This is a good overview of the case:
Where is LaTania?
http://wjbf.com/2017/05/29/where-is-latania/
From the link:
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Tanya Tripp made a case report with the sheriffs office on
Monday, April 17 around 8:50 p.m.
[So according to this article, Tanya Tripp filed a report with LE less than 24 hours after LaTania and Leon supposedly disappeared.]
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Tanya told the deputies the same thing she told me, that she spoke with Leon and LaTania by cell phone a short while after the two left. The report stated that was around 2:00 a.m.
She told us more though. She said she called Leon after her youngest daughter said Janell is gone.
She claimed both heard the door slam. After making the call, she said before she could complete the sentence asking where Janell is, Leon broke in to say before you say anything I took Janell because you know I dont know how to work these cell phones. Tanya agreed. She even added that Leon passed the phone to Janell and she told her she loved her. That is the last time Tanya told me she remembers speaking with her daughter.
Note: Tanya told me that Leon took her phone and left his phone with her. She also stated that the phones Leon and LaTania had were missing and that she had her phones number ported to a new phone because that was the only number her daughter had to call her.
[I don't know what to think of this bit about their phones ... hmm ....]
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On April 20, Tanya Tripp reported her 1990 GMC Sierra C1500 white pick up truck was either with her husband and daughter or stolen. That truck was found April 26 about a mile from the home on Old McDuffie Road. That truck was back in Tanya Tripps possession during our next interview.
[So when TT first filed the case report on Apr. 17th, did she not know what vehicle LaTania and LT were in when he took her? What took her three days to realize the truck was gone? Or is this some sort of misreporting ... because it makes no sense ...?]
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A tipster contacted the Carwell family stating they saw Janell just two days after she left with her stepfather.
I have also been in constant contact with the investigator and
he informed me that he had not received the same tip.
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I spoke with Tanya Tripp about her relationship with Leon Tripp, before she became Mrs. Tripp. She informed me that the two met when they were teens initially. She said they reconnected when he was behind bars and became pen pals. She said after a series of conversations, the sparks began to fly and the two married in 2011. She stated he was released on parole in 2015 and moved in with her, her children and mother in Augusta.
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I corroborated her story with her brother. He though LaTanias biological father was still in Texas, but stated I should listen to Tanya because he was not sure. He did, however, state that the timeline for when his sister met Leon seemed a bit off. He said they were in Texas as teens, so she could have not me Leon until much later in life. Tanya added that LaTanias biological, paternal grandmother and the rest of the family were all deceased.
Another bit of information that changed the story was that the investigator informed me that the story about meeting Maurice to help him with car trouble in Clarks Hills was not true.
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We also aired an interview with Cathy Rhodes, the founder of Bring Our Missing Home Inc. Rhodes runs a local non-profit organization with a national reach to help missing and exploited children.
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Rhodes shared with me off camera that she spoke and texted with Tanya from the time she reached out to her until she was arrested. She stated that she was told by Tanya that she relocated to Atlanta Friday, May 19. She said that Tanya stated she rented a Uhaul to move and returned it on Tuesday, May 23.
According to Tanya, as she was driving to the Uhaul, she spotted Leon walking down the street. She said she yelled to him where is LaTania, but he did not answer that question. She said he told her that they ran out of gas and that the walked to a gas station, but the cell phones were stolen out of the truck. She then said that Leon took LaTania to the train station in Atlanta to take the bus back home.
Im not sure how true this is because Tanya has not had a good track record for truth telling, but it is what she told Rhodes.
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According to investigators, the parents are not talking about where their daughter is located.
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I wanted to do a story the focuses more on where LaTania was last seen. Getting that information was difficult, but the Richmond County Board of Education spokesman was able to confirm that LaTania did not arrive to school on April 17, which was her birthday.
Her last day at school was the week prior.
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For once, I am speechless ... :fainted:
lol.
