My thoughts too.

I agree, I don't care how nice someone acts you don't let your child go spend a night let alone weeks with ANY stranger. And not seeing her at all? That's ridiculous. 🤨

It seems the guy her mom was dating cared more about the girl than the mom did.

@@DCOWBOYS4LIFE​​⁠sadly sometimes that how it be, speaking from experience on that one. Not spoken to her in a real long time and never plan to, but she went through men like nothing else, they cared a LOT more about me than my mother ever did. So sadly, sometimes that how it is, he cared a lot more about relisha than her mother did and I really don’t understand why she isn’t a suspect?

Exactly 💯 she's not even remorseful, couldn't care less and clearly she was pimping her out probably for drugs money.. unfortunately many female addicts do this if they have kids, seen plenty cases like this. I hope at least the other kid was taken by child protection or something, that woman is super guilty

¿No sería algo con el río? Yo pensé que tal vez el niño se cayó en el río? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Podría ser también, pero estoy segurísima de que si hubiera caído al río, antes o después lo hubieran encontrado.@@darh7111

I thought maybe he was teaching the kids to drive with that erratic driving

Sounds like the drivers vison may have slowly been impaired. Possibly drink or drugs. A crazy explanation could be he picked up a 'lady of the night'. And she got scared. But managed to get her hands on the wheel & was trying to steer the car towards help. But he was stopping to prevent the car changing direction & shove her away.

Tacograph? 🌮?.... Sounds like your enchilometer is short on queso fluid

Casey Anthony.

@@jezistar1881 She is one for sure, there have been more since then sadly.

@@jezistar1881 My own answer would have been "A bitch!" and after thinking about your answer, I think in the long run, its the same answer ;)

She's in a privileged not privileged group who is very privileged and can not report her daughter missing for a month and just shrug her shoulders and go about her business.

A mother who was selling her daughters services. And Casey Anthony.

simply because TOO MANY prosecutors do NOT WANT TO LOSE A CASE and tarnish their win % in court. if all they have is Circumstantial evidence and NO BODY, then the odds of convincing a Judge is immaterial you have to convince 12 hand picked MORONS, half of which are picked by the defendants expensive lawyers. the state is not gonna fork much money over on a case of this nature.... unless a benefactor steps in or fund raisers / crowd sourcing raises money to hire a hot shot that can really put the pressure on and convince the 6 morons the prosecutors got and convince the 6 morons the defendant's attorney picked knowing they'd be near impossible to convince so you have to REALLY break their hard exterior and interior and morality. they'd slander the missing girl and make the guy out to be really harmless and could NEVER do such a thing. its disgusting. several little phrases like "if you wanna stay healthy, stay out of hospitals" "if you want justice, STAY OUT OF A COURTROOM" even if he is guilty, a guilty verdict is not 100% in a jury trial which is exactly what he'd do. spend a ton of money on it; were you listening? he ENCRYPTED HIS PHONE SO POLICE COULD NOT GET INTO IT.. with modern technology. idc if he encrypted it, go online, drop a couple hundred or more, any hacker would HAPPILY GET A KICK OUT OF SOLVING A CASE BY BEING THE GUY WHO CRACKED THE ENCRYPTION. also he didn't say how he encrypted it. how did they get cell phone tower ping locations but breaking the phone wouldn't do anything from investigating it? he obviously isn't stupid. so if he did murder her, he's going to get away with it. if he ever goes to trial for it with ONLY THIS MUCH AS "EVIDENCE" - NO body and only tower pings and they FAIL TO CHARGE HIM, then he will NEVER get charged if it is discovered 5 minutes after the case ends. he could legit admit to it after the gavel is heard when the judge hears "not guilty" 12x and from the foreperson. and they could not TRY him again because of DOUBLE JEOPARDY. do you get it now? lawyers are disgusting. juries are generally the lowest IQ pool in america and that's a HARD TASK TO PULL OFF. if you've ever served jury duty its either because you WANTED TO and you're nosy OR you're an idiot... who could not get out of being part of someone else's life or death decision, arguing with 11 strangers, interrupting your life, etc... for what? i do NOT trust juries and i do NOT trust police anymore. if it was a case of an ATF agent, then they 10000% would NOT try the case EVER because ATF has almost trillions and would without question tamper with the jury selection process and those who were picked. life is cruel; we live on a prison planet. wake up

yea if that evidence were presented to a jury they'd find him guilty. but then again there's the csi effect, so who knows

That's wat I was thinking it's obvious he did or know sumn

Exactly what I was thinking.. he DEF killed her.. ugh

Easiest conviction ever.

Yeah can't believe that guy never got charges brought up against him even as a circumstantial case...

Yesss the creep has gotten away with it for YEARS. Why didn’t they get a warrant for his phone?

The police investigation appears to have been lazy.

@@jstone247same story always lazy dam cops 😡😡

⁠@@heathernikki5734Though there might be something more relevant on the device, it’s clear police had already gotten phone records which told them Katelin and he (or at least their phones) were at James’ house at their when both phones sent text they were someplace else. Obviously he was the last person known to be with the missing person, statistically if a women comes to a violent end, it’s usually a father, uncle, brother, partner or former partner. I’m sure the family had to strongly believe right from the start she’d met a tragic death. This is why lawyers always, always say do not speak to the police. Just don’t. If you are formally arrested you should have only one word, lawyer. Because if you don’t speak to the police, you will greatly extend your freedom especially if you are guilty. I feel so bad for her Mom. I’m sure she has regretted whatever work hassle might have come from saying she needed to take her daughter to the airport or just taking a vacation day or a “sick” day. Heartbreaking. Two stories of daughters lost to predators who were granted access. I cannot image the depth of the anguish

The mother needs to be in jail. Period. You know she knew something before it even happened. She looked like she didn’t even give a shit. No one is alive to tell the tale, so she is free. If being a huge piece of shit was criminal, then she’d get the chair

I’m from DC as well and I will always remember Relisha’s story because it was ridiculous how long this baby was missing before the police were notified and I’ve heard so many rumors about her disappearance for one I think it’s crazy that Tatum was found dead but not her so we still don’t know if she is dead or alive I also find it crazy that we only see her going into the hotel but where is the footage of Tatum leaving the hotel and the way they ended the search for her once Tatum body was found dead is crazy it went from everyone talking about the case to it just stopped once again that baby was failed smh

@@ThatDudeDevenWhy do you say that? Did you see the way he did his job? When he polished the floors? She couldn’t have known!

Same here. She was my profile picture on Facebook for so long because so many of us held out hope.. That was until the trash bag video was released 😔. Her mother sold her.. I just know it.

​@jabellatv3240 Well, he came out that hotel with a trash bag and the baby was not in there after he left.. I remember because when they released that footage my heart dropped to my stomach cuz I held out so much hope

Makes me a little weak to think that she never had a chance. I wouldn't be shocked to find out that her mother sold her to that guy. Not reporting her missing is telling of something anyway.

Folks that live in those hills hate being called Hillbillies. Its like when Trump called his former Attorney General a dumb southerner. It pissed off a lot of Appalachian folks. Its derogatory and insulting. I wonder if Mick would like being called a drunken dumb Paddy. Do ya see?

So I'm in Essex County NJ n this town calls its HS team Hillbillies. Gross. Were 37 ft from Newark n ur a friggin' hillbilly? Christ?

My parents were "hillbillies" Born in Kentucky, My parents have been very successful as a Real Estate Broker, My Mom was a homemaker. My Grandfather's brothers are the typical "Hillbillies". And they were real nasty. But my parents were tnd up people. Moved to Phoenix, AZ

Not all "hillbillies" are "half man, half beast"! Those bad ones make the good ones look awful!

There’s nothing like a sweet southern hillbilly chick.

Duh!!!!!

Yes I agree its never ending to what the imaginations of people missing their loved ones think are horriffic possibilities. It's never ending grief 😢

Yes!!

I try to put myself in the parents shoes and it’s so painful it’s honestly unbearable.

Right? At least if they're dead and solved, you can lay them to rest and grieve. But not knowing if they're out there being trafficked or held in a basement. It's terrible.

OR it could be bigfoot!!! 😂🤣😂

👀

I hope so , so she is not suffering getting turned etc 😢

I don't know very well the case, but could be that the German couple drugged the father's coffe or something, then followed them and took advantage of the situation? It's odd to abduct a 10yo boy but Portugal is very close to Spain and it's like the European capital of child trafficking... could this being a theory?

I thought maybe he was snatched at the diner area and the parents gave chase in the truck. That could explain the irratic driving and why he wasn’t found. Maybe they pushed him from the truck when they realised they couldn’t control it and so he wouldn’t be in the crash and therefore he was much much further away.

@@piperjayciegood point

She was very naive and dangerously neglectful. She should of been charged. She also faked the Dr's note, so she knew it was wrong.

@@hayleymorgan9278 should've * , and yes.

I imagine she was afraid of losing her kids. Not an excuse, but she'd been in foster care herself. Probably separated from her siblings. It's an incredibly sad case. Did I pass the grammar test? 😉

She pimped her little girl out to that paedophile, she was no mother! She has that precious child's blood on her hands.

Disgusting mother. She didn't give a rat's butt about that little girl. Why would he have taken her? She knew/suspected. Tired of so called mothers not caring about the welfare of their children. They like the cheques given to them and perks for having children, yet are disconnected to those children. I really don't understand the disconnect and why they allow men into their lives who do horrific things to their children and say nothing.

Happy Anniversary you two!

@@user-fh8zw2kb6d Thank you ! If you live around Helen Georgia it's a nice little get away town .

❤HAPPY 18th ANNIVERSARY ❤ May u both live long, prosperous, happy, loving lives! 🥂 Heres to another 18..... 🥂 Sending u both luv & good wishes from BC Canada 🇨🇦 😊

And that’s why ya’ll have lasted so long 🥹 Happy Anniversary lovebirds ❤️

Good thing That Chapter is awesome, that could have ended bad. 😂

Please don't watch and therefore support this Missing 411 bs. It's a cheap money grab on the backs of many many families who actually lost their loved ones.

Missing 411

I agree! But I also just noticed it's spelled CAPITAN?!

@@kelbox313 As in, "el capitan," is my guess.

I need more Captain videos!

@@kelbox313 Exactly, to let the world know that El Capitan is steering this ship from now on (for a few minutes)

We love you Mikey

I agree. I don't always get a lot of entertainment value from these as I do the solved cases, but I always click on the missing person videos out of respect as well as a chance I may have seen them

The turnip comment 😂😂

"Outwit a turnip" well done 🤣🤣👌

reminds me of Blackadder "I would buy me a great big turnip..." Baldrick @@BruceLeroyUK

Making assumptions about a person's mind because of superficial qualities... that sounds familiar... like I might have heard a missing girl's mother say something similar. I don't know where, though. I'm sure the reasoning is solid. I guess he couldn't have done it.

@sandrak I don't think it's cause he's a mastermind and cleaned up everything perfectly. I think he got lucky with everything breaking his way. Happens once in awhile. In this day n age of cameras everywhere he just got lucky there was none around. Also what helps James out is unlike most suspects that Crack under interrogation is he keeps the same original story straight. Most suspects change details or stories completely and that completely clues in detectives somethings off. James either did it or she got sex trafficked by someone else or James and someone else.

Yes . I'll call that case unprotected, not really unsolved.

Fr, idk why that guy hasn't been charged, but that is wayyy too many red flags to just ignore.

Yeah, there is no way in hell he didn't do it.

Ohh, yeah, whatever happened to Katelin, James absolutely did it.

Maybe someone picked him up.

Yeah, I was REALLY trying to hold out sympathy for Tamika, but I lost it when it was revealed she forged a note from a fake doctor. At that point she KNEW her daughter was missing, how am I supposed to believe she ISN’T complicit in Ralisha’s disappearance?

As for the brick layer guy it's much more likely he went to the bunker check out the brick building since that's his whole thing, and satanic murder is as believable as ghosts hahaha. Could definitely see someone killing him for the money

The blink and you'll miss it vanished sounds like sinkholes but I'm sure they considered that, but yeah that poor girl never has a chance and I'm glad that scumbag offed himself, with the money we have as a country we could spend 1% of our military budget and gave the most pristine foster care system, healthcare, child support, education.. It's a joke that so many still live in poverty

It’s driving me nuts they didn’t have enough evidence on that guy!

they should try to reopen the case

​@@melissamoonchild9216is the case not open?

​@@livewiiiiireI assume it went cold

@@termiteconsumer7145 right, but they don't close cases that go cold, they're still open cases, even if they aren't being actively investigated.

They should have the 'truth drug' in use for suspicious people like him.

False

🤦🏻‍♀️have you never heard of DNA or forensics?

​@@thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw7010 send this comment to the relevant police departments who have closed investigations into these older cases. Which is what the OP is basically saying.

@@thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw7010…what does that have to do with what OP said? You are aware that in some cases DNA evidence can become contaminated? ESPECIALLY if the crime scene isn’t IMMEDIATELY closed off and investigated.

I so much agree. tropezando

​@@thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw7010 explain please

I think that she sold her to him.

You think she was jamming out to Fancy after she sent him with the pedo?

I’m a dolt I missed that 😢

I caught that too 😂

@@nhmooytis7058 The girl who went missing on the school trip

Much more important than her body being found is her stepfather being charged with her murder. How the hell he's walking free with such a strong circumstantial case against him, bugger only knows!

@@glamdolly30 If I could like that comment 10000 X's, I would!! It seems with just the small amount of circumstantial evidence Mike shared, James would be convicted!!

​@@glamdolly30my guess is they're reluctant to charge him because not all of the circumstantial evidence is strong and can be explained away by a good lawyer. If he is found not guilty in a trial like that, which is much more likely than In a traditional trial, they can't charge him again should her body ever be found. A trial based on circumstantial evidence will have a harder time to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. 😔

@@dorirori2119 I'm sure you're right. I'm not familiar with the Katelin Akens missing persons/murder case. But I do know there is a ridiculous but sadly widespread prejudice that circumstantial evidence (as opposed to forensic evidence), is somehow weak/inferior, and in some eyes, not evidence at all. That is plainly ridiculous! In fact circumstantial evidence can be a powerful and compelling indication of a suspect's guilt. A very learned British lawyer once explained forensic vs circumstantial evidence to me, in the following, brilliant way: Forensic evidence, eg DNA, fingerprints, camera and phone data etc, is a single, unbreakable steel cable linking the suspect to the crime. Compelling circumstantial evidence, in sufficient quantity, forms a multi-stranded steel cable that is every bit as strong as the single forensic cable - and indeed can be even stronger!

This is the least suspicious of all the stories. It's clearly her step dad...hardly a mystery. Hope he's brought to justice.

@milkmiser This is the best comment I've seen in ages! So cool, how Mike inspired you! Yay, another reason to love @That Chapter!

That. Is. Fantastic. Makes me smile. Glad to know you're out there, milkmiser.

Impressive!

That’s amazing, good luck solving crimes and helping people!

It would be awesome if Mike could interview you about the inspiration and the cases that you've worked on.

Like they didn’t check from the beginning? Since it was in the area of the car

I think we all agree!!! ✌

Mine too ❤

Me too

Might be in the top 3 for me. Competing with Ryan Hollinger and Colin Farrell.

@@dariadavies256arnt you like a 10 yo girl? Why do you have a picture of a adult?

Love you'r videos ❤❤❤ only person who can keep my attention, telling a story.

I think he didn't go to work to get rid of her body maybe. I wonder if she's in the woods somewhere...

This. And many of her childhood friends have come forward saying she had accused him of molesting her on at least one occasion. 💔

@kaseycarpenter he musta been in the perfect area where no cameras are. In this day n age of technology tracing and cameras everywhere usually most get caught. I was wondering about molestation. I thought I heard that somewhere before. So that makes sense he offer her. The one thing he is smart about is never changing his original story. Most suspects where the police hardly have no evidence get tripped up in interrogation because they change details or stories constantly.

​@@chrislong8559CCTV isn't a guarantee, there's been a guy wandering around London for a week very obviously disfigured and missing an eye after committing an alkaline attack which has been on the front page of every news source. Apparently no one in this city of millions noticed because no one in London looks at each other and he's now in the river but they haven't found the body yet.

I started watching at 8am. Admittedly binge watching a few.

Try not to get cancer in the Australia sun m8

@@four204u6 Just hanging out washing on the line here risks getting sunburned ;)

LOVE IT!! 😂✌Watch out for them giant spiders & punching kangaroos

The world isnt weirder or more dangerous. People are more distracted, entitled, and rude. Dont watch the news. Most people are good.

I’m 71 and spent 2017-22 traveling alone to AU, NZ, Bali, Fiji, and now am in Hawaii. Never had any problems. Was prudent but had a grand adventure.😊

@@nhmooytis7058 Do you need a wife, by chance? 😇🥰🙃

​@nhmooytis7058 that's so cool. kudos to you. ✨️

Right!? In about 1997, I went to Thailand with my sister and two other couples from our church. I had to depart the trip early so I was flown to Bangkok to spend one whole day before I flew back to the States. That day, I paid for a tour guide and a driver... That I randomly met the day before at the airport. They drove me all over Bangkok... We took a little boat through the canal. No one in the whole world knew where I was specifically or what I was doing. It seems so STUPID now ... But I didn't give it a second thought. There's ZERO way I'd do that these days or recommend that anyone do that!! 🥴🥴🥴

Maybe fumes getting into the cab?

Hmm good to know!

True, but if brakes overheat, they become basically useless. Ask me how I know....

The brake lines on my SUV were cut and I lost all braking. I had to downshift and use the parking brake just like in the movies. Maybe semi trucks have a unique safety system?

@@halfseamusracing9073 Probably clenched, lol. Mike speculated the lines were cut, but more likely what you suggest.

Hope you're feeling better ❤

I'm hoping your day tomorrow is far less sad.

Please post this lol

I miss that show in it's peak streaming ruined TV lol

@@paulcarpenter7844 A friend of mine always says, “Pick a hairstyle, Reid!” when they see me watching various episodes, lol! I think I have watched all seasons (except for the latest one) at LEAST 3 times. No telling how many times for various other episodes 😊

I live less than an hour from the mouth of the Appalachian Trail. Been hiking it my whole life. Always taught to not go off the trail. You will disappear.

Probably too busy doing drugs, sadly.

Why did you end that with a smiley face...that's so ominous

She's par on for a crackhead. Was just thankful to be rid of the responsibility

She was pimping her out.

Sold her to Tatum.

Thanks, have a great weekend!

Hope you feel better soon!

@@ThatChapter thank you 🙏🏻

Infected molar here - where's MY sympathy?

@@elyneburns2224 ooof that’s rough! Get well soon! I’m sick too! We’re all enjoying Mike’s videos while we heal!

@@alison5009 Thanx, Ali'

Mike has never worn glasses.

@@limbrat5448wrongo

​@@limbrat5448You haven't been a fan for long. He wore them for ages, but then had laser eye surgery, and now doesn't need them.

🫶🏻

I'd be more amazed to find a big cat in the Great Smokies. More likely to find a Jaguar roaming in Arizona than a Puma in Tennessee

​@@Stu161only big cat I've seen down here are bobcats

Giving goos trumps all other activities!