Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Missing Autistic Girl Lured Online, DISAPPEARS

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

Kaylee Jones, 16, has been missing from her Georgia home for over two weeks. On the night of June 14th, Daniel and Brenda Jones told their daughter good night, but in the morning she was gone.  Detectives believe Jones may have met up with someone she has spoken to online.  Jones' mother says the parents had taken the girl's phone, but she still had access to a laptop and in looking at her online activity they found Kaylee Jones had been using an app to talk to at least four men online. Police say Jones does not currently have a cell phone or any other electronic device on her.  The missing teen is described as being 5-feet-8-inches tall, weighing about 135 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call Investigator Kim Biggs at 770-830-5916. Joining Nancy Grace Today: Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, (Atlanta GA) www.angelaarnoldmd.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadio Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories dot Com, Twitter: @swimmie2009   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A 16-year-old autistic girl vanishes from her own home in Georgia. Where is Kelly? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us at Fox Nation and Sirius XM 111. First of all, take a listen to our friends at CBS 46.

My daughter is Kaylee Jones. She's 16 and a half, almost 17 years old. So I was here at work and my wife called me about 7.15 and she said Kaylee was gone. Her parents haven't seen her for about a week and it's hard for Daniel and Brenda Jones to go to sleep at night wondering where their daughter might be. And it's just gut-wrenching knowing she's out there somewhere and we don't know where she's at. All the worst thoughts come to our minds. She's our daughter and we desperately want her back. Straight out to you, Alexis Tereshchuk, what do we know about Kaylee vanishing? She is 16 years

old. She was in her own home until about 11 o'clock at night and then her parents believe that she may have climbed out of a window and left the house, likely meeting up with someone that she may have met online. So she is only 16 years old. She had her phone taken away by her parents. She got in trouble, but she still had access to her laptop. And on her laptop, she was chatting with complete strangers online. And her parents are afraid that she has maybe met up with one of them. And they do not believe that these people had good intentions at all. She's very vulnerable. She's 16 years old. They say that she's special needs. She's on the autism spectrum. She has medication that she needs to take that she has not taken

since she left the home. And they're very worried that the people with her are getting her in a very bad situation. Well, not only that, we know, Jessica Morgan, again, this 16-year-old girl who goes missing out of Georgia, out of Carroll County, that's on the northwest side of the state, so easy to cross state lines right there. We know she was talking to people online on Snapchat. And the parents got worried because, again, she's autistic. And even a, let me just say, normal teen child probably doesn't understand the dangers online, much less a child who has any sort of a learning problem. They take her phone away.

The dad says on Monday by Wednesday, she's gone. Yeah, and this is another interesting point. When they took her phone away, Nancy, she apparently got onto her computer and started interacting in chat rooms. And there's this one service that doesn't require you to sign up and it automatically, it defaults to pair you up with other individuals. And these people can just be random people. What service was that? Do you know? I can't remember the name of it, but when I read about it, it was very scary.

Is somebody jumping in? Yeah, it's Alexis. So the website, it's spelled O-M-E-G-L-E. So O-M-E-G-L-E. I'm not sure quite how to say it. O-M-E-G-L-E. Yeah, that sounds correct. Go to O-M-E-G-L-E.com.

It literally, it says, talk to strangers. And so you don't have to sign up. Oh, dear Lord. Oh, it's horrible. There's no requirement. It's like Omegle. It's like Omegle is what it looks like. There's no requirement to sign up foregle it's like omegle it's what it looks like there's no requirement to sign up for this thing so you can just be randomized oh oh and they put you in a

private chat room with a random stranger right away y'all just chat talk to someone you don't know with a random stranger take a listen to our friends at cbs 46 kaylee is autistic and because of that her parents are afraid their daughter was more vulnerable to any online predators. My wife found that she was talking to like four or five different guys via Snapchat. They took her phone away on Monday and by Wednesday morning Jones was gone. Without her phone on her it's making it more difficult to track her down. You never think it's going to happen to you. I tried to run this and enforce this and reinforce this in her mind that she cannot trust whoever she sees. It's a message

for parents out there. Keep an eye on your children's use of social media so that they don't become the next target. They prey upon these kids and it's sickening. The Carroll County Sheriff's Office says they are reviewing Jones's social media records and followed up with the last person she had contact with. They are still actively searching for Jones and hasn't ruled out possibilities on what may have happened leading up to her disappearance. You know, Dr. Angie Arnold, the parents are distraught right now trying to find this girl. And one thing I don't like, I mean, it's a fact, yes, and Alexis was correct and Joe Scott was correct to say it,

but the fact that she climbed out of her window, this is a little girl that doesn't know any better. It reminds me of Nicole Lovell, a 13-year-old little girl who met up with a much older guy, a former honor student. David Eisenhower was his name. I believe an engineering major at Virginia Tech. And they were having a sex relationship. And he said he wanted to marry her. She crawled out of her window one night. And she was murdered. You can't blame the girl for crawling out of the window.

She's a child. She's a teen girl. Right. And just like Nancy, this little girl, if she's on the spectrum, then what that means is she's got a more immature way of thinking than a typical 16-year-old who is not on the spectrum. Who is, as we've mentioned, they are also hard to tell, don't do this. How many times do we tell our children, don't do this? Exactly. If you've got a little girl who's immature for her age because of her autism and she really can't make good

decisions, but she hears, but somebody's, somebody's baiting her. They're telling her something that she wants to hear. Right. Guys, we're learning that she may have had a book bag with her dark blue with a horse on the front and and the word Mazzie or Kaylee on it wearing black tennis shoes like Converse tennis shoes. If you have any information, please contact the Carroll County Sheriff's Office. The tip line, if you have any information related to Kaylee Jones and her location, 770-830-5916. The search for Kaylee is on. Nancy Grace, Crime Story, signing off. Goodbye, friend. This is an iHeart Podcast.