I need help with two words in this clip. I've put them in parenthesis with ??. I plan to post this in the media thread once we finalize it. Corrections, edits, different ears appreciated. Please note this is the 6 min clipped version and not the full 21 min version that was only online briefly. So I broke paragraphs where there are parts obviously missing. TIA.
http://videos.al.com/mobile-press-register/2013/10/chessie_wood_press_conference.html
Chessie Wood press conference 10/29/2013
Chessie Wood talks about the sex-abuse charges against her, upcoming trials and what might have happened to her daughter, missing woman, Brittney Wood.
Chessie speaks:
I called this press conference majorily because of my daughter. I believe that the focus has been totally took off my daughter and put on to the sex crimes that's occurring. And I believe my daughter deserves more than that. I believe my daugher went to confront him about other victims and it backfired on her. You just had to have, you know Brittney. She was a fireball and she found out some information that she couldn't handle. And she went to confront him about it and we ain't seen her since.
Q: What do you think happened?
I believe Donnie killed my daughter. Over the sex crimes. So, of course, they're going to be connected.
I believe there's people on this earth that is related to me. That has answers to questions. I've asked them about repeatedly. And they've never gave me the answer. And one of them, is to Wendy Holland. My own sister. When she found her husband dead, or almost dead, she grabs his phone and deletes four messages. She told me this herself. To this day, she won't tell me what was on that phone. And it leads me to believe that it had something to do with my daughter. I begged you Wendy to tell me where my daughter is. And you won't. Please, tell me where my daughter is.
Our childhood was great, it was normal, our life was totally normal. Until this all exploded. We had the everyday family until this came out. And it has flipped my world upside down. I didn't just lose my daughter, I lost half my family with it.
I could tell her demeanor was different right before she left my house. At that time, I didn't know.
I mean, she's a 19 year old teenager. And, but looking back, yeah, her demeanor was different when she left.
Q: Different how? Angry? Morose?
A little on the angry side. She was angry.
I have different...I have mixed opinions about every one of them, really. But Wendy Holland I believe is the one that holds the key to my daughter's disappearance and to this day, Brittney is my number one focus I have got to bring her home for her baby and then I can move on to the other things going on, but right now I need to bring Brittney home.
I really believe then that if I am found innocent, that you live under that shadow probably for the rest of your life. People say well, the judicial system failed us, or whatever. You know, I don't think that'll ever complete, I don't think I'll ever get the support I used to have. And deep in my heart, I believe law enforcement wanted that to occur.
They were excellent at what they did. For your own family to hide something so heinous from your own family youre hurting their children and you can hide it and manipulate them children good enough to where they won't seek help is just beyond anything I can imagine. I just can't see how they could have done that.
I'm not really too worried about the legal accusations because the only way you have evidence is if the crime happened. It didn't happen so the only thing I fear is human error. That's all I fear.
Other than that, I think we can get past this if we can just find my daughter, have the trials. I want the trials. They keep setting them trials off and I have been hoping and praying to God above that something about my daughter will come out at one of those trials.
I may be shocked somebody I never knew may know. You just never know. So (starting?)with the judge, let's see what happens and see if somebody can come up with where my daughter is or what happened to her.
I believe that these victims have been molested. I do. By certain people, just not me. And
Q: Well, what about your sisters?
Ya, I believe, if...I believe one of them, I have, been brought to my attention that one of them has knowledge at least and the other one is guilty. And it hurts. These are my sisters I grew up with. It's not nothing. They didn't just hurt their children. They hurt mine, too. And I just don't understand how they can hurt my, their kids and my kids (over?) my nieces and nephews.
I just don't understand and they don't talk. A lot of people tell me I need to exercise my right to remain silent. And I just can't. Most people who get accused of things that they didn't do. They don't just sit there. They're going to lash out. And I can't just sit there and let everybody assume this or assume that without me saying what, what's really going on here.