcasses, why would
you want to look near an area where

818
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:12.000
known carcasses are already decomposing. That
was a very sick feeling for me.

819
01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:17.639
So because of the time frame and
everything, they weren't able to continue the

820
01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:22.599
search that day, and so that
had to happen the next day the following

821
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:29.320
day. So also that following day, Antoinette, the mom came in for

822
01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:31.840
a final interview and it began at
eleven fifty three am, And this is

823
01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:37.559
on November fourteenth, and it lasted
about five and a half hours. A

824
01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:42.039
female detective, though, was brought
in this time, and I kind of

825
01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:46.159
feel like this was tactical because she
had already Antoinette being she had already been

826
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:51.800
called a liar and been kind of, you know, forceful with Detective Bowman

827
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:55.320
in the previous interviews. So they
brought in a detective Carolyn Pollard and as

828
01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:01.519
Sergeant Chris and I believe it's said
Corsione, they came in. They together

829
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:06.880
tried to establish a new rapport with
Antoinette. So Antoinette was seated in the

830
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:12.239
back corner of the interview room.
Detective Pollard and Sergeant Corsione they sat in

831
01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:15.599
chairs between her and the door of
the interview room, and they talked to

832
01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:18.920
her for about two hours, and
they just wanted to know more about her

833
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:24.280
personal background and try to figure kind
of figure out what's going on, build

834
01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:30.159
a rapport with her. And that's
when she started complaining that her stomach hurt.

835
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:34.559
My stomach hurts. And that's when
I went back to, well,

836
01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:39.880
I wonder if Shanaia's stomach hurts,
that five year old that's been out there

837
01:04:39.920 --> 01:04:44.119
now for days, you know,
has she had something to eat, has

838
01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:48.679
she had something to drink? She's
scared. I bet her stomach hurts too,

839
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:57.599
And that's when she said, my
stomach hurts because I'm pregnant. Great

840
01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:01.760
you're gonna be a mother again.
Wonderful. So the detectives say, hey,

841
01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:04.000
do you need to go be examined
by a doctor or dos it heard

842
01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:08.320
that bad? And she's like,
no, my next step is to finish

843
01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:15.480
trying to find my daughter. Finish. Excuse the hell out of me.

844
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:20.519
But baby, how about you start
trying to find your daughter? How about

845
01:05:20.519 --> 01:05:26.239
you start the truth would be nice. So this is when Antoinette began recounting

846
01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:30.320
her story, which didn't change about
the morning right and finding Shania gone,

847
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:35.320
but she did admit that she lied
in the previous interviews and that she quote

848
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:42.199
put it all on co So before
you might possibly I don't know how,

849
01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.880
but before you might possibly start feeling
sorry for her, even if I don't

850
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:50.280
know how, but if it was
possible. She said that she lied because

851
01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:58.880
Detective Bowman scared her and tried to
make her know something that she didn't know.

852
01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:02.519
And I want to be like,
bitch, a grown man scared you,

853
01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:06.440
a grown woman, what do you
think your little girl felt like?

854
01:06:08.239 --> 01:06:11.400
What do you think she feels like? You think a grown man might be

855
01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:15.320
scaring her right now? Because I
do, I do? Where is your

856
01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:20.400
daughter? And it was at this
point that that sergeant course I owned that

857
01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:23.440
was in there, let her in
on the fact that, look, you

858
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.719
might want to know this. Mario's
already been arrested and he's already told us

859
01:06:27.719 --> 01:06:30.559
that you know everything. I would
suggest that you get back on the direct

860
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:35.679
quote right track and maybe tell us
the truth. And that, y'all,

861
01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:43.679
is when it all came out.
It was only after she knew the game

862
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:50.119
was over, the jig was up, that she told the truth and she

863
01:06:50.280 --> 01:07:00.440
admitted that Mario did in fact come
to the trailer because she owed him a

864
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:06.400
debt and she was gonna have sex
with him. And that's when Sergeant of

865
01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:14.039
Corsion said, remember, you might
want to stay on the right track here,

866
01:07:14.599 --> 01:07:20.519
because we already know. And that's
when Shanaia's mother, the woman who

867
01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:27.159
carried her in her womb, who
gave birth to her and was supposed to

868
01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:34.679
love her more than life itself,
told the police that she owed Mario two

869
01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:44.400
hundred dollars and that he either wanted
the money or she had to pay him

870
01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:50.960
the debt with sex. And that's
not when she had sex with him for

871
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:59.320
the debt, no, No,
that's when she handed over her five year

872
01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:06.079
old baby girl to Mario with the
understanding that she would be used to settle

873
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:14.199
the two hundred dollars debt. Their
plan was for Mario to take Shanaya to

874
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:21.640
a motel to have sex with her
for a two hundred dollars drug debt.

875
01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:33.520
Can you even because I cannot?
She then tried to say that it was

876
01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:39.880
for another individual to have sex with
her, but she didn't know who that

877
01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:49.960
person was. So either way,
if you don't think evil is real,

878
01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:59.199
this story should tell you that.
And after she dropped this bombshell, she

879
01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:04.079
told the officer she'd like a cigarette
break. The officers were sick to their

880
01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:10.800
stomach, even if they feigned no
reaction, and then Antoinette asked them how

881
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:15.920
much longer am I going to have
to be here? I wonder if Shanaya

882
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:19.600
wondered how much longer she was going
to have to be there with that strange

883
01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:27.760
man raping her, and as he
did god knows what to her. And

884
01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:32.680
that's when Detective Bowman read Antoinette Davis
her rights, placed her under arrest and

885
01:09:32.800 --> 01:09:42.039
let her know she wasn't leaving ever, So on November sixteenth, two thousand

886
01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:46.159
and nine, around one pm,
one of those officers from the Virgin Islands

887
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:51.399
with his training dog, came upon
the lifeless body of five year old Shaniah

888
01:09:53.159 --> 01:10:00.600
lying partially under a log in a
wooded area with deer carcasses, just where

889
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:06.840
the FBI mapping had shown and where
that attorney said she would be. So

890
01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:12.760
they collected her body and they brought
her for an autopsy and a sexual assault

891
01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:16.640
kit was performed. They did pull
several hairs from her body. They also

892
01:10:17.720 --> 01:10:28.000
retrieved several hairs from her right hand
and some from her left elbow. And

893
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:38.520
I don't want to be graphic for
the sake of salaciousness, because that's not

894
01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:45.880
what this is. This is I'm
enraged that someone would treat a child this

895
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:51.359
way. But she was in early
stages of decomposition. Her skin was coming

896
01:10:51.399 --> 01:11:00.680
off. There were maggots on her, and there was a blue brew on

897
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:03.600
the left side of her little face. It was about a quarter inch in

898
01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:11.399
dimension. And they did an examination
of her pelvis which showed what they called

899
01:11:11.399 --> 01:11:18.359
a ring of abrasion surrounding her vagina, and the abrasions were most prominent on

900
01:11:18.439 --> 01:11:29.640
the anterior and the posterior of her
vaginal opening. And reading the report,

901
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:32.039
I sat on this for a second, because it said that she's five years

902
01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:35.319
old, y'all, she's a baby. And it said that her hymen was

903
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:44.239
not intact, but there was no
evidence of recent injury to the hymen,

904
01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:49.319
and so I couldn't understand that.
I mean, that means that there's not

905
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:53.960
fresh breakage to her body. And
so I called a doctor friend of mine

906
01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:57.880
and I asked, can you explain
this to me? How this could be?

907
01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:04.119
And she said, well, just
from experience, if the hymen's not

908
01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:10.640
intact and it's not recent injury to
the hymen, I mean that that sounds

909
01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:15.479
to her like maybe this had happened
before. And I'm wondering, why has

910
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:18.800
that never been mentioned before? And
anything about this case that I have ever

911
01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:28.239
investigated looked at red I've never seen
someone discuss that before, you know,

912
01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:32.680
was this maybe ongoing, that something
had happened to her? Right, And

913
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:39.359
so it went on to say how
she did have bruising of you know,

914
01:12:39.399 --> 01:12:43.920
the vaginal opening, and it was
on the front and the back, and

915
01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:48.399
so that means basically from aggressive sexual
intercourse, it bruised her little her little

916
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:55.000
private area. She wasn't killed by
the rape, though she was suffocated or

917
01:12:55.039 --> 01:13:04.920
strangled and her cause of death was
ruled as asphyxiation. Now, unfortunately Mario

918
01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:10.159
was only good at killing innocent children
and not himself, because when police went

919
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:16.119
back and they later were reviewing the
videotape of his interview, they realized that

920
01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:20.640
when they went out of the room, at one point Mario he made the

921
01:13:20.680 --> 01:13:24.960
sign of the Cross over his head
and his shoulders, which I think it's

922
01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:28.439
a little late for that asshole,
But he made the sign of the cross,

923
01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.920
and then he pulled a key out
of his pocket and he got down

924
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.399
on the floor and he shoved the
key into a wall electrical socket and it

925
01:13:33.520 --> 01:13:36.920
zapped him, but it didn't kill
him. So then he took off his

926
01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:42.079
shoes and he jammed it in the
electrical socket again, but it didn't work.

927
01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:48.039
He was arrested. On July fifth, twenty eleven. A Cumberland County

928
01:13:48.039 --> 01:13:54.039
grand jury indicted Mario for the first
degree murder, rape of a child by

929
01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:59.720
an adult offender, sexual offense of
a child by an adult offender fell in

930
01:13:59.760 --> 01:14:06.039
each child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury
felony, child abuse by prostitution, first

931
01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:12.279
degree kidnapping, human trafficking of a
minor victim, sexual servitude of a minor

932
01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:18.560
victim, and taking in decent liberties
with a child. Antoinette Nicole Davis was

933
01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:25.800
charged with human trafficking, felonious child
abuse, felony conspiracy, first degree kidnapping,

934
01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:30.199
first degree murder, rape of a
child by an adult offender, sexual

935
01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:34.760
servitude, and taking in decent liberties
with a child, and both Mario and

936
01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:43.000
Antoinette were convicted and sentenced to prison. Antoinette got seventeen to twenty one years

937
01:14:43.159 --> 01:14:47.840
for her role in the murder of
her daughter, while Mario received the death

938
01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:57.000
penalty. So Carrie Lockhart, which
is Shanai's aunt and she was very close

939
01:14:57.079 --> 01:15:01.039
to Shanaiah. She would watch her
while her dad was at work, spoke

940
01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:05.239
about the last time that she saw
her because she was the one that dropped

941
01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:09.159
her off to her mother. The
last time. She said, I gave

942
01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:13.279
her a kiss and I told her
you'd be a good girl. And she

943
01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:15.039
turned back and looked at me and
said, I love you, Aunt Carrie,

944
01:15:15.039 --> 01:15:18.560
and I'm going to see you later. And then she ran off to

945
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:26.560
the arms of a monster. And
Shanaia's daddy was overwhelmed by the loss of

946
01:15:26.600 --> 01:15:32.079
his daughter and although he works as
a regional safety manager for Medial Construction Construction

947
01:15:32.199 --> 01:15:38.800
Services. He eventually turned his pain
into action, and he continues to serve

948
01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:45.000
as an advocate to end trafficking with
organizations including Stop Child Trafficking. Now he's

949
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:49.439
trying to make good out of something
so horrible. And I remember too at

950
01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:56.119
the trial he looked at Antoinette and
he said, you know, I've never

951
01:15:56.239 --> 01:16:00.239
been hard on you ever, And
anytime you ever needed something, I would

952
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:05.119
give it to you. And if
you needed two hundred dollars for your drug

953
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:09.800
debt, I would have given it
to you. All you had to do

954
01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:16.279
was ask. And this man,
I don't know, you ought to go

955
01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:21.319
look him up. I just my
heart aches for him. Five year old

956
01:16:21.359 --> 01:16:27.439
Shanayah was laid to rest in the
Fayetteville Memorial Cemetery. And if you want

957
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:33.039
to just really hurt, listen to
this next sentence. Her honorary pallbearers included

958
01:16:33.079 --> 01:16:41.760
her kindergarten class at Morganton Road Elementary
School. That's something that no one should

959
01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:48.479
ever have to say. They're children, They're the heart and soul of America

960
01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:54.119
and they need to be protected at
all costs. Y'all. There is a

961
01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:59.560
special place in hell for Antoinette Davis. So I hope she has her handbasket

962
01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:03.520
all day decorated. And she is
by far the worst excuse of a mother

963
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:11.960
that I have ever encountered. And
then there's Mario, that piece of shit.

964
01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:20.000
The vile things that he deserves will
never happen to him, His rights

965
01:17:20.039 --> 01:17:29.079
will continue to be upheld, while
Shanaya's never even existed. So Mario got

966
01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:31.159
the death penalty sentence, sure,
but he's still alive. We all know

967
01:17:31.199 --> 01:17:39.199
how that goes. And some people
say that the death penalty is just revenge.

968
01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:43.920
We don't need revenge. All we
want is for someone to return the fucking favor