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Missing Atlanta 12-Year-Old Found in Las Vegas; Pornography Found on Hailey Dunn`s Family`s Computer

Aired February 25, 2011 - 20:00:00   ET

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JEAN CASAREZ, GUEST HOST: Tonight, breaking news in the search for missing west Texas cheerleader Hailey Dunn. As we go to air, shocking pornographic images seized by investigators and just made known to the public. We have confirmed police allege hundreds of thousands of photographs and even videos of child pornography and bestiality found on a family computer, a computer disk and memory stick found inside the little girl`s home.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s a witch hunt.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Search warrants reportedly reveal investigators found more than 100,000 picture and video images showing pornography found on a computer taken from suspect Shawn Adkins`s mother`s home.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chaotic. You know, people have drove by this residence and screamed obscenities to me. And it`s been really hard.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some of those images include child pornography.

BILLIE DUNN, HAILEY`S MOTHER: He`s telling me that he`s going to kill me. He said it`s going to happen.

I`m scared to death that somebody hurt her!

His name is Shawn Adkins.

SHAWN ADKINS, BILLIE DUNN`S BOYFRIEND: We all get along just fine. I would never do nothing to that little girl.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A memory card also reportedly found in the bedroom dresser of Hailey`s mom`s house containing hundreds (INAUDIBLE) pornographic images.

ADKINS: If I had any knowledge of her whereabouts, I would definitely come forward.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: Good evening. I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session" on the truTV network, in for Nancy Grace. Thank you so much for joining us. Before we get to the latest in the missing case of west Texas cheerleader Hailey Dunn, we do have some breaking news coming in right now out of the state of Nevada. After we went live asking for help in the search for Pricella Ristick -- remember, that`s the little 12-year-old girl selling flowers with her uncle on Sunday in Georgia? The 12-year-old girl, we can now report, has been found alive, alive in Las Vegas. But how did she get there? Who helped her?

Let`s go out to NANCY GRACE producer Matt Zarrell for the latest. Matt, what are the police telling you?

MATT ZARRELL, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Yes, Jean, Pricella was found late Thursday night in Las Vegas, nearly 2,000 miles away from Lillburn (ph), Georgia, where she was last seen. Now, cops learned that early on Thursday, she was contacting the uncle via a blocked cell phone and was telling the uncle that she was being held in a building and couldn`t leave.

Now, what cops were able to do, exigent circumstances with the phone company, they were able to get the phone number and they began to take possession of the uncle`s phone. What happened was, is that Pricella then calls the uncle`s phone, cops answer, they get a dialogue going with Pricella. And at that point, that is when police start tracking the cell phone. When they track the cell phone, they locate it in Las Vegas. They stay on the phone with her while the Las Vegas police track down the location. She is found unhurt, and she`s safe right now, Jean.

CASAREZ: So everybody, we are getting in right now from Las Vegas, Nevada, Pricella Ristick, 12 years old, has been found alive. I want to go out to Eric Jens, news director of WRGA Newstalk radio in Atlanta, Georgia. Take us back to the beginning because this was a little girl that was selling flowers with her uncle on Sunday night. And witnesses said they saw this white van, and they believed that she was abducted into that van.

ERIC JENS, WRGA NEWSTALK RADIO (via telephone): That`s right. In fact, it was a couple of the video shots from outside of Little Caesar`s restaurant at that strip mall that we last saw Pricella and that white van. We saw two still shots there, and the combination did not look good for her, you know, near future here as to where we may find her and what condition we may -- that she may be in at that point. Of course, to everyone`s pleasant surprise, at this point, is that not only has she been found alive, but by all accounts, she is unharmed.

CASAREZ: But to Paul Penzone, former sergeant, Phoenix Police Department, child advocate, joining us out of Phoenix, I also remember distinctly that when law enforcement was going through her mother`s home Sunday night, she called her mother and said she was with a woman named Nancy. And she didn`t know where she was and she couldn`t get out and she couldn`t leave. What do you make of this, that now they believe she took a bus to Las Vegas?

PAUL PENZONE, FORMER SGT. PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT: It`s hard to (INAUDIBLE) because you don`t know, does she have the mentality, the maturity to actually make up some of these things for attention. Obviously, somebody played a part because I just can`t see a 12-year-old, you know, getting transportation or getting onto a bus without somebody actually facilitating that. It`s very scary. We`re very fortunate that she`s safe. But there`s a lot more to learn from exactly what she initiated and what someone else facilitated and helped with.

CASAREZ: To Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaas Kids foundation. We did a little research, found out that a bus ticket from Georgia to Las Vegas is about $200. So Marc Klaas, do you think anybody helped her in doing this? She was selling flowers, but her family thinks she had about $20 in her pocket.

MARC KLAAS, KLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION: Yes, well, I agree with Paul. I agree that somebody had to have helped her to get to where she was and probably even to help put this plan together. She seems to be kind of an accomplished little liar, so I think that law enforcement is going to have to backtrack and investigate this to find out exactly what happened -- in other words, who purchased the ticket, what was she doing in Las Vegas, who were her contacts in Las Vegas, et cetera, et cetera.

CASAREZ: And to Matt Zarrell, NANCY GRACE producer, what is law enforcement saying tonight? This investigation isn`t over, is my guess.

ZARRELL: No, it definitely is not. They`re are definitely trying to determine who helped her, if somebody helped her, whether she got help to get on the bus to go to Vegas. Now, when police arrived in Vegas and took her into custody, she told them she had been there for one or two days. So she had already been there for a couple days by the time police arrived.

CASAREZ: To Eric Jens, news director, WRGA Newstalk in Atlanta. What more can you tell us? And who has custody of her tonight in Las Vegas?

JENS: She is in child services` custody, at last report. Of course, they are going through some extensive interviews with her, as her story has changed and at times not panned out to be true. And of course, other family members are continuing to be interviewed, as well, as authorities are trying to get whatever information they can and try to piece this together in some semblance that makes sense.

CASAREZ: And let`s go out to the lawyers, Joey Jackson, defense attorney joining us tonight from New York, and Hugo Rodriguez, defense attorney and former FBI agent, out of Miami. First of all, Joey Jackson, to you. If she had help in all of this, if anyone facilitated her move to Las Vegas, could we see any charges here?

JOEY JACKSON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Oh, Jean, absolutely. There will be. I mean, we haven`t gotten to that stage yet. There`ll be an investigation. I think important will be what underlying issues were happening at the home. And then they`ll look to was she abducted, was she kidnapped, who assisted, if anybody, in getting her over there. But without question, child protective services in doing their interviews, if there`s something amiss here and there was someone who assisted her in any way, they will get to the bottom of it, and criminal defense attorneys will be very busy.

CASAREZ: All right. Hugo Rodriguez, agree, disagree?

HUGO RODRIGUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I agree, but it depends on what activities occurred. If somebody abducted her, if somebody exploited her, took advantage of her, it`s along those lines. If she is strictly a runaway who either had money on her own or did it on her own or was fascinated by Las Vegas, it may take a different turn. But obviously, this girl, who`s 12 years old, shouldn`t have been leaving Georgia and going out of state. Obviously, somebody helped her. Obviously, somebody aided and abetted her, as we would say.

CASAREZ: All right. You know, everybody, we`re getting breaking news in that out of the state of Nevada, Pricella Ristick, who we believed, as witnesses said, was abducted out of Georgia, has been found alive. Police are telling us she is in Las Vegas. She took a bus 1,800 miles from Georgia to Las Vegas.

I want to go out to Dr. Howard Oliver, former deputy medical examiner, forensic pathologist joining us from Los Angeles. We don`t know all the facts yet, but is it critical and so very important at this point for a doctor to look her over in case there is any evidence of abuse?

DR. HOWARD OLIVER, FMR. DEPUTY MEDICAL EXAMINER: Yes. She should have a psychological and a physical examination, with the emphasis on psychological.

CASAREZ: Leslie Austin, psychotherapist out of New York, here`s the big question. You run away, you want to take the bus, you want to get away to Las Vegas. Why do you call your mother and say, I`m being held against my will, and then you call your uncle and basically say the same thing? That`s how investigators were able to track her.

LESLIE AUSTIN, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: Right. Because you`re a 12-year-old girl and you`re not old enough or mature enough to plan really well. She is fortunately, it appears, a runaway rather than a victim. We`re not sure yet. But this is a child who just on impulse planned something and went. What we really need to do is a very serious evaluation. Why did she want to run away? Why did she want to go? And why didn`t she want to go home?

CASAREZ: And that is probably what child protective services is doing tonight in Las Vegas. They have custody of Pricella Ristick, 12 years old, who either on her own or aided and abetted by someone, went to Las Vegas.

To Matt Zarrell. Refresh our memory. She and her mother had just been in Georgia for a couple of weeks, though, right?

ZARRELL: Yes, they were only there for a couple weeks. They were visiting her mother`s -- the mother`s sister, who was ill at the time, is what we`ve been told.

And another thing, Jean, that we need to talk about is police are still trying to determine if this Nancy woman exists. Now, remember, the family told cops that Pricella had met Nancy about a week earlier when she was selling flowers in the area. So we`re still trying to determine if Pricella had concocted this story about Nancy, or if this Nancy woman was a person that helped her get to Las Vegas.

CASAREZ: You know, one thing that just amazes me, Paul Penzone, and I guess there are lot of answers to this, but if a little 12-year-old was going to buy a bus ticket all by herself, isn`t it the duty of the agent to ask a few questions with a child traveling alone?

PENZONE: It is absolutely their responsibility. They -- you know, they can look at it and say, It`s not my child. Is it really my job? But ultimately, we`re all responsible for the safety of children. And when you see something that is out of the ordinary or gives you cause for concern, do your job efficiently, follow up. You can`t allow for a minor to get on a bus unoccupied (SIC) by an adult.

CASAREZ: That is right because only one bus ticket, we believe, was purchased.

Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation, you know, so often, children go missing and they automatically say they`re a runaway, and then authorities don`t look. Here in this case, everyone was on this case. Even the FBI was on this case. Your thoughts about the reality that maybe she did do this on her own.

KLAAS: Well, I don`t think she did it on her own. I think she had help. But she wasn`t abducted. She said that somebody had taken her, that she couldn`t get away, and it was a patent lie. I think that there need to be repercussions of some kind for that kind of activity because this undermines all of the missing child cases that we work so hard to solve.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A missing girl has been found safe. She is in Las Vegas.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They show her leaving the shopping center on Indian Trail Road. The second shot shows a white van.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened, if someone helped Pricella get to Las Vegas or she was taken there. But she has been found.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BILLIE DUNN, HAILEY`S MOTHER: As far as I`m aware, there`s still no evidence of foul play.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re still searching and we`re still looking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My main thought on it is that it`s a witch hunt.

DUNN: I`m still looking for a living, breathing Hailey.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are the last words that anybody heard from 13-year-old Hailey Dunn.

SHAWN ADKINS, BILLIE DUNN`S BOYFRIEND: "Shawn, I`m going to go by my dad`s, and then I`m going to stay (INAUDIBLE) with my friend, Mary Beth. Please tell my mom."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Reported to police by the man who is now a suspect in her disappearance.

DUNN: His name is Shawn Adkins.

Shawn Adkins.

ADKINS: I love her with all my heart.

DUNN: Shawn had been threatening me.

ADKINS: And I believe she loves me with all her heart.

DUNN: And he`s telling me that he`s going to kill me.

ADKINS: We get along just fine.

DUNN: He said it`s going to happen.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shawn Adkins, did you at all have anything to do with Hailey`s disappearance?

ADKINS: No, ma`am, I don`t.

DUNN: What if he did do something to Hailey?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session," in for Nancy Grace. We spoke with police minutes before airing this show tonight, and they are alleging to us that thousands of deviant acts have been found on a family computer in the Hailey Dunn case. We grew to know and love Hailey Dunn after Christmas this last year when she went missing. They`re also telling us that those deviant acts include child pornography and bestiality.

I want to go out to Michael Board, reporter of WOAI Newstalk radio in San Antonio. Michael, you yourself have just gotten off the phone with police. What are they telling you?

MICHAEL BOARD, WOAI NEWSTALK RADIO (via telephone): Yes, this is the Mitchell County Sheriff`s Department here in Texas. And these images that we`re talking about, these were found on a computer in Shawn Adkins`s mother`s home, and also on a memory stick, one of these little portable memory sticks, in the home where Hailey actually lived. What they found on these, like you said, a little bit over 100,000 deviant pictures, child pornography, bestiality.

You know, we knew Shawn Adkins was the only suspect in this case, in the disappearance of Hailey Dunn, the kidnapping, as police call it, of Hailey Dunn. We now get a better idea. Who the heck needs 108,000 pictures of such trash? It`s amazing how many pictures they found on here. But it does give us a lot better idea of why this man is being called a suspect in this case.

CASAREZ: And more or less, Michael Board, possession of child porn, that`s a crime. Let`s go...

BOARD: Two to twenty years in Texas.

CASAREZ: OK. Alexis Weed, NANCY GRACE producer, OK, let`s go through this step by step. First of all, we know at the end of January, investigators seized a computer out of Shawn Adkins`s home. Now, he`s the live-in boyfriend, was the live-in boyfriend of Billie Dunn, the mother of Hailey Dunn. So what are we learning was found on that computer?

ALEXIS WEED, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, we know it was a Dell computer seized, as you said, from the mother of Shawn Adkins`s home. On this computer, like Michael Board said, Jean, 108,498 pictures depicting deviant acts, according to the sheriff of Mitchell County. Also, this memory stick and a CD, 320 images, videos, pornographic in nature.

CASAREZ: All right. And we want to show everybody a memory stick. This was found in the dresser drawer of Billie Dunn. Everybody, this is a memory stick. It`s a flash drive. They call it that, too. It`s what you use in a computer to actually get images to the computer to download or to put them on your memory disk. And then, of course, a CD. We all know what that looks like. But this was also found in the home where Hailey Dunn lived. And authorities are saying they are now taking this to prosecutors to see if charges should be filed.

I want to go back to Michael Board, reporter, WOAI Newstalk radio. What else can you tell us?

BOARD: All this information is being passed on to the district attorney in this case. Of course, the police can only gather the evidence. All that evidence taken to a district attorney. It will go before a grand jury.

If the grand jury gives their thumbs up to this case, it`s likely Shawn Adkins, maybe even Billie Dunn, because the memory stick was found in her home -- she might even face charges in this case. She might not have downloaded it. They might not know who had gotten -- who was on the computer when the kiddie porn was downloaded. But because it was found in her home, it might be a fact that she might face charges in this. And in Texas, possession of child pornography, if you`re found guilty either by a jury or by a judge, it could mean a sentence of 2 to 20 years.

CASAREZ: And Billie Dunn tonight is denying to us that she knew what was on that or had any part in any computer image that was found on the computer or the memory stick.

We are taking your calls live. To Jen in Colorado. Hi, Jen.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Jean. Thank you for taking my call.

CASAREZ: You`re welcome.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was wondering if they know if there are any photos of Hailey on that memory stick or CD, or if they could see any surroundings on the CDs or memory sticks?

CASAREZ: Well, you know, Jen, with 108,000-some-odd images, they`ve got a lot to go through.

I want to go to Pat Brown, criminal profiler. They are not releasing what is shown on all of those images, but Pat Brown, you can better believe they`re looking at them.

PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER: Oh, yes. We`re talking -- here`s the problem. We`re talking about a desire to have extreme excitement, like with extreme sports, instead of just going for a walk, you jump off a mountain. This is extreme perversion. Instead of just playing around with a little weird sex, you got to go to worse and worse and worse levels of perversion to get any kind of titillation out of it. And it might go as far as messing with Hailey.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DUNN: His name is Shawn Adkins.

I worry, what if he did do something to Hailey.

His name is Shawn Adkins.

I`m scared to death that somebody hurt her!

His name is Shawn Adkins.

ADKINS: We all get along just fine. I would never do anything to that little girl.

DUNN: I just don`t trust him and I...

I just don`t trust him and I...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shawn Adkins, did you at all have anything to do with Hailey`s disappearance, or do you know anything more?

ADKINS: No, ma`am, I don`t.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session," in for Nancy Grace. Police are alleging to us tonight that thousands of images have been found on a computer in Shawn Adkins`s mother`s home in addition to that of child pornography and bestiality and a memory stick and a CD seized from the home of Hailey Dunn. Now, what does all this mean? This means that we want to know where Hailey Dunn is. And this evidence may help us find out where Hailey Dunn is, missing since December 27th, the high school cheerleader, middle school cheerleader, of Colorado City, west Texas.

I want to go out to Marc Klaas. Marc, you spent a lot of time with Billie Dunn. We know that this flash drive, CD, was found in her home, the flash drive in her dresser drawer. Law enforcement telling us they may go to the grand jury now with this. What are your thoughts? She was not named a suspect, just Shawn Adkins.

KLAAS: Well, first of all, we have to be very clear that we`re dealing now with multiple crime scenes. Not only is Hailey Dunn missing, but that computer that was taken from the mother`s house is a crime scene. That flash drive that has child pornography on it is a crime scene, as is the CD. And all of these people are involved in this.

Klaas Kids is very clear. We tell every family of a missing child, number one, to tell the truth, number two, cooperate with law enforcement, and number three, come clean about absolutely everything. That was not followed in this case, and the repercussions are grand. They`re huge because everything that`s going on now really is detracting from the one goal that everybody should be focusing on, which is finding Hailey Dunn. Billie should be ashamed of herself for holding back information that she`s had all of this time.

CASAREZ: Can we assume that Billie Dunn knew all of this?

KLAAS: I don`t think we can assume anything. I don`t think that Billie Dunn is responsible for her daughter`s disappearance. I don`t think she is. But beyond that, I think everything is open to question.

CASAREZ: To Joey Jackson, defense attorney joining us out of New York. Here`s my one question. If Billie Dunn knew about these child pornography images, why wasn`t she named a suspect back in January along with her live-in boyfriend?

JACKSON: Well, the problem, Jean, is belief that she might have known it. You know, there are a lot of instances where people live together, parents, husbands, wives, and they don`t know what each other is doing. So we can`t assume that yet.

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SHAWN ADKINS, MISSING TEEN CHEERLEADER MOM`S EX-BOYFRIEND: It`s a witch hunt.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Police warrants reportedly reveal investigators found more than 100,000 picture and video images showing pornography, found on a computer taken from suspect Shawn Adkins` mother`s home.

ADKINS: Chaotic. You know, people have drove by this residence and screamed obscenities to me. And it`s been really hard.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Some of those images include child pornography.

BILLIE DUNN, MOM OF MISSING TEEN CHEERLEADER, HAILEY B. DUNN: He`s telling me that he`s going to kill me. He says it`s going to happen. I`m scared to death that somebody hurt her. His name is Shawn Adkins.

ADKINS: We all get along just fine. I would never do nothing to that little girl.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A memory card also reportedly found in the bedroom dresser of Hailey`s mom`s house containing hundreds of pornographic images.

ADKINS: If I had any knowledge of her whereabouts I would definitely come forward.

(END OF VIDEO CLIP)

JEAN CASAREZ, GUEST HOST: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session" on the truTV Network in for Nancy Grace tonight.

Where is Hailey Dunn? We have followed this case for well more than a month now. She disappeared on December 27th. Last person to see her was her mother`s live-in boyfriend Shawn Adkins. Some riveting new information to come out today.

Michael Board, reporter, WOAI Newstalk Radio, what was revealed today about the investigation?

MICHAEL BOARD, REPORTER, WOAI NEWSRADIO: In addition to the revelation that more than 100,000 pictures of pornography and bestiality were found on Shawn Adkins` mother`s computer and also a flash drive found in Billie Dunn`s home, we`re also learning a little bit more about the investigation today.

We know that they have had a wide ranging investigation looking at areas all around Colorado City. I was told today by a spokesman for the police department up there in Colorado City that a total of four landfills have been searched for any sort of evidence -- any evidence whatsoever about Billie Dunn.

You know we talk a lot about what`s being done to find her. Well, this is -- this is what`s being done. A total of four landfills searched. They had dogs out in these landfills. Absolutely no evidence coming up into these -- the family from what we`ve been told, is they believe the police need to work more on finding people who might know where Hailey is.

They`re deadest --

CASAREZ: But here is the revelation that is legally important and critically important to the life or death of Hailey Dunn. We confirmed that police are alleging tonight that it was child pornography that was found on the computer. Not just pornography, but child pornography. 108,000 pictures of child pornography.

In addition to that, a memory drive, a flash drive just like this. It was found in the dresser drawer of Billie Dunn, the mother who has been on this show so many times. And this, authorities say, they are taking to a grand jury to see -- to prosecutors to see if a grand jury should bring charges against her.

To Alexis Weed, NANCY GRACE producer, tell us more of what has been unsealed today.

ALEXIS WEED, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Sure, Jean. In addition to those 108,498 pictures, the memory stick, the CD that you mention from the dresser drawer and, Jean, mind you that CD drive, that flash drive, that was found in the dresser drawer at the bottom back in the corner as we`re learning from the search warrant return.

Also, Jean, in regards to the landfill search, there was a landfill search just on Tuesday in Big Spring. That is close to the location where Adkins` mother lived and where this computer came from.

The landfill search was said to not have turned up anything significant, however, dogs were used in that search. And that comes off of the most recent landfill search that we know of, January 20th, before this, at which time there were hits related to Hailey Dunn.

CASAREZ: So this is a very active investigation.

Out to Beverly in New York. Hi, Beverly.

BEVERLY, CALLER FROM NEW YORK: Hey, thanks for taking my call.

CASAREZ: You`re welcome.

BEVERLY: What I`m calling about is -- Hailey told her grandmother that she was afraid of him, if I remember right, that she thought she saw him standing at her bedroom door. I was a single mother. If I had even heard that about any of the guys that I dated at the time my daughter was young, I would have been all over them. And I think that this Billie, the mother, knows something.

CASAREZ: OK, Beverly, it`s a good point. I remember that when Billie Dunn was on, she was asked that question. And she said, I never knew. Hailey never told me that she was afraid of him.

To Leslie Austin, psychotherapist, what do you make of all this? Because this is very, very serious in many, many areas.

DR. LESLIE AUSTIN, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: Well, it certainly shows an obsession with -- pornography and deviant pornography of many kinds. And that the extent in the obsession and the compulsion of that is really a smoking gun that Hailey was likely in danger.

We don`t have any hard evidence that -- yet that anything happened to her but the likelihood grows greater the more we see these images. And Billie Dunn may not know things but if she doesn`t she may be just one of the most clueless, innocent people around who showed really poor judgment very consistently.

CASAREZ: To Paul Penzone, former sergeant of the Phoenix Police Department joining us tonight from Phoenix, Arizona.

Put this together for us. Because in your experience when you see so many images of child porn, that`s right, that`s one investigation in and of itself. But what does that mean for the alleged sexual molestation and even murder of Hailey Dunn?

PAUL PENZONE, DIRECT OF PREVENTION PROGRAMS, CHILDHELP.ORG, FMR. SERGEANT, PHOENIX PD: Well, those behaviors can go hand in hand and they often do. What you see is a person who -- and the question brought up earlier, what was going on around Hailey gave all the indicator that she felt that she was in danger with him.

Now we see his true personality. And I know I`m making a speculation, but forensic examiners will break down that computer. They will see what names were used, what e-mails were used, credit cards, anything at all to identify if in fact he was purchasing those.

But his personality traits was going on at that home given the extreme cause for concern as all of your viewers that he is responsible and is Hailey somewhere safe which is going to be highly unlikely at this point.

So getting enough charges -- and in Arizona every picture is an additional count. I don`t know if it`s the same in Texas. But those are concurrent, actually consecutive not concurrent charges.

CASAREZ: And that`s a good point. Hugo Rodriguez, defense attorney joining us out of Miami. 108,000 images on the computer alone. That could result in 108,000 charges.

HUGO RODRIGUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FMR. FBI AGENT: It could. And it remained in the state. And the state prosecutor, it`s fine, but he could also be prosecuted by the federal government because that was all obtained via the Internet, and you would have those charge.

The thing is, is that it appears that this is just a progression of deviant conduct. If he is looking at little girls, which we`re going to speculate it is, I`m afraid that maybe she might have been the subject of some of his actions after that. And there`s a lot to -- it just says a whole lot about who this individual is and they should really focus even harder on him.

CASAREZ: To Barbara in New York. Hi, Barbara.

BARBARA, CALLER FROM NEW YORK: Hi, Jean, always a pleasure. Well, the previous caller stated what I wanted to state regarding Shawn stalking her outside of her bedroom in her own home.

Now, Billie denied knowing anything about her daughter`s fears. However, my feelings are -- and no, I don`t like to assume. But that -- that drive was in her dresser drawer. She, I think, and her boyfriend Shawn enjoyed watching child porn.

She was supposed to protect her child. And with that in the house she wasn`t protecting her child. So I do hope if anything she`s at least charged with possession of pornography.

CASAREZ: Marc Klaas. You were in that home. You got to know her. What are your thoughts now? What were your thoughts then? She -- I really enjoyed watching her. I thought she was very honest when she was on this show talking.

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: I did, too. I did, too. And I`ll tell you, one thing that I don`t believe Billie Dunn is, is I don`t believe that she`s naive and clueless at all. I think she`s a very street savvy young lady. I think that she knows exactly what`s going on around her. And I find it very, very difficult to believe, in light of these new allegations or this new -- this new information, that she was completely clueless to absolutely everything that was going on.

I`m stunned by what we found out today. And I`m also really kind of interested in exactly why the police waited until today to make this explosive revelation.

CASAREZ: Yes, yes. I agree with you. I am stunned, too.

And everybody, we want to tell you that we`ve reached out to Shawn Adkins` attorney for a comment. The other side to all of this. And there is no response, there is no comment.

To Alexis Weed, I want to go just back to the beginning. Because the last person to ever see her on December 27th was Shawn Adkins, right, in the home?

WEED: Right. He says that he last saw her around 3:15 in the afternoon when she supposedly left and said that she was going to spend a night at the friend`s house. Then Adkins picked up her mother at work and told her the same story, that she was going to stay overnight with a friend.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The former live-in boyfriend of Billie Dunn and only named suspect in the disappearance of Hailey Dunn.

ADKINS: I`m just tired of staying behind closed door. And I`m (INAUDIBLE). And I want to get back out there and live my life normally again.

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Thirteen-year-old cheerleader.

DUNN: I don`t know where my daughter is.

GRACE: Never seen again.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have several people of interest.

GRACE: What do we know?

DUNN: I would like to say that I don`t care what people think of me.

ADKINS: I just hope she makes it home safe and sound.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The only named suspect in this case.

DUNN: I started being told he`s just a hurdle we can`t get around.

GRACE: It`s been interpreted that you are concerned the boyfriend has something to do with Hailey`s disappearance.

DUNN: That bothers me a lot.

ADKINS: I wouldn`t do nothing to that little girl.

DUNN: Shawn, if you have nothing to hide, I really wish you would talk to the investigators.

ADKINS: I`m clueless. This could happen to anybody, what`s happening to me. And how would they feel if they`re in my shoes.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: But nobody is in Adkins` shoes and nobody knows the truth of what happened to Hailey Dunn.

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CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session" in for Nancy Grace.

We wanted Billie Dunn on the show tonight. We asked her to come on. And at first she said yes, and then she declined. And you know how many times she`s been on the show. But she did tell us that she knows nothing about any child pornography on any computer or on memory stick or flash drive or CD. She said she knows nothing of it.

To Howard Oliver, joining us tonight, former medical director and forensic pathologist out of Los Angeles.

You know Hailey Dunn was a very young little girl. She was 13 years old. When a child goes for their routine pediatrician appointments, does a pediatrician ever check for sexual abuse of a child?

HOWARD OLIVER, FMR. DEPUTY MEDICAL EXAMINER, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: No. It`s not something that`s routinely checked unless the parent brings it up.

CASAREZ: All right. And another question, you know, when Shawn Adkins originally said that Hailey Dunn went missing on December 27th, that she went out without a coat. And it`s been a cold winter in Texas. That just doesn`t ad up, right?

OLIVER: It doesn`t add up at all. She has to keep warm some way. She had to have gone somewhere or been taken somewhere.

CASAREZ: All right. To Dawn in Missouri. Hi, Dawn.

DAWN, CALLER FROM MISSOURI: Hi, Jean.

CASAREZ: Thank you for calling.

DAWN: Jean, I want to know if we`ve got child pornography involved, why hasn`t he been arrested?

CASAREZ: Good question.

Joey Jackson, defense attorney, is there some strategy here? Why hasn`t someone been arrested?

JOEY JACKSON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I think so. I mean, look, we have to keep our eye on the prize, and if the prize is finding and detecting and seeing where Hailey is, then maybe they should exercise some restraint until they`re absolutely sure.

The other issue is, is it`s being investigated by a grand jury. Let`s see what -- if there`s a determination then, and ultimately the police will do what`s just and what`s right and what`s appropriate.

CASAREZ: You know, to Hugo Rodriguez, if there was just 108,000 images of child porn on the computer found at Shawn Adkins` mother`s house, which police are alleging to us tonight, then I would say anybody could go to that computer. You don`t know who`s in that house, who lives there, who goes in and out.

But I`m concerned about the flash drive. This little piece right here, this little -- that was found in the dresser drawer of Billie Dunn.

RODRIGUEZ: Not only that, that means it`s portable, it`s taken. It`s brought in and brought out, it`s put into other computers and watched at other places.

What they`re doing now is doing some other analysis to see if they can peg the time and place of these -- when the images were placed on each different computer or stick or how it was generated from the Internet to see if they can put people in certain places to see if they can determine actually who it was.

Some of these things might have been purchased. They might have been exchanged with other individuals and things. He might have -- he or she might have exchanged things. So that`s what they`re doing now. They`re presenting it to the grand jury.

Each of them knew that these things had been taken. So it`s not new to them. So I think that it is better to be patient, but I think someone soon will be arrested if not on child endangerment but on the possession of those items.

CASAREZ: And this could be a huge investigation, you are so right.

To Laura in Michigan. Hi, Laura.

LAURA, CALLER FROM MICHIGAN: Hi, Jean. I have a comment about Shawn Adkinson. It really bothered me from the very beginning when they talk to him. These three words. "That little girl." Because where have we heard that before? We`ve heard it from Casey Anthony and also from Misty Croslin.

CASAREZ: Very, very interesting. You realize, Laura in Michigan, that he took, quote-unquote, "three polygraphs." The first two he walked out, the third, deception was indicated on the whereabouts of Hailey Dunn, but saying that, Billie Dunn, two polygraphs, the first one she didn`t take because she had narcotics in her. The second one she did take. Deception was indicated on helping or knowing the whereabouts of Hailey Dunn.

A little confusing in all of that.

To Paul Penzone, former sergeant from the Phoenix Police Department joining us tonight, what are your thoughts about this flash drive in the dresser drawer? I mean that just makes it even more serious because it`s within the home where Hailey Dunn lived.

PENZONE: I want the take it back a step with you, Jean. Do you remember early on -- on some confusing case, we covered a lot. We talked about how Billie and Shawn had a drug related issue. And she was not being forthright to talk about the time, I said if she`s not being forthright about every detail, I`m concerned.

There`s only one victim here, OK? That`s the little girl. Everyone else, I have cause for concern. If she`s in a relationship with somebody, I`m not saying that she could have been immune to knowing what he was doing, but I think that they had common interests, so that flash drive, what went on with it and the deception from both polygraphs, tells me a lot about both these individuals.

I don`t know who is responsible but there`s a lot of deception. And the mom should come forthright with every single detail no matter how it makes her look personally. That`s been bothered considerably since the beginning of this case.

CASAREZ: And to Paul Penzone, it also is a fact that on December 27th when she went missing after mother called the police they went to the ATM to get money for, police say, illicit drugs.

And now to tonight`s CNN Heroes.

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PATRICIA SAWO, CNN HERO: Back in the 1990s, I believed that AIDS was a punishment from god. When I personally tested HIV positive it was oh, my god. How could this happen to me?

I fasted and prayed for years hoping that I would be healed. When I went public I lost my job, my husband lost his job, the landlord wanted us out of his house. The stigma was terrible. I realized that I`d been wronged.

My name is Patricia Sawo. My mission is to change people`s attitudes about HIV.

All that you need is accurate, correct information.

As such leaders we need to shepherd the people. HIV is not a moral issue. It is a virus. I do a lot of counseling. When I`m helping somebody else, who is HIV positive, I want them to know that you can rise above this.

The 48 children at the center, most of them saw their parents die of AIDS. My HIV students bring some kind of a bond. I provide that motherly love and all their basic needs.

HIV, it`s making me a better person. We want to be there for people. So if we have it, we shout it out. It`s what I want to do. Because it`s what I`m meant to do.

God has his own ways of healing. So for me, I`m healed.

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CASAREZ: A look back at the stories making the headlines this week.

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UNIDENTIFIED 911 DISPATCHER: Is your phone in your mom`s car?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s in her purse. She snatched it away from me.

UNIDENTIFIED 911 DISPATCHER: OK. You did very good, though, you did the right thing by not wanting to go with her and having them call the police, OK? I just want you to know that.

GRACE: She`s afraid to get back in the car with mommy. Mommy`s eyes glassy, she`s incoherent, disoriented, wreaks of liquor.

MATT ZARRELL, NANCY GRACE STAFFER, COVERING STORY: Friends of Cork Cox and Betheny Mehall say the couple were very much in love. The pair, both in nursing school, had dated for about two years, had no enemies and were beloved by all.

JIM COX, DAD OF MURDERED NURSE, 23-YR-OLD CORD COX: And the engine was still running. When you saw Betheny, she was slumped in the front seat, and Cord of course was slumped over the steering wheel. He was in the driver`s seat.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A child abuse case so shocking. A 9-year-old girl held captive in her own home. Officers say for the last six years the girl`s grandparents Rivae and Brian Hart have locked her in a half bathroom and only allowed her out to go to school.

GRACE: A school nurse tips off police that this little girl has been held hostage, living in a half bath in the family home? Not just for a few weeks or a few months, for six years since she was 3 years old.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Elisa Annette Baker did unlawfully, willfully and feloniously with malice aforethought killed and murdered Zahra Claire Baker.

GRACE: Finally a secret grand jury speaks and hands down a murder indictment against a real life evil stepmother, Elisa Baker. What hell that stepmother put this little girl through before her death. Only God in heaven knows. Oh, and one other, Satan.

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CASAREZ: Tonight, let us stop to remember Army Corporal Jared Kubasak, 25 years old, from Franklin County, Virginia, on his second tour of duty. He was awarded several medals including the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

He had a warm sense of humor. He loved his pets and especially loved reading. He cherished spending time with his family and friends. He leaves behind his parents, Darryl and Dana, grandmother Ivali, grandfather Floyd, Uncle Dale, Aunt Denise and three cousins.

Jared Kubasak, an American hero.

Thank you so much to all of our guests, to you for being at home with us tonight.

A special happy birthday to Sam, a senior at Georgia Southern University majoring in biology and computer science. He holds down a job and he knows how to cook.

Happy birthday, Sam.

See you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. Until then, good night, everybody.

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