1 00:00:14,310 --> 00:00:17,274 >> Reporter: WHEN YOUR SISTER, ANIAH, DROPPED YOU OFF THAT 2 00:00:17,309 --> 00:00:20,724 EVENING, SHE DID INDICATE THAT SHE WOULDGIVE YOU A CALL WHEN 3 00:00:20,757 --> 00:00:23,309 SHE GOT HOME, CORRECT? 4 00:00:23,344 --> 00:00:24,000 >> YES, SIR. 5 00:00:24,033 --> 00:00:26,172 SHE DID. 6 00:00:26,205 --> 00:00:27,861 >> Reporter: AND? 7 00:00:40,137 --> 00:00:41,378 >> PURE HELL. 8 00:00:41,412 --> 00:00:47,274 JUST THE WORST FEELING, EVER, TONOT KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILD IS. 9 00:00:47,310 --> 00:00:49,448 >> I MEAN, WE WERE DOINGEVERYTHING WE COULD AS PARENTS 10 00:00:49,481 --> 00:00:52,723 IN THAT MOMENT TO TRY TO FINDHER. 11 00:00:52,758 --> 00:00:57,171 >> 19-YEAR-OLD ANIAH HALEYBLANCHARD DISAPPEARED LAST WEEK. 12 00:00:57,206 --> 00:01:00,344 >> ANIAH BLANCHARD WAS REPORTEDMISSING 11 DAYS AGO. 13 00:01:00,378 --> 00:01:02,137 >> THERE'S BEEN NO TRACE OF HERSINCE SHE... 14 00:01:02,171 --> 00:01:04,896 >> BLANCHARD IS THE STEPDAUGHTEROF U.F.C. FIGHTER WALT HARRIS. 15 00:01:04,930 --> 00:01:12,688 >> WALT HARRIS! 16 00:01:12,724 --> 00:01:17,343 >> WHEN SHE WAS MISSING,FIGHTING WAS THE FURTHEST THING 17 00:01:17,379 --> 00:01:20,343 FROM MY MIND AT THAT POINT. 18 00:01:29,412 --> 00:01:30,896 >> WE JUST WANT OUR DAUGHTERHOME. 19 00:01:30,930 --> 00:01:32,171 WE WANT HER FOUND. 20 00:01:32,206 --> 00:01:34,688 >> IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION,PLEASE, PLEASE COME FORWARD. 21 00:01:34,723 --> 00:01:36,930 I WAS ALMOST A SHELL OF MYSELF. 22 00:01:36,965 --> 00:01:38,067 YOU KNOW, HONESTLY, I DIDN'TEVEN KNOW IF I WOULD FIGHT 23 00:01:38,103 --> 00:01:40,793 AGAIN. 24 00:01:40,826 --> 00:01:44,930 BUT SHE ALWAYS WAS THE ONE THATWAS LIKE, "“DON'T STOP." 25 00:01:44,965 --> 00:01:46,275 >> KEEP PUSHING, KEEP PUSHING. 26 00:01:46,310 --> 00:01:47,655 >> YOU KNOW, "KEEP PUSHING, KEEPPUSHING. 27 00:01:47,688 --> 00:01:48,793 I KNOW IT'S HARD." 28 00:01:48,826 --> 00:01:51,585 EVERYTHING FOR ME, MOVINGFORWARD, IS ABOUT MAKING HER 29 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:54,412 PROUD. 30 00:01:54,448 --> 00:01:59,655 I WILL ALWAYS FIGHT FOR MY BABYGIRL. 31 00:01:59,688 --> 00:02:01,793 >> SHE WAS A VERY HAPPY GIRLTHAT LOVED LIFE. 32 00:02:01,826 --> 00:02:08,310 VERY LOVING AND GIVING. 33 00:02:08,343 --> 00:02:11,931 SHE ALWAYS PUT OTHERS BEFOREHERSELF. 34 00:02:11,965 --> 00:02:13,758 >> PEOPLE COULD JUST REALLYTELL, LIKE, THAT SHE HAD 35 00:02:13,793 --> 00:02:18,240 SOMETHING ABOUT HER THAT WASSPECIAL. 36 00:02:18,275 --> 00:02:26,000 THERE IS NOTHING ON MY MINDOTHER THAN FINDING ANIAH. 37 00:02:26,033 --> 00:02:28,103 >> YOU DON'T SLEEP, YOU DON'TEAT, YOU'RE CONSTANTLY THINKING 38 00:02:28,137 --> 00:02:33,965 ABOUT WHERE SHE IS, WHAT HASHAPPENED. 39 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,206 AND IT DOES NOT GO AWAY. 40 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,033 >> WE WERE JUST TRYING TO KEEPEACH OTHER SANE SO WE COULD KEEP 41 00:02:38,067 --> 00:02:39,310 MOVING FORWARD. 42 00:02:39,343 --> 00:02:40,965 >> SO, IT WAS A CONSTANT, "“GO,GO, GO. 43 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,965 WE'RE NOT STOPPING."”ANIAH, I LOVE YOU, AND MOMMY IS 44 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,586 NOT GOING TO GIVE UP 'TIL I FINDYOU. 45 00:02:49,620 --> 00:02:51,343 WE'RE GOING TO BRING YOU HOME,ANIAH. 46 00:02:51,378 --> 00:02:53,378 YOU'RE COMING HOME, SO DON'TWORRY. 47 00:03:46,550 --> 00:03:49,516 >> ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! >> I HAD ANIAH ON MY BIRTHDAY, 48 00:03:49,550 --> 00:03:50,688 JUNE 22. 49 00:03:50,723 --> 00:03:52,550 THAT WAS JUST GOING TO BESOMETHING SO SPECIAL IN LIFE, 50 00:03:52,586 --> 00:03:57,310 FOR SHE AND I TO SHARE THE SAMEBIRTHDAY. 51 00:03:57,343 --> 00:04:03,620 >> ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! >> [ LAUGHS] 52 00:04:03,655 --> 00:04:04,655 >> Reporter: HER LAUGH,INFECTIOUS. 53 00:04:04,688 --> 00:04:08,965 HER SPIRIT, IRREPRESSIBLE. 54 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,723 ANIAH BLANCHARD WAS JUST 19 WHENSHE VANISHED, HER VIBRANT 55 00:04:12,758 --> 00:04:15,103 PRESENCE REPLACED BY THETERRIFYING SILENCE OF HER 56 00:04:15,137 --> 00:04:18,620 ABSENCE. 57 00:04:26,654 --> 00:04:30,793 ANIAH'S MOTHER, ANGELA HARRIS:>> SHE JUST EMBRACED PEOPLE. 58 00:04:30,826 --> 00:04:32,000 SHE JUST LOVED PEOPLE. 59 00:04:32,033 --> 00:04:35,033 >> SHE WOULD WALK IN AND, NOMATTER HOW YOU FELT, HOW DOWN 60 00:04:35,067 --> 00:04:35,930 YOU WERE, SHE COULD PICK YOU UP. 61 00:04:35,965 --> 00:04:40,620 ♪>> HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY! 62 00:04:40,654 --> 00:04:45,826 >> Reporter: ANIAH'S STEPFATHER,U.F.C. HEAVYWEIGHT WALT HARRIS, 63 00:04:45,862 --> 00:04:48,447 WAS A RISING STAR RANKED NINTHIN THE WORLD IN THE FALL OF 64 00:04:48,481 --> 00:04:53,240 2019. 65 00:04:53,274 --> 00:04:56,240 HE SAYS ANIAH CONSTANTLYINSPIRED HIM. 66 00:04:56,274 --> 00:04:59,172 >> YOU KNOW, AFTER WINS, WE'DCELEBRATE. 67 00:04:59,206 --> 00:05:00,793 IF IT'S A LOSS, SHE'D ALWAYSPICK ME UP. 68 00:05:00,826 --> 00:05:04,137 AND SHE WAS ALWAYS THAT ROCK,THAT VOICE THAT KEPT ME GOING. 69 00:05:04,172 --> 00:05:05,379 >> Reporter: ANIAH GREW UP INHOMEWOOD, ALABAMA, NEAR 70 00:05:05,413 --> 00:05:08,862 BIRMINGHAM. 71 00:05:08,896 --> 00:05:10,586 >> NOW UP TO BAT: NUMBER 22, ANIAH BLANCHARD! 72 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:14,274 [ APPLAUSE] >> Reporter: IT'S PRACTICALLY 73 00:05:14,310 --> 00:05:18,274 LOCAL FOLKLORE THAT AFTER EVERYSCHOOL SOFTBALL GAME, ANIAH 74 00:05:18,310 --> 00:05:22,033 INVITED THE OPPOSINGTEAM TO JOIN HERS ON THE PITCHER'S MOUND 75 00:05:22,067 --> 00:05:27,137 TO SHARE HIGH FIVES AND THELORD'S PRAYER. 76 00:05:27,172 --> 00:05:30,274 >> AND EVEN IF WE LOST, THEOTHER TEAM LOST, NO MATTER WHAT, 77 00:05:30,310 --> 00:05:32,103 NO HARD FEELINGS. 78 00:05:32,137 --> 00:05:33,586 I THINK THAT WAS HER WHOLETHING: THIS IS A WAY TO CONNECT 79 00:05:33,620 --> 00:05:36,447 PEOPLE. 80 00:05:36,481 --> 00:05:38,550 >> Reporter: LONGTIME FRIENDHANNAH CROCKER MET ANIAH IN THE 81 00:05:38,586 --> 00:05:42,826 SIXTH GRADE. 82 00:05:42,862 --> 00:05:44,965 >> SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLETHAT JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE 83 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,206 THAT, "HEY, YOU'RE DOING OKAY. 84 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,586 IF NOT, LET ME HELP YOU OUT." 85 00:05:48,620 --> 00:05:50,757 >> Reporter: DID FOLKS EVERTHINK YOU TWO MIGHT BE BOYFRIEND 86 00:05:50,793 --> 00:05:52,274 AND GIRLFRIEND? 87 00:05:52,310 --> 00:05:53,274 >> ALL THE TIME. 88 00:05:53,310 --> 00:05:55,274 [ LAUGHS] "IS THIS YOUR GIRLFRIEND?" 89 00:05:55,310 --> 00:05:56,343 I'M LIKE, "NO, THIS IS MYSISTER." 90 00:05:56,379 --> 00:05:58,240 [ LAUGHS] >> Reporter: THEY WERE NEARLY 91 00:05:58,274 --> 00:06:01,826 INSEPARABLE, SAYS ANIAH'S OLDERBROTHER, ELIJAH BLANCHARD. 92 00:06:01,862 --> 00:06:05,274 >> WE GREW UP, YOU KNOW, 17MONTHS APART. 93 00:06:05,310 --> 00:06:08,723 WE WERE ALWAYS TOGETHER, AND SHEEVEN FOLLOWED ME TO COLLEGE. 94 00:06:08,757 --> 00:06:12,516 >> Reporter: ELIJAH HEADED OFFTO AUBURN UNIVERSITY IN 2017. 95 00:06:12,550 --> 00:06:18,654 ANIAH ENROLLED AT NEARBYSOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY 96 00:06:18,689 --> 00:06:20,826 COLLEGE A YEAR LATER, FINDING ANAPARTMENT JUST MINUTES FROM HER 97 00:06:20,862 --> 00:06:22,654 BROTHER. 98 00:06:22,689 --> 00:06:25,620 >> I WOULD CALL HER EVERYMORNING... 99 00:06:25,654 --> 00:06:30,723 SORRY, IT GETS KIND OF ROUGHSOMETIMES. 100 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:33,793 >> eporter: OCTOBER 23, 2019:ANIAH, ELIJAH AND THEIR MOM, 101 00:06:33,826 --> 00:06:36,723 ANGELA, ATTENDED THE FUNERAL OFA FAMILY FRIEND IN NORTHERN 102 00:06:36,757 --> 00:06:39,550 ALABAMA. 103 00:06:39,586 --> 00:06:43,447 IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SERVICE,THE SIBLINGS HAD TO LEAVE. 104 00:06:43,481 --> 00:06:45,000 BOTH HAD TO WORK THE NEXTMORNING BACK IN AUBURN 185 MILES 105 00:06:45,033 --> 00:06:53,586 AWAY. 106 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:54,826 >> SHE LOOKED OVER AT ME. 107 00:06:54,862 --> 00:06:56,033 SHE SAID, "HEY, MOM, WE REALLYNEED TO LEAVE NOW BECAUSE IT'S 108 00:06:56,067 --> 00:06:57,310 GETTING LATE." 109 00:06:57,343 --> 00:06:57,757 I SAID, "“YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT,IT'S 7:00, YOU'VE GOT A FOUR- 110 00:06:57,793 --> 00:06:59,000 HOUR DRIVE." 111 00:06:59,033 --> 00:07:00,000 AND THEN, SHE HUGGED ME, AND IKISSED HER ON THE CHEEK, AND I 112 00:07:00,033 --> 00:07:02,033 TOLD HER I LOVED HER. 113 00:07:02,067 --> 00:07:04,550 >> Reporter: DRIVING RIGHT PASTBIRMINGHAM, ANIAH AND ELIJAH 114 00:07:04,586 --> 00:07:14,757 MADE A PIT STOP AT HOME TO SEETHEIR STEPFATHER, WALT. 115 00:07:14,793 --> 00:07:19,757 HE WAS TRAINING FOR HIS NEXTFIGHT. 116 00:07:19,793 --> 00:07:21,172 >> I DIDN'T EVER CALL THEM STEP-KIDS. 117 00:07:21,206 --> 00:07:22,550 THEY WERE MY CHILDREN. 118 00:07:22,586 --> 00:07:24,240 IT'S JUST THE WAY I SAW IT, YOUKNOW. 119 00:07:24,274 --> 00:07:26,550 I LOVED THEM LIKE MY OWN. 120 00:07:26,586 --> 00:07:28,930 >> Reporter: THE CHILDREN'SBIOLOGICAL FATHER, ELIJAH 121 00:07:28,964 --> 00:07:32,654 BLANCHARD, SR., A LOCAL PASTORAND BUSINESSMAN, REMAINED A 122 00:07:32,689 --> 00:07:35,274 CLOSE PRESENCE IN THEIR LIVES. 123 00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:38,620 HE AND ANGELA DIVORCED IN 2004. 124 00:07:38,654 --> 00:07:41,586 SOON, SHE STARTED DATING WALTHARRIS. 125 00:07:41,620 --> 00:07:46,379 AND THEN, HE MET ANIAH ANDELIJAH, JR. FOR THE FIRST TIME. 126 00:07:46,413 --> 00:07:49,067 YOU CAME INTO HER LIFE AROUNDAGE THREE. 127 00:07:49,103 --> 00:07:54,481 TELL US ABOUT HOW THAT BONDINGPROCESS WENT. 128 00:07:54,516 --> 00:07:55,206 >> I THINK IT STARTED DAY ONE. 129 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,930 MAN, WE DID EVERYTHING TOGETHER. 130 00:08:02,447 --> 00:08:03,930 >> IT WAS BEAUTIFUL FOR ME TOWATCH THEIR BOND GROW OVER THE 131 00:08:03,964 --> 00:08:06,033 YEARS. 132 00:08:06,067 --> 00:08:07,274 >> THEY LOVED ME LIKE THEY KNEWME THEIR WHOLE LIVES. 133 00:08:07,310 --> 00:08:10,896 WE JUST FELT LIKE A LITTLEFAMILY. 134 00:08:10,930 --> 00:08:13,930 >> Reporter: WALT AND ANGELAMADE IT OFFICIAL, GETTING 135 00:08:13,964 --> 00:08:16,103 MARRIED IN JANUARY 2010. 136 00:08:16,137 --> 00:08:21,654 THEY EVENTUALLY HAD TWO CHILDRENOF THEIR OWN, ASAH AND AYLAH. 137 00:08:21,689 --> 00:08:24,172 >> HE WAS WITH THEM MORE THAN IWAS BECAUSE I WORKED A LOT. 138 00:08:24,206 --> 00:08:27,172 >> Reporter: ANGELA, A PEDIATRICEMERGENCY ROOM NURSE, WORKED 139 00:08:27,206 --> 00:08:31,274 NIGHTS AT A BIRMINGHAM HOSPITAL,SO IT WAS ANIAH WHO HELPED WALT 140 00:08:31,310 --> 00:08:33,861 WITH THE YOUNGER CHILDREN. 141 00:08:33,895 --> 00:08:35,102 >> IT WAS ME AND ANIAH. 142 00:08:35,136 --> 00:08:37,481 SHE HELPED ME BASICALLY RAISEHER LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER. 143 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:39,895 COMING FROM A STRONG CHRISTIANBACKGROUND, I WANTED TO BE A 144 00:08:39,931 --> 00:08:42,517 GOOD INFLUENCE IN THEIR LIVES. 145 00:08:42,551 --> 00:08:46,136 >> Reporter: THE KIDS CERTAINLYLOOK UP TO THEIR DAD. 146 00:08:46,172 --> 00:08:49,344 AT 6'5"”, 250 POUNDS, WALT HARRISHAS BEEN A TOWERING PRESENCE IN 147 00:08:49,379 --> 00:08:51,413 THEIR LIVES... 148 00:08:53,206 --> 00:09:00,136 >> WALT "THE BIG TICKET" HARRIS! 149 00:09:00,172 --> 00:09:01,724 >> Reporter: ...AND IN THE BRUISING OCTAGON CAGE OF THE 150 00:09:01,758 --> 00:09:03,413 ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP,THE U.F.C. 151 00:09:03,447 --> 00:09:05,654 >> MAN, EVERYTHING HE THROWS ISHARD! 152 00:09:05,688 --> 00:09:08,793 [ AUDIENCE REACTS] >> Reporter: WIN, LOSE OR DRAW, 153 00:09:11,861 --> 00:09:14,379 WALT'S FAMILY HAS ALWAYS BEEN INHIS CORNER. 154 00:09:14,413 --> 00:09:17,000 >> MY FAMILY'S ALWAYS BEEN THEREASON WHY I FIGHT, AND THEY'VE 155 00:09:17,033 --> 00:09:19,206 ALWAYS BEEN THE REASON WHY I GETBACK UP. 156 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,551 AND ANIAH, SHE WAS THE MAINCATALYST FOR THAT. 157 00:09:22,586 --> 00:09:25,724 >> Reporter: AFTER THE FUNERAL,ANIAH AND ELIJAH'S VISIT WITH 158 00:09:25,758 --> 00:09:27,413 WALT WAS ALL TOO SHORT. 159 00:09:27,447 --> 00:09:31,344 A BRIEF TALK, A LONG HUG, ANDTHEY WERE BACK ON THE ROAD TO 160 00:09:31,379 --> 00:09:37,379 AUBURN STILL ABOUT TWO HOURSAWAY. 161 00:09:37,413 --> 00:09:39,895 WHEN THEY LEFT, WALT SAYS HEWAS LEFT WITH A GROWING SENSE OF 162 00:09:39,931 --> 00:09:42,206 REGRET. 163 00:09:43,413 --> 00:09:48,379 >> [ SIGHS] I STRUGGLE WITH IT EVERY DAY. 164 00:09:48,413 --> 00:09:49,965 I SHOULD HAVE JUST TOLD THEM TOSTAY BECAUSE I FELT LIKE SHE WAS 165 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,067 TIRED. 166 00:09:53,102 --> 00:09:54,067 I REMEMBER SHE SAID, "“NO, I'MFINE, DAD. 167 00:09:54,102 --> 00:09:55,379 I-- I'LL BE FINE." 168 00:09:55,413 --> 00:10:00,654 THEN, I HUGGED HER AND TOLD HERI LOVE HER, AND THAT WAS IT. 169 00:10:00,688 --> 00:10:03,895 >> Reporter: THEY MADE THE DRIVEWITHOUT INCIDENT, ARRIVING IN 170 00:10:03,931 --> 00:10:06,240 AUBURN AROUND 11:00 P.M. 171 00:10:06,274 --> 00:10:13,413 ANIAH DROPPED OFF ELIJAH AT HISAPARTMENT. 172 00:10:13,447 --> 00:10:14,688 >> SO, I JUST SAID I LOVE HER,"BE CAREFUL, AND MAKE SURE YOU 173 00:10:14,724 --> 00:10:20,724 GET HOME SAFE."”>> SO, AT 11:09 P.M., I TEXTED 174 00:10:20,758 --> 00:10:22,965 HER AND SAID, "“ARE YOU CLOSE TOBEING HOME?"” 175 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,033 SHE RESPONDED RIGHT BACK,"“YEAH."” 176 00:10:26,067 --> 00:10:29,000 >> Reporter: ANIAH'S COLLEGEROOMMATE, SARAH O'BRIEN: 177 00:10:29,033 --> 00:10:31,688 >> SHE ALWAYS LET ME KNOW WHERESHE WAS AT AND WHEN SHE WOULD BE 178 00:10:31,724 --> 00:10:33,379 HOME. 179 00:10:33,413 --> 00:10:37,586 WE ACTUALLY SHARED EACH OTHER'SLOCATION ON OUR iPHONE. 180 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:39,895 >> Reporter: THAT'S BECAUSESARAH SAYS ANIAH HAD A DEEP- 181 00:10:39,931 --> 00:10:43,517 ROOTED FEAR. 182 00:10:43,551 --> 00:10:45,136 >> SINCE THE DAY I MET ANIAH,SHE ALWAYS TOLD ME THAT THAT WAS 183 00:10:45,172 --> 00:10:51,688 HER BIGGEST FEAR, TO BEKIDNAPPED OR MURDERED. 184 00:10:51,724 --> 00:10:54,931 LIKE, AS SOON AS SHE WALKED IN,SHE WOULD CHECK EVERY ROOM. 185 00:10:54,965 --> 00:10:56,586 SHE WOULD TELL ME MULTIPLETIMES, LIKE, SHE HAD NIGHTMARES 186 00:10:56,620 --> 00:11:00,067 ABOUT IT HAPPENING TO HER. 187 00:11:00,102 --> 00:11:01,274 >> YOU KNOW, SHE REALLY NEVERWENT ANYWHERE BY HERSELF AT 188 00:11:01,309 --> 00:11:03,895 NIGHT. 189 00:11:03,931 --> 00:11:08,309 >> Reporter: BUT THAT NIGHT,AFTER DROPPING OFF HER BROTHER, 190 00:11:08,344 --> 00:11:12,447 SHE WASALONE WITH JUST THREE MILES TO GO. 191 00:11:12,481 --> 00:11:15,861 THAT'S HOW FAR AWAY SHE ANDSARAH LIVED FROM ELIJAH-- THREE 192 00:11:15,895 --> 00:11:21,240 MILES, NORMALLY A TEN-MINUTEDRIVE. 193 00:11:21,274 --> 00:11:26,240 BUT NEARLY 30MINUTES LATER, ANIAH HAD NOT COME HOME. 194 00:11:26,274 --> 00:11:29,551 SARAH TEXTED AGAIN. 195 00:11:29,586 --> 00:11:32,481 >> "“DID YOU GO OUT WITHOUT ME?"”>> Reporter: ABOUT A MINUTE 196 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:35,379 LATER CAME THE REPLY. 197 00:11:35,413 --> 00:11:39,000 >> "“I'M SMOKING A BLUNT, LOL."”>> Reporter: IT WAS THE WORD"“ 198 00:11:39,033 --> 00:11:40,724 BLUNT,"” SARAH SAYS, THATSTOPPED HER. 199 00:11:40,758 --> 00:11:44,447 SHE HAD NEVER HEARD ANIAH USEIT. 200 00:11:44,481 --> 00:11:46,274 >> I SAID, "“WHO ARE YOU SMOKINGWITH?"”"“ 201 00:11:46,309 --> 00:11:49,033 ERIC."”I SAID, "“WHO'S THAT?"”"“ 202 00:11:49,067 --> 00:11:55,620 I JUST MET HIM."”AND I RESPONDED WITH, "“WHERE?"” 203 00:11:55,654 --> 00:11:57,654 >> Reporter: IT WAS 11:43 P.M. 204 00:11:57,688 --> 00:12:00,688 THERE WOULD NOTBE ANOTHER RESPONSE. 205 00:12:00,724 --> 00:12:05,033 SARAH CHECKED HER CELLPHONE ONELAST TIME FOR ANIAH'S LOCATION. 206 00:12:05,067 --> 00:12:08,172 SHE APPEARED TO BE AT A NEARBYAPARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE LOTS OF 207 00:12:08,206 --> 00:12:10,481 STUDENTS LIVED. 208 00:12:10,517 --> 00:12:12,793 SARAH WENT TO BED, SHE SAYS,THINKING ANIAH WAS HANGING OUT 209 00:12:12,826 --> 00:12:14,931 WITH FRIENDS. 210 00:12:41,067 --> 00:12:43,033 >> Reporter: THE NEXT MORNING,OCTOBER 24, ANGELA HARRIS TOOK 211 00:12:43,067 --> 00:12:47,172 HER CHILDREN TO SCHOOL ANDREACHED OUT TO ANIAH TO TALK. 212 00:12:47,206 --> 00:12:50,447 IT WAS THEIR EARLY MORNINGRITUAL. 213 00:12:50,481 --> 00:12:52,826 >> WE FACETIMED EVERY MORNING. 214 00:12:52,861 --> 00:12:55,517 THAT WAS KIND OF OUR THING,LIKE, "GOOD MORNING, WHAT ARE 215 00:12:55,551 --> 00:12:56,344 YOU DOING? 216 00:12:56,379 --> 00:12:57,965 WHAT DO YOU HAVE PLANNED FOR THEDAY? 217 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,931 SO, WHEN I CALLED HER AT 8:00A.M. AND SHE DIDN'T ANSWER THE 218 00:12:59,965 --> 00:13:03,344 FACETIME, I THOUGHT, "OKAY,WELL, YOU KNOW, SHE'S BUSY, SO 219 00:13:03,379 --> 00:13:05,654 I'LL GIVE HER A LITTLE BITLONGER." 220 00:13:05,688 --> 00:13:08,724 >> Reporter: SARAH WAS EAGER TOHEAR ABOUT ERIC, THE MYSTERY MAN 221 00:13:08,758 --> 00:13:11,620 ANIAH MET THE NIGHT BEFORE. 222 00:13:11,654 --> 00:13:14,517 SHE WENT STRAIGHT TO ANIAH'SBEDROOM. 223 00:13:14,551 --> 00:13:18,551 >> AND SHE WASN'T THERE. 224 00:13:18,586 --> 00:13:20,379 SHE WOULD ALWAYS COME HOME. 225 00:13:20,413 --> 00:13:24,000 SHE WOULDN'T SPEND THE NIGHTWITH ANYONE SHE HAD JUST MET. 226 00:13:24,033 --> 00:13:26,931 >> Reporter: SARAH GLANCED HERCELL PHONE, LOOKING FOR ANIAH'S 227 00:13:26,965 --> 00:13:32,067 LATEST LOCATION, BUT THERE WASNONE. 228 00:13:32,102 --> 00:13:33,067 ANIAH'S PHONE HAD GONE DARK. 229 00:13:33,102 --> 00:13:40,067 WHEN DID CONCERN TURN TO WORRYFOR YOU, SARAH? 230 00:13:40,102 --> 00:13:45,000 >> WHEN I CALLED HER-- THE LADYTHAT SHE BABYSAT FOR AND SHE 231 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:50,067 HADN'T SHOWN UP THAT MORNING,BECAUSE SHE NEVER MISSES A DAY 232 00:13:50,102 --> 00:13:50,586 TO BABYSIT THOSE KIDS. 233 00:13:50,620 --> 00:13:54,309 SHE LOVED THEM. 234 00:13:55,136 --> 00:13:59,379 >> SHE WAS LIKE A MOTHER TO MYKIDS. 235 00:13:59,413 --> 00:14:02,033 >> Reporter: CORRINA THOMAS, THEWORKING MOTHER WHO DEPENDED ON 236 00:14:02,067 --> 00:14:07,067 ANIAH, SAID SHE WAS THE MOSTRELIABLE NANNY SHE EVER HAD. 237 00:14:07,102 --> 00:14:08,102 >> AMAZING. 238 00:14:08,136 --> 00:14:09,033 [ LAUGHS] I-- I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO 239 00:14:09,067 --> 00:14:10,724 EXPLAIN IT. 240 00:14:10,758 --> 00:14:13,861 LIKE, EVERY GOOD QUALITY THATYOU WANT IN A PERSON, SHE HAD. 241 00:14:13,895 --> 00:14:20,481 LIKE, EVERY-- EVERYTHING. 242 00:14:20,517 --> 00:14:23,724 >> SHE NEVER ONCE, NEVER ONCEDIDN'T SHOW UP TO TAKE CARE OF 243 00:14:23,758 --> 00:14:27,517 THOSE KIDS. 244 00:14:27,551 --> 00:14:31,102 >> AND THAT'S WHEN I HOPPED INTHE CAR TO LOOK FOR ANIAH'S CAR. 245 00:14:31,136 --> 00:14:33,724 THE LONGER I DROVE, THE MOREWORRIED I GOT. 246 00:14:33,758 --> 00:14:37,379 I DIDN'T SEE ANY TRACE OF HER ATALL. 247 00:14:37,413 --> 00:14:39,551 >> Reporter: SARAH DECIDED TOGET ANIAH'S BROTHER AND TAKE A 248 00:14:39,586 --> 00:14:44,344 SECOND LOOK. 249 00:14:44,379 --> 00:14:46,379 >> HER ROOMMATE CALLS ME ANDTOLD ME THAT ANIAH NEVER EVEN 250 00:14:46,413 --> 00:14:55,033 CAME HOME LAST NIGHT, ANIAH'SMISSING. 251 00:14:55,067 --> 00:14:58,688 >> AND THEN, I TOLD HIM WHAT SHESAID ABOUT ERIC AND THAT SHE WAS 252 00:14:58,724 --> 00:15:01,861 WITH HIM, AND HE WAS LIKE, "NO,SHE DIDN'T TELL ME ANYTHING 253 00:15:01,895 --> 00:15:04,033 ABOUT THAT." 254 00:15:04,067 --> 00:15:06,965 >> AND MY HEART KIND OF JUSTSANK. 255 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,931 AND THIS WAS COMPLETELY OUT OFHER CHARACTER. 256 00:15:08,965 --> 00:15:09,931 THIS ISN'T ANIAH. 257 00:15:09,965 --> 00:15:12,931 ANIAH WOULDN'T HAVE RUN AWAY. 258 00:15:13,758 --> 00:15:16,067 >> IMMEDIATELY, I CALL MYPARENTS, AND I WAS LIKE, "UH, 259 00:15:16,102 --> 00:15:18,413 ANIAH'S MISSING." 260 00:15:18,447 --> 00:15:21,586 >> AND HE SAYS, "MOM, WE CAN'TFIND ANIAH." 261 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:22,793 AND I SAID, "SON, WHAT ARE YOUTALKING ABOUT, YOU CAN'T FIND 262 00:15:22,826 --> 00:15:26,517 HER?"HE SAID, "NO, MOM, I-- I'M IN 263 00:15:26,551 --> 00:15:29,517 HER APARTMENT, AND WE CAN'T FINDANIAH." 264 00:15:29,551 --> 00:15:32,067 >> Reporter: IMMEDIATELYALARMED, ANGELA AND WALT TOOK 265 00:15:32,102 --> 00:15:41,309 OFF FOR ANIAH'S APARTMENT TWOEXCRUCIATING HOURS AWAY. 266 00:15:41,344 --> 00:15:46,136 >> WE JUST GOT IN HIS TRUCK ANDJUST FLEW TO AUBURN. 267 00:15:46,172 --> 00:15:48,240 ALL TYPES OF THINGS ARE GOINGTHROUGH OUR HEAD-- WHAT'S 268 00:15:48,274 --> 00:15:52,895 HAPPENED, WHAT'S GOING ON, ANDPURE HELL. 269 00:15:52,931 --> 00:15:54,379 >> Reporter: WALT, HOW DID YOUPROCESS ALL OF THIS WHEN YOU 270 00:15:54,413 --> 00:15:56,620 FOUND OUT YOUR DAUGHTER WASMISSING? 271 00:15:56,654 --> 00:16:03,793 >> THAT DRIVE TO AUBURN WAS THEHARDEST-- THE HARDEST THING I'VE 272 00:16:03,826 --> 00:16:05,758 EVER BEEN THROUGH IN MY LIFEBECAUSE I KNEWSOMETHING WASN'T 273 00:16:05,793 --> 00:16:08,379 RIGHT. 274 00:16:08,413 --> 00:16:12,481 >> Reporter: ELIJAH DECIDED TOCHECK WITH CORRINA THOMAS AGAIN; 275 00:16:12,517 --> 00:16:15,413 MAYBE ANIAH SHOWED UP. 276 00:16:15,447 --> 00:16:21,067 >> I WASN'T WORRIED UNTIL--UNTIL HER BROTHER MESSAGED ME. 277 00:16:21,102 --> 00:16:22,136 >> "HEY, I'M ANIAH'S BROTHER. 278 00:16:22,172 --> 00:16:24,688 I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HEARDFROM MY SISTER TODAY?" 279 00:16:24,724 --> 00:16:25,895 >> "“NO, I HAVEN'T. 280 00:16:25,931 --> 00:16:27,688 I CALLED HER A BUNCH OF TIMESTHIS MORNING, AND SHE MISSED 281 00:16:27,724 --> 00:16:29,551 PICKING UP THE KIDS THISMORNING."” 282 00:16:29,586 --> 00:16:31,724 >> "YES, I'M AT HER APARTMENTRIGHT NOW. 283 00:16:31,758 --> 00:16:35,067 WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHEREFOR HER AND CAN'T FIND HER." 284 00:16:35,102 --> 00:16:37,826 >> Reporter: AND ANIAH NEVER LEFT HER DOG, BLOO, ALONE 285 00:16:37,861 --> 00:16:41,067 OVERNIGHT. 286 00:16:41,102 --> 00:16:42,344 >> THAT WAS HER BABY. 287 00:16:42,379 --> 00:16:43,724 WE JUST KNEW WHEN WE GET TO HERAPARTMENT THAT, WAIT, THERE'S 288 00:16:43,758 --> 00:16:46,724 SOMETHING REALLY BAD WRONG HERE. 289 00:16:46,758 --> 00:16:49,206 >> Reporter: WORD QUICKLY SPREADTO ANIAH'S FRIENDS. 290 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,102 >> AND I WAS LIKE, "WHAT? 291 00:16:50,136 --> 00:16:51,551 I WAS JUST TALKING TO HER LASTNIGHT. 292 00:16:51,586 --> 00:16:53,826 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"I MEAN, I LIVE THREE HOURS AWAY 293 00:16:53,861 --> 00:16:55,136 FROM HER. 294 00:16:55,172 --> 00:16:56,826 I WAS LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW WHERESHE IS." 295 00:16:56,861 --> 00:16:58,379 >> Reporter: HANNAH CROCKERDROPPED EVERYTHING AND HEADED TO 296 00:16:58,413 --> 00:17:01,517 ANIAH'S APARTMENT. 297 00:17:01,551 --> 00:17:03,620 >> ONCE IT WAS 24 HOURS, I WASLIKE, "THAT'S NOTANIAH." 298 00:17:03,654 --> 00:17:09,586 IN MY HEART, I WAS LIKE, "SHE'SA FEMALE, SOMETHING HAPPENED." 299 00:17:09,619 --> 00:17:16,862 >> AUBURN IS A COLLEGE TOWN, ANDIT'S A VERY SAFE PLACE. 300 00:17:16,895 --> 00:17:19,309 >> Reporter: LEE COUNTY DISTRICTATTORNEY BRANDON HUGHES: 301 00:17:19,344 --> 00:17:21,654 >> THIS, FROM THE VERY BEGINNINGFELT VERY DIFFERENTLY, YOU KNOW, 302 00:17:21,689 --> 00:17:23,172 BASED ON THE INFORMATION WE HAD. 303 00:17:23,205 --> 00:17:25,344 IT JUST DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THISWAS A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO 304 00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:27,205 DECIDED TO LEAVE AND BLOW OFFSOME STEAM. 305 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,964 THAT JUST WASN'T HERPERSONALITY. 306 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,344 THAT'S JUST NOT SOMETHING SHEWOULD HAVE DONE. 307 00:17:31,378 --> 00:17:34,723 >> Reporter: ANIAH'SDISAPPEARANCE WAS BREAKING NEWS. 308 00:17:34,758 --> 00:17:35,895 >> RIGHT NOW, THE SEARCHCONTINUES FOR A MISSING 19-YEAR- 309 00:17:35,931 --> 00:17:37,103 OLD. 310 00:17:37,136 --> 00:17:39,034 THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ANIAHBLANCHARD. 311 00:17:39,067 --> 00:17:40,344 >> IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATIONON WHERE SHE IS, CALL AUBURN 312 00:17:40,378 --> 00:17:42,758 POLICE. 313 00:17:42,792 --> 00:17:46,275 >> IF YOU HAVE ANY LEADS ONWHERE OUR DAUGHTER IS, ANIAH 314 00:17:46,309 --> 00:17:49,240 BLANCHARD, PLEASE, PLEASE,PLEASE GO TO THE AUTHORITIES, 315 00:17:49,275 --> 00:17:50,275 TELL SOMEONE. 316 00:17:50,309 --> 00:17:55,826 SHE WAS LAST SEEN IN A BLACKHONDA C.R.V., 2017. 317 00:17:55,862 --> 00:17:58,378 >> PLEASE, IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING,WE HAVE TO HAVE HER BACK. 318 00:17:58,413 --> 00:18:00,344 WE HAVE TO HAVE HER BACK. 319 00:18:02,758 --> 00:18:03,931 >> Reporter: OCTOBER 25. 320 00:18:03,964 --> 00:18:07,689 WITH ANIAH GONE FOR TWO DAYS,HER HONDA WAS SPOTTED IN AN 321 00:18:07,723 --> 00:18:13,481 APARTMENT COMPLEX IN MONTGOMERY,ALABAMA, 55 MILES FROM AUBURN, 322 00:18:13,517 --> 00:18:16,689 ANDIT WAS BADLY DAMAGED. 323 00:18:16,723 --> 00:18:24,413 WORSE STILL, THERE WAS NOSIGN OF ANIAH. 324 00:18:24,448 --> 00:18:28,689 CORRINA THOMAS HAD TO BREAK THENEWS TO HER CHILDREN. 325 00:18:28,723 --> 00:18:31,550 >> AND THEY SAID ANIAH'SMISSING, AND-- AND THEN THEY 326 00:18:31,586 --> 00:18:38,517 CRIED. 327 00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:39,862 >> Reporter: AND THEN, THEY CAMEUP WITH THEIR OWNPLAN TO HELP 328 00:18:39,895 --> 00:18:42,344 FIND HER. 329 00:18:42,378 --> 00:18:45,895 >> THEY GOT THEIR TABLETS, "HEY,GOOGLE, HOW MANY HOUSES ARE IN 330 00:18:45,931 --> 00:18:48,792 MONTGOMERY?"AND I WAS LIKE, "WHY ARE YOU 331 00:18:48,826 --> 00:18:52,413 LOOKING THAT UP?"AND HE SAID, "BECAUSE WE GOT TO 332 00:18:52,448 --> 00:18:54,619 GO SEE HOW MANY HOUSES WE HAVETO GO LOOK FOR HER AT." 333 00:18:54,654 --> 00:18:57,275 THEY-- THEY JUST WANTED TO FINDHER. 334 00:18:57,309 --> 00:19:04,172 >> Reporter: BUT NOTHING ANYONEDID LED TO AN ANIAH SIGHTING. 335 00:19:04,205 --> 00:19:07,240 THEN, A FEW DAYS AFTER SHEDISAPPEARED, POLICE DISCOVERED 336 00:19:07,275 --> 00:19:11,723 THAT AFTER ANIAH DROPPED OFF HERBROTHER, SHE STOPPED AT THISGAS 337 00:19:11,758 --> 00:19:16,517 STATION JUST TWO MINUTES FROMHER HOME. 338 00:19:16,550 --> 00:19:22,172 >> IT'S A CHEVRON GAS STATION ONCOLLEGE STREET. 339 00:19:22,205 --> 00:19:25,344 ANIAH ENTERED THE CHEVRON GASSTATION APPROXIMATELY 11:21 IN 340 00:19:25,378 --> 00:19:29,895 THE EVENING ON THE NIGHT OFOCTOBER 23, AND SHE STAYED THERE 341 00:19:29,931 --> 00:19:31,275 APPROXIMATELY A MINUTE AND AHALF TO TWO MINUTES BEFORE SHE 342 00:19:31,309 --> 00:19:33,413 LEFT. 343 00:19:33,448 --> 00:19:34,964 >> Reporter: ANIAH BOUGHT A BAGOF SOUR CREAM AND ONION POTATO 344 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,689 CHIPS AND A DRINK. 345 00:19:37,723 --> 00:19:40,413 >> THAT WAS HER THING EVERYNIGHT. 346 00:19:40,448 --> 00:19:45,895 EVEN AT HOME, GROWING UP, SHEWOULD SNACK RIGHT BEFORE BED. 347 00:19:45,931 --> 00:19:48,344 >> WE NEEDED TO KNOW IF ANYBODYSAW ANYTHING. 348 00:19:48,378 --> 00:19:49,240 WHAT WAS SHE DOING? 349 00:19:49,275 --> 00:19:51,275 DID SHE LEAVE WITH ANYBODY? 350 00:20:07,481 --> 00:20:09,586 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORSZEROED IN ON THE CHEVRON GAS 351 00:20:09,619 --> 00:20:12,689 STATION WHERE ANIAH WAS LASTSEEN ON VIDEO BEFORE SHE 352 00:20:12,723 --> 00:20:15,448 DISAPPEARED. 353 00:20:15,481 --> 00:20:21,000 THEY WERE LOOKING FOR ANYLEADS TO WHERE SHE MIGHT BE. 354 00:20:21,034 --> 00:20:22,689 >> ♪ PRAISE GOD! 355 00:20:22,723 --> 00:20:25,931 PRAISE GOD! 356 00:20:25,964 --> 00:20:30,723 PRAISE GOD! ♪>> Reporter: THE COMMUNITY OF 357 00:20:30,758 --> 00:20:35,000 HOMEWOOD, WHERE SHE GREW UP,PRAYED FOR ANIAH'S SAFE RETURN. 358 00:20:35,034 --> 00:20:41,517 >> ♪ YOU HOLD HER HAND. >> Reporter: RIBBONS AND BOWS IN 359 00:20:45,448 --> 00:20:49,931 ANIAH'S FAVORITE COLOR APPEAREDEVERYWHERE. 360 00:20:49,964 --> 00:20:51,275 >> IT HAS ROCKED US TO OUR CORE. 361 00:20:51,309 --> 00:20:54,103 IT IS ONE OF OURS. 362 00:20:54,136 --> 00:20:57,550 >> COME HOME, ANIAH! 363 00:20:57,586 --> 00:20:59,378 >> Reporter: AND WHEN THEYWEREN'T PRAYING FOR HER, THEY 364 00:20:59,413 --> 00:21:01,964 WERE OUT TRYING TO FIND HER. 365 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,517 >> PRETTY QUICKLY, PEOPLE CAMETOGETHER, JUST LIKE, "HEY, LET'S 366 00:21:06,550 --> 00:21:09,136 DO SEARCHES HERE, LET'S DOSEARCHERS THERE." 367 00:21:09,172 --> 00:21:10,619 >> WE WOULD GO IN THE WOODS. 368 00:21:10,654 --> 00:21:13,586 WE WOULD GO BEHIND PEOPLE'SHOUSES. 369 00:21:13,619 --> 00:21:17,862 WE WOULD GO IN ALLEYWAYS. 370 00:21:18,758 --> 00:21:22,517 >> WE DROVE MY TRUCK INBACKWOODS. 371 00:21:22,550 --> 00:21:24,275 WE WERE ALL IN PEOPLE'S YARDS. 372 00:21:24,309 --> 00:21:28,205 WE MUST HAVE CANVASSED FROMAUBURN TO TUSKEGEE, JUST ME AND 373 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,654 HER, WITHIN THE FIRST TWO ORTHREE DAYS. 374 00:21:31,689 --> 00:21:34,034 >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATIONQUICKLY EXPANDED ACROSS SEVERAL 375 00:21:34,067 --> 00:21:36,826 COUNTIES, ESPECIALLY AFTERANIAH'S CAR WAS FOUND 55 MILES 376 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:44,205 AWAY IN MONTGOMERY. 377 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,517 >> YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE THEREWERE JUST MASSIVE AREAS THAT WE 378 00:21:45,550 --> 00:21:46,826 HAD TO SEARCH. 379 00:21:46,862 --> 00:21:49,378 THERE WERE DOZENS OF AGENCIES--STATE AGENCIES, COUNTY AGENCIES, 380 00:21:49,413 --> 00:21:56,034 LOCAL AGENCIES, FEDERALAGENCIES-- HUGE TASK FORCE. 381 00:21:56,067 --> 00:22:00,034 >> Reporter: AND REWARD MONEYPOURED IN. 382 00:22:00,067 --> 00:22:02,136 U.F.C. PRESIDENT DANA WHITE ANDLIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION JON 383 00:22:02,172 --> 00:22:07,034 JONES EACH CONTRIBUTED $25,000. 384 00:22:07,067 --> 00:22:07,619 >> IT'S A PAIN. 385 00:22:07,654 --> 00:22:08,895 IT'S ANXIETY. 386 00:22:08,931 --> 00:22:12,448 IT'S JUST SO MANY EMOTIONS. 387 00:22:12,481 --> 00:22:15,586 YOU'RE TRYING TO HOLD HOPE THATSOMETHING POSITIVE IS GOING TO 388 00:22:15,619 --> 00:22:18,586 COME OUT OF IT, BUT, AS THE DAYSGO ON, YOUR-- YOUR HOPE JUST 389 00:22:18,619 --> 00:22:22,586 STARTS TO DWINDLE AND DWINDLE. 390 00:22:22,619 --> 00:22:26,586 >> Reporter: NOW MISSING EIGHTDAYS, HOPE WAS DEALT A MAJOR 391 00:22:26,619 --> 00:22:28,586 BLOW. 392 00:22:28,619 --> 00:22:30,136 >> TONIGHT, POLICE IN AUBURN,ALABAMA, SAY THERE'S EVIDENCE A 393 00:22:30,172 --> 00:22:32,895 MISSING COLLEGE STUDENT IS AVICTIM OF FOUL PLAY. 394 00:22:32,931 --> 00:22:35,413 >> EVIDENCE FROM WITHIN HERVEHICLE IS THE REASON THAT WE 395 00:22:35,448 --> 00:22:37,136 ARE AWARE THAT, YOU KNOW, SHEWAS HARMED. 396 00:22:37,172 --> 00:22:39,034 AND WE DO CONSIDER THIS A-- ACASE WHERE THERE IS FOUL PLAY 397 00:22:39,067 --> 00:22:41,000 INVOLVED. 398 00:22:48,205 --> 00:22:50,550 >> Reporter: POLICE WOULD NOT SAY WHAT THEY FOUND, BUT ANIAH'S 399 00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:53,689 BIOLOGICAL FATHER, ELIJAHBLANCHARD, SR., WAS NOT READY TO 400 00:22:53,723 --> 00:22:55,619 GIVE UP. 401 00:22:55,654 --> 00:22:56,758 >> THAT WAS HARD FOR US. 402 00:22:56,792 --> 00:22:59,413 I'M A MAN OF FAITH, AND,REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE POLICE 403 00:22:59,448 --> 00:23:01,619 SAY, I STILL HAVE HOPE THAT MYANIAH IS OUT THERE WAITING FOR 404 00:23:01,654 --> 00:23:05,067 HER FATHER TO GET HER. 405 00:23:05,103 --> 00:23:08,586 >> Reporter: ANIAH'SDISAPPEARANCE WAS TAKING MORE 406 00:23:08,619 --> 00:23:13,172 THAN AN EMOTIONAL TOLL ON WALTHARRIS. 407 00:23:13,205 --> 00:23:19,654 HE IMMEDIATELYCANCELED HIS UPCOMING FIGHT. 408 00:23:19,689 --> 00:23:21,689 ANIAH WAS THE ONLY THINGEVERYONE'S MIND. 409 00:23:33,689 --> 00:23:34,654 >> I WASN'T ABLE TO FOCUS ATALL. 410 00:23:34,689 --> 00:23:35,654 IT WAS CHAOS. 411 00:23:35,689 --> 00:23:37,517 THERE WAS SADNESS. 412 00:23:44,862 --> 00:23:47,344 I JUST WANTED TO BE THERE FOR MYFAMILY. 413 00:23:47,378 --> 00:23:50,689 IT'S LIKE A DARK ABYSS. 414 00:23:50,723 --> 00:23:52,931 YOU'RE FIGHTING THAT OFF. 415 00:23:55,103 --> 00:23:57,792 >> Reporter: THEN, AFTER 14DAYS, THE POLICE ANNOUNCED THEY 416 00:23:57,826 --> 00:24:02,172 WANTED THISMAN. 417 00:24:02,205 --> 00:24:03,792 HE WAS SEEN AT THE GAS STATION STORE AT THE SAME TIME ANIAH WAS 418 00:24:03,826 --> 00:24:08,931 THERE. 419 00:24:08,964 --> 00:24:12,378 AN EYEWITNESS SAID HE THOUGHT HESAW HIM FORCE ANIAH INTO HER CAR 420 00:24:12,413 --> 00:24:17,240 BEFORE THEY DROVE OFF TOGETHER. 421 00:24:17,275 --> 00:24:18,964 >> THIS IS A PERSON OF INTEREST. 422 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:26,448 ANYONE WHO SEES HIM IS ASKED TOCALL 911. 423 00:24:26,481 --> 00:24:29,034 >> Reporter: SOMEONE DID, ANDTHE MAN THE POLICE WERE LOOKING 424 00:24:29,067 --> 00:24:32,550 FOR WAS NOTNAMED ERIC. 425 00:24:32,586 --> 00:24:37,000 HE WAS IBRAHEEM YAZEED, A 30- YEAR-OLD FROM MONTGOMERY, AND HE 426 00:24:37,034 --> 00:24:41,723 HAD A LENGTHY ARREST RECORD. 427 00:24:41,758 --> 00:24:42,862 >> HE SHOULD BE CONSIDEREDDANGEROUS AND WOULD BE 428 00:24:42,895 --> 00:24:45,723 POTENTIALLY ARMED. 429 00:24:45,758 --> 00:24:48,723 >> Reporter: POLICE SAID YAZEEDWAS CHARGED EARLIER THAT YEAR 430 00:24:48,758 --> 00:24:54,758 WITH KIDNAPPING, ROBBING ANDNEARLY BEATING A 77-YEAR-OLD MAN 431 00:24:54,792 --> 00:24:56,758 TO DEATH. 432 00:24:56,792 --> 00:25:00,758 HE WAS ALSO ACCUSED OF ROBBINGAND BEATING A SECOND MAN. 433 00:25:00,792 --> 00:25:05,758 DESPITE THE SERIOUS CHARGES, HEWAS FREE ON BOND AND HAD BEEN 434 00:25:05,792 --> 00:25:10,758 STAYING IN A HOTEL NEAR THECHEVRON GAS STATION. 435 00:25:10,792 --> 00:25:14,758 >> HOW IS THIS PERSON FREE TOWALK INTO A GAS STATION? 436 00:25:14,792 --> 00:25:17,000 HOW IS HE JUST MINUTES DOWN THEROAD FROM ME? 437 00:25:17,034 --> 00:25:20,034 HOW IS HE IN THE SAME GASSTATION AS MY BEST FRIEND? 438 00:25:20,067 --> 00:25:26,275 >> Reporter: BUT HE WAS,AND THAT WAS AT 11:22 P.M. 439 00:25:26,309 --> 00:25:30,067 ANIAH'S CAR WAS NEXT SEEN A FEWMINUTES LATER AT ANOTHER NEARBY 440 00:25:30,103 --> 00:25:38,034 GAS STATION, WHERE YAZEED BOUGHTA SMALL CIGAR. 441 00:25:38,067 --> 00:25:40,344 IT WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE THANAN HOUR BEFORE A LICENSE PLATE 442 00:25:40,378 --> 00:25:45,172 READER PICKED UP ANIAH'S HONDANEAR THE ENTRANCE TO I-85, 443 00:25:45,205 --> 00:25:51,619 HEADING SOUTH TOWARDSMONTGOMERY. 444 00:25:51,654 --> 00:25:55,275 ANIAH'S PARENTS CLUNG TO HOPE,AND THEY HAD FAITH THAT THEIR 445 00:25:55,309 --> 00:25:56,550 DAUGHTER WOULDBE FOUND ALIVE. 446 00:25:56,586 --> 00:26:01,172 THEY EVEN PRAYED FOR YAZEED. 447 00:26:01,205 --> 00:26:01,862 >> YOU CAN STOP NOW. 448 00:26:01,895 --> 00:26:03,034 YOU CAN-- YOU CAN CHANGE THIS. 449 00:26:03,067 --> 00:26:03,895 YOU CAN LET HER GO. 450 00:26:03,931 --> 00:26:09,448 GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU. 451 00:26:10,862 --> 00:26:12,931 >> Reporter: POLICE CAPTURED YAZEED THE FOLLOWING DAY HIDING 452 00:26:12,964 --> 00:26:18,586 IN THE WOODS 145 MILES AWAY INANOTHER STATE. 453 00:26:18,619 --> 00:26:24,895 POLICE SAY HE DID NOTSURRENDER PEACEFULLY. 454 00:26:24,931 --> 00:26:28,275 >> 30-YEAR-OLD IBRAHEEM YAZEEDWAS ARRESTED OVERNIGHT IN 455 00:26:28,309 --> 00:26:31,895 FLORIDA ON THE CHARGE OFKIDNAPPING IN THE FIRST-DEGREE. 456 00:26:31,931 --> 00:26:34,378 >> Reporter: YAZEED APPEARED INA FLORIDA COURT THE NEXT DAY 457 00:26:34,413 --> 00:26:39,517 WITH A SWOLLEN LEFT EYE, ANDCOURT DOCUMENTS FINALLY REVEALED 458 00:26:39,550 --> 00:26:42,067 WHAT POLICE FOUND IN THE CAR. 459 00:26:42,103 --> 00:26:45,895 IT WAS BLOOD, AND A LOT OF IT. 460 00:26:45,931 --> 00:26:48,448 >> COURT DOCUMENTS TODAY SAYBLOOD THAT WAS DISCOVERED IN 461 00:26:48,481 --> 00:26:51,481 ANIAH BLANCHARD'S CAR WAS"“INDICATIVE OF SOMEONE SUFFERING 462 00:26:51,517 --> 00:26:53,792 A LIFE-THREATENING INJURY." 463 00:26:53,826 --> 00:26:56,517 >> Reporter: YAZEED WAIVEDEXTRADITION TO LEE COUNTY, 464 00:26:56,550 --> 00:27:00,689 ALABAMA, WHERE ANGELA AND WALTHARRIS WOULD BE WAITING, HOPING 465 00:27:00,723 --> 00:27:02,723 TO FIND OUT WHERE THEIR DAUGHTERWAS. 466 00:27:30,931 --> 00:27:33,758 >> Reporter: THE HARRISES WERECOMMITTED TO FACING YAZEED 467 00:27:33,792 --> 00:27:39,895 WHENEVER HE APPEARED IN COURT,AND EACH TIME FELT LIKE THE 468 00:27:39,931 --> 00:27:41,034 FIRST TIME. 469 00:27:41,067 --> 00:27:43,172 AS A FATHER, AS A GUY, I'MIMAGINING AS WELL WHAT MIGHT 470 00:27:43,205 --> 00:27:47,931 HAVE BEEN COURSING THROUGH YOURVEINS. 471 00:27:47,964 --> 00:27:50,895 THEN, YOU SEE HIM, MR. YAZEED,LOOKING BACK AT YOU GUYS. 472 00:27:50,931 --> 00:27:53,931 >> ANGER. 473 00:27:53,964 --> 00:27:55,895 I REMEMBER SH-- SHAKING. 474 00:27:55,931 --> 00:28:00,240 I WANTED TO CLIMB ACROSS THE--THE BARRICADE. 475 00:28:00,275 --> 00:28:03,758 IT MADE ME REALLY ANGRY BECAUSEHE WAS JUST KIND OF SMUG, LIKE, 476 00:28:03,792 --> 00:28:05,619 "YOU-- YOU-- YOU'RE TOUGH, I'MTOUGH, TOO," YOU KNOW. 477 00:28:05,654 --> 00:28:10,000 LIKE HE WAS CHALLENGING ME,ALMOST. 478 00:28:10,034 --> 00:28:11,826 >> Reporter: IT TOOK ALL OFWALT'S TRAINING IN THE RING AND 479 00:28:11,862 --> 00:28:16,792 ANGELA'S STEADY HAND TO KEEP HIMFROM RIPPING INTO YAZEED. 480 00:28:16,826 --> 00:28:21,240 >> SHE GRABBED ME, AND SHE SAID,"JUST BREATHE." 481 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:23,895 AND I JUST STARTED TRYING TOHEAR HER VOICE BECAUSE I COULD 482 00:28:23,931 --> 00:28:26,413 NOT-- I WOULDN'T TAKE MY EYESOFF OF HIM, LIKE, "OKAY, WHO'S 483 00:28:26,448 --> 00:28:28,826 GOING TO LOOK AWAY FIRST" TYPEOF DEAL. 484 00:28:28,862 --> 00:28:32,826 >> Reporter: ANGELA, HOW DID YOU STAY COMPOSED? 485 00:28:32,862 --> 00:28:34,964 >> I WANTED HIM TO KNOW THAT I'M REPRESENTING MY DAUGHTER AND 486 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,172 THAT I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. 487 00:28:38,205 --> 00:28:40,136 WE'RE RIGHT HERE, AND WE'REGOING TO FIGHT THIS ALL THE WAY 488 00:28:40,172 --> 00:28:42,000 THROUGH. 489 00:28:42,034 --> 00:28:45,275 >> Reporter: YAZEED MAINTAINEDHIS INNOCENCE, AND THE BURDEN TO 490 00:28:45,309 --> 00:28:49,378 FIND ANIAH MOUNTED. 491 00:28:49,413 --> 00:28:51,723 >> EVERYBODY WAS ON EDGE BECAUSETHERE'S A LOT OF PRESSURE. 492 00:28:51,758 --> 00:28:56,413 THERE'S PRESSURE TO-- TO FINDTHIS LITTLE GIRL. 493 00:28:56,448 --> 00:28:58,586 >> Reporter: ANGELA AND WALTHARRIS PUBLICIZED THEIR 494 00:28:58,619 --> 00:28:59,205 DAUGHTER'S DISAPPEARANCE ON "DR. 495 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,034 PHIL." 496 00:29:03,309 --> 00:29:03,895 >> I LOVE YOU, BABY GIRL. 497 00:29:03,931 --> 00:29:05,654 WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU. 498 00:29:05,689 --> 00:29:09,826 WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WECAN, AND WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU. 499 00:29:09,862 --> 00:29:13,964 I PROMISE. 500 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,758 >> AND THEY'RE ON TELEVISION,THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING YOU 501 00:29:15,792 --> 00:29:19,792 CAN, BUT, UP TO THIS POINT, ITHASN'T BEEN ENOUGH. 502 00:29:19,826 --> 00:29:26,931 >> Reporter: BY THEN, THE D.A.,ANGELA AND WALT HAD GROWN CLOSE. 503 00:29:26,964 --> 00:29:29,758 >> "IF YOU WANT TO CALL UP, GETFRUSTRATED AND YELL AT ME FOR AN 504 00:29:29,792 --> 00:29:32,895 HOUR, CRY WITH ME FOR AN HOUR,I'M THERE." 505 00:29:32,931 --> 00:29:36,654 AND THAT'S WHAT WE WERE DOING. 506 00:29:36,689 --> 00:29:40,758 >> Reporter: A MONTH AFTER ANIAHWENT MISSING, THE D.A. HAD NEWS. 507 00:29:40,792 --> 00:29:45,758 AUTHORITIES NOW BELIEVED THAT THISMAN, ANTWAIN FISHER, WHO 508 00:29:45,792 --> 00:29:48,550 ONCE SERVED TIME FOR MURDER,HELPED YAZEED DISPOSE OF 509 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:51,172 EVIDENCE. 510 00:29:51,205 --> 00:29:53,172 HE WAS CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING. 511 00:29:53,205 --> 00:30:01,931 HE SOON COOPERATED, PROVIDING AROADMAP TO ANIAH. 512 00:30:01,964 --> 00:30:05,067 >> ANIAH'S REMAINS WERE LOCATEDIN MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA, WHICH 513 00:30:05,103 --> 00:30:10,619 IS BETWEEN AUBURN ANDMONTGOMERY. 514 00:30:10,654 --> 00:30:12,481 OBVIOUSLY, WE-- WE DIDN'T KNOWTO A 100% CERTAINTY THAT THAT'S 515 00:30:12,517 --> 00:30:14,862 WHO IT WAS. 516 00:30:14,895 --> 00:30:17,895 YOU KNOW, THERE WERE SEVERALITEMS OF CLOTHING OUT THERE. 517 00:30:17,931 --> 00:30:19,931 I SAW A BOOT. 518 00:30:19,964 --> 00:30:21,619 I TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH OF IT. 519 00:30:23,550 --> 00:30:24,758 >> Reporter: HUGHES ASKED THEHARRISES TO MEET AT THE D.A.'S 520 00:30:24,792 --> 00:30:26,172 OFFICE. 521 00:30:26,205 --> 00:30:27,448 >> AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHYTHEY'RE THERE. 522 00:30:27,481 --> 00:30:32,103 I SHOWED THE HARRISES THEPHOTOGRAPH. 523 00:30:32,136 --> 00:30:34,619 >> Reporter: THE SOREL BOOTS,LIKE THIS ONE, WERE A GIFT FROM 524 00:30:34,654 --> 00:30:38,136 WALT WHEN THE FAMILY VISITED NEWYORK CITY. 525 00:30:38,172 --> 00:30:40,344 >> WALT LOOKED AT THE PHONE. 526 00:30:40,378 --> 00:30:49,034 HE JUST DROPS IT ON THE TABLEAND SAID, "Y'ALL EXCUSE ME." 527 00:30:49,067 --> 00:30:51,205 MY WIFE HAD COME UP THERE, ANDSHE WAS COMING UP THE BACK 528 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:56,689 STAIRWELL. 529 00:30:56,723 --> 00:31:01,000 SHE SAID SHE SAW WALT JUSTPUNCHING THE WALL. 530 00:31:01,034 --> 00:31:03,826 I MEAN, THIS IS A CONCRETE WALL. 531 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:06,034 HE'S SCREAMING AND JUST PUNCHINGTHIS WALL. 532 00:31:06,067 --> 00:31:11,517 THAT'S HARD. 533 00:31:13,826 --> 00:31:15,550 >> Reporter: TALK ABOUT A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE WHEN 534 00:31:15,586 --> 00:31:18,034 HER BODY WAS FOUND. 535 00:31:19,723 --> 00:31:21,378 >> [ SIGHS] IMMEDIATELY, I JUST WANTED TO 536 00:31:21,413 --> 00:31:25,758 ACTUALLY KNOW IF I CAN SEE MYCHILD. 537 00:31:25,792 --> 00:31:27,067 I-- I JUST WANT TO SEE HER. 538 00:31:27,103 --> 00:31:30,309 YOU KNOW, WE WERE TOLD NO. 539 00:31:30,344 --> 00:31:33,550 I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO GO ONANYMORE. 540 00:31:33,586 --> 00:31:35,172 >> Reporter: WALT? 541 00:31:35,205 --> 00:31:36,723 >> BROKEN. 542 00:31:36,758 --> 00:31:38,103 CONFUSED. 543 00:31:38,136 --> 00:31:41,067 ANGRY. 544 00:31:41,103 --> 00:31:50,172 I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHY ANDWHAT HAPPENED. 545 00:31:50,205 --> 00:31:51,862 >> Reporter: HUGHES AND THEPOLICE RETURNED TO THE WOODS TO 546 00:31:51,895 --> 00:31:56,654 SEARCH FOR MORE EVIDENCE. 547 00:31:58,378 --> 00:32:00,586 >> JUST LITERALLY CRAWLING ONHANDS AND KNEES, LOOKING FOR 548 00:32:00,619 --> 00:32:03,517 EVIDENCE, LOOKING FOR ANYTHINGTHAT WE COULD FIND. 549 00:32:03,550 --> 00:32:06,103 >> Reporter: AND WHAT THEY FOUNDHELPED THE HARRISES FINALLY 550 00:32:06,136 --> 00:32:08,136 LEARN WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIRBELOVED ANIAH. 551 00:32:33,205 --> 00:32:37,172 >> Reporter: A BLOOD-SOAKEDPASSENGER SEAT, A BULLET HOLE IN 552 00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:41,172 THE DOOR-- THE EVIDENCE TELLS ASTORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ANIAH 553 00:32:41,205 --> 00:32:43,654 THAT NIGHT. 554 00:32:43,689 --> 00:32:46,481 INVESTIGATORS AREN'T CERTAIN HOWYAZEED ENDED UP INSIDE THE CAR 555 00:32:46,517 --> 00:32:48,862 WITH ANIAH. 556 00:32:48,895 --> 00:32:50,275 DID HE ASK FOR A RIDE? 557 00:32:50,309 --> 00:32:52,895 DID HE FORCE HER? 558 00:32:52,931 --> 00:32:56,895 BUT THE DAMAGE OUTSIDESUGGESTS THERE WAS A STRUGGLE AT SOME 559 00:32:56,931 --> 00:32:59,758 POINT AS THE CAR WAS MOVING. 560 00:32:59,792 --> 00:33:05,344 INVESTIGATORS SAY YAZEED SHOTANIAH AS SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE. 561 00:33:05,378 --> 00:33:11,619 >> ANIAH BLANCHARD WAS KILLED INTHE MANNER OF HOMICIDE. 562 00:33:11,654 --> 00:33:16,172 THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A GUNSHOTWOUND. 563 00:33:16,205 --> 00:33:18,723 >> Reporter: WAS YOUR FAITHSHAKEN, ROCKED? 564 00:33:18,758 --> 00:33:22,654 >> TO HAVE OUR ANGEL TAKEN LIKETHAT, I DIDN'T KNOW WHY GOD 565 00:33:22,689 --> 00:33:26,034 WOULD ALLOW IT. 566 00:33:26,067 --> 00:33:29,931 >> Reporter: BUT WALT ULTIMATELYFOUND COMFORT IN HIS FAITH. 567 00:33:29,964 --> 00:33:31,000 >> IT BROUGHT ME BACK. 568 00:33:31,034 --> 00:33:33,344 IT'S HELPED ME UNDERSTAND THATGOD DIDN'T DO THIS. 569 00:33:33,378 --> 00:33:39,619 >> Reporter: AND ON DECEMBER 2,2019, DISTRICT ATTORNEY HUGHES 570 00:33:39,654 --> 00:33:45,309 ANNOUNCED THE PERSON RESPONSIBLEWAS IBRAHEEM YAZEED. 571 00:33:45,344 --> 00:33:48,550 HE WAS NOW BEING CHARGED WITHCAPITAL MURDER. 572 00:33:48,586 --> 00:33:51,205 >> WE'LL ALSO BE SEEKING THEDEATH PENALTY. 573 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,481 >> Reporter: TWO DAYS LATER, THEHARRISES WERE IN COURT WHEN 574 00:33:53,517 --> 00:33:57,895 YAZEED FOUGHT BACK. 575 00:33:57,931 --> 00:33:59,067 >> I GOT RIGHTS, TOO. 576 00:33:59,103 --> 00:34:01,723 SO, Y'ALL HAVE NO VIDEO, NOAUDIO OF ME SHOOTING ANYONE. 577 00:34:01,758 --> 00:34:04,550 THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO SEE HOWY'ALL GOING TO BIND ME OVER ON 578 00:34:04,586 --> 00:34:07,689 HEARSAY, BUT Y'ALL AIN'TPRESENTING NO EVIDENCE. 579 00:34:07,723 --> 00:34:15,757 >> Reporter: YAZEED SEEMEDPLEASED WHEN HE WAS DONE. 580 00:34:15,793 --> 00:34:18,793 >> THE ATTITUDE, THE SMIRKS, THELOOKS. 581 00:34:18,827 --> 00:34:22,585 [ SIGHS] WOW. 582 00:34:22,619 --> 00:34:25,034 >> Reporter: BUT MAYBE THE MOSTDAMNING EVIDENCE AGAINST YAZEED 583 00:34:25,068 --> 00:34:27,965 COMES FROM ANTWAIN FISHER. 584 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,793 REMEMBER, HE WAS FACING CHARGESOF HELPING YAZEED. 585 00:34:31,827 --> 00:34:33,413 THOSE CHARGES WERE DROPPED. 586 00:34:33,447 --> 00:34:37,965 FISHER TOLD POLICE THAT JUSTHOURS AFTER ANIAH DISAPPEARED, 587 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,965 YAZEED SHOWED UP IN MONTGOMERYLOOKING FOR HELP, AND HE WAS 588 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:49,344 DRIVING WHAT LOOKEDLIKE ANIAH'S BLACK HONDA. 589 00:34:49,378 --> 00:34:53,068 FISHER SAID HE FOLLOWED YAZEEDTO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, THE 590 00:34:53,103 --> 00:34:58,206 SAME COMPLEX WHERE POLICE WOULDFIND ANIAH'S HONDA. 591 00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:01,378 YAZEED THEN GOT INTO THE TRUCKFISHER WAS DRIVING, SAYS LEAD 592 00:35:01,413 --> 00:35:04,931 DETECTIVE JOSH MIXON. 593 00:35:04,965 --> 00:35:08,240 >> THEY ENDED UP BEHIND A CHURCHNEAR A CEMETERY. 594 00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:12,034 AND WHEN HE LOOKED IN THEREARVIEW MIRROR, HE SAW YAZEED 595 00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:15,034 DRAGGING SOMETHING WRAPPED IN ACOMFORTER. 596 00:35:15,068 --> 00:35:16,862 IT APPEARED TO BE TWO LEGS. 597 00:35:16,896 --> 00:35:20,550 HE DRAGGED IT IN THE WOODS, COMEBACK, GOT IN THE VEHICLE, AND HE 598 00:35:20,585 --> 00:35:22,965 SAID, "TELL ME THAT'S NOT ABODY." 599 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,344 >> Reporter: FISHER SAYS YAZEEDTOLD HIM HE SHOT A GIRL "“WHEN 600 00:35:26,378 --> 00:35:29,309 SHE WENT FOR THE GUN."”>> WOW. 601 00:35:29,344 --> 00:35:32,516 IT'S INDESCRIBABLE HOW SOMEONECOULD ACTUALLY DO THOSE THINGS 602 00:35:32,550 --> 00:35:36,688 TO MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, ANDIT'S SO TRAUMATIZING TO THINK 603 00:35:36,724 --> 00:35:39,757 ABOUT WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH. 604 00:35:39,793 --> 00:35:44,862 >> HEARING IT IN GRAVE DETAIL,IT WAS PAINFUL. 605 00:35:44,896 --> 00:35:47,378 >> Reporter: AND THEN, THEHARRISES WOULD LEARN THAT 606 00:35:47,413 --> 00:35:50,827 YAZEED, IN ADDITION TO BEINGCHARGED WITH NEARLY BEATING AN 607 00:35:50,862 --> 00:35:54,275 ELDERLY MAN TO DEATH, WAS ALSO BEING CHARGED WITH SHOOTING TWO 608 00:35:54,309 --> 00:35:59,034 OTHER PEOPLE THE YEAR BEFOREHE'S ACCUSED OF KILLING ANIAH. 609 00:35:59,068 --> 00:36:04,137 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEEHAPPEN? 610 00:36:04,172 --> 00:36:05,034 >> JUSTICE. 611 00:36:05,068 --> 00:36:05,862 >> DEFINITELY JUSTICE. 612 00:36:05,896 --> 00:36:08,068 I WANT JUSTICE FOR MY DAUGHTER. 613 00:36:08,103 --> 00:36:10,655 >> Reporter: BUT JUSTICE HASBEEN DELAYED. 614 00:36:10,688 --> 00:36:14,034 THE PANDEMIC HAS SLOWED ALL OFYAZEED'S CRIMINAL CASES, AND HIS 615 00:36:14,068 --> 00:36:17,516 LAWYER DECLINED TO BEINTERVIEWED. 616 00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:24,447 WALT, WHO HAD CONSIDERED ENDINGHIS CAREER, FOUND INSPIRATION 617 00:36:24,481 --> 00:36:30,688 WHEN ANIAH CAME TO HIM IN ADREAM. 618 00:36:30,724 --> 00:36:33,378 >> SHE WAS SITTING IN OUR LIVINGROOM, AND THERE WAS JUST A BEAM 619 00:36:33,413 --> 00:36:34,793 OF LIGHT ON HER. 620 00:36:34,827 --> 00:36:37,137 AND SHE HAD HER ARMS OUT, AND IHUGGED HER, AND SHE SAID, "KEEP 621 00:36:37,172 --> 00:36:39,447 GOING." 622 00:36:39,481 --> 00:36:43,275 AND I JUST WOKE UP, LIKE, WITH ARENEWED VIGOR. 623 00:36:43,309 --> 00:36:44,585 I FELT FRESH. 624 00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:47,034 >> ONE, TWO, THREE... 625 00:36:47,068 --> 00:36:47,619 >> KEEP PUSHING. 626 00:36:47,655 --> 00:36:48,931 >> ...FOUR. 627 00:36:48,965 --> 00:36:51,516 >> Reporter: INSPIRED BY ANIAH,WALT HARRIS BRAVELY RETURNED TO 628 00:36:51,550 --> 00:36:54,931 THE RING. 629 00:36:54,965 --> 00:36:58,378 INCREDIBLY, A FIGHT WASSCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 24, THE 630 00:36:58,413 --> 00:37:03,103 ANNIVERSARY OF ANIAH'S MURDER. 631 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:05,516 >> WHEN HE FIRST TOLD ME, ISAID, "ARE YOU SURE?" 632 00:37:05,550 --> 00:37:07,447 HE SAID, "I'M SURE." 633 00:37:07,481 --> 00:37:11,275 AND SO, I KNEW HOW IMPORTANTTHAT THIS WAS TO HIM AND HOW 634 00:37:11,309 --> 00:37:13,896 IMPORTANT THAT THIS WOULD BE TOHER, TO ANIAH, AND THAT SHE 635 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:15,103 WOULD WANT HIM TO DO IT. 636 00:37:17,034 --> 00:37:18,965 >> Reporter: WALT FLEW TO ABUDHABI AND SPENT TWO WEEKS IN 637 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:25,275 QUARANTINE, TRAINING IN A HOTEL. 638 00:37:25,309 --> 00:37:27,481 >> WE LOVE YOU, ANIAH! 639 00:37:27,516 --> 00:37:29,034 >> Reporter: ANGELA, MEANWHILE,REMAINED HOME, CARING FOR THEIR 640 00:37:29,068 --> 00:37:29,793 FAMILY... 641 00:37:29,827 --> 00:37:31,378 >> I MISS HER SO BAD. 642 00:37:31,413 --> 00:37:34,172 >> Reporter: ...AND HOLDING AVIGIL THE NIGHT BEFORE WALT'S 643 00:37:34,206 --> 00:37:36,550 FIGHT, MARKING THE ANNIVERSARYFOR THE LAST TIME THEY SAW ANIAH 644 00:37:36,585 --> 00:37:39,896 ALIVE. 645 00:37:43,068 --> 00:37:44,516 >> YOUR DADDY IS ABOUT TO FIGHT! 646 00:37:44,550 --> 00:37:47,137 >> Reporter: THE FOLLOWING DAY,THE HARRISES WERE ON THE EDGE OF 647 00:37:47,172 --> 00:37:53,206 THEIR SEATS TO WATCH WALT FIGHTHALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD. 648 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:55,378 [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> OOH! 649 00:37:55,413 --> 00:38:00,757 WALT HARRIS PLAYING POSSUM A LITTLE BIT. 650 00:38:00,793 --> 00:38:01,172 >> COME ON, BABE. 651 00:38:01,206 --> 00:38:01,550 THERE YOU GO! 652 00:38:01,585 --> 00:38:02,447 COME ON. 653 00:38:02,481 --> 00:38:04,413 >> Reporter: WALT STARTED OUTSTRONG.. 654 00:38:04,447 --> 00:38:07,034 >> AS HARRIS ATTACKS THE BODY AND NOW GOES UP TOP. 655 00:38:07,068 --> 00:38:09,619 >> Reporter: ...BUT, IN AN INSTANT, THE FIGHT WAS OVER. 656 00:38:09,655 --> 00:38:11,585 >> WHAT HAPPENED! 657 00:38:11,619 --> 00:38:13,034 >> WALT'S ACTUALLY GRABBING HIS STOMACH. 658 00:38:13,068 --> 00:38:15,481 >> Reporter: IN RETROSPECT, WALT TOLD US HE NEEDED MOREMENTAL 659 00:38:15,516 --> 00:38:17,447 STRENGTH. 660 00:38:17,481 --> 00:38:21,309 HE RETURNED HOME, AND, A FEWDAYS LATER, HE RELEASED ALL THAT 661 00:38:21,344 --> 00:38:24,034 PENT-UP EMOTION. 662 00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:31,516 >> HE JUST BROKE DOWN AND FELLDOWN TO THE FLOOR, CRYING. 663 00:38:31,550 --> 00:38:33,240 >> Reporter: AND THROUGH ALL OF HERPAIN, ANGELA FOUND HER NEW 664 00:38:33,275 --> 00:38:34,931 CALLING. 665 00:38:34,965 --> 00:38:39,034 SHE STARTED A NONPROFIT, ANIAH'SHEART, TO TEACH SAFETY AND HELP 666 00:38:39,068 --> 00:38:43,137 SEARCH FOR MISSING PEOPLE. 667 00:38:43,172 --> 00:38:44,655 >> I'VE DONE GROUP SESSIONS FOR 668 00:38:44,688 --> 00:38:45,757 EDUCATION. 669 00:38:45,793 --> 00:38:48,137 I JUST DID ONE WITH SOMESOPHOMORES FROM ANIAH'S HIGH 670 00:38:48,172 --> 00:38:50,516 SCHOOL, A GROUP OF, LIKE, 20GIRLS, TEACHING THEM ABOUT 671 00:38:50,550 --> 00:38:52,000 EDUCATION AND SAFETY. 672 00:38:52,034 --> 00:38:53,034 IT WAS AMAZING. 673 00:38:53,068 --> 00:38:54,862 THIS IS A-- A MUST. 674 00:38:54,896 --> 00:38:56,550 WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS LAW. 675 00:38:56,585 --> 00:38:58,034 >> Reporter: AND SHE'S 676 00:38:58,068 --> 00:39:02,309 CAMPAIGNING FOR ANIAH'S LAW, ABILL WHICH, IF ENACTED, ALLOWS 677 00:39:02,344 --> 00:39:07,034 JUDGES TO DENY BOND TO SERIOUSVIOLENT OFFENDERS. 678 00:39:07,068 --> 00:39:10,793 >> YOU HAVE PEOPLE COMMITTINGMULTIPLE VIOLENT CRIMES, AND 679 00:39:10,827 --> 00:39:12,827 THEY JUST GET OUT ON BOND. 680 00:39:12,862 --> 00:39:18,068 IT-- IT'S JUST NOT OKAY. 681 00:39:19,793 --> 00:39:22,862 I KNOW ONE THING, THAT I WILLNOT STOP FIGHTING FOR HER. 682 00:39:22,896 --> 00:39:25,688 [ APPLAUSE] >> Reporter: AROUND CHRISTMAS 683 00:39:25,724 --> 00:39:29,413 2019, NEARLY 2,000 PEOPLE CAMETOGETHER TO CELEBRATE ANIAH'S 684 00:39:29,447 --> 00:39:32,068 LIFE. 685 00:39:33,862 --> 00:39:36,447 >> THAT BEAUTIFUL SMILE SHE HADTHAT COULD JUST LIGHT UP A ROOM. 686 00:39:36,481 --> 00:39:41,275 [ APPLAUSE] >> ANIAH WAS LIGHT. 687 00:39:41,309 --> 00:39:43,688 WHEN YOU LOOKED AT HER, IN HEREYES, THE WAY-- THE WAY SHE MADE 688 00:39:43,724 --> 00:39:49,619 YOU FEEL, SHE JUST MADE YOU FEELLIKE YOU WAS OKAY. 689 00:39:49,655 --> 00:39:53,103 >> "WE WILL MISS YOU. 690 00:39:53,137 --> 00:39:55,550 WE ARE SO HAPPY YOU WERE OURSISSY." 691 00:39:55,585 --> 00:39:59,000 [ APPLAUSE] >> ANIAH HAS BEEN MY BEST FRIEND 692 00:40:01,688 --> 00:40:05,172 SINCE I MET HER IN SIXTH GRADE. 693 00:40:05,206 --> 00:40:13,896 SHE LEFT ME WITH THE BESTMEMORIES EVER, OF COURSE. 694 00:40:13,931 --> 00:40:16,000 SHE WAS A LEADER. 695 00:40:16,034 --> 00:40:17,896 SHE WOULD PUT PEOPLE FIRST EVENWHEN SHE WAS SAD OR NEEDED 696 00:40:17,931 --> 00:40:20,655 ANYTHING. 697 00:40:20,688 --> 00:40:22,344 I LOVE YOU, ANIAH. 698 00:40:22,378 --> 00:40:25,619 YOU ARE TRULY MY SUNSHINE ONRAINY DAYS. 699 00:40:25,655 --> 00:40:27,688 [ APPLAUSE] >> ALL THIS STUFF IS TRUE. 700 00:40:31,793 --> 00:40:36,862 SHE WAS REALLY, TRULY A SPECIALHUMAN BEING. 701 00:40:36,896 --> 00:40:43,481 >> DECEMBER 21, 2019 WILL BEFOREVER KNOWN AS "ANIAH HALEY 702 00:40:43,516 --> 00:40:46,619 BLANCHARD DAY" IN THE CITY OFHOMEWOOD, ALABAMA. 703 00:40:46,655 --> 00:40:48,585 [ APPLAUSE] I LOVE YOU, GIRL. 704 00:41:20,724 --> 00:41:23,688 HIS WIFE, A SUSPECT. 705 00:41:23,724 --> 00:41:25,103 AND THE TOXICOLOGY REPORT? 706 00:41:25,137 --> 00:41:25,688 >> THE COMMON INGREDIENT. 707 00:41:25,724 --> 00:41:26,724 >> THE EYEDROP. 708 00:41:26,757 --> 00:41:28,896 WHEN IT IS GIVEN ORALLY, IT IS VERYTOXIC. 709 00:41:28,931 --> 00:41:31,724 >> Reporter: THIS LITTLE BOTTLECOULD BE A MURDER WEAPON. 710 00:41:31,757 --> 00:41:32,965 >> 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