[narrator] Ciera Breland
disappeared on February 4, 2022.
Xavier Breland called 911 to report his wife missing.
He was very nervous.
I was afraid for my daughter.
[narrator] Her family is desperate for answers.
We knocked on different doors, all the doors.
We were reaching out for anything that we could.
There was a lot of rage, a lot of anger.
[Heather] Something just seemed totally amiss about a mother,
a lawyer, who just disappears
and leaves her five-month-old baby behind.
[narrator] This episode of Disappeared
retraces Ciera's last known steps.
[Eric] According to her phon we knew she had been here
for an extended amount of time.
[Xavier] They brought the do to try to sniff for her,
and find her.
[Kelly] Lots of things go through your mind
when your child goes missing, and you have these thoughts
that there's a specific person responsible.
[sighs grimly]
I feel like we should have seen the signs, you know?
[narrator] The more people who know Ciera's story,
the greater the chance of bringing her home.
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[Kelly] I'm Kelly Locklear.
My daughter is Ciera Breland
and she disappeared sometim after February 24, 2022.
Ciera is a bubbly, sweet, tenderhearted girl.
She puts on a tough exterior
because people don't take her seriously
and she's in a profession
that she needs to be taken seriously.
Ciera is a young lawyer,
and she loved her job.
We talked about what she wanted to do.
I was a paralegal at the time,
and had been for many years,
so she just kind of slid in.
I guess, hearing me talk about work,
and how much I loved my job, she decided to go into law.
She was accepted at Florida law school,
Florida State,
and absolutely loved it.
It just seemed like
she just fell into the groove of life, the
Ciera was voted in
as one of the top 100 lawyer in the country to watch.
She was so proud.
I think she felt like all of the hard work
that she had gone through was worth it,
and now life was...
...beginning.
[Shelby] My name is Shelby Campbell. Ciera Breland is my cousin.
Ciera is five foot tall,
4'11" on most days, if we're honest,
but based on her personality,
you would think she was eight feet tall.
She was dynamite in a tiny, little package,
and she was ready to blow at any time.
She had the world's biggest personality.
She laughed loud, she yelled loud.
She was very vibrant.
In October of 2020,
Ciera had joined a couple different dating sites.
She met Xavier on Tinder.
She had sent me some picture
She said, "Look at this guy. We matched.
Isn't he so cute?"
[Kelly] And she started telling me about him.
You could just tell she was bubbling over with love,
and I was like, "Oh, God. She's smitten. She's gone."
From that day forward,
it was like they were inseparable.
[Nick] I'm Nick Locklair,
Ciera Locklair Breland's father.
Ciera's entire life... she was a daddy's girl.
Ciera never had boyfriends, hardly.
And part of that's my fault. I'll admit it.
Her brother was a high school quarterback,
and he chased girls, and girls chased him.
When it was her turn, I told her, I said,
"You're five feet tall, and 95 pounds."
I said, "I don't worry about your brother
going to a party,
and something happen, and he can't protect himself.
I do, you."
Things changed in law school
so she started hanging out with the crowd a little more
and then she started dating a couple guys.
Xavier comes along.
Xavier treats her like a queen,
and she said he's romantic,
and he dotes on her,
and tells her how beautiful she is.
[Shelby] He was funny.
He was very sweet to her.
She was just very taken with him.
He was always at her place.
She met his two children very early on.
[Kelly] She told me that he had a couple of children
with his ex,
a boy ten years old,
and a daughter that was four.
I didn't have a problem with that.
I thought that was... that was great.
I didn't know how she was gonna
fit that into her schedule,
and how it was all gonna work out,
but she was confident in the relationship.
Ciera and Xavier had no middle ground
in their relationship.
It was either really, really good,
or really, really bad,
and based on the minute of the day,
it could be either of those.
In April or May of 2021, I got a text from her
that said, "Hey,
I'm getting married at 4:00 today."
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, they ended up
getting married by a judge via Zoom.
Ciera and Xavier decided to get married
because they had found out that they were pregnant.
It was a whirlwind.
Like, it was so fast.
[Kelly] Her marrying Xavier was actually a shock.
To find out that she was pregnant
blew me away.
Ciera had told us she was never gonna get married,
and she was never gonna have children.
[Nick] We were like,
"You're really gonna have a baby?
Do you want a baby?"
And she said, "Yeah, I can't wait.
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that."
She was excited about being married,
and having a family, and, you know,
kind of creating this whole little bubble
that was gonna be her whole world.
[Kelly] Ciera let us know
that they were gonna be moving to Indiana.
That's where Xavier's father, his biological father, lived.
It was a little small town named Carmel in Indiana.
There were little ponds everywhere, with fountains,
and white picket fences.
The place was beautiful.
Jackson was born on October the 9th, 2021, and...
Beautiful baby. Perfect.
She was so happy, and Xavier was excited.
He went and called his children,
and let them know,
and me and her father were there,
so we just spent as much time with the baby as we could.
[Nick] Who you got there, Ciera?
Here's the new favorite grandson.
[Shelby] Ciera absolutely loved being a mom.
She would call and just giggle
about little noises he was making,
or spit bubbles.
I mean, just an absolute gushing mom,
and she loved everything that that child did.
[Kelly] On February the 19th
Ciera and Xavier drove down from Indiana,
and went to his mother's house,
in Johns Creek, in Georgia.
It's about 45 minutes, an hour away from our house
She was gonna stay a couple of days,
and let his mom see the baby, and visit,
'cause she hadn't seen him
but one time since he was born.
[Nick] I last received a text from Ciera
on Wednesday, February 23rd,
saying that she was not feeling well.
Wednesday I sent her a text and said,
"What are you doing? What's going on?"
And she sent back, said she'd been sick,
really sick, but she was feeling a little bit better
We haven't heard from her since.
On Friday the 25th of February, 2022,
I called Ciera, and I got no response.
I was like, "Okay, she's jus got something going on.
She'll call me back."
It was just radio silence,
which was extremely unlike her.
[Kelly] On Saturday night, around 11:00,
the 26th of February, we received a call
from Indiana, which was surprising.
[cell phone ringing]
And we were just sitting at the house, watching TV,
and Nick said, "Indiana?"
And he picked up the phone.
[Nick] We thought Ciera was in Georgia,
at Xavier's mother's house.
[Kelly] It was the Carmel P in Indiana,
and they wanted to speak with Ciera Locklair's father, Nick.
He told them that that was him,
and at this point, I could tell
something was wrong.
[Nick] Then, he said,
"Your daughter has been reported missing."
[sniffles]
[sobbing]
And that was the first time we heard about it.
[Eric] I am Eric Rozier.
I'm a detective with the Johns Creek PD,
and I'm investigating the disappearance
of Ciera Breland.
[telephone ringing]
[dispatcher] 911 emergency.
[Rozier] On Saturday, February the 26th,
Xavier reports his wife, Ciera, missing to Carmel police department.
You could hear a concerned husband.
He was a little frantic, asking the dispatcher,
you know, "What should I do? Um, can you send the police to my home?"
Xavier was very concerned about his wife's disappearance.
He paced around his home.
He was very nervous as most people would be.
He advised police officers
that she went missing the previous night after an argument.
Ciera had run out of Adderall prescription medication,
and wanted to use his.
After he refused to give it to her, she became angry,
and said that she was just gonna leave.
Carmel police department did not find any signs of any kind of damaged property,
signs of an injury, or signs of a physical altercation in the home.
On Saturday the 26th of February in 2022...
...I was in bed, it was later.
[phone ringing]
[Shelby] My phone started ringing, and it said Carmel, Indiana
And it was an investigator calling.
She said, "Are you related to Ciera Locklair Breland?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am, I am. I'm her cousin."
She said, "Well, I was told we needed to call you because she's missing."
I asked her who had their... their son.
And she said that he, and the dog, were with Xavier.
And that she had left her phone, and her wallet,
and her car keys to both cars, and everything with Xavier.
And she was missing.
He said that she had walked off about 11:00 P.M. Friday night.
I thought that's very strang because on Monday I had talked to her.
I thought she was in Georgia, because that was the last place I had talked to her.
She was giggly.
She was just her normal self.
I was concerned.
Ended up staying up all nigh
My name is Heather Lawton and I'm a crime writer.
I wrote about Ciera Breland for the Inquisitr.
After researching Ciera's story,
I just knew I had to get involved in it.
Because something just seemed totally amiss
about a mother, a lawyer, who just disappears
and leaves her five-month-ol baby behind.
So Xavier tells the police that the day before
they just got back home to Indiana from visiting family in Georgia.
And they had an argument.
[Eric] Xavier explained that during arguments,
it was common for her to go next door to his father's home.
He wanted to give Ciera a chance to cool off...
...so he didn't immediately go and look for her.
Police officers made contac with Xavier's father,
asked him specific questions about "Have you seen Ciera?
Did you see her come to your home last night
after an argument with her husband?"
And Xavier Sr. and his wife
both advised that they did not see Ciera that previous 24 hours.
They had no knowledge about her whereabouts.
I can say that Xavier Sr. was extremely cooperative
as far as helping police officers.
Xavier's father gave the police some surveillance footage
that he had from his camera 'cause he lives next door.
And the police reviewed the surveillance footage
from that night to see which way she walked.
They never saw her pass the security cameras.
[Heather Lawton] Xavier's telling the police
they had an argument about some prescription medication.
And he thinks that she may have gone to the pharmacy
which is only a half mile away from the Breland home.
The Carmel Indiana police go to the pharmacy,
and the pharmacy hands over the surveillance video immediately.
[Eric] They were able to review this footage
from the surveillance video cameras.
And they did not find any signs of Ciera.
And then they went not only throughout their neighborhood
to walk door to door to check with neighbors,
they also went to the nearb businesses and stores
to see if there was any surveillance video cameras.
Carmel police department was unable to obtain any surveillance video
that showed, um, Ciera walking anywhere in Indiana.
[police siren]
[Heather] So it's three days later,
and there's absolutely no sign of Ciera.
So now the police are increasing their search
and they've brought in the K9 unit
to see if the dogs can pick up a scent.
[Eric] Their sense of smell is extremely sensitive,
it gives the police officers a lead as far as to places to go look for this person.
[Nick] They had 'em sniff the cars.
Particularly the Volkswagen Tiguan that they had driven to Georgia.
They had them sniff the whole house, the neighborhood.
The police that went up there told me, "Our dogs, which are very good...
...aren't picking up any scent."
Nothing, period, so...
He said "Somebody's cleaned the car."
You know, if she rode up 10 hours here in that car, that dog woulda knew it.
[police sirens]
[Heather] So the Carmel Indiana investigators
they can't find Ciera anywhere.
They haven't seen her on any surveillance video.
The neighbors haven't seen her.
The dogs can't pick up a scent.
So now they reach out to the John's Creek police department in Georgia.
On Sunday, we sent a couple of detectives to her father's home.
[Nick] They came to our hous unexpected, in the morning when we were asleep.
And it kind of scared me.
First thing I thought was they're coming to give us bad news.
They talked awhile, asked questions,
and then they said, "Do you mind if we look around the house?"
I said, "Well, you're welcome to look at anything, and do anything,
I wanna do anything I can."
[Eric] We had an interview with her parent
They were able to give us details,
and answer questions about Ciera's life, about her job,
about what was going on in her personal relationship.
And, um, thoughts that they may have
in regards to where Ciera is at now.
[Heather] Ciera's parents are now telling the police
everything they know about Xavier's past, including a disturbing detail.
[Nick] It was Christmas, Ciera and Xavier came to the house,
and they looked very haggard
And I said, "What is going on here?
Y'all look like y'all haven't been to bed in weeks."
And Ciera said, "There's some people chasing us."
She said, "Dad, I'm serious this is a serious situation.
[Kelly] Xavier believed that his ex-wife was dating
a guy who had ties to a cartel.
And with that is involved with sex trafficking, drugs,
all the things that that brings.
She was like, "Wow, these are really, you know, kinda scary things."
Ciera started fearing for her life.
She had lost weight.
Um, I... I didn't even recognize her.
She just looked like she hadn't slept.
This was not my Ciera.
This just didn't look like my daughter.
[Nick] They stayed with us for some hours and visited a little bit.
And then they left to a hote
and kind of laid low.
[Shelby] As a lawyer she could search names and businesses.
She said that the ex had multiple businesses
that were registered to her, under variations of her name,
and she said that was really sketchy.
This is what she had told me
She ended up getting in contact with the FBI about her suspicions.
And they had told her that there was a human trafficking ring going on,
and that they were looking into it,
and she needed to be very careful about what she was doing.
We were concerned about the cartel aspect.
Is there a possibility that somebody's, like, grabbed her?
[Nick] At the time, you know, I didn't really believe it.
After she went missing, I was worried then, you know.
What if it was real?
[Eric] We have to accept all theories
which would help provide an answer as to Ciera Breland's disappearance.
We have to thoroughly review this and try to determine
who or what or why, would a cartel or a dangerous group or anybody
be looking for them.
We looked into this theory,
and we were unable to find any specific answers,
or unable to develop any lead relating this dangerous group
being the reason as to Ciera's disappearance.
[Kelly] I was afraid for my daughter.
I just wasn't sure that it was the cartel
that we should be afraid of to be perfectly honest.
I was worried that Xavier was really manipulating her.
Keeping her in a paranoid and afraid state,
for his own manipulative purposes.
It's my belief that Xavier was playing mind games with my daughter.
He decided to scare her to keep her with him.
And that was very much a part of that relationship.
Four to five months into Ciera and Xavier's relationship,
she starts seeing a lot more of his negative behaviors.
He is going through her phone.
He is yelling at her a good bit.
And it would be the smalles things that would set them off,
and then it would just blow up.
She backed down really quickly,
which I was very surprised about.
Because Ciera doesn't back down, she never has.
I think she was just very taken with him in the beginning.
I knew that they had had a tumultuous relationship.
Ciera's very headstrong.
She was an independent women before this.
Xavier started to keep her from everyone else.
Started to make her depend solely on him.
I think money became an issu
Xavier wasn't working, and he hadn't worked for awhile.
And I think that him being there with her,
while she worked at home was becoming an issue.
She felt very overwhelmed with his presence at all times.
Xavier became verbally abusi with Ciera.
He became paranoid about ex-boyfriends,
and then started insinuating that maybe the pregnancy was not his.
And I just saw a pattern.
There's a general paranoia here.
That's what was going on in the beginning,
that's what we're seein' now.
Things intensified.
It just seemed like a kettle boiling,
and it was gonna go any time
Obviously, this was not happy moments for me and her father.
[Shelby] We had been talkin the previous weekend,
you know, that Saturday and Sunday, and it... it wasn't positive.
And the week before it wasn't positive over text
[Kelly] We were horrified that our daughter
was having to go through something like this.
It was going too far.
It was becoming really a dangerous situation.
I encouraged her, and her father encouraged he to come home.
We just wanted her to be out of the situation..
...but Ciera was 31 years ol
I trusted her to know what to do.
She said...
..."'Kay, we've worked through it, it's gonna be okay."
She would say, "Well, you just... you don't like him."
I said, "I don't dislike him as a person,
because I don't really even know the man."
But, I said, "I don't like the fact that y'all been married a year,
and all I see is bad things out of him."
She would say, "Dad, when you're married, when you love somebody,
they have shortcomings, you have shortcomings.
You just gotta learn to get along and work things out.
[Heather] According to the family, Xavier and Ciera's arguments...
...start out as verbal...
...and escalate to physical fights.
In my opinion, it's battered women syndrome
There's sort of, like, a game that's being played.
He's wonderful in the beginning.
He's the person that she can depend on the most.
And then, at times, he can be abusive.
He can be charming sometimes,
and that's how they suck their victims in.
Around the summer of 2021...
...Ciera sent me a couple of texts
with some pictures of where, I believe, Xavier had slapped her...
...and asked me to save those for her in... in case she needed those.
I was like, "Ciera, a man that's physical, will always be physical.
That's just a fact."
And she would get mad at me.
She was like, "96% of the time, it's good."
And I said...
"It's not 96% of the time because you call me every week."
[Heather] Ciera did try to keep a great deal from her parents,
So it isn't until Ciera goes missing,
and the police start asking questions,
that her parents learn the true extent
of the violence that was going on between Ciera and Xavier.
She had told me that she couldn't leave Xavier
because she couldn't imagine letting Jackson go with Xavier.
She was very concerned that she was going to have to share custody.
She had just decided that she was just going to stick by him
until she could get away.
Ciera had made a plan to put some of her money into a secret account,
and that she was going to move back home,
and she was probably going to stay with her parents for a little while.
[Kelly] She had decided that she was done.
She wanted to come home permanently.
I think she was waiting for a moment when things were calm.
[Heather] Ciera's family last heard from her on February 23rd,
when she was visiting Xavier's mother in Johns Creek, Georgia.
She texted to her family that she was sick,
but aside from that everything seemed fine.
[Eric] On Monday, February the 28th,
we go to Xavier's mother's house.
Responding officers walk through the home,
they walked across the property
and they did not observe anything obviously suspicious,
or signs that there was some sort of altercation or that she was even there.
This is not walking through the house with a fine toothed comb
to determine if there's any evidence.
It's basically just a generic walkthrough.
[Shelby] The next few days after Ciera went missing
was really just a really bad waiting game.
We're all communicating but there's not much that the police can tell us
We're all kind of waiting with bated breath
to see if she's gonna call one of us.
We got together and we canvased some neighborhoods.
Ciera Breland's family is flooding this Johns Creek area with flyers like this,
as well as electronic and digital signing.
They are hoping that somebody saw something that can help.
[Shelby] This is Xavier's mother's home.
Ciera and Xavier stayed here with their son.
They visited quite a few times.
We knocked on different doors.
All the doors.
And we just passed out flyer
If people were to answer,
we would just ask them if they had seen her
or seen anything that might have been conspicuous
during the time that she was staying here.
If they didn't answer we just left them a flyer
and moved onto the next property.
We were able to make contact with a resident
who had video footage from her doorbell camera
that shows Ciera Breland's vehicle passing through her neighborhood.
But we were unable to get anything definitive
in regards to where Ciera may have been.
Well, we know who was driving.
Um, but you really can't tell from that video.
But we know who's driving.
You can see somebody in the vehicle, right?
And their dog is in the passenger seat.
The reason I can't say anything about it
is because when we are finally in court, and we're able to present this,
the whole case, because we have not found Ciera so far, is circumstantial.
It's sad, because...
...in a circumstantial case,
you're not going to have a definitive crime scene.
You do not have blood splattered all over the place.
You do not have evidence of violence, necessarily.
What you have is a history.
What you have is, um, small nuggets here and there.
What we do as police detectives,
is we present all the evidence,
all the information that we have collected.
And we allow for the jurors to come to a conclusion
about what they believe.
And, um, we're still investigating,
we're still working on the case,
hopefully to provide answers.
But right now it's still active.
[Shelby] While we were looki for Ciera,
we were exploring a couple different avenues
of information that we might gain.
Ciera had a dog whose name was Baker.
He is her first absolute baby.
There was no Ciera without Baker
We decided to look into Baker's microchip.
One of the employees of the microchipping company
was able to give us, initially, a location
of Baker's last microchip scan,
which was about half way between Georgia and Indiana
We see that it is a small to in Kentucky.
It is registering too right outside of a bar that they may have stopped a
So we're getting a little bit more hopeful,
at least feeling like we're closer to an answer.
[Shelby] The next day, we were contacted by the own of the microchip company,
who was able to give us a little bit more information into Baker's microchipping.
And we did discover that his last scan
was from about a year previous to their trip down to Georgia.
So we had all gotten our hopes up a little highe
than we probably should hav for a dog's microchip.
We don't know where Ciera is.
So we were just reaching out for anything that we could.
[Eric] The FBI was able to assist us.
They were able to put togeth a nationwide bulletin.
And offer a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to Ciera's disappearance.
[phone ringing]
I received a call from a tipster who reported
she believed she saw Ciera at a local Target.
She explained that there was a woman
who matched Ciera's description
in the parking lot begging for money.
We immediately sent a detective to that Target
to review the surveillance video.
And as it turns out that was not Ciera.
We received another tip from a woman who was at a casino
she believed that she saw, um, a woman
matching Ciera's description arguing with another male.
We reached out to the law enforcement agencie in that area
to review the surveillance video,
and as it turns out we didn't find any evidence
to show that that person was indeed Ciera.
[Heather] Carmel and Johns Creek Police Department
subpoenaed Ciera's cell phone records.
So the data indicates that Ciera was at the Chattahoochee River
a mile from Xavier's mother's house.
[Eric] On Tuesday, March 1st, 2022,
we're able to conduct and start an extensive search
for Ciera in the Chattahoochee River.
According to her phone, we knew she had been here
for an extended amount of time.
We had a coordinated effort between the fire department who brought boats,
we also had cadaver dogs who assisted us.
We had helicopters and drone that were able to look down into the river from the sky
We wanna make sure that we look for any clues
as to a missing body of some sort.
[Kelly] As they searched the Chattahoochee
all these things are going through my head,
"Are the police gonna be able to find her?"
And our minds were just...
all over the place.
Just praying, hoping she's alive.
[Eric] But we were unable to find any specific answers
in regards to Ciera's disappearance.
And then, we obtained surveillance vid
that placed Ciera at Xavier's mother's home.
[Heather] So this new surveillance video
is kind of like a game chang in the case.
Now it puts the spotlight even more on Xavier.
That video would show Ciera Breland
at Xavier's mother's home on Wednesday, 23rd at 7:17.
Ciera is last seen in the doorway,
she's just casually standin in the doorway.
We are checking for mannerisms,
expression, emotion, to see her demeanor.
But there's nothing specific about the video that would allow us
to draw a conclusion as to how she is feeling,
or any impending danger that she may be in.
Police now confirms
Ciera Breland was last seen in this home here in Johns Creek,
this is her mother-in-law's house.
Fox 5 went to that house, we were told the mother-in-l was not home.
Johns Creek Police Department executed a search warrant at Xavier's mother's home.
We were looking for maybe signs of blood, signs of a struggle.
We brought cadaver dogs to help smell for Ciera,
the dogs were unable to find a definitive scent.
We were looking for just anything
that would help us to fill in the gaps as far as when Ciera was last seen
and where Ciera is right now.
We were able to collect evidence from Xavier's mother's home
however, I cannot go into the details
because this is an active investigation.
The next steps of the investigation,
would include us looking into the actual route that Xavier took
from Johns Creek, Georgia to Carmel, Indiana.
We need to tell the tale of what may have happened to Ciera
from the time she's last seen in Johns Creek
to the time she's reported missing by her husband in Indiana.
Part of the review of Xavier's trip
from Johns Creek, Georgia to Indiana,
is obtaining surveillance footage
from places that he stopped during the trip.
We were able to obtain and review the surveillance video
which shows Xavier but does not show Ciera.
[Nick] They saw Xavier get o and go to the bathroom,
get out and pump gas,
but they never saw anybody else get out.
They didn't see him walk the dog or change the baby,
or feed the baby, nothing.
Just he got out, pumped gas, went inside, came back out, and drove away.
I find it odd that she wasn't in any video from any gas station.
Ciera has a very bad Diet Dr. Pepper habit.
And she cannot go without on
she will show up at your hou and bring her own 12 pack.
So I can't see her just doing a,
I think from Johns Creek it's...
11 hour drive,
without being somewhere out getting her drink and her ice.
[Kelly] One of the police officers said that he was deeply concerned
because between Knoxville and I think he said Ohio
there is some pretty steep cliffs and bluffs,
and a lot of times when somebody wants to do their dirty deeds
they'll take someone to the bluffs and throw the off the cliffs.
I don't... Sorry.
[crying]
I'm sorry.
I just keep thinking about
them saying that they usually throw people off the cliffs on the way up there.
And it just stuck with me so bad,
thinking he would throw her off a cliff. Where is she?
On March 22nd a local investigative reporter breaks a huge piece of news
about Xavier's statements to the police department
An anonymous source turns in a Zoom video
of Xavier talking to his children.
Somebody kidnapped my wife. Do you know what that means when they kidnap an adult?
She's not coming home, bud.
So a big question is how would Xavier Breland Jr.
know if his wife had been kidnapped?
That she wasn't coming home.
Why would he tell one or two of Ciera Locklair Breland's step-kids,
"Somebody took her"?
What did Xavier Breland tell police in Indiana
when he reported Ciera Breland Locklair missing?
That she had just walked away from the residences the night before.
[reporter] He did not say, "She was kidnapped"?
No. According to Carmel Indiana Police Department
that's correct, that's not what was passed on to us.
[Heather] The video call doesn't look good for Xavier
At the very least, he looks sketchy.
As though he isn't being truthful with the police.
When people see this Zoom video
the reaction is that Xavier is a liar.
Public opinion has now changed, not in his favor of course.
It does heighten the anger from a public point of view
He just creates a different story for everybody he's talking to.
When I see this video I am absolutely disgusted.
There was a lot or rage, a lot of anger.
And I genuinely believe that he does know
at least what happened to he and where we could look for her.
[Heather] Carmel police in Indiana do a background check on Xavier.
And they found out that he actually has a stalking charge against him
from his ex-wife in Georgia
They have absolutely no hard evidence
linking Xavier to Ciera's disappearance.
But they do arrest him on the outstanding warrant.
He's sent to Coweta County jail where he's awaiting trial.
[Kelly] I am happy at this point that Xavier is in jail
for anything that can hold him until we could possible find Ciera.
[Shelby] We still are thankf that there's some movement going on,
but at the same time it's frustrating.
Because the charges are related to his ex,
and aggravated stalking against her,
and have absolutely nothing to do with Ciera's case.
[Nick] I wanted to go to the Coweta jail
and just sit down and have him look me in the face and tell me
"You know, I didn't do nothing" or whatever.
His dad had actually told me,
"I think if you were here he would tell you the truth.
And I said, "I don't know why you think that."
And he said, "I just think he's on the edge and if he saw you he would speak."
I just need to know what's happened.
[Heather] Xavier is fightin the unrelated charges.
And he's denying, through his lawyer,
any involvement in Ciera's disappearance.
[reporter] By phone, Breland's attorney, Bryan Howard,
told me commonly in a disappearance
that the spouse is the first person police look at.
But in this case,
Xavier Breland Jr. had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance.
Just because there is a history of violence
doesn't mean that Xavier is responsible for Ciera's disappearance.
In our judicial system we are innocent until proven guilty.
There's no body, there's no hard evidence,
which means there's no smoking gun.
[Eric] This is 120 days plus since Ciera has been missing
We have to consider the fact that she may no longer be living.
But at this time, we are gathering more information and intel,
and hopefully we can answer some questions.
And get justice for Ciera and her family members.
[Shelby] No one believes Xavier's story that Ciera had walked off at 11:00 p.m
and left her phone, and her keys, and her baby, and her dog.
It was 20 degrees. No one still believes that.
It's my family's opinion that Xavier's story is beyond believability.
It's not possible from our standpoint.
We as a family are...
just trying to piece togethe what happened.
My assumption is that
they were in an argument and it was continuing to escalate.
And, being who she is, Ciera did not back down.
And that things got out of control and physically violent.
Maybe it was an accident and he panicked and...
just kinda got rid of the situation.
With the amount of time that has passed since she's disappeared
we're not exactly hopeful that she's coming back.
Lots of things go through your mind when your child goes missing.
And you have these thoughts that there's a specific person responsible.
And what they may have done or what your child may have gone though.
[clears throat] I feel like we should've seen the signs, you know?
[Nick] When Ciera was born I knew it was gonna be our last child.
So I got up a night with her, changed her diapers,
[voice shaking] I took care of her.
As she got older, she was full of life.
As she grew up, she just got stronger, and stronger.
[producer] You know what? Why--
Oh, I'm sorry.
[Shelby] I would just ask that anybody who saw Ciera and Xavier
during the week of February 24th
to please contact Carmel Indiana Police Department,
or Johns Creek Police Department,
with whatever information they might have.
You never know what could lead to something
No bit of information is too small.