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Nancy Grace
Pregnant Woman Vanishes
Aired March 18, 2011 - 21:00 ET
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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Vanished into thin air.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look for her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just need to kind her.
GRACE: So many cases --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re still looking.
GRACE: -- so few leads.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Missing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.
GRACE: Missing person.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s our duty to find her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The witness had seen the suspect on NANCY GRACE.
GRACE: There is a God.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The NANCY GRACE show was out there for us.
GRACE: Found alive.
Fifty people, 50 days, 50 nights.
Let`s don`t give up.
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HUBERT PROPST, FATHER OF MISSING PREGNANT MOM: When you`re used to seeing her sit across the table from you, or smiling at you, joking with her, it`s hard.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Missouri mom to be Amanda Jones kissed her daughter and parents good-bye as she left a church service August 14, 2005. It was one of the last times police say they`re certain the 26-year-old was seen alive.
PROPST: That`s my baby. I love her. If she -- if he`d had left her at 2:00 in that car, she would have called.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Amanda told family she was headed to a local civics center to meet the man she believed to be the father of her unborn baby boy. The suspected father allegedly tells police he did meet Amanda at the center, then left without incident.
SHERIFF GLENN BOYER, JEFFERSON COUNTY: He`s very important to our investigation at this point in time simply because he was the last one to speak to her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Amanda, nine months pregnant, was expected home two hours later but never showed up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is uncharacteristic behavior of this lady. She`s always been very responsible, calling parents whenever. We have some fear that this is not right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her car found left behind at the civics center. Her purse, keys and cell phone all missing. Police say investigation of her vehicle left no clues to Amanda`s whereabouts, nor did a search of the suspected father`s home.
BOYER: My greatest hope is that she simply would walk in the front door and say, hey, guess what? I`m home, I had to take a breather, and I`m back. And that would be wonderful. I think that`s what all of us really want.
GRACE: Sir, if you could speak out to Amanda right now, what would you say?
PROPST: Amanda, hang in there, honey. We`re going to find you and we`re going to bring you home, you and your baby. We`re going to bring you home, and you`re going to be OK.
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GRACE: Every day, 2,300 people go missing in America, vanish, disappear. Their families left behind waiting, wondering, hoping, but never forgetting. And neither have we.
Fifty people, 50 days. For 50 nights we go live, spotlighting America`s missing children, boys, girls, mothers, fathers, grandparents. They`re gone, but where?
Tonight, a 26-year-old Missouri mom, nine months pregnant, heads to the local civic center, Jefferson County, then disappears without a trace. Police find her car, unlocked, there in the parking lot, but her car keys, her cell phone, all gone.
What happened to pregnant mom Amanda Jones?
For the very latest, straight out to Jean Casarez -- Jean.
JEAN CASAREZ, "IN SESSION": The latest is, Nancy, police need help. They want to find Amanda Jones, and they can`t find Amanda Jones. And the scenarios are this lady was just about to give birth to a baby.
Did someone kill her? Was there a motive for murder here? Did someone want a live baby? Did someone want a live baby to even sell?
The day started out very normally on August 14, 2005.
I want to go out to Christine Byers, who is with -- the reporter for "The St. Louis Dispatch."
Take us through the morning hours, into the afternoon, of August 14, 2005, Christine.
CHRISTINE BYERS, REPORTER, "ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH": Sure. Thanks for having me.
Basically, Amanda went, as she often did with her parents, to church that Sunday morning, and then informed her mother that she was going to be meeting with the man who she believed fathered her child at the Hillsboro Civic Center in Jefferson County, and kissed her 4-year-old daughter good- bye, and told her, "Stay with grandma. Mommy will see you in a couple of hours." And also hugged her mom good-bye and said she`d be returning in just a couple of hours.
CASAREZ: So she was going to go meet who she believed was the father of her child, because she was so close to giving birth, she wanted to talk to him about what would happen after the little boy, Hayden (ph), would be born.
I want to go to Natisha Lance.
Natisha, we want everybody to see surveillance video which is the last time we see Amanda Jones. It is from the Walgreens drugstore. That is her on August 14th.
Natisha, take us through when was this surveillance video taken? It gives us that timeline. And what happened after this?
NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, this was in the 12:00 hour, where Amanda went to this Walgreens store. She purchased a Dr. Pepper and she also purchased some hairspray.
Then, by 1:00 p.m., she had gone to that meeting at the civic center. Now, according to the attorney for this man by the name of Bryan Westfall, he met her at her car, they then went under a pavilion where they talked about the issues that they had at hand regarding the baby.
Then, after that point, he escorted her to the bathroom. Then later on, he escorted her back to her car. And at that point he says he went back inside the civic center because he had some work to do. He was there for about three more hours.
Later on, when he was leaving the civic center, at about 5:00 p.m., he said Amanda appeared to be on her phone, in her vehicle, but at this point her car was parked in a different location than it was before when he had walked her out there. And that, Jean, is the last time anybody saw Amanda.
CASAREZ: Ever saw Amanda.
We are taking your calls live tonight. We have some very special guests that are joining us. They can take your calls. These are the parents of Amanda Jones.
Joining us tonight, Bertha Propst, who is the mother of missing mother Amanda Jones, and Amanda`s father, Herbert Propst, joining us tonight out of St. Louis, Missouri.
Thank you so much for joining us.
I first want to ask you, Bertha, how close was your daughter to giving birth the last time you saw her?
BERTHA PROPST, MOTHER OF AMANDA JONES: She was just days away. We had just visited the hospital where she was going to give birth that Saturday before.
CASAREZ: Wow. So close.
So you go to church that morning. You all go to church. And did you know that she was going to have a meeting with who she believed was the father of the child? How did you find that out?
B. PROPST: Yes, she told us that that morning before we went to church, that she got a call from him, and that he wanted to meet her at 1:00. He was going to take her to lunch at the Fish Off the Hook in De Soto, and that they would talk.
CASAREZ: Did she say she was going to the civic center to meet him?
B. PROPST: Yes, she did.
CASAREZ: And then they would go on to lunch from there.
What happened as the hours went on in that day?
B. PROPST: With her or with us?
CASAREZ: With her. The hours went on -- and Herbert Propst, the hours went on, you didn`t hear from your daughter. Right?
B. PROPST: Right.
H. PROPST: She told us that she was going to meet him at 1:00 at the civic center. They were going to have lunch, she`d see us in a couple hours.
She didn`t call. At 3:00, I called to see where she was at. I called her house phone, her cell phone, and couldn`t get a hold of her nowhere. I called every 15 minutes because it wasn`t like her.
She said if she was going to be some place, she would be -- if she was going to be home, she was going to be home. If she`s going to call us, she`s going to call. She`s that type of girl. And we didn`t see her, hear from her again.
CASAREZ: And so what happened after that? Did you finally call authorities?
H. PROPST: We talked to Bryan about -- my wife talked to Bryan later that night, finally got a hold of him about 9:30 I think it was. And he denied different things.
Go ahead and tell her what you -- you had a conversation with him.
B. PROPST: I called him and I asked him -- I said, "Bryan, you met with my daughter today and she`s not home. I want to know where she`s at."
And he said, "I don`t know." And I asked him -- I said, "Well, did you have a fight or did she go into labor?" He said, "No, I met her at 1:00, she got a phone call. She had to go to the bathroom. And I left her about 2:00. I came back at 5:00, and she was still in her car on the phone."
CASAREZ: OK. So you had one conversation.
H. PROPST: And so he called about three times.
B. PROPST: I had two conversations with him, actually. That was the first one.
And then I called him back again about five minutes later, and I said, "Bryan, please, I need to know where my daughter`s at." And again, he tells me he didn`t know, but then he gave me a different timeline.
Then he goes and says that he met her at 1:00 and then he left her a few minutes later. And he came back again at 5:00 and she was gone.
CASAREZ: All right.
B. PROPST: So I mean, he`s told --
CASAREZ: Go ahead.
B. PROPST: -- too many stories.
CASAREZ: All right. We do want to tell everybody at this point in time there are no persons of interest in this case. This is an open case. It is a missing persons case.
We have the detective with us, Detective Scott Poe out of Jefferson County Sheriff`s Office, High Ridge, Missouri, joining us tonight.
Detective, thank you so much.
First of all, where are you with this investigation at this point?
DET. SCOTT POE, JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICE: Well, Jean, thanks for having me.
And unfortunately, at this time we`re still actively following leads as they come in. Regularly, we report on the case in our command staff meetings. Additionally, we regularly get with other investigators that worked on it in the past, try to bounce ideas off one another, see what new directions we can go in.
We`re still hopeful that we`ll get that crucial lead that will lead us to a resolution in this case. By no means has it fallen by the wayside. It`s still a case that we actively work, and it is an active case, and we still actively pursue every lead that comes.
CASAREZ: All right. So she was going to the Hillsboro Civic Center to meet up with Bryan Westfall, who she believed was the father of her children.
Was there anyone else at that civic center, at the horse grounds that day, that established that she was there with him?
POE: Several people saw the vehicle there, and several people have seen Mr. Westfall there. However, as far as seeing the two of them together, no, ma`am.
CASAREZ: OK. Was a scent dog taken out to that parking lot area where her car was?
POE: Yes, ma`am. We`ve conducted several K-9-related searches to include scent searches, article searches, and worst-case scenario, cadaver dog searchers.
CASAREZ: So with a scent dog search, what did that show? Did it show she left via vehicle, left walking? Any results?
POE: Unfortunately, we`re actually -- we follow the trail as best we can. Nothing conclusive was determined from any of those searches I spoke of.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): She was nine months pregnant and reportedly going to see the man she believed was her baby`s father. That`s the last time Amanda Jones was ever seen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For her to disappear in this manner, especially being nine months pregnant, is highly unusual. So her disappearance is suspicious, to say the least.
H. PROPST: If he had left her at 2:00 in that car, she would have called.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A car found unlocked with her purse inside. Hillsboro Civic Center, the venue Amanda was reportedly headed to.
B. PROPST: Amanda has Graves` disease, and it`s very important that she takes her medication daily.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She needs the medicine. If she does not get it, it could hurt her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hundreds of leads come and go, but police can`t crack the case.
BOYER: If you had a family member that was nine months pregnant and went missing, and it was uncharacteristic for that family member to be missing, you`d want us to pull in every available resource and concentrate on that case as well.
GRACE: She is a mother. A child is waiting at home for her to come home.
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CASAREZ: We are taking your calls live. I`m Jean Casarez.
Amanda Jones had everything to live for. She was nine months pregnant. She was days away from giving birth. And she wanted that baby more than anything.
I want to go out to her parents who are joining us tonight. Bertha Propst and Hubert Propst, they have been kind enough to join us from St. Louis, Missouri.
Bertha, she not only wanted that child, she had a nursery that I have read about that was just ready and waiting for that little baby.
B. PROPST: Yes, she did. The nursery was beautiful. She had it all fixed up and ready for him. She even had a highchair and car seats and everything in the living room waiting for his arrival.
CASAREZ: Hubert, I want to ask you, why did your daughter believe that Westfall was the father of her child? What led her to believe that?
H. PROPST: Because it was a one-night stand and they had sex.
CASAREZ: Was it a --
H. PROPST: Plain and simple.
CASAREZ: Was it a Christmas party?
H. PROPST: It was a Christmas party. It was a Christmas party that the bank had where she was working. He was serving drinks and one thing led to another.
CASAREZ: Bertha --
H. PROPST: She wasn`t having sex with anybody else.
CASAREZ: And I believe this Christmas party was in December.
Bertha, was there any contact between them from January through August?
B. PROPST: When she contacted him to meet with him to tell him that she was pregnant, she went to the civic center there again to meet with him. She had her daughter with her, and she met with him and told him that she was pregnant. Well, at that time he offered her money to have an abortion, and her little 4-year-old stood up and said, "You`re not going to hurt my baby."
CASAREZ: And then she did not contact him --
B. PROPST: She knew what an abortion meant.
CASAREZ: -- they did not speak again until August?
B. PROPST: They did not speak again, no, until August.
CASAREZ: All right.
We`re taking your calls live.
Nicole in Louisiana.
Hi, Nicole.
NICOLE, LOUISIANA: Hi. I just wanted to know if they checked the local hospitals since she was so close to delivery, if they checked the local hospitals, as well as hospitals in other states.
CASAREZ: OK.
Detective Scott Poe from the Jefferson County Sheriff`s Department with us tonight out of High Ridge, Missouri.
Where did you search at the time since she was so close to giving birth?
POE: All the local hospitals in not just our county, but surrounding counties as well, to include St. Louis counties and St. Louis cities. Flyers with Mrs. Jones` picture were districted at those hospitals. Their security staff was made aware, along with their admission staff, for anyone fitting that description, or even closely, to please identify us immediately so we could verify their identification and ensure that it was or was not Mrs. Jones.
CASAREZ: What searches did you do at the time or in the years since she`s gone missing? And were they consent searches or did you execute any search warrants?
POE: No search warrants have been issued at this point. We have done consent searches, several consent searches.
I can tell you we`ve utilized seven different cadaver K-9 teams from three different agencies. We`ve utilized volunteers from the sheriff`s alumni volunteer echelon. We`ve used several other agencies, six Jefferson County law enforcement agencies, two state law enforcement agencies, a federal agency.
They`ve all been involved, over 20 detectives assigned to the task force that we established immediately following the missing. Eight of those members were of the St. Louis area major case squad, and several were former major case squad members. They had a collective experience of right around 210 years. So we --
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CASAREZ: All right. Let me ask you, did you search her car?
POE: Yes, ma`am, we did.
CASAREZ: Did you search Westfall`s car or truck?
POE: Yes, ma`am, we did.
CASAREZ: Westfall`s home?
POE: Yes, ma`am.
CASAREZ: And he had a farm, is that correct?
POE: Yes, ma`am. He does.
CASAREZ: And that was searched?
POE: Yes, it was.
CASAREZ: His parent`s farm was searched?
POE: Yes, ma`am.
CASAREZ: Did you find forensically anything at all that helped you in the investigation?
POE: We found several pieces of evidence that we seized and sent our for process. However, none have yielded any evidentiary value.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Mom Amanda Jones literally disappeared. Amanda, nine months pregnant, and already the mom to a 4- year-old girl, last seen on her way to visit the man she believed to be the baby`s father.
BOYER: The last sighting that we had according to her male friend was as he was driving off the parking lot, he saw her sitting in her car.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here`s her car. A friend found it at the civic center in Hillsboro with the door ajar. Jones` keys, cell phone and purse were gone.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s very pregnant. If you look at her legs, she`s not walking anywhere. Her legs are too swollen to walk anywhere.
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CASAREZ: Amanda Jones was just days away from giving birth. You know, she had named the baby Hayden (ph). That was going to be the name of the baby.
She was a loan administrator in a bank. She held down a job. She had a 4-year-old little girl from a previous marriage, but was so looking forward to this new life that was about to be born.
I want to go out to the lead detective on the case, Detective Scott Poe.
I had heard, Detective, that you actually did find some hairs and fibers in her vehicle when you searched it.
POE: Yes, ma`am, there were hairs and fibers located within the vehicle. However, a lab testing has proven it to be inconclusive at this point to anything that we can use to further our investigation.
CASAREZ: OK. Inconclusive at this point. Inconclusive through technology.
Do you still have those hairs and fibers? Because technology can advance. So maybe they could be tested.
POE: Absolutely, Jean. We retained all that information in hopes that new developments would come along in technology, as they seem to always do, and that perhaps that information, or that evidence, will, in fact, be able to yield us something positive in the future that can be used towards this case.
CASAREZ: All right.
To Jen in Utah.
Hi, Jen.
JEN, UTAH: Hi. How are you?
CASAREZ: Fine. Thank you for calling.
JEN: My heart goes out to Amanda`s family. I just have a couple of questions.
Statistics show that domestic violence is one of the number one killers in pregnant women. Does Bryan have a violent history or a criminal record?
And my second question is, was he in a relationship during this time of the pregnancy? Did he seem interested in being part of the child`s life?
CASAREZ: All right.
Very quickly, Detective Scott Poe, Bryan Westfall was a person of interest at one point. He is no longer. Law enforcement does not believe he at all is associated with this case. Did he have any type of criminal record?
POE: There was no criminal record to speak of. And let me qualify. When we say that he`s not a person of interest, we mean that in a criminal nature. He is of interest to the case, absolutely.
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H. PROPST: I hope that we can keep this going because I need to find my daughter and bring her home. I`m just hoping that somebody will come forward.
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GRACE: Vanished into thin air.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look for her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just need to find her.
GRACE: So many cases.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re still looking.
GRACE: So few leads.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.
GRACE: Missing person.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s our duty to find her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The witness seen the suspect on Nancy Grace.
GRACE: There is a God.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nancy Grace show was out there for us.
GRACE: Found. Alive. 50 people, 50 days, 50 nights. Let`s don`t give up.
HUBERT PROPST, FATHER OF MISSING PREGNANT MOM: When you`re used to seeing her sit across the table from you or smiling at you, joking with her, it`s hard.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missouri mom to be, Amanda Jones, kissed her daughter and parents goodbye as she left a church service August 14th, 2005. It was one of the last times police say they`re certain the 26-year- old was seen alive.
HUBERT PROPST: That`s my baby. I love her. If he`d have left her at 2:00 in that car, she would have called.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Amanda told family she was headed to a local Civic Center to meet the man she believed to be the father of her unborn baby boy. The suspected father allegedly tells police he did meet Amanda at the center then left without incident.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s very important to our investigation at this point in time simply because he was the last one to speak with her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Amanda, nine months pregnant, was expected home two hours later but never showed up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is uncharacteristic behavior of this lady. She`s always been very responsible, calling parents whenever. We have some fear that this is not right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her car found left behind at the Civic Center, her purse, keys and cell phone all missing. Police say investigation of her vehicle left no clues to Amanda`s whereabouts nor did a search of the suspected father`s home.
HUBERT PROPST: My greatest hope is that she simply would walk in the front door and say, hey, guess what, I`m home. I had to take a breather and I`m back. That would be wonderful. I think that`s what all of us really want.
GRACE: Sir, if you could speak out to Amanda right now, what would you say?
HUBERT PROPST: Amanda, hang in there, honey. We`re going to find you. And we`re going to bring you home, you and your baby. We`re going to bring you home. You`re going be OK.
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GRACE: Every day 2,300 people go missing in America, vanish, disappear. Their families left behind waiting, wondering, hoping, but never forgetting, and neither have we. Fifty people, 50 days for 50 nights we go live, spotlighting America`s missing children, boys, girls, mothers, fathers, grandparents. They`re gone, but where?
Tonight, a 26-year-old Missouri mom, nine months pregnant, heads to the local Civic Center, Jefferson County, then disappears without a trace. Police find her car unlocked, there in the parking lot, but her car keys, her cell phone all gone. What happened to pregnant mom, Amanda Jones? For the very latest, straight out to Jean Casarez -- Jean.
JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": Nancy, police are saying they desperately need help. They need help because, forensically, they have done a lot of searches and tests, but there`s nothing to show that this was a criminal act. There is nothing to implicate anyone, forensically. Natisha Lance, I want to go back to August 14th, 2005, and I want to look at the timeline here because we know that the timeline really begins from the last time we saw Amanda Jones on tape.
She was at the Walgreens. We understand that she bought a soda, and she bought hair spray. And then after that, she went to the Civic Center grounds, we believe, to meet who she thought was the father of her baby, Bryan Westfall. Take it from there.
NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Right. This is about one o`clock, Jean, and according to his attorney, she meets him there. He goes out to the car to meet her. They then go to a pavilion so that they`re out of the sun. They`re able to talk about whatever the conversation was supposed to be about with the baby. Then after that point, she says she needs to use the restroom. He uses his keys to go into the Civic Center so that she can use the restroom.
He then takes her back to her car, and at that point, he says that she receives a phone call. He goes back into the Civic Center. He works for about three hours. And when he comes back out at 5:00 p.m., he said it appears that Amanda is on her phone, but her car is parked in a different spot. And that`s the last time she was seen.
CASAREZ: OK. So, from 1:00 to 2:00, it is believed that they had this conversation outside, right, of the Civic Center during the summer, correct?
LANCE: That`s right.
CASAREZ: All right. So, then, from 2:00 to 5:00, that 3-hour span, Bryan Lee Westfall said that he went back in the Civic Center, and he was continuing to do work. He comes out at 5:00. He says she`s still there?
LANCE: He says she`s still there. It appears that she`s on the phone, but he doesn`t stop. He doesn`t speak to her. He goes on his way, and he leaves her there in her vehicle.
CASAREZ: On the phone again. All right. To Detective Scott Poe, we hear these phone calls that were allegedly made at certain times. Did you get the phone records of Amanda Jones after she went missing to corroborate or not corroborate the witness statement of telephone calls?
VOICE OF DETECTIVE SCOTT POE, JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICE: Yes, Jean, we sure did.
CASAREZ: Were they corroborated?
POE: We can tell you that the last call that was received by Mrs. Jones was well earlier in the day. As far as Mr. Westfall having seen her appear to be on the phone, no one can speak to that except for Mr. Westfall.
CASAREZ: So, you`re saying the last phone call she got was well earlier than around 5:00 in the evening?
POE: Yes, ma`am, it was earlier.
CASAREZ: OK.
POE: I believe she received her last incoming call at approximately 1:19 hours on that same day.
CASAREZ: 1:19 in the afternoon?
POE: Yes, ma`am.
CASAREZ: OK. To Bertha Propst, the mother of Amanda Jones, who is joining us tonight, along with Hubert Propst, the father of Amanda Jones. You know, Jen in Utah had a question that I do want to ask you, if you know. Bryan Westfall, who she believed was the father of her child, did he have a girlfriend at all? A relationship going on at that time in August of 2005?
BERTHA PROBST, MOTHER OF MISSING PREGNANT MOM: Yes, he did.
HUBERT PROBST: Yes, he did. For seven years.
BERTHA PROBST: And he`s still in that relationship with that girl.
HUBERT PROBST: Yes, he is.
CASAREZ: All right. And just to remind everyone, there are no suspects. There are no persons of interest in this case. Out to Marc Klaas --
HUBERT PROBST: Jean --
CASAREZ: Yes?
HUBERT PROBST: Could I say something?
CASAREZ: Sure, go ahead.
HUBERT PROBST: You were talking earlier about him having a criminal record. He was fired from Jefferson College for sexual harassment.
CASAREZ: All right. And we cannot substantiate that. We are not able to confirm that, but you are free to say what you believe. Detective Scott Poe, do you know anything about that to confirm or --
POE: No, ma`am. I cannot speak to that allegation.
CASAREZ: All right. To Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaaskids Foundation. You`re listening to all of this. You know, when we look at women that have gone missing when they`re pregnant, Marc, I want you to look at this before we talk. Other missing pregnant women. Look at the list here. Laci Peterson, vanished December 24th, 2002, found murdered April 14th, 2003. Lori Hacking, vanished July 19th, 2004, found murdered October 1st, 2004. Jesse Davis, vanished June 13th, 2007, found murdered June 23rd, 2007. La Toya Figueroa, vanished July 18th, 2005, found murdered August 20th, 2005. And Trudy Hall, vanished July 28th, 2010. She is still missing. Marc Klaas, your thoughts?
MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT & FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: Well, I`m having a hard time buying into Mr. Westfall`s story. Apparently, he`s changed a couple of times. He said that she was on the phone at 5:00. Her last incoming call was at 1:19. Her father tried to reach her every 15 minutes from 3:00 on. So, I believe something happened to her between 1:19 and probably 3:00. And I don`t, for a minute, believe that this woman just upped and walked away and wanted to be by herself.
She`s had a hard time walking as I understand it. She was within just a couple of days of giving birth. She was very, very close to her family. She was looking forward to this baby. It seems to me that Mr. Westfall needs to take a polygraph exam or, hopefully, has taken a polygraph exam and cleared himself and really kind of wholes up his story a little bit, make sure it gets a little tighter so that everybody is kind of on the same page because it just seems very self-serving to me that he`s inside this building, by himself, without witnesses, for three hours.
He comes out, and she`s supposedly on the phone, and he just drives away. I don`t like it. I don`t buy it.
CASAREZ: Detective Scott Poe, have there been any polygraphs taken in this case?
POE: I can say in this case that there were not polygraphs, but certified voice stress analysis test given different individuals that we focused on for various reasons.
CASAREZ: Did anyone find deception indicated in those certified voice indicators?
POE: Unfortunately, Jean, this is still an ongoing investigation and pursuant to that, we are not releasing any certain information at this time with regards to what has been found as far as certified voice --
CASAREZ: Very interesting.
Tonight, please help us find a missing woman named Beth Bentley. She`s 41 years old, vanished on May 23rd, 2010, from Centralia, Illinois. She`s a white female, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 165 pounds with platinum blond hair and brown eyes. If you have any information, please call 815-338- 2131.
If your loved one is missing and you need help, go to CNN.com/nancygrace and send us your story. We want to help find your loved ones.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why she is missing, we don`t know. We`re getting to that critical hour. We need to find her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was nine months pregnant and reportedly going to see the man she believed was her baby`s father. That`s the last time Amanda Jones was ever seen.
GRACE: Look at this girl`s face. This lady, this 26-year-old, she is a mother, a child is waiting at home for her to come home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Despite over 400 leads, police say they don`t have evidence to charge anyone in her disappearance. A $100,000 reward being offered.
SHERIFF GLENN BOYER, JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF: Hopefully, maybe, you know, $100,000 reward will shake that tree a little harder and somebody will come forward with some information we don`t know about now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The family distraught saying, two lives were stolen that day.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I`m sorry, but I don`t want my sister to die. I care a lot about her. I love her very much. And I love my nephew, and I don`t want any harm coming into any of them.
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CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez. We are joined tonight by Amanda Jones` parents, Bertha Propst and Hubert Propst, that are begging you to help them find their daughter. They want their daughter found. They want their daughter`s little baby found. She was days from giving birth. I want to talk to Bertha Propst, first of all. Amanda also had a little girl, four years old, I believe, when she went missing. How is she doing and where is she?
BERTHA PROPST: Hannah now is living with us. She`s 10 years old. She not only lost her mother in 2005. In 2007, her father passed away. She talks about her mother every day.
HUBERT PROPST: And her brother.
BERTHA PROPST: And her little brother. And she wanted me to say that she wants her mommy home. She wants her found and that she loves her very much.
CASAREZ: Hubert Propst, what message do you have tonight for anyone watching this show? Because somebody knows. Somebody knows something.
HUBERT PROPST: What do I have to say? I want to say to the people out there, quit being afraid of the sheriff`s office and come forward and tell the truth. Somebody knows and whoever knows, I know in my heart that the perpetrator, Bryan, is responsible for her disappearance and possibly her death and the death of her son. Anybody that knows anything about this and does not come forward is just as guilty as the guilty party. And their blood will be on your hands when you die.
CASAREZ: And there are no suspects --
HUBERT PROPST: You`ll have to answer to God for this.
CASAREZ: In this case, there are currently no persons of interest. We want to tell everybody, we wanted Bryan Westfall to come on this show. We asked him to come on this show. We tried to reach him. We tried to reach his attorney to come on this show because there are, of course, two sides to every story. They did not. To Michelle in Ohio. Hi, Michelle. Good evening.
MICHELLE, OHIO: Hi, Jean. Thanks for taking my call.
CASAREZ: You`re welcome. Thank you for calling.
MICHELLE: You kind of answer part of the question, but was there any cell phone activity or pings or anything detected after the timeframe when she was last seen in the parking lot?
CASAREZ: You know, Michelle, this is brand new information that we just learned tonight. And I don`t think it has ever been released before, but the cell phone of Amanda Jones, and this comes from the lead detective on the case, that after a little bit after 1:00 in the afternoon -- Detective Scott Poe, what was the exact time was the last call made or received?
POE: I believe it was right around 1:20 hours was the last time that she had actually received the telephone call.
CASAREZ: All right. So, 1:20 in the afternoon was the last time that phone was used, but yet, there were reports from the last person to see her that five o`clock she was using her phone. Whether that was just a mistaken identity, that she was still in the parking lot but was not using the phone, we don`t know. To Marc Harrold, former officer, Atlanta Police Department, also an attorney and author "Observation of White" out of Washington, D.C., where do we go from here? Help us, Marc. What do you do now?
MARC HARROLD, ATTORNEY: Well, I know there`s been no suspect listed in this case or there`s not currently one. The one thing that strikes me about the story, and I know there`s different stories, but the one thing there`s some consistency is that he came out of the Civic Center after three hours. She was still there in a different spot. And this is your, you know, the mother of your unborn son, nine months pregnant and from what I understand he says that he just left.
He didn`t go back over and say, is everything all right? If you leave someone in a parking lot and three hours later, you come out and they`re still there, even if they`re on the phone, you might want to go over and ask if everything`s OK especially a nine-month pregnant woman in what was summer. So, that`s the part of the story that doesn`t make sense to me.
It seems the Jefferson County is doing everything they can. One thing about it when I first started looking at this, you kind of think cold case after five years. Jefferson County has never let this go cold from everything we`ve heard. They`ve done absolutely everything we can and that`s promising, but it`s disappointing that they don`t have any solid leads.
CASAREZ: That`s right. Let`s go to the lawyers. Eleanor Odom, felony prosecutor death qualified out of Atlanta, Georgia. Peter Odom, defense attorney out of Atlanta. Renee Rockwell, defense attorney also out of Atlanta. First of all, Eleanor Odom, motive, I mean, what happens to a lady days before giving birth? Motive is critical here. What, in your mind, is motive?
ELEANOR ODOM, FELONY PROSECUTOR: Well, Jean, I think one thing you need to look at and you have to look at Bryan Westfall because he was the alleged father of this unborn child and maybe he didn`t want this child and that would certainly give him a motive to get rid of this beautiful, young woman. You hate to think that, but that is one thing you`ve got to look at, and you`ve got to look at things like his cell phone records as well.
CASAREZ: Renee Rockwell, defense attorney, agree, disagree?
RENEE ROCKWELL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I agree, but let`s not discount any other person that might not have wanted her to have that baby. One thing that bothers me, Jean, is this is August in Missouri. She was not out in that parking lot sitting in that car for three hours. I`d want to know who picked the spot, who decided they were going to meet at the Civic Center and was he working, was this a surprise? It`s just interesting.
CASAREZ: You know, Peter Odom, one thing that just made me so angry when I just read this, as a lady, that she was sitting out in that hot sun for an hour talking with him three hours after that, but yet, she had to go to the bathroom. So, the keys were given for her to go in the Civic Center. Why couldn`t she sat in the civic center when they talked for an hour?
PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, that`s if you buy that part of the story, Jean, and frankly, I don`t. You have a person here, Bryan Westfall, with clear motive, great motivation. You have a story that he tells that absolutely does not hang together. It doesn`t make sense, and the cell phone records contradict it, and you got a three-hour time gap.
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GRACE: You must be in so much turmoil. The baby about to come, your daughter missing.
BERTHA PROPST: Oh, I can`t describe the turmoil that I`m going through. It`s a pain that I can`t describe.
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GRACE: These are the faces of America`s missing. Every 30 seconds, another child, a sister, a brother, a mother, a father disappears. Their families left wondering, waiting, hoping. We have not forgotten.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The John Jay College graduate was last seen leaving her aunt`s home with a male friend around 1:00 in the morning May 29th. They came here to this club in Ft. Lauderdale. This image was captured from inside.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I spoke to her Monday night before she left her aunt`s house. She said she was going out that night with some friends. She never disappears. She always keeps in touch with us when she`s outside. She always calls.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stepha did check her cell phone voicemail around 4:13 that same morning.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She loves to pick up her cell phone and call me and let me know if she has problems with transportation. She calls and someone in the house go and get her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her male friend told police he left the club early without Stepha.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s not like Stepha to stay out. If she`s out there and gets late, if she`s shopping, she`ll call and say, mom, I`m coming home now because she knows I`m a very worried -- I`m very worried.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And investigators tell eyewitness news, Stepha did check her cell phone voicemail about three hours later at 4:13 in the morning, but hat`s the last activity on her cell. Now, it just rings to voicemail.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Miami-Dade detectives tell us they suspect foul play.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stepha Henry did go to a nightclub`s private party. Luckily, the owners were shooting a promotional video. And here`s Henry in a freeze frame released by police, but what about the friend who took her there?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He said that he left the club early. When he left the club, she was still there and with some other people that he did not know.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say he also told them he drove Henry to the club that night in a borrowed late model Accura Integra. Now, police can`t find it either. Police are flying over more than 2,000 canals and wetlands where vehicles are often dumped looking for the mystery car. We flew with them, and they spotted something from the air. See that white beneath the water? But it turned out to be the wrong car.
At a home made shrine on a dining room table --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I look for the mountains, where will my help come from? My help will come from the Lord.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sylvia and Steve Henry are praying police will find their daughter alive. Twenty-three year old Stepha is still missing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In January 2008, police arrested Kendrick Williams, charging him with murder in the Stepha Henry case. No body was found, but authorities say blood in an Accura that Williams was driving at the time matched Stepha`s. Williams is awaiting trial. If you have any information in the case, call 1-305-471-tips.
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GRACE: I`m Nancy Grace. See you tomorrow night, nine o`clock sharp eastern. And until then, we will be looking. Keep the faith, friend.
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