road from calumet three days after nailah vanished. a black chevy impala. we rushed out there to see it. it was hers. you open that trunk, the last thing you want to think is there s something in that trunk. and fortunately there wasn t. you obviously do a workup on the vehicle. did you find any prints, any dna? anything useful at all? i think our evidence technicians that processed it described it as it was wiped clean. including in the trunk. yes. believing somehow she might find her sister, the younger ashley drove out there. the car was parked in front of an abandoned house. and i went and i banged on the door, looked through the windows. i screamed her name. i didn t want to leave. i had to be taken from the area. of course, the cops canvassed the neighbors. and what do you know? they had seen a male mulling around the vehicle. and then
dated briefly. realized it wasn t for life. though a girl could do worse what with his white bentley and duplex overlooking the lake. he lives in a very large apartment complex, high-rise. nice place? yes. beautiful. in an upscale area in the city. that s where you want to live. wow. reginald told them everything he did the day nailah vanished. everywhere he went. very detailed. the day s events, early evening shopping with friends at target. bar hopping later with not one but two girlfriends, separately, of course. and after that, an intimate plan with a third girlfriend. they make arrangements to meet at reginald s apartment around midnight on the 18th. this guy gets around. if you ve got a bentley, your options are open. guess so. as investigators headed off to check reginald pott s alibi, down in calumet city, officer calvin lucius was again cruising vacant parking lots.
helped because we had some anonymous tips, people saying that they saw her at this location. but not a single one of them led to nailah. by now the detectives believed they were dealing with a serious crime, and yet she s missing. technically there hasn t been a crime committed. that makes it somewhat awkward when you re looking into it. the only one that we knew she had contact with, the boyfriend she was in wisconsin with the weekend before she went missing, they were all interviewed. that boyfriend from wisconsin, andre, had come to chicago, was helping with the search and soon was perhaps a subject of it. they came to you. they did. the perfect boyfriend. now, to police, a perfectly obvious person of interest. coming up a discovery in an empty parking lot. it was in a pretty secluded area right adjacent to a lagoon. whoa. i watch enough dateline to know that s probably not a good sign. when dateline continues.
you ll want to remember is nailah. the meaning was one who succeeds. this is nailah s mother, maria. i wanted her to be successful and she was. she lived her name. quite true. as, frankly, have the rest of them in this big family. this is leah, the first born. we might need a graph or a chart because it s kind of involved. full siblings, half siblings, quarter siblings once removed. that sort of thing. very blended. we share one parent. so technically half siblings but that word is kind of offensive to me because to me it implies that it s something less. and i ve never felt that way. i ve never used that word. we re just siblings. one big, close, happy family. so said john, the youngest. it s simple for us because we grew up together from the time we were young. so for us, it s like we re one big family.
visited by members of the cook county sheriff s department in an attempt to evict reginald potts. of course, this was 2007, lots of people were falling behind on their mortgages. but by the look of it, reginald s problems ran deeper than that. he was constantly in default. 15 pairs of gucci shoes and not a bed to sleep on. not a bed to sleep on? a mattress, no furniture, not a pot or pan in the kitchen but yet what he believed were important items to surround himself with. cars, clothing, high end restaurants. they re for show. the bentley it turned out belonged to somebody else. and reginald juggled girlfriends and hookups and an ex-wife who was raising one of his children and an ex-girlfriend with whom he d had another. didn t take