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Crime and Justice With Ashleigh Banfield
Baby Girl Snatched From Hospital Found 18 Years Later; Teacher Pregnant by 13-year-old Student; Jail Video Shows Suspected Killer`s Son Talking About Dad; No Charges for Cop Who Threw Student to Ground in Class; Student Pulled Over for "Stealing" His Own Car; Texas Cops Searching for Mystery Car Seen Near Crime Scene; Father Calmly Calls Police About Missing Daughter. Aired 8-9p ET
Aired January 16, 2017 - 20:00 ET
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ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HOST (voice-over): She stole a newborn and raised her in secret, and now her teenager learns the awful truth about the only mom
she`s ever known, from that sad encounter to a meeting with complete strangers, the real parents she never knew.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I always thought I would find her.
BANFIELD: An exclusive interview with her family tonight.
A teacher had sex over and over with a kid just 13 and keeps the naked pictures on a cell phone. What`s more, other kids are allowed to have sex
at the house, too. The sentence, 10 years, likely out in 5.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I was out, I`d be counting my blessings.
BANFIELD: What`s wrong with this story?
Stunning jailhouse talk from the son of an armed and dangerous man on the run after killing a pregnant girlfriend and a cop.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I knew he was going to start doing that.
BANFIELD: Markeith Loyd`s kid in jail, the very place his dad should be.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can`t just kill people at Wal-Mart. He`s got to do it smarter than that.
BANFIELD: The bratty teen refused three adults and kept talking on her phone in class.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you going to come with me or am I going to make you?
BANFIELD: What do you think would happen? She tried to blame the cop, but now the real story is out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m going to get you up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m hurt.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Give me your hands.
BANFIELD: Justice denied -- what happens when you do everything the cops demand and they still take you down? A Ph.D. student steaming mad after
cops make a violent mistake.
And the most terrifying call a parent could ever make.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can`t find my daughter.
BANFIELD: So why is this dad so incredibly calm.
911 OPERATOR: How old is she?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 5. She just turned 5.
BANFIELD: Just wait until you hear where they found his little girl.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just rips at your heart, rips at your soul.
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BANFIELD: Good evening. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. This is PRIMETIME JUSTICE.
If your heart has ever gone out to a crime victim, before, it will bleed for Kamiyah Mobley tonight. Kamiyah was kidnapped at birth, stolen from a
hospital 18 years ago. She was just 8 hours old, her mom still in her hospital bed, so trusting of that kind nurse who had befriended her and who
had walked off with her newborn. But that so-called nurse was a kidnapper.
And today, Gloria Williams has been charged with that crime. The trouble is, Gloria is the only mom that baby has ever known through elementary
school, through middle school, through high school. And here`s what`s weird. By all accounts, she was a great mom. So imagine what it was like
when police broke the news to 18-year-old Kamiyah that her loving mother could be going to prison for 30 years.
I want to show you Kamiyah as she is seeing that so-called mother behind bars for the first time. This would not be the only traumatic meeting in
this story. Kamiyah`s real mother had been trying to find her ever since losing her from that hospital bed back in 1998.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) That would be the happiest thing in the world right now to hold my baby and I know that she`s not going nowhere!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: That was so long ago. Kamiyah`s mom, Shanara, baked a cake on her birthday every year, every year since losing her baby. And on
Saturday, she was reunited with her child at the police department in South Carolina. But don`t forget as you look at that picture, for Kamiyah,
although she was meeting her real parents, these people were virtual strangers to her.
And joining me now is Yvette Williams, Kamiyah Mobley`s aunt, and Velma Aiken, Kamiyah Mobley`s paternal grandmother. Thank you to both of you for
joining me tonight in this exclusive interview.
[20:05:06]I cannot imagine what your family is going through. You must be over the moon, but at the same time be struggling with a lot of emotions.
How are you doing tonight?
YVETTE WILLIAMS, AUNT: Doing fine.
VELMA AIKEN, GRANDMOTHER: Great. I`m doing great.
BANFIELD: Well, you`re smiling. And again, I can only imagine the things that you`re thinking. How is Kamiyah.
AIKEN: Well, as far as I know, she`s doing pretty well. I haven`t seen her yet.
BANFIELD: You had a chance to Facetime with her, though.
AIKEN: Yes, I Facetimed with her. She seemed pretty happy. She seemed like she, you know, always knew us or something. She didn`t act like a
stranger or nothing. She was -- she`s doing pretty good.
BANFIELD: You could feel it, Velma? As her grandma, you could feel a familiarity, and you think she could feet a familiarity, too, with you?
AIKEN: Say that again?
BANFIELD: You could feel there was some kind of magical connection between you all?
AIKEN: Yes, yes. You could tell she is family.
BANFIELD: Do you -- I know this has got to be just so unbelievable for your son, Craig, who lost his baby, too. I mean, Shanara lost her baby.
Your son, Craig, lost his baby. He had never set eyes on her. He wasn`t in the hospital for the first eight hours of her life.
What was their first meeting like, that baby who is now 18 and her real parents?
AIKEN: Well, I haven`t talked with him, but (INAUDIBLE) said that everything went real smooth.
BANFIELD: We`re looking at a picture of Kamiyah and your son, Craig, her dad, and the resemblance is amazing. They are really father and daughter
by all accounts. You can see it.
AIKEN: Yes. Yes, she told her mama that she know who she look like. She look like her daddy.
(LAUGHTER)
BANFIELD: I do have to say, though, when she was a baby, she sure looked like her mama. We got a picture that compares, you know, Kamiyah to her
birth mom, you know, Craig`s girlfriend at the time, and her real mother, and the resemblance between that baby, baby Kamiyah, and her real mother --
I mean, we`re looking at it on the screen. It is just remarkable.
Do you think there`s going to be a relationship between this 18-year-old now woman and these real parents of hers who all of her life have been
strangers?
AIKEN: Yes, I think it will be, but it is just going to be a little slow motion because she`s got a lot going on. So I think they will eventually.
BANFIELD: Can you take me back briefly to that day in the hospital where Shanara was so trusting of this woman dressed in a nurse`s outfit who`d
been sitting by her bedside for hours. What happened, and what was strange about the way she left?
AIKEN: Well, I had went to see her, and when I was on my way coming in the room, she was on the way going out with the baby in her arms. And I said,
Well, Grandmama just got here. I said, Where`s the baby going? She said, She`ll be back. She got to go for a test. She`ll be back in 15 minutes.
So I said, 15 minutes? Grandmama just got here. I said, Can I see her? So she did move the blanket off the baby`s face and let me see her. But
when she was on her way going out the door, I noticed she had a pocketbook on her shoulder. And I said, That lady got a pocketbook. She says she had
that pocketbook everywhere she went that day. I said, Everywhere? I said how long has she been here?
So anyway, after then, I had called -- she called down to the nursery to see did she bring the baby down there, and they told her no. And then
that`s when I said, Well, you need call your head nurse in here. And she did. And I (INAUDIBLE) that that nurse that was in here, where did she
take my baby? She said, That nurse? I thought that was a relative.
BANFIELD: Oh! Oh! Your -- oh! Your heart must have just sunk.
AIKEN: Yes.
BANFIELD: And it is weird that you said that, that detail about a nurse carrying that little baby eight hours old out of that hospital room, but
with her pocketbook, with her purse on her shoulder.
I want to play something from your son, Velma, Craig. You know, Craig is the dad here. He`s the real dad, and he had that meeting with his baby
girl. He put his eyes on her for the first time, and this is what he had to say about that meeting. Have a listen.
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CRAIG AIKEN FATHER: First meeting was beautiful. It was wonderful. Couldn`t of went no better.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What did she have to say to you? What was the first thing she said to you?
C. AIKEN: She was glad to meet us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you -- are you planning to bring her to our city?
C. AIKEN: No, it`s going to be up to her. (INAUDIBLE) just take it at one step at a time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: Wow. Yvette, that`s your brother. That is your brother talking about a beautiful meeting with his biological daughter for the first time
after 18 years of her being missing.
[20:10:06]What I am so astounded from both of you -- but Yvette, I want you to speak to it -- is that you are remarkably forgiving of Gloria Williams,
the woman who has been arrested for this. You`re forgiving of her. How can you be?
Y. WILLIAMS: It`s just by the grace of God. It`s the spiritual part that we have inside of us that we was taught. And I mean, she made a mistake.
We can`t, you know, do nothing about it (INAUDIBLE) heaven or hell. But God`ll take care of it. God will deal with it. And we just have to move
on because our main goal is my niece, my mom`s grandbaby. So God`ll take of all the things.
BANFIELD: God, I wish the best for you as you all forge this family relationship going forward. I actually want to get to the legal aspects of
this, as well. So if you`ll forgive me for a moment, I want to turn my attention to Sheriff Mike Williams from the Jacksonville sheriff`s office.
He`s live with me now.
Sheriff, how -- I don`t even know what your office was thinking and how you could have figured out a strategy to somehow break the news to Kamiyah, who
she was and what was about to happen to the woman she thought was her mother. Can you walk me through how you wrapped your head around it and
what you actually did to effectuate the arrest and notify this 18-year-old girl?
SHERIFF MIKE WILLIAMS, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA (via telephone): Sure. Yes, and thanks for having me. Yes, this is an incredible story. I mean, you
know, the more you -- the more that we`ve talked about it, just, you know, it never seems to -- you know, it never seems to fade.
So we -- but we -- we obviously talked a lot about how to make that notification, and it`s something that, you know, we have detectives that do
lots of really, you know, traumatic notifications to people. So they lean on that experience, and you know, have advice in terms of, you know, Don`t
be too direct, but obviously, don`t beat around the bush too much.
So we decided that we would just call them and tell them that we had some tip information. This is the family, the birth family, that we had some
tip information and we wanted to follow up with them on some of the things that we had learned from the tip, from the tips.
So you know, we were able to bring them in Friday morning, and it was the father, the mother, the grandmother and a couple of other family members or
friends that were there, and told them just that. We had some tips and the tips led us to South Carolina, and when we got to South Carolina, we found
Kamiyah alive and well.
So -- and we didn`t do that until we had DNA confirmation. We got that the night before about 10:00 o`clock. And so we had victims` advocates in the
room when we told the family. There were victims` advocates up in South Carolina, as well, when we told -- you know, we gave Kamiyah the same news.
So -- and they were there to help direct towards services, or you know, connect them with people we felt like could potentially help (INAUDIBLE)
BANFIELD: Sheriff, real quickly, let me just ask you, was Kamiyah with that so-called mother, that woman who is now charged with kidnapping her?
I mean, she`s the only mother she`s known. Was she with her at that time of notification?
M. WILLIAMS: No, she was not. So we -- we -- there was an arrest made up in South Carolina early in the morning. Kamiyah was not there when the
arrest was made. So she was notified separately, early that same morning. So -- and again, that worked out good for us, as well. That was another
scenario that we had talked about, and things fell in our favor. So we were able to, you know, make the arrest of Ms. Williams and notify Kamiyah
separately from that. So you know, you try not to traumatize, especially in this situation, you know, the victim really more than necessary. So
again, those worked out in our favor.
BANFIELD: Well, I mean, if you think about the crimes that have been committed here, it wasn`t just a kidnapping that deprived a mother and a
father of their baby for 18 years. It was a crime against this 18-year-old girl who has now for the rest of her life got to realize that the woman she
thinks is her mother will likely spend time behind bars and that she is not who she thought she was. Her mother certainly isn`t who she thought she
was. The trauma that this 18-year-old girl will be going through starting Saturday of last week and the trauma that that family has been through for
the last 18 years -- it is just astounding.
Sheriff, thank you so much. And my thanks to Velma Aiken and Yvette Williams, as well, for telling us their story. We were going to -- you
know, we`re obviously going to watch to see if there`s any additional charges, kidnapping, interfering with custody. Stay tuned to this space
(ph).
An outrageous sentence for a teacher turned sex predator. And a new video surfaces in a murder mystery of a Texas fitness trainer, lights blinking on
and off mysteriously in a parking lot not far away. Is this something that could actually crack this case wide open.
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[20:18:48]BANFIELD: One of the worst offenses in our classrooms, the teacher becoming a sex predator, targeting young children. And I want to
tell you about a teacher in Houston. That teacher`s been arrested preying on a 13-year-old student, having sex almost every day. And in between all
those sexual assaults, explicit photos of the victim were found on the teacher`s phone. So you would think the teacher would face the harshest
penalties, right, for this heinous crime. Not this teacher. No way. This teacher only got 10 years, could be out in 5.
And you`re going to ask the question like I did. How? Why? How is it possible? Should be at least maybe 20 for that kind of offense.
Let`s take a look at the video and see who the teacher is. There she is. She`s a she, strutting into court with her head held high, full makeup, not
hiding out, not the least bit concerned, it seems. Again, she could be out in five years and ultimately have her record wiped clean.
Did I mention that this teacher got pregnant with that`s 13-year-old`s baby? And here`s something else that`s just off the -- off the chain.
That 13-year-old`s parents were excited about it, happy about that pregnancy, happy about the relationship. It is bizarre!
[20:20:06]But maybe what`s most bizarre is that it seems like there is a double standard when it comes to a pretty female teacher because I
guarantee you, if we were talking about some middle-aged man who preyed on a 13-year-old girl and had sex with her regularly at his house and had
other students coming over to have sex at his house, too, we wouldn`t be talking about a 10-year sentence, maybe 5 years for good behavior and a
clean record afterwards.
Jeffrey Boney`s an associate editor for "The Houston Forward-Times," and he joins me from Houston. And there`s the mug shot, Jeffrey Boney. She is
beautiful. I will give her that. She`s just lovely.
Jeffrey, is that why this sentence seems to be ridiculous?
JEFFREY BONEY, "HOUSTON FORWARD-TIMES" (via telephone): Well, Texas has a history of not up until this point actually delivering these types of
sentences in these types of cases, whether it be male or female. But in this case, of course, it does seem somewhat like a double standard.
But I think what complicated this case the most, to be frank with you, the fact that the victim`s family, the 13-year-old`s family allegedly knew
about this relationship and supported and it even included her in family gatherings.
BANFIELD: That`s disgusting! That`s disgusting to have a 13-year-old, you know, with a woman -- a girlfriend in her 20s, you know, calling her my 13-
year-old`s girlfriend and bringing her around to family events. Maybe what might be more disgusting is the teacher herself has a 6-year-old. She`s
got a 6-year-old who was calling that 13-year-old Daddy. I am not making this up! You cannot write this disgusting garbage!
So Jeffrey, I -- something is missing from this picture for me. The teacher pleads guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child. But no
other kind of rape charges or -- then there`s the parents. Where is the negligence? Where is the endangerment of a child? Where`s the conspiracy
if they`re encouraging this and happy that the teacher got pregnant with their 13-year-old`s baby?
BONEY: Well, there`s a couple of things we need to look at. First of all, the boy is now in foster care. But the boy`s parents indicated that they
were worried about her losing her job, and his mother said that in her culture, the age difference between her son and Ms. Vera was not an issue.
And I think the most important thing -- during the trial, Karen Lawson (ph), a therapist that testified on behalf of Ms. Vera said that she thinks
that Ms. Vera was driven by, quote, "being in love" with the boy.
BANFIELD: Oh!
BONEY: She said that Ms. Vera had seen domestic violence as a kid...
BANFIELD: Oh, please!
BONEY: ... while she was growing up and had a deep need for love.
BANFIELD: That`s -- oh! You know who else had a deep, meaningful love for her little kid student who was 13 was Mary Kay Letourneau, and she only got
seven years. And she got pregnant twice by Vili Fualaau, her deep, meaningful love who she met as her student when he was, I believe, maybe 12
or even younger -- seven years for that.
Then there was Debra Lafave, no prison time at all when she had a relationship with her 14-year-old student, little (INAUDIBLE), they called
it, no prison time.
(LAUGHTER)
BANFIELD: ... no prison.
BONEY: Well, Vera was initially charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child, which carries a maximum life prison sentence. But in November, when
she pled guilty to lesser charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child, that lowered the minimum sentence, which paves the way for her...
BANFIELD: OK. I get it.
BONEY: ... possibly to be...
BANFIELD: Jeffrey, what about kiddie porn? She has pictures of her 13- year-old lover on her phone. That is illegal in any state in any way. How come she wasn`t charged with that?
BONEY: Well, I mean, of course, we don`t know all of the details surrounding what all of the prosecutors and the DA was looking at in this
in case. But what we do know is she has been sentenced to 10 years with the eligibility of patrol in 5 years. And it`s remaining to be seen
whether the parents will be charged with anything in the future.
BANFIELD: Interesting. And very interesting, of course, the 13-year-old is in foster care. Surprise! Your parents think your teacher was a
girlfriend to bring around.
Jeffrey, thank you. We`re going to continue to watch that. Again, will those parents be charged with a conspiracy or anything? All we know is
that Alexandria Vera gets 10 years, she could be out in 5. And if she`s good and behaves herself, she can have a clean record. Keep an eye on her,
folks. Keep an eye on her.
In an emergency, you are always told to stay calm and cool and collected. But could you be this calm if your child was missing?
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911 OPERATOR: What was she wearing?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s wearing a purple winter coat. I don`t know what those things are called, but they`re not jeans. They`re like...
911 OPERATOR: Like leggings?
[20:25:02]UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, yes, yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: And in Florida, the manhunt continues for a suspected cop killer, Markeith Loyd. All of this as his teenage son has something to say
about that news on a recording from jail.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He got away?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can`t just kill people at Wal-Mart. He`s got to do it smarter than that.
[20:30:00]
BANFIELD: The two of them talking about the alleged killing spree of his daddy, Markeith Loyd.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A police too.
MARKEITH LOYD JR., SON OF MARKEITH LOYD: He killed a police too?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yesterday.
LOYD JR.: Yesterday. I knew he was going to start doing that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: Joining me now, former prosecutor, Jonna Spilbor, and from Atlanta, defense attorney, Eric Johnson. All right, guys, so I don`t even
know where to begin. Like father, like son. Who knows? You got an inmate kid whose apparently in his teens talking about his dad on the run.
And apparently has a lot of opinions about that. Like, whether it`s wrong or not to kill a cop at Walmart. I want you to listen to the longer portion
of this tape. I`m going to ask you a couple questions out of it. Have a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LOYD JR.: My daddy on the news.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For what?
LOYD JR.: For killing that girl, one of his girlfriends.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A police too.
LOYD JR.: He killed a police too.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yesterday.
LOYD JR.: Yesterday. I knew he was going to start doing that. Where at?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Walmart.
LOYD JR.: He got away?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
LOYD JR.: You can`t just kill people at Walmart. He gotta do it smarter than that.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No smart way to do that stupid crap. You got to break that curse. You was all right until you started dealing with that dude.
LOYD JR.: I got kicked out of school when he got out of jail and everything. I ain`t gonna blame him for that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: All right. Jonna, look, I got this question. And people might be outraged by this. But can`t the police start keeping the charges? They have
conspiracy on to the kid. To start squeezing Markeith Loyd out there somewhere to turn himself in or your kid is really going to go down?
JONNA SPILBOR, FORMER PROSECUTOR: You know, I wish that could happen in this case, Ashleigh, but I don`t think so. I see this as just really a
disgusting example of an apple not falling far from the tree.
And now you have a kid behind bars who is talking I guess his mother about, you know, hey, pretty stupid trying to kill somebody at Walmart or why
don`t you kill him someplace out where you`re not going to get caught. That to me is not -- I don`t know. That`s not going to promote or help this
investigation.
BANFIELD: You think?
SPILBOR: I think it`s going to be -- I`m critical of the police because they probably shouldn`t have aired this. I was hoping maybe the father
would try to contact his son and they will get some information about his whereabouts that way. But now.
BANFIELD: Eric, you know what? Eric, jump in here. There`s a $100,000 bounty right now on this guy. You would think that somebody out there would
want the $100,000 more than they would want to be loyal to a guy like Markeith Loyd.
ERIC JOHNSON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, I mean, if anyone had an information, I`m sure they will provide it. But I doubt if his son -- I doubt if his son
knows anything or his son`s mother. I mean, they seemed pretty disgusted about the situation also. Even though the son said that wouldn`t be a smart
way to do it.
I mean, at no point did he say that he felt it was okay to kill police officers or he condoned his father`s actions. In fact, he said that some of
his troubles that he had started when he began hanging around his father. So, I mean, I would have to agree with the prosecutor at this time. This is
nothing more than just a simple jailhouse communication. That wouldn`t have anything to do with the investigation.
BANFIELD: Okay. Hold that thought. I`ve got something yet again from the file of teens behaving badly. This is teenager, in class, using a cell
phone. First of all, did any of us ever do that? And then when she`s told three times to stop, she refuses and that happens. So the cop took it on
the chin and lost his job. Guess what happened now. After the break, you`re going to find out if that cop was really to blame.
Also, pulled over for stealing your own car. Seriously. Wait until you see what cops did to a doctoral student who complied with every one of their
commands, but apparently that just did not seem good enough.
[20:35:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BANFIELD: It is haunting surveillance video. The stuff of nightmares in late night scary movies. But this one was all too real and the outcome was
a murder that even today remains a mystery. Watch this video, very mysterious dark figure dress instead in tactical gear trudging through the
halls of a church in Midlothian, Texas.
It won`t be long before young woman named Missy Bevers, a fitness instructor, who was about to give a class very early in the morning at that
church would end up dead. Beaten brutally. Multiple wounds. Head, chest, some kind of unknown instrument used on her to kill her. And the figure in
the video might actually be holding that instrument. Some kind of a claw- like weapon.
Could be the murder weapon in fact. Here`s what`s weird. The person could be female because that person had very unusual walk. Walking through the
church. Opening and closing doors. In that tactical gear. So here`s the new video. Suspicious car doing really weird things like blinking its
headlights on and off and driving through a parking lot.
Odd behavior just two hours before Missy Bevers was killed. This vehicle was spotted in a parking lot of an outdoor store about half a mile away
from the church. This is a four-door Sedan, circling and circling, flashing its headlights. Just weird.
[20:40:00] Very, very, strange stuff. This was at 2 o`clock in the morning. It was only about two hours later, Missy would be killed over that church.
Robyn Walensky is a senior news anchor for the Blaze Radio Network. Robin, why didn`t the police release this video? Why did they keep that? Why did
they only release a still photograph of that car? Couldn`t this have helped?
ROBYN WALENSKY, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, BLAZE RADIO NETWORK: Yeah, you know, Ashleigh, good evening. I`ve been on this case since day one. It`s been a
question in my mind. Why in the world -- this is very suspicious. There`s two choices. Either number one, this is someone who is just randomly in
this parking lot who has absolutely nothing to do with the case who is maybe perhaps on the phone with a friend or who knows what, or this is the
killer in this car who is buying time.
Perhaps turning the lights off. Turning the lights on. You see the lights on in the video. Then the person parks. Then they turn the lights off.
Maybe they`re putting on the costume that we`re seeing. It`s very suspicious. Either one or the other, but the reward money, Ashleigh, has
been raised to $50,000.
BANFIELD: Wow.
WALENSKY: For $50,000, someone is going to start talking. Someone knows who was in that costume.
BANFIELD: You know what else someone knows, Robyn, someone knows about the oval shaped sticker that was found on the bumper of that car. Strange
little oval shaped sticker. I think we have a photograph of it. Weird little sticker on the back. I have to leave it there. They couldn`t read
the license plate which is a total bummer because the rain was wrecking the view of the license plate.
You can see the weird oval sticker, yeah. We`re going to watch it, Robyn. We`ll check back in with you if the video does any good at all and tracks
down the killer. A long time ago, talking in class was going to get you the receiving end of a wooden panel. But the teens acting up caught on video
file just keeps growing. Remember this one recently from a classroom at Spring Valley high school in Columbia, South Carolina. Look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BEN FIELDS, FORMER SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER: Are you gonna come with me or am I gonna make you? Put your hands behind your back. Give me your hands.
You don`t know me? Are you going to come with me or am I going to make you? Come on. I`m going to get you up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m hurt.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Give me your hands.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: Three times. Three times that teenager was asked to get off her phone. Teacher, principal, and then the school resource officer that you
saw finally taking action. So it turns out Ben Fields is that cop. He got fired. Then he was facing a huge investigation. And the latest news is the
federal prosecutors have decided to drop all the federal charges against him. He now faces no criminal case. Nothing at all.
But it seems the damage has been done. Because Mr. Fields, used to be Officer Fields, doesn`t have a job anymore. And that teenager still gets to
use her cell phone. Jonna Spilbor and Eric Johnson are still with me. Hey, guys, the latest news from him is he filed, the officer, former, has filed
a defamation and negligence case against the Richland County Sheriff`s Department and the sheriff and the school district.
But, Eric, what are the odds? What are the odds he`s going to win that? Defamation means people say stuff about you that makes you lose your way of
life and that kind of happened to this guy.
JOHNSON: I wouldn`t certainly call it a defamation. I mean, in this situation, you have a degree of use of force whether or not that was
justified with regards to this particular student. So all the proper channels had to be investigated and if one of them means administrative
leave or him losing job while this matter is being investigated, that can`t rise to the level of defamation of his character simply because he was then
vindicated of the charges.
BANFIELD: Well, Jonna, obviously all sorts of things were said about this officer based on a short clip. Turns out that brat was going on and on with
a cell phone which would have gotten the rest of us a lot more than just a paddle. But she wouldn`t give up the cell phone in class.
And it took three adults. And still wouldn`t work. So she was taken forcefully out of her desk. Her foot hooked around the desk and brought the
desk over. It looked a lot worse than it was. The investigators have all gone through it and said, he was right. He was right.
And yet that guy has no income from that job anymore. Isn`t that the definition of defamation when you spread all the stories about him and
turns out they`re not true.
SPILBOR: I`m sorry. The problem is that is it defamation? Probably not in the truest sense of the word because did he have to do his job and did that
entail actually physically putting hands on this person, yes, but I agree with the prosecutors, not charging this man criminally because Ashleigh, do
you ever remember seeing a cop in school when we were in school?
BANFIELD: No.
SPILBOR: It was unnecessary, but this school happens to have -- there`s a law called disturbing schools law and this officer was there because it was
his job to do exactly what he did.
(CROSSTALK)
[20:45:00] BANFIELD: Kids are really difficult these days and here`s one example of a kid who got what was coming to her. It turns out according to
the law, that guy, that officer did what he was supposed to do.
A father and his 911 call. Reporting his beautiful five-year-old daughter missing, but police say that he knew right away where little Ashley was. So
could you be this calm if you didn`t know where your child was?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can`t find my daughter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How old is she?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Five. She just turned five.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Okay.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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BANFIELD: Police have released the 911 call from the dad of a missing 5- year-old. But there`s a strange turn. This little girl`s dad and mom have both been arrested. Because Ashley Zhao turned up dead. And those parents
are suspected.
[20:50:00] Little Ashley was found stuffed inside the family`s restaurant less than a day after this call came in.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What`s going on?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can`t find my daughter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How old is she?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Five. She just turned five.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Okay. You`re at Ang`s?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ang`s, yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When was the last time you seen her?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Uh, this afternoon probably?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Around what time?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Uh, 3? Maybe 4?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What was she wearing?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Uh, she`s wearing a purple winter coat. Uh, I don`t know what those things are called but they`re not jeans. They`re like.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Like leggings?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where was she sleeping at, in the restaurant?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, yeah, she was sleeping there. And I picked up my older daughter from school. We all saw her sleeping there. And we went to
work. And you know, we let her sleep. And we got busy. And then, uh, uh, after it got busy, we started cleaning up, and then you know, we opened the
door, she`s not here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Was there any suspicious people that came in at all? Do you think she could have woke up and ran out somewhere?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have no idea. I mean, she was sleeping in the back. It`s kind of hard to say when she was.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: None of your employees have seen her?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is only two of us, just myself and my wife. There`s nobody else in the restaurant.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: Well, as it turns out, they were both arrested. Jonna and Eric -- Eric, how much is that 911 call going to play into any kind of trial
against these two?
JOHNSON: It will always play a big part. I mean, as a father, I can`t imagine being that calm, not knowing where my 5-year-old daughter is. I
can`t imagine that amount of time that I don`t see her and lay eyes on her.
So his calmness and the fact that he really can`t give any description as far as what happened to his daughter and the fact that he`s in the
restaurant with his wife and her at the time, shows really a disregard and possible criminal intent on his part.
BANFIELD: Boy, oh boy, hard to see those parents in that courtroom and know that little girl was stuffed into a restaurant somewhere, while that call
is being made. Stand by, guys.
A PHD student tackled and cuffed by the police for stealing his own car. New dash cam video you just have to see. By all accounts this guy did
pretty much everything the cops asked him to do.
[20:55:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BANFIELD: A doctoral student at Northwestern University pulled over by the police because somebody called 911, said they thought they saw a car being
stolen. His name is Lawrence Crosby. He didn`t do any wrong. He trying to get away. He pulled over immediately. Got out of the car with his hands up,
just like you would do if you were trying to comply. He actually seem to be doing absolutely everything that the officers asked.
But they rushed him. Shoved him to the ground. Cuffed him. All the while the student is calling them sir. So how does this happen? Maybe the dash
cam video`s going to give you a clue, especially since the 911 caller who showed up on the scene had a couple of opinions, too.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Turn around! Turn around!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stop resisting. Stop resisting.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, you`re on video. FYI.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fine, fine.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is my vehicle, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When we tell you to get down, you get down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, sir, I understand. Why am i being.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`ve got to verify the car is not stolen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I go to Northwestern University. I purchased this vehicle in 2015 from Libertyville Chevrolet. I have all the evidence.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t know why I`m being arrested.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I did not.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is something called fifth amendment.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That doesn`t apply.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it does. Illegal search and seizure.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It looks like he had a bar in his hand and trying to jimmy it open. I didn`t mean to racially profile.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Calm down, okay?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know. I just.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. We got a different issue right now.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BANFIELD: Yeah, he has a different issue. He`s going to sue over this. That is the soon-to-be Dr. Lawrence Crosby on the ground. That is his car. Some
911 caller thought she saw him stealing a car. He complied. Jonna, my friends tell me, my black friends tell me there is this thing called
driving while black. And that looked like it to me.
SPILBOR: I`m going to respectfully disagree. The cops were pursuing what they thought was a grand theft auto. And this is a horrible video. I know
I`m going to get hate mail. But the one mistake that this driver made is he got out of the car without the police officers telling him to get out of
the car.
BANFIELD: Okay, hold on now. Eric, if that were me getting out of the car or Jonna or a white guy, wouldn`t they have given them maybe like a couple
more seconds to get down on the ground?
[21:00:00] JOHNSON: Not only would it not be a problem with those individuals. He would not have remained on the ground as long as he had
throughout the duration of this video. The man who started giving them information saying that he owned this vehicle. They could have taken him up
at once they found out that he didn`t have any weapons on him. This is a clear case of racial profiling. Being from Chicago, I`ve experienced
similar things like this when I was a student as well.
BANFIELD: The soon-to-be Dr. Lawrence Crosby. Thank you. Appreciate it.
Thank you, everyone, for watching. We`ll be back here again tomorrow night. Stay tuned for "FORENSIC FILES."
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