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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 had had another. didn t take nailah long to figure it out, or so her friends told the police. she sensed there was something off about him. and that s probably where she decided to, you know, look a little deeper.
the name 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
it just feels like you re in literally like in a nightmare. an autopsy confirmed the death was by asphyxiation. so now it was homicide. but who was the killer? not andre. confirmed he was in milwaukee when nailah vanished. everything with him checked out. as for being questioned were you upset by it? not at all, no. they should have done that. that was part of doing their job. so what about that investor reginald potts, the one who had been so helpful? well, this was curious. when the detectives went to visit his high-rise apartment, they couldn t help but notice the exterior to one of the doors was extremely damaged. like it had been forced open. huh. that s weird. maybe not so weird. there was an explanation. reginald potts was recently visited by members of the cook county sheriff s department in an attempt to evict reginald potts.
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.