From nancy grace show last night
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/08/ng.01.html
GRACE: Live to Bardstown, Kentucky, where a mom of five, Crystal Rogers, maroon Chevy found on the side of the road with a flat tire. She*
has not been spotted alive since.*
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re just trying to find her.*
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Crystal Rogers` car was found on the Bluegrass Parkway abandoned with a flat tire.*
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crystal, if you can hear our voice, we love you. We want to know where you`re at.*
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her purse was in there, her cell phone was in there, her keys was in the ignition.*
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GRACE: Joining me right now Scott Johnson from WVLK. Scott, she was at her home that evening, and she leaves at some point. We know she was*
talking on the phone, the cell phone, and she leaves, and her car is found at what time and what`s in the car?*
SCOTT JOHNSON, WVLK: In the car, we`re not sure exactly when it was found. She was last seen on Friday. The family reported her missing on*
Saturday. Or went to the police on Saturday, the 4th, to report her missing. The car was found with a flat tire and the keys were in the car.*
There was a cell phone, her purse, diaper bag in the car. There was gas in the car, police say. The only thing wrong was there was a flat tire.*
There were no other problems, but there was no Crystal.*
GRACE: Joining me now special guest, in addition to Scott Johnson, from WLVK. The father and mother of Crystal. Take a look at this maroon*
Chevy. Tommy and Sherry Ballard are with us. Thank you for being with us.*
TOMMY BALLARD, FATHER: You`re welcome.*
SHERRY BALLARD, MOTHER: You`re welcome.*
GRACE: First of all, our prayers are going up ever since we heard about her missing, and we are all hoping and praying for her return. I*
want to start with you, Ms. Ballard. When did you first learn she`s missing?*
S. BALLARD: Friday, her granddaughter contacted me and said she couldn`t get in touch with her. So I texted my daughter and just told her*
that her daughter was trying to get in touch with her and to call her. I think that was around 6:00 maybe. Around 9:30 maybe, Kylie texted me back*
and said she still hadn`t heard from her mother, so I started calling around to people that I think she would have talked to --*
GRACE: Was that abnormal? Was that unusual, Ms. Ballard, for her not to have texted back?*
S. BALLARD: Right at that moment, I didn`t pay real big attention. A little bit, not a lot, because the kids were -- her oldest daughter that*
lived there with her was at her grandmother`s. The two, the younger two was at their dad`s, and she just had the baby there at home. It was July*
4th weekend. I thought maybe she had plans and maybe didn`t get to her phone. But then when I started calling everybody and nobody had heard from*
her, that was sort of unusual.*
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GRACE: When you say you started contacting everybody and no one had heard from her, who did you contact?*
S. BALLARD: I called my mother, because she`s real close with her. I called my younger daughter. I called my sister-in-law, Barbara, and I*
don`t remember if I -- I think that`s all I called. I called Sabrina, my niece.*
GRACE: And Ms. Ballard, with me is Tommy and Sherry Ballard. This is Crystal`s mom and dad. When did it hit you she`s missing?*
S. BALLARD: It really hit me Sunday. My daughter texted me back or called me and asked me, she said, have you heard from Crystal yet? I said*
no, I said, you haven`t heard from her? She said no. And so I called my mom back and other people, and they hadn`t heard from her. And I told my*
husband, I said, that`s just not right.*
GRACE: How often do you normally talk to her?*
S. BALLARD: During the week, at least probably every other day, if not every day because the kids, like her older daughter lives with me, so*
we`re constantly in contact. Not as much on the weekends.*
GRACE: And that is so true, Ms. Ballard. Even adult women very often call their mom and dad every day. You know, you`ve got grandchildren*
involved. You`ve got them checking on you, you checking on her. And most people are in touch with their family quite often.*
Mr. Ballard, to you also, thank you for being with us, what are police telling you tonight?*
T. BALLARD: Nothing. I mean, I understand they`re doing all they can. They don`t want to jeopardize nothing, but we really haven`t found*
out nothing. We`ve been out searching ourself since Sunday, since me and my son found her car.*
GRACE: Where are you searching?*
T. BALLARD: Where her car was. And they said she was seen at her boyfriend`s farm. We`re searching out towards that area, just every lead*
we get.*
GRACE: You know, hold on, I`m hearing in my ear that the sheriff is joining us right now. Sheriff Ed Mattingly with the Nelson County*
Sheriff`s Office is with us. Sheriff Mattingly, thank you for being with us. I know the Ballards have just come in physically from out searching*
for their daughter, and I don`t know what I would do other than exactly what they`re doing, go out and start searching. Interesting, Sheriff*
Mattingly, her car had a flat. I`m curious what caused the flat or was the flat -- was it a fake? Did she really pick up a nail or did somebody slash*
the tire to make it look that way?*
MATTINGLY: First appearance, we will be sending the tire to the lab, but it appears the nail was worn, as if it had been wedged down into the*
tire and driven on. The tracks at the scene also indicate that the car came to the side of the road, driving on the rim.*
GRACE: I`ve done that before, and it certainly leaves a mark. Well, Sheriff, you`ve answered my question. That`s enough to convince me she*
really did have a flat. That is not a contrived scene. What`s interesting, Sheriff Mattingly, I think this is true, our sources are*
telling us her keys, her cell phone, her diaper bag and her purse was in the car?*
MATTINGLY: Her personal belongings were in the car, but that doesn`t mean she was the person driving the car. We`ve used the media to generate*
tips, but when you do that, it also creates confusion.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re still waiting on you. We love you. We`re looking for you.*
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They found her unlocked maroon Chevy Impala abandoned on the Bluegrass Parkway. Her tires were flat.*
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