Today's Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hanson episode:
[video=youtube;YaHIdD-qN78]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaHIdD-qN78&feature=share[/video]
There are two parts already on youtube channel, but is supposed to air at 11 on one of our local side stations (KASN).
Thanks for posting that. I found it interesting because of the new lead, but also found it strange that this information is apparently just now be made available by the security guard. By the security guard's own admission, statements from Ebby's mom, and even police reports, this security guard has been in contact with the family and LRPD practically from the very beginning and is just now mentioning these guys he saw Ebby with on 3 separate occasions?!
Why, if he saw these guys with Ebby THREE TIMES, is he just now mentioning this over a year and a half later?! And, btw, it's a miracle that the report of Ebby's abandoned car is in the police report because the detective in violent crimes who was the first one to have the case (who did absolutely nothing and totally screwed up the case) actually managed to get the security guard's report of the abandoned car included in the police report. So the guy who made a huge mess of this case initially actually did manage to get something important handled properly, but the part about seeing POI's with Ebby three separate times completely slipped the security guard's memory for almost 20 months?! It just doesn't make sense and seems really sketchy.
Also, there were a couple of housekeeping issues that bothered me about the report.
1. Chalamont park where Ebby's car was left and the security guard is now claiming he saw Ebby there with the potential suspects is NOT a city park at all as it often gets reported by people who aren't from Little Rock and are unfamiliar with the city. It seems like a small detail, but public parks can often times make people immediately draw conclusions about the types of activities that happen in a public, city park. It also is not right across the street from a Walmart as is often reported, which made people who don't know the area think that cameras from Walmart would have recordings of activities at the park. They would possibly capture vehicles driving down Chenal and potentially headed to the park, but that turn off is out of range of the Walmart cameras and actually is not within site of Walmart. There is potentially the possibility that Ebby may be captured on camera at Walmart and if she was there with someone or even alone, that would have been great footage to have for Ebby's case, but since the original lead detective dropped the ball on that the footage is gone forever now.
The real story is Chalamont park is a private, neighborhood park for a neighborhood that is in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Little Rock. It is also on the far west side of Little Rock, very much removed from the more densely populated and areas with higher crime rates. It also is not a park you would know existed unless someone told you where it is. It is off of a neighborhood street that you have to drive down quite a ways before you reach the park. I'm attaching two pictures below and hope the attachments work. One shows how far the park is from Walmart and the other is a closer view of the map to show how far back in the neighborhood the park is from the closest main thoroughfare (Chenal Parkway).
Chalamont park (red dot) and distance from Walmart (blue dot at the intersection of Highway 10 and Chenal Parkway).
Close up of drive from Chenal Parkway to Chalamont park.
2. There is also misinformation about the area where the clothing was found that caused false hope early on in the investigation. I heard in one report that this area is really close to where her car was found and then in this Crime Watch Daily report it was stated the clothes were found in a remote part of Little Rock. Neither of these statements are true. The area is 8 miles from Chalamont park, but it's 8 miles in the heaviest traffic area in West Little Rock. As far as this location being a remote area in Little Rock, it's actually a green space that's maybe 15 acres (20 acres tops) right dead in the middle of one of the most heavily congested business and shopping areas in all of Little Rock - definitely for West Little Rock.
3. Last, but not least, (and I'm sad to say this) unfortunately Ebby's name is not a name that most people around here would know, despite what was said by the local reporter in the Crime Watch Daily episode. When Ebby disappeared she vanished right in the middle of a spree of a lot of middle class to upper middle class pretty Caucasian teenage (high school age) girls who were disappearing from Little Rock and the immediate suburbs west of Little Rock. I follow Ebby's case closely because of what the LRPD detective that originally had the case did to ruin it for whatever reason. However, young, pretty girls were disappearing around here so frequently for about a year that people don't (or can't) even keep up, which is really sad. Plus, if a case from 1999 that involved the murder of Carson Prince, whose mother is a deputy prosecutor for Little Rock and father was a former mayor for Little Rock, couldn't get the proper time and attention from LRPD, the Pulaski County Sherriff, or the Arkansas State Troopers (she was found on an interstate barely alive), there's little chance anyone else will. I think Ebby's family is finally on the right track, but at the same time I know that the only reason Carson Prince's murderer got caught (and she wasn't missing, they KNEW it was a murder case) was because he walked into a police station, turned himself in, and gave a full confession to Carson's murder and the murder of two other people.
Bottom line, it's great to keep Ebby's story in the news. It's especially important because no one knows what happened to her and keeping her story in the news might be the only way to get a witness to come forward or someone who's seen her to make a report to the police (assuming she's still alive but being held hostage for sex trafficking). Making sure these small details are being properly reported might seem insignificant, but being from Little Rock and having lived here for over 40 of my 49 years on Earth, I know why here in Little Rock these details are really important to the investigation. Plus, for those who aren't familiar with a city or town (as is the case with most WS cases) we rely on MSM reports for the major and fine details of a case to try to figure out what happened. If any of those details are inaccurate, it can cause a person to arrive at the wrong conclusion.
One detail that I have not ever seen reported is that the really horrible thing about where Ebby's car was found is surrounded by thousands upon thousands of wooded acreage to the west of that park. Within 5 minutes (or less) there's an endless supply of places to take someone that you don't want found ever again. But I'm still hoping Ebby will be found one way or another for her family's sake.
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it's seriously upsetting the lack of concern the police department shows.
