Tionda & Diamond Bradley: Part 2

All witnesses, purchas of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Hey, guys, welcome back to your primetime crime. It's Kylie real quick right now in true crime. We're gonna get into it so we can get onto the episode. So Donald Adelson is such an interesting woman. I don't even know what to say. So, for those that have been following along, her son Charlie Adelson was arrested, tried, charged, and convicted of the murder for higher plot to kill his brother in law, so his sister's husband, and Donna has also been arrested in conspiracy to commit this murder. So Donna was a on her way out of the country, like she was literally on her way out at the airport was arrested. So Donna is really something else. She is a character. So she had her arraignment and emotion hearing earlier this week. She is being charged with first degree murder, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, and solicitation to commit first degree murder of her former son in law, Dan Markle. So this gal, now, she's up there in age, she's in her seventies. I would say at this point, she was saying that the prison wasn't treating her fair and she wanted to be moved. So at this hearing, they're talking about all these different things. There was a twenty five minute phone call in which she was talking to Charlie and was basically saying that she was going to use sleeping pills to harm herself if for whatever reason, she couldn't escape the country before she was arid. Spoiler alert, she didn't successfully flee the country before she was arrested. So they're talking about this, the attorney is reading it, and she's just like sitting there and she or the facial expression. She's like gasping, she's like, oh my God, like shaking her head, and they even have to say, like, you're gonna have to stop with the outbursts because it's not appropriate. She was just so animated. It is going to be so interesting to see all of this play out. And today Charlie was officially sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and he, of course is maintaining his innocence and saying this is all just a big misunderstanding. He also has a child, and that's a whole other can of worms baby daddy drama. I don't even know. He very much strikes me he was a dentist. This whole family, they strike me as people that feel like they're entitled and that they deserve things, and they obviously went about things the wrong way because Wendy, who was married to Dan, was allegedly having this fling with someone else, and she and her family just wanted the kids to be closer to them, So you decide to put out a murder for hire and involve your whole family. Now, Wendy has not been arrested, she has not been brought in that we are aware of. So it's going to be really interesting to see what goes down with this because I feel like it's spiraling and it's about to hit the fan in my opinion, because Charlie's been arrested, convicted, sentenced, and life in prison without the possibility of role. We have Donna, who is acted up in court. It's going to be interesting, and there's more players in this whole thing. Pretty lies and Alibi does a really good breakdown of everything and who everyone is and the relationships of everyone. But it's about to be a family affair for the atle SNS in prison, like, it's not pretty. It's not going to get any better, it's only going to get worse. And it's weird to me that Charlie was involved in this whole thing to try to get the kids of Wendy to be closer to the family so they all could have access to these kids because they lived somewhere differently and I don't even know. It doesn't really make sense to me, but Charlie wanted really nothing to do with the child that he bothered, which allegedly. It's just odd to me. It doesn't really make any sense. But people that murder other people and take other lives and involve literal whole families don't make any sense to me. So it's going to be really interesting to see what happens. Justice is coming for Dan, for sure. This man was taken out by people that he knew and trusted, and it really is sad for him. It's sad for his children, it's sad for the rest of his family that has had to try to navigate this. So I'm definitely gonna keep you guys updated because Donna is giving Laurie Valo a run for her money. In my opinion, it's going to be interesting. Also, I don't know if you guys watch the I think it was called the Curious Case of Natalian Grace. It was about a couple who adopted a Ukrainian child and allegedly the child was much older than she was portrayed to be and she like conspired to kill them, and it's a whole thing. So they told their story and well, I should say, the father and like others that knew this, Natalia gal as a quote unquote child told their story. The dad is like straight up theatrical, like I don't feel like I believe anything that comes out of his mouth. But obviously there's two sides to every story. So we listened to his little rendition of everything. And there were people that said, there's no way that she was really that young. She carried herself a lot differently than you know, a little girl would, and you know, she was small in stature, so she looked, you know, a little bit more like a child than you know, a regular grown adult wood. But now in Italia is coming out and she is speaking her truth and saying what like, telling her side of the story, and it's going to be I believe it's going to be a three part type of situation. It starts on January one, and it runs three consecutive nights. She's going to tell her story and basically say that she is not a killer and did not plot to kill her adoptive parents, and that she was really a six year old girl and has like this genetic disorder, not like some freaking homicidal maniac. I'm tempted, like already, just because I saw the first part, Like it's wild and crazy like it is, but the dad's acting and theatrics were just so over the top for me, and I have a really hard time believing that everything he said is true. So it's just it's a lot. If you haven't watched it, you need to because holy moly. So I want to give them to tell you a chance to tell her side of the story because I want to hear what she has to say. I mean, she is a very very tiny woman, so it does seem a tad far fetch to me that she would be like this psychotic serial killer undercover. I don't really know. It's gonna be interesting to see what all comes out, And I feel like, as of right now, that's it for right now. In true crime, I'm sure the second I say that, something else goes down, but I will be sure to keep you guys day if there is anything else that comes out. And we are going to go ahead and jump into part two of this crazy two part series that we're doing on Diamond and Tianda Bradley. Get ready, all righty guys, welcome to part two of the Bradley Sister's Disappearance Diamond and Tianda. We are picking up where we left off. If you have not listened to part one, please go back to the episode I released on Monday and give that a listen, because it's going to set up the remainder of this episode. So the girls went missing in two thousand and one, there wasn't a whole lot that went on with the case, suspicions surrounding Tracy Bradley and George Washington. Of course, I really feel like because of Tracy's story and what happened and her George Washington being the only two people that knew that the girls were alone, it automatically put them kind of under a microscope. And I think that Tracy felt all of the pressure of all of that on her shoulders. So in the midst of this investigation, Like I said, there was a detective named Ed and he was assigned to it later on where he was on the cold case unit, and it came across his desk, and he just decided when he started to investigate it that he was going to pretty much just go back to the beginning and go from there. So when he went back through all the files, he had found that there was some evidence that they had taken from George Washington's trunk of his car, and it was hair evidence, and it had been sitting there all the way till twenty ten, without being touched, without being sent off for DNA, without anything. So he decided to have it tested and it did come back with as a mitochondrial match to Tianda, but they said that it was so minute that it wasn't enough to bring anyone in to question anyone on this. Obviously, it was in George Washington's trunk of his car, so like that is a pretty close connection in my opinion. So they questioned George Washington about this, and his story as to how the hair got there is that they would often take the girls to the drive in movie but they didn't want to pay for the girls to go to the drive in movie, so they would put the girls in the trunk and sneak them into the movie. So they had asked Tracy about this, and she couldn't recall if they had ever gone to a drive in or ever gone to a movie. And Rita and Victoria said, we never went to a movie with him. We never went to a drive in movie with him. We never got put into the trunk of his car. We have no idea where that's coming from. It makes no sense. And if you go back to episode one when the other girls talk about George Washington, they didn't really mess around with George like he wasn't that person in their lives. He was dating their mom, but he very much was not somebody that was taking on a fatherly role to Tracy's children. Even though he was the father of Diamond, he was not taking on a fatherly role to these kids whatsoever. So then later in twenty ten, the aunt of Diamond and Tianda gets a Facebook message from a gal named Latitia Hicks, and she messaged her and said, I know what happened to the girl that night that that happened, George Washington showed up to my house. He had been drinking, he was shaking, and she said that he knew that George had something to do with it. He was covered in blood, he had oversized jim shorts on top of his pants that he had and he came in her house and he wanted to take a shower, and she is saying like he pretty much confessed to killing the girls. So this is all coming out in twenty ten from a Facebook message. So police kind of followed up with her, and the timeline didn't really match up. She had said that all of this happened on the fourth of July, which the girls disappeared on July sixth, So even if she had gotten the date wrong, they were able to check George Washington's cell phone records. This gal lived in Indiana, and George Washington's cell phone stuff did not leave Chicago for the whole day of July sixth, so proving that even though he has done some shady things, that this whole story was not true. So from twenty ten till twenty twenty three, there's not really a lot going on with the case. The story still every anniversary of the girl's disappearance gets a little bit of media coverage, but not really a whole lot. It's kind of fading further and further and further into the background. Except it's not fading further into the background for the family who Tianda and Diamond have left behind. Tracy is still very much looking for her girls, Her sisters are looking for their two younger sisters, the rest of the family, everybody is so on board trying to find these girls. George Washington has very much faded in to the background, and it's really hard to find George Washington Chicago because he has such a common name. Is really really hard to track this guy down and figure out what he is currently up to. So between twenty ten and twenty twenty three, there's not really a lot that's going on. The two main detectives who have always been forefront of this case are still forefront of this case, even though they have both retired. They are both still trying to get justice for the Bradley family and trying to bring the girls home, whether it's them being alive and out there or finding their remains and finding out what happened to them. So oddly enough, in May of twenty twenty three, a TikTok video surfaces of a gal who is claiming that she is Diamond Bradley, and one of the main things was that she remembers her childhood being kind of odd, and she remembers being with another girl and then the other girl was gone, and she said that she would question her parents about like things in her childhood and her family and all that kind of stuff, and she would just be kind of like brushed off. They wouldn't really ever give her information. And then she also had this scar on her forehead that was similar to a scar that Diamond had had, so she thought that she was Diamond Bradley. She made this TikTok video. Obviously it blew up and went viral. So this girl's name is Raylan Hargrave and it turned into a huge thing. I'm going to play the first video for you guys. It's pretty short and sweet. They're in like a parking lot. There is a cop car with a police officer in it, and it's like her friend who's videoing, and I'm going to play that now. And then there's a giant rabbit hole of TikTok videos to go down the rabbit hole on. But I'll kind of explain that after I play this video, and that's true. This is Dom and Bradley. Can I see your score? She stare her the score. So such a crazy thing to come out of nowhere after all of that time, This just happened this year with this gal who lives in Houston is coming out and saying that she believes that she is Diamond Bradley. So the Internet explodes with all of these of course, like people wanting to know, like why do you think your diamond besides the scar? Like what other things are leading you to believe this? So there is a lot of TikTok videos where she's answering questions. I am going to play one right now because she's kind of describing like how she came to think that she potentially could be Diamond, and it's just because of kind of how she grew up. So I'm gonna play that, and then we're gonna talk about the Bradley family and the two detectives coming to Houston to meet with said Diamond Bradley. February, all the way up to about March or April, I was staying with a friend at the time that I had now grown up, and me and Harba he had got into it for reasons, and then I left the first place. The first person that I met was the girl that I came down here with her auntie is the dad sat he was networking that was dead. I met the girl the way that the auntie was moving. The girl was like, I just want to go down, calling me Houston. I could put you on the money moved out of Houston. So I was all right, fuck it, I don't got nothing till of me here. Let me just go down the road to Houston. In the meeting, I was trying to get a job, like I don't mind working ninety five. I don't. I don't mind working like I'm a hard working individual, like I'm some one now. And in a practice of me trying to apply for jobs, the places that letting me know that for some reason my background, I'm not going through okay, And you know, I'm talking figure out what what do you mean? And they're like, it's just it's not it's not going through now. When they first came to me, I wasn't just gonna jump about and be like, oh my god, I'm a I'm a fake person. Da da da da No. I went on the internet such stuff, real birth certificates, real this, real that, and compared it to my documents that they gave me, saying, oh, this is your birth certificates, this is your social security blackly blabs and don't add up to what real documents should look like. Certain stuff is out of place, certain stuff look like it's been tampered, ripped off, stuff like that. And I'm hearing that the family getting on live and they showing, oh this a reptimity this da da da. So you're not supposed to have more than one period, So why would you give me a fox record that there is is evidence to incriminate chaud like And then on top of that and you said, oh, well watch you walking around with outbituary. The person that's that's on that obituary is the only person in that house that didn't raise the head up to me, beat me, brotherly abuse me. That is the only person in that house that did not try to break me down as a human. Period. I don't I don't care what nobody said. That's why I feel a type of way about him, because he didn't he didn't and yell at me, He didn't put his hands on me. He would sit down and talk to me. He would sit down and recognize you're not crazy. I know how they're trying to make you feel, but you just gotta keep a tunnel vision, like one day you won't be in this situation. So yeah, when he died, that fuck with me. But what I mean I to understanding is if I'm my sister right, and and that's sean brother too, why why can't y'all casually hop on here and say, oh, she's crazy because because her brother died. This, ain't that your brother too? Yeah, that's you still like that. That's a random fly. And then on top of that, that, to my my doctor is not not being riddle. Why isn't that right? When I get out of family, right right when I get up out of Virginia, shit starts coming up, fake ship start coming up. Faith all family, God be in the DM. It's not art and streams that that lady works for the government, Like, come on now, it's not hard, Toby, sh it is not hard. Oh so the lady that was raised you as your mom when she worked for the government work for the government. She worked for the State Department of Virginia. Then everybody keep saying, oh, you stay in Maryland all your life. How when I graduated from a Virginia school, like y'all, y'all, y'all trying to take dumb shit that picture I circulated with the sun that passed away, that's from Mayland, that's from middle school. Or if I can't one of the fuck am I the same height of your motherfucking daughter who's supposed to be in high school at the time. And then I don't look like y'all y'all mad because I down. I put down because I'm not supposed to be big them mental health medication that was really steroids. Eighty percent of the medication was steroids to make me big, make me sex. So you can't see why, I think for else, you can't see my nose, see see why thanks structor ship like that. They wanted to destroy my face because I don't look like them. I don't in reality, I don't. I'm not even their complex. Okay, I know that is a lot, but this gal is basically saying that she decided that she was going to move to Houston, and she was starting to apply for jobs, and none of her background checks would come back with the identification that she was giving them and she started researching it and realized that, oh crap, Like, I don't think I am who I've been told I am. And this does happen where a child is taken and kidnapped and they're given a whole new identity and raised to someone entirely different. She said, the woman who raised her quote unquote mother worked for the government and had access to all sorts of different legal documents and stuff and easily could have changed her identity and falsified documents. And then at one point she says that they were her family, who it sounds like all of her family except for one person in the household, was abusive, which isn't cool that they were giving her steroids to make her look different and conceal her facial feature, so she didn't realize that she didn't look like everyone else or in her family. This is a wild freaking ride, Like I don't even know how I did not know about this? How did I not know about this? This is right up my alley. So this gal is of course claiming to be Diamond. She believes that she's Diamond, and I don't think she is a shit starter or just like making it up for the hell of it like, I truly don't feel like this girl knows who she is, and she really has some questions about who her true identity is. Rightfully, so, with all these things happening in her life, she's realizing, like, I'm not who I think I am. So the team, Tracy Bradley, family members, the detectives, they all come down to Houston and they're ready to meet with her. Tracy is convinced that if she sees her, she's automatically going to know. In the meantime, they have sent for DNA testing just to kind of either confirm or deny if this gal truly is Diamond or not. But Tracy says, I don't really need DNA. If I see her, I'm going to know if she's Diamond. Well, I think that all of everything going on, there was a lot of threats being made on social media to this girl because of course people thought that she was just doing it for attention and for followers, which I don't feel that way. I could be entirely wrong, but she said that she was getting threats on social media because of all the attention from the case, and she didn't feel comfortable meeting without having the DNA test result back and in place, So she basically just said that she was not going to meet with them, even though they were right there and they were willing to meet, and they if they didn't if she didn't want to meet in person, they were willing to do like a zoom meeting, but she wanted no part of it and I don't know, like it's just such a crazy situation. So they ended up not being able to meet with her. Of course, it's super upsetting for Tracy because she felt like she was one step closer to maybe fighting out that one of her children was still alive and that this could potentially have been Diamond, and it was sad that she wasn't able to have that meeting. But it did eventually come back the DNA was not a match. She was not Diamond Bradley. And I don't know where this gal currently stands if she has figured out who she is. This was just in May, so it really hasn't been a super long time since all of this first happened. But she's active on TikTok, but she hasn't really posted a ton, especially nothing in regard to the case. Just I know her DNA did not match to Tracy's meaning that she is definitely not Diamond. So if you guys want to check her out on TikTok, because there is a couple of videos where she answers some questions. Her screen name is at general dot ju And I mean, I don't know. It's sad because I feel like she really does have a story to tell and she potentially could be somebody who was taken and given this whole new identity. I don't know, it's weird, it's sad. I feel bad for her. I don't feel like she's lying about this, but she unfortunately is not Diamond. So they travel back from Houston back to Chicago, and in the midst of that, like shortly after they get back, Pam is provided with a new little tidbit of information in regards to Tracy's story and tracy timeline. So Tracy reported that that morning she was at home with the girls, got up and went to work and told them don't answer the door to anybody, and I'll be back after work. George Washington came picked her up, brought her to work, then brought her home later on in the day. So Pam uncovers phone records from that day that contradicts that Tracy was not home the night of the fifth or the morning of the sixth, which contradicts her original statement of being there and being at home. So I guess from cell phone tower pings. Even though this was two thousand and one and cell phone technology is not nearly what it is today, they were still able to pick up on the area in which Tracy was. So Pam questions her about this. You know, you said you were at home, but we have cell phone records and pings that indicate that you weren't at home, and that's meaning like the fifth and then the early morning hours into the sixth, and she said that she wasn't that she was home and that she was not at George's home. And there is documentation from two seventeen in the morning, So this is on the sixth of calls that were made to Tracy's house and Tracy wasn't at home to retrieve them, although she said she was at home. And then she said she like kind of was like kind of backing off a little bit, and she was like, well, I guess it is possible that I was at George Washington's home. And then real quickly in the interview. It's so crazy to see it because Pam is questioning her and she's like very much sticking to the story, like I was at home. And then right away she's like, well, I guess it's possible that I was at George's home. And then she admits to being at George Washington's home. And when Pam asked her, well, how do you know that you were there? Because all of this time, this is a long time, this is twenty two years later, she is now coming forward and saying that she knows she was at George Washington's home and I don't know if she buried it and didn't think about it and kind of was creating her own narrative of what happened that day to kind of rationalize what happened. I don't really know. I'm not making excuses. I'm just trying to figure it out. Because she was so adamant that she was home, even up until most recently after this visit to Houston in May of twenty twenty three, and she said that she remembers being at George Washington's home because she remembers the sun coming in the window that morning and she had to get up and get ready to go to work, and she got up and George Washington drove her to work and she had to be there by seven, so she was up about six. She remembers the sunlight and the sunrise coming in the window of George Washington's home, So that means, if that is the case, which she is now saying that that's the case, she wasn't home. Those girls were by themselves for quite a while. They weren't just by themselves from morning to when Tracy got back from work. They were by themselves for a super extended period of time overnight into the morning hours. So that really complicates the timeline as to when the girls did go missing, because it could have happened anytime between the fifth and the sixth technically. But her story this whole time has been so different, and that I really do struggle with because, like I said, is she trying to rationalize what happened that day and just thinking like this timeline makes more sense. It makes me look less of a neglectful person if I say that I was there that morning and then I left her work, versus I was spending the night with George Washington and I left my kids. It all is just so weird. There's aspects of this case to me that just don't make sense. I very much want to believe Tracy. I very much want to think that everything that she is saying is valid. And I feel like there's some part of her that has information that she doesn't even realize she has. And she is obviously a woman who was super super super manipulated by George Washington and who knows what was going on behind closed doors of him pulling the strings allegedly. In my opinion, I don't get good vibes from George Wahing. I think that there is a lot more to the story than meets the eye, and I do think that the investigators are a lot closer to solving this now present day, twenty twenty three than they were even just five years ago. There is so much out there. Listen to the podcast. It is eight parts. I am going to start listening to it. I watch the ID documentary. I'm going to also link that you can see the interviews that happen with Tracy and with the sisters of Diamond and Tianda and all of the family members and the investigators that have been so diligently working this case. I, in my heart of heart, do not believe that the girls are still alive. I think that the circumstantial evidence of this case are pretty damning, and in my opinion, I feel like there is a lot of evidence to charge a particular person who is named after a president in this case. But I know they have to have actual concrete evidence, and I know when they get those actual concrete evidence, they are going to do with that what they may, and they're gonna hopefully get justice for these girls, get justice for Tracy who had her kids taken. The other two sisters, Rita and Victoria, they both got really emotional in the documentary when they were asked, you know, what do you think happened to your sisters? They both get really emotional, and they of course want to believe that the girls are out there and that they're alive and they're okay, but they don't feel like that's the case, and they feel like they are no longer living and that is sad and that is unfortunate, and it's horrible to think that some but he did this and they've gotten away with it for so long, twenty three years, twenty two years. It's almost going to be twenty three years. It's insane that this person has gotten away with it, and I feel like they are very very close to solving it, and when the day comes that they do solve it, I will be one of the first people to tell you guys about it. I'm gonna post some age progress pictures of Tianda and Diamond on my Instagram. I'm going to try to scrounge up a picture of George Washington himself and I'll also maybe do like a still picture of the gal that was claiming to be Diamond, And like I said, you can check out her Instagram. There's many an article about this stuff because it was like a crazy claim that was being made and it just kind of went off and I had no idea that this existed at all. I had no idea and it was happening in Houston. How did I not know about this? So that is the end of this two part series on Diamond and Teanda Bradley. I hope that they are at peace. I do hope for the rest of the Bradley family that they do get some peace and justice and they're able to come to terms with this. It has been a long journey for them and I hope that they are all able to eventually rest from this and lay their girls to rest and have a little bit of sense of justice hopefully. I feel very good about this case. I feel like it is on the brink of being solved. I don't know why I feel that way, but I just do. So share this episode, check out the podcast, check out the ID show. I'm going to link all of that in the show notes, as well as some other articles I used as resources. But I told you, guys, this one was a wild ride, and I don't think I've ever covered an episode that had like a guy named after President, two missing girls, a baby named after the baby daddy's wife, a random girl on TikTok claiming to be a claiming to be Diamond, and then a deleted voicemail, and random confessions of falsifying information that came to like twenty two years later. I don't even know. This one had every twist and turn possible, and that is why it was two parts. So I very much thank you guys for listening. I would love to know your thoughts on this one. If you have followed the case, I would love to know what you think, and I will definitely keep you guys updated with any new information that comes forward. Thank you guys for listening. Please subscribe, like, rate, review, all of the things to the podcast. I appreciate you, and I hope you guys have a great weekend. Bye.