1 00:00:01,689 --> 00:00:05,448 [narrator] Kristen Galvan disappeared January 2nd, 2020. 2 00:00:06,689 --> 00:00:08,724 [Robyn] The police wrote her off as a runaway. 3 00:00:08,827 --> 00:00:11,000 Kristen did not run away. She was abducted, 4 00:00:11,793 --> 00:00:13,931 and taken, period. 5 00:00:14,034 --> 00:00:18,068 This is where Kristen fell into this dark world 6 00:00:18,172 --> 00:00:21,310 of child exploitation and child sex slavery. 7 00:00:21,413 --> 00:00:24,724 [narrator] Her family is desperate for answers. 8 00:00:24,827 --> 00:00:27,689 [Robyn] It's just the lack of response 9 00:00:27,793 --> 00:00:30,379 and return phone calls 10 00:00:30,482 --> 00:00:32,758 of our local law enforcement, 11 00:00:32,862 --> 00:00:34,724 it's appalling. 12 00:00:34,827 --> 00:00:37,103 Unless it's your own daughter, nobody cares. 13 00:00:38,137 --> 00:00:39,724 [narrator] This episode ofDisappeared, 14 00:00:39,827 --> 00:00:42,758 re-traces Kristen's last known steps. 15 00:00:42,862 --> 00:00:45,896 [Charles] Finding out that Kristen was on Bissonnet was devastating. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,068 That kinda evil lurks out there. 17 00:00:48,172 --> 00:00:51,379 We're talking murders, prostitution, everything. 18 00:00:51,482 --> 00:00:55,931 [Robyn] Kristen was coerced, Kristen was lured. 19 00:00:56,034 --> 00:00:59,068 [sobbing] It's every parent's worst nightmare. I'm living it. 20 00:00:59,172 --> 00:01:01,000 [sighs] I've gotta find my baby. 21 00:01:02,413 --> 00:01:04,965 [narrator] The more people who know Kristen's story, 22 00:01:05,068 --> 00:01:08,172 the greater the chance of bringing her home. 23 00:01:08,275 --> 00:01:11,586 Share on social media, get the word out. 24 00:01:11,689 --> 00:01:13,172 Help find her. 25 00:01:14,034 --> 00:01:16,172 [narrator reading] 26 00:01:31,965 --> 00:01:34,965 [Robyn] I'm Robyn Cory, Kristen Galvan is my daughter. 27 00:01:35,068 --> 00:01:38,000 Kristen was 15-years-old when she disappeared 28 00:01:38,103 --> 00:01:42,000 on January 2nd, 2020 in Montgomery County, Texas. 29 00:01:43,033 --> 00:01:45,275 She was visiting her grandmother, 30 00:01:45,378 --> 00:01:48,931 and she is originally from Houston, Texas, born and raised. 31 00:01:53,241 --> 00:01:55,344 Growing up, she was just the light of the world. 32 00:01:55,448 --> 00:01:57,068 She'd walk in any room, and-and-- 33 00:01:57,172 --> 00:01:59,206 she kinda looked like Shirley Temple, if you will, 34 00:01:59,310 --> 00:02:02,068 with those little curls and just, natural bounce. 35 00:02:03,137 --> 00:02:04,413 She loved Elvis. 36 00:02:04,517 --> 00:02:06,896 She'd go and dress up just like Elvis 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,896 and do "I'm All Shook Up." 38 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,275 She was definitely a character. [chuckles] 39 00:02:11,724 --> 00:02:14,448 Kristen has two little brothers, 40 00:02:14,551 --> 00:02:16,379 and she loves her brothers so much. 41 00:02:20,965 --> 00:02:23,827 Kristen is passionate about her family, her friends. 42 00:02:23,931 --> 00:02:27,137 But, Kristen's father has not been in the picture 43 00:02:27,241 --> 00:02:29,586 since she was three-years-old. 44 00:02:29,689 --> 00:02:33,517 Charles came into Kristen's life when she was ten-years-old. 45 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:37,241 [Charles] I'm Charles Cory, I am Kristen Galvan's step-father. 46 00:02:39,103 --> 00:02:41,655 She was just really playful, laughed a lot, 47 00:02:41,758 --> 00:02:44,482 you know, just kids that age, they don't have a lot of worries. 48 00:02:44,586 --> 00:02:47,310 Kristen always had a smile on her face for sure. 49 00:02:50,965 --> 00:02:54,241 [Robyn] Kristen was gifted and talented since third grade. 50 00:02:54,344 --> 00:02:57,551 She loved to sing, she had the voice of an angel. 51 00:02:57,655 --> 00:03:00,172 And we had a very strict schedule in our family, 52 00:03:00,275 --> 00:03:04,620 you know, school, Girl Scouts, some sort of sport activity, home. 53 00:03:06,103 --> 00:03:09,448 In the mornings, you know, my wife would, you know, cook breakfast, 54 00:03:09,551 --> 00:03:11,241 and we'd have pancakes, 55 00:03:11,344 --> 00:03:13,517 and it would just be that good energy of just, 56 00:03:13,620 --> 00:03:15,620 "Hey, what's your plans for the day?" 57 00:03:15,724 --> 00:03:17,206 Kiki, I call her Kiki. 58 00:03:17,310 --> 00:03:19,517 She loved school when she was younger. 59 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:22,379 But, high school was when it kinda started going downhill. 60 00:03:24,965 --> 00:03:26,896 [Robyn] At the end of freshman year, 61 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,344 she did start to act kind of different. 62 00:03:30,448 --> 00:03:33,448 More and more pulled back from the family. 63 00:03:33,551 --> 00:03:37,413 So, in 2019, when Kristen started her sophomore year, 64 00:03:37,517 --> 00:03:40,930 Kristen did have a shift change in her friends. 65 00:03:41,034 --> 00:03:44,103 And that's when Kristen began to skip class. 66 00:03:44,206 --> 00:03:46,724 [Charles] It just seemed like typical teenage behavior. 67 00:03:46,827 --> 00:03:49,896 She started getting involved with the wrong people, you know what I mean? 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 She started acting out, being on her phone a lot 69 00:03:52,103 --> 00:03:54,793 and doing stuff on her phone. 70 00:03:54,896 --> 00:03:58,103 She'd skipped school and I-I said, "Kristen, give me your phone. 71 00:03:58,206 --> 00:04:00,689 You cannot have social media without me having the passwords." 72 00:04:00,793 --> 00:04:03,655 And, I began pulling apart her Instagram messages. 73 00:04:03,758 --> 00:04:07,724 It was-- it was people in her high school, but older. 74 00:04:07,827 --> 00:04:11,482 These boys just seemed like a bunch of gangsters. 75 00:04:11,586 --> 00:04:16,344 And these were new friendships full of empty promises. 76 00:04:16,447 --> 00:04:19,137 Literally, "Hey, we'll buy you a Louis Vuitton bag." 77 00:04:19,241 --> 00:04:23,137 I just thought it was a really, you know, bad boyfriend, 78 00:04:23,241 --> 00:04:26,551 and we needed to get her away from him. 79 00:04:28,620 --> 00:04:30,724 [Charles] Robyn had found some stuff on the phone 80 00:04:30,827 --> 00:04:34,000 that wasn't gonna put up with. 81 00:04:34,103 --> 00:04:37,000 I confronted her about it, it was a big fight over the phone. 82 00:04:40,413 --> 00:04:42,620 [Robyn] November 1st of 2019, 83 00:04:42,724 --> 00:04:44,172 we woke up and she was gone. 84 00:04:46,586 --> 00:04:48,793 There was a note from Kristen 85 00:04:48,896 --> 00:04:52,448 saying that she was going to make her own way, don't look for her. 86 00:04:52,551 --> 00:04:54,103 [Charles] Well, from the letters, she was saying, 87 00:04:54,206 --> 00:04:55,689 she wants to go get money. 88 00:04:55,793 --> 00:04:57,655 And that this is what she wants to do, 89 00:04:57,758 --> 00:04:59,241 and, you know, she's gonna handle it 90 00:04:59,344 --> 00:05:01,896 and all this talk and all this jive talk. 91 00:05:02,517 --> 00:05:04,172 She was 15-years-old. 92 00:05:04,275 --> 00:05:06,068 You know, she shouldn't be doing that. 93 00:05:07,620 --> 00:05:10,448 [Robyn] So, I started calling her phone, of course, I was blocked. 94 00:05:10,551 --> 00:05:13,068 I went to log in into her social media, 95 00:05:13,172 --> 00:05:14,896 and her passwords had changed. 96 00:05:16,448 --> 00:05:18,068 And, I'm calling the police. 97 00:05:18,862 --> 00:05:21,275 The cops said, "She's a runaway. 98 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,413 She'll come back home." 99 00:05:24,758 --> 00:05:26,241 [Charles] They literally didn't do anything. 100 00:05:27,862 --> 00:05:29,413 It makes you feel terrible, 101 00:05:29,517 --> 00:05:31,931 'cause you can't do anything, hopeless. 102 00:05:32,034 --> 00:05:36,137 [Robyn] When I saw that note, I almost knew somebody was in her ear. 103 00:05:36,241 --> 00:05:37,655 I had it in my gut. 104 00:05:37,758 --> 00:05:39,172 It was a complete nightmare. 105 00:05:39,689 --> 00:05:40,896 I was scared. 106 00:05:44,931 --> 00:05:47,413 After a week and a half, my phone starts ringing. 107 00:05:47,517 --> 00:05:49,862 It was-- it was Houston Police Department 108 00:05:49,965 --> 00:05:52,413 and he said, you know, 109 00:05:52,517 --> 00:05:54,689 "Are you Robyn, mother of Kristen?" 110 00:05:54,793 --> 00:05:55,862 I said, "Yes, sir." 111 00:05:55,965 --> 00:05:57,448 He said, "Well, we have her." 112 00:05:59,344 --> 00:06:02,413 And he said, "We picked her up on Bissonnet Street." 113 00:06:02,517 --> 00:06:06,517 And I'm thinking, "Picked her up on Bissonnet Street?" 114 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:09,275 And he said, "Well, ma'am, we'll talk about that later. 115 00:06:09,379 --> 00:06:12,137 We want you to meet us at Texas Children's Hospital." 116 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,827 I go to Texas Children's Hospital. 117 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:21,482 And... there's police officers. 118 00:06:22,344 --> 00:06:23,758 And then I see my daughter. 119 00:06:28,655 --> 00:06:30,517 Kristen's just in tears. 120 00:06:30,931 --> 00:06:33,310 Bruised, pale. 121 00:06:33,413 --> 00:06:37,517 Her hair wasn't brushed, she had nails out to about here. 122 00:06:38,655 --> 00:06:41,862 And she also had $4,000 cash on her. 123 00:06:41,965 --> 00:06:44,310 And that's when the police officer said, 124 00:06:44,413 --> 00:06:46,034 "We think she's been trafficked." 125 00:06:49,310 --> 00:06:52,275 [Kaitlin] My name is Kaitlin Monte, I was a local journalist 126 00:06:52,379 --> 00:06:53,758 and news anchor in Houston 127 00:06:53,862 --> 00:06:56,689 and I was the first person to cover Kristen Galvan's case. 128 00:06:56,793 --> 00:07:00,482 Houston has a huge black eye called Bissonnet Street. 129 00:07:00,586 --> 00:07:01,931 People refer to it as "The Blade", 130 00:07:02,034 --> 00:07:03,517 it's essentially Houston's red light district. 131 00:07:05,448 --> 00:07:07,241 Easily, any given night, 132 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:11,689 you can anywhere from ten to several dozen young women, 133 00:07:11,793 --> 00:07:13,482 and men who are out on the street. 134 00:07:13,586 --> 00:07:16,586 There are hundreds if not thousands of people being trafficked. 135 00:07:16,689 --> 00:07:19,827 Human trafficking is when young men and young woman 136 00:07:19,931 --> 00:07:23,068 are sold for sex or sex acts 137 00:07:23,172 --> 00:07:25,586 usually by a group of men. 138 00:07:25,689 --> 00:07:28,620 Houston police picked Kristen up on Bissonnet 139 00:07:28,724 --> 00:07:31,379 when they recognized that she was clearly a minor 140 00:07:31,482 --> 00:07:35,896 and not able to be consenting to performing sex work. 141 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,931 [Charles] Finding out that Kristen was on Bissonnet was devastating. 142 00:07:39,758 --> 00:07:41,241 Crushing. 143 00:07:41,344 --> 00:07:43,896 That kinda evil lurks out there. 144 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,758 We're talking murders, prostitution, everything. 145 00:07:48,724 --> 00:07:52,448 [Robyn] By the end of the hospital trip, 146 00:07:52,551 --> 00:07:54,793 as a mother, I'm thinking, 147 00:07:55,896 --> 00:07:57,758 "Do I bring her home with me?" 148 00:08:00,310 --> 00:08:03,344 We decided it best for her to go live with my parents. 149 00:08:03,448 --> 00:08:07,482 They're up in, you know, Montgomery County in The Woodlands. 150 00:08:07,586 --> 00:08:10,310 [Kaitlin] Now, Montgomery County is 40 miles outside of Houston 151 00:08:10,413 --> 00:08:12,931 and is considered a really safe and appealing area, 152 00:08:13,034 --> 00:08:14,482 particularly for families. 153 00:08:14,586 --> 00:08:17,000 So, it's very reasonable that that would be a much better place 154 00:08:17,103 --> 00:08:18,827 for someone like Kristen to go 155 00:08:18,931 --> 00:08:22,310 particularly if you knew that there was issues related to her, uh, 156 00:08:22,413 --> 00:08:25,310 having anything to do or any ties to Bissonnet. 157 00:08:28,103 --> 00:08:30,275 [Robyn] So, when Kristen, you know, went to my mum's house, 158 00:08:30,379 --> 00:08:31,931 it's a hour and a half away. 159 00:08:32,034 --> 00:08:33,275 I was still calling her everyday 160 00:08:33,379 --> 00:08:37,275 and I was still going pretty much everyday to go see her. 161 00:08:37,379 --> 00:08:39,620 I had to keep Kristen away from her brothers, 162 00:08:39,724 --> 00:08:43,344 because I don't want them to see all this drama. 163 00:08:43,448 --> 00:08:46,965 It took her a couple weeks to really start to come forth. 164 00:08:47,068 --> 00:08:51,103 But, she later opened up and told me everything. 165 00:08:51,206 --> 00:08:54,724 Kristen said her boyfriend told her to write a nice, lovely note. 166 00:08:56,206 --> 00:08:58,000 It was all planned. 167 00:08:58,103 --> 00:09:00,517 Her boyfriend would buy her bags. 168 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:03,896 But, she said, "It turned dark so quick, mom." 169 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,793 She said, "He drove me out there on Bissonnet Street." 170 00:09:07,896 --> 00:09:12,068 And Kristen said she had to sleep with 20 guys a day. 171 00:09:12,172 --> 00:09:13,793 You know, if you didn't have that money, 172 00:09:14,344 --> 00:09:16,517 it was hell to pay. 173 00:09:17,793 --> 00:09:19,965 She's like, "Mom, what they did to me was wrong. 174 00:09:20,068 --> 00:09:22,758 Like, I really thought he loved me." 175 00:09:22,862 --> 00:09:25,724 [Kaitlin] Traffickers use what's called "the Romeo effect", 176 00:09:25,827 --> 00:09:28,586 which is sort of a romantic relationship. 177 00:09:28,689 --> 00:09:30,448 It doesn't start off as a threat. 178 00:09:30,551 --> 00:09:33,137 And then, it's not until you get too deep 179 00:09:33,241 --> 00:09:35,862 that you realize, "I can't get out of this." 180 00:09:35,965 --> 00:09:37,482 [Robyn chuckles] Before she went missing, 181 00:09:37,586 --> 00:09:41,103 Kristen claimed this boy as her boyfriend. 182 00:09:41,206 --> 00:09:43,896 And he told her, 'Hey, I'm gonna buy you the world. 183 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,655 You're so beautiful. 184 00:09:45,758 --> 00:09:49,275 You're gorgeous, you deserve the world. 185 00:09:49,379 --> 00:09:51,620 I'm gonna give you the world." 186 00:09:51,724 --> 00:09:54,827 Flattering her and kind of, grooming her, 187 00:09:54,931 --> 00:09:56,620 to believe this. 188 00:09:56,724 --> 00:10:00,206 And, I just didn't hit it at the time. 189 00:10:00,310 --> 00:10:04,448 I knew that he was bad, every red flag was there. 190 00:10:04,551 --> 00:10:08,000 [Charles] She literally said, "You do not know what these people did to me. 191 00:10:08,103 --> 00:10:10,758 You have no clue what these people did to me." 192 00:10:10,862 --> 00:10:14,034 She wasn't the same person, you know, in her eyes. 193 00:10:15,310 --> 00:10:18,034 She's wake up shaking, crying, sweating, just-- 194 00:10:18,137 --> 00:10:20,482 this kid was sweating profusely, 195 00:10:20,586 --> 00:10:23,586 screaming with her nightmares. 196 00:10:23,689 --> 00:10:25,068 You know, these guys have really gotten in her head, 197 00:10:25,172 --> 00:10:26,310 basically, like brainwashing. 198 00:10:27,931 --> 00:10:30,275 [Robyn] So, we called vice, we called HPD 199 00:10:30,379 --> 00:10:32,724 and they came down, got more statements. 200 00:10:32,827 --> 00:10:34,517 We gave 'em the phone. 201 00:10:34,620 --> 00:10:38,379 Yeah, I believed that these detectives were doing the best of their ability 202 00:10:38,482 --> 00:10:39,965 to get these traffickers 203 00:10:40,068 --> 00:10:42,310 so this wouldn't happen again or to anybody else. 204 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,241 I had no clue what was about to come. 205 00:10:55,275 --> 00:10:57,620 The psychiatry appointments began pretty quickly. 206 00:10:58,379 --> 00:10:59,931 We started therapy. 207 00:11:00,034 --> 00:11:02,413 And she finally began to write in her journal. 208 00:11:03,586 --> 00:11:05,344 She started to feel better about herself, 209 00:11:05,448 --> 00:11:08,379 you could see, kind of, you know, the light coming back into her eyes 210 00:11:08,482 --> 00:11:10,310 and she was visiting with her brothers more 211 00:11:10,413 --> 00:11:12,517 and she was making so much progress. 212 00:11:14,206 --> 00:11:15,896 So, Christmas time was good. 213 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,241 Kristen was planning to go back to school in January, 214 00:11:18,344 --> 00:11:20,241 to a different school, of course, 215 00:11:20,344 --> 00:11:22,965 and to get back into school, she needed a phone. 216 00:11:23,068 --> 00:11:25,793 So, we thought it was time to-- 217 00:11:25,896 --> 00:11:29,344 yeah, maybe it's time for you to have your phone back. 218 00:11:29,448 --> 00:11:31,620 And we were monitoring her on it, 219 00:11:31,724 --> 00:11:32,758 you know, it was in the kitchen 220 00:11:32,862 --> 00:11:35,034 she couldn't have it at all at night. 221 00:11:35,137 --> 00:11:37,896 I was a 100% nervous about giving her the phone back, 222 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,862 you know, 'cause she was highly influenced. 223 00:11:39,965 --> 00:11:42,068 [Robyn] January 1st of 2020, 224 00:11:42,172 --> 00:11:44,000 we were at my mum's house. 225 00:11:44,103 --> 00:11:46,103 We'd had our New Years meal, 226 00:11:46,206 --> 00:11:49,655 and it seemed like a pretty, you know, normal day. 227 00:11:49,758 --> 00:11:51,034 She seemed okay. 228 00:11:52,379 --> 00:11:54,931 I was planning on coming back the next day and seeing her. 229 00:11:57,482 --> 00:11:59,655 My dad woke up the next day and she was gone. 230 00:12:01,241 --> 00:12:04,068 Kristen did not leave any notes this time. 231 00:12:04,172 --> 00:12:08,310 Kristen did not leave any indication of anything. 232 00:12:08,413 --> 00:12:10,068 She was just gone. 233 00:12:10,172 --> 00:12:11,689 How am I gonna find my daughter? 234 00:12:20,068 --> 00:12:21,413 [Robyn] My baby's missing. 235 00:12:21,517 --> 00:12:22,758 And I'm panicking. 236 00:12:23,655 --> 00:12:26,103 And what do I do as a parent? 237 00:12:26,206 --> 00:12:27,655 Kristen took her phone with her. 238 00:12:27,758 --> 00:12:29,448 We kept trying to call Kristen's phone, 239 00:12:29,551 --> 00:12:31,482 but I was blocked. 240 00:12:31,586 --> 00:12:33,206 We only had her for like, a month and a half. 241 00:12:33,931 --> 00:12:35,137 And she's gone again. 242 00:12:39,655 --> 00:12:41,724 [Robyn] When she was rescued that first time, 243 00:12:42,655 --> 00:12:44,551 she was scared for her life. 244 00:12:44,655 --> 00:12:47,034 She was so persistent. 245 00:12:47,137 --> 00:12:50,103 She's like, "Y'all don't understand, I have to go. 246 00:12:50,206 --> 00:12:52,103 They're going to kill you all. 247 00:12:52,206 --> 00:12:54,931 They know where you live, they know where grandma lives. 248 00:12:55,034 --> 00:12:56,068 Mom, I have to go." 249 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:00,758 [Kaitlin] Once you're tapped by this dark underworld 250 00:13:00,862 --> 00:13:02,620 of human trafficking and sex trafficking, 251 00:13:02,724 --> 00:13:05,068 it is hard to get away from this network. 252 00:13:05,172 --> 00:13:07,965 This is not just one pimp who comes, meets you 253 00:13:08,068 --> 00:13:09,620 and takes you down to Bissonnet. 254 00:13:09,724 --> 00:13:12,103 These individuals work for, essentially, the mob. 255 00:13:12,206 --> 00:13:15,448 And that network is very powerful and terrifying, 256 00:13:15,551 --> 00:13:18,344 and so, it is really hard to feel safe again 257 00:13:18,448 --> 00:13:21,620 and many young women and men who get pulled into sex trafficking 258 00:13:21,724 --> 00:13:23,758 will return to it over and over 259 00:13:23,862 --> 00:13:26,034 because they don't see any way out 260 00:13:26,137 --> 00:13:28,172 and they're threatened that their families and their loved ones 261 00:13:28,275 --> 00:13:29,827 could be harmed if they were to leave 262 00:13:29,931 --> 00:13:32,896 or do anything that would impact the business. 263 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,137 When Kristen went missing the second time, 264 00:13:35,241 --> 00:13:37,206 Kristen's boyfriend was in custody. 265 00:13:37,310 --> 00:13:41,034 So, he insists he has no idea what happened. 266 00:13:41,137 --> 00:13:43,655 But it is easy for the sex trafficking ring 267 00:13:43,758 --> 00:13:46,034 to put a new pimp in place when you arrest one. 268 00:13:46,137 --> 00:13:49,517 So, it's possible that Kristen was lured back 269 00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:53,655 by someone within her boyfriend's sex trafficking network. 270 00:13:53,758 --> 00:13:56,034 Of course, she was scared, of course, she's upset. 271 00:13:56,137 --> 00:13:58,689 She's a little tiny girl, she's a little girl. 272 00:13:58,793 --> 00:14:00,344 She don't know anything else. 273 00:14:01,344 --> 00:14:03,862 She was lured and brainwashed, 274 00:14:03,965 --> 00:14:06,517 and when you're a young girl like that, you're influenceable. 275 00:14:06,620 --> 00:14:09,068 You go off, like, what p-- people tell you. 276 00:14:09,172 --> 00:14:11,241 And if you're being led this way, I mean, 277 00:14:11,344 --> 00:14:13,000 that's the way you're gonna go. 278 00:14:13,103 --> 00:14:15,724 I couldn't believe that the police didn't offer her protection. 279 00:14:18,034 --> 00:14:22,517 I was scared that Kristen was lured back to these men 280 00:14:22,620 --> 00:14:24,344 because she got her phone back. 281 00:14:24,448 --> 00:14:27,655 It's estimated that trafficking victims can be recovered by their traffickers 282 00:14:27,758 --> 00:14:29,206 as many as seven times, 283 00:14:29,310 --> 00:14:31,965 uh, because they have an investment in you. 284 00:14:32,689 --> 00:14:35,034 Kristen was coerced. 285 00:14:35,862 --> 00:14:38,068 Kristen was lured. 286 00:14:38,172 --> 00:14:40,310 Kristen was groomed. 287 00:14:40,413 --> 00:14:44,000 She might've left the house because she wanted to protect her family, 288 00:14:44,103 --> 00:14:46,241 she might've left the house because she was lured out 289 00:14:46,344 --> 00:14:49,310 by the same psychological tricks that lured her the first time. 290 00:14:49,413 --> 00:14:51,896 We don't know. We don't know why she left the house. 291 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,275 But, we know that she's not been seen since. 292 00:14:55,931 --> 00:14:57,896 [Robyn] I was scared. 293 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,586 So, we reported her immediately missing. 294 00:15:00,689 --> 00:15:03,000 I did make that flyer. 295 00:15:03,103 --> 00:15:06,241 But, the police wrote her off as a runaway. 296 00:15:06,344 --> 00:15:08,517 Kristen did not run away. She was abducted, 297 00:15:09,137 --> 00:15:11,689 and taken, period. 298 00:15:11,793 --> 00:15:13,586 [Charles] She's a young 15-year-old girl 299 00:15:13,689 --> 00:15:16,241 that has just been sexually assaulted by multiple men, 300 00:15:16,344 --> 00:15:17,862 and you have evidence of this, 301 00:15:17,965 --> 00:15:19,862 like, why wouldn't you take action? 302 00:15:19,965 --> 00:15:22,896 [Robyn] I mean, the logical thing to do 303 00:15:23,724 --> 00:15:26,310 would be, go to Bissonnet, right? 304 00:15:26,413 --> 00:15:28,241 So, I'm trying to figure out this, that, 305 00:15:28,344 --> 00:15:29,896 and get police to move. 306 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,413 That's when I'm like, 307 00:15:32,724 --> 00:15:34,413 I'm gonna go there myself. 308 00:15:37,275 --> 00:15:42,034 January 3rd of 2020, 309 00:15:42,137 --> 00:15:45,965 was the first time I actually went to Bissonnet Street. 310 00:15:46,068 --> 00:15:48,586 What is a middle-age soccer mom 311 00:15:48,689 --> 00:15:50,862 who clearly looks like a mom, 312 00:15:50,965 --> 00:15:54,000 you know, doing on Bissonnet with a big, red jeep? 313 00:15:54,103 --> 00:15:55,586 You got people watching you. 314 00:15:55,689 --> 00:15:57,344 I go down there with a bullet-proof vest. 315 00:15:57,448 --> 00:16:00,586 I was even paying homeless people out there to be my lookout. 316 00:16:01,620 --> 00:16:03,172 [Charles] That's mama bear. 317 00:16:03,275 --> 00:16:05,965 We'd go out there and she'd make me drive over and over again 318 00:16:06,068 --> 00:16:09,413 around and around and around the streets, the strip 319 00:16:09,517 --> 00:16:10,827 to try to find her. 320 00:16:10,931 --> 00:16:12,344 And, she wasn't there. 321 00:16:12,448 --> 00:16:16,379 You see half naked girls, you see cops not doing anything, 322 00:16:16,482 --> 00:16:18,379 and you see a long line of cars 323 00:16:18,482 --> 00:16:22,827 just waiting to have one of these girls get into their car. 324 00:16:22,931 --> 00:16:25,310 [Robyn] I was showing the convenience stores, "Hey, have you seen her? 325 00:16:25,413 --> 00:16:26,827 Can I put her picture up?" 326 00:16:26,931 --> 00:16:30,206 Nobody would let me put that-- her picture up at all in that area. 327 00:16:30,586 --> 00:16:32,000 Nobody. 328 00:16:32,103 --> 00:16:35,034 This is organized crime at its finest. 329 00:16:35,137 --> 00:16:37,000 They were all scared. 330 00:16:37,103 --> 00:16:39,310 Like, I would show 'em Kristen's picture, 331 00:16:39,413 --> 00:16:40,655 "Oh, you're in some deep[bleep]." 332 00:16:40,758 --> 00:16:44,517 Like, this is the stuff I got from people in that area. 333 00:16:50,206 --> 00:16:53,034 [Charles] At this point, Kristen has been missing for a year. 334 00:16:53,137 --> 00:16:55,931 The police definitely need to be doing more... anything. 335 00:16:56,034 --> 00:16:58,137 We're literally casing out the place. 336 00:16:58,241 --> 00:17:00,103 You know, we're trying to take it in our own hands 337 00:17:00,206 --> 00:17:04,448 'cause we call law enforcement, the feds, FBI, we call everybody. 338 00:17:04,550 --> 00:17:06,205 Nobody helps us, nobody cares. 339 00:17:06,310 --> 00:17:08,827 Unless it's your own daughter, nobody cares. 340 00:17:10,034 --> 00:17:12,448 [Robyn] It's just the lack of response, 341 00:17:13,137 --> 00:17:15,619 and return phone calls 342 00:17:15,723 --> 00:17:19,172 of our local law enforcement, our officials, 343 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:21,827 and-and people I need to speak to. 344 00:17:21,931 --> 00:17:23,723 It's-It's appalling. 345 00:17:23,827 --> 00:17:26,792 These people avoid me like I'm a plague. 346 00:17:26,896 --> 00:17:29,172 And the silence is deafening. 347 00:17:36,517 --> 00:17:40,344 And so, that's when I found Betty. 348 00:17:40,448 --> 00:17:43,379 [Betty] My name is Betty Simons, I am a private investigator. 349 00:17:43,482 --> 00:17:46,068 And I became involved in Kristen's case 350 00:17:46,172 --> 00:17:50,586 in early 2021 after Robyn reached out to me. 351 00:17:50,689 --> 00:17:53,448 I've made it my life work to help victims of sex trafficking 352 00:17:53,551 --> 00:17:55,310 because it hits close home to me. 353 00:17:55,413 --> 00:17:58,379 My sister was sex trafficked at 14-years-old, 354 00:17:58,482 --> 00:18:00,448 and eventually, it led to her murder. 355 00:18:01,655 --> 00:18:03,620 I'm able to keep her memory alive 356 00:18:03,724 --> 00:18:07,103 by helping girls who are victims of this horrible crime. 357 00:18:07,206 --> 00:18:11,620 I've actually recovered 46 missing and exploited children. 358 00:18:11,724 --> 00:18:14,482 Somebody has to step up and somebody has to help these children. 359 00:18:15,620 --> 00:18:18,965 Our law enforcement is very understaffed. 360 00:18:19,068 --> 00:18:23,965 There's only seven detectives in HPD for missing people. 361 00:18:24,068 --> 00:18:27,000 You're talking over 8,000 people reported missing a year 362 00:18:27,103 --> 00:18:28,586 and only seven detectives to work it. 363 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,344 When I first learned about Kristen's disappearance, 364 00:18:32,448 --> 00:18:37,620 you know, my first initial gut reaction is, "What have the police done?" 365 00:18:37,724 --> 00:18:40,793 "Who's the detective in charge, what is going on? 366 00:18:40,896 --> 00:18:42,172 Do we have any leads, 367 00:18:42,275 --> 00:18:45,413 or is there any which way we're kinda going on this case? 368 00:18:45,517 --> 00:18:47,620 What the cops saying? What is law enforcement saying?" 369 00:18:49,068 --> 00:18:53,275 I personally had talked to somebody in HPD that I trust 370 00:18:53,379 --> 00:18:56,517 and I have a good relationship with, and when I asked him, 371 00:18:56,620 --> 00:18:59,206 "What's going on with the Kristen Galvan case?" 372 00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:01,275 His response was, "Who?" 373 00:19:03,655 --> 00:19:06,310 [Robyn] And I began to give Betty everything I had. 374 00:19:06,413 --> 00:19:09,172 And she began to really help me 375 00:19:09,275 --> 00:19:12,137 put some pieces together finally, 376 00:19:12,241 --> 00:19:15,344 that law enforcement should have been doing. 377 00:19:15,448 --> 00:19:18,965 And, I made, uh, "Justice for Kristen", it's a Facebook group. 378 00:19:20,310 --> 00:19:22,413 [Betty] So, once I got Kristen's case, 379 00:19:22,517 --> 00:19:24,034 I'm hitting social media, 380 00:19:24,137 --> 00:19:26,206 I'm looking through online ads, 381 00:19:26,310 --> 00:19:29,241 I am following these known traffickers 382 00:19:29,344 --> 00:19:30,724 and their girls, 383 00:19:30,827 --> 00:19:33,862 and trying to see if I can just get a glimpse of Kristen. 384 00:19:33,965 --> 00:19:37,344 There are hundreds of escort websites 385 00:19:37,448 --> 00:19:41,379 and so, what we've learned is how to kinda limit those down. 386 00:19:43,793 --> 00:19:47,862 It's estimated around 300,000 ads are placed every single day. 387 00:19:47,965 --> 00:19:50,310 So, no one could go through all of those. 388 00:19:50,413 --> 00:19:52,689 But, there are softwares like Traffic Jam 389 00:19:52,793 --> 00:19:57,482 that are able to use AI to scan all of these ads and all over the internet 390 00:19:57,586 --> 00:19:59,827 to figure out not these ads' being placed 391 00:19:59,931 --> 00:20:02,413 but whose face is in them. 392 00:20:02,517 --> 00:20:05,241 Through technology like this, we have a better chance 393 00:20:05,344 --> 00:20:06,517 of getting through more of them, 394 00:20:06,620 --> 00:20:08,896 and hopefully identifying more young women and young men 395 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,551 who may be, um, being advertised and sold. 396 00:20:14,448 --> 00:20:16,448 [Betty] In February of 2021, 397 00:20:16,551 --> 00:20:18,034 I actually sat down and had a meeting 398 00:20:18,137 --> 00:20:20,931 with a trusted source I had in Houston Police Department. 399 00:20:21,034 --> 00:20:23,310 And so, I gave him Kristen's picture. 400 00:20:23,413 --> 00:20:25,758 And he said, you know, "Let me help." 401 00:20:25,862 --> 00:20:28,344 And just two days later, 402 00:20:28,448 --> 00:20:30,965 they had a hit on Traffic Jam 403 00:20:31,068 --> 00:20:33,000 which they believed could have been Kristen. 404 00:20:35,206 --> 00:20:37,241 [Robyn] I know every freckle on my daughter's body. 405 00:20:37,344 --> 00:20:39,206 I know every birth mark. 406 00:20:39,310 --> 00:20:41,034 And I look at the face that the, 407 00:20:41,137 --> 00:20:43,068 the Houston DA sent me, 408 00:20:43,172 --> 00:20:44,655 and, I mean, my heart dropped. 409 00:20:44,758 --> 00:20:47,655 They also sent me a-- another photo of her hands. 410 00:20:47,758 --> 00:20:50,655 And, so the hands looked like hers. 411 00:20:50,758 --> 00:20:52,000 I was like, "That's Kristen. 412 00:20:53,310 --> 00:20:54,689 That's Kristen. 413 00:20:54,793 --> 00:20:56,724 Where is she? We gotta go get her." 414 00:21:04,241 --> 00:21:06,689 [Robyn] So that was taken in Atlanta, Georgia, 415 00:21:06,793 --> 00:21:10,586 and Kristen was being sold for $10,000 per night. 416 00:21:12,068 --> 00:21:13,448 And so at that point, 417 00:21:13,551 --> 00:21:16,793 that's when Kristen's case became a FBI case. 418 00:21:18,172 --> 00:21:19,448 'Cause now he have evidence 419 00:21:19,551 --> 00:21:22,379 that she has crossed state lines. 420 00:21:22,482 --> 00:21:24,724 But I'm still gonna go there myself. [laughs] 421 00:21:27,172 --> 00:21:31,448 And so on February 8th of 2021, 422 00:21:32,551 --> 00:21:33,827 I flew to Atlanta. 423 00:21:35,137 --> 00:21:37,724 And you know, each huge city has a Bissonnet. 424 00:21:39,103 --> 00:21:42,172 And Atlanta's very dangerous. 425 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:45,724 And I'm thinking, "We're gonna find her in Atlanta, this is it." 426 00:21:48,413 --> 00:21:50,517 [Betty] And when we got the hit for Traffic Jam, 427 00:21:50,620 --> 00:21:52,172 we saw that two other young girls 428 00:21:52,275 --> 00:21:54,068 were in the ads with Kristen. 429 00:21:54,172 --> 00:21:55,448 As Robyn's in Georgia, 430 00:21:55,551 --> 00:21:57,862 I'm back home in Houston 431 00:21:57,965 --> 00:22:00,517 really trying to locate the other two girls 432 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:03,931 and figure out who they really were, their names, 433 00:22:04,034 --> 00:22:06,000 and doing a research on that backend. 434 00:22:10,068 --> 00:22:11,586 [Robyn] So I'm in Atlanta, 435 00:22:13,172 --> 00:22:14,379 we're passing out flyers, 436 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,620 I'm talking to everybody. 437 00:22:16,724 --> 00:22:20,379 And they claimed they just didn't have any idea who that was. 438 00:22:20,482 --> 00:22:22,551 And they're pretty much pleading the fifth on it. 439 00:22:24,206 --> 00:22:27,310 [Betty] I was able to talk to both girls in the ads with Kristen 440 00:22:27,413 --> 00:22:28,758 via FaceTime. 441 00:22:28,862 --> 00:22:30,448 And I showed them Kristen's picture, 442 00:22:30,551 --> 00:22:32,965 and they said, "Yeah, she looks a lot like her. 443 00:22:33,758 --> 00:22:34,931 But that's not her." 444 00:22:36,206 --> 00:22:40,206 And so they showed me the other girl's social media, 445 00:22:40,310 --> 00:22:43,689 and the resemblance was so similar. 446 00:22:44,448 --> 00:22:46,034 But it wasn't Kristen. 447 00:22:50,137 --> 00:22:51,517 [Robyn] I talked to Betty, 448 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:55,137 and I come back to Houston in tears. 449 00:22:55,241 --> 00:22:59,275 Getting on that plane, going from Georgia to Houston, 450 00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:01,137 I was just completely heartbroken. 451 00:23:03,172 --> 00:23:07,137 [Betty] Even though you have these softwares that are extremely accurate, 452 00:23:07,241 --> 00:23:09,103 and very beneficial, 453 00:23:09,206 --> 00:23:10,793 they're not a 100%. 454 00:23:10,896 --> 00:23:14,517 And so if somebody has a similar facial feature or hair, 455 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:18,724 it may pick up as being, um, that individual or that victim 456 00:23:18,827 --> 00:23:20,896 and it-- and it's unfortunately just not. 457 00:23:24,517 --> 00:23:26,620 Right now, we're actually headed to 458 00:23:26,724 --> 00:23:28,344 what we call the Bissonnet Track 459 00:23:28,448 --> 00:23:30,655 or "the Blade" as they call it. 460 00:23:33,827 --> 00:23:36,068 Usually out here, you'll see on average 461 00:23:36,172 --> 00:23:39,275 25 to 35, uh, trafficking victims 462 00:23:39,379 --> 00:23:43,275 that typically work this Blade in this particular track. 463 00:23:44,137 --> 00:23:45,586 They're living out of hotels 464 00:23:45,689 --> 00:23:47,758 and so they're able to move around 465 00:23:49,068 --> 00:23:51,275 at the drop of a dime. 466 00:23:51,379 --> 00:23:53,517 So we'll see the same girls for you know, 467 00:23:53,620 --> 00:23:55,000 a couple of months, 468 00:23:55,103 --> 00:23:59,689 and then next thing you know, they'll move over into Vegas. 469 00:23:59,793 --> 00:24:03,137 And then they'll go, you know, into Florida. 470 00:24:03,241 --> 00:24:05,965 Um, and so they kind of make their way around the US. 471 00:24:06,068 --> 00:24:08,517 They are travelling a lot. 472 00:24:08,620 --> 00:24:10,517 And then, you know, 473 00:24:10,620 --> 00:24:11,931 we won't see 'em for several months. 474 00:24:12,034 --> 00:24:13,482 And then they'll come back around 475 00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:15,758 and we'll see 'em back in Houston. 476 00:24:15,862 --> 00:24:18,724 And so we have to keep looking for Kristen. 477 00:24:22,827 --> 00:24:25,793 [Robyn] On April 24th of 2021, 478 00:24:25,896 --> 00:24:28,448 I receive a tip on Facebook 479 00:24:28,551 --> 00:24:32,034 from a Latasha Robinson here in Houston, 480 00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:36,379 saying that Kristen is locked up in a house here in Houston. 481 00:24:36,482 --> 00:24:38,896 So Latasha was trafficked and she escaped. 482 00:24:40,517 --> 00:24:43,034 And this woman literally tells me things about my daughter 483 00:24:43,137 --> 00:24:44,551 nobody else knew. 484 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,413 She knew Kristen sang. 485 00:24:50,103 --> 00:24:52,482 [crying] And that she had the most amazing voice. 486 00:24:53,827 --> 00:24:54,620 [sniffles] 487 00:24:56,034 --> 00:24:57,517 [Betty] Yeah, she gave us addresses, 488 00:24:57,620 --> 00:24:59,482 and very detailed information. 489 00:25:00,793 --> 00:25:02,827 And so as the information's coming in, 490 00:25:02,931 --> 00:25:04,413 this seemed extremely credible. 491 00:25:05,379 --> 00:25:07,965 Latasha Robinson said that 492 00:25:08,068 --> 00:25:10,137 there was four girls locked in this house 493 00:25:10,241 --> 00:25:11,517 here in Houston. 494 00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:12,413 They were all pregnant. 495 00:25:13,206 --> 00:25:14,689 Kristen is pregnant. 496 00:25:17,758 --> 00:25:19,793 Latasha Robinson said that 497 00:25:19,896 --> 00:25:21,103 if the girls tried to run 498 00:25:21,206 --> 00:25:22,793 they would kill their families. 499 00:25:24,413 --> 00:25:26,827 She gave me the location of this house. 500 00:25:26,931 --> 00:25:28,068 I looked up the house, 501 00:25:28,172 --> 00:25:30,620 and it had burglar bars on the inside and outside, 502 00:25:30,724 --> 00:25:32,034 just like she described. 503 00:25:34,344 --> 00:25:36,724 [Betty] And so we decided to actually go 504 00:25:36,827 --> 00:25:39,103 and watch this address 505 00:25:39,206 --> 00:25:41,827 that we felt Kristen was being trafficked out of. 506 00:25:42,965 --> 00:25:44,758 At that point, we set up surveillance, 507 00:25:44,862 --> 00:25:47,379 we were in approximately 12 hours worth of surveillance 508 00:25:48,034 --> 00:25:49,137 on the residence. 509 00:25:50,827 --> 00:25:51,724 During our surveillance, 510 00:25:51,827 --> 00:25:53,206 we didn't see any kind of activity 511 00:25:53,310 --> 00:25:56,655 that would indicate that a trafficking ring was going on there. 512 00:25:56,758 --> 00:25:58,379 There was no out-of-the-ordinary vehicles 513 00:25:58,482 --> 00:25:59,965 coming or going. 514 00:26:00,068 --> 00:26:02,586 There was just nothing really out of the ordinary. 515 00:26:02,689 --> 00:26:05,413 And so as we continued that investigation, 516 00:26:05,517 --> 00:26:07,034 we eventually learned that 517 00:26:07,137 --> 00:26:09,034 a small family was residing in the home. 518 00:26:10,172 --> 00:26:12,758 And so, there was no trafficking going on. 519 00:26:15,724 --> 00:26:19,206 So at that point, my suspicions start rising. 520 00:26:19,310 --> 00:26:22,551 I really wanna look into this Latasha and who she is 521 00:26:22,655 --> 00:26:25,068 and where her claims are coming from. 522 00:26:25,172 --> 00:26:28,482 And so I-- I began to investigate her personally. 523 00:26:28,586 --> 00:26:29,931 I quickly found out that 524 00:26:30,034 --> 00:26:32,862 Latasha unfortunately did have an addiction problem, 525 00:26:32,965 --> 00:26:35,724 that the person she was claiming was Kristen 526 00:26:35,827 --> 00:26:37,241 and hers trafficker, 527 00:26:37,344 --> 00:26:39,586 is actually an ex-husband of hers. 528 00:26:41,379 --> 00:26:42,448 [Robyn] Who's gonna make up, 529 00:26:42,551 --> 00:26:45,310 "Hey, your baby's over here locked up at a house." 530 00:26:45,413 --> 00:26:48,310 There's, there's gotta be something mentally wrong if you do that. 531 00:26:50,172 --> 00:26:51,793 [Betty] In my experience as a private investigator, 532 00:26:51,896 --> 00:26:53,965 I think Latasha's motive 533 00:26:54,068 --> 00:26:57,241 could've been anywhere from a revenge, 534 00:26:57,344 --> 00:27:00,862 and unfortunately, using an innocent family like Robyn 535 00:27:00,965 --> 00:27:03,965 to get her revenge on an ex-boyfriend. 536 00:27:04,068 --> 00:27:06,724 I don't feel like she was in it for any kind of a-- a money 537 00:27:06,827 --> 00:27:08,241 or a financial gain. 538 00:27:08,344 --> 00:27:11,000 But I do believe it was just a ploy. 539 00:27:11,103 --> 00:27:14,000 [Kaitlin] The FBI has issued warnings about the level of scams 540 00:27:14,103 --> 00:27:17,068 that families of missing persons get subjected to. 541 00:27:17,172 --> 00:27:19,448 It's unfortunately far too common. 542 00:27:22,068 --> 00:27:24,137 [Charles] It makes you feel relief at first. 543 00:27:24,241 --> 00:27:25,517 Like, thank God 544 00:27:25,620 --> 00:27:27,344 she wasn't chained in this basement. 545 00:27:27,448 --> 00:27:29,758 Thank God this stuff wasn't real. 546 00:27:29,862 --> 00:27:31,586 You know, it really does, it gives you relief, 547 00:27:31,689 --> 00:27:33,655 that-- that there's still hope, 548 00:27:33,758 --> 00:27:36,413 that she's still out there and that she's okay. 549 00:27:37,931 --> 00:27:41,034 [Betty] It's devastating and you know, a mother... 550 00:27:41,137 --> 00:27:42,758 is desperate to find her child. 551 00:27:44,172 --> 00:27:46,724 And so she's gonna hold on to any lead that comes in. 552 00:27:46,827 --> 00:27:48,689 But on an investigative standpoint, 553 00:27:48,793 --> 00:27:51,448 we have no choice but to drop that and move on. 554 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:53,137 I think... 555 00:27:54,379 --> 00:27:55,793 being a-- a private investigator, 556 00:27:55,896 --> 00:27:57,965 that's the hardest part of the job. 557 00:27:58,068 --> 00:28:01,517 Is having to see that devastation in a-- 558 00:28:01,620 --> 00:28:03,034 in a family's face, 559 00:28:03,137 --> 00:28:06,413 and watch them break down time and time again, 560 00:28:06,517 --> 00:28:07,655 tip after tip. 561 00:28:09,206 --> 00:28:12,241 Kristen's case is literally the most challenging case 562 00:28:12,344 --> 00:28:13,758 I've ever worked. 563 00:28:19,793 --> 00:28:21,206 [Robyn] So June 1st, 564 00:28:21,310 --> 00:28:24,206 I get a Facebook Messenger message 565 00:28:24,655 --> 00:28:25,448 from Kristen, 566 00:28:26,206 --> 00:28:27,827 saying, "Mom, it's me. 567 00:28:29,068 --> 00:28:31,413 I need you to go get my baby. 568 00:28:33,241 --> 00:28:35,413 They made me dump him in a porta potty. 569 00:28:35,517 --> 00:28:37,413 He's a Hispanic baby. 570 00:28:38,241 --> 00:28:40,275 Mom, please go get your grandbaby." 571 00:28:41,448 --> 00:28:43,551 [Kaitlin] Maybe Latasha was telling the truth 572 00:28:43,655 --> 00:28:45,793 about Kristen's pregnancy after all. 573 00:28:45,896 --> 00:28:47,793 Because it's totally reasonable 574 00:28:47,896 --> 00:28:50,000 that someone who's been sex-trafficked 575 00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:53,413 might be forced to get rid of the baby. 576 00:28:53,517 --> 00:28:56,551 Even if the baby had been born healthy and full-term. 577 00:28:56,655 --> 00:29:00,172 And then I immediately did a simple Google search. 578 00:29:00,275 --> 00:29:02,275 And this news article had come up 579 00:29:02,379 --> 00:29:06,034 that there was a newborn found in a porta potty in Houston. 580 00:29:07,689 --> 00:29:09,241 It was a complete nightmare. 581 00:29:09,344 --> 00:29:10,103 I was a mess. 582 00:29:17,931 --> 00:29:21,689 [narrator] Kristen Galvan was last seen January 2nd, 2020. 583 00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:23,413 [narrator reading] 584 00:29:36,310 --> 00:29:38,689 [Robyn] When I saw that dead baby found 585 00:29:38,793 --> 00:29:40,689 in a porta potty in Houston, 586 00:29:40,793 --> 00:29:42,275 it was crazy. 587 00:29:42,379 --> 00:29:43,379 And here I am again, 588 00:29:44,379 --> 00:29:45,689 uh, calling FBI. 589 00:29:45,793 --> 00:29:48,655 Because feds don't mess with that kind of stuff. 590 00:29:48,758 --> 00:29:51,206 [reporter] Breaking news out of Northeast Harris County, 591 00:29:51,310 --> 00:29:53,000 that's where deputies say they found the body 592 00:29:53,103 --> 00:29:56,172 of a deceased newborn inside a porta potty. 593 00:29:56,275 --> 00:29:57,655 [Robyn] So FBI steps in, 594 00:29:57,758 --> 00:30:00,000 and they're come do a DNA swab. 595 00:30:01,793 --> 00:30:05,103 So this is my first time doing DNA 596 00:30:05,206 --> 00:30:08,034 on what could possibly be Kristen's baby, 597 00:30:08,137 --> 00:30:09,068 my grandchild. 598 00:30:14,965 --> 00:30:16,068 And just that panic, 599 00:30:17,448 --> 00:30:18,827 and being there knowing there's a dead baby 600 00:30:18,931 --> 00:30:20,620 sitting in the medical examiner's office 601 00:30:20,724 --> 00:30:22,551 that could possibly be Kristen's.[crying] 602 00:30:28,689 --> 00:30:31,482 [Charles] We're literally having to live this nightmare, 603 00:30:31,586 --> 00:30:33,586 and go down there and wait for months. 604 00:30:33,689 --> 00:30:35,758 It takes months to get results for these kind of things. 605 00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:38,931 [Betty] DNA in this case takes so long, 606 00:30:39,034 --> 00:30:41,344 because you are talking about a crime scene. 607 00:30:41,448 --> 00:30:43,172 This is a deceased infant. 608 00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:44,827 And so they have to make sure 609 00:30:44,931 --> 00:30:50,862 that they have followed every policy and protocol 610 00:30:50,965 --> 00:30:52,517 to make sure if anything is found, 611 00:30:52,620 --> 00:30:54,241 that it is admissible in court. 612 00:30:57,034 --> 00:31:00,448 [Robyn] August of 2021, 613 00:31:00,551 --> 00:31:02,551 FBI sent me a message and said that 614 00:31:02,655 --> 00:31:04,827 Latasha is the one 615 00:31:04,931 --> 00:31:07,586 who had sent those messages to me. 616 00:31:09,034 --> 00:31:10,620 I reached back out to Latasha. 617 00:31:12,206 --> 00:31:13,862 No response. 618 00:31:13,965 --> 00:31:16,344 And something in my gut said, go to her profile. 619 00:31:16,448 --> 00:31:17,413 So I did. 620 00:31:18,586 --> 00:31:20,310 And Latasha had died. 621 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,344 I'm not a 100% sure if she overdosed. 622 00:31:25,448 --> 00:31:26,620 Somebody said a brain aneu-- 623 00:31:26,724 --> 00:31:29,482 There's been multiple stories. Eventually I mean, she died. 624 00:31:29,586 --> 00:31:32,620 I do not believe it had anything to do with Kristen's case. 625 00:31:34,103 --> 00:31:35,862 I've been lied to a lot. 626 00:31:35,965 --> 00:31:37,103 It's so [bleep] up, really. 627 00:31:37,793 --> 00:31:39,241 And my baby's still missing! 628 00:31:44,172 --> 00:31:48,000 I received a message five months later 629 00:31:49,655 --> 00:31:52,068 from FBI saying that it was not Kristen's baby. 630 00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:00,275 [Betty] So at this point, 631 00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:02,275 we're at the two-year mark now, 632 00:32:02,379 --> 00:32:03,793 and I'm still checking ads. 633 00:32:03,896 --> 00:32:06,172 It has become a nightly routine 634 00:32:06,275 --> 00:32:08,448 for the last two years. [chuckles softly] 635 00:32:08,551 --> 00:32:10,931 And that's to check ads every night, 636 00:32:11,034 --> 00:32:12,551 multiple different cities, 637 00:32:12,655 --> 00:32:14,655 you know, our bigger trafficking hotspots, 638 00:32:15,724 --> 00:32:18,137 nothing is-- is hitting with Kristen. 639 00:32:22,103 --> 00:32:23,620 Could she still be trafficked? 640 00:32:23,724 --> 00:32:26,551 Well, no, because she's not being sold. 641 00:32:26,655 --> 00:32:29,034 So there's no advertisement going on. 642 00:32:29,137 --> 00:32:31,344 Kristen, at the end of the day to these traffickers, 643 00:32:31,448 --> 00:32:32,586 were a product. 644 00:32:32,689 --> 00:32:34,827 She was a product to be sold. 645 00:32:34,931 --> 00:32:38,551 And if that product is not being advertised, 646 00:32:38,655 --> 00:32:40,758 then the likelihood of it being sold is... 647 00:32:41,689 --> 00:32:42,793 pretty small. 648 00:32:42,896 --> 00:32:44,206 So at-- at this point, 649 00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:47,517 I did not believe Kristen was being trafficked any-- anymore. 650 00:32:49,103 --> 00:32:50,793 [Kaitlin] The fact that Kristen's been missing this long, 651 00:32:50,896 --> 00:32:52,793 you can't rule out foul play at this point. 652 00:32:54,137 --> 00:32:56,103 [Betty] So with Kristen not being advertised, 653 00:32:56,206 --> 00:32:59,482 it begins to make me wonder, is there another avenue? 654 00:32:59,586 --> 00:33:03,137 Is it possible that Kristen is no longer with us? 655 00:33:03,241 --> 00:33:05,275 And, you know, could she have been killed? 656 00:33:06,482 --> 00:33:09,172 This is a very dangerous industry. 657 00:33:09,275 --> 00:33:12,068 And so that-- you know, we start to theorize like, 658 00:33:12,172 --> 00:33:14,103 maybe the reason we're not seeing Kristen 659 00:33:14,206 --> 00:33:16,896 is because Kristen's no longer with us. 660 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,448 I chose not to share my thoughts with the family, 661 00:33:20,551 --> 00:33:22,344 because I didn't know it to be a fact. 662 00:33:23,310 --> 00:33:25,275 Now Robyn's not willing to give up. 663 00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:28,206 And so you gotta start asking her questions. 664 00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:29,620 What did I miss? 665 00:33:29,724 --> 00:33:31,413 Is there something I'm overlooking? 666 00:33:31,517 --> 00:33:33,827 You know, you're talking two years and nothing. 667 00:33:34,551 --> 00:33:35,344 So... 668 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:37,517 I really kind of start to theorize. 669 00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:39,793 Uh, what could've happened? 670 00:33:39,896 --> 00:33:42,620 Maybe we were looking at Kristen's case all wrong 671 00:33:42,724 --> 00:33:43,517 the whole time. 672 00:33:44,551 --> 00:33:46,000 I knew we had to go back to square one. 673 00:33:46,103 --> 00:33:48,344 Let's go back from the day she disappeared. 674 00:33:48,448 --> 00:33:52,137 What was the one key factor in Kristen's disappearance? 675 00:33:53,551 --> 00:33:54,344 The phone. 676 00:33:57,517 --> 00:33:58,931 So when I first got involved, 677 00:33:59,034 --> 00:34:00,862 Robyn sent me the cell phone records. 678 00:34:00,965 --> 00:34:02,275 But at that point, 679 00:34:02,379 --> 00:34:04,310 we're thinking Kristen was with a trafficker, 680 00:34:04,413 --> 00:34:05,586 and so she didn't have the phone anymore, 681 00:34:05,689 --> 00:34:06,965 and the phone was irrelevant. 682 00:34:07,068 --> 00:34:09,344 That was the one key factor I overlooked 683 00:34:09,447 --> 00:34:10,827 because I was so focused 684 00:34:10,931 --> 00:34:12,827 on believing Kristen was still being sold. 685 00:34:14,137 --> 00:34:15,862 And so I took the cellphone records. 686 00:34:15,965 --> 00:34:18,447 I started figuring out who Kristen was talking to 687 00:34:18,551 --> 00:34:19,965 after her disappearance. 688 00:34:20,068 --> 00:34:21,585 Where do these numbers belong? 689 00:34:21,688 --> 00:34:24,655 Who are they in relation to Kristen? 690 00:34:24,757 --> 00:34:26,896 And I realized that we had... 691 00:34:28,655 --> 00:34:31,000 a couple of Johns on there. 692 00:34:31,103 --> 00:34:33,757 And Johns are overlooked by law enforcement. 693 00:34:35,688 --> 00:34:39,688 [Kaitlin] John refers to someone who is purchasing sex acts from someone, 694 00:34:39,793 --> 00:34:42,688 when often from those who are too young to consent. 695 00:34:42,793 --> 00:34:45,068 Uh, so this person knows they're breaking the law. 696 00:34:46,757 --> 00:34:50,620 [Betty] We focused so much of our energy and our time on-- on the pimps. 697 00:34:50,724 --> 00:34:52,931 And really what we've seen 698 00:34:53,034 --> 00:34:55,137 is it's the Johns that are more dangerous. 699 00:34:57,448 --> 00:34:59,275 It's the pimps that are manipulating 700 00:34:59,379 --> 00:35:02,344 and abusing these victims. 701 00:35:03,724 --> 00:35:06,793 But the Johns are the ones that are deadly. 702 00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:10,000 Because a pimp isn't gonna kill his money. 703 00:35:10,310 --> 00:35:11,206 Right? 704 00:35:11,310 --> 00:35:12,206 Why would you kill your money? 705 00:35:14,827 --> 00:35:16,551 Even in Kristen's case, 706 00:35:16,655 --> 00:35:19,551 we had focused so hard on the traffickers, 707 00:35:19,655 --> 00:35:25,413 and not once did we ever turn and focus on these Johns. 708 00:35:25,517 --> 00:35:27,758 So we began to separate the cell phone records 709 00:35:27,862 --> 00:35:29,896 and I backtracked the phone numbers. 710 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,172 One in particular caught our attention. 711 00:35:33,862 --> 00:35:36,551 It was the very last person 712 00:35:36,655 --> 00:35:38,931 that Kristen ever talked to on that cell phone. 713 00:35:39,965 --> 00:35:43,758 And I think that's when it hit me that 714 00:35:43,862 --> 00:35:47,000 the answer may have been in front of us the whole time. 715 00:35:57,379 --> 00:35:59,482 [Betty] There were several messages with a John 716 00:35:59,586 --> 00:36:01,965 back and forth over a couple of day period 717 00:36:02,068 --> 00:36:03,965 that Kristen had been gone. 718 00:36:04,068 --> 00:36:07,724 And so we knew we at least had a timeline 719 00:36:07,827 --> 00:36:11,103 of who was the last person to have spoken to Kristen. 720 00:36:13,034 --> 00:36:16,413 And I was able to track down the John. 721 00:36:16,517 --> 00:36:19,413 He was not very forthcoming with information, 722 00:36:19,517 --> 00:36:20,896 he seemed to have a lot to hide. 723 00:36:21,931 --> 00:36:23,724 And every time I would talk to him, 724 00:36:23,827 --> 00:36:25,896 his story would change again. 725 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,413 And so that was very suspicious, 726 00:36:27,517 --> 00:36:30,310 and why would your story change? 727 00:36:30,413 --> 00:36:32,482 You know, it's not hard to remember the truth. 728 00:36:41,965 --> 00:36:42,793 [Robyn crying] And so help me God, 729 00:36:42,896 --> 00:36:44,620 if this man did hurt my daughter, 730 00:36:46,413 --> 00:36:47,758 oh, man. 731 00:36:47,862 --> 00:36:50,344 Houston will have hell to pay. 732 00:36:52,965 --> 00:36:54,655 [Betty] I recently handed all this information 733 00:36:54,758 --> 00:36:56,275 over to the FBI, 734 00:36:56,379 --> 00:36:59,344 because Kristen's disappearance is an open investigation. 735 00:36:59,448 --> 00:37:01,241 But what I do know is 736 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:04,379 what ever happened to Kristen, she does deserve justice. 737 00:37:07,896 --> 00:37:09,000 [Kaitlin] So the case is still open, 738 00:37:09,103 --> 00:37:10,172 but it's been three years 739 00:37:10,275 --> 00:37:12,758 and not much has changed in terms of what we know 740 00:37:12,862 --> 00:37:14,448 about Kristen's disappearance. 741 00:37:14,551 --> 00:37:17,137 However, we know that before Kristen went missing, 742 00:37:17,241 --> 00:37:18,793 Kristen was working with police 743 00:37:18,896 --> 00:37:20,896 and wanted to help end what was happening. 744 00:37:33,896 --> 00:37:35,586 [Robyn] Kristen is 19 years old now. 745 00:37:37,517 --> 00:37:38,965 Uh, her birthday just passed. 746 00:37:40,689 --> 00:37:42,068 Uh, we went to the beach. 747 00:37:43,103 --> 00:37:44,827 Kristen loves the beach. 748 00:37:46,172 --> 00:37:47,413 She would always say, 749 00:37:47,517 --> 00:37:50,103 "My favorite place is where the ocean meets the sky." 750 00:37:50,206 --> 00:37:52,482 And I'm like, "Yes, me too, baby, me too." 751 00:37:55,103 --> 00:37:57,379 [crying] So I went to the ocean, 752 00:37:58,793 --> 00:38:00,310 and I released some balloons. 753 00:38:02,724 --> 00:38:05,931 We had supper there and just you know, a good family day. 754 00:38:07,689 --> 00:38:09,586 But the just not knowing... 755 00:38:10,793 --> 00:38:12,000 I think it's been long enough. 756 00:38:12,103 --> 00:38:14,931 I need some answers and I think...[sniffles] 757 00:38:15,034 --> 00:38:16,758 ...you know, I deserve some answers. 758 00:38:18,862 --> 00:38:20,448 You know, at this point, 759 00:38:20,551 --> 00:38:22,103 you know, I'm gonna continue to go out there, 760 00:38:22,655 --> 00:38:24,206 and help families, 761 00:38:24,310 --> 00:38:26,000 and help them find their children 762 00:38:26,724 --> 00:38:29,379 and, um, continue fighting 763 00:38:29,482 --> 00:38:31,758 to expose what's going on here in Houston. 764 00:38:34,172 --> 00:38:36,758 It's not just my baby being sold. 765 00:38:44,482 --> 00:38:46,689 My sister was actually trafficked out on Bissonnet. 766 00:38:47,827 --> 00:38:49,137 So she was 14 years old 767 00:38:49,241 --> 00:38:50,862 when she first met her trafficker. 768 00:38:50,965 --> 00:38:53,482 And she was recruited out of 769 00:38:53,586 --> 00:38:54,724 what we call Chimney Rock, 770 00:38:54,827 --> 00:38:58,206 which is a CPS facility, uh, right up the road. 771 00:38:59,931 --> 00:39:03,172 And we know that the last sighting of Kristen 772 00:39:03,275 --> 00:39:04,758 was actually right here too. 773 00:39:07,172 --> 00:39:08,655 And this, 774 00:39:08,758 --> 00:39:11,379 this street, this Blade, this track right here, 775 00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:13,344 it's very significant to Kristen's story. 776 00:39:13,448 --> 00:39:15,965 This is where her traffickers trafficked her. 777 00:39:16,068 --> 00:39:17,620 This is where they sold her. 778 00:39:17,724 --> 00:39:21,034 This is where, you know, Kristen fell into this-- 779 00:39:21,137 --> 00:39:26,000 this dark world of child exploitation and child sex slavery. 780 00:39:26,103 --> 00:39:27,758 Literally, right here. 781 00:39:27,862 --> 00:39:29,344 We don't know what happened to her, 782 00:39:29,448 --> 00:39:30,931 but we know it started here. 783 00:39:36,689 --> 00:39:37,758 We don't know why 784 00:39:37,862 --> 00:39:40,068 Kristen decided to leave her house the second time. 785 00:39:43,448 --> 00:39:44,896 Is Kristen alive? 786 00:39:47,172 --> 00:39:49,172 Kids don't just fall off the face of the planet. 787 00:39:50,275 --> 00:39:53,724 As long as there's some sliver of hope, 788 00:39:53,827 --> 00:39:55,172 I'm not willing to give up. 789 00:39:59,586 --> 00:40:00,965 [Charles] It's been three and a half years, 790 00:40:01,068 --> 00:40:03,448 and we just, we pray for her safe return. 791 00:40:04,655 --> 00:40:06,172 I believe Kiki is out there, 792 00:40:06,275 --> 00:40:09,241 and that we will be reunited with her soon. 793 00:40:11,137 --> 00:40:13,310 [Betty] She's there, she's out there somewhere. 794 00:40:13,413 --> 00:40:14,655 Somebody knows something. 795 00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:16,275 Somebody has to speak. 796 00:40:16,931 --> 00:40:18,827 It just takes one person. 797 00:40:18,931 --> 00:40:20,344 One person that knows the truth. 798 00:40:21,172 --> 00:40:22,310 And we know you're out there. 799 00:40:24,896 --> 00:40:26,931 [Robyn crying] It's every parent's worst nightmare. 800 00:40:27,034 --> 00:40:27,827 I'm living it. 801 00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:31,448 [sighs] I've gotta find my baby. 802 00:40:32,862 --> 00:40:34,379 You know, I promised her 803 00:40:34,482 --> 00:40:36,620 that I wouldn't let anything happen to her. 804 00:40:36,724 --> 00:40:37,793 I promised her this 805 00:40:37,896 --> 00:40:39,586 after she started to come forward. 806 00:40:39,689 --> 00:40:43,206 I said, "Baby, these men aren't gonna hurt you, I promise you." 807 00:40:45,241 --> 00:40:46,310 I would just hug her. 808 00:40:47,034 --> 00:40:48,482 I-- I wouldn't let go. 809 00:40:49,241 --> 00:40:50,310 I don't think I'd let go. 810 00:40:51,482 --> 00:40:52,724 There's no way I'd let go. 811 00:40:55,379 --> 00:40:56,896 That's all I want. 812 00:40:58,068 --> 00:40:59,965 Just for my baby to be home. 813 00:41:18,586 --> 00:41:20,517 ♪♪ 814 00:41:20,620 --> 00:41:24,517 In 2021, 3,000 black and brown women 815 00:41:24,620 --> 00:41:26,379 went missing in Chicago. 816 00:41:26,482 --> 00:41:28,758 I think that if she was in a toxic relationship 817 00:41:28,862 --> 00:41:30,517 that needs to be looked at. 818 00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:31,793 She's in trouble somewhere. 819 00:41:31,896 --> 00:41:33,689 I have no reason to think she's dead 820 00:41:33,793 --> 00:41:36,000 cause we don't got her - just find her.