over when he realized what we had. i was put on the phone with someone from the san francisco department believed they had mr. easily in custody and miss smith. and they compounded the information that these were in fact the people we were looking for not just another dead end lead like we ve been getting. it was terrific news. kelly: jubilation around the police department? ecstatic doesn t come close. kelly: that s good news especially for her family as well. let me ask you, right now who is taking care of young brittany? as of yesterday evening, san francisco police had taken their into their juvenile facility and they have her right now. we re hopefully going to be making arrangements to get her back to virginia within the next couple of days at any rate. kelly: and what about easly, suspected of abducting her and taking her all the way to san francisco. 2300 miles.
do you know how he accomplished that. as far as we know it was in the neon, the stolen neon, he recovered not far from where they were located, recovered not too far from the airport on monday i m sorry, excuse me, recovered last night. and at further details on that, we just simply don t have, it looks lie they drove straight from virginia out to california. where does your investigation now stand with regards to the unfortunate death of brittany s mother? okay. the homicide investigation had never stopped. that monday as soon as we realized that miss smith had been killed and has continued since then. now, resources that we had devoted to trying to find brittany can move over to the homicide investigation and continue with that. we anticipate the charges we have on that, but that will be
haven t said how the two made it to the west coast, but they do know that he s the boyfriend of brittany s late who was found murdered on monday and the police have not said publicly if he s a suspect in her death, but say that his arrest is a big break in their investigation. and at the time he was in lockdown, brittany s family had an emotional press conference. and brittany now will be home for christmas, she will be here to tell her mother goodby goodbye. four detectives from virginia are on their way to california right now to wrap up this kidnapping investigation and an roanoke county spokesperson said those detectives are going to personally thank the shopper whose quick thinking led to brittany s rescue. thank you for at that update. what a relief that she was
suicide. 46-year-old mark madoff apparently found hanged in his new york city apartment. a family member notified police earlier this morning. mark madoff and his brother andrew are under investigation, but had not seen any criminal charges in the ponzi scheme at that sent their father to prison for life. we ll continue to follow the the story and bring you new details. meanwhile, a search for a missing 12-year-old girl from virginia is over. brittany mae smith has been found safe in san francisco and someone recognized her in a store an and called police and then arrested jeffrey scott easly, and they found the mother dead, police have not say how she died. we ll send you back to bulls and bears. hate to say told you so. we have proof that white house pay and back firing on us, the taxpayers, general motors
ponzi scheme and we were also able to get a comment from mark s mother ruth madoff and says through her attorney she s understandably heart broken. back to you. jamie: thank you very much, live from the scene. we ll check back with you, coming up later this hour we ll take a much closer look at mark madoff, who he is, how he was and the other reaction from family members with adam shapiro from the fox business network, you don t want to miss this, adam has been following the story, kelly, from the very beginning. kelly: we ll look forward to that report. a big sigh of relief from the relatives of brittany mae smith, found unharmed in san francisco days after her mother was discovered murdered in their virginia home. the man suspected in brittany s abduction, her mother s live-in boyfriend now in police custody and peter doocy is following the story live with more details, peter. kelly, any minute we are expecting a news conference found in roanoke, virginia, we hope to learn abou