Return to Transcripts main page

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Abigail Hernandez Faces Kidnapper in Court; Where is Jennifer Huston?; Missing Mom`s Husband Under A Microscope; Who Killed 14-Year-Old April Millsap?

Aired July 29, 2014 - 19:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, an incredible scene in a New Hampshire courtroom as Abigail Hernandez, the teenager who vanished for nine long

months and then mysteriously reappeared just a few days ago, bravely faces her alleged kidnapper as he`s brought to court in shackles to face a judge.

Was this poor girl locked in a shipping container in her abductor`s backyard?

Good evening. I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell. Thanks for joining me.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Young Abigail Hernandez, last seen in early October after leaving Kennett High School. She never made it home.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Abigail`s mother reported the teen missing nine months ago.

ZENYA HERNANDEZ, MOTHER: Abby, we miss you. We truly, truly, truly miss you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In December, police said the family received a letter from Abigail. It came as a surprise, even to investigators.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fifteen-year-old Abigail was reunited with her family.

HERNANDEZ: You belong at home with me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She did not do this on her own.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Abigail Hernandez, then 14 years old, a child, vanished walking home from school on October 9, last year. She was texting with her

boyfriend. And the last message he got was a heart from her.

A massive search for this missing teen turned up nothing. But then in a bizarre twist, Abigail allegedly sent her parents a letter a few weeks

after her disappearance.

And then on July 20, just nine days ago, Abigail mysteriously simply reappeared, seemingly out of nowhere. Her mother told "The Today Show"

that her mother looked drastically different. Listen to this from NBC.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HERNANDEZ: She was very, very thin. She lost a lot of weight. Very pale. She had a look in her eyes that I`ve never, ever seen before. And that`s

something that`s haunting me. And I think will haunt for the rest of my life.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Now this man, 34-year-old Nathaniel Kibby, is charged with kidnapping Abigail. Take a look at him. Tonight, this guy is behind bars

on $1 million cash only bail.

Nathaniel Kibby lives in a trailer park about 30 miles away from Abigail`s home. Cops are searching his property right now, desperately looking for

any clues as to what might have happened to this innocent teenager for nine months.

And guess what? Neighbors are pointing cops to this shipping container. You can see it right there. The back of his property. Was this Abby`s

prison for nine months? A shipping container?

I want to hear from you. Call me: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1-877-586-7297. You can also reach me on Facebook. I want to hear from you.

Our Lion`s Den panel is ready to debate. Straight out to Mike Brooks, HLN law enforcement analyst. I think what everybody is wondering is, how did

this 15-year-old girl mysteriously just reappear, and what was going on for the nine months that she was missing?

MIKE BROOKS, HLN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, there`s a lot of questions that were today asked at a presser after the -- after the hearing of the

attorney general, the FBI supervisor who was in charge of this case. And they weren`t answering a lot of questions, Jane.

You know, one of the big questions was, was there a prior relationship? Did they know each other? Was he holding her against her will during this

whole time? They would not answer any of these questions, because it is still an active investigation. In fact, they said as they spoke, search

warrants were being done at his residence in -- focusing on that shipping container.

But the FBI supervisor did say it was for her courage and resolve that she was able to get away from her situation.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes.

BROOKS: So still a lot of questions unanswered, though, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Absolutely. I mean, just a few hours ago, this grim Nathaniel Kibby was dragged into court for his arraignment on a kidnapping

charge and given a $1 million cash only bail.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The allegation is that you have committed the offense of kidnapping on October 9th of 2013.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Now, people were shocked to see Abigail right there, bravely sitting in court, facing off her alleged kidnapper, essentially

confronting him. The cops will only say Abigail is the one who gave cops the details that led to his arrest.

But Marc Klaas, you are the leading voice on abducted children, the founder of Klaas Kids Foundation. I`m wondering why cops don`t say more. The

rumor mill is going crazy, because she was able to write that letter, because she mysteriously reappeared. And this is a 15-year-old girl who`s

got to go out there and face the world now. She`s heroic for surviving this ordeal and getting out. But why don`t cops set the record straight?

MARC KLAAS, FOUNDER, KLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION (via phone): Well, I don`t know why -- they will set the record straight. Everybody will know what

happened.

Obviously, the most important thing here is that this young girl had the wherewithal to be able to stay alive long enough to escape. Now, as far as

her escape goes, I think that she got away either by earning his trust and securing enough freedom to effect her escape or that he was distracted and

she took advantage of that opportunity or perhaps some combination of the two.

Now, it`s also possible that she convinced him to let her go, although knowing the mind of a desperate sexual predator, I really doubt that that`s

what happened.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I think some are wondering, could this be a Stockholm Syndrome or a Stockholm Syndrome in reverse? The fact that she was allowed

to write a letter a few weeks after she disappeared, assuming for a moment that she was with him. He deserves his day in court.

But if he is, indeed, the kidnapper who held her for nine months, Anita Sedaghatfar, is it possible that he simply -- and I don`t want to make him

look good. That`s the last thing I want to do. But is it possible he decided, "You know what? I can`t continue to hold this girl or hurt this

girl anymore. I`m just going to let her go"?

ANAHITA SEDAGHATFAR, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That`s a possibility, Jane. We don`t know. There are a lot of unanswered questions.

But back to the Stockholm Syndrome situation, I think that is a very, very high likelihood that that could have happened. Because that`s not

uncommon. Oftentimes people who are kidnapped, they begin to identify with their kidnapper. They begin to form a bond with their kidnapper. We saw

that in the Elizabeth Smart case, and we`ve seen it oftentimes with young girls like this.

So I don`t like the blame game. I don`t like the people that are out there saying, "Well, you know, she was free to go. She was able to communicate

with her mother. Why didn`t she run away?" It`s very likely that she did suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. So she is a victim any way you look at it,

if these allegations are true, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, let me say this. It`s -- the rumor mill is truly swirling. And I think it`s very unfair to this young woman. Cops are

saying very little about her mysterious reappearance after nine months.

And of course, the unanswered questions have just sparked a firestorm of rumors. Some are suggesting maybe she left on her own. We`ve been talking

about that. They point to the letter she reportedly wrote her parents weeks after she allegedly was abducted. And that also, that she was gone

nine months, which obviously is exactly the amount of time it would take for a pregnancy.

Abigail`s mother went on "The Today Show" and ferociously squashed those rumors. Listen to this from NBC.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HERNANDEZ: We just stood and looked at each other. And then we hugged. And I just said, "Thank God you`re home. Thank God you`re home.

The majority of people somehow believe that she was pregnant. She was not. She did not run away. I firmly believe that. As far as she knowing the

individual, I believe she did not know the individual.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Former prosecutor, Wendy Murphy, the Lion`s Den, obviously cops don`t think Abby left on her own, because this guy is charged with

kidnapping her. Also she`s just 14 when she disappeared. She`s 15 now. A minor is unable to consent to anything with a 34-year-old man.

WENDY MURPHY, FORMER PROSECUTOR: Yes.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: So I just -- I just find this pointing the finger at her to just be obscene.

MURPHY: That`s putting it mildly. I mean, if this were a rape and the ages were the same, we wouldn`t even be allowed to talk about whether she

consented, because it`s a legal impossibility. Let`s knock off blaming her for anything.

Now, her mother, she rubs me the wrong way. There`s something weird about her affect. I don`t think the whole story is being told by the mother. I

don`t know why. But she rubs me the wrong way. It`s just a feeling. And the letter that was sent, I think there`s more to the story. Here`s the

thing that bugs me.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Wait, wait, I`ve got to jump in. You can`t just -- no, no, I just have to jump in. I feel like we need to defend this mother.

She`s been traumatized. She thought her daughter was possibly dead. You know she got a letter...

MURPHY: Fine, Jane. But all I`m saying -- all I`m saying is she rubs me the wrong way.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: You know, I want to give Marc Klaas a chance to weigh in on that. People who have been traumatized might sometimes be a little she

shell-shocked.

KLAAS: You were talking to me?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes.

KLAAS: Yes. Well, of course they`re shell-shocked. Here`s our situation. We`re looking at people like Jaycee Dugard. We`re looking at Elizabeth

Smart. We`re looking at all of these kids where people say they should have gotten away sooner than they did. I don`t think that Stockholm

Syndrome fully explains that. I think that these kids are so desperate to stay alive that they`ll agree to anything, that they`ll say anything or,

even in certain cases like Elizabeth Shoaf`s cae, they do turn the tables on these guys and they get these guys make them feel sorry for them so they

are ultimately able to effect their own escape and then let the true colors show. Abigail can...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Can I just have my say for one second?

KLAAS: Abigail Hernandez showed up in court today to face this guy down. And that shows extreme courage in my book.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I agree 100 percent.

MURPHY: What I`m trying to say -- what I`m trying to say, Jane, is very simple. There`s more to the story. OK? The guy they were supposedly

looking for on the poster had little squinty, beady eyes and was chubby. The guy they arrested was this beast with the big bulging monster eyes.

There`s more to this story than meets the eye. I don`t care if the mother was traumatized.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Of course there`s more to the story.

ADAM THOMPSON, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Jane, I have to jump in.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: One at a time. Adam Thompson.

THOMPSON: Wendy, I think Wendy hit it on the nose. And that`s why I think in your initial question, why haven`t the police told us more is because

there`s still a lot to find out about this.

I mean, they just roped off that storage container. They`re probably going to go in there, dust it for prints. They`re going to want to see if there

was anything in there to tie her down, to subdue her. There`s a lot of investigative work still to do.

Why, as Wendy said, don`t the pictures match the actual suspect? They`ve got to do more investigations. They don`t want to make an announcement

before we know the whole story. Plus, as we`ve seen in the past, there`s always more to the story.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes. Let`s go to Facebook. And everybody is honing in on the shipping container. Stephanie says, "A shipping container, of course.

That was a prison. How can a sick person traumatize someone so innocent?"

And Richard says, "I`m from Conway. I wonder if she was forced to write the letter." Exactly. If you write a letter, it doesn`t mean you did it

out of your own volition. I mean, we know soldiers are captured and forced to go on camera and say things and are forced to write confessions that

they don`t believe in.

Let`s go out to the phone lines. Poppy, Texas, what do you have to say? Poppy, Texas.

CALLER: I think the girl was pregnant and she knew the guy, for one. And that shipping container that they`re saying that she was being held captive

in, she would have died in there, because it`s too small for someone to actually survive in one of those containers.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Dr. Jeff Gardere, forensic psychologist, this caller is entitled to his opinion. But it seems like everybody is just so willing to

assume the worst about this young lady. She was victimized. She was walking home from school. She had a boyfriend at the time. Just the fact

-- maybe I`ll bring it to Anahita, just the fact that she survived should be a tribute to her. Not everyone saying, she left of her own volition and

she was pregnant. Ask yourself, where`s the child if she got pregnant?

SEDAGHATFAR: I absolutely agree with you, Jane. That`s total speculation. And that`s what people do in these high-profile cases. At the end of the

day, absolutely, there are unanswered questions, but any way you look at it, like I said before, she`s the victim. She`s 15 years old. He is 34

years old. There is no way she can legally consent.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And don`t forget: check out our Facebook page. And while you`re there, will you like it? That would be -- I`d much appreciate it.

And share it with some of your friends. Facebook, Jane Velez-Mitchell, HLN. We`re just getting started on this. Stay right there.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Missing teen Abby Hernandez returning home to her mother. It came as a surprise even to investigators.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The now 15-year-old Abigail was reunited with her family.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Officials describe Abby as being in good condition.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is no official word on where Abby has been or how she managed to return home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Worst parent`s fear.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thirty-eight-year-old Jennifer Huston.

KALLEN HUSTON, HUSBAND: She would never leave our boys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Huston was last seen on surveillance video.

HUSTON: She`s a devoted mother.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Some sort of an abduction or something.

HUSTON: Our boys miss you. There`s no way. There`s no way that she would leave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What happened to this wife and mother?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, a mystery deepens as the frantic search for a missing stay-at-home mom reaches its fifth day. Where on earth is this

woman, Jennifer Huston?

Her husband says she vanished Thursday evening after telling him she was leaving to run errands. Police say the mother of two, two young sons drove

to a bank first and then a gas station, just a few minutes from home. She was captured by surveillance cameras at both locations. You are looking at

images of Jennifer in her car at the gas station. These are the last images that we have of her before she vanished.

Now, I want to stress something. Jennifer`s husband is not being called a suspect. OK. Still, as we all know, in cases like this, the spouse is

always under the microscope, and Kallen Huston, her husband, is no exception. OK.

I`m going to have an exclusive guest tonight, one of the couple`s dear friends, who is standing by Kallen Huston 100 percent, as are the missing

woman`s parents. Police say the husband is fully cooperating with the investigation. But people analyze every word and expression. P and this

man has spoken extensively at a news conference where he`s being hugged by the missing woman`s parents, as well as to various news organizations.

Watch this from ABCNews.com.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HUSTON: If you are being held against your will, stay strong. People are praying for you. We`re fighting every angle we can to find you. I love

you. The boys love you and they miss you. And I miss you. We`re going to find you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Of course he`s talking because he wants to get the word out, and he is also obviously in emotional distress. And I want to stress

again police are not calling this man, Kallen Huston, a suspect. In fact, his wife is described as missing and endangered by authorities.

But a lot of our viewers are writing in on Facebook wondering if he`s talking too much about what he was doing that night. And some say it

appears as if he`s trying to establish an alibi. Well, maybe it`s a legitimate alibi.

What do you think? Call me, 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1-887-586-7297.

Straight out to my exclusive guest, Mark Belsher, who`s been close to the family for years.

Mark, thanks for joining us tonight, and I know this has got to be difficult for you. I understand you played golf with Kallen about a month

ago. Have you, by the way, spoken to Kallen since Jennifer, his wife, vanished?

MARK BELSHER, FAMILY FRIEND: Hi, Jane. Yes, in fact, I have spoken to him and exchanged e-mails with him, as well.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And what -- what sense do you get from that?

BELSHER: Well, I certainly -- I share the concern that Jennifer`s likely in distress, very plausible that she`s been in a car accident and went down

a ravine or something, and we`ve been having some very warm weather out here. Over 90 degrees. And so we`re all concerned about that. I spent

most of today out driving around m looking down ravines between my house and their house in Dundee. So we`re all very frantic about this. We`re

sick to our stomachs over this. Jennifer`s such a lovely person.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: What does your friend, the husband of this missing woman, think happened to her? Does he have a theory?

BELSHER: No, not that he has shared with me, certainly. You know, I -- my own belief is, again, the most plausible situation here is it was a traffic

accident and they just can`t find the car.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, you know, that -- I know we always want to keep hope alive. And I certainly hope you`re right and she turns up. But there are

certainly other possibilities that are out there. One of them unfortunately is that she was abducted, that it was a carjacking that also

resulted in an abduction because her car is also missing.

And of course authorities always start with those closest to -- because statistically when a woman goes missing, the studies show that it`s often

or even usually an intimate partner. Now, let me ask you...

BELSHER: I`m sure that is true.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Let me ask you a little...

BELSHER: Kallen and Jennifer, they`re just a classic American family like so many we all know and love. And, you know, I personally know the loving

relationship that they have. And I don`t think -- you know, Jennifer`s a very strong woman, very intelligent, very strong, very classy. And to be

honest with you, I think she`s the kind of person that would fight her way out of a situation if it were some such thing as an abduction. She`s just

a strong person.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, I appreciate your optimism. And, again, I hope you`re right. Sometimes you can`t fight your way when somebody`s holding a

gun. We don`t know what happened to her. It`s a total unadulterated mystery. To remind our viewers, she left -- her husband says she left to

go do errands. There`s video of her getting money out of a cash machine. And then she fills up her tank with gas which was delivered by an attendant

as is the law in Oregon. And that`s it. Gone into thin air along with her car, her cell phone turned off.

Now, Jennifer`s husband says it took him about four hours to realize his wife had been gone too long just for an errand run. Listen to this from

ABCNews.com. Then we`ll talk to our exclusive guest in a second.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HUSTON: I came home about 5:30, 5:45, she mentioned she needed to run some errands. So she left shortly thereafter. When you`re running errands,

you`re not going that far. I was playing with the kids, taking care of them, dinner, et cetera, and before I knew it, it was like 9:30, 10:00.

And that`s when I started to get nervous and realize this was a little bit longer than what it would take to run errands. I started reaching out to

her friends trying to determine, okay, have you seen Jennifer? I called somebody else, have you seen Jennifer? When nobody had seen her, that`s

when I had to start having that freak-out moment. I started calling local P.D.s, hospitals, et cetera, trying to figure out if there was an accident

or something.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Police confirmed to us that indeed this husband did call multiple police departments and hospitals Thursday night to see if there

had been a crash. But police say it was at 5 a.m. The next morning that the husband, Kallen Huston, made the official missing persons report.

So Mike Brooks, what do you make of that gap in the time line, the idea that he`s calling police departments but not reporting her missing until

the next morning?

BROOKS: Well, I think on his -- for his story, I think it bodes well that he did reach out to law enforcement, that he did reach out to hospitals,

looking to find his wife and that he did not make the formal report -- the written report with law enforcement until about 5 a.m. on Friday.

But you know, you look at the time line of her and her taking just a little bit of money out at around 6:00, but then 6:25 is the last time -- her

phone just went dead. She went off the grid at 6:25. You know, four hours go by then, and he decides he goes into the panic mode.

But if I`m going out and running errands, I`m going to make sure that my phone is charged up. You know, did she -- did she just go off the grid

herself? Right now, law enforcement says that they -- there`s nothing to indicate any foul play.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, one of the problems that I have with the car accident theory is that her phone went dead. So if you have a car

accident, you don`t turn off your phone at the same time. And that phone, hypothetically, could have still been on to allow authorities to find -- to

follow the pings. But it was turned off. Who turned it off and why?

We`re just getting started. We`re going to be back with our close family friend of this missing woman and ask him some more questions about the

family. And answer your questions and also what you`re saying on Facebook. Stay right there.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HUSTON: She`s a devoted mother. She`s just a very good person. And for her -- for her to do something like this is completely out of the norm.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s not coming home because she can`t come home.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Both men say they didn`t notice anything out of the ordinary leading up to her disappearance. They`re hoping for the best but

fearing the worst.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: This woman was last seen just four miles from her home. She was filling up gas and, of course, an attendant in Oregon is required

to fill that up. It was his first day on the job. He doesn`t remember much.

But just four miles away from her home, she never makes it back home. Where did she go? Unfortunately, authorities say they couldn`t see which

direction she turned in when she left the gas station.

I want to go back to Marc Belsher, our exclusive interview with a close family friend. I understand that -- we just want to understand the family

a little bit more. That they used to live somewhere else. But they got into some financial troubles. Give us the backstory. He used to be your

neighbor. And then in 2009 we all know the economy went south. What happened?

BELSHER: Well, I don`t know all the details. But Kallen and Jennifer were my direct next-door neighbors across the street. We lived on

(UNINTELLIGIBLE) Street Hill and Glen Courts in Hubert (ph). And the economy tanked. He was in the construction industry and, very sadly, you

know, we lost him as a neighbor because of that -- those financial conditions that took place.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, what about the home?

BELSHER: Beautiful little home. Jen and Kal kept a lovely place. They were the best of neighbors, salt of the earth. Kal is an accomplished

mechanic, and he helped my son, Andrew, many, many times with engine problems on his motorcycle and his scooter.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, let me ask you this this question, just to understand it. The economy tanked in 2009. He was in construction, is my

understanding, and he lost his job. And they moved -- they had to move out of that house and move somewhere else. And that`s where they live now.

And then a couple of years later, in 2011, they declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. So that`s essentially the story, that they had suffered some

financial problems which, you know, millions of Americans did.

BELSHER: Yes, yes. It`s an American story, too, and very common these days unfortunately. I don`t know if he actually lost his job, to be honest,

Jane. But he certainly wasn`t able to make the kind of money that he used to and I don`t know all their financial personal --

MITCHELL: What were they like at parties?

BELSHER: They were wonderful, very loving, very -- they`re a younger couple than my wife and I. And they`re just a sweet, cozy, loving couple,

held hands. We all enjoy wine -- we live in Oregon wine country here. So we held lots of fun parties and they were always invited.

MITCHELL: Well, thank you, Marc. If you could stand by for a moment, I want to go to Tom Helman, reporter with "The Oregonian." Thank you for

your patience, Tom. What are you learning tonight? There was a news conference last night, which we covered on this show live where we got a

lot of details. But essentially the mystery remains -- she took some money out of the cash bank, an ATM then she went to fill up her car with gas.

There are her parents and her husband with the cap and he says he started calling and the police confirmed that he called hospitals and police

stations. But he didn`t officially report her missing until 5:00 a.m. the next day.

TOM HELMAN, SENIOR REPORTER, "THE OREGONIAN" (via telephone): Well, Jane, I think for your viewers, you need to have a little bit of a context about

Newburgh/Dundee. It`s 25 miles southwest of Portland about 23,000 people live there and on the Newburgh/Dundee Police Department web site, they say

they are the fourth safest city in Oregon as based on this online real estate brokerage who did a study.

I checked the FBI stats for 2012 in that area -- there were three murders, four rapes and two robberies. So we`re not talking about some very

dangerous kind of city. I drove down there on Monday to scope out the area. I went to the gas station where she was last seen.

Then I drove the few miles to their home. It`s a very busy, heavily traveled road. There are businesses on both sides. There`s homes.

There`s shopping centers. So it`s not the kind of place that a car would go off the road and roll down an embankment and nobody would see it. It`s

not like driving to the Oregon coastline where it`s going to be isolated for miles and miles.

MITCHELL: So essentially what you`re saying is -- just to explore that a little bit more, Tom. You`re saying essentially, you don`t think she had a

car accident. It`s not likely she had a car accident and just veered off the road. But I have to bring in this other aspect.

Jennifer`s husband has repeatedly said she suffered from headaches in the three days before her disappearance. Listen to another clip of the

husband, Kallen, from abcnews.com.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KALLEN HUSTON, MISSING WOMAN`S HUSBAND: The only thing she complained about was that she had -- she was suffering from headaches for like the

last three days leading up to her disappearance on Thursday. We talked about it briefly. It wasn`t to the point where it was debilitating and I

don`t know if there was anything there or not that would lead us to some kind of a conclusion.

But it was enough to where she mentioned it several days in a row. I ask that anybody helping us, regardless of what area that they`re in, that they

look off to the left and off to the side of the highways, her car is very large. And it would wipe out any shrubs or potential small trees. I have

the feeling maybe she`s in a ditch somewhere.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MITCHELL: All right, let`s go out to Facebook and then Dr. Jeff Gardere. On Facebook, Tammy says, I wonder if she had a nervous breakdown and

bailed. Never say never when people are under stress. Chris says, the three-day headache is odd to me. I hope it was an innocent comment, but it

felt set up to me. Dr. Jeff Gardere?

JEFF GARDERE, FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST: Yes, this really concerns me. I know where we are with this and we do have to look at any possible motive and we

have to examine exactly what`s going on with this family, what were the relations like the between the two of them:

You talk about the bankruptcy. What happened with the house? This idea about having headaches for three days. Was it a stress headache, migraine

headache? Was there something going on between them especially as your guest keeps talking about how they were an ideal couple.

Jane, whenever I hear about an ideal couple, I start getting worried because there is no ideal couple. You`re putting up a front. So we have

to look at all that.

MITCHELL: As one of the Facebook comments said, you know what, people with money stress in this country, that`s 50 percent of the country, I indeed

would say it`s probably 99 percent of the country, leaving out the 1 percent. So having money problems, everybody has money stress.

I don`t know anybody who doesn`t. People who are fully employed have money stress. We`re going to take a short break. We`re going to try to solve

this mystery. Join me on Facebook. Give me a call. What happened to Jennifer Huston? Where is she? Where is her car? Why was her cell phone

off when she vanished?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Family finding comfort in the dozens volunteering to search.

HUSTON: It`s helping me to stay positive, which I think I need to do right now.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Desperate for information, hoping for the best.

HUSTON: She`s an excellent mom, a stay-at-home mother totally devoted to her kids. This is very uncharacter-like of her. She would never do this.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HUSTON: I ask that anybody helping us regardless of what area that they`re in, that they look off to the left and off to the side of the highways.

Her car is very large and it would wipe out in it shrubs or potential small trees. I have the feeling maybe she`s in a ditch somewhere.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MITCHELL: Jane Velez-Mitchell back with you. We`re talking about Jennifer Huston. Where is she? A mother of two young boys, she was potty-training

the 2-year-old and police actually spoke to the 6-year-old. She went on an errand. Her husband says he was there watching the kids. She never came

back.

We`re joined by a Tom Helman, reporter with "The Oregonian." You were going to give us -- you don`t believe -- essentially you`re not buying the,

she drove into a ditch theory because you`ve travelled the area and you say it`s not rugged terrain. It`s a town.

HELMAN: It`s not a rugged terrain. And then today the family has said that they`re asking searchers and getting volunteers. They`re going to be

searching three state parks and scenic areas that are a long way away from where the gas station was.

So the police have not turned up any sign of a crime and they have not said that the public`s in danger. So the focus has shifted from the immediate

Newburgh/Dundee area to the state parks, implying that maybe she drove there or was driven to these parks.

Today, I talked with Jennifer`s mother who said they still don`t know what has happened. Mr. Huston has told the two boys that their mother is on

vacation. I talked to the mother today and the boys still believe their mother is on vacation.

One boy told his grandmother that he wonders when his mother is coming home because he misses her. And the little one wraps his fingers in his

grandmother`s hair just the way he did in his mother`s hair.

I also talked to a friend of Jennifer`s who said that they know nothing -- she said that Jennifer was a trusting, gentle and caring mother, the kind

of person you`d want as a friend.

MITCHELL: I just want to bring in Mike Brooks, HLN law enforcement analyst. Here on Facebook, Gavin says, I wonder if she was held at

gunpoint with somebody hiding in the backseat? Unfortunately, I`ve covered a lot of cases where there`s carjackings where a car will intentionally hit

the back of another car.

The woman gets out to check the damage and she`s kidnapped and they take the car -- because people are wondering, where is her car and why was her

cell phone turned off? I think the key is exactly what time did that cell phone get turned off.

If you can match it up with when she was filling up at the gas station or a minute or two after, I think whatever bad happened, happened when that cell

phone was turned off.

MIKE BROOKS, HLN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Right. It went off at about 6:25. Another thing, Tom, from that time, how long would it be to go to

another town? One of my Facebook followers says she has family in Newburgh and that Wilsonville is about ten miles away and there is some curvy, steep

roads. How long would it take her to drive to Wilsonville?

MITCHELL: Quickly, if you can, Tom. We have to go to break.

HELMAN: You would mainly take freeways -- there`s not a rural route to Wilsonville.

MITCHELL: OK. So it seems like the car accident theory, according to our experts, not likely. So what did happen? Stay right there. I want to

hear what you think. Back in a moment.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Frightening, it really is. This is a very quiet neighborhood.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The cause of death was a homicide.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No visible trauma to the body was found.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two adults that were on the trail using the trail were alerted to a female`s body, which was located in a drainage ditch.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The dog actually ran up to a couple that were jogging along this bike path and ran them back to where the body was located.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A 14-year-old girl, I mean, she`s just starting life.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our hearts are broken.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MITCHELL: A shocking murder rocks a sleepy Michigan town. Now cops are scrambling to solve the mystery of who murdered beautiful 14-year-old April

Millsap. April took her precious dog, Penny, for a walk last Thursday evening on a popular trail in her hometown in Michigan.

When she didn`t come home about an hour, her frantic mother called cops. April`s faithful dog, Penny, alerted two joggers on the trail and led them

to the girl`s body. The dog waited there, but it was too late. Still unclear how a beautiful young lady died.

An autopsy says there was no sign of sexual assault. However, the coroner has ruled it a homicide. Who would kill this recent middle school

graduate?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DENNIS LEVANS, APRIL MILLSAP`S GRANDFATHER (via telephone): That`s what we think. This is what we think. It`s almost like it had to be something

like somebody knew this girl. We can`t think of any other reason. We can`t come up with any kind of logical reason.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MITCHELL: Deepening the mystery, just before she died, April sent a text message to her boyfriend. It said, I think I`m about to be abducted or

words to that effect. OMG, I think I`m being kidnapped, is another report. One of those two, it`s believed, now police have released a sketch of a

person of interest. There`s the description.

So I want to go to Wendy Murphy, former prosecutor. The dog, the faithful dog waits there, Penny. They don`t kill her dog and they kill her in a

manner that you can`t even determine how she died. There`s no obvious sign of a stabbing or a shooting.

WENDY MURPHY, FORMER PROSECUTOR: Yes. So what`s left? Strangulation, suffocation. Not a lot of ways to die where you can`t tell from the

outside. Poisoned. But that doesn`t make sense in a case like this. I have to believe -- what could a 14-year-old do to somebody to make them so

angry they want to kill her? She`s so young.

You have to believe that it`s somebody in her life and that if this is some kind of revenge killing, it`s because someone in her life made somebody

angry. She was clearly targeted. It makes no sense. She`s 14. Makes no sense.

MITCHELL: Well, on the other side of the break, we`re going to show you the van and the motorcycle that authorities are seeking, a motorcycle with

a young man with a helmet on, as well as a painter`s van with dents. Stay right there. We want to help solve this mystery. The parents are

devastated.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two adults that were on the trail, using the trail, were alerted to a female`s body which was located in a drainage ditch. An

autopsy was conducted by the McComb County Medical Examiner`s Office today and revealed that the cause of death was a homicide.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is an incident that appears to be isolated. I can tell you that she was not shot and she was not stabbed.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MITCHELL: What happened to April Millsap? She was murdered. Who did it? Cops want to talk to a man who was on the trail around the time she was

killed. This is the sketch. They`re also looking for a dented gray painter`s van. We know that vans are the vehicle of choice for abductors.

They`re also looking for a motorcycle and a guy on a motorcycle around that time. So what is your theory, Anahita Sedaghatfar?

ANAHITA SEDAGHATFAR: It`s very perplexing, Jane. It`s tragic, but I don`t know. They`re saying there was no sexual assault. This wasn`t some type

of robbery. She was only 14 years old. So you really do have to question was this someone that knew her that was specifically target her? Maybe

some type of revenge killing.

Because as it stands now the police don`t even know what the cause of death was other than it was a homicide. So it`s just tragic and I hope they get

to the bottom of it.

MITCHELL: I do, too. Dr. Jeff Gardere, forensic psychologist and they`ve ruled out the boyfriend and family members as suspects. They said that

flat out and remember, the dog was not killed.

GARDERE: That`s right. We know that the boyfriend and his mother were the first ones to show up for grief counselling that they`re holding at the

school. Again, I think we`re all perplexed on this. It could be some sort of a thrill killing. But I wonder this idea about, my God, I`m about to be

taken or abducted or kidnaped.

Did she recognize the individuals and didn`t think there was danger at first and then realized something was about to horribly go wrong? That`s

why we think she may have recognized or maybe knew someone involved in this.

MITCHELL: I`m wondering if she had been stalked by someone. Pretty young ladies unfortunately are targets for stalking. And maybe there was

something that happened with either the men, the two men in the van or the guy on the motorcycle. And maybe her dog defended her to the point where

while they killed her they were not able to abduct her. They were not able to sexual assault her. Stay right there. We`ll be back with your theories

on the other side.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MITCHELL: Detroit free press reporter, Niraj Warikoo, anything new?

NIRAJ WARIKOO, REPORTER, "DETROIT FREE PRESS" (via telephone): Well, we`re now hearing from the police the text message initially reported was not

entirely accurate. There was a report that said that she had written", my God, I think I`m being kidnaped." He said that`s not entirely accurate.

He did not say what exactly was in the text message. They`re sort of backtracking from that.

But as you can imagine, the family is in a state of shock as is the whole small village. The mom told the free press yesterday I`m just existing,

I`m just numb. The grandfather is also shook up. He told the free press interview he can`t believe what happened.

MITCHELL: We have to leave it right there. Look at this poor child, robbed of her life at the age of 14. We must bring her killer to justice.

Nancy next.

END