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Nancy Grace
Body of Missing Georgia Teen Found
Aired September 14, 2012 - 20:00 ET
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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Mystery tonight. To Gainesville, 16-year-old high school junior Hannah Truelove vanishes from her upscale resort gated community, the teen last seen by neighbors at a picnic table, 7:30. Three hours later, she`s gone.
Bombshell tonight. The search for Hannah comes to an end, her body discovered a quarter mile from the same picnic tables in a heavily wooded area on the resort`s shoreline.
Tonight, we investigate the clues left behind. Why was Hannah afraid to ride her own school bus? And what do the tweets she sent out, the tweets we discover, reveal?
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911 OPERATOR: Cobb (ph) County 911.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My daughter is not home yet. She`s 16. Her name is Hannah Truelove. And she didn`t come back in tonight and now it`s after 10:00 o`clock.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Truelove was last seen at the Lake Lanier Club apartments where she lived with her mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t know where she is.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The next day, a neighbor found her body at the banks of Lake Lanier just behind the complex.
911 OPERATOR: (INAUDIBLE) 911 (INAUDIBLE) emergency.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, ma`am. I`m walking in the woods behind the Lanier apartments, and I have found a dead lady.
911 OPERATOR: You say she does appear to be dead?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s dead. She`s been dead for two or three days.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators tell me they searched the dumpsters at the complex where Hannah was murdered, but so far, they`ve come up empty-handed.
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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us.
Mystery tonight, Gainesville, 16-year-old high school junior Hannah Truelove vanishes from her upscale resort gated community, the teen last seen by her neighbors at a nearby picnic table, 7:30 PM. Three hours later, Hannah`s gone.
The search for her comes to an end when her body is discovered just a quarter mile from that same picnic table. She was found in a heavily wooded area a quarter mile away, there on the resort`s shoreline.
And tonight, we investigate the clues left behind. Why was Hannah, a sophomore in high school, afraid to ride her own school bus? And what do mystery tweets, tweets that we discovered, reveal?
We are taking your calls tonight. I want to go out to the scene there in Gainesville at the apartment complex. Standing by with All News 106.7, Ninette Sosa. Ninette, thanks for being with us. Describe the area, first of all, for our viewers.
NINETTE SOSA, ALL NEWS 106.7: In Gainesville, Georgia, as you pull up into this community, right a little bit outside of Atlanta, if you`re familiar, it`s off of 85, and it`s -- you head onto 985 -- it`s a nice community. It`s upscale. It`s clean. Lawns are mowed. You have nice shopping centers, and such as this apartment complex, the Lake Lanier Club apartment complex -- very nice, gated, hardwood trees, the foliage (ph). It`s beautiful. You`d want to live along the lakeshore.
GRACE: So it`s a gorgeous area. Lake Lanier is a very high-profile resort area. And this picnic area where this little girl, a 16-year-old sophomore in high school, was last seen sitting.
I`m confused tonight. I`m wondering why she was afraid to ride her own school bus. And what do we know about mystery tweets that were left behind?
Back to Ninette Sosa, reporter 106.7, there at the scene. What can you tell me about the early evening when she was last seen? 7:30 in summer hours, that`s still broad daylight.
SOSA: And especially in Georgia, Nancy, because here it stays light until after 9:00 PM throughout the month of August, early September. So it`s not as though it`s a night sky, by no means.
But what`s curious about this are the tweets leading up to that date. And maybe credit to the mom for being so prompt within that window time of three hours. She was seen there at 7:30, according to authorities. By 10:15, the mom`s making a phone call about her missing daughter because it`s too late for her to be out.
GRACE: You know, what`s interesting is that the neighbors saw her. It`s not like she was in some secluded area.
Back to Ninette Sosa, joining me there on the scene. This is an exclusive resort area there on beautiful Lake Lanier, a lot of boating, a lot of celebrities go boating there, have homes there.
Ninette, where she was sitting, it was the picnic area there in that wooded complex. Let`s pan back. This is just a gorgeous area, very rural, right there where -- by the entrance to the gated community. Ninette, explain to me where the picnic area was.
SOSA: That picnic area is going to be right behind the apartment complex. That is -- and she was found a short distance from there, but the following evening, right about 7:00-ish. So sometime between 10:15, when Mom calls, My daughter is missing, and then to the following night, by 7:05, 7:15, her body is found in a wooded area.
And a lot of times, you don`t associate -- or people think, Well, if you`re next to the lake, how can it be wooded? But you know, that`s Georgia. It`s just that way. You got the -- you got the presence of forestry, and then right there you also have beautiful Lake Lanier. So the setting is just -- it`s not a risque (ph) setting by no means. It sounds safe.
GRACE: Everybody, we are taking your calls. I want to go out to John Phillips at 790 KABC. What more can you tell us about the night she goes missing, John?
JOHN PHILLIPS, KABC: Well, those mystery tweets that you were referencing, Nancy, happened not a long time before this. It happened the day before, the last one, where she foreshadowed that there was something wrong. There was a tweet unrelated to the foreshadowing tweets that particular day.
As you mentioned, she was seen at 7:30 by people who live in this complex. This is a complex that has a lot of law enforcement, former law enforcement people there. So there are a lot of people who were keeping an eye out on what happened.
Now, what the police are looking for right now, Nancy, is there is a mysterious car, a four-door silver car, could be a Chevrolet, could be another American-made car, that has front end damage that they believe was in the scene around the time that she went missing.
And there`s also a question as to whether or not she was getting out of that car. The police want to know if anyone in the area has seen that car, what -- who was driving that car, who was in that car. And that they believe is going to be an important piece of evidence that may lead to finding out who killed this poor girl.
GRACE: Everybody, joining me right now is a special guest. This is Jeff Truelove. This is Hannah`s father. Mr. Truelove, thank you for being with us.
JEFF TRUELOVE, FATHER OF HANNAH TRUELOVE (via telephone): You`re welcome.
GRACE: Mr. Truelove, when did you learn of Hannah`s disappearance?
TRUELOVE: Well, before she called 911, she called me about 9:00 o`clock and asked me if I`d had her with me. And I said, Well, no. And she said, Well, she`s not here, and it`s starting to get dark. And I said, Well, she should be there.
And she just hung up the phone and called me back later and said -- well, she called me back about 10:15, said that she had called the law and that she`s sure she has run away. And I says, Well, why would she run away? She goes, She`s upset with me. And I said, Well, OK, you know, but she wouldn`t run away.
I mean, she does not know anybody -- number one, she doesn`t know anybody with a vehicle. She doesn`t go riding around with her friends. You know, she should be there.
You know, and it concerned me right then that something was going on. So I -- from that point on, I called back every -- seemed like a few minutes, but every hour or so, I would call back and ask where she was, you know, and if she had come back. She kept telling me, I`ll call you when they find her -- when they find her. I`m sure she`s just with somebody, one of her friends.
And that`s not her. That`s not my daughter. She`s not that way. I knew something was wrong. They should have right then started searching for her around the area that this happened. But no, they take (ph) out looking in other homes and so forth and not thinking about bringing out a dog. Think about it.
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911 OPERATOR: So you last seen her around when, this morning?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did not see her this morning. I only talked to her, like, through the door.
911 OPERATOR: OK.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, because she was in her room, and you know...
911 OPERATOR: What time was that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I had to leave at 7:00, so it was probably between 6:30 and 7:00.
911 OPERATOR: Has she ever done anything like this before?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, sir, not after dark or anything, no, she`s not. (INAUDIBLE) in the past probably week or so, she`s been, you know, taking off and doing this, but I know the area she`s in, so it`s not been a big deal. She`s just getting her privacy and giving us some space.
911 OPERATOR: And you said you found the body behind the -- in the woods behind the apartment complex?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, ma`am.
911 OPERATOR: And you said she does appear to be dead.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s dead. She`s been dead for two or three days.
911 OPERATOR: All right (INAUDIBLE) OK?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right.
911 OPERATOR: All right.
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GRACE: A high school sophomore, a gorgeous little girl, Hannah Truelove -- the search for her ends only a quarter mile away from where it starts. She`s last seen there in an upscale gated community. It`s on a resort area, Lake Lanier. She`s sitting out in the resort area picnics. That`s where she lives with her mom. That`s 7:30 PM. At 10:00 o`clock, she is gone, found dead a short distance away there in those dense woods behind the complex.
We are taking your calls. Joining me right out of Gainesville, Sergeant Stephen Wilbanks, the PIO, Hall County sheriff`s office. Sergeant, thanks for being with us. Sergeant, do you believe that Hannah was killed in that spot where her body was found, or was she disposed of there?
SGT. STEPHEN WILBANKS, HALL COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICE (via telephone): We believe that Hannah was killed at the location where she was located.
GRACE: So Sergeant Wilbanks, that narrows it down to a degree to someone that was probably familiar with the area, that knew about that walking path, that nature path behind the gated community, someone she would have happened on or someone that had been following her, is that correct?
WILBANKS: That`s correct. Those are both distinct possibilities. We do think that the person responsible was familiar with the area, as you mentioned. Those walking paths through the woods are just informal paths, and they`re used by many people, residents and visitors to the apartment complex.
GRACE: To Ellie Jostad. Ellie, what can you tell me? Why was Hannah afraid to ride her own school bus?
ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER (via telephone): Well, Nancy, that`s what her father is wondering about. He was quoted somewhere saying that he believes that the killer might have rode the school bus. But he said, no, that`s a misquote. That`s not what he believes.
But he said there was some reason -- and he doesn`t know the reason -- that Hannah did not want to ride that school bus. She didn`t want to go to school, and it was because she didn`t want to get on that bus, he says. So that`s just another avenue that investigators are going to have to look at here.
GRACE: To Sergeant Wilbanks. In that area, is there a camera on school buses?
WILBANKS: On many school buses, there are. I`m not personally familiar with whether or not there was one on this city school bus in this particular instance. The area where she was last seen, unfortunately, lacks any security video surveillance camera, so we`re missing out on some opportunity for evidentiary footage there.
GRACE: So question. Are the school bus videos being collected, or have they already been collected?
WILBANKS: I`m not familiar if they are available, but if so, then our investigators are absolutely going to collect those and be looking at the evidence that they produce.
GRACE: Good to know.
Joining me, Ninette Sosa. She is with All News 106.7, on the scene where Hannah was killed. This is a gorgeous area, upscale, gated. You think your daughter`s all right. Here she is, she`s a sophomore in high school, this little girl just 16 years old, sitting basically in her back yard on a picnic table there in the gated community complex. Her mom knows she`s there. Her neighbors are out there with her.
Three hours later, this little girl is dead just a quarter mile from her own home. Now, knowing that, how many of you are going to let your children go out and play in the local park in your own neighborhood where Mommy thought everything was safe?
This girl has never run away. She`s never been rebellious, no problem, good grades, the works. Hannah Truelove tonight is dead. We are examining the clues left behind.
Ninette Sosa, I`m just wondering, the neighbors that saw her sitting there on that picnic table, I`m sure they`ve all been interviewed, correct?
SOSA: Yes. Well, Hall County has told All News 106.7, absolutely, witnesses that last saw her they`ve talked to, and they have been talked with. And there are few clues. And also, I have to say Hall County I`m sure has more than what they`re revealing. But you have to consider the tweets that were going out. And did she have a new little group of friends? Teen years are -- they`re a tough call. Once you have 15, 16...
GRACE: Well, what are you talking about the tweets?
SOSA: ... when you want to start venturing out.
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GRACE: Ninette, what do you know about the tweets?
SOSA: On August 12th, the tweet that was in the afternoon -- I have a timeline here of 2:03 PM -- she sends out a message saying she feels pursued by a stalker. And it`s quoted as, "I got me an ugly stalker." We`ll leave the "A" word out of that. So that tweet goes out and that`s on a Sunday.
Then she has a following Saturday tweet, again, quote, "So scared right now." So you have that tweet. And then on August 22nd, which is a Wednesday, she has, quote, "I need to move out of these dang apartments."
That`s -- you know, tweets, Internet, e-mail, they have no tone, but you really need to look into, you know, what this means, who she knew.
GRACE: OK, to Ellie Jostad. What do we know? Who is she talking about? She`s got a stalker, that she needs to move out of those apartments. Why didn`t she want to ride the school bus? Ellie, do we have any answers to those questions?
JOSTAD: We don`t have any answers to those. But Nancy, it`s important -- the sheriff`s department says they do not want to solely focus on that angle. It`s, of course, something that they`re looking into.
But you know -- and I should point out, too, these tweets are broken up with sort of mundane things that teenagers tweet about. It`s not something that she was solely tweeting, you know, I`m scared, someone`s after me. They say they are looking into this, but they don`t know if she was using that term casually the way a teenager might, or the way we would use it on the show, the way lawyers that know about stalking laws would use that term.
GRACE: Right. Let me go to Jeff Truelove. This is Hannah`s father. Mr. Truelove, what was she talking about when she said, I am so scared right now?
TRUELOVE: She never said that to me. You know, she didn`t say anything pertaining to anything other than she was upset with her mother because she was supposed to -- I was going to get her a telephone. She need a cell phone, and her mother wouldn`t let her have one. And they don`t have any phone other than her mother`s cell phone that she carries to work, and I wanted her to have a phone there with her. Every other child has. But no phone. And she was upset with her mother about that.
And that`s why she was sitting on the picnic table, I`m sure, because she thought her mother may be at home any time, you know? She gets home around 7:30 or 8:00. And she didn`t want to see her because she was upset about the telephone. And I really don`t blame her there. You know, she was -- she was a good girl all summer long. Everything, she`s always been a good girl. I don`t see why she couldn`t have a telephone.
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GRACE: Tonight`s mystery, what happened to 16-year-old Hannah Truelove?
We`re taking your calls. Stacy, Alabama. What`s your question, dear?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My question is, I haven`t heard, does she have a boyfriend or an ex-boyfriend that was upset with her because she broke up with him?
GRACE: Good question. Out to you, John Phillips, KABC. What do you know?
PHILLIPS: Well, we do know this, that some of the tweets that were put out in between the tweets that showed a cause for concern involved lyrics, song lyrics, that would indicate that somebody was going through a breakup.
Now, so far, from the parents and from the people that we`ve heard from in the media, they say that she did not have an ex-boyfriend. But you do have those lyrics, those song lyrics that were put out from her Twitter account.
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911 OPERATOR: Hall County 911.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My daughter is not home yet. She`s 16. Her name is Hannah Truelove. And she didn`t come back in tonight, and now it`s after 10:00 o`clock.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Truelove was last seen at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments, where she lived with her mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just don`t know where she is.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The next day, a neighbor found her body at the banks of Lake Lanier just behind the complex.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 911. What`s the address of the emergency?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, ma`am. I`m walking in the woods behind the Lanier apartments, and I have found a dead lady.
911 OPERATOR: And you say she does appear to be dead?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s dead. She`s been dead for two or three days.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Investigators tell me they`ve searched the dumpsters at the complex where Hannah was murdered, but so far, they`ve come up empty-handed.
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GRACE: This 16-year-old high schooler found dead just a quarter mile from where she was last seen, sitting at an idyllic setting, the picnic tables there in an upscale gated community on Lake Lanier.
Joining me at the scene, Nanette Sosa reporter with all news 106.7.
Nanette, it`s very disturbing to try to reconcile this beautiful setting. It looks like the Garden of Eden, for Pete`s sake. Stand back and let me see that beautiful area where Nanette is standing to a cold- blooded killer stalking a little 16-year-old girl. A girl that made great grades, that had never been any trouble, was loved by all of her fellow classmates, her family, lived with her mom.
But, Nanette, what can you tell me about the cause of death?
NANETTE SOSA, REPORTER, 106.7: Again, the interviews we`ve done over in our newsroom at all news 106.7, is that, few details. And it must be a very violent death because usually you`ll get some indication of gunshot wounds or stabbing or even a decapitation possibly. But in this case the only thing that authorities are saying is "a violent death., a violent death"
GRACE: To Hannah`s father, Jeff Truelove.
Jeff, what do you believe to be the cause of death?
JEFF TRUELOVE, HANNAH TRUELOVE`S FATHER (via phone): They won`t tell me, ma`am. They won`t tell me. I know as much as you know. You know more than I know.
GRACE: Jeff, you have seen Hannah`s body postmortem, correct?
TRUELOVE: Yes, ma`am, I had to identify.
GRACE: Well, having seen her, you would know if there had been a gunshot wound, a stabbing or strangulation.
TRUELOVE: No. There was none. It looked like she got the crap beat out of her, possibly by another girl, because she had a lot of scratches on her face.
GRACE: You know, I want to go to Dr. William Morrone, medical examiner and pathologist, toxicologist Madison Heights.
Dr. Morrone, what does that say to you?
DOCTOR WILLIAM MORRONE, D.D., MEDICAL EXAMINER, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST, TOXICOLOGIST: Well, they won`t release the information because it`s going to be directly related to the suspect, but the violence comes from the amount of trauma, sharp force trauma and blunt force trauma is what you would expect. Sharp force trauma can be from the parts of another person`s body or a sharp weapon.
GRACE: To Sergeant Stephen Wilbanks, PIO, Public Information Officer Hall County sheriff`s office.
Sergeant, I know you guys are not releasing cause of death. Why?
SERGEANT STEPHEN WILBANKS, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, HALL COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICE (via phone): Just as the doctor said, we are withholding that because it`s directly related to the investigation. And many times in murder investigations someone will come forward with some information, perhaps even as serious as a confession or an admission, and they`ll tell us certain things about a manner of death or cause of death in a case. We can use the information that we know to be true, the facts of the case and cause of death, against what information this person is coming forward with to vet that information to see whether or not this is a legitimate or credible source.
GRACE: Was she clothed?
WILBANKS: Again, we won`t be able to release any details about the condition of the victim or the cause of death.
GRACE: OK.
WILBANKS: Pending the investigation.
GRACE: Back to her father, Jeff Truelove.
Mr. Truelove, has the computer in the home been searched?
TRUELOVE: Yes, ma`am.
GRACE: Do you know if Hannah had a current boyfriend or an ex- boyfriend?
TRUELOVE: She had a friend in the neighborhood that she liked, you know, and that was about it. You know, she is not --
GRACE: Are people giving polygraphs, Mr. Truelove?
TRUELOVE: That I don`t know. I haven`t heard a thing.
GRACE: Unleash the lawyers. Brianne Desellier, Darryl Cohen, Evangeline Gomez.
Darryl, before you became a defense attorney you were a felony prosecutor. What do you believe should be the next move right now?
DARRYL COHEN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: What I would do, Nancy, is I would go door to door and ask each and every neighbor if he or she would cooperate. Those that do not cooperate I would be very, very careful and scrutinize their sons, their daughters. It`s obvious to me that this crime was committed by someone she knew, and I would look and see the people that she stayed out of school -- as I understand it, she skips school a lot. And I would like to see who those people were that she skipped school with. And I would also like to know --
GRACE: Darryl, yes, you know she`s afraid to ride the bus and she wants to move out of the apartments. That to me says it`s somebody from those apartments that`s on the bus, would be a suspect. Not that they did it, but that would be somebody that I looked at.
Sergeant Wilbanks, is there anybody within the complex that is not cooperating?
WILBANKS: We have run into some problems with some people not cooperating with us to one degree or another. Conversely, we`ve had a large number of people who have cooperated with us.
GRACE: The ones who are not cooperating, are they male?
WILBANKS: I can`t comment on that at this time on any identification factor.
GRACE: Well, I have a 50 percent chance of being right so I only have two choices, male or female.
To Brianne Desellier. Weigh in, Brianne.
BRIANNE DESELLIER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Hey, you know, the thing about this is, legally no one`s required to talk to the police. But these people that he mentioned that are not cooperating, I would be extremely suspicious of that because we do have to distinguish as lawyers between what we have a legal right to do under the law and what`s the right thing to do. And I would expect that anyone with a true interest in furthering this investigation would be completely forthcoming.
GRACE: What about it, Evangeline Gomez?
EVANGELINE GOMEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I think they should also speak with her peers, the students at school, girls, boys, also find out who was a part of her social network. Was she dating someone? Was this perhaps an ex-girlfriend of her current boyfriend or somebody that she was seeing? They shouldn`t leave anyone out.
GRACE: Everybody, we`re taking your calls, Riana, Ohio, hi, dear. What`s your question?
RIANA, CALLER, OHIO: hi, how are you?
GRACE: I`m good.
RIANA: My question is, the guy that found her, what made him just all of a sudden go walk back in the woods?
GRACE: Excellent question. Out to you, Ellie Jostad, what do you know?
ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER (via phone): Nancy, the man who found the body is a grandfather e. He was apparently staying with his grandkids and their parents at this complex. He just apparently was out for a hike out for a walk, and just happened upon the body. He`s been interviewed apparently he`s not considered a suspect.
GRACE: Ellie, also, we are getting those lyrics. They are from "One" by U2. And they go like this. Did I ask too much? More than a lot. You gave me nothing. Now it`s all I`ve got. Same song -- it leaves you baby if you don`t care for it.
Now, what does that mean, Ellie? How does that connect to this?
JOSTAD: Well, these are song lyrics she was tweeting and she mentioned U2 a lot in her tweets. And you know, this song is kind of about, you know, sort of unrequited love, love affair fraught with problems. So apparently that was something she was thinking about or listening to.
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GRACE: More in 90 seconds, but let`s stop and remember army private first class Christopher Pfeiffer, 21, Spalding, Nebraska, bronze star, purple heart, loved outdoors, working with his hands. Parents Michael and Darlene, brother Aaron, sister Nikki, widow Karen, daughter Peyton.
Christopher Pfeiffer, American hero.
We`ll be back in 60 seconds.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE DISPATCHER: Hall county 911. What`s the address of the emergency?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE CALLER: Yes, Coventry court.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE DISPATCHER: Tell me exactly what happened.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE CALLER: Well, my daughter is not home yet. She`s 16. Her name is Hannah Truelove. Normally she`s home by dark, by 9:00 at the latest.
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GRACE: Interesting the 911 caller that reports finding 16-year-old Hannah`s body says she`s been dead for two or three days. Now, to sergeant Stephen Wilbanks, how would he know that? I know he`s been cleared but how would he know that?
WILBANKS: My guess -- and it`s strict that that -- it`s just his estimate based on what he saw there at the scene. There was nothing there to -- that would indicate to us that that was the occasion. Of course, we all now know she had not been that long. To the untrained eye, sometimes people just don`t realize how long a person may or may not have been there.
GRACE: Out to the lines, Debby, Florida. Hi, Debby, what`s your question?
DEBBY, CALLER, FLORIDA: Hi, Nancy. So wonderful to speak with you.
GRACE: Likewise.
DEBBY: I know they`re looking into her social media and twitter and facebook have a link so they can trace those. As well, did she live on the first floor that somebody was able to peer into her windows of her bedroom, that someone would notice somebody that may have even lived there?
GRACE: Good question. To Jeff Truelove, This is Hannah`s father, taking your calls tonight joining us from Pendergrass.
Jeff, did they live on the first floor?
TRUELOVE: No, ma`am. She lived on the second floor, front apartment, it faced out to, you know, all the other apartments. I guess if she ever had her blind open, you know, you could see from a distance, you know. And today, with today`s, you know, binoculars and so forth, could be. But I`m not -- I`m sure they`re not ruling that out.
GRACE: To Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst and author of "deal breakers," Bethany, I want your opinion.
BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST, AUTHOR, DEAL BREAKERS: I agree with John Lucich because whoever did this had a rich fantasy life about her. And what fueled that fantasy life? Was it watching her at the picnic table? Was it looking at her through binoculars, was it tweeting, was it going online? This reminds me of Chanel Petrom Mixon (ph), remember her? She went missing from her apartment complex and they found her in a garbage bag. And I don`t think that crime was ever --
GRACE: It was never solved.
MARSHALL: It was never solved, Nancy. But whoever did it was some psycho, pervert oversexed, rich fantasy life, probably a ton of pornography on his computer, maybe lives there, maybe has a relative in the apartment building, comes and visits. The research says that the perpetrators in these cases are often underemployed Caucasian males who are not married, single, living in an apartment. We know that one out of every four violent crimes occurs in or near the victim`s home and with young people usually the body is found within a quarter mile!
So what is the common link? Sex, perversion, sadism, stalking and the belief in the perpetrator`s mind, I love you, you`ve rejected me, I`m going to come after you and slash that pretty little face of yours because you have now really made me angry. That is the MO at the end of the day I think we`re going to find.
GRACE: But, you know, Dr. Bethany, you know I normally agree with you, but you seem to believe that sexual sadism is part of every murder. I can`t wait to hear you analyze Cain and Abel. But in this particular case, I think you may have a very good point.
Ellie Jostad, what can you tell me about this car?
JOSTAD: Well, Nancy, there is a car they say either a late `90s, early 2000s, light silver four-door car, it might be a dodge or a Chevy. They are not sure on the make, but it has significant front end damage, Nancy. And also, that driver`s side door, they say, is a lighter shade of silver or maybe even painted white. So this is a car they`re asking people to be on the lookout for. They think the people in that car or driving it might know something about what happened.
GRACE: We`ll be right back. But now CNN heroes.
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DICK TRAUM, CNN HERO: Working out in central park is the best time of the day for me. It gives me the opportunity to test myself. You feel like you could do anything.
Back in 1965 I got hit by a car, and I ended up losing my leg. I didn`t see it as holding me back. It just wasn`t a big issue.
In 1976, I became the first amputee to run the New York City marathon. It was probably the best day of my life. And I just felt this joy should be shared with others.
I`m Dick Traum and I help people with disabilities achieve their potential through sports. How many people here are doing the New York City marathon? Virtually everyone who is a member of Achilles has a vulnerability. People come to Achilles and we match them with guides.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He just did 16 miles!
TRAUM: The atmosphere is social, and there are jokes and there`s laughter.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You`re going to beat me still?
TRAUM: It truly is a family.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have a stroke in 1980. When with I start with Achilles, I could only walk one lamppost to another lamppost. And now, I run New York City marathon. I can do anything in my life. Dick helped me (INAUDIBLE) in my life.
TRAUM: We change the way people perceive themselves. And you see the glow. There`s nothing in the world that I have more fun doing.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE DISPATCHER: And does she have a cell phone?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE CALLER: No, she doesn`t.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE DISPATCHER: She doesn`t. OK.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE CALLER: No, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE DISPATCHER: All right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE CALLER: That`s why I`m hesitant because that means she`s lost all her privileges because of school and stuff and that`s one of the privileges she lost. That`s why I think she might be up -- she might be up to something.
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GRACE: To John Phillips, KABC, who`s not cooperating?
JOHN PHILLIPS, HOST, 790 KABC: Well, at this point whoever has something to hide. And Nancy, I believe the keys to the kingdom to finding out what happened is talking to her friends, talking to her peers. Because outside of radio professionals, high school kids are the biggest gossips on the planet. They know everybody`s business. They know who had it in for her. They know who was upset with her. They know why she was afraid to go on the bus. Those are the people who need to be talked to. And I suspect that`s exactly what the police are doing right now.
GRACE: Ellie?
JOSTAD: Nancy, that`s true. Police won`t tell us who it is that won`t cooperate. They did say, however, they have given polygraphs and there are people who won`t cooperate with them at this point.
GRACE: So polygraphs have been given?
JOSTAD: That`s correct, according to police.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: Hall County 911. What`s the address of the emergency?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE CALLER: Yes ma`am, I`m walking in the woods behind the Lanier apartments and I have found a dead lady.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: You found a what? A dead what?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE CALLER: A dead lady. She appeared to be about 18 or 19 years old.
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GRACE: Back to Nanette standing Sosa standing by, all news 106.7.
Nanette, why are residents there in her community refusing to cooperate?
SOSA: Well, for starters, it`s a huge community. You have to consider that. There are two gated entrances here. So there`s that part. And are people afraid to come forward? Nancy, another thought is, is it`s gated. You don`t just come in and you don`t just leave. So either did Hannah invite someone in through the code that`s going to be necessary? Or were they already in here?
GRACE: Another question, Nanette Sosa, is the nature path, the walking path she was on, where does it start and where does it end?
SOSA: That part of the information as far as this complex is huge has not been disclosed to us.
GRACE: OK. Well, obviously it`s a nature walk for the public. Anybody can get back there and walk on the path.
Sergeant Willbanks, where does the path end?
WILBANKS: It winds throughout the wood line there. That area in comes with this core engineers property that goes down to the lake shore. Some of these paths are simply informal paths that residents use to go down and visit the lake.
GRACE: So anybody on the lake could get back to that path and meet up with Hannah Truelove, is that right?
WILBANKS: That`s right. It is accessible from water.
GRACE: So, you don`t have to go through one of those two gates?
WILBANKS: Not necessarily.
GRACE: Sergeant Willbanks, who typically can be found on that path? Do we find people who are vacationing or boating out on Lake Lanier?
WILBANKS: Not typically. From what we understand, it`s used by a large number of residents who go down and visit the lake to either fish or just go down for a walk. There`s not a park or anything immediately adjacent to the apartment complex there that would allow very easy access to the area from the outside.
GRACE: To Hannah`s father Jeff Truelove, she was last seen at 7:30. She was reported missing around 10:00. Now, I understand that she lives with her mom. When did her mom first become worried she was gone?
TRUELOVE: Well, first I heard was about 9:00. You know, she said its dark -- it`s getting dark, she`s always in at dark. I said yes, she is always in at dark. And she said I`m worried. I said well, we need to see where she`s at. Find her.
And so next thing I know, she calls me and says I called the law. I said good. And she said I think she`s OK. Don`t worry. She`s run off with a friend or something. And I`m like, no. She does not do that. She`s not that type. She`s as -- you know -- and another thing, she does not know the codes to the gate. She can`t invite somebody in. They would have had to walk in. And it`s a long walk from the gate down to her apartment and so forth. Down in that area.
GRACE: I imagine, Mr. Truelove, that that gate where you enter and exit the community does have cameras.
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