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Nancy Grace
Mother of Missing Ohio Woman Says Daughter`s Boyfriend a Suspect
Aired June 22, 2007 - 20:00 ET
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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, breaking news. A young Ohio mom, nine months pregnant, just weeks from giving birth to a second child, vanishes from her own home, her 2-year-old son found home alone in dirty diapers by grandmother, possibly alone for days. The toddler tells police, "Mommy was crying," "Mommy broke the table," "Mommy`s in the rug.``
Headlines tonight, we learn a newborn baby girl, umbilical cord still attached, found on the doorstep of a registered nurse about 30 miles from Jessie`s home is not Jessie`s baby Chloe. Repeat, not Jessie`s baby girl. Also tonight, Jessie`s mom now openly stating she believes the biological dad of her daughter Jessie`s 2-year-old and unborn baby girl is a suspect. Seven hundred volunteers amassed today to search for Jessie, now just days from delivering a baby girl, already named Chloe. And tonight, police bring in cadaver dogs to search fields and wooded areas.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is not a suspect. He is not a person of interest. But Jessie Davis` mother coming out today and saying that she thinks Bobby Cutts, the father of Jessie`s 2-year-old boy, may be involved in her disappearance.
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GRACE: And tonight -- a 16-year-old straight-A student found dead, thrown away with the garbage on a neighborhood street in broad daylight. Months pass, no clues, silent witnesses. Tonight, we want justice for Chanel Petro-Nixon.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A beautiful 16-year-old honor student goes missing, her remains found in trash bags. Chanel went missing in broad daylight on a busy Brooklyn street, but the community remains silent. Did anyone see anything?
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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace, I want to thank you for being with us tonight. First, stunning developments in the case of a young Ohio mom who vanishes just weeks from giving birth to her second child. After police come up empty-handed digging in a nearby field, authorities bring in cadaver dogs to search for 26-year-old Jessie.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police had one promising lead in the disappearance of pregnant mother Jessie Davis, the one that so many people were hoping would turn out. But tonight, it is gone. The Wayne County sheriff said the baby found on a doorstep in Ohio is not Jessie Davis`s little girl, DNA tests confirming that finding. Jessie Davis was last seen on June 13. No suspects have been named in her disappearance.
PATTY PORTER, MOTHER OF MISSING WOMAN: I think from everything that`s being portrayed, it points to him. And it`s very difficult because he is my grandson`s father. And I want the truth. I want the truth to come out. I want them to find my daughter. I want my daughter.
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GRACE: After police come up empty-handed yesterday on a nearby field dig, today cadaver dogs are brought out in a search for Jessie. We also learned tonight baby girl found nearby on the doorstep of a registered nurse`s home is not baby Chloe.
Straight out to Phil Trexler with "The Akron Beacon-Journal." What`s the latest?
PHIL TREXLER, "AKRON BEACON-JOURNAL": Well, Nancy, the latest is, is that, like you said, the baby that was recovered on Monday night from the doorstep of a nurse is not Jessie`s baby. We understand that an adult female from that area has said that she concealed the pregnancy from her family, and she gave birth a couple counties away in a hotel, and then chose Sue and Don Redman`s house randomly, a scenario that no one suspected. We all thought that it was going to be -- she was targeted because of her work as nurse. But that`s the latest on that situation.
GRACE: And "America`s Most Wanted`s" Jon Leiberman is with us tonight. Jon, about 700 volunteers amassed (ph) the search for Jessie. What are they doing? Describe the search?
JON LEIBERMAN, "AMERICA`S MOST WANTED": Well, it`s actually a grid search, and they`re using a whole lot of things. They`re on motorcycles, ATVs, horseback, and they`re doing a grid-by-grid search, looking for any trace of Jessie or any shred of evidence because that`s what we need at this point. We need some shred of evidence as to what happened to this 26- year-old woman.
GRACE: Jon Leiberman is with us from "America`s Most Wanted." I understood that a flying drone was going to be used to take aerial photos that could cover acres and acres, to photograph it at once. What happened with the drone?
LEIBERMAN: Well, our good friends, Tim Miller and Equusearch, the best in the country at doing this, were going to bring in a drone. It was remote-controlled. It could do all sorts of things, high-def photography from the air. But unfortunately, there was a mix-up with the FAA, and there`s conflicting stories as to what happened, but the drone was not allowed to go up today. We`re hoping that over the weekend, that drone is going to be able to go up because searchers, Equifax -- or Equusearch, rather, is talking about widening the search to surrounding counties, as well, which is good idea right now because the limited area search has so far turned up nothing, and we need some answers here.
GRACE: Back to Phil Trexler with "The Akron Beacon-Journal." A mix- up with the FAA? Time is wasting. Why is there a mix-up with the FAA? Why can`t we use the drone in the search?
TREXLER: Well, the problem is, is the proximity of the search to the Akron-canton airport. It`s within, you know, five miles of the airport. It`s -- there`s traffic there, obviously, flying in in and out all day long. And there`s safety concerns there, obviously.
GRACE: Well, it`s interesting to me, Phil Trexler, that they can`t work -- authorities can work with the FAA to pick out a 30-minute period of time for the drone to take its pictures.
TREXLER: Oh, you`re talking about working with the federal government, I guess, and these things take time, huh?
GRACE: Man, you`re not kidding about that. Joining me right now is a very special guest. This is Chief Deputy Rick Perez with the Stark County sheriff`s office. Chief, thanks for being with us. Where does the investigation stand tonight?
DEPUTY CHIEF RICK PEREZ, STARK COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICE: We`re still out searching, following up on all of our leads. We are looking at all the associates of Jessie and trying to put our timeline together as to where she was last at.
GRACE: When you say associates -- what do you mean by associates of Jessie?
PEREZ: Anyone who had any -- any friends, anybody that she had been with the last couple days that she was sighted, any friends of a friend. We`re just looking at anybody that had anything contact with Jessie.
GRACE: With us, Chief Deputy Rick Perez with the Stark County sheriff`s office. Sheriff, when you say you were looking into friend, friends of friends, I`m very interested in the timeline. Now, according to Patty Porter -- this is Jessie`s mother -- her daughter told her that Mr. Cutts, the baby`s biological father, was to come over Wednesday night to pick up baby Blake. He`s 2 years old. Did he go ever to the home that evening?
PEREZ: He did not go to the home that evening. There`s -- we`re looking into the timeline. We`re looking into information that we received through the investigation to follow up on that lead.
GRACE: Is that -- do you believe he did not go to the home Wednesday night, the last night her mother ever heard from her, because he told you that, or do you have independent corroboration he did not go to the home Wednesday night after -- after the softball game, after going to the sports bar?
PEREZ: That we`re still -- that`s till part of our investigation we`re checking into. We`re following up on those leads.
GRACE: With us, Chief Deputy Rick Perez. Your search teams, will they continue over the weekend?
PEREZ: Yes. We will -- we have men out there 24 hours. We will continue to search for Jessie until we come to a conclusion to this.
GRACE: Sheriff, I understood that -- well, Chief Deputy Sheriff, I understood that one searcher showed up on a pair of crutches today, trying to find Jessie. Is that true?
PEREZ: That I don`t know. The Equusearch organization was handling that search up in the Greentown (ph) area today. And we had a command person there, however, I`m not aware of who all did show up.
GRACE: I was reading the research on who showed up. One lady three months pregnant came. One lady came out and went into the field in her high heels. Another person showed up on crutches. Around 700 people trying to help find 26-year-old Jessie. Jessie is now just days away from giving birth to a baby girl, already named Chloe. She is 9 months pregnant. This is Jessie Marie Davis. Take a look.
Out to the lines. Tina in West Virginia. Hi, Tina.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi. How`re you doing?
GRACE: I`m good, dear. What`s your question?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. It wasn`t clear to me -- you may have just now went over it, but if Bobby Cutts was scheduled to pick up the baby on Wednesday, and it`s not clear if he did or not, what was his reason for not coming to get the baby? And I don`t understand why a timeline couldn`t have been -- has not been established yet as to what exactly transpired Thursday and why it`s unclear if the baby was alone for two days or just a day or what?
GRACE: Well, it is very unclear, Tina, Tina calling from West Virginia.
Let`s go out to a very special guest joining us tonight. Jessie`s mother is with us, Patty Porter, still desperate for help in finding her girl, who she termed her best friend. They would speak on the phone up to five times a day.
Ms. Porter, thank you for being with us tonight.
PATTY PORTER, MOTHER OF MISSING WOMAN: Thank you, Nancy.
GRACE: And still, Ms. Porter, our prayers and our thoughts are with you. And whatever we can do for you, we will do. I want to ask you about Tina`s question. I know when you spoke to Jessie Wednesday night -- now, this is after she had gone, I believe, to the local grocery store.
And Elizabeth, let`s show the viewers the grainy images of Jessie at the grocery store that evening. She had baby Blake with her in the grocery cart.
You spoke to her after that. At that time, did she tell you the bio dad, Mr. Cutts, Bobby Cutts, was coming to get Blake that night?
PORTER: Yes. She said that he was coming to pick him up. And I said, What time? And she said, He`s not coming until 10:00. And I said, Why is he coming so late? And she said he had a game.
GRACE: Now, Ms. Porter, we know that he went to the game and then he went to a local sports bar -- I believe it was named Champs -- and ate after the game, had some beers after the game, was fraternizing with other men and a couple of women after the game. Is it possible, Ms. Porter, he came over afterwards?
PORTER: I don`t know what he did afterwards. I don`t know if anyone knows what he did afterwards.
GRACE: Have you had the chance to speak to Mr. Cutts?
PORTER: Not since Friday evening.
GRACE: At that time, did he tell you when he went to the home?
PORTER: He told me that he -- that on Thursday, he tried to call my daughter and he couldn`t -- she didn`t answer.
GRACE: And the whole day Thursday, he didn`t go over to check on them?
PORTER: No, he said there was no answer. He said she was supposed to show up Thursday morning.
GRACE: But that doesn`t make sense. For her to drop the baby off to his house, would require her on her way to work go out of her way at least 30 minute, right?
PORTER: Right. She had told me -- after I talked to her, I handed the phone to the other daughter, who babysits Blake every day. And she said, you know, If she doesn`t show up, just bring him in the morning. And no Jessie.
GRACE: Ms. Porter, did Mr. Cutts, Bobby Cutts, the biological father of this little boy, 2-year-old Blake, and the unborn baby girl, Chloe -- did he often miss visitation?
PORTER: Yes.
GRACE: What were his excuses?
PORTER: He had to work or he had to be in court or -- there were a lot of reasons.
GRACE: Was that a source of friction between him and Jessie?
PORTER: I don`t think I should comment on their relationship right now.
GRACE: OK. OK. And Ms. Porter, I do not want in any way to hurt the integrity of the investigation, so I understand completely. Was he paying child support to her regularly?
PORTER: Yes. It was being taken out of his pay.
GRACE: It was being garnished?
PORTER: I don`t know if you call it garnished. I don`t know the terms, but it was taken out of his pay and sent through the state to my daughter.
GRACE: Did she have to go to court to get that child support payment?
PORTER: Yes.
GRACE: Do you happen to know, Ms. Porter, his reaction when he learned she was pregnant with baby Chloe?
PORTER: I don`t believe he was very happy about it, but then eventually, he said, Well, maybe it`s meant to be.
GRACE: With us tonight is Jessie`s mother, Patty Porter. Ms. Porter, I noticed this morning when you were speaking, you stated that you believed Bobby Cutts is a suspect. Why do you say that?
PORTER: Well, I really wanted to clarify things that were being said that I was supporting him.
GRACE: OK.
PORTER: I was definitely not supporting him. I just -- because, you know, he`s my grandson`s father, that I pray he`s not. But I see the same evidence, the same things that everyone else is seeing.
GRACE: You know, I`m glad you cleared that up for me. With me is Jessie`s mother, Patty Porter. This is what she had to say earlier today.
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DAVID GREGORY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In your mind, in your heart, is he a suspect?
PORTER: Yes, he`s a suspect.
GREGORY: And what leads you to that conclusion? I mean, is there something you know about their relationship or anything that`s happened that leads you to feel that way?
PORTER: I said earlier I prayed that it wasn`t him, and I still pray that it`s not him. That doesn`t mean that I`m -- I don`t think he`s a suspect, as well.
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GRACE: That was Ms. Porter on NBC`s "Today" this morning. Ms. Porter, looking at you, I can see that you are just emotionally drained. What is your message tonight?
PORTER: My message tonight is that we`re not going away. We`re not going to stop looking for Jessie and we`re not going to stop looking for who`s done this to her. I would just like to encourage people and ask them to come out tomorrow, as many people as possible. We need -- it may be my daughter today, but tomorrow it could be someone else`s daughter. And we need to find her.
GRACE: Patty, I know that you counted her as a best friend. What did you guys do together? Tell me about her, her essence, who she is.
PORTER: Well, when we go home at night and we cry, we don`t -- we cry because we`re sad, but when we start talking about Jessie, we start laughing. She was one of the funniest people. And all my memories of her are funny. And even little Blakey keeps saying -- he was saying today -- he saw her picture in the paper, he said, Mommy`s so funny. She`s just a wonderful human being, just somebody that you love to be with. I couldn`t have asked for any more in a daughter.
GRACE: And tonight, we join the family with their prayers that Jessie comes home alive in time to give birth to baby Chloe.
We`ll all be right back. Very quickly, tonight the city of Charleston, South Carolina, the entire nation mourns the loss of nine firefighters, a memorial service today in their honor. The fire department battling an inferno Monday night at a furniture warehouse, the roof collapsed. The tragedy marks the single largest loss of firefighters in the line of duty since September 11. The men, ranging in age 27 to 56, leave behind widows, children, siblings, friends, parents. Tonight, we honor these true heroes who gave their lives to save others.
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TODD PORTER, "CANTON REPOSITORY": PORTER: Bobby, did you have anything at all to do with the disappearance of Jessie?
BOBBY CUTTS, JR., FATHER OF MISSING WOMAN`S CHILDREN: No, I didn`t.
TODD PORTER: PORTER: Have authorities given you any indication if you`re a suspect?
CUTTS: I mean, they continue to say that I`m not a suspect, but I mean, I would be dumb and naive to think that they weren`t treating me as a suspect by different things I`ve had to go through in the past couple days.
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GRACE: Welcome back. The search continues over the weekend for 26- year-old Jessie Marie Davis. It is becoming urgent. She is just days away from giving birth to her second child, an unborn baby girl baby, Chloe.
Out to the lines. Susan in Indiana. Hi, Susan.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. How are you?
GRACE: I`m good, dear. What`s your question.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have listened to all the news shows, and I haven`t heard any one of them say anything about as to whether or not this Mr. Cutts has taken a polygraph or if he`s been asked to take one.
GRACE: Out to Chief Deputy Rick Perez with the Stark County sheriff`s office. Has he taken a polygraph?
PEREZ: We cannot divulge the investigation procedures that we are currently working on.
GRACE: OK.
PEREZ: We`ve talked to many associates of her. We`ve talked to...
GRACE: OK, so the bottom line is you cannot answer about the polygraph. I completely understand.
Jon Leiberman with "America`s Most Wanted," do we know whether this guy has volunteered to do a polygraph or has done a polygraph?
LEIBERMAN: We don`t imagine that he`s volunteered to do one, but we don`t know for sure. But I do know the police are, as he said, exploring all of these different angles. And we`re joining the hunt this weekend, too, hoping that we get that one tip into our crime center to help solve this.
GRACE: Mike Brooks, former D.C. cop, former fed with the FBI, what are your sources telling you? Has Cutts offered to take a polygraph?
MIKE BROOKS, FORMER D.C. POLICE, SERVED ON FBI TERRORISM TASK FORCE: They`re not saying whether he offered to take a polygraph or not, Nancy, but I was told today he has not taken a polygraph. And something else I found out today, Nancy. The second search that was done of his home that we talked about last evening, where they were allegedly looking for his cell phone and the comforter -- I was told today that they were also looking for some other specific items, and that warrant -- and that search was done with a search warrant. It was not consensual on the part of Cutts.
And you know what that means, Nancy. They had to have -- they had to have reason to go into that house with a search warrant, they just can`t go in and say, Hey, we need to search your house again.
GRACE: Mike Brooks, have you gone on line and looked at what we believe to be Bobby Cutts`s dating Web site? Now, maybe somebody else made this up about him, but here`s Mr. Cutts and a current Web site dating service. There he is, wearing nothing but a towel. And below that, there he is in his police uniform. I wonder if local police know about that. We believe this looks like him, unless somebody else made the Web site.
Chief Perez, did you know about this Web site?
PEREZ: Again, I can`t divulge what we have learned through the investigation with reference to any of the associates we`ve talked to.
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911 OPERATOR: Can I help you?
PATTY PORTER Yes, we need -- we need help at 8686 Essex!
911 OPERATOR: 8686 what street?
PATTY PORTER Essex.
911 OPERATOR: What`s the problem?
PATTY PORTER My daughter`s gone. She`s due in two weeks, and my grandson`s here alone, and this whole house has been ransacked.
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GRACE: Where is 26-year-old Jessie? Straight out to Special Agent Scott Wilson with the FBI. Special Agent, do you expect an arrest soon?
SPECIAL AGENT SCOTT WILSON, FBI: Well, we would certainly hope that we would come to some conclusion here in this case, whether that be an arrest, whether we find Jessie. But we sure hope that we, you know, come to some conclusion here shortly.
GRACE: Agent, has Cutts taken a lie-detector?
WILSON: Well, again, we can`t talk about the investigative techniques that we`re using in this case and certainly not talking about the polygraph test.
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DISPATCHER: Can I help you?
PATTY PORTER, MOTHER OF JESSIE DAVIS: Yes, we need -- we need help at 8686 Essex.
DISPATCHER: 8686, what street?
PORTER: Essex.
DISPATCHER: What`s the problem?
PORTER: My daughter`s gone. She`s due in two weeks, and my grandson`s here alone, and this whole house has been ransacked.
DISPATCHER: How old is your...
PORTER: My grandson is 2.
DISPATCHER: And he`s gone?
PORTER: He`s here alone!
DISPATCHER: OK, you need to calm down so I can understand you.
PORTER: I`m trying.
DISPATCHER: OK.
PORTER: He`s here alone, and she`s gone. Her car`s here.
DISPATCHER: Who`s gone?
PORTER: My daughter!
DISPATCHER: OK. How old is she?
PORTER: She`s 27 years old.
DISPATCHER: OK, and how old is the child that was left alone?
PORTER: She didn`t leave him alone. My god, something`s wrong! She`s due in two weeks, and she`s just missing. Her car is here, her purse. Her house is trashed, and she`s not here.
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GRACE: The search continues over the weekend for 26-year-old Jessie Marie Davis. She is just a few days away from giving birth to her second child, an unborn baby girl, Chloe. She`s been missing, we know of, since last Thursday, possibly last Wednesday night.
Let`s unleash the lawyers. Joining us, Stuart Meltzer, Rachel Cougle (ph), both of them attorneys in the New York jurisdiction. To you, Stuart Meltzer, both the deputy chief and the FBI are saying, well, we`re not going to comment whether he`s taken a polygraph or not. And I`m talking about the biological father of both children, the unborn child and the 2- year-old. Don`t you know, if he had taken a polygraph and passed it, his lawyer -- we know he`s got a lawyer -- would have it out there in the public and have a press conference?
STUART MELTZER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Nancy, before we completely demonize a loving father that`s paying child support, I`d like to point out that Mr. Cutts is a police officer. And before we...
GRACE: Not what I asked you, Mr. Meltzer.
MELTZER: A polygraph test in and of itself is not automatically admissible in the court of law.
GRACE: Still not what I asked you.
MELTZER: They are considerable unreliable at best.
GRACE: Actually, if both parties stipulate, they are allowed into evidence, so I don`t know where you`re getting the whole unreliable thing. But, sir, you know, let me give this to Rachel Cougle (ph), do you believe, as a defense attorney -- just let`s just put out there -- if Cutts had taken a polygraph and passed it, we`d be hearing it morning, noon and night. And I respect the FBI and the sheriff for not -- they don`t want to compromise the integrity of the investigation, fine. But let`s look at the real deal.
COUGLE (ph): I think that`s fair to say, right. I mean, if he had taken a test and a passed, his lawyer would be out there, because, right now, his attorney has to deal with the fact that, no matter what happens in this case, if we end up in a trial, he is right now, basically, trying the case to a pool of potential jurors. So if he`s got the opportunity to come out there and say, yes, Bobby Cutts passed a lie detector test, start looking for somebody else, yes, he`s going to do it, absolutely.
GRACE: And, Mr. Meltzer, if it were your client, would you advise him to take the polygraph?
MELTZER: It depends on the fact scenario. In this case, given the search warrant affidavit that was sworn out, I probably would not advice him to take the test.
GRACE: And so many different factors can affect a polygraph, Mike Brooks, like what?
MIKE BROOKS, FORMER D.C. POLICE: There`s a lot of things, Nancy. I mean, I could sit here all night and tell you all kinds of different things that could affect a polygraph.
GRACE: Give me three, because both of those lawyers, Stuart Meltzer and Rachel Cougle, were both correct. So what can affect a polygraph?
BROOKS: Well, the baseline questions, OK? You said the baseline questions, and then you start asking them question. Are you involved? Were you at the house? There`s all these different questions. But if he has nothing to hide, take the polygraph. I don`t see why he wouldn`t.
GRACE: Well, I`ll never forget what Marc Klaas` little girl, Polly Klaas, went missing, first thing he did, he said, "Search my house, search my car, give me a polygraph right now, so you can look for the real kidnapper." His daughter later found dead.
To Dr. William Morrone, forensic pathologist and medical examiner, we know that they have searched his home. And, again, everybody, he is not named a suspect. Searched his home twice, Mirandized him, fingerprinted him, swabbed him orally. What would they be looking for in the home forensically?
DR. WILLIAM MORRONE, MEDICAL EXAMINER: What you really want to find is -- we talked about carpet fibers on Monday or comforter fibers on Monday. Go for his clothes. Go to his laundry and look for fibers that identify him at the scene. They took the carpet, and they might not have identified those clothes earlier in the week.
GRACE: Now, I was talking to Jessie`s mother, who is with us tonight, Patty Porter. And she says she believes the clothes Jessie was wearing that night at the grocery store, Wednesday night, were there in the home, which means she likely made it home from the grocery store, that her clothes for the next morning were laid out for her to wear. She believes her daughter already had on her PJs and ready for bed at the time she was taken from the home.
I want to go back to Patty Porter. Everyone, this is Jessie`s mother speaking out to you tonight. First of all, Patty, you believe someone knows information and they`re not coming forward?
PATTY PORTER, MOTHER OF JESSIE DAVIS: Absolutely.
GRACE: Why?
PORTER: I just -- I think there`s too many things. I think somebody knows something. I just...
GRACE: And what is your request?
PORTER: My request is that they come forward, that people are honest. And my daughter didn`t deserve any of this. As I`ve stated earlier, my daughter thought she had fallen in love with a single man. My daughter loved him.
GRACE: You told me that Jessie wants what so many young ladies want: a life with a husband, and a family, and a home.
PORTER: That`s right.
GRACE: Did she tell you that?
PORTER: Yes.
GRACE: Patty, was she happy about baby Chloe coming?
PORTER: She was very happy. I don`t think she was happy about the situation, but she was really excited about having Chloe. We were all excited.
GRACE: And you`ve stated that your daughter, Jessie, believed at the time she was falling in love with a single man?
PORTER: That`s right.
GRACE: What is your wish for tomorrow, Patty?
PORTER: I just hope everybody, even if you take a couple hours of your day, can come out and just help. If you`ve seen my young daughters there, they`re tired. They`re getting a little cranky. They`re not sleeping. They`re scared. We`re all very scared for my daughter. We just want her home so bad or find her. Just please, we just want her. We want you to find her, somebody to find her.
GRACE: With me is Jessie`s mom, Mrs. Patty Porter.
Very quickly to Agent Scott Wilson with the FBI. Agent, have you seen this dating Web site of Bobby Cutts`? It says, "Do you want children? No." I think he`s a little late, because he`s got kids by three different women to my understanding that we know of. Now, maybe he didn`t make this. Maybe he didn`t make this. Maybe somebody else just made this and put a picture of him with a towel. Maybe that`s not him. It looks like him to me. Did you know about this?
SPECIAL AGENT SCOTT WILSON, FBI: Well, I haven`t seen the Web site. We`re not going to discuss, you know, anything about Bobby`s, you know, private life there.
GRACE: Well, I don`t know how private it is anymore, but I understand where you`re coming from.
Out to the lines, Annette in California, hi, Annette.
CALLER: Hi, Nancy. I love your show.
GRACE: Thank you, ma`am. What`s your question?
CALLER: Well, as awful as it sounds, I wondered if anyone had checked whether Thursday morning was the regular trash collection day at Bobby Cutts` residence? And then...
GRACE: What do we -- OK, go ahead, Annette.
CALLER: ... and then also whether the cadaver dogs have been used to sniff the trash cans at his house?
GRACE: Speaking of cadaver dogs, I would like to introduce to you Sue Lavoie and Jerry. Tonight, we have a cadaver dog and its handler to do a demonstration for you.
Hi, Sue, tell me about your dog, and let`s do the demonstration.
SUE LAVOIE, CADAVER DOG TRAINER: OK. This is Jerry. He`s 10 years old. He`s a German shepherd. He`s trained for human remains detection, and we`re going to do a little search here for you. I give him a special command and help show him where I want him to search -- Jerry -- and he searches the different areas that I can send him to. His indication when he finds what he`s looking for is he`ll bark, and he`ll hit it with his paw. You`ll probably see a change in his behavior when he finds it.
GRACE: What is that? What is he hitting on? What is scratching at, Ms. Lavoie?
LAVOIE: He`s pawing at the scent article, the training aid that we`ve set up here. Good boy.
GRACE: This is a highly trained cadaver dog. There`s his treat, and that`s how it works. Cadaver dogs in the field tomorrow in the search for Jessie.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I actually am standing out here right now in front of the place where she was found. This is the building, 212 Kingston. It`s a brownstone building, approximately six floors high. And I actually have in my hand right now a bag similar to what she might have been found in, a black industrial-sized garbage bag. It is approximately three feet by four feet. And, honestly, I could fit in this bag in fetal position.
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GRACE: Where is Chanel Petro-Nixon? This 16-year-old American beauty and honor student was leaving the home to go apply for a job at a local Applebee`s. She never made it. Her body was found thrown out with the trash a few days later.
To Jon Leiberman with "America`s Most Wanted," what is the latest?
JON LEIBERMAN, CORRESPONDENT, "AMERICA`S MOST WANTED": This case makes me angry, because nobody is coming forward and saying what they knew. Chanel left her house a year ago on Father`s Day in broad daylight. Four days later, she`s found stuffed into a garbage bag. She had been strangled. The M.E. puts the time of death at less than 24 hours before she was found, so somebody had to see her alive. And ye we`ve run this case twice, and nobody has told us what they know, and it really makes us angry.
GRACE: There was no sex assault and no theft. She still had a couple of dollars in her pocket. She was still wearing her jewelry. Only thing missing, cell phone and shoes, correct?
LEIBERMAN: Correct. You can see the pictures of those at AMW.com, but there`s no clear motive here, there`s no reason why anybody would want to kill Chanel. We need to hear from somebody in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, who knows what happened to Chanel.
GRACE: Joining us tonight, Chanel Petro-Nixon`s parents. They have been unrelenting. When no one would help, her father, he went out himself and a put up posters of her. The mom and father leading the fight to find their daughter, Garvin and Lucita Nixon, Chanel`s parents.
First to you, Lucita, time has passed, and still no clues to break the case. How does that make you feel?
LUCITA NIXON, PARENT OF CHANEL PETRO-NIXON: Frustrated, but I still have hope that somebody out there will say something.
GRACE: Why do you think that no one is coming forward? Someone has to know within that apartment high-rise. There were only a few blocks to get to the Applebee`s.
GARVIN NIXON, PARENT OF CHANEL PETRO-NIXON: If someone do know something, but the community and the society that we`re living in now, it feels like everybody feel like this is just walk the other direction and just don`t look.
GRACE: You have been leading the fight to find your daughter`s killer. What have you been doing?
G. NIXON: We`ve been going on a lot of marches, stop the violence, just came from Alabama. We had a rally going to different projects with a lot of politicians. So we`ve been doing a lot, community meetings, you know, meeting with parents in the same situations.
GRACE: And police, to your knowledge, have done everything they can so far, do you believe that?
L. NIXON: I really believe that the police and the detectives have done the best that they could do. We just need the community to help.
GRACE: To come forward.
L. NIXON: Come forward and help them out. They need their help. They can`t do everything on their own.
GRACE: There is a $27,000 reward for this little girl, 16 years old. She went missing in a highly populated area, many people believe before she left her own block.
I want to go out to Dr. Patricia Saunders, clinical psychologist. Dr. Saunders, money in her pocket, no sex assault, what does this say to you?
DR. PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, it wasn`t the typical pattern of the sexual predator. She was not raped, thank God. There were no marks on her body, but there were 48 hours that we don`t know about. What happened to this beautiful, little girl?
It may be that it was a sexually charged and violent crime without this overt sexuality. Not every sexual predator has intercourse. It`s about power and submission. And, Nancy, we know that the horrible part about this is this could happen to anybody`s daughter, and hiding your head in the sand like an ostrich doesn`t change anything.
GRACE: To Mary in Wisconsin, hi, Mary.
CALLER: Hi, Nancy, how are you?
GRACE: I`m good, dear, what`s your question?
CALLER: I would like to know, have they talked to her classmates at school to see if somebody had a beef with her about something?
GRACE: Good question. Lucita?
L. NIXON: Yes. They spoke to all her friends, which wasn`t many, but the detectives did speak to all of her friends, and nobody had a beef with Chanel.
GRACE: And even if they wouldn`t tell you, another friend would say, "Yes, she had a problem with so and so." This is a girl, straight-A student, never missed church, it`s her Seventh Day Adventist Church with her parents, on her way to college. That was her dream, trying to get a summer job. To you, Garvin, how far away was the Applebee`s?
G. NIXON: About 100 yards.
GRACE: Incredible! Mike Brooks, former fed with the FBI, weigh in.
BROOKS: Nancy, I tell you, I`ve worked many homicide cases in Washington, D.C., and I don`t care what neighborhood you go into, especially there in the 77th precinct at Bed-Stuy, there`s always someone looking out their window, no matter what time of the day or night it is.
I`ve done hundreds of canvasses before. And you`ll go by, and they won`t say anything, but then you`ll hear somebody, "Hey, Detective, I need to talk to you." And you go back, because someone always sees something. There has to be someone in that neighborhood, Nancy, that saw something, even if they don`t know what they saw, they saw something happen. Someone needs to come forward.
GRACE: That reward up to $27,000. The tip line: 1-800-577-TIPS, Crime Stoppers.
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GRACE: What a week in America`s courtrooms. Take a look at the stories and, more important, the people who touched our lives.
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GRACE: Toddlers rushed to a hospital after ingesting heroin at day care.
SUSAN MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY: If heroin you use, your children you`ll lose!
GRACE: The search for a 22-year-old college honor student vanishing into thin air while vacationing, Miami, Florida. Where is Stepha Henry?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) putting up fliers all day and talking to people.
GRACE: Three children and mom found shot to death in their SUV. Only survivor? Dad, with a single gunshot wound to the leg.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Only two possible scenarios: the mother wielded the weapon; the other is that the father wielded the weapon.
GRACE: Have you ever seen a mom shoot her children?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Never.
GRACE: A young Ohio mom, nine months pregnant, just weeks from giving birth to a second child, vanishes from her own home.
PORTER: My god, something`s wrong. She`s due in two weeks, and she`s just missing.
GRACE: Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, softball game...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nancy, Nancy?
GRACE: Are you done?
PORTER: It points to him, and it`s very difficult, because he is my grandson`s father, and I want the truth. I want the truth to come out. I want them to find my daughter.
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GRACE: Tonight, let`s stop to remember Army Sergeant Chadrick Domino, 23, Ennis, Texas, killed, Iraq. Re-enlisting even after he was injured during a first tour, receiving the Purple Heart, two Army Commendations Medals, and National Service Defense Medal. He loved comic books, music, karate, his mom`s cooking, especially her cornbread and collard greens. Domino leaves behind grieving parents, Gloria and Willis, sister, Ursula, and his grandparents. Chadrick Domino, American hero.
Thank you to our guests, but most of all to you, for being with us. Happy 50th anniversary to Maryland friends of the show, Ron and Ada. Happy anniversary. Aren`t they beautiful? And a special good night from New York, friends of the show, Aubrey, Geralyn, Marilyn, Georgia friends, Holly and Christina. Good night from the New York control room. Good night, Brett. Night, Ben, Liz, Rosie. See you all tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.
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