An Alabama college student mysteriously disappears without a trace. Aniah Blanchard, 19, has not been seen since October 23. Police suspect foul play after finding her damaged and abandoned car around 55 miles from her Montgomery apartment complex. Where is Aniah?
Joining Nancy Grace today to discuss the case:
- Walt Harris, Aniah's stepfather and former UFC Heavyweight fighter
- Angela Harris, Aniah's mother
- Elijah Blanchard, Aniah's father
- Jeff Cortese, Former Special Agent FBI
- Caryn Stark, Psychologist
- Karen Smith, Forensics Expert , Founder - Bare Bones Consulting
- Ashley Gooden, ABC 33/40 WBMA Birmingham Reporter
Anyone with information is asked to call the Auburn Police Division Detective Section at 334-501-3140, the anonymous tip line at 334-246-1391 or the 24-hour non-emergency number at 334-501-3100.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is Crime Stories. I'm Nancy Grace. Right now we
are on the trail of a missing team girl, Anaia Blanchard.
Police just releasing surveillance the video of Anaia, the missing
stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris. Where is Ania the
Alabama college student absolutely stunning, last seen on video surveillance
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at a local Chevron station buying a bag of chips.
She's never seen again. Disturbingly, her vehicle found almost fifty
miles away, parked in an apartment complex with damage to
the car, damage that was not there earlier. Help us
bring Ania home. Crime Story Stories with Nancy Grace anew
(01:04):
Harris here. Um. If you have any leads on where
our daughter is and Niam Blatchard, please please please go
to authorities. Tell someone. She was last seen in uh
black Hanna CRV twout seventeen tag it's b actually excuse
me four nine B two three five six BS three
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five six. I'm sorry. She was possibly last seen in
downtown and Southeastern Downtown Auburn, Southeastern and Scott barn If
you have any information, please please come forward. Just hearing
the voice of Walt Harris, you may know him as
the famous UFC heavyweight fighter, but hearing him along with
(01:48):
his beautiful wife, Angela Harris, in their pain, distraught, begging
for help literally sends chills down my body, all the
way down into my boots. They need our help. We
have got to help them find their teen girl, Anya I,
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Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being
with us. As you all know by now, this beautiful
young girl is gone. It is quote completely out of
character for this teen girl to go missing. Right now,
joining me, Karen Smith, Barbones Consulting, Karen Stark Psychologists out
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of Manhattan, Jeff Cortez, a former FBI special agent. Special
guests joining me right now, Angela Harris and Walt Harris
begging for your help. Tipline three three four two four
six one three nine one Repeat tipline three three four
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two four six one three nine one. I'm going to
go straight out to renowned FC heavyweight fighter Walt Harris. Walt,
what happened? Um? We just got a confirmation that you know,
our daughter was missing. UM. And we've been here for
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approximately a week trying to uncover what's going on and
figure out where our daughter is. UM. And you know
that's where we are. When when we're still looking. We're
still searching. UM. We lead the public health Walt Harris
and his wife Angela, begging for your help right now,
Angela Harris with me. This is Ania's mother, Angela. When
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did you discover your girl is missing? Well with Last
Wednesday morning, received a phone call from our twenty year
old son who also lived here, an offer and said,
mom Ania didn't come home. And I said, what do
you mean she didn't come home? He said, we don't know.
Her roommate says, she didn't come home and we can't
(03:59):
get in touch with the Walt. I immediately drove to
Auburn from Birmingham, you know, desperately, just calling on her
all the way there, just trying to get in touch
with her, because she and I talked every morning. That morning,
I didn't think anything of it because she had some
things to do that morning. We had been to a
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funeral the night before. She was with us, and I
knew she was. She had to leave the funeral early
to get to Auburn to take care of responsibilities the
next day. And so when I called her that morning,
when I took my other children to school and she
didn't answer, I kind of was like, Okay, she she's busy,
she had something to do this morning. You know, I'll
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talk to her in a little while. So but I
talked to Nayah every morning. We FaceTime. We don't just call,
We FaceTime so we can see each on a space
that we can spend time together since she lives two
hours away from us. So it's like I say, when
he called us, say that, we immediately just left and
and came to Auburn and to see what was going on.
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And when we got to Auburn, we realized, wait, something
is wrong. Our daughter has she has a dog and
that dog is her baby. And she also is a
babysitter and she was to take her her kids that
she babysits to school, and she didn't show up for
that and she would never, ever ever not get up
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to take care of those children, take care of her dog.
And the later started getting the later we knew something
was very wrong. Guys, please help us. We need your
help so badly. The more I look into the case,
the more I am disturbed. Blancher's stepfather, UFC heavyweight Walt Harris,
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has made many, many desperate pleas for information about the
teen girls who whereabouts on social media. And now we
are taking to the airwaves on crime stories on sirius
to ask for your help. The car that Anya, the
teen girl was driving the night she disappears in Auburn
has been found fifty miles away in Montgomery. Repeat, the
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car that Anya was driving the night she goes missing
in Auburn, Alabama was found fifty miles away in Montgomery.
And I've looked at the car. There is damage to
the right front and the passenger side of the car.
To Walt Harris UFC, have youweight fighter, that's how you
know that name. Tell me about the damage done to
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the car. That's what we want to know. But I
mean the damage. There was damage to the front panel
from what we can see from the images they showed us.
And there's screeps that all down the size. Um, I
believe her rich side review mirrors damaged. And that's pretty
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much always Wait a minute, well right there, right there,
Jeff Cortesi, former special agent with the f B I
you can find him a Jeff Coortzi dot com. Jeff,
did you hear what he just said? Scrapes down the side?
To me, that suggests that somebody may have another car
may have pushed his car off the road. It's not
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like somebody just turned into it at a red light,
like she was turning left and somebody came, no, h
this not that at all. There are scrapes going down
the side of it. What does that tell you, Jeff?
If anything? You know, it's one of those things that
it could tell us a few things. Obviously that that vehicle,
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if the damage did not exist prior to and his disappearance,
could have engaged in some kind of altercation with another
vehicle on the road. It could have been done intentionally
hoping that she would stop, or it could have been
a situation where something became heated on the road and
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that that impact took place through hostile activity. I mean,
Jeff Cortesi, come on, two and two is four? All right.
It's not brain surgery and it's not rocket science. Her
car was fine, guys. Let me give you what I
know about the car. And it's a black Honda c
r V. Black Honda c r V driving somewhere between
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Auburn and Montgomery. That's about fifty miles on a Wednesday night.
All right. The car was fine before then. Now the
car has scrape marks down the side, significant damage to
the passenger side, and she's gone. It's not just a coincidence.
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Karen Smith, forensics expert, way in Karen, what I can
see from these photographs, Nancy, and based on my experience,
the scrape marks look they're linear, and when you have
two cars that collide the scrape marks aren't linear. That
tells me, in my experience, that it's a concrete barricade
or a guardrail. I don't know if that's indicative of
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an impaired driver whoever was driving the car, if there
was a struggle in the car, if there was distracted
driving going on in the car. I don't know that.
What I do know is that that car, since it's
fifty miles away, that is now a key piece of
evidence in this case. If there's foreign DNA, if there's
male DNA, if you have fingerprints that are inconsistent with
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Ania Blanchard on or inside that vehicle, they're going to
have to go through it with a fine tooth comb
and see if there's anything that does not belong in
that car. Receipts, beer can, soda cans, anything that can
hold DNA and fingerprints. They're going to have to collect
it and process it and see if there's anything we
can glean from any of us crime stories With Nancy Grace.
(10:05):
Her roommate texted her own snappat and said, hey, where
are you? Um she said, or she said, are you?
Almost told him and she said yeah and um she
said where are you? And um, she said, I'm with
I don't I don't know if I should give any names.
I'm not gonna give any names. He said, she was
she was with a young man, is what you understand?
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Just met and that is all. She didn't say how
she met him, where she met him, where she was at?
He could said she was with a certain person and
that she had just met him, and um, yes, that
is all. That is all we know. You're hearing our
friends at w b RC Fox six. That's Mike Deverley
and Janice Rogers trying to find Ania Blancher, a teen
(10:45):
girl who seemingly vanishes. Straight out to our friend at
ABC thirty three forty w b M a Ashley Gooden
from Birmingham, give me the timeline of Annia Blancher's disappearance
from Auburn Police put out the missing person report. They
told us that it was around sometime Wednesday when she
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last spoke with someone, and so it was around eleven
thirty Wednesday evening that a person said that they had
spoken with Annihilist. Around Friday evening, they found her car
in Montgomery, Alabama, at an apartment complex. Now Montgomery is
about forty five minutes thirty forty five minutes away from Auburn,
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so of course that was something unusual. And when police
did sign that car, it had some damage that wasn't
there prior to making it to Montgomery. Police say that
they packed her license plate in the South College area
of Auburn, which is also around the area where the
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interstate is I eighty five to get to Auburn, so
I mean, excuse me to get to Montgomery. In to that,
there was surveillance video of Anayah and a gas station
right before her car was paid. Those are those places
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close to each other. The gas station and where her
car was pained with the license plate are close to
each other. Let me ask you this. You said her
tag was payed. What do you mean by that? Colins
have a way of when they checked the cameras that
are on the traffic lights, they can see the license
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plates and so it was an instance of seeing one
of those and figuring out that was Aniah's car. It's
a parents' worst nightmare. In joining me right now, Angela
Harris is is Anaia's mother and renowned UFC heavyweight fighter
Walt Harris. Walt Harris, what can you tell me that
(12:57):
cops are saying about what if anything they fine inside
that black condescy RV that she was driving. Um, that's
the thing. We haven't gotten any information about what was
actually inside the car. UM. You know, we're waiting on
that news today. I think they're having a briefing. UM,
we will be brief UM. So you know, it's just, Um,
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it's a lot of what else and you know, we
don't knows and we just want clarity, UM for our sanity.
My wife is really dealing with the heart. UM, I'm
dealing with the heart. Our families are dealing with the heart.
We've had a lot of love and support from everyone
down here, but we just need to know where we
are and what's going on. I mean, I just pray
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today we get those answers. It's so so significant that
she was out that night, that she was snapchatting as
late as eleven ish that night, eleven ish on close
to eleven thirty on Wednesday night, snapchatting with her roommate. Uh,
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she's a Homewood native. She's going to Southern Union State
Community College in Wady. She goes missing, but we do
have a development in the case. Listen, Yeah, they really
they okay, they just tell us, you know, different pieces
of what's going on. They um, they talk about you
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know what. You know, they really hadn't discovered much. They
pretty much is um they under standstill when it comes
to that. So it's really they haven't really give us
an update and you know, they just um it. It's
really it's really those senses the cases, those senses where
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they can't tell us too much. So they can't tell
us if you know, they just got on that it's
considered considered the foul play. Um. You know. But they
got so many different entities involved. They got the FBI involved,
they got the d they got a Homeland Security, they
got um the drug dry tables atf and a federal marshalls.
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But they hadn't been able to give me any thank
concrete since they since they seen the video and the
video came out about her in the convenience store. We
haven't heard much after that. You were hearing bio Dad
Elijah Blanchard speaking. Now we know there is convenience store video.
To Walt Harris, what video? Tell me about the video?
(15:30):
In the video, Um, she's dying about the chips. Um,
and she's from what I can tell, very tired. Um.
And she just looks like she's about to go home.
And that's pretty much the last time she was seeing
um alive from what I see or you know. Okay,
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let me ask you a couple of specific questions. Where
was that? Was that a convenience store? Um? The coveni
store is on South College. What city it's in Auburn?
What time was the video? I believe it was even
spot then twenty. She was at the store. She purchased
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a back of Salton vinegar potato chips. Okay, Angela Harris
with me, this is an ie mom. Tell me what
you know about that video. Angela Harris, I know that
she she went into the store, and UM, she did
look tired. We had a very long day that day,
Like I said, we had lost a very close family
friend in a car accident, and her and her son
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drove from Auburn earlier that day to come be with
with their family and our family and um go to
the funeral. And it was already six thirty when she,
you know, said mey mom in allogity to go. It's
getting late and they had a four hour drive. So
I know that Anya is a homebody. She she likes
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to go to bed early. Yeah, she's a college student.
Of course she goes out from but when she gets
tired and she gets sleepy, she's ready to go to bed.
So that video told me I could see my baby
in her face, and I knew it wasn't her like
she just she was tired. And I know in my
heart that her plan was to buy her some chips
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and go home, because if that's her thing, she'll buy
her a snack and she'll go go, you know, eat
a snack in her bed or something before she goes.
And that's evident by her empty chip bags, you know,
in her Nightstandum. But yeah, that's what I saw from
the video. And I was just tired and she was like,
I just I'm just ready to be home. Guys, we're
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talking about the disappearance of a gorgeous young team girl.
She was snapchatting after eleven o'clock with a friend. She
said she was gonna see a guy she had just met,
and she's pictured at a convenience store on video and
she We believe this is the last known video that
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we have of her. Take a listen to our friends
at w VTMAS at chip. Scarborough Police release surveillance video
from the night of her disappearance. Auburn Police say this
is nineteen year old Anniah Blanchard inside a convenient store
on South College Street in Auburn last Wednesday night, the
same night investigators say she was last heard from. Jack
(18:20):
Owens is a retired special agent with the FBI. He
says missing person cases get more challenging with every day
that passes. At this point, a lot of leads and
manpower have already been used up. You may have to
revisit all of them since we don't have her. Officers
found Blanchard's car in the parking lot of a Montgomery
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apartment complex on Friday night. They say the car was
damaged between the time she disappeared Wednesday in Auburn and
when the car was found Friday. The fact there's a
lot of space between there and where we found her
car that opens up all kinds of highway checks and
leads along that highway. What place, what kind of place
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was open at that time of night? You got to
visit everything. Crime stories with Nancy Grace trying to find
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Annia Blancher, a teen girl she has never quote up
and disappeared before. Go to crime online dot com where
we are posting the last known video of Annia Blanchard,
the teen girl missing, so you can look at it yourself.
I'm looking at a photo of her right now. Absolutely beautiful, long, beautiful,
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shiny brunette hair, big brown eyes, beautiful smile. She's wearing
a silver necklace with a heart on it. Her debit
card was last used Wednesday night, eleven twenty pm. I'm
guessing to Angela Harris, her mother, that was at the
convenience store to get the chips. Do you know about
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that ATM Purchase? Yes, ma'am. That's actually how we discussed
ourselves that night. We had so many of our friends
to come immediately in family, and we were just we
were helpless. It didn't know what to do. So we
were just sitting in a parking lot, just sitting on
the ground and we're like trying to find something, and
because we couldn't get into her Venmo, well, we got
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into her email and we saw the Venmo purchase for
two dollars and seventeen cents and we couldn't figure out
what it was, and we taught We told the police
that hey, look, she thought she bought something at at
a Chevron here at Auburn, please go see to get
the video. And so what they did and that's when
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we saw that she purchased a bag of chips. I
wonder if they have videos from outside the Chevron stationed
there in Auburn, for instance, was there a car that
pulled out after her? Did she have a conversation with
someone like say, hey anything as she was walking out?
Has the person who sold her the salt vinegar chips?
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Have they been interviewed? And that gives me an idea
as to which way she was going. We know where
her car ended up, we know where the Chevron station is.
Which way did she go? And then we would pull
her Villa's video along that perceived route. But let's take
a look at her psychologically. Who is teen girl a
(21:28):
Nia Blanchard? Take a listen, just she has a personality Um.
Anytimes she woke in the room, she lights the room up. Um.
He just has a smile that everybody just catch. His
attention to so many people and he's a genuine person.
She she never meets a stranger in and you know
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she she's just so I'm trying to come up with
a word. Um. She's very older man. She's us. She
likes to be there at first, like to early, and
she likes to leave early if he wants to be
on time. She is just a real structured and sweethearts.
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He's a real I mean, she has a heart of
gold and she want to make sure everybody's okay. You
are hearing bio Dad Elijah Blancher speaking to Crime Stories
exclusively about his daughter's disappearance to Karen Stark Psychologists. You
can find her at Karen Stark dot com. Joining us
out of Manhattan, Karen. She's a homebody, you know, like
(22:34):
like Lucy, my little girl. She's a homebody. We go
Lucy want to go out from Mexican. No, Mom, please
go home and cook, which you know is fine with
me because I can put veggies in her. John David
the opposite, He's ready to go have tennis shoes will travel.
That's him very different personalities. Annia Blanchard is a homebody.
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What is this all telling you, Karen? Very disturbing, Nancy.
And first of all, I want to say to the
parents that my heart goes out to you if this
has to be crushing the whole family, and I'm so sorry.
But what it says to me, Nancy is this is
very suspicious. I know truly what it's like to be
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the kind of kid that doesn't really want to cause
any problems, that prefers to stay home like Lucy. And
this is extremely troubling because it's out of character. You
want to pay attention to anything that's out of character.
So she's not somebody who would run off with a guy.
According to this information, something is happening that's not okay.
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Speaking of the guy, Angela Harris, why aren't they releasing
his name? I don't get it. Where did they? Where
does she maybeam? Where? What was happening? No, we don't
know who it is. We don't know who it is.
We have no idea. We don't know who it is.
We the police have not like like her father was
and what was saying. They're not giving us But this
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and pieces of information, and we have no idea who
this person is. We just know, we don't even know
if it was a Niam making no snapchat text messages
to her roommate. It does sound like her the way
she would talk, but we have no absolutely no idea,
and that's why this is so hard. We have nothing
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to go on, and we are demanding wait a minute,
wait a minute, I want to follow up on what
you just said, Angela. So they were snapchat texts, they
were not pictures, they were just words, right, interesting, interesting,
Now wait a minute, Angela, you said that it sounded
like her vernacular, in other words, the way she would talk. Yes,
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why do you say that? Why do you say that?
Because the way she was her roommate, she was talking
to her roommate. Her roommates said, you know, I wish
you would have like she said, are you on your
way home? And when Annia said that she was with
a certain I can't say the name, but I'm with
this person, and her roommate says, who is that? And
(25:07):
she said, I just met him, and then she said
I'm She said, well, I wish you would have let
me known. I waited up on you I'm going to sleep.
I love you, and Anya said, I'm so sorry. I
love you too, And that's the last thing that she
said to her roommate. Now, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Did Anya have a boyfriend, Angela, No, she didn't have
a serious boyfriend. There were there were boys that she friended,
(25:32):
no serious boyfriend at all. I'm trying to get to
the crux of who this guy is. So she is
in a Chevron gas station in Auburn getting chips at
around eleven twenty and that she was alone, right, unless
I'm missing something in that video. But yet this snapchat
check says she's with somebody, But she was anybody with
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her in the video. The police are telling the police
are only showing us a bit, a little snippet of
the video. They're saying that they could not see anyone
in the car, but they cannot tell us one. And
that's why right now we are we are getting angry, Nancy.
We are getting We have been through every emotion in
the world they should ever imagine, and now we're just
(26:21):
getting angry and we want answers. Person, Well, how often
are you going to the police station to Walt Harris,
the stepfather UFC heavyweight fighter walk. Are you going to
the police station every day? Um, in the beginning the
first two or three days, yes, and then they would
come to us and brief us and then not just
slowed down to the point where we were calling them
(26:43):
to home see us. That's not what right, that's not right,
you know. And and and that's the part that's angry and
me because if you know we need information, I feel
like you should be coming forward with it at your leisure,
you know, like you should just be giving it to us.
And it feels like we're having a fish information and um,
(27:04):
you know, it's just it's the days are accounting, and
that's where you're giving us. Well, I gotta tell you something.
I gotta tell you something, Walt. Now, when I was
working cases for all those years in Inner City Atlanta,
I mean I would had on tunnel vision blinders, like
a horse running a race. All my eyes were on
was the prize, and that was seeking justice. They may
(27:26):
be so in it, they're not thinking of the courtesies
of calling and the niceties of all that. But but
I don't know that's true. Jeff Cortesi, you're a former
special agent with the FBI, for Pete's sake, help me out.
I think, you know, I could. I really think that
one of the strong foxibilities is we're not hearing a
(27:48):
lot right now because they're working. The fact that they
haven't made mention of who that boy is is um significant.
The fact that they haven't said, you know, we ran
this down and come to a conclusion that this is
not related, or that this was not true information, or well,
wait a minute, Jeff, you know I always agree with you,
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but how can it not be related? She meets a
guy that night and she goes missing, her car is
damaged that night. They are connected, Jeff. They have to
be connected in some way. And that's what I'm saying,
And that's what I think. That's why I believe that.
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Well why did I just have to say all that?
If that's what you're saying, say it, man. Yeah. So
I think that the fact that we're not hearing a
lot about that is an indication that they're working those angles.
If there was nothing there, they would say there's nothing there.
The fact that the law enforcement has gone quiet generally
mean that they are working certain things, and to expose
(28:53):
certain information would leave them vulnerable to mishaps. Along the way.
They want to focus their attention on getting your daughter.
And you know what, Jeff, I hate that, I hated,
I hated, I hate it, but it's true. Sometimes you
cannot release information or it can screw everything up. Okay,
this is what we know. The investigation is continuing. If
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you have information and guarding a Nia's whereabouts, call Auburn Police.
I'm gonna give you the number the detective division is
three three four five zero one three one four zero
repeat three three four five zero one three one four zero.
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There is an anonymous tip line three three four two
four six thirteen ninety one repeat three three four two
four six one three nine one. If you know something
about a Nia's disappearance, if you were in the convenience store,
if you saw what you thought was a car accident
(29:58):
Wednesday night, I asked Wednesday night between Auburn and Montgomery,
a black Honda, please help us. You can call anonymously
three three four two four six one three nine one.
(30:25):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I want to circle back
to Angela Harris. They need our help. We have got
to help them find their teen girl. Anya. Take a
listen to our friends at w VT and the family
says that people need to continue to talk about this
(30:48):
to bring evidence forward and help police in this investigation.
And going back to that video, it's on this street
where police say that nineteen year old student was seen
before she was reported. I'm gonna saying this is the
last time nineteen year Oldanya Blanchard was seen. Auburn and
police releasing a new video of the team entering a
convenience store on South College Street shortly before I witness
(31:10):
accounts say her black twenty seventeen Honda CRV drove southbound
on South College Street Saturday. The vehicle found at an
apartment complex in Montgomery, almost an hour away from where
the surveillance video was taken with a certain person and
that she had just met him. Anaya's family still desperately
(31:30):
searching for the Southern Union State student. They say they
won't rest until they bring their loved one home. Is
definitely looking for her safe return and yeah, she's somebody
that she's a fun, loving and happy Say something something,
Say something, safe return. Montgomery Police and Auburn Police have
(31:52):
created a joint investigation along with the FBI, the Alabama
Law Enforcement Agency, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and other
agencies dedicated to the safe return of the nineteen year
old student to Angela Harris, what do you think, Angela,
because this sounds very unlike Anniah Blanchard to say at
(32:15):
eleven twenty at night, I just met a guy and
then I'm going out with him, right, and that that
is not I do not think that was in a
Nia's plan. Something has went wrong. I don't know. I've
ceculated everything that I could speculate. But what I do
know is, and let me say this, I know the
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police are working. I know they are, but it is
so frustrating. But I'm We're trying to let them do
their job because we do not want to hinder anything
about bringing our baby home. So I don't you know,
I don't want to discredit him at all. But I
know that my daughter her phone was dying. Her brother
told us her phone was die when she dropped him
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off at eleven and eleven o'clock at his house in Auburn,
and he she had not mentioned to him about going anywhere,
and he said, Mom, if I knew she was gonna
be going anywhere, I would have given her my charger.
They didn't she didn't have a car charger. And also
what tells me that I know ah Nia was planning
on going home. She was in the store, she had money,
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She had money to buy a charger. Her walk just
gave her money when she left. She could have bought
a charger for her phone if she thought she was
gonna be out for any length of time. So I
just can't. I just cannot make any sense of this.
I just do not. I just don't know, Nancy what happened.
I just know that's not my daughter. Angela, Angela, Angela, Listen.
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I know you're not attacking the police. I know you're
just at the end of your rope, right and you're
hanging on trying to find your girls. And every time
I look at her picture, I see my Lucy right right. Guys,
please help us. Three three, two, four, six, one, three
nine one. I've given you all the numbers. Ashley Gooden
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WBMAABC thirty three forty joining me out of Birmingham. What
more can you tell us, Ashley? On the heels of
this community losing Camille Cocake McKinney, people are really on
high alert and fully invested in searching for Anaiah because
We aren't wanting to lose someone else in our community,
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especially not someone so young with such a future ahead
of them. This girl is missing. There is time to
bring her home safely, and if you don't have a tip,
please join us and pray that Anaiah is brought home
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to her family. We wait as just as unfolds C
Gray's crime story, signing off goodbye friend.
This is Crime Stories. I'm Nancy Grace. Right now we
are on the trail of a missing team girl, Anaia Blanchard.
Police just releasing surveillance the video of Anaia, the missing
stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris. Where is Ania the
Alabama college student absolutely stunning, last seen on video surveillance
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at a local Chevron station buying a bag of chips.
She's never seen again. Disturbingly, her vehicle found almost fifty
miles away, parked in an apartment complex with damage to
the car, damage that was not there earlier. Help us
bring Ania home. Crime Story Stories with Nancy Grace anew
(01:04):
Harris here. Um. If you have any leads on where
our daughter is and Niam Blatchard, please please please go
to authorities. Tell someone. She was last seen in uh
black Hanna CRV twout seventeen tag it's b actually excuse
me four nine B two three five six BS three
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five six. I'm sorry. She was possibly last seen in
downtown and Southeastern Downtown Auburn, Southeastern and Scott barn If
you have any information, please please come forward. Just hearing
the voice of Walt Harris, you may know him as
the famous UFC heavyweight fighter, but hearing him along with
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his beautiful wife, Angela Harris, in their pain, distraught, begging
for help literally sends chills down my body, all the
way down into my boots. They need our help. We
have got to help them find their teen girl, Anya I,
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Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being
with us. As you all know by now, this beautiful
young girl is gone. It is quote completely out of
character for this teen girl to go missing. Right now,
joining me, Karen Smith, Barbones Consulting, Karen Stark Psychologists out
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of Manhattan, Jeff Cortez, a former FBI special agent. Special
guests joining me right now, Angela Harris and Walt Harris
begging for your help. Tipline three three four two four
six one three nine one Repeat tipline three three four
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two four six one three nine one. I'm going to
go straight out to renowned FC heavyweight fighter Walt Harris. Walt,
what happened? Um? We just got a confirmation that you know,
our daughter was missing. UM. And we've been here for
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approximately a week trying to uncover what's going on and
figure out where our daughter is. UM. And you know
that's where we are. When when we're still looking. We're
still searching. UM. We lead the public health Walt Harris
and his wife Angela, begging for your help right now,
Angela Harris with me. This is Ania's mother, Angela. When
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did you discover your girl is missing? Well with Last
Wednesday morning, received a phone call from our twenty year
old son who also lived here, an offer and said,
mom Ania didn't come home. And I said, what do
you mean she didn't come home? He said, we don't know.
Her roommate says, she didn't come home and we can't
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get in touch with the Walt. I immediately drove to
Auburn from Birmingham, you know, desperately, just calling on her
all the way there, just trying to get in touch
with her, because she and I talked every morning. That morning,
I didn't think anything of it because she had some
things to do that morning. We had been to a
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funeral the night before. She was with us, and I
knew she was. She had to leave the funeral early
to get to Auburn to take care of responsibilities the
next day. And so when I called her that morning,
when I took my other children to school and she
didn't answer, I kind of was like, Okay, she she's busy,
she had something to do this morning. You know, I'll
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talk to her in a little while. So but I
talked to Nayah every morning. We FaceTime. We don't just call,
We FaceTime so we can see each on a space
that we can spend time together since she lives two
hours away from us. So it's like I say, when
he called us, say that, we immediately just left and
and came to Auburn and to see what was going on.
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And when we got to Auburn, we realized, wait, something
is wrong. Our daughter has she has a dog and
that dog is her baby. And she also is a
babysitter and she was to take her her kids that
she babysits to school, and she didn't show up for
that and she would never, ever ever not get up
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to take care of those children, take care of her dog.
And the later started getting the later we knew something
was very wrong. Guys, please help us. We need your
help so badly. The more I look into the case,
the more I am disturbed. Blancher's stepfather, UFC heavyweight Walt Harris,
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has made many, many desperate pleas for information about the
teen girls who whereabouts on social media. And now we
are taking to the airwaves on crime stories on sirius
to ask for your help. The car that Anya, the
teen girl was driving the night she disappears in Auburn
has been found fifty miles away in Montgomery. Repeat, the
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car that Anya was driving the night she goes missing
in Auburn, Alabama was found fifty miles away in Montgomery.
And I've looked at the car. There is damage to
the right front and the passenger side of the car.
To Walt Harris UFC, have youweight fighter, that's how you
know that name. Tell me about the damage done to
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the car. That's what we want to know. But I
mean the damage. There was damage to the front panel
from what we can see from the images they showed us.
And there's screeps that all down the size. Um, I
believe her rich side review mirrors damaged. And that's pretty
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much always Wait a minute, well right there, right there,
Jeff Cortesi, former special agent with the f B I
you can find him a Jeff Coortzi dot com. Jeff,
did you hear what he just said? Scrapes down the side?
To me, that suggests that somebody may have another car
may have pushed his car off the road. It's not
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like somebody just turned into it at a red light,
like she was turning left and somebody came, no, h
this not that at all. There are scrapes going down
the side of it. What does that tell you, Jeff?
If anything? You know, it's one of those things that
it could tell us a few things. Obviously that that vehicle,
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if the damage did not exist prior to and his disappearance,
could have engaged in some kind of altercation with another
vehicle on the road. It could have been done intentionally
hoping that she would stop, or it could have been
a situation where something became heated on the road and
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that that impact took place through hostile activity. I mean,
Jeff Cortesi, come on, two and two is four? All right.
It's not brain surgery and it's not rocket science. Her
car was fine, guys. Let me give you what I
know about the car. And it's a black Honda c
r V. Black Honda c r V driving somewhere between
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Auburn and Montgomery. That's about fifty miles on a Wednesday night.
All right. The car was fine before then. Now the
car has scrape marks down the side, significant damage to
the passenger side, and she's gone. It's not just a coincidence.
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Karen Smith, forensics expert, way in Karen, what I can
see from these photographs, Nancy, and based on my experience,
the scrape marks look they're linear, and when you have
two cars that collide the scrape marks aren't linear. That
tells me, in my experience, that it's a concrete barricade
or a guardrail. I don't know if that's indicative of
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an impaired driver whoever was driving the car, if there
was a struggle in the car, if there was distracted
driving going on in the car. I don't know that.
What I do know is that that car, since it's
fifty miles away, that is now a key piece of
evidence in this case. If there's foreign DNA, if there's
male DNA, if you have fingerprints that are inconsistent with
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Ania Blanchard on or inside that vehicle, they're going to
have to go through it with a fine tooth comb
and see if there's anything that does not belong in
that car. Receipts, beer can, soda cans, anything that can
hold DNA and fingerprints. They're going to have to collect
it and process it and see if there's anything we
can glean from any of us crime stories With Nancy Grace.
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Her roommate texted her own snappat and said, hey, where
are you? Um she said, or she said, are you?
Almost told him and she said yeah and um she
said where are you? And um, she said, I'm with
I don't I don't know if I should give any names.
I'm not gonna give any names. He said, she was
she was with a young man, is what you understand?
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Just met and that is all. She didn't say how
she met him, where she met him, where she was at?
He could said she was with a certain person and
that she had just met him, and um, yes, that
is all. That is all we know. You're hearing our
friends at w b RC Fox six. That's Mike Deverley
and Janice Rogers trying to find Ania Blancher, a teen
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girl who seemingly vanishes. Straight out to our friend at
ABC thirty three forty w b M a Ashley Gooden
from Birmingham, give me the timeline of Annia Blancher's disappearance
from Auburn Police put out the missing person report. They
told us that it was around sometime Wednesday when she
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last spoke with someone, and so it was around eleven
thirty Wednesday evening that a person said that they had
spoken with Annihilist. Around Friday evening, they found her car
in Montgomery, Alabama, at an apartment complex. Now Montgomery is
about forty five minutes thirty forty five minutes away from Auburn,
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so of course that was something unusual. And when police
did sign that car, it had some damage that wasn't
there prior to making it to Montgomery. Police say that
they packed her license plate in the South College area
of Auburn, which is also around the area where the
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interstate is I eighty five to get to Auburn, so
I mean, excuse me to get to Montgomery. In to that,
there was surveillance video of Anayah and a gas station
right before her car was paid. Those are those places
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close to each other. The gas station and where her
car was pained with the license plate are close to
each other. Let me ask you this. You said her
tag was payed. What do you mean by that? Colins
have a way of when they checked the cameras that
are on the traffic lights, they can see the license
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plates and so it was an instance of seeing one
of those and figuring out that was Aniah's car. It's
a parents' worst nightmare. In joining me right now, Angela
Harris is is Anaia's mother and renowned UFC heavyweight fighter
Walt Harris. Walt Harris, what can you tell me that
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cops are saying about what if anything they fine inside
that black condescy RV that she was driving. Um, that's
the thing. We haven't gotten any information about what was
actually inside the car. UM. You know, we're waiting on
that news today. I think they're having a briefing. UM,
we will be brief UM. So you know, it's just, Um,
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it's a lot of what else and you know, we
don't knows and we just want clarity, UM for our sanity.
My wife is really dealing with the heart. UM, I'm
dealing with the heart. Our families are dealing with the heart.
We've had a lot of love and support from everyone
down here, but we just need to know where we
are and what's going on. I mean, I just pray
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today we get those answers. It's so so significant that
she was out that night, that she was snapchatting as
late as eleven ish that night, eleven ish on close
to eleven thirty on Wednesday night, snapchatting with her roommate. Uh,
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she's a Homewood native. She's going to Southern Union State
Community College in Wady. She goes missing, but we do
have a development in the case. Listen, Yeah, they really
they okay, they just tell us, you know, different pieces
of what's going on. They um, they talk about you
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know what. You know, they really hadn't discovered much. They
pretty much is um they under standstill when it comes
to that. So it's really they haven't really give us
an update and you know, they just um it. It's
really it's really those senses the cases, those senses where
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they can't tell us too much. So they can't tell
us if you know, they just got on that it's
considered considered the foul play. Um. You know. But they
got so many different entities involved. They got the FBI involved,
they got the d they got a Homeland Security, they
got um the drug dry tables atf and a federal marshalls.
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But they hadn't been able to give me any thank
concrete since they since they seen the video and the
video came out about her in the convenience store. We
haven't heard much after that. You were hearing bio Dad
Elijah Blanchard speaking. Now we know there is convenience store video.
To Walt Harris, what video? Tell me about the video?
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In the video, Um, she's dying about the chips. Um,
and she's from what I can tell, very tired. Um.
And she just looks like she's about to go home.
And that's pretty much the last time she was seeing
um alive from what I see or you know. Okay,
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let me ask you a couple of specific questions. Where
was that? Was that a convenience store? Um? The coveni
store is on South College. What city it's in Auburn?
What time was the video? I believe it was even
spot then twenty. She was at the store. She purchased
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a back of Salton vinegar potato chips. Okay, Angela Harris
with me, this is an ie mom. Tell me what
you know about that video. Angela Harris, I know that
she she went into the store, and UM, she did
look tired. We had a very long day that day,
Like I said, we had lost a very close family
friend in a car accident, and her and her son
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drove from Auburn earlier that day to come be with
with their family and our family and um go to
the funeral. And it was already six thirty when she,
you know, said mey mom in allogity to go. It's
getting late and they had a four hour drive. So
I know that Anya is a homebody. She she likes
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to go to bed early. Yeah, she's a college student.
Of course she goes out from but when she gets
tired and she gets sleepy, she's ready to go to bed.
So that video told me I could see my baby
in her face, and I knew it wasn't her like
she just she was tired. And I know in my
heart that her plan was to buy her some chips
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and go home, because if that's her thing, she'll buy
her a snack and she'll go go, you know, eat
a snack in her bed or something before she goes.
And that's evident by her empty chip bags, you know,
in her Nightstandum. But yeah, that's what I saw from
the video. And I was just tired and she was like,
I just I'm just ready to be home. Guys, we're
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talking about the disappearance of a gorgeous young team girl.
She was snapchatting after eleven o'clock with a friend. She
said she was gonna see a guy she had just met,
and she's pictured at a convenience store on video and
she We believe this is the last known video that
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we have of her. Take a listen to our friends
at w VTMAS at chip. Scarborough Police release surveillance video
from the night of her disappearance. Auburn Police say this
is nineteen year old Anniah Blanchard inside a convenient store
on South College Street in Auburn last Wednesday night, the
same night investigators say she was last heard from. Jack
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Owens is a retired special agent with the FBI. He
says missing person cases get more challenging with every day
that passes. At this point, a lot of leads and
manpower have already been used up. You may have to
revisit all of them since we don't have her. Officers
found Blanchard's car in the parking lot of a Montgomery
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apartment complex on Friday night. They say the car was
damaged between the time she disappeared Wednesday in Auburn and
when the car was found Friday. The fact there's a
lot of space between there and where we found her
car that opens up all kinds of highway checks and
leads along that highway. What place, what kind of place
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was open at that time of night? You got to
visit everything. Crime stories with Nancy Grace trying to find
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Annia Blancher, a teen girl she has never quote up
and disappeared before. Go to crime online dot com where
we are posting the last known video of Annia Blanchard,
the teen girl missing, so you can look at it yourself.
I'm looking at a photo of her right now. Absolutely beautiful, long, beautiful,
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shiny brunette hair, big brown eyes, beautiful smile. She's wearing
a silver necklace with a heart on it. Her debit
card was last used Wednesday night, eleven twenty pm. I'm
guessing to Angela Harris, her mother, that was at the
convenience store to get the chips. Do you know about
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that ATM Purchase? Yes, ma'am. That's actually how we discussed
ourselves that night. We had so many of our friends
to come immediately in family, and we were just we
were helpless. It didn't know what to do. So we
were just sitting in a parking lot, just sitting on
the ground and we're like trying to find something, and
because we couldn't get into her Venmo, well, we got
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into her email and we saw the Venmo purchase for
two dollars and seventeen cents and we couldn't figure out
what it was, and we taught We told the police
that hey, look, she thought she bought something at at
a Chevron here at Auburn, please go see to get
the video. And so what they did and that's when
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we saw that she purchased a bag of chips. I
wonder if they have videos from outside the Chevron stationed
there in Auburn, for instance, was there a car that
pulled out after her? Did she have a conversation with
someone like say, hey anything as she was walking out?
Has the person who sold her the salt vinegar chips?
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Have they been interviewed? And that gives me an idea
as to which way she was going. We know where
her car ended up, we know where the Chevron station is.
Which way did she go? And then we would pull
her Villa's video along that perceived route. But let's take
a look at her psychologically. Who is teen girl a
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Nia Blanchard? Take a listen, just she has a personality Um.
Anytimes she woke in the room, she lights the room up. Um.
He just has a smile that everybody just catch. His
attention to so many people and he's a genuine person.
She she never meets a stranger in and you know
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she she's just so I'm trying to come up with
a word. Um. She's very older man. She's us. She
likes to be there at first, like to early, and
she likes to leave early if he wants to be
on time. She is just a real structured and sweethearts.
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He's a real I mean, she has a heart of
gold and she want to make sure everybody's okay. You
are hearing bio Dad Elijah Blancher speaking to Crime Stories
exclusively about his daughter's disappearance to Karen Stark Psychologists. You
can find her at Karen Stark dot com. Joining us
out of Manhattan, Karen. She's a homebody, you know, like
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like Lucy, my little girl. She's a homebody. We go
Lucy want to go out from Mexican. No, Mom, please
go home and cook, which you know is fine with
me because I can put veggies in her. John David
the opposite, He's ready to go have tennis shoes will travel.
That's him very different personalities. Annia Blanchard is a homebody.
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What is this all telling you, Karen? Very disturbing, Nancy.
And first of all, I want to say to the
parents that my heart goes out to you if this
has to be crushing the whole family, and I'm so sorry.
But what it says to me, Nancy is this is
very suspicious. I know truly what it's like to be
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the kind of kid that doesn't really want to cause
any problems, that prefers to stay home like Lucy. And
this is extremely troubling because it's out of character. You
want to pay attention to anything that's out of character.
So she's not somebody who would run off with a guy.
According to this information, something is happening that's not okay.
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Speaking of the guy, Angela Harris, why aren't they releasing
his name? I don't get it. Where did they? Where
does she maybeam? Where? What was happening? No, we don't
know who it is. We don't know who it is.
We have no idea. We don't know who it is.
We the police have not like like her father was
and what was saying. They're not giving us But this
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and pieces of information, and we have no idea who
this person is. We just know, we don't even know
if it was a Niam making no snapchat text messages
to her roommate. It does sound like her the way
she would talk, but we have no absolutely no idea,
and that's why this is so hard. We have nothing
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to go on, and we are demanding wait a minute,
wait a minute, I want to follow up on what
you just said, Angela. So they were snapchat texts, they
were not pictures, they were just words, right, interesting, interesting,
Now wait a minute, Angela, you said that it sounded
like her vernacular, in other words, the way she would talk. Yes,
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why do you say that? Why do you say that?
Because the way she was her roommate, she was talking
to her roommate. Her roommates said, you know, I wish
you would have like she said, are you on your
way home? And when Annia said that she was with
a certain I can't say the name, but I'm with
this person, and her roommate says, who is that? And
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she said, I just met him, and then she said
I'm She said, well, I wish you would have let
me known. I waited up on you I'm going to sleep.
I love you, and Anya said, I'm so sorry. I
love you too, And that's the last thing that she
said to her roommate. Now, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Did Anya have a boyfriend, Angela, No, she didn't have
a serious boyfriend. There were there were boys that she friended,
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no serious boyfriend at all. I'm trying to get to
the crux of who this guy is. So she is
in a Chevron gas station in Auburn getting chips at
around eleven twenty and that she was alone, right, unless
I'm missing something in that video. But yet this snapchat
check says she's with somebody, But she was anybody with
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her in the video. The police are telling the police
are only showing us a bit, a little snippet of
the video. They're saying that they could not see anyone
in the car, but they cannot tell us one. And
that's why right now we are we are getting angry, Nancy.
We are getting We have been through every emotion in
the world they should ever imagine, and now we're just
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getting angry and we want answers. Person, Well, how often
are you going to the police station to Walt Harris,
the stepfather UFC heavyweight fighter walk. Are you going to
the police station every day? Um, in the beginning the
first two or three days, yes, and then they would
come to us and brief us and then not just
slowed down to the point where we were calling them
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to home see us. That's not what right, that's not right,
you know. And and and that's the part that's angry and
me because if you know we need information, I feel
like you should be coming forward with it at your leisure,
you know, like you should just be giving it to us.
And it feels like we're having a fish information and um,
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you know, it's just it's the days are accounting, and
that's where you're giving us. Well, I gotta tell you something.
I gotta tell you something, Walt. Now, when I was
working cases for all those years in Inner City Atlanta,
I mean I would had on tunnel vision blinders, like
a horse running a race. All my eyes were on
was the prize, and that was seeking justice. They may
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be so in it, they're not thinking of the courtesies
of calling and the niceties of all that. But but
I don't know that's true. Jeff Cortesi, you're a former
special agent with the FBI, for Pete's sake, help me out.
I think, you know, I could. I really think that
one of the strong foxibilities is we're not hearing a
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lot right now because they're working. The fact that they
haven't made mention of who that boy is is um significant.
The fact that they haven't said, you know, we ran
this down and come to a conclusion that this is
not related, or that this was not true information, or well,
wait a minute, Jeff, you know I always agree with you,
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but how can it not be related? She meets a
guy that night and she goes missing, her car is
damaged that night. They are connected, Jeff. They have to
be connected in some way. And that's what I'm saying,
And that's what I think. That's why I believe that.
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Well why did I just have to say all that?
If that's what you're saying, say it, man. Yeah. So
I think that the fact that we're not hearing a
lot about that is an indication that they're working those angles.
If there was nothing there, they would say there's nothing there.
The fact that the law enforcement has gone quiet generally
mean that they are working certain things, and to expose
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certain information would leave them vulnerable to mishaps. Along the way.
They want to focus their attention on getting your daughter.
And you know what, Jeff, I hate that, I hated,
I hated, I hate it, but it's true. Sometimes you
cannot release information or it can screw everything up. Okay,
this is what we know. The investigation is continuing. If
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you have information and guarding a Nia's whereabouts, call Auburn Police.
I'm gonna give you the number the detective division is
three three four five zero one three one four zero
repeat three three four five zero one three one four zero.
(29:36):
There is an anonymous tip line three three four two
four six thirteen ninety one repeat three three four two
four six one three nine one. If you know something
about a Nia's disappearance, if you were in the convenience store,
if you saw what you thought was a car accident
(29:58):
Wednesday night, I asked Wednesday night between Auburn and Montgomery,
a black Honda, please help us. You can call anonymously
three three four two four six one three nine one.
(30:25):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I want to circle back
to Angela Harris. They need our help. We have got
to help them find their teen girl. Anya. Take a
listen to our friends at w VT and the family
says that people need to continue to talk about this
(30:48):
to bring evidence forward and help police in this investigation.
And going back to that video, it's on this street
where police say that nineteen year old student was seen
before she was reported. I'm gonna saying this is the
last time nineteen year Oldanya Blanchard was seen. Auburn and
police releasing a new video of the team entering a
convenience store on South College Street shortly before I witness
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accounts say her black twenty seventeen Honda CRV drove southbound
on South College Street Saturday. The vehicle found at an
apartment complex in Montgomery, almost an hour away from where
the surveillance video was taken with a certain person and
that she had just met him. Anaya's family still desperately
(31:30):
searching for the Southern Union State student. They say they
won't rest until they bring their loved one home. Is
definitely looking for her safe return and yeah, she's somebody
that she's a fun, loving and happy Say something something,
Say something, safe return. Montgomery Police and Auburn Police have
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created a joint investigation along with the FBI, the Alabama
Law Enforcement Agency, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and other
agencies dedicated to the safe return of the nineteen year
old student to Angela Harris, what do you think, Angela,
because this sounds very unlike Anniah Blanchard to say at
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eleven twenty at night, I just met a guy and
then I'm going out with him, right, and that that
is not I do not think that was in a
Nia's plan. Something has went wrong. I don't know. I've
ceculated everything that I could speculate. But what I do
know is, and let me say this, I know the
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police are working. I know they are, but it is
so frustrating. But I'm We're trying to let them do
their job because we do not want to hinder anything
about bringing our baby home. So I don't you know,
I don't want to discredit him at all. But I
know that my daughter her phone was dying. Her brother
told us her phone was die when she dropped him
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off at eleven and eleven o'clock at his house in Auburn,
and he she had not mentioned to him about going anywhere,
and he said, Mom, if I knew she was gonna
be going anywhere, I would have given her my charger.
They didn't she didn't have a car charger. And also
what tells me that I know ah Nia was planning
on going home. She was in the store, she had money,
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She had money to buy a charger. Her walk just
gave her money when she left. She could have bought
a charger for her phone if she thought she was
gonna be out for any length of time. So I
just can't. I just cannot make any sense of this.
I just do not. I just don't know, Nancy what happened.
I just know that's not my daughter. Angela, Angela, Angela, Listen.
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I know you're not attacking the police. I know you're
just at the end of your rope, right and you're
hanging on trying to find your girls. And every time
I look at her picture, I see my Lucy right right. Guys,
please help us. Three three, two, four, six, one, three
nine one. I've given you all the numbers. Ashley Gooden
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WBMAABC thirty three forty joining me out of Birmingham. What
more can you tell us, Ashley? On the heels of
this community losing Camille Cocake McKinney, people are really on
high alert and fully invested in searching for Anaiah because
We aren't wanting to lose someone else in our community,
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especially not someone so young with such a future ahead
of them. This girl is missing. There is time to
bring her home safely, and if you don't have a tip,
please join us and pray that Anaiah is brought home
(34:54):
to her family. We wait as just as unfolds C
Gray's crime story, signing off goodbye friend.
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