JVM: Shocking new developments in Relisha Rudds disappearance, as secrets and lies surface. Why does the missing 8-year old girls mom keep changing her story? Relishas maternal grandmother is joining me live tonight. Plus, Ill talk exclusively with the alleged kidnappers nephew. Were there warning signs? Good evening, Im JVM coming to you live
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JVM: Cops say Relishas family gave her away on February 26th to Khalil Tatum, a janitor at the Washington DC homeless shelter where the famly was living. He was supposed to take her to his house. But theres surveillance video, right here, of the two of them walking into a hotel room - an ominous sign. Cops say the last confirmed sighting of little Relisha was March 1st. The next day, March 2nd, Tatum buys heavy duty trash bags, a shovel, and lime, tools often used to dispose of bodies. Fast forward to March 19th-20th, soon after, cops start searching for Relisha on March 20th, they find Tatums wife murdered in a hotel. And then just this week, cops find the body of Tatum himself, in a Washington DC park. They think he killed himself.
So now that this accused murderer and kidnapper is dead, have cops lost the only person who knew where the child was hidden? And is she dead or alive? How did Tatum convince everybody at this homeless shelter he was a great guy?
(PARTIAL VIDEO CLIP of SYs interview with @ShomariStone of NBC Washington)
JVM: But, should we trust what Relishas mom says? What do you think happened to little Relisha? Call me at 1-877-JVM-SAYS. We have a fantastic Lions Den debate panel tonight.
But first, my special guest, Relishaa maternal grandmother, Melissa (Turner Young), I am so sorry that youre going through all this. I know its gotta be gut-wrenching - heartwrenching - but, you had told us that you do not blame the now dead janitor Khalil Tatum, for murdering his wife or kidnapping your missing grandchild. WHY NOT? And look at this precious child! (VIDEO of RELISHA DANCING in her room at the shelter is playing on-screen - continuous loop - byline FROM FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM)
MTY: (crosstalk) What I said was, I dont believe that he killed his wife.
JVM: (pause) Uh, why not?
MTY: I, I, what I said to the reporter that interviewed me - I never said I dont blame him? (***she ends her sentences, at times, as though she is ending a sentence as a question / just as AY did; when I hear this, I will transcribe it with a question mark at the end, because thats how it sounds to me***) what I said was, I dont believe that he killed his wife? What I believe, what I feel right now, and what I believe since finding out that he was found murdered, well that he committed suicide - I believe his wife his wife walked in and saw something, or interrupted something, or heard something, or seen something, that she wasnt supposed to see, or know, and thats why she lost her life.
(crosstalk - JVM interrupted her - :banghead: )
JVM: well, if he didnt kill her, who did?
MTY: I dont know. Maybe it coulda been one of the ones that left - that was seen at the hotel with him.
JVM: (slight pause) Ah
(crosstalk)
MTY: Really, really, I dont know who coulda took her. I dont know...
JVM: Tell us, tell us (cuts MTY off :banghead: ) about that, because authorities are saying, as we see the surveillance video of our precious grandchild - with this man, this janitor, on February 26th, walking to a hotel room, never a good sign for an adult man and an 8 year old girl, to be walking into a hotel room. There it is. Now,
MTY: (crosstalk, speaking over JVM) Well, what we got, what the family got
JVM: authorities havent said that about anything else, about anybody else, but youre giving us new information. What are you saying?
MTY: What, what the family got, far as that video, about him being, bout him and her being seen in the hotel, in the COMFORT INN over there on, uh, well, that hotel over there on New York Avenue? She was, she went to a pool party. They was supposed to had her his 9 year old granddaughter was supposed to have a pool party at a hotel, at the indoor pool there at the hotel. I found out that...(crosstalk)...we never
.the indoor pool
JVM: (talking over her) You mentioned something other people...
MTY: I dont know if a party took place there or not.
JVM: You said just now about, something just now about other people. What other people?
MTY: The hotel where his wife was found was in Oxon Hill. The hotel where Relisha and Mr. Tatum were seen at is here in the District of Columbia.
JVM: Right
MTY: It was five people, it was three other people seen entering that hotel room with him and his wife. So we dont know who could have killed his wife.
JVM: Wow (speaking quietly as MTY talks)
MTY: Maybe one of them, maybe Mr. Tatum. We dont know. Only those who was actually in the room know who killed his wife.
JVM: Now, some might say, why are you so quick to defend somebody who your granddaughter disappeared on him watch? And let me just set it up
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(crosstalk - MTY interruts JVM)
MTY: Im not defending him at all. My thing is, you got two people that turned up dead, OK? In Mr. Tatums case, where they found him at, they searched that same very exact location when they first started searching for my granddaughter. They found nothing. No signs of him, nor my granddaughter, at that very exact location. On Monday, Monday just past, you get a tip that leads you right back to that location. What you find what you get back to that same very location that you already searched prior to beginning the search for my granddaughter? And you find his body. That should tell you something.
JVM: And youre suggesting that something (crosstalk) that somebody dropped his body there, and planted his body there, youre almost suggesting a conspiracy!
MTY: If you didnt find a body when you find when you searched it (major crosstalk!) RIGHT! Thats what I feel. That someone killed him, someone else, and put his body there, and then called Metropolitan and told them to go back, that they will find something.
JVM: Its almost like youre suggesting
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MTY: So Im not defending Mr. Tatum in any type of way, Im (inaudible because JVM wont let her talk :banghead: )
JVM: Well, what do you think happened to your granddaughter? (they keep cutting each other off) What do you think happened to your granddaughter?
MTY: I dont know what happened to her. See, right now, its a lot, only, like I said, in his wifes case, the only ones know that killed her is the ones that was there. The whereabouts of my granddaughter. the only one that knows the whereabouts right now is Mr. Tatum and hes deceased. Now, if he killed hisself, the question leaves now, who was she present when he murdered hisself? Or did he leave her with someone else. ***Interestingly, the 2nd (underlined)part was said as a statement - not a question****
JVM: Well, you know, what youre suggesting is also, if you extrapolate, youre suggesting maybe he didnt kill himself, that he was killed and planted there. Oh my gosh my
MTY: Right!
JVM: ...head is exploding with this conspiracy theory
MTY: Thats that I feel (crosstalk again); Thats not a suggestion, thats what I feel. Thats MY opinion on how they found the body, and where they found the gun laying at. Thats MY opinion on it. I feel as though...
JVM: OK (interrupts), I want to...
MTY: Mr. Tatums body was put there by someone else.
JVM: I wanna stop you for a second, and I appreciate your candor. Hang on. Dont hang up.
(Goes to Areva Martin for commentary. AM starts off with (paraphrasing) Grandmother is grieving, and then says,Nows not the time to trash the grandmother
. when NO ONEs said a WORD to MTY so FAR! :censored: :censored:
As you can tell, this transcription is EXHAUSTING - as Ive barely completed segment #1, and AMs drivel isnt worth the keystrokes!
Taking a breather, and will keep at it until I pass out! (I'm only at the 18:00 mark!!!
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