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Young Woman Dies After Botched Buttocks Injection

Aired February 15, 2011 - 20:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight, live, Philadelphia suburbs. A beautiful classically trained student, 20 years old, decides on plastic surgery. And tonight, her family mourns her death.

Bombshell tonight. At this hour, Philadelphia police say Claudia Aderotimi died after a botched buttocks enhancement when a fumbled injection filled her lungs with silicone, causing a fatal embolism after coughing and shortness of breath. The injector apparently nicked a vein and shot silicone straight into her bloodstream, landing in her lungs, piling up like rocks. Tonight, cops searching for items including cell phones, ID cards with different names, credit cards with fake names, as well as syringes, Krazy Glue, the so-called doctor on the run.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators are searching for a Philadelphia woman who may have caused the death of 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi by allegedly injecting an illegal substance into the young woman`s buttocks. Police searched the home of Padge-Victoria Windslowe and seized dozens of items...

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GRACE: And tonight, live, Ohio. A beautiful mother of two, boys ages 3 and 5, disappears on her way to bring home pizza. Tonight, where is mother of two Tiffany Brown?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A young mother of two who just vanished.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Twenty-six-year-old mom Tiffany Brown.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She went and picked up her boys from school. She went home, and she left them with the baby-sitter.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Ohio woman reportedly leaves her house to run a few quick errands around 4:45 in the afternoon.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Said that she`d be back in a half an hour.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But Tiffany never returned.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She would never leave them kids because (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her 1997 blue gray Honda Civic just found.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, I`m just sick!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tonight, police need your help.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just wish, if somebody knew something, please call the police department.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who took mother of two Tiffany Brown?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She has two boys that love her and miss her, and we need to find her.

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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. A beautiful student, classically trained, just 20 years old, decides on plastic surgery. And tonight, her family is mourning her death. At this hour, Philadelphia police say Claudia Aderotimi dies after a botched buttocks enhancement surgery when a failed injection fills her lungs with silicone, causing a fatal embolism, the so- called doctor on the run.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A woman in her 20s died 12 hours after being injected Monday with what is believed to be silicone in the buttocks during a procedure here at the Hampton Inn hotel in southwest Philadelphia.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Medics responded to Hampton Inn here. They had a female experiencing some trouble breathing, some chest pains. She was transferred over to Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, where she expired.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The victim and one of her female friends got the buttocks injections. The two friends who got the injections met the two females who did the procedure on line. It is unclear if the females who did the procedure are licensed or unlicensed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators are searching for a Philadelphia woman who may have caused the death of 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi by allegedly injecting an illegal substance into the young woman`s buttocks. Police searched the home of Padge-Victoria Windslowe and seized dozens of items, including a box of syringes and packets of silica gel. Aderotimi, a dancer and aspiring hip-hop star, traveled to Philadelphia in order to undergo the illegal cosmetic procedure. She and another woman allegedly went to a hotel near the Philadelphia International Airport and paid more than $1,500 to receive injections. The other woman survived. But Aderotimi complained of chest pains and trouble breathing and was rushed to the hospital, where she died a day after the procedure.

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GRACE: We are taking your calls. As I just reported, the so-called doctor on the run after allegedly taking the life of a classically trained student just 20 years old.

Straight out to Jean Casarez, legal correspondent, "In Session." What happened, Jean?

JEAN CASAREZ, "IN SESSION": Well, Nancy, this was a young girl that had big dreams. She wanted to be a singer. She wanted to be a star. So she went and she was going to have and she did have a buttocks enhancement procedure. Now, police are saying the woman that was playing doctor, doing all of this, actually illegally injected her with silicone. And the question is, did the silicone hit a vein? Was this a homicide? Is this a murder? She started having shortness of breath, took -- taken to the hospital, and she died.

GRACE: Also joining us tonight, Alexis Weed, on the story. Alexis, what more can you tell me?

ALEXIS WEED, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: The procedure took place last Monday around 1:30 in the afternoon. It`s 12 hours later when Claudia comes to the hospital. She eventually dies of this procedure. It`s said that the silicone became infected (ph) in her lungs and that`s what perhaps caused her death, although we are awaiting toxicology reports.

GRACE: We`re taking your calls live. Out to Carla in Virginia. Hi, Carla.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy! We love you!

GRACE: Thank you. And thank you for calling in, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have never heard of anything like this. What would -- what would cause that? Why would it kill her?

GRACE: Well, from what I`m understanding, she`s getting silicone implants, where they shoot silicone directly into your body. Now, this young girl, just 20 years old, decided she wanted, I guess, the J. Lo look, and so she`s getting implants or silicone injections directly into her buttocks. It all goes wrong. The silicone goes directly into her veins, goes straight into her lungs, travels through her into her vascular system directly to the lung. It`s a gel substance -- gel! And it piles up in her lungs and solidifies like rocks in her lungs. It`s my understanding that that`s what happened.

Let`s go to Dr. Michael Arnall, board-certified forensic pathologist, joining us tonight out of Denver, Colorado. I think you could explain it a lot better than me, Doctor.

DR. MICHAEL ARNALL, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: No, Nancy, I think your explanation was perfect. This gel goes to the lung. It clogs the blood vessels. The blood vessels are blocked. Without blood flowing through your lungs, you can`t get any oxygen into your blood. And the patient dies for lack of oxygen because the blood vessels are clogged, just as you have described.

GRACE: Back out to the lines. Jen in South Carolina. Hi, Jen.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Colorado?

GRACE: Oh, Colorado? Hello, Jen. Thank you for calling in. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my gosh! I love you, Nancy Grace!

GRACE: Jen, thank you so much. Thank you for saying that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m not kidding!

GRACE: And I got to tell you, it`s calls like yours that keeps me going a lot of times because the stories that we report in crime and justice are very, very disturbing, like this. Here, this woman, this student, she`s 20 years old, she doesn`t know anything. She goes to the Hampton Inn, Jen -- the Hampton Inn -- hey, the Hampton Inn -- I love the Hampton Inn. Me and my staff, we`ve all stayed there when we`re on the road. It`s great to stay at. Not so good for plastic surgery, OK? So she goes the Hampton Inn. This doctor performs this illegal butt enhancement. She dies. She starts getting short of breath and choking. It`s because the gel, the silicone gel, has solidified in her lungs like rocks.

What`s your question, Jen?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I wanted to know -- and you did address it. It was a woman. However, is -- does anybody know if she was a real doctor? And was this really silicone?

GRACE: OK, Jen, I have heard, you know -- when I was a prosecutor in Atlanta, there were a lot of crime witnesses in strip clubs. And let me tell you, they would go to Lowes or Home Depot, get silicone from a supplier and shoot it straight into their buttocks,all right? What can I tell you about this doctor? I got a lot to tell you!

OK, Jean, since Jen asked, let it rip. What do we know about the doctor?

CASAREZ: All right. What we know about the "doctor," quote, unquote, is that she wanted to be a star, too, she was probably financing these music videos...

GRACE: Jean, Jean! Here`s the doctor.

CASAREZ: That`s her.

GRACE: We`re showing videos of the doctor. I hope you people do not believe that this is the victim. Oh, no. No, no, no, no! Put it in full. I want to see the doctor. There you go. There`s the doctor. Go ahead, Jean.

CASAREZ: A self-described goth, hip-hop singer better known as the Black Madam. That`s what she goes by. And Nancy, I want to tell everybody that police are raiding the apartment now. They have gotten boxes of evidence. They are taking out syringes, silicone, identification cards and cell phones, plural.

GRACE: Now, the ID cards all have different names. The credit cards all have different names. What else can you tell me about what they are -- it`s a huge, huge search warrant execution. What all are they getting?

CASAREZ: Well, they`re getting a lot of different vials of silicone. That`s the man thing because they want to show that she caused this to happen -- syringes, identification cards. They believe that Windslowe actually injected the silicone into the victim`s bloodstream, and that`s how this all began.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers. Joining us tonight, Sue Moss, child advocate, family law attorney out of New York, Raymond Giudice, defense attorney, Atlanta, Alex Sanchez, defense attorney, New York. Weigh in, Sue Moss.

SUE MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY: She`s a hip-hop singer who gives silicone with a zinger! Come on, Nancy! (INAUDIBLE) way to get a bigger butt! But the reality is, is this is -- she`s going to be guilty of felony murder rule. She`s going to go down for murder, and that`s because she probably is not a doctor. She was probably practicing without a license these medical procedures. And if somebody dies while you`re committing a felony, you`re going down for murder!

GRACE: This young student, classically trained, decides she wants plastic surgery. She takes a cheap way out. She has an illegal procedure at a Hampton Inn, a buttocks injection. She dies as the silicone shoots straight through her vascular system, through her veins, lodges in her lungs, where it piles up like rocks. The 20-year-old girl dead, the doctor on the run.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) responded to the Hampton Inn here. They had a female experiencing some trouble breathing, some chest pains. She was transferred over to Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, where she expired.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators are searching for a Philadelphia woman who may have caused the death of 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi by allegedly injecting an illegal substance into the young woman`s buttocks. Police searched the home of Padge-Victoria Windslowe and seized dozens of items, including a box of syringes and packets of silica gel. Aderotimi, a dancer and aspiring hip-hop star, traveled to Philadelphia in order to undergo the illegal cosmetic procedure. She and another woman allegedly went to a hotel near the Philadelphia International Airport and paid more than $1,500 to receive injections. The other woman survived, but Aderotimi complained of chest pains and trouble breathing and was rushed to the hospital, where she died a day after the procedure.

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GRACE: We`re taking your calls. Out to Lisa in Florida. Hi, Lisa.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. I just want to thank you for being the voice for people who really don`t have a voice to describe what they`re feelings are.

GRACE: You know what? I really appreciate that. And look, I know this girl, this 20-year-old student, got hooked up with this crazy doctor, thought she was getting a deal on plastic surgery, goes to a Hampton Inn, has plastic surgery butt injections, buttocks enhancement, and this is what happened. I mean, she thought she was going to be the next Kim Kardashian, you know, with the sexy butt. She`s dead. This crazy doctor shoots her up with silicone. It goes straight to her lungs, solidifies like rocks. She`s dead. The doctor on the run. And P.S., you`re not looking at the victim, you`re looking at the so-called doctor.

What`s your question, Lisa?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who in their right mind would really go to a hotel to have a procedure done?

GRACE: Oh, Lisa, Lisa, I hope you`re sitting down. You better lay down for this. Haven`t you heard of those botox parties, where all these rich ladies get together like it`s a Tupperware party and they get botox injections? Same thing. People take it very, very lightly.

To Nicole Partin, investigative reporter. This is actually very, very common.

NICOLE PARTIN, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER (via telephone): Yes, it is, Nancy. As a matter of fact, Claudia and her friend were given the name of this Black Madam on line by an on-line friend who highly recommended her. And also, the Black Madam has a YouTube channel where she boasts of these butt implant procedures. She advertises it -- $1,500, $1600, you come and you receive the procedure.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers -- Sue Moss, Raymond Giudice, Alex Sanchez. OK, Giudice, give me your best defense because -- how long can -- you know, I guess, what, a 6-foot-2 transvestite Black Madam/doctor/hip-hop artist -- how long can she really hide?

RAYMOND GIUDICE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, I don`t think too long. You`re right about that.

GRACE: Not too long.

GIUDICE: But let me -- let me say this. What I -- here`s what I think the charges will be. I think there will be...

GRACE: Murder.

GIUDICE: ... a homicide charge, murder/homicide, voluntary reckless manslaughter. It will not be a first degree death penalty case. There was no intent to harm this person. That would be the death penalty qualification.

GRACE: Well, no, it`s not going to be a death penalty case.

GIUDICE: I agree.

GRACE: But it could very well be a murder case.

GIUDICE: That`s possible.

GRACE: What about it, Sanchez?

ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, I`ve just been informed by Dr. Peter Driscoll (ph), one of the top cosmetic surgeons in the country, that silicone injections should never be used under any circumstances. But I think -- that having been said I think she could be charged with assault, possibly manslaughter, illegal practice of medicine. So there`s a number of charges she could be facing. But I don`t think she`ll be charged with murder because there was no intent to murder here.

GRACE: I think she could be charged with felony murder because what she did is a felony and it resulted in a death. What about it, Sue Moss?

MOSS: Absolutely! She had the intent to commit the felony! You don`t put silicone in buttocks and you certainly don`t do it at the Hampton Inn! You don`t even do it at the Holiday Inn Express! What -- the reality is, is that she committed a felony, somebody died. Felony murder rule! That`s it!

GRACE: For those of you just joining us, a gorgeous 20-year-old student, classically trained musician, decides on plastic surgery. She takes the cheap way out, heads to a local Hampton Inn and an infamous doctor who will give her silicone butt enhancement treatments. In just a few hours, she`s dead.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) basically that they`re using to inject is industrial grade, not much better than what you would use to caulk your gutters in your house.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A woman in her 20s died 12 hours after being injected Monday with what is believed to be silicone in the buttocks during a procedure here at the Hampton Inn hotel in southwest Philadelphia.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Medics responded to the Hampton Inn here. They had female experiencing some trouble breathing, some chest pains. She was transferred over to Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, where she expired.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The victim and one of her female friends got the buttocks injections. The two friends who got the injections met the two females who did the procedure on line. It is unclear if the females who did the procedure are licensed or unlicensed.

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GRACE: Out to Donald Schweitzer, former detective, Santa Ana PD. How do we find this guy?

DONALD SCHWEITZER, FMR. DETECTIVE, SANTA ANA PD: You go where the bad guys hang out, Nancy. I always say that if you`re looking for a heroin addict, go to where they sell heroin. In this case, this guy`s probably hanging out with...

GRACE: Whoa! Wait, wait, wait, wait...

SCHWEITZER: ... people that sell...

GRACE: ... wait, wait, wait!

SCHWEITZER: OK.

GRACE: Hold that photo up. That`s the victim? OK, I`m hearing in my ear -- I`m just getting these photos right now. That`s the victim? And she thought she had a bad behind and she wanted a butt enhancement? Can you see the monitor, Schweitzer?

SCHWEITZER: I can, but I`m not going to comment on her behind, Nancy.

GRACE: Yes, you know what? Just hold...

SCHWEITZER: I`ve got a reputation to maintain.

GRACE: ... that thought. Let`s go to Dr. Patricia Saunders. Dr. Saunders, what was she thinking? She`s gorgeous!

PATRICIA SAUNDERS, PSYCHOLOGIST: So many people have what we call body dysmorphic syndrome, Nancy, where they don`t have a clear and realistic...

GRACE: OK, Dr. Patricia...

SAUNDERS: ... sense of themselves...

GRACE: No, no, no! Take that photo down. I want to see the other photo. And Dr. Saunders, I really don`t know how to put this, but I want you to focus on her posterior, her behind. She thinks she looks bad?

SAUNDERS: Yes. It can really be like that. It can really be like that, when young women have an almost delusional sense of what they really look like. This is a gorgeous young woman with a more than ample rear. For her, she`s got a fantasy somewhere in her head that it`s not big enough. And if it`s only big enough, then she`ll be perfect. That`s not healthy.

GRACE: You`re taking a look at the victim in this case, Claudia Aderotimi. She`s gorgeous. She`s just 20 years old, and decided she need plastic surgery. Well, it all backfired when she meets a so-called doctor at the Hampton Inn, all right? And there she gets butt implants. It`s silicone directly injected into her bloodstream. She dies shortly after, the so-called doctor tonight on the run.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators are searching for a Philadelphia woman who may have caused the death of this 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi by allegedly injecting an illegal substance into the young woman`s buttocks.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A young mother of two who just vanished.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: 26-year-old mom Tiffany Brown.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She went to pick up her boys from school. She went home and she left them with the babysitter.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The woman reportedly leaves her house to run a few quick errands around 4:45 in the afternoon.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Said that she would be back in half an hour.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: But Tiffany never returns.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She would never leave them kids. It`s all about her and the boys.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Her 1997 blue-gray Honda Civic just found.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean I`m just sick.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tonight, police need your help.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just wish if somebody knew something, please call the police department.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Who took mother of two Tiffany Brown?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She has two boys that love her and miss her, and we need to find her.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: On nearly every pole, on nearly home, there`s a missing poster of Bellefontaine`s Tiffany Brown. The 26-year-old mother of two boys, ages 5 and 3, left her kids with a babysitter at her home and never came back.

Tonight, they`re pleading for information about their daughter`s whereabouts. Police told Brown`s mother that someone turned on her daughter`s cell phone on Saturday morning. The location of the signal appeared to be about three miles north of Kenton and the call was made to someone in Chicago.

Her parents say her boys mean everything to her. She had a job and was going to cosmetology school.

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Where is missing mom Tiffany Brown? The mother two of little boys, just 26 years old.

Straight out to you, Jean Casarez. What happened, Jean?

JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": Nancy, this is -- this is just very odd because she had everything to live for. She`s a beautiful mother, she left her children with the babysitter, not alone. She went to her mother`s beauty shop. Her mother owns a beauty shop.

She got a deposit to go to the bank. Went to the bank with the deposit. Was supposed to go Western Union after that to send money, so that sounds like she had money on her possibly, to a cousin, but never made it there. And never returned home to her two sons.

GRACE: To Joel Mast, staff writer, "Bellefontaine Examiner." Joel, what more can you tell me?

JOEL MAST, STAFF WRITER, BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER: Well, today we -- they did have some more information regarding the car, you know, it`s unlocked. It was -- had the keys in it. They have processed it using the Bureau of Criminal Identification and investigation at the state`s BCI trying to get some evidence out of it. They`re not saying anything right now, what they have collected yet, or if it`s helped them locate her.

GRACE: You are taking a look at shots of 26-year-old Tiffany Brown who just vanishes into thin air.

Out to the lines, Nakiaya. Joining us from Louisiana. Hi, dear.

NAKIAYA, CALLER FROM LOUISIANA: Hi, Nancy. I love you.

GRACE: Thank you. And thank you for calling in. What`s your question?

NAKIAYA: My question is, like, was she dating anyone? And also, like, do they know, like, how long it was going to take her to go run those errands? And like what really happened to this girl? Like her boyfriend or someone comes? Or did she have personal problems that someone would want to hurt her?

GRACE: Joining me right now as a special guest, it is Tiffany`s mom. With us tonight, Deborah Neeley, joining us from Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Miss Neeley, thank you for being with us.

DEBORAH NEELEY, MOTHER OF MISSING SINGLE MOM, TIFFANY BROWN: Thank you for having us.

GRACE: How are the boys tonight?

NEELEY: The boys are OK. I mean they`re just now just starting to ask some questions. But they have -- we have a big family and lot of people love them.

GRACE: Deborah, what are they asking?

NEELEY: They just want to know where their mommy is.

GRACE: You know, Deborah, everything that I heard about her, this is so uncharacteristic, she`s never just dropped off the map like this to our knowledge?

NEELEY: No, no, Tiffany wouldn`t do that. I mean this was her whole life was her two boys.

GRACE: Tell me what happened, around the hours she went missing, Deborah.

NEELEY: Like they said, she just came into my beauty shop, she was going run some errands for me, and she was going to make a bank deposit and send some money to her cousin. And she came in, she was in hurry. And she came in and got that, and said, I`ll see you later. And she walked out the door and she went to the bank, and she never made it to do the Western Union. And she picked up the boys and took them home to the babysitter and said she`d be back in half an hour.

GRACE: You are seeing shots of Tiffany Brown, just 26 years old. She looks like the all-American girl. Two little boys, ages 3 and 5. White female, 5`4", 150 pounds, shoulder length hair, curly dark hair, brown eyes. Mole on the right side of her nose. She was wearing a hooded sweat shirt and jeans.

Out to the lines. First to Sue Moss, family law attorney, child advocate. Weigh in, Sue.

SUSAN MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY & CHILD ADVOCATE: They found this unlocked car with keys. And now they don`t have any leads, this is not good. She has two boys. She`s in school, she has a job, she didn`t just disappeared, something must have happened to her.

GRACE: Joining me right now as special guest, Marc Klaas, president and founder of KlaasKids Foundation, joining us out of San Francisco.

Marc, what do you think?

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: This is -- there`s really not very many places to go with this. What they have to do is they have to follow the time line or create a time line from the moment that she left the bank until the moment that her car was located.

And then, I guess from that point, to the point that her phone was used again, they have to find out who she was dating, who she`d been in contact with, friends and family, any e-contacts, people she might have been involved with on the Internet, and see if they might be able to glean some leads from that information. Otherwise, it appears that she disappeared into the ether.

GRACE: To Ellie Jostad, our chief editorial producer.

Ellie, let`s go through it one more time. Go through the facts with me about how she went missing.

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE CHIEF EDITORIAL PRODUCER: Right.

GRACE: What led up to her just disappearing?

JOSTAD: OK. So as her mom explained, Tiffany went to the beauty shop where -- that her mom owns. Picked up that deposit. Made that deposit at the bank. Was supposed to go to Western Union, but didn`t get there. Went and picked up her boys at their daycare, took them home. A neighbor who regularly watches the kids for her came over. She tells this neighbor that she`s going to go run errands. Said she`s be gone about a half an hour.

After she left, she texted a friend and -- I should mention, she told the babysitter, don`t feed the boys because I`m going to go pick up a pizza. So after she left, she texted a friend, said I`m headed to Chuck Cheese. The friend was busy and couldn`t make it.

Now that`s the last time anybody heard from her. She also was supposed to meet her mother`s boyfriend later that night. They were going to go shopping for a Valentine`s Day gift. She never showed up. He figured she got busy. Her mom tried to text her a few more times at 8:00, 9:00.

At 11:30 when she hadn`t picked up the boys, the sitter called her mother and that`s when everybody started to get really concerned that something was wrong.

GRACE: And when she was actually reported missing, Ellie?

JOSTAD: She was reported missing first thing that next morning, 8:00 a.m.

GRACE: To Deborah Neeley, Tiffany`s mother. Why did you guys wait overnight to call police?

NEELEY: Well, we weren`t really alarmed. I just thought she was busy when I didn`t hear from her at 8:00, and then at 9:00. And at 11:30, when I -- when she still hadn`t been back, I called her father to see if maybe she had went over there. And I really wasn`t concerned yet. I just wasn`t really concerned yet. That she -- anything had happened to her.

GRACE: And where were the boys?

NEELEY: They were with the babysitter and I took them from that point.

GRACE: Well, does she normally leave the children with the babysitter overnight?

NEELEY: No, no. She never left them with them overnight. But I wasn`t alarmed. I didn`t know that she was going to leave them with the babysitter. She told the babysitter she`d be right back and that`s what she had planned to do.

GRACE: OK. So she tells the babysitter she`ll be right back. Then she`s not back and it`s midnight.

NEELEY: Right.

GRACE: Nobody got alarmed?

NEELEY: Right. I wished -- well, I wished the babysitter would have gotten a hold of me sooner. I mean I just didn`t think anything about it. I figured she -- I actually thought maybe that she might have went down and picked up the baby`s father.

GRACE: Did you try to call her on her cell?

NEELEY: Yes.

GRACE: OK, I want to go back to Jean Casarez.

Jean, what can you tell me again about the cell phone, the pings?

CASAREZ: OK, let`s go to Saturday morning --

GRACE: Right. Right.

CASAREZ: Remember, she was reported missing at 8:30, well, her cell phone was turned on between the hours of 6:30 and 9:30 -- 6:30 and 8:30, for two hours, a call, an outgoing call was made --

GRACE: In the morning?

CASAREZ: In the morning. And an outgoing call was made on that cell to Chicago. And her family says she doesn`t know anybody in Chicago. But there is also some news that we`re learning that it appears as though a text was sent from the phone at 6:46 a.m. From her phone Saturday to Brian Heitman, the father of her sons.

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NEELEY: She was going to run her errands and she never made it back. Someone has made her from making it back here. I do know that and I feel that. She`s not just walked off.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Law enforcement is searching for 26-year-old mother of two, Tiffany Brown.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She was last seen leaving her home.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tiffany Brown vanished.

NEELEY: We need to find her. Her boys need to find her.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tiffany`s whereabouts in the hours before she disappeared is coming to light. Reports say she picked up a bank deposit from her mom`s beauty salon around 3:00 p.m., dropping it off at the bank. Around 4:30 she picks up her sons from the Christian day school. But after dropping them off at home with the babysitter, what happens next to Tiffany is unknown.

Tiffany`s mom says she`s the type of person who would never leave her kids and is always punctual.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: How tough has this been?

NEELEY: Well, you don`t even know. I can`t even -- I can`t even describe that. You know?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tiffany`s parents tell us on Saturday, someone did send a text message from her phone to the father of her two children. But they don`t think that message was from her.

NEELEY: I know it wasn`t her. Tiffany does not illiterate. This was an illiterate texting message.

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GRACE: We are taking your calls. Out to Cassandra in Missouri. Hi, Cassandra.

CASSANDRA, CALLER FROM MISSOURI: Hi, Nancy. How are you?

GRACE: I`m good, dear. What`s your question?

CASSANDRA: Well, I`m just excited to speak to you. My question is, OK, you said -- they said they had a type of an illiterate text message, so does that mean that would be from the baby`s father? Has he been questioned or has -- you know any investigation with him for the kids to come up missing?

GRACE: Well, I know he lived quite a ways away, is that not correct, Joel Mast? Joel joining us from the "Bellefontaine Examiner."

MAST: That`s correct. He lived in Milford. Well, he lives in Milford and it`s around Cincinnati. It`s about a two-hour drive away. And, as far as I know they are not confirming whether they talked with him or not. I asked that today. And they said that he -- probably would be talked to, he probably was a number of people they wanted to talk to but they would not confirm they had interviewed him yet.

GRACE: To Deborah Neeley, this is Tiffany`s mother.

Miss Neeley, that phone call that was made from her phone early in the morning, to whom was the call made?

NEELEY: We don`t know. It was made to someone in Chicago. We don`t know who it was.

GRACE: Now she was on good relations with the children`s father, right?

NEELEY: They still spoke. They weren`t together. But they still spoke.

GRACE: Back to the lawyers. Sue Moss, Raymond Giudice, Alex Sanchez.

Ray Giudice, very often investigation starts with the ex, the boyfriend, the husband, the lover, why?

RAY GIUDICE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, it only makes sense. You want to talk to the people that are closest, both physically and closest in communication. And maybe even intimately closest. Only that only mean it`s part of a thorough investigation. It doesn`t put the focus on anyone. I`m surprised a week later if the ex-husband has not been spoken to.

GRACE: What about it, Sanchez?

ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: The police have an absolutely superb lead here, and that`s that cell call. Who do those calls go to? Were there prior text messages to that same person? How come the police have not spoken to that person already? What about prior e-mail contact between that person and the missing woman right here?

There are so many leads that could be developed from this information that could crack this case wide open very quickly, Nancy.

GRACE: What about it, Dr. Saunders?

PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: So many loose ends here. I agree with Alex. There are other loose ends. There was a missing sticker on the bumper (INAUDIBLE) a motorcycle. She liked to ride on motorcycles. Want to find out who her motorcycle pals were. Things like that.

GRACE: To Marc Klaas, founder of KlaasKids Foundation.

Marc, it seemed to me that we`re going to learn more from the clues in the car as opposed to a call that she may have made that someone may have pushed resend, or -- I don`t know what in the cell phone. Because these calls were to people that were out of town.

KLAAS: That`s correct. And if the -- if there was an illiterate text message made, that might be an indicator that the person that`s involved in her disappeared is not particularly bright, and may very well have left some forensic evidence behind in her car.

As far as that bumper sticker being peeled off, I can`t make heads or tails out of that one day or the other.

GRACE: To Dr. Michael Arnall, board certified forensic pathologist. With every hour that passes, hopes dim for finding her. What`s your experience in this?

DR. MICHAEL ARNALL, BOARD CERTIFIED FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: The longer she goes without being discovered, the more ominous that is. It suggests that there may well be foul play.

GRACE: I want to find out more, Jean Casarez, about the condition of the car.

CASAREZ: Well, the car -- this is what`s so odd. The car was found, as you know, at this apartment complex, it`s the Colonial Arms Apartment. And it was unlocked. And the driver`s seat was pushed way back like a tall person was in it. She wasn`t tall. And that is giving investigators a lot of information at this point.

GRACE: Well, obviously somebody else drove the car to that location. You think, though, Jean Casarez, somebody that kidnapped her would not have driven the car straight where they live and leave the car.

CASAREZ: Right. Now she knew somebody at that apartment complex, but that person has said that they have not seen her.

GRACE: To Deborah Neeley, Tiffany`s mom, what do you make of her car being parked at that apartment complex?

NEELEY: We don`t know why it was parked there. To our knowledge, she doesn`t know anybody there. We just don`t have any clue at this point.

GRACE: I want to go to Ellie Jostad, our chief editorial producer.

You told me they questioned a man that lives in the apartment complex? I mean, come on, Ellie, a kidnapper or a killer is not going to -- if they`re in their right mind, take the car, the woman`s car, and park it in their apartment complex. It`s like taking out a neon sign, hi, here I am, come and get me.

JOSTAD: Right. Right. And this is an apartment complex that has six units that are duplexes. Police went door to door, canvas that area. Eve brought in a dog team to try to find scent, anything related to her.

We had been told that a man was questioned, said he didn`t know her, later turned out he did. But unknown if that produced any sort of leads.

GRACE: We are taking your calls. Tammy in Georgia. Hi, Tammy. What`s your question?

TAMMY, CALLER FROM GEORGIA: Hi, Nancy. This is Tammy. I`m in Valdosta, some of your old stomping ground.

GRACE: Sure is.

TAMMY: I want to know if back to the bank if by chance they`ve looked at the videotape to see if there was anyone who was watching her in the bank or followed her out of the bank.

GRACE: You know, that`s a really good question.

What do we know, Joel Mast?

MAST: They`re not saying a whole lot about it right now. The -- I just want to say that the police department has been investing as much resources as it can. And they`ve given off (INAUDIBLE) to -- overtime, that type of thing. I`ve seen a very serious resolve in their faces as they look at this case. They`re -- but they`re not saying a whole lot about what evidence they have at this point in time. And --

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: 26-year-old Tiffany Brown --

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She leaves her young sons ages 3 and 5 with a neighbor and tells the neighbor she`ll be back in about a half hour. Tiffany`s mom, Deborah Neeley, reportedly sends text messages to her daughter. But Tiffany doesn`t respond. Finally the babysitter calls Tiffany`s mom to say Tiffany hasn`t returned.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tiffany`s parents pray someone comes forward with information.

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GRACE: Straight out to Donald Schweitzer, a former detective, Santa Ana PD. What do we do now ?

DONALD SCHWEITZER, FORMER DETECTIVE, SANTA ANA PD: I think that we have to follow up with all her relationships. This looks like somebody that she knew. Unless it was just an extreme chance opportunity. But it doesn`t look that way. I think that she might have been dating somebody or somebody close to her. Just keep following that lead.

GRACE: Everyone, tip line, 937-599-8477.

Let`s stop and remember Army Sergeant 1st Class Richard Schild, 40, Yankton, South Dakota, killed Iraq. Served 14 years. Awarded the Bronze Heart, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal.

Loved the outdoors, hunting, playing with his children. Favorite sports teams, Minnesota Vikings and Nebraska Cornhuskers. Favorite NASCAR, Jeff Gordon. Leaves behind mothers, Colleen, five brothers, three sisters, widow, Kay. Children Keely and Coby.

Richard Schild, American hero.

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