BIG write up here on the family, interview, family tree, etc.
http://www.salisburypost.com/article/20130810/SP01/130819982/1016
Adoptive parents say they think missing teen is OK, scared to come forward
Shavonne Potts Posted: Saturday, August 10, 2013 12:01 a.m.
UPDATED: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:17 a.m.
VIDEO Interview Part 1 is at link above (I'm trying to transcribe it now). There's a Part 2 I'm looking for if anybody finds it, please let me know.
What's kind of strange is when watching the video interview, watch the adopted mother's husband, Sandy Parsons. Either the cats got his tongue or something. He's like a bump on a log! Strange.
Parsons family tree (Erica's connection to the family):
http://www.salisburypost.com/assets/pdf/SP9377810.pdf
And now a more extended timeline on the case:
Here’s a timeline, gleaned from official reports; comments from Casey and Sandy Parsons and their lawyer; and media reports.
• 1998: Erica Lynn Parsons, just a few weeks old, is taken in by Casey and Sandy Parsons, who have three children of their own. She is the biological child of Sandy Parsons’ brother’s wife, fathered by someone else. They also take in Erica’s three siblings.
• 2000: The Parsonses officially adopt Erica in Cabarrus County. Her siblings had been placed in other homes.
• 1999-2011: The couple has two more children. Casey Parsons is hospitalized several times, some of them for extended stays, she says.
• February 2010: William James Parsons, 16, the couple’s biological son, is arrested for biting his younger brother.
• August 2011: James Parsons is charged with two counts of assault on a female, instigating or promoting animal cruelty and assault on a minor after clashing with his mother, strangling one of the family’s dogs and threatening his 5-year-old brother with a knife, according to Sheriff’s Office reports. Charges are dismissed when Casey Parsons does not appear in court.
• Nov. 19, 2011: The Parsonses take Erica to a McDonald’s in Mooresville to catch a ride to the Asheville home of her biological grandmother, Irene “Nan” Goodman. The couple’s attorney initially said they were given false names by the people who picked up Erica, but they now say they turned her over to Goodman and another woman identified as the girlfriend of Erica’s biological father.
• December 2011: According to the Parsonses, on her third visit to Asheville, Erica calls home and says she doesn’t want to live with them anymore.
• Sometime in 2012: Casey Parsons files a missing persons report for a younger daughter, Brooke.
• July 30, 2013: After his parents kick him out, now 20-year-old James Parsons contacts the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office and reports that Erica has been missing for two years and his parents have been cashing her monthly checks.
• August 2013: After undergoing two days of questioning by investigators, the Parsonses hire attorney Carlyle Sherrill.
• Aug. 5, 2013: The Rowan Sheriff’s Office issues a missing/endangered persons alert for Erica.
• Aug. 6, 2013: “Let’s just say we could not find her right now if we had to,” Sherrill says of Erica.
• Aug. 9, 2013: Sherrill confirms that he and the Parsonses have agreed to appear on the “Dr. Phil” Show.
