I'll be posting the transcripts throughout the day as I finish them.
Part 1:
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/v...itesection=salisbury_hom_non_sec&VID=25018532
Reporter: First of all, just tell us about Erica. What-what- we know her from a m-in the last few days anyway, as a girl on a missing/endangered poster that was right up there as well. But, tell us about her as a girl when she was here. What was she like?
Casey: She was normal, just like my other daughter. Just a happy go lucky little girl. Loved boys- when she was even in public school that was her biggest problem, was boys. Um, she would go after 'em. Um, she- she wanted another round of piercings in her ears. We already did one. We weren't gonna let her do a second. She loved clothes. She wanted her hair real long- that was- she always loved her hair long and curly. And, she waited until the day that she was able to get a computer and things. We make our kids wait until a certain age to get the electronic things and she talked about that quite often- that she was going to get that.
Reporter: And, she was adopted. How old was she when she came to you?
Casey: We got her at 4 weeks old. She was placed with us- and- but, she was not legally adopted until July of 2000. She was 2 1/2 years old.
Reporter: Okay. At 2 1/2 years old?
Casey: Yeah.
Reporter: And, from what you're trying to say and what your neighbors have said, you guys taking in kids is just what you do?
Casey: We do. We have- Erica has three half siblings that we also got at the same time. We had seven kids, three of our biological kids and four that we got in at that time when we got her. And, we had them seven kids all the way up until August of 1998 when the other three was placed with other adoptive families that they did get adopted with. And, we had raised Erica from four weeks and she was already calling me 'Momma' and we couldn't- we couldn't let her go at that point, so we- um, the social workers agreed too. We're the ones that learned her how to walk and talk. We were the only parents that she knew at that point. She called us 'Momma' and 'Daddy'.
Reporter: Now, fast forward to, I guess, roughly November 2011. What happened the last day she was here?
Casey: She didn't- her last day wasn't in November-
Reporter: Or, roughly around that time-
Casey: She-
Reporter: - when was the last time-
Casey: The third trip that she went to Nan's on- and that's the final trip where she stayed with Nan, was December 17th of 2011. And that was supposed to be a three week trip for Christmas. She had already went and visited in November and come back for- it was for Thanksgiving but it wasn't on the Thanksgiving week because she was with us that week. Um, but she went for that weekend in November and come back. She also went in another weekend in September and come back.
Reporter: Okay, so she went around Christmas time and previously in September and November.
Casey: Yes.
Reporter: Who's Nan?
Casey: Nan is- Nan is her name, just like anybody gets called grandma and Nana, hers was Nan. And, that's what Erica called her but her real name was Irene Goodman.
Reporter: And, her relationship with Erica?
Casey: It's her biological grandmother on the fathers side.
Reporter: Have you met this woman before?
Casey: I have been talking to Nan since July of 2011, and the first time I met her face to face was in September of 2011.
Reporter: She came here?
Casey: No, we met at a McDonald's in Mooresville.
Reporter: How did you meet her?
Casey: When we met her in July of 2011, it was her biological mother that had gave her all the information to contact us. And, she knew all of our information. She knew our names. She knew Erica's birthday. All about, of course, Erica's biological Daddy and names, and she knew Carolyn, the biological mother. She knew every- everything.
Reporter: At what point did you meet her biological mother, or had you known her?
Casey: We've known her- Erica was our niece even before she was adopted. So.
Reporter: So, the biological mother's name is-
Casey: Is Carolyn Parsons.
Reporter: Where does she live? I know she's out of state, but-
Casey: In- now she's out of state, but they said Louisiana. I've talked to her and she told me Louisiana. She's lived everywhere around this way so I was very, um- and she even lived in Mooresville, and I know she's lived in Kannapolis a lot, in the Concord area.
Reporter: Okay, um- so, the last time you saw her, though- Nan did not come to pick her up- or, how did she end up leaving with Nan?
Casey: No, all three times we met her at the Mooresville McDonald's. All three times.
Reporter: Was there a particular reason that you all wanted to meet at the Mooresville McDonald's?
Casey: She had a four hour drive, and that's actually the spot that she said that she knew and asked us was we willing to meet there. And that's- we've always met there. It's just- that's where we went.
