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Suspect in Hannah Graham`s Disappearance in Custody; Dolphins being Slaughtered in Japan
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... on the stand to convict this guy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not knowing the science the way we know science, you know, these criminals just don`t think. And that`s -- that`s kind of an
advantage for us.
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST: Tonight breaking news. You`re looking at a podium in Charlottesville, Virginia. We will bring you a live news
conference any moment now from cops leading the massive manhunt for the man they believe abducted University of Virginia co-ed Hannah Graham, who is
still missing at this hour. Is there a break in the case?
Meanwhile, brand-new video of suspect Jesse Matthew has just surfaced of him acting as a volunteer assistant football coach just hours before cops
say he kidnapped the 18-year-old college student. What are cops going to announce any moment now?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jesse Matthew was named a suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham.
CHIEF TIMOTHY LONGO, CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE: We obtained an arrest warrant for Jesse Leroy Matthew.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Charged him with abduction with intent to defile.
LONGO: He is the last person that we know of that saw her before her disappearance.
JOHN GRAHAM, HANNAH`S FATHER: She`s our only daughter. All we want to do now is to bring Hannah home safely. Please, please help us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VELEZ-MITCHELL: This video shows Jesse Matthew, a volunteer assistant coach, cheering on his team at a private school football game. What does
this tell us about the man who police believe abducted Hannah with the attempt to defile? And most important: where is Hannah tonight? The 18-
year-old vanished into thin air 11 days ago after leaving a party. Her friends say she was intoxicated, alone, and on foot.
Surveillance video captured Hannah at various places in the wee hours of the morning. Now, this one, cops believe, shows Hannah with the last
person she was seen with, local hospital worker Jesse Matthew. Cops have now officially charged the 32-year-old with her abduction, but he is
nowhere to be found. He walked into a police station, demanded a lawyer, and then sped off, losing the cops tailing him.
So again, let`s show the podium, because we are waiting any moment now for a news conference from the Charlottesville police, presumably the chief,
Tim Longo. Have they achieved a major break in this case? Have they found Hannah? Have they caught the suspect? What are they going to announce?
As we wait, let`s go out to the Lion`s Den, and I want to start with Marc Klaas, president and founder, Klaas Kids, one of my heroes, who lost his
daughter tragically and has now turned his pain into a crusade to make sure that girls and women are safe on the streets.
Let`s show you once again the newly-released video of Matthew just hours before witnesses say he had drinks with Hannah, after which cops allege he
abducted her with the intent to defile. What does this tell you, this video of him acting like, oh, just another day as a volunteer assistant
coach?
MARC KLAAS, FOUNDER, KLAAS KIDS: Well, it tells me that he has possibly done something like this before. I -- I`ll tell you what I do think, Jane.
I think that this warrant changes the game totally. It sets up a whole new set of priorities. And it racks up the stakes a lot more than they
previously were, because now they have the dual goals of finding Hannah and also finding the perpetrator.
And with an agency that`s been as stretched as far as the Charlottesville Police have, I hope that they`re going to utilize the resources that are
being brought in by the U.S. Marshals and by the FBI, at least to find this guy so that they can then concentrate on finding Hannah. A prosecution is
going to be much, much easier if they have Hannah, dead or alive.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: I am being told from my sources that there is a major break that we`re going to hear about any second now when they hold the news
conference. So again, they were supposed to start at 7. It`s already almost 7:04. Any second now. You can see that packed room with reporters
jammed in there as they wait for the police chief in Charlottesville, Virginia, to come out and say, "What has happened in this case?"
Remember, we`re dealing with a young woman who is missing, whose parents are absolutely shattered, devastated. Hannah`s mother and father appeared
at a news conference several days ago, and Hannah`s mom was shaking. This is the worst, most surreal nightmare for any parent. The horror has no
words.
So, again, I want to go back to this as we wait, this video of the suspect, purportedly hours before he went on, according to police anyway, to
allegedly abduct this woman with intent the defile. There he is, playing assistant coach at a football game. And of course, he since has no
affiliation with the school whatsoever. He is also a hospital worker at the local hospital. So Loni Coombs, former prosecutor, what does this
video tell you?
LONI COOMBS, FORMER PROSECUTOR: You know, Jane, it`s interesting. When you hear these different facts and you see this video, on paper, it doesn`t
look like he would be the main suspect. And that might be why the police took so long to actually name him as a suspect and they were just talking
about him as a person of interest, someone that they wanted to look into.
But remember: since then, they have searched his car twice. They`ve searched his apartment. They took items from those locations. They said
they were submitting them for forensic testing. Perhaps, as we`re going to hear about tonight, the results of that, something very concrete that can
solidify the connection between this man and the disappearance of our victim here and what might have happened there.
Because otherwise, before you get to that connection, that physical connection, you look at his background, and you see what was going on in
his life, and he was just living life like normal. And the fact that the police didn`t go after him right away and they let him, while he left the
police station, they weren`t on top of him while he was leaving. Somehow he was able to escape. It looks like the police weren`t necessarily so
focused on him as a suspect at that time. Something has changed.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: As we wait for this news conference, happening any second now, and we`re being told that there is a major break in the case. There
it is. Obviously a packed room, reporters and people -- there have been visuals for Hannah. The entire University of Virginia campus is devastated
and, frankly, terrified. They want to know if there`s a killer on the loose. We pray that she`s found alive, but she`s been missing 11 days now.
Now people who know the suspect, Jesse Matthew, 32, say you know, he`s somebody with long-standing community ties. He`s got lots of friends in
the area. He`s an assistant -- was an assistant volunteer football coach.
His land lady said Matthew was particularly sweet to her the last time she saw him, which was Thursday. Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was unusual with me Thursday night. He was very nice and trying to do everything helpful. I found that unusual.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very surprised. I would be very surprised if it turns out to be him.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VELEZ-MITCHELL: And when he walked into the police station, he had his mother with him and another relative.
Dr. Judy Ho, clinical psychologist, what are you making of this profile? Somebody with community ties, volunteers as an assistant football coach,
has a job that he`s held for a while -- had; he`s since been taken off that job -- at a local hospital, you know, working with doctors. And then --
does he have a double life if, in fact, the allegations that he abducted this young woman is true?
DR. JUDY HO, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, Jane, you can see it as a double life, or you can see it as exactly the life that he wanted to design to be
able to achieve his purpose.
Oftentimes, in these individuals, the profile is somebody who is very well connected in the community. They are working in the community and always
meeting new people in roles where people trust them like an assistant coach, like working in an hospital setting where you`re caring for people.
And of course, there`s lots of people who do this who don`t have any ulterior agendas. But the that we know who are psychopaths of sociopaths,
they really do have this sense of getting people to trust them and being connected to they can meet people to take them in this way.
So I`m not actually surprised that this is his profile. I think that, in general people are surprised because he has made a name in the community as
being a helpful person. But that`s exactly the ploy of individuals that we know to be psychopaths.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: I have to believe that this news conference is going to have big news, because generally from my experience as a reporter for many
years, when they say they`re going to have a news conference at 7 and it takes them a certain amount of time to come out, that means they are
putting it all together and they want to have everything absolutely perfect and that means they have something important to say.
If they didn`t have something important to say, they would just come out and say, "You know what? We`re still investigating. We`ll either take a
couple of questions or we won`t," and that would be -- that would be it.
But the fact that they are really trying to make they have everything perfect before they walk out there, to me, indicates that we`ve got a
major, major break in this case. What is it?
Let`s go out to the phone lines. Carol, Alabama, what do you have to say? Carol, Alabama.
CALLER: OK. I was just wondering on the situation, about did they find any fibers or hair or anything in his car, in his apartment. And if not,
don`t they need to go ahead and try to clear him and be looking for some other suspect, you know, with all this time going by?
VELEZ-MITCHELL: You raised an important point, Carol, Alabama.
Adam Thompson, attorney, this man, his house has been searched. This is his apartment. You can see the police surrounding his apartment. They
took out -- they went back twice. They took out bags containing clothing, which they have been conducting forensic tests on for DNA, hair, fiber,
blood, God forbid. Also his car. There you see some of the bags that they took out.
But this man is only accused. He certainly deserves his day in court. And sometimes when you have tunnel vision, you might miss somebody else.
ADAM THOMPSON, ATTORNEY: We`ve learned from your program more than any, Jane, that you have to wait until an investigation is completely concluded
before you come to any resolution. Because when we think one thing, a different thing happens and vice versa.
But one thing that`s very glaring in this case, all the other guests talked about how his background doesn`t indicate or show that he`d be the kind of
person that would do this, but you have to judge a person by their actions and their conduct. And here he clearly exhibited consciousness of guilt.
When he went to the precinct and then all of a sudden just took off and now has disappeared, he knows he`s a suspect in the case. He knows he`s been
questioned. He knows his house and car have been searched with a warrant, and then all of a sudden to disappear, clearly lends the notion that that
he must be involved in some way, shape, or form. Because if he really had nothing to do with it, he would step up, answer the allegations, cooperate
as much as he can, and just deal with it that way. To take off sends a very bad message and indicates consciousness of guilt.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. It`s been four days since he walked to the police station, asked for a lawyer -- we`re going to play the lawyer in a
second for you. We`re taking a short break as we want to come back in time for this news conference. And I have a feeling it`s going to start any
second. I think it`s big. My question is have they found Hannah? Have they found this man? We don`t have the answer. Stay right there. We`re
going to be back in a second.
My heart goes out to Hannah Graham`s parents. This is hellish. This is a horror no human being should ever have to endure. Stay right there. We`re
going to be back with the news conference momentarily.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: New charges have been announced against the man police say was the last person seen with her before she vanished September
13. Prosecutors believe Hannah was abducted by Jesse Matthew for an immoral purpose. Police now have a felony warrant for his arrest.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GRAHAM: This is every parent`s worst nightmare. I`m certain that everybody in this room and those watching knows that what happened to
Hannah could happen to their child.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VELEZ-MITCHELL: The devastated, shattered parents of Hannah Graham. She disappeared 11 days ago. She was out with friends at a party. This is the
University of Virginia campus area, the neighborhood. And she left on foot, and she was spotted in various surveillance tape walking around.
And witnesses say the last person she was seen with is Jesse Matthews [SIC], a 32-year-old former cab driver who is -- was currently until this
story broke, a hospital assistant at the local hospital.
And there he is. He went into police headquarters over the weekend and asked for a lawyer, talked to a lawyer, then took off and sped away, and
lost, lost cops. And there`s been a manhunt on for him ever since.
Now, this is the bizarre thing. Jesse Matthew`s mother went with him to the police station. Cops say she was a passenger in his car when he sped
off. He managed somehow -- and he`s believed to be driving this car, was, light blue Nissan Sentra, Virginia license plate VAC 4575. That`s not the
car he necessarily was in when he left the police station, but that`s the one that they believe he was in when he was basically eluding police for a
considerable amount of time.
But somehow in this process, he manages to drop his mother off, OK, and get into another car possibly. And also, he had a pit bull, and the dog is
missing. So he might have taken the dog with him.
I`ve got to ask you, Marc Klaas, president and founder, Klaas Kids Foundation, with all the surveillance we have on freeways, how the heck did
he just vanish into nowhere? And could it mean that he remained in the area, because cops were asking people, land owners, to search their
property?
KLAAS: Yes, Jane, I think it`s entirely possible that he is somewhere in the area. I can`t imagine that any of his friends, or family, or
acquaintances would want to come within 100 feet of this guy with this hanging over him right now. He`s got to be in a very desperate situation.
And I think one of the ways that they`re -- one of the techniques they`re using to find him is to keep very close eyes on his various family members.
Because at some point, there`s going to need to be an exchange of money, or an exchange of food or an exchange of other goods necessary to keep him
alive.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: And we want to show the news conference again. We`ve just gotten word that authorities are waiting for a special agent from the FBI
to arrive, and that person is expected to arrive momentarily; and that is when the news conference will begin.
Lisa Lockwood, investigator, author of "Undercover Angel," what does that tell you?
LISA LOCKWOOD, INVESTIGATOR: Well, Jane, overall, we were talking about his character a little bit earlier. I believe that this was a case of a
victim of opportunity. He didn`t know who Hannah was. He was out that evening. He may have been intoxicated himself. He was seen going into an
establishment, possibly having drinks with her. Maybe he offered her a ride home and he made advances toward her and then a fight ensued, et
cetera.
I mean, we have totally different scenarios.
What I think we may be learning in this press conference is possibly maybe somebody else came forward when Dr. Ho said earlier, maybe he did this in
the past. Yes, quite likely. If he had been aggressive with another woman, maybe they`ve got evidence coming forward of other women who were
treated sexually -- sexually assaulted in some capacity.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, let me say this. I -- first thing we do here when a story is like this, we run a background check on the suspect. He has no
criminal record that we can find whatsoever. What he has are speeding tickets and parking violations and driving violations, like driving without
a seatbelt. So he has no criminal record, aside from the speeding, and that, I would think, would lead police to anticipate that he would have
sped away, which is exactly what he did.
But Judy Ho, what do you make of that?
HO: Well, I think it`s very interesting that he hasn`t had anything else on the record. But at the same time, many people are able to keep things a
lot of things under wraps until something really big happens.
So perhaps this is the first time that he may have abducted an individual, but there may have been other things in the past that he`s just never been
charged for. Maybe he has met other girls in the past and he has victimized them in other ways, but it just never rose to the level of
getting an actual indictment for anything like that. So that`s a very -- that`s a big possibility.
I just think that it`s very unusual for somebody like this to have this type of behavior come completely out of the blue.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Let`s go to the phone lines. Stacy, Minnesota. As we wait for the news conference to begin any second now, they`re waiting for
an FBI special agent to arrive. And we`re going to find -- I think it`s big. I think -- I hope it`s not a tragic announcement. I pray that --
that we get some news that is not going to further horrify Hannah`s parents, but we`re waiting, and we`re going to find out momentarily.
But let`s go Stacy, Minnesota. What do you have to say, Stacy?
CALLER: Hi, Jane. I was just wondering if the police had thought there`s any indication that this guy may be involved with the other missing women
from the area.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, interesting that you should mention that. Back in 2009, there was another young woman, and her name was Morgan Harrington,
and she was in Charlottesville in this very town. She went to a Metallica concert. She was walking alone after the concert. And she vanished. And
her body later turned up in a farm. Her case has never been solved. But they did manage to extract DNA, which they tied to a 2005 rape, and that
leads me to ask -- and I`ll throw this back to Marc Klaas.
Since they have the DNA from that case, they don`t have the human being; they don`t have the suspect`s name, but they have that person`s DNA from
Morgan Harrington -- obviously they have this individual`s DNA, because they`ve taken his hair brush or toothbrush. They could do that test and
determine whether there`s any connection whatsoever or not, correct?
KLAAS: Absolutely they could do that, Nancy [SIC]. And let`s not forget that -- that people can be pillars of the community and still have double
lives going on. Let`s not forget John Wayne Gacy, who was a pillar of the community, even had his picture taken with Rosalyn Carter the whole time he
was burying young men under the foundation of his home.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: I want to show you once again the podium. The reporters have packed. Everybody is waiting. In fact, I believe it`s fair to say
that the whole country is on pins and needles, because this is the most high-profile manhunt right now in the United States. Because this young
lady is missing, and we don`t know what happened to her.
And remember, we`ve had cases where Elizabeth Smart turned up alive months after being abducted. We know about the Cleveland house of horrors where
three women turned up alive years after being abducted. So what are they going to tell us?
Stay right there. We`re going to take a short break. We`re going to be back with this news conference in a second.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Breaking news. Authorities in Charlottesville, Virginia, about to hold a news conference. We`re getting a sense -- you see the
officers standing there towards the door -- that it`s going to start any second now. What are they going to announce in the manhunt for Jesse
Matthews, who is suspected of abducting Hannah Graham, an 18-year-old University of Virginia student, a co-ed who was out having a night of fun
11 days ago and was seen on foot in surveillance video.
So we`re going to monitor this and put it to the side and talk to Loni Coombs, former prosecutor. Now this is not necessarily any kind of open-
and-shut case. It`s very sad to say this -- and I -- there`s a saying, we don`t need to repeat it -- but without the evidence of, let`s say, for
example, a deceased individual -- and we pray that this young lady is found alive, because those miracles do happen, although with every passing day it
gets more and more statistically improbable. But Loni Coombs, what would they need without that to prove this case?
COOMBS: Well, you know, Jane, they do do cases like that. They prosecute and they successfully prosecute cases without actually finding the victim`s
body. But you know, amazingly, it seems like in the last few years, more and more that miracle hopeful ending that we all want so badly has actually
happened, where we`ve found the victim alive. And let`s hope that that`s what`s happening here.
But they need that connection. They need the connection between the defendant, whoever they end up charging, and the victim. They need to be
able to show what happened in those last moments. They need to be able to show motive, perhaps, because remember if they don`t have the body, many
times they can`t prove the manner of death or where the death happened or when the death happened. So they have to build up a circumstantial case
around it to show why it`s this person that they believe was the one who caused the demise of the victim. They actually have to be able to prove
that the victim they actually believe is dead at that point. So there`s a lot more stuff that the prosecutor has to go to, but it can be done, and it
has been done in the past.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes and again, we do pray for a miracle. We pray that somehow there is some good news. As you said, there have been Loni, there
have been more and more cases where women have been kept.
COOMBS: Yes.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: We covered a case the other day where a woman was kept in a cage.
COOMBS: Yes. Yes.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Somebody she knew from high school allegedly said come over to the house and kept her in a cage and she got out. So we are
praying that there is a happy outcome, but it is ominous.
Here they come. Here they come. Let`s just listen in. This is, I believe, the chief. Yes, it is.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LONGO: Good evening. Let me first begin by apologizing for the delay, but there was a very important law enforcement partner that we wanted to share
this opportunity with. To my left is Adam Lee (ph). Adam is the special agent in charge at the Richmond field office at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
You`ve heard me say for the last week that we had very critical partners in this investigation. The FBI is an important part of the investigation.
We`re here tonight to announce that because of the collaborative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and state and local law enforcement
across this nation, Jesse Matthew is in custody in Galveston, Texas. We won`t go into the circumstances that led to that custody taking place, but
by the grace of God and the good work of the Galveston Sheriff`s office, it took place.
And so the extradition process is currently underway. And once that comes to a completion, we`ll have some additional information to share with you.
We don`t, at present, have any information as to what might have prompted Mr. Matthew to head to that part of the country. Certainly, that`s
something that we`ll consider as we go through our investigative process that might take several days.
But much like last night, because we`re not at liberty to say but only so much, we`re not going to be taking your questions tonight, but we wanted to
share the information. I know many of you have heard this almost instantaneously. It started to hit Twitter and other media sources and we
certainly got your questions over the last hour. We apologize for not being prompt in answering.
We wanted to have some information back and forth shared between us and the FBI and certainly to give Adam and I the opportunity to let you hear this
from us. So once again, I want to express my sincere appreciation to our FBI partners and to the state police that`s worked so hard but particularly
to the Galveston Sheriff`s Office in Galveston, Texas. I spoke with the sheriff and expressed my appreciation to him and asked that he express that
appreciation on behalf of the Grahams to his entire organization.
I would like to ask Adam to come to the podium very briefly and make some remarks. Mr. Lee.
ADAM LEE, FBI SPECIAL AGENT: Good evening. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate that.
LONGO: Yes, sir.
LEE: The hero of today is an employee, a deputy with the Galveston County Sheriff`s Office. We would like to, on behalf of the FBI thank them for
their very effective police work today. Also want to thank the Chief and the Charlottesville P.D. Thank also the Virginia state police for their
partnership.
I`m not going to restate what the Chief said, but again, it`s a positive close to this chapter of this very important case. And we look forward to
more positive developments. Thank you.
LONGO: Before we leave your company tonight, many of you have received this hard copy of this missing person abduction poster with Hannah`s image.
I want to call your attention that the generosity of a lot of private citizens in this community had put up these funds as a reward to help us
find -- this is probably one of you. Just give me one second here. Yes, it is. Pardon me.
Sometimes even in the worst of situations, you have to be a little light- hearted. You can imagine this has been an extremely difficult time for Virginia law enforcement and I know for all of you. I can`t tell you how
much I appreciate your patience with us.
This reward is up to $100,000 and it`s to find Hannah. We`re asking every person within the sound of my voice to help us find Hannah Graham. As I
said to many of you today, we have made that commitment to Mr. and Mrs. Graham and we`ve made that commitment on behalf of an entire community. We
hope that you`ll continue to work hard.
This case is nowhere near over. We have a person in custody, but there`s a long road ahead of us and that long road includes finding Hannah Graham.
We`ll be in touch over the next 24 hours, I`m sure, to answer questions that you have. We`ll do our very best to do that but we won`t be doing so
tonight.
So, thank you for your time; again, sorry for the wait. Adam, thank you and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in for the effort that went forth
today to help make this possible.
Thank you all.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did Matthew provide any information regarding her whereabouts? And did he surrender?
LONGO: I`m sorry --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did he provide any information regarding the whereabouts of Hannah Graham?
LONGO: I have no idea. Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did he surrender?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did he surrender?
VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. The news conference just wrapping up -- many questions, but one major break. Suspect Jesse Matthew in custody in
Galveston, Texas. Now he disappeared from Virginia, ended up in Texas; the extradition process is underway as we speak.
And the hero of this story is reportedly a deputy with the Galveston Sheriff`s Office. And there`s $100,000 reward right now to find Hannah
Graham.
Lisa Lockwood, investigator, the good news is they have a suspect in custody, but the question remains where is Hannah Graham? Do you think
they`re any closer to finding her?
LOCKWOOD: I absolutely do. And now that they have upped the bounty to $100,000 -- there`s no honor among criminals. And I believe if he had told
somebody, anybody what he had done, that we`re going to find her relatively soon for that reward.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, he has an attorney. He`s accused. He`s not convicted.
We`re going to take a short break. We will be back in a moment. Major breaking news: this man who fled the police station has been found in
Galveston, Texas.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
VELEZ-MITCHELL: The suspect wanted in the alleged abduction with intent to defile Hannah Graham has been captured. He fled from Charlottesville,
Virginia and ended up in Galveston, Texas -- that`s where police nabbed him. That`s 1,300 miles. How did he manage to go through all of those
states and go all those miles without being detected?
The good news is, he has been found. The question -- where is the woman, the young 18-year-old co-ed he allegedly abducted with intent to defile,
Hannah Graham?
Straight out to CNN correspondent, Jean Casarez who was in that news conference; Jean, give us your perspective and expertise on the
significance of what you heard tonight?
JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, this is -- it is shocking in the one sense. And I just visualize a trial where it can come before a jury
that he fled out of the state of Virginia all the way to Texas. You know, Galveston is not on the border of Mexico, but Galveston is very remote
beyond Houston. And I think it`s extremely significant, and now we`ll see if he fights extradition, or if he willingly comes back to Virginia.
But the focus here where I am is, where is Hannah? People want to know and they really, really are not going to stop this fight until she is found.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, there were questions after he announced the arrest of the suspect. There were questions to the Chief, essentially where is
Hannah? What was his answer again? It was very noncommittal. It led me to wonder do they have any clue whatsoever as to where she may be.
CASAREZ: I don`t think they do. Jane -- I do not think they do. Here`s what they`re asking people now in this community. People with large plots
of land look your land over. See if you see anything on your land. And they`ve been asking that today. So that obviously shows that they need
help.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Thank you so much, Jean Casarez.
Marc Klaas, founder of KlaasKids, briefly, what is your analysis of this news conference?
KLAAS: Well, first of all, I don`t think that an innocent men would have run away to Galveston, Texas obviously headed to Mexico. They`ve got the
man. Now they have to find the girl. They need to refocus on the search for Hannah and the technique that they just put out I think is a brilliant
technique. But they can`t let their guard down until they find her.
One of the things they can do, though, Jane, is they can take cell phone records from the night that she disappeared and they can match up his
records with her records. In other words, if they ping off the same towers, were they headed in the same direction? And that may give them
some inkling as to where he might have taken her.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, I would agree except that her last known communication was right around the time that she was seen with him by
witnesses at the bar and she said words to the effect of, "I`m headed to a party, but I`m lost." So we don`t know whether the phone was turned off
after that.
Adam Thompson, what can they do to put the pressure on this suspect to tell them everything he knows?
THOMPSON: Well, unfortunately there`s no pressure because if he`s lawyered up, and his lawyer is going to protect his interest, his lawyers going to
say don`t make any statements under any circumstances unless the lawyer thinks it is so overwhelming that it`ll be shown that he`s involved and the
person behind her disappearance to maybe cut a plea bargain or bet a deal to tell them her whereabouts.
But I think it was crystal clear in the press conference the way I saw it, they don`t know where Hannah is from the mere fact they have raised the
reward from $50,000 to $100,000 tells you if they already knew and they had an idea where she was, they wouldn`t up the reward. So they don`t know and
they`re trying to get more people involved.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Ok. Judy Ho --
THOMPSON: I think that we have to keep in mind.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: -- clinical psychologist, your analysis of what is going on right now.
HO: Well, I think the urgency is definitely there to find her as soon as possible, Jane, because what we know from the statistics is that the longer
it takes, the less hope there is that the person is still alive.
So we`re starting to get to that window of the time where we`re going to start to see a huge decrease in this turning out positively where we find
her and she`s not harmed. So we really need to up the ante and I`m glad that the police is offering a higher reward to make this happen.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: What can they do? Loni Coombs, you`re a former prosecutor. I have to believe there`s something they can do to encourage.
We hear about -- again, he is only accused. We don`t want to convict him. He deserves his day in court. But we hear many times of suspects leading
police to a specific location.
COOMBS: Yes. Exactly, Jane and this is the critical point. If he knows - - if he knows where she is, if he knows what happened to her, this is the time when he has some leverage, some bargaining position here with the
prosecutors because you know the prosecutors want to find Hannah. Everyone wants to find Hannah as soon as possible. If he has any information that
he can give to them, that`s where they might give him some leniency, if he will lead -- if he will lead them to Hannah, help them find Hannah.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: Stay with us. We`ll be right back.
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LONGO: We are here tonight to announce that because of the collaborative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and state and local law
enforcement across this nation, Jesse Matthew is in custody in Galveston, Texas.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`ve seen so many dolphins before. Japanese people don`t even know about it. They take the boat around to the secret cove
that nobody could see.
They`re afraid of cameras.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out of here.
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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, this is a story you, our viewers, demanded we cover, and we have. We listen to you. It`s slaughter time again in Japan,
and now the outrage is going global and viral. Dolphins, being rounded up and slaughtered in Taiji, Japan`s infamous cove -- hundreds of dolphins
coraled into this area, nicknamed Butchers` cove; every year captured then sold into captivity or just slaughtered.
This practice was highlighted in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove". Watch -- from Lionsgate.
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VELEZ-MITCHELL: National star, Hayden Panetierre sobbed, devastated, upset to swim in the blood-infested waters watching the dolphins being
slaughtered. The Japanese government refuses to ban the dolphin slaughter which runs from now to March.
Supporters of the hunt say American objections are hypocritical because of the billions of animals raised in the United States in inhumane
conditions in factory farms and slaughtered every year. Japan`s critics insist dolphins aren`t even consumed arguing they contain dangerous levels
of mercury. They say, well, this is senseless slaughter.
To me it`s a bizarre debate about which slaughter is less or more horrific. All slaughter is horrific.
Straight out to my very special guest, Ric O`Barry, director of "Dolphin Project". Ric, we know the first group of dolphins has already
been rounded up. Do you know how many have been slaughtered so far?
RIC O`BARRY, DIRECTOR: Well, they brought in for three days (inaudible) dolphin, maybe 30 or 40 of them, we don`t know for sure. They cover things
up so well now. Their circle is getting smaller and smaller and smaller. It`s getting more difficult for us to live stream. We have a team in Taiji
at the cove for the next six months. I just came from there actually and I`ll be going back soon.
It`s not just Japan. We mistreat dolphins too. I`m on my way now to the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in the desert where we have dolphins. It`s
really a bad situation. We`re going to have a big protest there on the 3rd, by the way, of October. I hope people will come out if you`re in Las
Vegas, the front of the Mirage. You can find this information on our dolphinproject.org Web site. But yes, we`re --
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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Let me -- and those are dolphins being slipped into boats there and this video is just stomach churning. And I understand what
you`re saying. By the way, that hotel invited on any time -- we have questions we`d love to ask them about all of that.
But your point is why do fishermen carry out this slaughter every year, and I always say follow the money. Last year -- just last year this
beautiful albino that we`re going to show you was torn from her mother and she was nicknamed "Angel". Now, she`s supposedly being held in a museum.
Her net worth because of the rare, rare beauty has been estimated at half a million dollars. So critics say, well, they slaughter the regular dolphins
but what they do is hand pick the cute ones and sell them to aquariums fortunes of money.
So aquariums, really that whole idea that you`re going to keep these animals in little pens and people can have fun with them that`s really, in
your opinion, Ric, the bottom line of the problem?
O`BARRY: It is. It`s about supply and demand. As long as people continue to buy tickets for dolphin shows, we`re going to have this abuse. We`re
going to have these captures and the slaughter. It`s all connected. People can also sign a pledge --
VELEZ-MITCHELL: You know, it`s so infuriating -- I want to get to this. What`s infuriating about this is that Japan doesn`t seem to be listening to
the outrage. Last season, U.S. ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy tweeted -- she went out on a limb and tweeted about the inhumaneness of the
hunt. The Japanese are essentially renegades in this effort. As Ric mentioned, if you want to get involved because these dolphins cannot speak
for themselves, you can go to dolphinproject.org or seashepherd.org.
I understand you`ve been taking legal action against a museum that is purportedly holding Angel. What can Americans do? I understand what
you`re saying. Look in the mirror, don`t go to those shows, but what else can we do?
O`BARRY: Well, sign the petition. Those things really help. And you know, a lot of people are tweeting. All of the people who are tweeting,
keep doing that. That is so important.
That`s the reason Caroline Kennedy spoke out and tweeted. She`s reading all of these tweets. Social media is really, really powerful, so all of
the people who are working social media to expose this atrocity, keep doing that. That`s extremely helpful. And sign the pledge and the document at
dolphinproject.org. I`ll take that to the Japanese government. I`ll take it to see Caroline Kennedy. We`ve got to keep this issue alive until they
stop. I`ve been going back there for 12 years --
VELEZ-MITCHELL: I have to tell you we`re out of time, Ric. You know I love you, but we got overwhelming demand to do this story. You`re right --
Twitter -- it`s going crazy. So don`t stop. They can`t speak for themselves.
Nancy is next.
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