Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - MISTRESS PLOTS KIDNAP, RAPE OF BOYFRIEND'S DAUGHTER,13 to Get Lover 'ALL TO HERSELF"

Episode Date: October 5, 2023

A 13-year-old girl is abducted as she walks from her bus stop to her home.  There, she is jumped by four men, dressed all in black. The men tape her eyes and mouth shut, throw her in the trunk of a car, and drive off. The teen is taken to a rural area 20 miles away, tied to a tree, and assaulted. The girl is left there, half-nude, but she manages to get away and seek help. As police investigate, they find a plot planned by someone known to the girl. Her father's live-in girlfriend, who has been asked to leave the home. Police believe Sandra Garcia concocted the plan to scare her boyfriend's daughter into returning to live with their mother overseas.  Crime Stories with Nancy Grace is currently following this trial.  Joining Nancy Grace Today: Dale Carson– High-profile Criminal Defense Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent & Former Police Officer (Miami-Dade County); Author: “Arrest-Proof Yourself; Twitter: @DaleCarsonLaw Dr. Jorey Krawczyn – Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. – Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide” Ron Bateman – Sheriff (Former Homicide and Undercover Narcotics) & Author: “Silent Blue Tears: Voice of The Victims;” Twitter: Ronbatemanbooks   Rachel D. Fischer  – Registered Nurse; Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE); Expert Witness, Private Investigator, and Author: “Taking Back the Pen;” Forensic Nursing Consulting and Education LLC Todd G. Shipley, CFE, CFCE – Cyber Crime Expert, and Author: “Investigating Internet Crimes: An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace;” Twitter: @webcase Alexis Tereszcuk – CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker at Lead Stories;Twitter: @swimmie2009 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A 13-year-old little girl on her way to school gets kidnapped by strangers, taken out to a field, forced in a car, taken out to a field, a remote and isolated field, beaten horribly, and sex assaulted with a stick as she's tied to a tree and left there completely bloody and bruised and trying to make sense of what has just happened to her. They leave her there, tied to a tree. Why?

I think I know. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Sirius XM 111. Let's kick it off with our friends at K Nation and Sirius XM 111. Let's kick it off with our friends at KFSN. It seemed like a normal day Tuesday in this nice neighborhood in the Academy area.

The 13-year-old girl got off the bus and walked about a quarter of a mile to her home when she was confronted by masked men. She had arrived home in the area of Shepherd and Academy. When she walked up near her front door that's when she had a couple of young men approach her and said come with us little girl on her way home from school that was bass-ackwards on her way home from school and these people were waiting near her home these male assailants adult males had they been stalking there? Had they been watching her to know when she would get off the bus? Listen. From what we've been able to piece

together, the girl was thrown into the trunk of a car, driven up a windy mountain road for about 30 miles. Then her captors drug her up this mountain trail and tied her to a tree, then beat her. Despite all that, she managed to get herself free and hike to a nearby house, where the folks who were there said she appeared bloody and bruised. She walked up and she was all bloodied up and said she got kidnapped. So we went and got a phone to call 911. The poor little girl, just 13 years old, manages to struggle loose from the ropes tying her to a tree. This child, kidnapped after getting off the school bus by adult males, stuffed in a car,

driven to a remote field. This thing was very well planned, wasn't it? There she was beaten horribly, beaten. Can you imagine beating a little 13-year-old girl and her face all across her body, beating her while she's tied to a tree? And then raping this little girl with a stick you know grown women never get over trauma like this they go on I've dealt with so many rape victims they go on they try to raise their children they

try to have a normal relationship with their husband. They try to go to work, but it never goes away. What about if this happens to a little girl? Now, this is something no prosecutor is allowed to do with a jury. The law is you cannot put the jurars in the shoes of the victim. Like, what if this was you? But think about it. What if this was you? Or even worse, what if this was your little girl?

Just think about it. Praise the Lord, this child is alive, this little girl. I'm not using her name but what she endured and now I want to find out who what where why and when guys did you notice when you hear all of the news and read all the articles about this case everyone talks about what a nice neighborhood it was. Nobody saw that coming. You know, with me, Ron Bateman, former Anne Arundel County Sheriff in Homicide, Undercover Narcotics.

You can find him now at ronbatemanbooks.com. Ron, why is everyone so shocked when a crime happens in a, quote, nice neighborhood? People just don't realize that bad things happen in nice neighborhoods, but they do. And you know what I found out, Ron? Ron Bateman, joining former Anne Arundel County Sheriff. You know, the richer people are, the more wealthy they are, the more miserable they are. I don't know if that's everyone's analysis, but Dale Carson, joining me, high profile lawyer out of the Jacksonville jurisdiction, former FBI, former police officer

in Miami-Dade, never a lack of business there, and author of Arrest Proof Yourself. You can find him at Dale Carson Law. Dale, when people say it's such a nice neighborhood. Well, crime happens everywhere. I remember trying cases in inner city Atlanta, and we would have jurors from all over Fulton County, metropolitan Atlanta. And I'm talking about rich people up from North Atlanta that live by the country club. They would come into inner city Atlanta for these trials, and they were like blown away. Hey, this is just about three miles from where you live, people. And it happens in your neighborhood, too. But everyone always makes such a big deal that this was such a beautiful neighborhood and like nothing could ever happen there.

Crime is not a respecter of persons. And when people have money, people know this. And that's a driving force because a lot of people get money in ways that aggravate other people. So they put themselves unknowingly, unwittingly at risk. That's interesting that what you just said, guys, I'm talking about this little 13 year old girl that is, and there's no doubt that this happened in my mind anyway. This little girl getting off the bus, walking to her home, and as they say, a really nice upscale neighborhood, when she is suddenly attacked by unknown assailants.

How did that happen? They bundle her in a car, and wait till you hear what kind of car it is, take her off to a remote field how'd they know to get to that remote field from her house where they beat the little girl strip her beat her and rape her with a stick leave her tied to a tree listen to abc 30 and she was scared she just wanted to call her dad but so we called 9-1-1 how badly hurt was she her face was all bruised up and then she said she got punched and her lips were all bloody the residents of the house on the cold springs ranch where the girl sought help did not want

to be identified they told us the girl told them four men took her and threatened to kill her family if she told anybody. The suspects are described as four young men of medium build driving a silver late 90s model BMW. A silver BMW for men who threatened to kill her family? Hmm. Hmm. Let's take a listen to some more. The girl's neighbor was shocked but so glad the child survived. A few neighbors and I were actually praying, you know, for the family and just relieved that the story didn't end in a much more tragic way. Now, the sheriff's department is still searching for a motive. The girl's father is a local business executive.

Again, neighbors say they were a lovely family, didn't believe they would have had any enemies. OK, joining me in All-Star panel to make sense of what we know right now, in addition to Ron Bateman and Dale Carson, Dr. Jory Croson, Rachel Fisher, Todd Shipley, and now to Alexis Tereschuk, CrimeOnline.com investigative reporter. Alexis, tell me, I want to ask specifically about how the child was kidnapped between the school bus and home. So she was, the bus dropped her off at about 3.20 p.m. She walks about a quarter of a mile home. Here's the thing.

She usually walks with her younger sister from the bus to her house. But her little sister was not feeling well that day. So she did not go to school. So she was alone, which is very unusual. This is not her normal pattern. So she gets off the bus. She walks to the front door. Wait, did you say a quarter of a mile? About a quarter of a mile. Yeah. Okay. That's not far at all. That's max, maximum five minutes, maybe four, maybe three.

Exactly. Let's just go with five minutes. You've got a five-minute walk. You know, in elementary school, we would ride the bus to school, Alexis, but our home was so close to the public school that we would walk home every day. It's one mile. And we'd be home in 11, 12 minutes. I mean, we're children, skipping, running, walking.

We'd get home, I don't know, 12 minutes. I mean, we're children, skipping, running, walking. We'd get home, I don't know, 12 minutes or so. So she can't be over five minutes from home. Broad daylight, broad daylight, upscale neighborhood. Where exactly is this? I mean, I know it's Clovis, California, but where is Clovis, California? Clovis, California is basically in the middle of the state of California. It is about 200 miles from San Francisco, about 300 miles from Los Angeles. It's in kind of the middle of the state. It's a beautiful area. And if you look, you know, they've sort of given the area of where she lived, and they call them the hills, this is a beautiful neighborhood with homes that are huge, huge property, swimming pools, three-car garages, two-and-a-half-acre lot.

So for her to walk the school bus with two-and-a-half acres, she might have just walked by two houses just to get home. I'm just trying to drink in everything you're saying. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Alexis Tereschuk is joining me from this jurisdiction. I'm just imagining all of that. Now, I noticed she wanted to call her dad. She didn't say call 911.

She didn't say call mom. She wanted to call her dad. She lived with her father, correct? Her and her sister? She and her sister? Yes. She is about two years older than her younger sister, and she lived with her dad. What does he do for a living?

He is an executive with a business company, and he's actually, he was Swedish. Wait, he's Swedish or the company is Swedish? He is Swedish, and their mom is Swedish, but he lives with the girls in the United States. They are American citizens. Okay. I understand the mom at that time was living out of the country. So she's at that moment with the dad. The two girls are with daddy.

He's Swedish. And he works with a company that requires him to travel a lot. He's a high-powered executive. I imagine you'd have to be living in a house like that, right? Yes. He was very high up in the company and they lived in a, you know, almost a 6,000 square foot house, five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a beautiful area here. And you know, another thing about this, it's a very small population for that area of land. There's about 100,000 people there. But interesting, interesting, Dale Carson,

when you have so few people spread, 100,000 people spread out out of a huge area, you would expect a lower crime rate and certainly not a violent crime like this on a 13-year-old little girl. Well, it's evident they had a plan and they knew a lot of information. It does seem well-planned to me, Dale Carson. I agree with you because in this big, sprawling area where a lot's two and a half

acres and she's, as Alexis said, probably like two houses from the bus stop. What, were they watching the bus stop? How did they know one little girl was going to get off by herself? Or was the plan like Libby and Abby and Delphi? Two little girls, but that's really rare. Wouldn't you agree, Ron Bateman, for two little girls to be attacked? It's usually one victim. Wouldn't you agree with that? Yes, I would. So what led up to this little girl getting kidnapped and raped and beaten, managing to break away from being tied to a tree and get to a neighbor's home,

just literally dripping in blood on her face, her torso, her legs were dripping in blood. She had blood all over her, beaten, scratched. As a matter of fact, we have a description of the little girl's external injuries. Take a listen to KFSN. She had redness and scratch marks on her back. Dozens of photos showed scratching on the then 13-year-old's face and back. Other photos too explicit for Action News to share suggested she was bleeding near her legs. Just think about what this child has been through.

Joining me, Rachel Fisher, forensic nurse expert, a sane sex assault nurse examiner. Also, expert witness, private investigator with Forensic Nursing Consulting and Education, LLC. You can find her at legalrnconsult.org. Rachel, that is a textbook description of a child rape victim. Unfortunately, it is. And when a child comes to the hospital after something like this, you just heard them talk about photos. We have to have them tell us every bit of what happened and then ask them to get undressed so we can photograph all these things that just happened and look all over their body and re-exploit them is what it feels like. It does feel like that to them. It does. It's horrible.

I've spoken to so many rape victims who can't, adult rape victims who can't articulate the rape kit exam. It's awful to have to endure and you're there at such a horrible probably the worst moment in your life and then to go through that that's what this little girl obviously had to go through but I want to circle back to what made this day any different from every other day take a listen ABC. The victim's younger sister was asked about the morning of the crime. She said her father was out of town for work that morning and she remembers her sister being unable to find her cell phone before leaving for school.

I felt like the home dynamic got worse when he was gone. I think she was stressed because she was going to school and she couldn't find her phone. Joining me right now, Dr. Jory Crawson, psychologist, former law enforcement, now faculty at St. Leo University and consultant with the Blue Wall Institute. You can find him at DrJory.com. And he's the author of Operation SOS. Dr. Jory, thanks for being with us. Dr. Jory, you know, when the twins were little and they would be horrible little creatures, they would get time out. A spanking didn't work. I spanked Lucy twice through her big fat diaper and she just looked at me like that was it. So

spankings do not work. I do time out. That would work. But now it doesn't work. Time out means nothing. They love being in their room by themselves. What does work is if you take away their phone. Oh my stars. Even for 30 minutes, it's like all H-E-double-L broke loose. So here's a little girl trying to go to school. And my twins, when I take them to school, they've got their backpack. Of course, Lucy takes her own organic lunch. She has her lunch and they have their phones. They don't go anywhere without their phones. I mean, really, does anybody on this panel go anywhere without their phone?

No. So the little girl was upset because this day of all other days, she couldn't find her phone. Explain the attachment, Dr. Jory. The phone is like a self-identity we connect to. And especially with her, you see there's a close relationship with her father. And that phone was that contact with her father at any time. I would imagine it would kind of give her, you know, some self-confidence and a sense of security being able to, any time during the day in school, to reach out to her father.

Because he traveled a lot, but it appeared like they were very close and they kept in close contact with that phone. So not being able to locate it before she went to school would definitely be a very stressful situation and create a lot of anxiety in her and probably disrupt a lot of her daily planning. You know what I was thinking about? I was thinking about how teens, or she's just 13 years old, had just turned 13, I might add. They love to be in touch with their friends.

They love to look at TikTok. They're into snapping each other. But what you just said really hit home, Dr. Joy. The mother lives out of the country at that time, she did, and the father had to travel a lot. The two little girls are U.S. citizens. They were born here. That's her only contact with her parents that she can call. And he's out of town. I didn't think about it that way. You're right. So she was very upset that morning because she couldn't find her phone.

And a lot of what the phone is, you know, we use it for calls, but a lot of what the kids, and I do this with my grandchildren when I travel, is just send them text messages, you know, or send them, you know, you can chat with them real quick. And that kind of, that contact, you know, is very supportive and very secure feeling for the child. You know, the way that you said that, I hate to travel away from the twins. But before they were born, I mean, I would go and stay for three, four months. I remember I was at Scott Peterson trial, I think four months. I can't remember now. And that was just fine. But now I hate being gone even one night. And we FaceTime and we text the whole

shebang. You know, I'm accused of calling every night during dinner, during supper, but so be it. I'm just thinking about that connection she had with her dad, plus the, you know, teen identity of your phone. So that morning she's upset. The sister says she was upset. The dynamic was worse when the dad was gone. But what does the little girl herself say? Listen. They took yellow rope and taped my arms behind my back, and then they walked me to the driveway by our guest house and shoved me in the trunk. As his daughter walked home from the school bus stop, men approached her. They were wearing all black and masks, so I couldn't see their faces. tape, very thin tape, like kind of scrapbooking tape, and put it around my lips and my eyes. Let's examine what we have just learned from the little girl herself. They, the kidnappers,

the rapist, took yellow rope and taped my arms behind my back. They walked me to the driveway by our guest house and shoved me in the trunk by the guest house. Weren't they afraid somebody in the house may see what was happening right outside? Shoved her in the trunk of a BMW, a silver BMW. They had masks on and they were all dressed up ninja style, all black in the middle of the day. It's 320. She's coming home from school and they had thin tape to put over her lips and eyes. Okay, let's think this thing through, Dale Carson. You're right. This was orchestrated and this was prepared. They're dressed like ninjas. Remember when Jodi Arias said, I didn't kill Travis. Three guys dressed as ninjas came in. Right. Somebody's been watching

way too much TV. These guys dress like ninjas. They're wearing masks. They brought yellow rope and tape with them. That's the first investigative clue that they were masked. That tells you something about the character of the relationship between the abductors and the child. What? What does it tell me? That they're known. Known or yes, known. Don't want to be identified. Don't want their face to appear on camera.

Don't you see all those people running in and out of Nordstrom's and all those high-priced Lululemon, you name it. They all are wearing hoodies or their COVID mask so they don't get identified. I guarantee you that clerk doesn't know those people, but that said, you may be right. Maybe she could identify them. Maybe they just didn't want to be caught on surveillance cameras around that five bedroom, however many bath home on a two and a half acre plot. What you say is true, though. If anybody else were in the house, it's odd. That they didn't they didn't know how could they know nobody else was in the house. How is that possible? So Alexis Tereshka, what Dale Carson are talking about is the fact that they're doing this basically in the front yard. They're getting her on her walk from the school bus stop to her home, which we think is about three minutes.

You walk past two of these big, huge mansions. You get to her home, and then they take her beside her home. They have to go by the home to get to the guest house in the back, I guess by a pool. And there they bundle her into a silver BMW and drive off. They weren't worried that somebody in the house might see her? Or did they know the father was out of town? Had they been watching the home? Would anyone else have been there, Alexis?

Normally her little sister would have been there with her and but she had to she first of all she always has her phone she could not find it that day missing and then her sister normally goes to school was not feeling well that day so what happened was her dad has a girlfriend who is living with the family and the girlfriend took the little sister, called her dad and said, Daddy, I don't feel well. I don't want to go to school today. He said, OK, stay at home. The girlfriend made the little sister go with her to her own doctor's appointment.

OK, wait. So there's a girlfriend in the house. There's a living girlfriend. There is. Daddy has a girlfriend. OK, daddy's got a girlfriend. She's living in the house. There's a live-in girlfriend. There is. Daddy has a girlfriend. Okay, daddy's got a girlfriend. She's living in the house. And that morning when the 13-year-old victim lost her phone,

the sister, the little sister, didn't feel well. But the girlfriend went and let the little sister stay home alone and had the little sister go with girlfriend to girlfriend's doctor's appointment. Is that right? That's exactly right. Okay, but how did the assailants think that no one would be in the home looking out at them going by with this little girl and their mask on and their ninja suits?

Who's the girlfriend? Listen to ABC 30. Sandra Garcia lived a good life when she dated a wealthy Swedish businessman. Johan Getzett was in a relationship with Sandra Garcia. The two met online, and Garcia eventually moved in to Getzett's Clovis home with two of her sons. She and her four boys moved into the boyfriend's Clovis home. But as the number of people in the home grew, so did the tension. The man asked Garcia to move out.

That's when she started plotting how to stay. She tried and failed to set him up for a DUI and to falsely accuse him of domestic violence. Yes, I asked her to move out in January of 2016, correct. And you gave her 30 days, right? Yes. Weeks later, that tension came to a head when Gitset was away on a business trip. Okay, I've got to digest everything that I just heard. So he's got a live-in girlfriend, and she has somehow landed in a pot of honey with this wealthy Swedish business exec

who lives with his two little girls. The wife's out of the picture. So, Alexa Tresher, let me understand this. She lands in a pot of honey. She moves in with this wealthy Swedish businessman who lives alone with his two girls, and she brings along her two sons. Now, they're in their early 20s, right? Yes, they are. I wonder how that meshed with the two girls. Well, it didn't mesh because there was too much tension. And ultimately, after a period of time, the dad says, you got to go.

You and your family are not getting along with my two little girls. Now, what did I hear that she tried to frame him for a DUI or a false domestic violence report? Yes, that is what he has said. He said that this relationship had gone so badly. He wanted her out. And instead of just moving, she came up with these crazy plans. She tried to save me at DUI. She falsely claimed that he had abused her, domestic abuse situations, and she was his live-in girlfriend, none of which was true. You know, I need to go to our shrink, Dr. dr jory crawson when somebody tells you to move out of their home i would move out i wouldn't want to be there but instead according to reports she tries to hatch up

a fake domestic violence report and a dui how is that helping her well it's trying to establish more control over that environment and over him. She must have seen where, you know, past things like either through, you know, sexual activity with him isn't kind of controlling him and getting what she wants. She probably looked at and saw the dynamics of the family and how close he was to his daughters. And that was a point of conflict with her and her older sons. I mean, like I say, they were in their 20s. So I could see the conflict arising in that environment. And the father just putting his foot down saying, look, you've got to go.

Dale Carson, jump in. Yeah, what she saw in the house while she was there rummaging around was his bank statement. Dale Carson, I believe you're right. And I'm also wondering why that day of all days did the little girl's cell phone go missing? Obviously, in my mind, so she couldn't be tracked. As detectives try their best to unravel what happened to this little girl. The plot has thickened. Take a listen to KFSN. Towards like the end of 2015, he felt like we weren't really happy in the relationship that they were having.

So that's why it ended. Were you unhappy with the relationship that they were having at the end of 2015? Yes. Prosecutors say Garcia orchestrated the kidnapping after Johan Gitset evicted her from his Clovis home. So let me understand this. The detective's theory is that the live-in girlfriend plotted the attack on a 13-year-old little girl just turned 13. How was that supposed to help her and her relationship with the wealthy father? I don't understand this, but I can tell you one thing. I believe very firmly Todd Shipley is going to help

me figure it out. Todd G. Shipley, certified fraud examiner, author of Investigating Internet Crimes, An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace. You can find them at darkintel.info. Todd Shipley, the cell phones and the nav data and the car navigation data and more. Surveillance video, these burglar systems in various homes they would have been driving by, red light cams, you name it. All of that digital memory is going to be used to prove this case. And who did it? Explain.

Well, I think, as you already stated, there's so much digital evidence in this that it's going to be hard for anybody to say that they weren't parts of the crime. I know we've already mentioned the girlfriend. Her phone is going to be critical in this. It's going to show her part of the conspiracy and what she did to set it up and the contact with the other people involved, her sons. And, you know, there's so much data. It's going to be showing where their phones went, the sons, tracking right to the location that the crime occurred. And that's probably why the phone was missing.

I haven't seen his evidence yet, but the mother probably took the phone so the girl didn't have her phone so she couldn't be tracked. And because the phones today have so much data about what we do and where we go that it's hard not to show in court exactly what a person does from minute to minute using that information.

This is daddy's live-in, not the girl's mother. But you're absolutely correct. I think that is why the little girl's phone went missing that morning and why the little girl, no matter how hard she tried, she was retracing her steps, getting agitated, getting upset. Her one way to connect with her father is gone before she went to school that morning. I can tell you both of my children know exactly where their phone is overnight. So she wakes up in the morning and the phone is gone, probably charging near her bed somewhere. Of course, any adult would smell a rat, but this little girl just didn't know what to think and that's exactly why what Todd Shipley has just told you.

And let me ask you this, Todd Shipley, how does a nav system in a car work? Well, the vehicle's systems are just like your phones. And so it's basically the same kind of setup. A lot of them are Android-based systems. So the data that's in there is going to be the same as that's on your phone. It's a little more difficult to get to, but still is accessible and can track a person exactly the same way that your phone can.

The problem with the nav system is I can leave the phone at home and it won't track me. The nav system is on and you don't have any control over what it collects. And that's the problem that they're going to have with this data is they had no control. They can't turn it off. Speaking of leaving a digital trail a mile wide, take a listen to our friend Corin Hoggard at KFSN. Detectives have connected the dots now in a troubling kidnapping. The sheriff says the mastermind was no stranger to the young victim or her family. Deputies arrested 40-year-old Sandra Garcia on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. They believe she is the alleged ringleader who orchestrated the crime.

They say Garcia revealed her final plan in a recorded phone call with her cousin, Miguel Carriedo. She asked him if he knew corrupted people, told Carriedo there's no security at the house, and directed him and friends to kidnap her boyfriend's 13-year-old daughter on a day when Garcia scheduled a doctor's appointment for herself. It's pretty revealing that this case had been pre-planned, had been worked out where Ms. Garcia would have an alibi. He's a business executive who happened to be out of town the day of the kidnapping. Sandra was one of the very few who knew I was out of town with a co-worker for that day and I noticed after the detective spoke to her she was uncomfortable

around my daughter. Uncomfortable around the daughter. I guess she was if these claims are true. She just set up the daughter being kidnapped, raped, beaten until she was bloody, blood all over her legs. I guess she was uncomfortable around not only the sister, but the little girl herself. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Did I hear, Alexis Tereschuk, that there was a recorded phone call with the girlfriend's cousin Miguel asking him if he knew quote corrupted people and telling Corrado Miguel Corrado that there was no security in the home and directed his friends to kidnap the teen girl on a day when the when the boy when the dad was out of town and she would make a doctor's appointment for herself. She didn't count on the little sister feeling ill that day and having to take the sister with her to the doctor.

But she managed to iron that wrinkle out, didn't she? She did. She took the little girl to an appointment. Here's the thing, though. They get home from the doctor's appointment. The sister is not home from school and her little sister is panicked. She says, where's my sister? We can't find her anywhere. The girlfriend is not looking for her. She's not worried. She's calm. She's sitting on the sofa on her own phone, completely ignoring the situation. So the little sister knew two things. One, my sister is missing. And two, my dad's girlfriend is not worried about her at all, and that was very concerning to her. She knew right away, 11 years old, she knew right away that this lady was,

that something was really wrong with the way that she was handling the whole situation. So what does the 11-year-old little sister say about how the girlfriend was acting when the 13-year-old, I don't want to use their names, when the 13-year-old was missing. She said she didn't seem concerned at all. She wasn't looking for her. She didn't look anywhere in the house. Again, the house is big. There's the main house. There's the guest house. It's huge property. She wasn't looking anywhere for her. She wasn't making any phone calls. She wasn't doing anything. She was just sitting on the sofa, playing on her own phone. From my understanding, the girlfriend, the live-in, was just sitting on the sofa while the 11 own phone. From my understanding, the girlfriend, the live-in,

was just sitting on the sofa while the 11-year-old little sister was getting more and more frantic about her sister never coming home from school. The motive that we have gleaned is that the girlfriend, Garcia, wanted the dad all to herself. She wanted all that money, and she wanted to scare the two daughters, at that time 10, 10 and 13, so severely that they would want to return to their mother, who was living in Sweden. That was the plan, to scare the little girls so badly they would go home to Sweden with their mom and the girlfriend could have the dad all to herself dr. joy crossin this sounds like the evil stepmother for real think about how simplistic that plan appeared to her I mean we'll just scare her because the

girl the victim was told don't tell anybody, we'll just scare her because the girl, the victim was told, don't tell anybody or we'll come back on your family. So thinking that she would just go back and, you know, maybe contact her mother. Now think about a mother learning about her daughter being taken away like that. She would jump in and say, you're coming home. So that's the simple plan that this live-in girlfriend seemed to have orchestrated. Let me tell you what I've learned. After the girlfriend, the live-in, gets home with the little 10-year-old sister, the sister realizes it's after 4 o'clock that the 13-year-old isn't home.

The little one starts calling all of her older sister's friends, trying to find out what happened to her. She talks to the girlfriend trying to get help. The girlfriend says, she'll be home soon, don't worry about it. The little 10-year-old girl says the girlfriend was, quote, really calm and acted like nothing was wrong and that it made the little sister, quote, sick to my stomach. When asked what the girlfriend was doing during all this, was she doing anything to find the little girl? The sister says, no, she was just sitting on the couch talking on her phone.

Like nothing was wrong. She was probably talking to the kidnappers that she orchestrated to kidnap, beat, and rape a 13-year-old little girl. Okay, guys. Yeah. Take a listen to our friends at ABC 30. A restraining order just granted describes the relationship between Garcia and her now ex-boyfriend. He wrote, our backgrounds were different and there were difficulties at times and I thought it was best for Sandra to move out. After he gave her a date to leave, his daughter was kidnapped in a movie type plot. Investigators say the 13-year-old stepped off her school bus last month to find the suspects were waiting at her doorstep. Sheriff Mim says the girl was forced

into the trunk of the car and driven to a remote location where she was tied up, beaten, and kicked. And more in our cut 22 from Corin Haggard. The school bus dropped off a 13-year-old girl at her home north of Clovis in February. The girl's dad wasn't home, but four masked men were waiting for her. They put her in the trunk of a car, took her to a remote field, stripped her, beat her, and left her alone. Investigators revealed the plan was hatched about a week earlier. Garcia and the girl's father were dating, but on the outs, Garcia thought the kidnapping could bring them closer together and keep her in the lifestyle she'd been living. Bring them closer together.

Here's more. Garcia enlisted the help of her cousin and her son to try to put a scare into that 13-year-old girl and get her sent away from Fresno and her father's home. They used apps to try to cover up their footsteps electronically, but they still left the trail and investigators followed it. She asked her cousin and her son for help and said it'd be easy because the home had no security. Investigators say Garcia used a burner app when she discussed the plot, trying to communicate on her phone in secret. But detectives traced all the calls. And once they connected her to Carrieto,

they realized he owned a car matching the one used by the kidnappers. Todd G. Shipley, using the burner phone app, did anything but help her. That can be traced. Explain what is a burner phone app? There's the ability on your phones to download another application that gives you a second number on your phone or more numbers. And she thought that that was going to prevent the police from identifying who she was. But the app is registered to your phone, and you register almost always with an email address or some other identifying information to that app. And so it was easily traced back to her. It didn't protect her at all. You're so right about that. Take a listen now to more of the facts we are learning.

The indictment says Garcia hid the girl's phone that day. It says one of her sons, Mark Anthony Roque, laid in wait with Carreiro inside the home until the girl got back from school. Court documents claim they grabbed her, taped her face and eyes, threw her in the char and took her to a remote field 20 miles away. They ripped her clothes, sexually assaulted her with an object and left her partially naked and tied to a pole.

When I think about them raping this little girl, they said with an object we know it to be a stick. Because the girlfriend wanted the dad all to herself. Guys, take a listen to Our Cut 10 ABC. Much of the testimony Monday morning focused on cell phones, starting with when Garcia's phone was taken as evidence. She was not happy, raising her voice, demanding her phone back, and ultimately she ended up storming out of the front doors of the lobby. A digital forensic expert spoke directly to the jury at

times to explain what investigators do when they pull data from a phone. Through investigating the text messages or phone numbers a person calls so we go through and we look for those in that data there or that evidence and then once we find that evidence we're looking for, we can extract it to a report. When you hear the reporter talking about someone storming out, that was the defendant, Garcia, the girlfriend. She was angry when police wanted to look at her phone, and now we know why.

This is happening right now in a courtroom. And if this woman and her cohorts are convicted, they just bought a one-way ticket to hell. We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye, friend. This is an iHeart Podcast.