Chapter 1: What happened to Susana Morales on July 26, 2022?
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When Susanna walked out the back gate of Sterling Glen Apartments, there's a sidewalk there that would take her straight to her residence.
Where can I see her last known location?
You have a screenshot? They could see that she was walking back from the apartment complex down Singleton Road. And all of a sudden, she goes in the opposite direction in a car. And that's when I started panicking. Something happened to her on the way home. This case is just, it's unreal.
She walked that way. Kodak County police are hoping that you can help them find a teenager, 16-year-old Susanna Morales. Police now believe that she may have gotten into a car that night, July 26th.
She was a young, full of life teenager who vanished pretty much out of thin air. You know why we're here? We just thought about the worst. They needed to do something.
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Chapter 2: Where was Susana last seen before her disappearance?
She loved to play a ukulele that had been given to her. She loved to sing.
So won't you sing with me? Take me through that day, July 26, 2022.
Susana didn't really like fish and didn't want to eat that, so she asked her mother if she could go to her friend Esmeralda's home.
How close was that house?
Six minutes. She told her mom she got to her friend's house safe, and that was around 7, 19 p.m.
I just want to know if you got there. And she responds, sĆ, with a thumbs up.
Later that night, approximately 9.40ish p.m., Susanna's mom starts calling Susanna and asking her to come home because it's getting late. You were going to go pick her up. Susanna's mom reached out for Susanna to be like, hey, where are you? And she texted her and texted her and texted her. Susanna, do you want me to go for you? Please.
My daughter, please answer.
Because Susana's mother was not able to get in touch with her, she reached out to Esmeralda and her family. She called me asking if Susana was at my house. Susana had actually never come over there. Of course, that's my best friend, so I will back her up. I told her that Susana was leaving while I was able to get enough time to get a hold of Susana.
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Chapter 3: What clues did the police find in the investigation?
You were the detectives. They needed to do something. Susanna's nowhere to be found. They go out, they start canvassing as well. We were asking all the businesses to see if they had any cameras, and we got to a daycare. The camera system that that place had, it was super old, so it was like an hour ahead or behind.
I'll tell you the time of this.
At first, we couldn't get anything until he went back to the right hour. We saw Susanna.
That is her.
That's her. We were like, oh my god, that's her, that's her.
In the video, Susanna is wearing the yellow tank top, jeans, and white Crocs. She's alone. There's no cars near her, no strangers. She appeared to be walking towards the direction of her home, and that nothing was wrong at that moment. Susana walked this way. She walked past the cameras coming right there. She walked down this pathway here.
Once we saw that, our mind was thinking that maybe she got kidnapped, she's being raped, she's trafficking. We just thought about the worst. They took her from there, and then... It was a bad feeling, because we knew for sure something had happened, because she was on the way home.
How did you feel?
It was more of an anguish, because I said, I was going, and my daughter was taken away by someone. I feel like they would have yelled at me, Mom, help me, but I wasn't there.
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Chapter 4: How did technology play a role in tracking Susana?
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Chapter 5: What led to the involvement of Miles Bryant in the case?
So he knew not to drink with me, but he wanted to drink with me before he knew my age. But he still offered the edibles.
And Susanna was with you?
Yes. He offered us to give us a ride to get pizza, but we said no because we're underage, you're grown. How old were you back in July of 2022? I was 17. Too young to drink, right? Right. It proved to us a connection.
There was some time when Mr. Bryant had seen Susanna before, even though he claimed to never have seen her.
Prosecutors were painting a picture of Officer Creepy. His employment record was strong evidence that he had some questionable encounters. I'm going to show you what's marked as states of good sense.
Prosecutors showed the body camera footage of Miles Bryant telling a 13-year-old what could happen to her if she runs away from home.
A mom had reported her 13-year-old daughter was missing. And he is there taking the information. While he's there, this young 13-year-old girl comes back. Miles starts talking to her and says, pretty much narrates what I believe he did to Susanna.
Something was happened to you. We're doing a missing person. Then we find your body out there in the woods. Then what? Nowadays, people don't care. People are my size, big, and just come snatch you up. You can scream. You can shout all you want. They're going to throw you in the back of the van. They're going to take you to your parents and never see you again. And there's nothing you can do.
You can't fight it.
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