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Young Mother Disappears

Aired March 27, 2011 - 21:00   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look for her.

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GRACE: So many cases --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re still looking.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.

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Fifty people, 50 days, 50 nights.

Let`s don`t give up.

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PATRICK HADDICAN, FATHER OF MISSING MOTHER: It`s hard to believe under any kind of circumstances that Margaret would leave her children. It`s almost incomprehensible. She loves her children too much.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Would a young mother willingly leave her children, life and family all behind? That question caused two days to go by before reporting 29-year-old Margaret Haddican`s disappearance on October 10, 2006.

Friends and family thought maybe she was just blowing off some steam after an argument with her husband the day before, but surely she`d return. That was almost five years ago.

HADDICAN: I guess it was about six days after Margaret had disappeared that we got a phone call from the Warren police. And they didn`t even ask us -- or tell us that she had disappeared. It was just during the conversation that we found out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her husband, Tim McEnroe, says he left her at home around 1:30 p.m. to buy baby formula at Margaret`s request. When he returned, his wife was gone and their infant baby, still in her crib, was home alone.

TIM MCENROE, MARGARET`S HUSBAND: We had run out of baby formula. And I went to the store and got that, and then came back. And I went back out and I did another job, and when I got back she wasn`t here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Warren Township did some preliminary investigation into her cell phone records to see if they could locate her. She had left her cell phone behind. It was damaged earlier in the week. So she did not take her cell phone with her, did not take a family vehicle with her.

HADDICAN: I have some inconsistencies in my mind about -- from what I understand has happened. I find it and my wife finds it very hard to believe that she would just up and go and leave her three young children.

She was wearing knee braces, one on each of her legs. And for her to leave the house without taking her car and walking has me concerned.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But allegedly missing with her, $11,000 in cash. There is no explanation as to why she`d want to leave, but no signs of foul play either.

HADDICAN: Margaret, please come home. Everybody misses you. We love you very much. The children need you and they miss you very much. Please come home.

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GRACE: Every day 2,300 people go missing in America. Disappear. Vanish. Their families left waiting, wondering, hoping, but never forgetting. And neither have we.

Fifty people, 50 days. Fifty nights we go live, spotlighting America`s missing children, girls, boys, mothers, fathers, grandparents. Gone, but where?

Tonight, a beautiful young firefighter, she served our country. Mommy disappears from an upscale New Jersey home, seemingly vanishing into thin air, leaving behind three little girls.

Husband, Tim McEnroe, reportedly leaves the home to buy baby formula, comes back, she`s gone. Mommy vanishes. Her 6-month-old baby girl alone in the crib. Friends and family say she would never do that.

Why did the husband reportedly wait two full days to report mommy missing? The beautiful mom`s car and cell phone, left behind.

Now, four years later, Margaret`s family still holding out hope. We have not forgotten.

Jean, what happened?

JEAN CASAREZ, "IN SESSION": Nancy, this is a very active investigation. Police are still searching. And it all began on October 10th of 2006. A bizarre set of facts. This is a young mother, had young children at home, and all of a sudden she`s completely gone.

I want to go out to Martin DiCaro, investigative reporter joining us tonight from New York.

Now, this all happened in New Jersey. Tell us where in New Jersey, and start from the beginning.

MARTIN DICARO, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: It happened in Warren Township, Somerset County, in October of 2006, about four-and-a-half years ago. And unfortunately for Margaret, there`s about as much evidence now to indicate what happened to her as there were four-and-a-half years ago.

The day before she vanished she was at her parent`s home. And at her parent`s home she got into an argument on the phone with her husband, Timothy McEnroe.

Then she went back to her residence and she got into another argument with her husband there. The police were called after that argument. It`s unclear who called 911, but the police did show up at the house. No charges were filed.

And then the following morning, Margaret got on the phone with her best friend, and there didn`t seem to be anything in the conversation according to her friend that would indicate something was up, something bad was going to happen. And as you saw in the opening to the program, her husband claims that he went out to run an errand, came back a couple hours later, and his wife was gone.

Now, there`s no evidence to indicate foul play, but the circumstantial evidence certainly indicates that it`s unlikely that this woman, who was dedicated to her kids, wearing knee braces, wearing a sweatshirt and plaid white pajama pants the last time she was seen, would just get up and leave, leaving her car behind, leaving her cell phone behind, and taking with her $11,000 in cash, according to her husband.

CASAREZ: Now, Martin, I believe that it`s true -- I want break in -- that her husband said that she had done this type of thing before, that she had left home, but always come back. And that`s why he thought that that was going to happen this time.

Rupa Mikkilineni, NANCY GRACE producer, joining us from New York.

She had a 5-month-old infant that was in a crib. She had a 22-month- old. What did she take with her when she left?

RUPA MIKKILINENI, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, that`s what`s so bizarre, Jean. If she were leaving, why would she take nothing? She didn`t take her purse, she didn`t take her wallet, she didn`t take her cell phone. Of course, that was broken from the argument from the day before. She didn`t take her car.

And apparently, according to her parents -- and we may want to clear this up, because we do have Patrick Haddican, her father, on the show -- I understand that she had scheduled knee surgery the following week, on a Wednesday. She had knee troubles, and she was wearing knee braces in the interim.

Now, apparently, she left without those knee braces as well, and didn`t even pack a bag, although one -- we have heard that her husband says that it`s possible a black duffel bag was missing. But again, this is not confirmed.

CASAREZ: And Rupa, how many days was it before her husband reported her missing?

MIKKILINENI: Two days, Jean, 48 hours. And he has an explanation for this.

He has told police and family and the media that the reason he waited is because she has vanished before. And she`s gone and taken the children with her to a hotel room when she was angry with him, and then come back the next day. So he thought he`d give her a couple days, is what he says.

Of course, this time, we know she didn`t take her children. She left her 5-month-old baby behind. And this is not likely.

CASAREZ: And everybody, we have tonight the parents of Margaret who, for four years now, have waited for her to come back.

Thank you so much for joining us, Eileen Haddican and Patrick Haddican, the parents.

I want to ask you, first of all, when did you find out that Margaret had gone missing?

We found out the Monday after she was missing.

CASAREZ: The Monday -- so how many days after?

P. HADDICAN: Six days.

EILEEN HADDICAN, MARGARET HADDICAN`S MOTHER: Six days.

CASAREZ: Six days after?

E. HADDICAN: Yes.

CASAREZ: How did you find out?

E. HADDICAN: The police called because they wanted the number for our summer place in Breezy Point. They were going to call security to have them check the house in Breezy, and that`s when we found out.

P. HADDICAN: Margaret used to love going to Breezy Point. It`s a summer place. And the police were asking for the local police precinct so they could contact those people, as well as those security people, to see if she might be in the home.

CASAREZ: So let`s look at these six days. She went missing on October 10th.

E. HADDICAN: Yes.

CASAREZ: Had you tried to contact her at all from October 10th and onward?

E. HADDICAN: Yes. I called her cell phone, but I didn`t get an answer. And then on that Sunday, I called the house, and Mrs. McEnroe answered and she said Margaret wasn`t there.

CASAREZ: And who is this, her husband`s mother?

E. HADDICAN: Yes. And that was -- I just said, "Tell her I called." And she said, "OK." And then we got a call from the police the next day.

CASAREZ: So she was missing. You called the home. But you weren`t told the truth.

E. HADDICAN: No. Correct. Well, she wasn`t there.

P. HADDICAN: Well, we were told that she wasn`t there, not that she had been gone for five days. And no one knew where she was.

CASAREZ: So when the police told you and you discovered six days later, what did you do at that point?

E. HADDICAN: I called Tim, who was down in Somerville. And he called me back when he got back. And he said he had gone down there because the police told him he had to get a restraining order so Margaret couldn`t come back and take the kids, and that they had told him that Sarah (ph) couldn`t stay with him because he wasn`t a blood relative.

CASAREZ: And this is the older daughter that your daughter had had from a previous relationship.

E. HADDICAN: Right. And one of my daughters and I went over that day and we brought Sarah (ph) back to our house.

CASAREZ: Do you think your daughter would have left on her own accord?

E. HADDICAN: No.

P. HADDICAN: Not leave the children. No.

E. HADDICAN: No.

P. HADDICAN: We cannot see her doing that. She`s a tough cookie, to use a gentle expression. But she loves her children.

CASAREZ: And you adopted her, didn`t you?

E. HADDICAN: Yes.

P. HADDICAN: Yes. We have four children. The four are adopted. Margaret`s the oldest.

CASAREZ: What do you think happened?

P. HADDICAN: As far as we`re concerned, we only have two choices. One, she abandoned her children. Or there was some form of foul play. We really don`t know.

We almost have to hope that she abandoned her children, because the alternative would be that she`s dead. And we haven`t accepted that.

E. HADDICAN: Right.

CASAREZ: We are taking your calls tonight.

Lynn in Texas.

Hi Lynn.

LYNN, TEXAS: Good evening.

CASAREZ: Thank you for calling.

LYNN: Thank you.

Did they live on the base or off the base? Has that been determined? And was he ready to go on a deployment, or hasn`t been returned from deployment?

CASAREZ: All right, Lynn. Good questions.

From what I understand, they both were former military, right?

E. HADDICAN: They`re former military, and they were living in Warren, New Jersey. And they weren`t being deployed anywhere because they weren`t active.

CASAREZ: But your daughter had actually helped save the lives of people during Hurricane Floyd that were being swept away by floodwaters.

E. HADDICAN: Yes.

P. HADDICAN: Yes, she did.

E. HADDICAN: She went in the water and tied a rope or something around her and a woman, and they were in the water for about three hours.

P. HADDICAN: We`re very proud of that.

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CASAREZ: The morning of October 10th, his wife allegedly called him saying she needed baby formula. He went to the supermarket, he got it, he brought it home. He says that`s the last time he ever saw her, because he went to do a landscaping job after that from 1:30 to 3:00. When he got home, she was gone, but he did not report it to police until 48 hours later.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are really two scenarios. One is that she simply walked away. Her husband told investigators postpartum depression, she had even been talking about a divorce.

Cops tell us there were no signs of foul play in the house at all. Nothing was turned over. No forced entry in the house.

P. HADDICAN: The day before she disappeared, she had come to our house because she made a phone call, and she was pacing and quite agitated. And I asked her, "Who`s on the phone?" She said, "It`s my (bleeping) husband, I should divorce him." And then the next day she disappeared.

MCENROE: I actually think that she wants to come back now, but she might be afraid to. A lot of people are looking for her, and she might be a little freaked out.

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CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez.

Margaret Haddican was a former member of the U.S. Army. She was a member of the volunteer fire force in New Jersey.

And people, the way they describe her, is that she was a spitfire. If she was going to do something, she was going to do it. Now, on the one hand, people say that if anybody was going to leave on her own volition, that she would have the state of mind to do it. On the other hand, she would never, ever leave her children that were there.

I want to go to Marc Klaas, president and founder of KlaasKids Foundation, joining us tonight from San Francisco.

Marc, during the break I just learned from Margaret`s father that she was going to have knee surgery. It was a very important knee surgery. She was wearing knee braces in the interim, but those knee braces were actually left at home. When she disappeared, she was not wearing them.

Your thoughts on this disappearance?

MARC KLAAS, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: Well, my thoughts is that this is an extremely responsible woman. She`s a firefighter. She`s a former veteran. She has both feet planted firmly on the ground. And there`s no way that she would just get up and disappear from all of those people that loved her.

And I think we have to look at this husband and the whole idea that his alibi is so incredibly self-serving. He -- you know, he conveniently is gone for 90 minutes. He conveniently doesn`t call law enforcement for a couple of days for some incredibly preposterous reason. I know that if I couldn`t find my wife, I would be on the phone with law enforcement in a matter of moments.

So I think that, you know, we see this phenomenon often, that when somebody disappears, the first person you have to look at is, number one, the last person that saw them. It there`s a love -- if there`s a romantic relationship involved and that person disappears, and that`s the last person that saw them, that that person deserves an awful lot of scrutiny.

Now, Jean, something I`d really like to clear up here. There`s this whole concept that if somebody disappears, that you have to wait a certain amount of time before you report them missing.

Most jurisdictions, most people seem to think that`s 24 hours. As far as I can tell, that`s based on the Lindbergh Law, which was passed in -- as a result of the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932. And that stated that if somebody hasn`t been recovered within 24 hours, it gives justification for the FBI to get involved in the case because 24 hours is plenty of time for somebody to have crossed state lines, making it federal jurisdiction.

CASAREZ: OK. Good points. Good points, Marc.

Joining us tonight once again are the parents of Margaret Haddican, Eileen Haddican and Patrick Haddican.

Her husband said from the beginning that he had just gotten $30,000 in cash for a landscaping job, and she had taken $11,000 in cash when she disappeared.

Did police find $19,000 in cash at the home when she went missing?

E. HADDICAN: I don`t know. I don`t know.

He had told us, my daughter and I, that she had taken $4,000. And then I heard she had taken $7,000. And then I`d heard she`d taken $9,000. And it ended up to be $11,000.

CASAREZ: Had you heard that cash money like this was lying around the house, periodically?

P. HADDICAN: No.

E. HADDICAN: And I understand that when he gets paid for a job before it goes to the bank, it`s in the house, but I --

CASAREZ: Thirty thousand dollars?

E. HADDICAN: I would assume that they`d have a safe.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Mom Margaret Haddican-McEnroe went missing, and then he waited. Husband Tim McEnroe waited 48 hours to report his wife missing, a delay some fear may have cost precious time in the investigation, time investigators will never get back.

Runaway? Foul play? Investigators don`t know for sure, but three little children do know they want their mommy back.

(on camera): This quarry was the latest anonymous tip in the search for Margaret Haddican-McEnroe. Searches were combing this quarry with dogs and on horseback for any search of Margaret.

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CASAREZ: Help us find Margaret Haddican, Margaret Haddican-McEnroe. Her children are growing up without her. They don`t know what happened. They can`t believe that she would just walk away from her life, a life that she loved because of her children.

To Paul Penzone, former sergeant from the Phoenix Police Department, child advocate, joining us out of Phoenix.

If there was $30,000 cash lying around the house from a landscaping job, wouldn`t you take the whole thing if you`re leaving? Why would you only take $11,000 and leave $19,000?

PAUL PENZONE, FMR. SERGEANT, PHOENIX POLICE DEPT.: It doesn`t make sense at all. And Marc hit on a lot of the very important -- he really knows what he`s talking about when he comes to these cases.

First of all, it`s too much convenience in his alibi, the husband. I`m not going to point the finger, but it really bothers me. If he was concerned about her, why would she only take a portion of it? And it would lead him to believe there might be some concern as to why she took $10,000.

He didn`t call the family. And the 48 hours is far too long if you truly love and care about somebody to make that report.

But the FBI issue and all those things are irrelevant. If there`s exigency, if there`s a domestic dispute, all those other factors that come into play, that`s a higher level of urgency for law enforcement to get more involved early on, because there`s a concern there for her safety.

So it really bothers me what`s going on with the husband. That`s where I`m going to have to focus my efforts.

CASAREZ: And no one has been named a suspect or a person of interest in this case.

To Martin DiCaro, investigative reporter.

Talk to us about an Army T-shirt that was actually found near the home the following Thanksgiving, I believe?

DICARO: Yes. The house was searched. The area around the house, the neighborhood was searched.

You saw the quarry. It was searched on foot, it was searched by helicopter. Margaret was last seen wearing an Army shirt, or an Army across it -- it was gray, the word "Army" across it.

CASAREZ: A sweatshirt, right?

DICARO: Yes, a sweatshirt and white plaid pajama bottoms. Not necessarily the clothes you`re going to wear if you`re going to take off for a while. And they did find one garment, but it didn`t give investigators any real solid leads as to what happened to her.

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GRACE: Has the husband been out searching?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. And I`ll tell you, we`re not really sure what took place prior to the nine days when we arrived on the scene, but we really don`t want the family actively going out and participating in the search effort.

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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.

PATRICK HADDICAN, FATHER OF MISSING MOM, MARGARET HADDICAN: It`s hard to believe under any kind of circumstances that Margaret would leave her children. It`s almost incomprehensible. She loved her children too much.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Would a young mother willingly leave her children, life and family all behind? That question caused two days to go by before reporting 29-year-old Margaret Haddican`s disappearance on October 10th, 2006. Friends and family thought maybe she was just blowing off some steam after an argument with her husband the day before, but surely, she`d return. That was almost five years ago.

PATRICK HADDICAN: I guess, it was about six days after Margaret had disappeared that we got a phone call from the warren police, and they didn`t even ask us or tell us that she had disappeared. It was just during the conversation that we found out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her husband, Tim McEnroe, says he left her at home around 1:30 p.m. to buy baby formula at Margaret`s request. When he returned, his wife was gone, and their infant baby still in her crib was home alone.

TIMOTHY MCENROE, HUSBAND OF MISSING MOM, MARGARET HADDICAN: We had run out of baby formula, and I went to the store and got that and then came back, and I went back out and I did another job and when I got back, she wasn`t here.

DET. BUCKMAN, COUNTY INVESTIGATOR: Warren Township did some preliminary investigation into her cell phone records to see if they could locate her. She left her cell phone behind. It was damaged earlier in a week. So, she did not take her cell phone with her, did not take a family vehicle with her.

PATRICK HADDICAN: I have some inconsistencies in my mind about what I understand has happened. I find it and my wife finds it very hard to believe that she would just up and go and leave her three young children. She was wearing knee braces, one on each of her legs. And for her to leave the house without taking her car and walking has me concerned.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But allegedly missing with her, $11,000 in cash. There is no explanation as to why she`d want to leave, but no signs of foul play either.

PATRICK HADDICAN: Molly, please come home. Everybody misses you. We love you very much. The children need you, and they miss you very much. Please come home.

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GRACE: Every day, 2,300 people go missing in America, disappear, vanish. Their families left waiting, wondering, hoping, but never forgetting, and neither have we. Fifty people, 50 days, 50 nights we go live, spotlighting America`s missing children, girls, boys, mothers, fathers, grandparents gone, but where?

Tonight, a beautiful young firefighter. She served our country. Mommy disappears from an upscale New Jersey home, seemingly vanishing into thin air, leaving behind three little girls. Husband, Tim McEnroe, reportedly leaves the home to buy baby formula, comes back, she`s gone. Mommy vanishes. Her 6-month-old baby girl alone in the crib. Friends and family say she would never do that.

Why did the husband reportedly wait two full days to report mommy missing? The beautiful mom`s car and cell phone left behind. Now, four years later, Margaret`s family is still holding out hope. We have not forgotten. Jean, what happened?

JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": You know, Nancy, it`s basically one of three choices here. One, that she voluntarily walked away. Her husband said she`d been known to do that, but she always came back, and that`s why he waited two days. Another is suicide. Another is foul play. With us tonight, we do have the parents of Margaret Haddican with us, Eileen and Patrick Haddican. You are raising Sarah, who is her oldest daughter. How old is Sarah now?

EILEEN HADDICAN, MOTHER OF MISSING MOM, MARGARET HADDICAN: Thirteen.

PATRICK HADDICAN: Thirteen.

CASAREZ: Thirteen. And she was about 8 years old when her mother went missing?

PATRICK HADDICAN: Almost nine.

CASAREZ: Almost Nine. What does she tell you about that day?

PATRICK HADDICAN: Not very much. She doesn`t remember very much. She remembers that there was arguing the night before because she went to school that day when Margaret disappeared. But I don`t know if there`s something locked on the back of her mind that hasn`t come out. She hasn`t, really, I don`t think cleared the air for herself kind of. She just misses her mother very much. But I don`t know what kind of recollection she could have, and if she does have them, she`s pushed them way, way, way down deep.

CASAREZ: Caryn Stark, psychologist, joining us tonight out of New York. Hearing that answer, what do you think about Sarah? Does Sarah know more that could come forward in time?

CARYN STARK, PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, the fact that she was away at school, Jean, makes me wonder whether she really does know more. Of course, there are memories that do get pushed away even by adults when they`re very traumatic. So, it`s a possibility. What really bothers me is that not only does Sarah not have a mother, but she doesn`t have a story that goes along with it.

And there was fighting that was going on. There`s a real tendency for kids to blame themselves. So, here`s a mom that disappeared, and it certainly doesn`t sound like she wanted to leave. No cell phone, no car, can`t walk, and they find a T-shirt later on. She`s wearing pajama bottoms. So, I feel so awful for this little girl because I wonder how much she blames herself, somehow, for being a part of what happened.

CASAREZ: And she was old enough --

STARK: What children do.

CASAREZ: Yes. She was old enough. Mr. and Mrs. Haddican, you have taken polygraphs.

EILEEN HADDICAN: Yes.

PATRICK HADDICAN: Yes, we have.

CASAREZ: How many?

EILEEN HADDICAN: Just one.

PATRICK HADDICAN: Just one each. And two of our daughters did as well.

CASAREZ: What about her husband?

PATRICK HADDICAN: As far as we know, he hasn`t taken a polygraph.

CASAREZ: Has not. OK. To Joe Lawless, defense attorney and author of "Prosecutorial Misconduct," Randy Kessler, defense attorney, joining us out of Atlanta. First of all, Joe Lawless, why don`t you just take the polygraph, right? I mean, Marc Klaas is our shining example of someone that step forward and said do everything to me you can, and he has refused.

JOE LAWLESS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, Jean, from what I understand, he`s cooperated with the authorities to the extent of the polygraph. And frankly, if I were representing him, I`d advise him not to take it. Now, that`s a double edged sword because it immediately raises a specter of suspicion, but as her husband, he`s already under suspicion. That`s the first person the police look at. And I can guarantee you, they have gone up him one side and the down the other. They have looked at all this.

And simply refusing to take a polygraph doesn`t look good to a layman. It`s probably sound advice from a defense lawyer, but this is really a conundrum, because on one hand, everyone is saying she wouldn`t leave. On the other hand, her father described her as a tough cookie. And if there`s foul play involved, a tough cookie isn`t going to go lightly. And I don`t care how thoroughly somebody would try to clean up a scene.

We know enough about forensics to know there should be something somewhere. So, to me, this is a real tough, tough call. And I don`t know if I would take a police polygraph when he has to know, and if he`s represented by counsel, his counsel has to know, he is a principle suspect whether they`re saying it or not.

CASAREZ: To Randy Kessler, defense attorney, can this case be solved?

RANDY KESSLER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It can be. And you know, we have a thing called circumstantial evidence. There`s no body, there`s no person that we can find, but there`s a lot of circumstantial evidence. He not only didn`t tell the parents. He didn`t go and say to the parents, hey, I can`t find your daughter, help me. So, there`s a lot of circumstantial evidence, and she wanted a divorce. People do strange things when they hear their spouse wants a divorce.

CASAREZ: And tonight, please help us find Jaliek Rainwalker. He`s 12 years old. He vanishes November 1st, 2007 from Greenwich, New York. He is 5`6", 105 pounds, blond hair, green eyes. If you have information, call 518-692-9332.

If your loved one is missing and you need help, go to CNN.com/nancygrace. Send us your story. We want to help you find your loved ones.

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GRACE: Tonight, a beautiful young firefighter. She served our country. Mommy disappears from an upscale New Jersey home, seemingly vanishing into thin air, leaving behind three little girls. Husband, Tim McEnroe, reportedly leaves the home to buy baby formula, comes back, she`s gone. Mommy vanishes. Her 6-month-old baby girl alone in the crib. Friends and family say she would never do that.

Why did the husband reportedly wait two full days to report mommy missing? The beautiful mom`s car and cell phone left behind. Now, four years later, Margaret`s family is still holding out hope. We have not forgotten.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Twenty-nine-year-old Margaret Haddican was living the life anyone could be proud of. The army veteran, volunteer firefighter and mother of three was home taking care of her young baby on October 10th, 2006, when she suddenly vanished.

PATRICK HADDICAN: We have hope that she`s alive. It gets a little more difficult as time goes on. You keep hoping and you keep hoping and you keep hoping.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Husband, Tim McEnroe, says he left the home around 1:30 p.m. for just 90 minutes to go get baby formula. And when he came back, there was no sign of her.

MCENROE: I work locally. I`m in and out a lot. And we had run out of baby formula, and I went to the store and got that. And then, came back, and I went back out and I did another job and when I got back, she wasn`t here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Margaret`s car, her cell phone and other personal items all left behind. Authorities say they continue to actively pursue leads, and Margaret`s family is not giving up hope. A $20,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the whereabouts of Margaret Haddican.

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CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez. Tim McEnroe, her husband, said that he didn`t report her missing for two days because she had such a mind of her own and her friend, Lisa, agreed with him, that maybe she would go out and come back later. Also, he said that that baby formula he got because she had wanted it. Margaret had wanted the baby formula, and it was substantiated. That baby formula was purchased at a store, but the question is, if you want baby formula, does that show a state of mind that you`re going to leave?

We have got Margaret`s parents with us tonight, Mr. and Mrs. Haddican. It is wonderful to have you here because you can give us this insight. And we want to know more about your daughter. After 9/11, she wanted to become a member of the U.S. army.

PATRICK HADDICAN: Yes.

EILEEN HADDICAN: Yes. Yes. She joined in 2002 and went to South Carolina --

PATRICK HADDICAN: Ft. Jackson.

EILEEN HADDICAN: Ft. Jackson, South Carolina.

PATRICK HADDICAN: South Carolina.

CASAREZ: She was medically discharged in 2004.

PATRICK HADDICAN: Yes.

CASAREZ: Why?

PATRICK HADDICAN: She was a -- she`s track vehicle mechanic of all things for a young girl, and she was doing something, and she smashed her thumb quite severely.

CASAREZ: But she became a stay-at-home mom after that, but also volunteer firefighter. And during hurricane Floyd, what did she do to help a couple survive?

PATRICK HADDICAN: There was -- the fire department was requested by a, excuse me, a dog kennel, for assistance in getting the dogs out of the kennel. There`s a creek that goes by the kennel, and the water was rising quite rapidly, and it was getting very high. And Margaret and another young fireman were there, and all of a sudden, the water, I guess, crested and overwhelmed the bridge where they were and washed all four of them into the water.

Margaret grabbed the woman, the owner of the kennel, and tied herself and the woman to a tree. They were there for several hours until they were rescued by the Bridgewater Rescue Squad, special water rescue squad. And she got a couple awards for that.

CASAREZ: She got awards for that. It`s amazing story. To Pat Brown, criminal profiler joining us tonight out of Washington, D.C., is that the type of person that abandons her family after saving the lives of others?

PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER: It`s not working for me, I`ll tell you that. And here`s what I`d really like to know. The husband says he waits two entire days to even consider what happened to his wife because she`s done this before. Well, I would like to know when she did this before. Who did he call then? I mean, did she leave her car before? Did she abandon her children before? Did she just disappear off the face of the earth, because at that point in time, if she did it before, wouldn`t you have gone absolutely insane, crazy, and called everybody? So, everybody should know how many times she`s done this before.

CASAREZ: That`s a really good point. To Lira in Georgia. Hi, Lira. Do we have Lira?

LIRA, GEORGIA: Hi.

CASAREZ: Do we have Lira in Georgia?

LIRA: Yes, this is she.

CASAREZ: Hi.

LIRA: Yes. I was wondering if the husband had been cooperating with police and if he`s had a polygraph.

CASAREZ: All right. He has cooperated with police in many respects, and no, Lira in Georgia, he has not taken a polygraph saying he did not want to do one that was instituted by law enforcement but would do an independent one. So, it has not been done.

I want to ask you a little bit more about your daughter. Did anybody that you talk to after she went missing say that she had left the home for a couple of days and come back later?

PATRICK HADDICAN: No.

EILEEN HADDICAN: No. Her friend, Lisa, told me that she did go overnight, but she took the kids with her. And, she would not have left her kids.

CASAREZ: How bad was the fight the night before she went missing? Between she and her husband?

EILEEN HADDICAN: I think it was during the day.

CASAREZ: OK.

EILEEN HADDICAN: And --

PATRICK HADDICAN: No, there were two fights the day before.

CASAREZ: OK.

PATRICK HADDICAN: She had come to our house, excuse me, after she had been seen an orthopedist arranging for surgery on her knees the following week. And she was arguing on the phone with Tim. That`s when she said that that bleeping husband of mine, I`m going to divorce him. And then, the next day, from what we understand, there was another argument, or that night, I`m sorry, after she left our house. That night, she had another argument and that the police were called. We don`t know who called the police.

CASAREZ: Now, that night, did she come over to your house?

EILEEN HADDICAN: No, she didn`t. She had called about quarter to 4:00 on Monday and wanted to know if she could bring the kids over and stay indefinitely, if need be. And that she`d be over that night. And then she called later on that night and said she`d be over the next day.

CASAREZ: So, the situation was getting to a pinnacle, it appears as though, that the couple was about to separate. Something was about to happen.

EILEEN HADDICAN: Right.

PATRICK HADDICAN: At least that seemed to be in Margaret`s mind, yes.

CASAREZ: But her intent was to keep and protect the children.

EILEEN HADDICAN: To bring the kids to our house.

PATRICK HADDICAN: To our house.

CASAREZ: And all of a sudden, she`s missing without the children.

Very quickly, Rupa Mikkilineni, what about the searches that have taken place? There have been some very targeted searches since she went missing close to where they lived.

RUPA MIKKILINENI, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, this is what`s interesting. The searchers actually started in a very delayed manner, Jean. In fact, police did not go out there and start searching until nine days after she was missing. This is about seven days after she was reported missing, of course. Now, there were many searches in the area. They actually drained ponds. They had dogs. They had ATVs, men on horses, searchers on horses searching.

And really, in all of these searches, the only thing that sort of turned up, which is just about a month and a half after she vanished, was this army T-shirt. Now, in more recent years, in the last year, there have been other searches. Those have been targeted searches just based on leads or tips. For example, there is a tip that there was a shallow grave so they searched a 40-acre deer hunting area about 15 minutes away from the home.

This was just in the last one year. And then another search based on a psychic tip. Both led authorities nowhere. They didn`t find anything.

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GRACE: Question, is this information all coming from the husband or from other family members that she had vanished in the past for 24 hours?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, primarily, from what we were told, this is coming from the husband, but the police department has done investigation and interview with the family members now to get a better vibe on what`s going on.

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GRACE: These are the faces of America`s missing. Every 30 seconds, another child, a sister, a brother, a father, a mother, disappears. Families left behind wondering, waiting, hoping. We have not forgotten.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tilawna Cheatham was last seen at a convenience store near her home in South Carolina. She was nine years old. You`re now looking at an age-progressed photo, indicating how Tilawna would look today. Help find her.

Jon Haynes was last heard from the Boulder, Colorado, area when he called his father back home in California.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He had just graduated high school, which he made valedictorian. My father bought him a brand new car, drove it out to Colorado, went a month before his dorms open so he could get a job. He called us when he arrived. Two days later, he was gone. He had picked up a hitchhiker, and that person had contacted us after this when he went missing. They never found a body.

The day he was supposed to call us back, he didn`t. And two days later, his car was found in very suspicious circumstances out by a dump. The windows were down. The keys were in the ignition. All of his belongings were gone, and it was raining. This is a car that was four days old. It`s been horrible. It`s really a nightmare you can`t explain to somebody. My father and mother looked for him for, you know, a good ten years really actively.

And then, I sort of picked it up from there when they just couldn`t bear to do it anymore. Jo, he was all sorts of fun. He is really great. He`s an amazing skier, and he was silly and just a tremendous amount of fun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clinton Nelson was last seen leaving a friend`s home in Louisiana in September 2006. He is 6`1", and about 160 pounds.

Shane Walker was just a toddler when he disappeared from his mother`s sight in the blink of an eye in a park in New York City

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I let these two little kids play with Shane in the park. It was a boy and a girl. This man came and sat by me while on the park bench where I was sitting at, and I turned my head for a second. When I turned back, Shane and two kids I let him play with was gone, and then, I panicked, started hollering, screaming. So, I assume my baby got stolen for black market. Definitely, he`s alive. He`s alive somewhere. I just got to find him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stephanie Benton was traveling with a female friend to Bullhead City, Arizona. The two were separated, and Stephanie has been missing ever since. If you have information, call 1-800-the-lost.

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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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