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I always like to say
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we can't assume
that our viewer knows anything.
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There's someone in a hotel room
that just got here today,
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that flipped the TV on,
you gotta treat that viewer
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like you do
all the rest of your viewers,
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so you're gonna have to
give them a little background.
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So, every day,
you'd start out with
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missing teenager Brittney Wood
still hasn't been found.
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Some people think
maybe her uncle
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is responsible
for her disappearance.
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Other people think
it might be Wendy,
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because she knew that she was
going to tell on her uncle.
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I mean, these are all
speculative ideas.
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They're... They're... I can't...
You can't prove any of 'em,
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and you're just throwing it out
there like everyone else is,
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but these are the questions
still swirling.
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Some see us as all victims.
Some see us as monsters.
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That's all because of the media
sitting there saying,
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"The Wood family,
the Wood family."
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The issue with my family,
I believe what hurt me the most
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was I was very vigilant.
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I was a young mother,
but I wasn't a dumb mother.
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I was not fixing
to take my children
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to somebody I didn't know,
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or hire this babysitter
out the newspaper.
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I was more like,
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if you can't trust your family,
who can you trust?
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So I always took 'em
to the family.
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Now, looking back,
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they probably would have been
more safe at the crack house.
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It was reported to me
that this was probably
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the largest incestuous
family sex abuse case
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in the history of the state
of Alabama at the time.
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And then when you
think you've got it figured out,
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oh, here comes that twist.
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Here comes that thing
that throws everything
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you thought you knew
out the door,
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and here you go
down this rabbit hole.
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While we was
in Styx River searching,
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we thought we were starting
to figure it all out,
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that we was
in the right location,
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and then all of a sudden
we got word to the organization
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that Brittney's last ping
was not in Styx River.
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They had just picked up a ping
out here in Grand Bay,
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which happened to be
off this tower.
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Her last ping in Styx River
was at 12:07am.
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Then it pinged here at 1:47am.
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So we left Styx River, we came
out here with all the searchers,
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started at this tower,
where the last ping was located,
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and worked out, covered
pretty much all of Grand Bay.
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The police, KlaasKids,
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everybody was convinced
that was a repeat text.
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She weren't with the phone.
Nobody was with the phone.
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It just repeat text.
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I find it interesting
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that some of the key players
in this at that time
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were living in Grand Bay,
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and... I would not be surprised
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if it turned out
that the phone was used
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to make a call or a text.
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We believe
her phone come back here
because there is proof,
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but we do not believe she
actually drove back over here.
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Somebody brung her phone
back over here.
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That's why I think Grand Bay
was just a ditch site.
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They ditched her phone.
They took... Whoever it is.
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This battery had to have been
taken out of her phone
in Grand Bay,
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because it's not going to ping
without it.
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I work all kinds
of civil and criminal cases
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anytime somebody is interested
in reviewing
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cell tower information,
call detail records,
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to see how a particular device
has been used.
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It usually comes up in pretty
much any homicide case anymore
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is that law enforcement's
certainly interested in
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what's the user been doing
with the device,
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where has the device
been located?
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That becomes very important
to those investigations.
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Let's take a look
at the records.
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That phone's actually texting
multiple people
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between... 11 and 11:40.
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But at 1:47,
there is a outgoing text message
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from her cell phone.
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I certainly can't say
that that's a repeat text.
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Uh, with...
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There's no text messages
on either side of that
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that would lead me
to believe that.
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There's no indications
of any kind of error messages
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or anything like that, so...
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But at 1:47,
there is a outgoing text message
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from her cell phone.
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In some Android cell phones,
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when you send a message
from the Android device
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and it doesn't receive
the "message complete" signal
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that it's supposed to receive,
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it will attempt
to send it again,
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but that's something that occurs
just within a couple of minutes,
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not over a period
of a number of hours,
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so that simply doesn't...
doesn't make any sense
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with what we're seeing here
on the records.
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With just a single text message,
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I have no reason to believe
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that that is a repeat text
function of any kind.
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So that's a pretty
good clue to finding her.
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I think that would be
an important... important step.
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Do we know
who that text message was to?
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You got the number? Good.
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Because I got my little
piece of paper with old numbers
and I might be able...
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I'd love to know
who that last person was.
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Nothing about Bradley
came up?
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'Cause that was the main focus,
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or that might have been
the missing information.
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I don't see the name Bradley
in here.
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Sure.
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Very convenient.
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I may be reading into this
wrong, but, in my head,
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that last message
was someone Brittney knew,
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and Donnie and them did not.
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Maybe Bradley.
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She had to have been
in Grand Bay.
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Which is a whole new ball game.
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The last...
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voice call...
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which doesn't appear
to have gone to voicemail
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is at 11:29.
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The next series of events,
starting at 11:36,
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is a series of incoming phone
calls that all go to voicemail,
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and frankly all appear to be
from the same phone number.
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There is a name written above
one of those entries of Andy.
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Oh.
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The big deal is, at the time,
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Andy lived in Grand Bay.
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And he's the only one.
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The only deal
we ever had with that
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is Andy wasn't friends
with Donnie and Wendy and them.
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How did they all meet up?
You know, when did that occur?
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And how and why would they
meet up with Andy?
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Un... Unless they...
dropped her off with Andy.
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So I don't know
what to think about that.
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But it's a whole new avenue.
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See, we thought we had at least
the pings licked, you know.
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It was a repeat ping.
They said that from get-go.
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Yeah, do that.
I'm going to get my little book.
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I would really like to see
who that is.
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- ...8915.
- Oh, I knew who it was.
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That's Bradley.
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Oh, my Jesus.
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See, we always knew
we cannot get tunnel vision,
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and I always knew we got tunnel
vision, but it was so evident.
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Or so you think. That's why
you get tunnel vision.
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But now we have to open
Grand Bay all the way back up.
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If that ping from Grand Bay
was to Bradley,
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Brittney left Styx River.
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Still want them GPR results,
but now it's kind of shifted.
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At least
I did get to talk to him,
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and the police
interviewed him three times,
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and we all really come
to the conclusion
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that Bradley
did not have nothing to do
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with her disappearance.
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I guess we'll never know.
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The end of March of 2012,
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a report was made with the
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
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by Randall Scott Wood,
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who was the maternal uncle
of Holland,
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that her father, Donald Holland,
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who I often refer to
as Donnie Holland,
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because that's what he went by,
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was involved
in an incestuous sexual abuse
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if not affair
with his own daughter.
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Me and my brother,
Scott, is very close.
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He's the one that told.
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He's the one that busted
this case wide open,
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is Scott Wood.
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He lived out of state.
He was here on work.
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The company closed there.
There was a company here.
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What better place than
to move in with your sister?
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And so he moved in with them.
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And he started
finding out things,
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and looking
on the daughter's computer,
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and he found a message
that said:
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"You give a good blow job
to be 12 years old."
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And that's what broke the case
wide open.
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And so Scott called me and said,
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"The police are on their way.
I need somewhere to live."
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And I said,
"Well, come on over."
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And when he come,
three days and nights,
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we sat in my living room without
sleeping, eating or anything.
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He was filling me in
every detail.
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He had been a detective
for months.
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So after conducting
the initial interview
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with Holland,
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myself and the social worker
sat down with her older sister
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and conducted
a formal interview with her.
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And I remember asking her,
"Do you believe your sister?"
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And she said, "Yes."
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And then I followed up with,
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"Well, why do you believe
your sister?"
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And she said,
"Because he did it to me."
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Following the suicide
of Donnie Holland,
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uncle to missing teen
Brittney Wood,
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his son Donnie Holland Jr.,
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along with more members
of the Wood family,
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have been arrested
in conjunction
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with the child sex ring.
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There was a graphic that was
put together with all the faces,
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trying to piece them all
together and how massive it was.
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The aunt, the uncle,
the missing person, this, that.
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There's this whole chain
of people,
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and it was used
to tell the story.
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We're pretty much stuck with
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what the media put out there
about the whole family
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and the whole
Brittney missing and...
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They took the shine off her
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when it should have stayed
on her, you know, pretty much.
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She's just like
any other missing person,
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regardless of the charges
being against her family.
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They wasn't against her, and
she's the one that's missing,
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so she should have been
front and center, you know,
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but it's not always
how you think it should be.
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Of course in the news
business we're always gonna,
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you know, the trial
of the century or whatever,
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you're gonna make it sound
bigger than what it is.
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But it was still...
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If people didn't talk about it,
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they at least...
they were aware of it.
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Every time somebody with our
name is brought up in the media,
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they plaster it everywhere.
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Oh, yeah, they're...
this is the evil ones.
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Oh, yeah, they're bad people.
Oh, yeah, all of 'em.
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Wendy Holland
and her twin sister, Mendy Kent,
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have been arrested on multiple
counts of child abuse,
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along with Mendy's husband,
Dustin Kent.
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The family
was absolutely in turmoil
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at that time.
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Children were being taken
out of the homes.
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They were, you know,
being placed
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with other family members.
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So, again, it had to be
a very chaotic situation
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within the family,
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because the offenders,
oftentimes,
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were the parents or aunts
and uncles of these children.
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They were having to be placed
with other individuals
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during the course
of our investigation.
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Then it all starts
making sense 'cause you go,
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well, maybe... maybe
Brittney was one of the victims
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of that incest ring,
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and she went to confront
this uncle,
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'cause the uncles, the aunts,
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and all those who went through
the court system
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were people that ended up being,
you know, charged and convicted
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for... for allowing
the younger relatives...
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pimping them out for sex.
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It's no longer
a person, it's a story.
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It kind of feels like
you sold your soul for a story,
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in a sense, you know,
like you have no humanity left.
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You got family over here
bawling their eyes out, crying,
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and don't know what's going on,
or if they'll find anything,
256
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or if this will go on
for 20 years or 20 more days.
257
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Nobody knows.
But y'all don't care.
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When you have
a missing child,
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I remember when it rained,
it took me years.
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The rain was so awful.
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'Cause I remember back then
when it rained,
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I would lay in the bed
and just pray to God
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that she wouldn't get rained on.
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I don't know
why it bothered me so bad
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when it started to get cold.
266
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She disappeared when it was hot.
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It seemed like the heat bothered
my mental status so much,
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but when it started
getting cold,
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I actually put a Facebook post
that said:
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And that's what you want for
your child when they're missing,
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but you have no idea.
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With any missing person's case,
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we knew that this was
a major investigation,
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not only us, but Mobile County.
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And with it being
a large-scale investigation,
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nobody really wanted her going
missing in their jurisdiction,
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therefore they would
have to be responsible
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for conducting
the investigation,
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dedicating resources,
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whether that be
in the form of manpower,
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or forensics, you name it.
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Nobody really wanted that,
but, at the same time,
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obviously we have
a fiduciary responsibility
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to investigate any crime
that occurs and that's reported.
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I think
that once they realized
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that this was really
probably a murder,
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um, certainly
by every stretch suspicious,
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um, they were so far into it,
they couldn't back out.
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And they just decided
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to take the position that
they didn't do anything wrong,
291
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they did all they could,
but I don't believe that.
292
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I don't think that
they even deserve their jobs,
293
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for real, any of 'em.
294
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I don't got nothing nice
to say about law enforcement,
295
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let's just put it that way.
296
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I think they're dirty,
and I think they're cheap,
297
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and I think they think
they're better than everybody,
298
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and they get to pick and choose
299
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who they get to care about
and who they don't.
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They didn't do their job,
at least try to do their job,
301
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or at least give us
the information
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so we can do their job for them,
303
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'cause getting anything
from the police officers...
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investigators, nothing.
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They won't give us nothing.
306
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So, yeah, it was difficult
to talk about it.
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But it was a big story.
I mean, it was a huge story.
308
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It dominated all
the local stations and beyond.
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I mean, I'm really surprised
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that there hasn't been
more interest
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nationally and internationally,
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except maybe
it's a pretty disgusting subject
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when you talk about
a child sex ring.
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But it does make you listen,
doesn't it? Oddly enough.
315
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Remembered losing her virginity
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at the age of three
to her own father.
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They were forced to perform
oral sex on each other,
318
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and on other adults,
on uncles and aunts.
319
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It was... It was really bad.
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I remember very clear
when I first found out,
321
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and really found out,
322
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the heinous crimes that
Donnie Holland had committed,
323
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and who
he committed them against,
324
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and how slick
he had committed 'em.
325
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It was hard for my brain
to accept these facts,
326
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because I've just known him
my whole life.
327
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But as soon
as that shock wore off,
328
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there it came,
what everybody expected from me.
329
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Um... I actually remember
saying to myself,
330
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"Donnie, you better be glad
you're already dead."
331
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And I really felt grateful
because he was dead
332
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and I wasn't going to prison
for it, you know,
333
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because if he weren't dead,
he was fixing to be.
334
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I guess that was the day that
we really could come out and say
335
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what people were thinking
about the child sex ring
336
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and the allegations
and when all of that came out.
337
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It was very clannish.
No one was talking.
338
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I think through a lot of this,
her mom, Chessie,
339
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was probably
the most vocal of everybody,
340
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to the point of where, I guess,
341
00:19:12,759 --> 00:19:15,279
sometimes we wondered,
is she too vocal?
342
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What's going on here?
343
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Does she know more
than she's really saying?
344
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You have to understand,
345
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I don't think,
for a while there, a day went by
346
00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:28,039
that there wasn't some mention
in the news about it.
347
00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:29,720
And they were doing
daily coverage.
348
00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:34,160
It was like the OJ Simpson case
of Mobile, Alabama. Seriously.
349
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And, um, they just...
350
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It was so much coverage
351
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that you... you heard about it,
352
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you formed that opinion,
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they're all sick,
they're all disgusting.
354
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You can't walk in the
store and buy a loaf of bread
355
00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,759
without seeing you
and everybody...
356
00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,440
you know on the front page.
357
00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,559
There's Derek.
358
00:20:02,599 --> 00:20:05,480
I mean,
it was an everyday affair.
359
00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:09,519
See? Fifth man arrested.
That's Billy Brownlee.
360
00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:16,079
And, in a shocking twist,
361
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Brittney's brother, Derek Wood,
has also been arrested,
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along with a family friend,
Melton Morgan.
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00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,920
Donnie and Wendy Holland's
friends,
364
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,240
Jennifer Moore and William
Brownlee, have also been charged
365
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in connection
with the child sex ring.
366
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As the arrest count grows,
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we will keep you updated
as the story develops.
368
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Wendy even
assisted her daughter
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in having sex with grown men
370
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because she didn't know
what she was doing.
371
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So Wendy would guide her
and teach her own daughter
372
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how to have sex with men
and how to pleasure them.
373
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It is all very, very disturbing.
374
00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,519
And this didn't take place
375
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with just the female children
in the family.
376
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It also took place
with the boys.
377
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,400
The boys were often
victimized as well
378
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by both men and women
in the family,
379
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and other individuals
who were allegedly
380
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being contacted on Craigslist
for casual encounters.
381
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:14,519
Her brother,
for example,
382
00:21:14,559 --> 00:21:18,200
he wasn't just a suspect
and tried and convicted.
383
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,319
He was also a victim.
I mean, he...
384
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I remember in court him
talking about them making him
385
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or asking him to have sex
with other relatives
386
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,519
when he was 14, 15, 16,
you know.
387
00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:38,440
He's just going through puberty.
He's a teenager, you know.
388
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,255
I don't know what
he was thinking at that time,
389
00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:43,440
but he's just a young boy,
you know.
390
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,640
He probably didn't know
what was right or wrong either.
391
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,319
So he was a victim,
but he was also, later on,
392
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,599
I think he did things
as an adult.
393
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,519
"This call
is from a correction facility
394
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and is subject
to monitoring and recording."
395
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:47,200
Derek Wood was one of...
a very sad case.
396
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,839
I remember sitting down
and interviewing him
397
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,039
at the Mobile Police Department,
398
00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:55,079
and he was one of those cases
399
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,119
where he was
a child victim himself,
400
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,119
who later turned into an abuser
when he became of age.
401
00:23:51,079 --> 00:23:52,295
They're the kids
that are falling
402
00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:54,240
through the cracks
of the system,
403
00:23:54,279 --> 00:23:56,920
edging out of DHR foster care.
404
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,480
Parents are selling 'em
for drugs,
405
00:23:58,519 --> 00:24:02,119
or they're selling 'em for...
to pay bills,
406
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,680
and different things like that
and... or in prison.
407
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,400
This is our mother-baby room,
408
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,480
for any female that comes in
that's pregnant,
409
00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:13,519
that's been trafficked, or
that's been homeless or abused.
410
00:24:13,559 --> 00:24:17,880
And we have a crib that
we put up once the baby is born.
411
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,200
Um, this is our boys' room.
412
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,680
We have two boys
that are in here.
413
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,079
And boys are trafficked
as much as females, if not more.
414
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,640
They're on the rise.
415
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,279
If you're looking at kids
that have been abused,
416
00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:34,759
and that have been
basically trafficked, sold,
417
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:38,880
or gave to someone
throughout their whole life,
418
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,640
and gone through
that type of trauma,
419
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,839
you have to look
at reprogramming their mind,
420
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,160
because otherwise they're
gonna stay in the same format
421
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,559
that they've been trained
to be in.
422
00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:51,039
It's like parents give
what they've been given.
423
00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:53,039
If they don't know any better,
424
00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:54,920
they only give you
what they know.
425
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,240
So if a parent
has been trafficked,
426
00:24:57,279 --> 00:24:59,640
just like in one of the stings
I set in on,
427
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,680
there's a 54-year-old lady
that was in that sting
428
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,119
that was being sold.
429
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,759
Well, come to find out,
430
00:25:05,799 --> 00:25:07,480
her mother was a traffic victim
431
00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:09,440
and her grandmother
was a traffic victim.
432
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,480
It went down from generation to
generation and was passed down.
433
00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:15,599
So you've got to look
at trying to help
434
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:16,880
those kids that have trauma
435
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,079
before they get
to the prison system,
436
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,480
because there's a lot of people
that are in prison
437
00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:25,240
that really should have therapy
and shouldn't be there.
438
00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:27,119
Based on my research
439
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,279
and my study
of this case as a whole,
440
00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:35,079
I was able to track this
physical and sexual abuse back
441
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,279
three generations
within this family.
442
00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:40,000
My kids loved
to go to church,
443
00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:41,920
and they had
a great kids' program,
444
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,599
and they loved
their youth director.
445
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,920
Brittney wrote that youth
director that they all loved,
446
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,200
that "he touched me,"
and they gave it to me.
447
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,440
And it was a scrap
piece of paper.
448
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,359
That's Ronnie.
449
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,240
That's all about that case.
450
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,039
"Man, 44, gets life sentence
for rape of child."
451
00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:08,920
"Ronald Wayne Robertson
receives maximum sentences
452
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,519
after multiple convictions for
attacking a nine-year-old girl."
453
00:26:13,559 --> 00:26:16,440
That nine-year-old girl
just happened to be my daughter.
454
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,240
Brittney,
when she was eight years old,
455
00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:23,799
was raped
by her step-grandfather,
456
00:26:23,839 --> 00:26:25,519
my mother's husband.
457
00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:27,815
I wasn't going to take it
laying down, she's a little kid,
458
00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:31,319
so the adults had to step in
and help these children.
459
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,880
So went and reported it
to the police.
460
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:40,519
I had her checked, rape test,
and they found that, thank God,
461
00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:42,599
my baby weren't
massively injured,
462
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,599
but they could tell
something had happened.
463
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,960
We encouraged Brittney to go
to court, not just for herself,
464
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,480
but other kids
that may be hurt by this man.
465
00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:55,319
And she decided to go
really for the other kids.
466
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,200
When Brittney
got up on that stand,
467
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,599
the DA turned around
and looked at me,
468
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,359
and he said, "We just won it."
469
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,519
And I said, "How do you know?"
470
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:06,920
And he said,
"Look at the jury box."
471
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,495
And when I turned
and looked at that jury,
472
00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:10,680
everybody in that jury
was crying.
473
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,680
The judge subsequently,
during sentencing,
474
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,920
gave him life plus 10 years.
475
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,400
And he should die in prison.
476
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,200
I remember
back when I was in my 20s,
477
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,240
it would make Donnie in his 30s,
478
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:29,680
Wendy and Mendy
in their late teens, early 20s,
479
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,400
used to all live together
in a house.
480
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,680
It was my mother,
her boyfriend, Ronnie Robertson,
481
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,240
Donnie Holland, my sister,
Wendy, that he was married to,
482
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:40,839
and my sister, Mendy.
483
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,079
Ronnie was already offending,
484
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,559
and then he has
these other people in the house.
485
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:50,279
But we have a lot of belief that
this is where it all started,
486
00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:53,000
where Ronnie opened the door
487
00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:56,519
and showed them
how to become monsters.
488
00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:21,839
I had one victim
who, if a man smiled at her,
489
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,279
she thought, well, that means
he wants to have sex with me,
490
00:28:25,319 --> 00:28:27,839
and she would then pursue it.
491
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,440
She didn't know any better.
492
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,000
When you're
sexually abused in that way,
493
00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:35,759
it feels wrong,
but then you also feel
494
00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:38,480
an obligation and a love
for that person.
495
00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:40,079
We have lots of people
496
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,440
who report
still loving their parents,
497
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,720
even though their parents
sexually, physically,
498
00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:47,279
psychologically abuse them.
499
00:28:47,319 --> 00:28:49,519
There's something
sort of deep and ingrained
500
00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:52,279
in that
parent-child relationship,
501
00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:54,480
that caregiver relationship,
502
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:56,680
that when sexual abuse
is introduced in that,
503
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,079
it can have profound effects
504
00:28:58,119 --> 00:29:01,279
on the psychological abilities
of that person.
505
00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:06,359
A lot of times, while
these orgies were going on,
506
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,480
because it wasn't
just one-on-one,
507
00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:10,880
a lot of times
there were multiple individuals
508
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,440
involved with these children
all at the same time,
509
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,759
all in the same room, all in
the same bed, for that matter,
510
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:24,400
oftentimes Donald Holland
was reported to take pictures
511
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,039
and videotape
these different sexual acts
512
00:29:28,079 --> 00:29:31,000
taking place with his children,
with these adults.
513
00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:32,640
These children had no chance.
514
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:37,680
They led no what we would
consider to be normal childhood.
515
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,200
There were oftentimes
that the victim described
516
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,079
when she got off the school bus
in the afternoons,
517
00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:46,039
she didn't know who her dad
was gonna have her
518
00:29:46,079 --> 00:29:47,640
have sex with that evening,
519
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,880
because it was
somebody different every day.
520
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,000
We discovered in Alabama
521
00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:55,039
that there's a large percentage
of victims
522
00:29:55,079 --> 00:29:57,079
that we have that are children,
523
00:29:57,119 --> 00:29:59,680
and many of those children
524
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,279
are victims of what is called
familial trafficking.
525
00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:07,480
And so that's when
a close family member
526
00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:14,240
will sell their child to
a friend, a neighbor, whomever,
527
00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:19,319
for drugs, for alcohol,
maybe to pay rent or buy food,
528
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,400
but that family member
is exploiting
529
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,319
a younger member
of their family,
530
00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:27,920
which is
a very sad scenario indeed.
531
00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:32,039
One of the child victims
532
00:30:32,079 --> 00:30:35,039
was sent across the country
with a truck driver
533
00:30:35,079 --> 00:30:39,440
and forced to have sex
and oral sex with him
534
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,039
on his truck route
across the country and back.
535
00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:46,440
I'm surprised
they made it out alive,
536
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,400
let alone anything else,
you know.
537
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,440
Some of 'em didn't make it out
alive, but they're so messed up.
538
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,920
They might be alive
and breathing,
539
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,240
but this has probably
changed who they were
540
00:30:59,279 --> 00:31:00,960
for the rest of their life.
541
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,839
And they decided
to change these kids as kids.
542
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,960
They didn't even really
give 'em the opportunity
543
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,599
to see who God meant them to be
in this world.
544
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,359
I'm glad it's over
for the children who suffered,
545
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,640
but their lives
are fucking ruined, you know.
546
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,319
They're ruined. They really are.
547
00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:23,000
Those kids are ruined
for the rest of their lives,
548
00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:24,856
and there ain't nothing
nobody can do about it.
549
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,759
And one we can't even find.
550
00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:31,839
I'm the second oldest cousin.
551
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,240
My brother really isn't
all that intelligent.
552
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:38,640
So I kind of feel like
it fell on me
553
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,519
to try and guide my cousins,
and I feel like I failed.
554
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:46,680
I feel like I should have
been able to do more.
555
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,640
Most of 'em are in jail.
556
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,480
Things have happened to 'em.
557
00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:53,160
I have no idea
what happened to Brittney.
558
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,839
I'd seen her a few days
before all this happened,
559
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,000
and I just...
I don't know what happened.
560
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:00,640
I feel like
I should have been there.
561
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,160
She should have been able
to tell me anything.
562
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,720
But I just didn't know.
I knew nothing.
563
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:12,440
And I truly feel like
I failed 'em.
564
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,200
His sister goes missing.
565
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,240
He was also involved
in all the stuff
566
00:32:18,279 --> 00:32:21,839
that was going on
on the sex crime side of it,
567
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,559
but he was a victim of that.
568
00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:30,279
He got charged because
he was technically an adult
569
00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:34,839
the last time, um,
there was any accusation
570
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,480
of any inappropriate activity.
571
00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:06,440
How do you
go that route with him
572
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,720
when he himself
was victim of all of it?
573
00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:15,640
I feel like his whole life has
been lost because of this mess.
574
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:22,039
And here he is, with all the
trauma that he's gone through,
575
00:33:22,079 --> 00:33:25,279
both as a child and as an adult,
576
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:28,640
and he has no resources
to get him help.
577
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,160
When you're dealing
with this complex trauma,
578
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:37,200
where somebody is experiencing
this exploitation and this abuse
579
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,839
over and over and over
and over again,
580
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,279
during a time in their life
where they're most formidable,
581
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:49,640
and either by somebody, or
allowed to be abused by somebody
582
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,079
that they should have been able
to trust,
583
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:56,199
it creates
a complex mental health issue
584
00:33:56,239 --> 00:33:59,239
that takes professional people
to work with
585
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,840
and help them come out of that,
586
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,320
a messy situation where
587
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,760
sometimes the lines are blurred
between victim and suspect.
588
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,159
And they did him dirty,
589
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:12,816
and that's why he keeps
going back to jail now,
590
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,320
because he will not register
as a sex offender.
591
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,440
He was a victim, and he was
being made to do things,
592
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:21,840
and they lied to him,
593
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,400
they said they'd make a deal,
you know.
594
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,519
And they gave him...
He gave a statement.
595
00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:31,960
He helped put Wendy away.
And they still pinned it on him.
596
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,639
I believe that if you look
597
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,159
at the number of individuals
that were involved,
598
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:42,159
that Donnie was able to pull
into his web that he wove,
599
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:45,320
a lot of the individuals were
close friends of the family,
600
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,440
neighbors, individuals that
he had known his entire life,
601
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,280
in-laws, you name it,
602
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:57,199
and he was able
to convince these people
603
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:04,000
that this kind of behavior
was acceptable in some way.
604
00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:08,360
And how he was able to do that,
or how he coaxed them,
605
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,599
or coached them along the way,
is beyond me,
606
00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:14,800
but he did this his entire life.
607
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,320
But Donnie, and not
to make excuses for what he did,
608
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,599
'cause what he did
was heinous and atrocious,
609
00:35:21,639 --> 00:35:25,039
but Donnie was also
a victim himself.
610
00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:26,639
He was a victim of sex abuse.
611
00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:31,159
The victims can oftentimes
turn into abusers themselves.
612
00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:35,079
However, Donnie became
one of the worst of the worst.
613
00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:39,480
But I still hold Wendy Holland
614
00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:42,760
to the same standard
as Donald Holland.
615
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,239
I've been told
by plenty of detectives
616
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,880
that she started out a victim.
617
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,519
They truly believe this,
and I believe that also,
618
00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:55,440
but I do believe
that one day came
619
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,960
where she turned
from victim to predator,
620
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,159
and that's the day
that I have a problem with.
621
00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:02,559
I'm standing behind the house
622
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:06,519
of what I have named
the House of Horror.
623
00:36:06,559 --> 00:36:10,360
This is where most of the crimes
happened towards the children.
624
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,079
This is where
Donnie and Wendy resided
625
00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:15,800
for 20 years of their marriage.
626
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,719
And if I... if I could,
627
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,039
and I'm not, but if I could
and get away with it,
628
00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:23,280
I'd burn it to the ground.
629
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:13,599
We also see individuals
who practice grooming.
630
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:15,280
Their goal is to sort of,
631
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,840
for one, have a victim
who's going to comply
632
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,039
and not fight back or report it,
633
00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:23,119
and two, have those feelings of
634
00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:25,679
this person does nice things
for me and I like them,
635
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,599
and they... they look out for me
and they make me feel good,
636
00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,679
and they also do
this terrible thing to me.
637
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,079
And when we have this
sort of cognitive dissonance,
638
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:38,239
this "I feel this allegiance
so maybe this is a..."
639
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,800
They want you
to doubt it, right?
640
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:40,960
Maybe this is a good thing.
641
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,559
Maybe this is okay, this abuse.
642
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:46,480
Maybe this is just how people
show their love.
643
00:37:46,519 --> 00:37:50,719
Offenders want that sort of
psychological trauma to happen
644
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,000
so you're likely to stay around,
you're less likely to report it.
645
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:55,880
We also see
when we're talking about people
646
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,199
who sexually abuse boys and men,
647
00:37:58,239 --> 00:37:59,559
the goal of the perpetrator
648
00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:03,840
is often to get an erection
in the victim,
649
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,639
to make the victim aroused,
650
00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:09,440
because there's this notion,
right, if my body likes it,
651
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,239
then obviously I'm supposed
to like it, and it's not bad.
652
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,320
And this adds an additional
level of trauma for men.
653
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:09,559
And you not ever realize it,
you know.
654
00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:14,000
You don't know what goes on
with your family 24/7.
655
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:16,199
And like I said,
you know, Donnie,
656
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,360
I knew Donnie
since we were 10 years old,
657
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,280
and never had a clue
that he was like that at all.
658
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,280
It seemed normal when
he'd come over to pick 'em up.
659
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,800
Nobody ever gave off
any kind of signs.
660
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,119
The boys didn't. Nothing.
661
00:40:29,159 --> 00:40:34,400
There was no signs whatsoever
that that man was harming 'em.
662
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:35,400
Period.
663
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,800
I myself believe
I should have known,
664
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,599
but I did not know.
665
00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:44,360
And no one close to me knew.
666
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,199
And it's... I believe it was
one of the most painful things
667
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:49,840
we had to get through,
668
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:54,360
was they got over on us
that bad.
669
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,559
The sex crimes investigation
670
00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:17,199
absolutely provides a motive for
Brittney Woods' disappearance
671
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,119
due to the fact that,
A, she was a victim,
672
00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:24,719
B, we were attempting
to contact her,
673
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,280
and there are text messages
that support the fact
674
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,800
that she was willing
to speak with us
675
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,280
regarding the allegations,
676
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:40,000
therefore, C, she was
a prime candidate at that time
677
00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:45,639
to be taken advantage of
and disposed of.
678
00:41:45,679 --> 00:41:47,280
She was a liability,
679
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,320
and she was at risk
of exposing this ring,
680
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,119
and exposing Donald Holland,
who was the ringleader.
681
00:41:57,159 --> 00:42:00,599
My ex-sister-in-law
is still in prison
682
00:42:00,639 --> 00:42:02,000
with Wendy and Mendy.
683
00:42:02,039 --> 00:42:03,719
I got her a note into the prison
684
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,000
asking her to watch them.
685
00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:07,679
When I get the letter back,
686
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,880
she was telling me everything
about how they're laughing,
687
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,920
they're taunting it about
the things that happened to her,
688
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,760
the things that they did to her,
and how long that it went on.
689
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,880
Said it was more like
tortured her,
690
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,599
like just tortured her in
any way that could be tortured.
691
00:42:26,639 --> 00:42:29,199
Probably some things
you probably wouldn't want me
692
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:33,480
to say, you know, on...
you know, film.
693
00:42:33,519 --> 00:42:37,599
Like inserted things, just...
Oh, God, it was just a mess.
694
00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:39,400
Just things
that it would be unbearable
695
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,920
for the human mind
to even process.
696
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,159
That's just what I was told.
697
00:42:45,199 --> 00:42:47,320
She was tortured horribly,
698
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,880
and, like, for hours,
is what the girl said.
699
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,559
And she held to her story even
after she got out of prison.
700
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:57,599
She still tried to come back
and give the same story.
701
00:42:57,639 --> 00:43:02,119
So they...
they didn't wanna listen. So...
702
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,320
The authorities, whoever
she went to, the detectives.
703
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,840
And that's what
we don't understand, you know.
704
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,199
I've seen...
you know, I've seen more cases
705
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,400
that wasn't as big as this,
706
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,880
and them work
twice as hard on it.
707
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,719
There was a message received,
708
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,440
actually not too long ago.
709
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,800
Wendy and Mendy
killed Brittney and Donnie,
710
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,280
and a police officer
was involved,
711
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,239
and then after
they got done killing Brittney,
712
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,119
that they went
and dumped her body
713
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:36,760
and come back in and had sex
on the top of the sheets,
714
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,920
after they killed her on 'em.
715
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,800
Here's a letter from Mendy Kent.
716
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:47,760
I decided to write them one time
just to see what they would say.
717
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,000
Oh, no,
this is from Wendy Holland.
718
00:43:51,039 --> 00:43:53,840
I wrote Mendy and I got
a letter back from both.
719
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,456
"Hey, I read the letter
you wrote Mendy."
720
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,400
"It's been so long
since any of us has talked."
721
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,400
"Like Mendy said,
God has answered our prayers
722
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,800
for our family
to get back together."
723
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,199
"Like you said,
God said to forgive."
724
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,760
"I forgive you
for blaming me about Brittney."
725
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,400
"Chessie, I told you from day
one I don't know where she is."
726
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,360
"I'm still trying to forgive
Donnie. It's hard to."
727
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,760
"I pray she'll be found.
I've lost so much also."
728
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,719
"My three kids,
I can't talk to them."
729
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,400
It's all, "I, I, I."
730
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:29,719
There is no "I'm sorry,
Chessie." There is no...
731
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,199
She does say, "Chessie,
I ask you to please forgive me
732
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,880
for not knowing anything
about Brittney."
733
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:36,719
That's about
the only thing I'd...
734
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,719
But the whole letter, if you
just look at it from afar,
735
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,519
that's all you see,
"I, I, I, I."
736
00:44:43,559 --> 00:44:47,800
And that's one of her,
um, issues, I think.
737
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,320
I remember when other family
members were brought to trial,
738
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,000
or were charged with crimes,
739
00:44:54,039 --> 00:44:56,320
then you said,
well, she's probably next,
740
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,719
'cause, you know,
she was the mother,
741
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,840
and relatives with the same
last name were involved in this,
742
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,320
so she must have known.
743
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,800
And so she's kind of
a tragic figure in all this,
744
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,440
because
she's the grieving mother,
745
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:16,199
and still wants to know
what happened to her child,
if she doesn't know.
746
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:22,000
But she knew the players,
and she knew them really well,
747
00:45:22,039 --> 00:45:24,400
and she knew, no doubt,
what they were capable of,
748
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,960
if she didn't
witness it personally.
749
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,199
So you're conflicted
in how you feel about her.
750
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,239
In breaking news,
Chessie Wood,
751
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,639
the mother of missing teen
Brittney Wood,
752
00:45:34,679 --> 00:45:36,119
has been arrested in connection
753
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:39,159
with Alabama's
largest child sex ring.
754
00:45:39,199 --> 00:45:42,039
More news to follow.61200
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