persecution? plus, the college student missing for nearly a year. but is there final lay break in the lauren spearer case? and -- grandparents under arrest for allegedly taking their grandkid on quite a ride. coming up tonight on "justice." hello and welcome to "justice." we start tonight with this week's most talked about legal cases. defense attorney and former prosecutor joey jackson and former assistant united states attorney fred. thanks for joining us this evening. first up, 23-year-old daniel chong arrested by dea in a drug sweep at a friend's house. after questioning, put in a holding cell, handcuffed and foregotten for four days. no food. no water. no toilet.

here he and h his attorney describe the ordeal. >> it was pitch plaque. black trying to write sorry, mom. >> he screamed hundreds of times for help. he began to dig into the walls thinking co-get water that way. >> i had to do what i had to do to survive. >> people in this particular case who are responsible should be held responsible. >> this week chong files a $20 million lawsuit against the dea. gentlemen, no question, an outrage. it is illegal. he wasn't even brought before a judge but is he entitled to $20 million for four days of what he called torture? joey? >> no, the only reason he put $20 million on that lawsuit. you file a notice of claim with the dea, the federal agency under the federal tort claims act but you have to put a number. the number he put was

$20 million. he won't get 20 but he will get something. you have senator barbara boxer weighing in saying this is outrageous and agencies should have heightened standards. he will agree to some money and have a big pay day but won't be $20 million. >> he has a perforated esophagus. of stat the dea has to come in say we made a terrible mistake and come out and say it. don't try it on liability. you try it on damages. you are not going to get $20 million. >> judge jeanine: if i'm left in a black hole by myself for four days drinking my own urine. >> he is entitled to months of ain't getting $20 million. he is not getting a million.

>> judge jeanine: not getting a million dollars for kidney failure? >> what is worse apparently the dea left drugs in the cell with him and he took them and a he was hallucinating. >> judge jeanine: i don't want a review. somebody has to be fired. more than 1500 former profootball players sue the nfl claiming the league misled them about the dangers of concussions and crete research showing a connection between concussions and permanent brain damage and this week nfl legend junior seau committed suicide. some say it was depression caused by concussions. in the two other cases researchers found evidence of brain trauma and everybody is saying the nfl is refuting the allegations that there is a connection between concussions and brain injuries. joey, can the nfl be held liable and on what grounds?

>> i think there will be some liability here. here is the problem with this. first of all, if there was misleading facts about brain damage and concussions and the severity and they were withholding information that is one thing. there is the assumption of risk argument. football is a violent sport. when you play you could get injured significantly. they are not forced to do it. they do it for big paydays and they he have sponsors they don't want to disappoint as well. >> the nfl was taking the position we have to go to arbitration over this. there is no lawsuit about this. i'm not sure where that goes. right now the mdl put all the cases in philadelphia in front of a very smart judge and she will get to the bottom of it. >> no question they assume the risk when they play football and get big bucks for it but if the nfl is saying you are not going to suffer any injury and refuting the findings by researchers. >> and if they put them back in the game when they know or have reason to know that they have a

traumatic injury. what i like about this is that in junior seau's case they are giving the brain to research. >> he wanted his brain to go to research. he knew he was suffering from something he thought was related to football. 14-year-old girl files a libel suit against two chas classmates who post a phoney facebook page under her name. it said the teen smoked pot and made inappropriate sexual references and contained a racist video. she ends up suing h her classmates and the police before she sued said we can't do anything and the school said we can't do anything. fred? >> i'm not big about 14-year-olds suing other 14-year-olds. this is getting out of hand but in this case i think it is appropriate. the police did nothing for her. apparently she asked facebook for h help. i have a case against facebook so i'm not saying anything. they didn't give her any help and this is the only way she can get any kind of relief. >> police say because this is

cyber bullying accusing her of acting in a way that caused her teenaged school friends to degrade her. >> isolate her. >> they are saying that she suffered cyber bullying and harassment. why didn't the police do anything? >> i have a major problem with two things not only the police but the school. you don't need a cyber bullying law to address this. this is harassment in its highest form. why not investigate and tell them to stop. the school says we can't do anything it is not on school grounds. are you kidding me? call the kids into the principal's office and hold them accountable. >> judge jeanine: i looked up the law in georgia and last year it seas the bullying saw does not o occur to cyber bullying if it's computers accessed outside the school system. >> we were hear talking about death threats outside the school and the school jumped into action that time. >> judge jeanine: a florida man faces trial for his wife's murder. the prosecution says he

strangled her to death. his defense, he says she had a violent reaction to a spray can, fell on a magazine rack and choked to death. guys, is there a jury on this planet outside of orlando, florida that is going to buy this defense? >> maybe not. but here is the problem i have with this casey anthony, judge. twcase, judge. number one, the victim's family supports him. here is the other problem, judge, it took two years for the medical examiner to come up with a cause of death. >> he wants is you to look at everything over here and not at the facts that the defense the woman spray tanned and broke her neck is absolutely ridiculous. >> i will ask the viewers out there. how many of you have had a spray tan and had a violent reaction to a spray tan?

really? >> go to my facebook if you had a violent reaction to a spray tan. >> 0.0. >> the medical examiner said there had to be sustained pressure on her are neck because of the bleeding in her muscles. >> may have been a choking and a homicide. >> two years to tell me that, judge. >> they tried to eliminate heart problems and carbon monoxide. if the husband says it was a reaction and it was a poison you better prove you already sued the spray tan company or i don't want to hear it as a judge. >> well, said, your honor. >> up next, a mom jailed for letting h her 17-year-old work as a stripper. what happened to paper routes? and later, is john edwards trial just a witch hunt? e an

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>> judge jeanine: we're back with my favorite seth, courts gone wild. still with me, joey and fred. now, talk about a joyride gone wrong. a florida couple arrested after they used dog leashes to tow their 7-year-old grand daughter in a hot wheel car behind their suv. all right, guys. the driver has had his license suspended -- revoked for years because he is a drunk driver. ten years. grandma has the hatch open cheering the kid on. >> judge, you got to foster and encourage your kids. maybe she thought that her grand daughter could be the next danica patrick. >> are you a defense attorney? >> i'm going to throw the book at them. she is drunk and he is drunk. no driver's license. two dog leashes and a big wheel on the back of the suv. they should be under the jail.

>> don't be such a kill joy here. they are driving five miles an hour and she is on a big wheel and they are cheering her on. this is not criminal. maybe bad judgment. a couple of parenting classes and community service but to lock them up. have a heart, deputies. >> how fast does an suv have to go to run over a kid in a big wheel? >> they were going five. >> judge jeanine: not only that, if he hits the brakes because a deer runs across the road that kid goes in the back and grandma is waving at nothing. >> would you you do this with your daughter? >> no. >> thank you very much. >> judge jeanine: i think they are going to jail. i really do. >> for awhile. >> 61-year-old james heinz attacks a group of golfers in a bachelor party outing. bashes one of them with a golf club. the grum pie old man says they are holding up his golf game. it is a six-um.

he drives oater is one and then pins another one between two cars and breaks his golf club over another head and when the cops come they are fighting in the sam trap. first, can they hand in their scorecard at the end of the game? no. do you think this is something that is criminal or is this something the country club takes care of? >> he do think it is criminal. he actually ran them over with a golf cart. whacked them with a golf club. he hit them pretty hard. i wish we had a tape of them pulling around in the sand trap. they probably all took a ten on that a hole. >> do they hand in the cards at the end? >> i don't know. talk about a bogey. >> the guy is 61 and trying to play his golf game. he he was trying to do it and at bachelor partyh elector and they are holding up his game. this was a bachelor party, judge. >> judge jeanine: what we know now and as you peel back the layers on this one it turns out

that the husband of -- the 61-year-old throws his wife under the bus or under the golf cart. he says she was upset because they were so slow in front of them. >> this is just a little case of golf rage. >> judge jeanine: and by the way guys grandfather golf related attacks are unusual but not uncommon in florida. >> go figure. >> judge jeanine: a mom in oregon sentenced to three years for letting her 17-year-old daughter work as a stripper. and now she has to register as a sex offender. her daughter who is now 18 says it was h her decision to become a stripper and that her mom should be set free. all right, guys. talk to me. is this woman a sex offender? >> judge, judge, three years of jail, three years post release super vision and a registration as a sex offender for this? let's be reasonable. maybe parenting classes. bad judgment, it was. a mother shouldn't do this. but what about the

accountability to the strip club for allowing her to work there? >> what they say is that the mother not only knew that she was there at the strip club she actually went to the strip club and gave the girl money. >> judge, the law does not protect the stew pit. the whole case got started when the mother went to the cops and media to complain about the daughter dancing. they see the mother watching her are daughter dance up there. maybe the mother thought the daughter was too old to get on toddlers and tiaras. ultimately she is in there watching her daughter. i think it is creepy at best. >> she wasn't watching. she gave her lunch money. >> she went in there she he said to give her lunch money. >> she said her daughter needed money for lunch. >> he makes a good point. the mother is the one who called the cops and said this place -- they have strippers there. >> because they should not have hired her daughter. it was inappropriate. they should be prosecuted. she should be left alone. >> how do they know she wasn't

18. >> how about background checks. >> judge jeanine: for this woman to be a registered sex offender and serve three years in jail because her 17-year-old was is a stripper i think is wrong and her being a sex offender is ridiculous. the next case. here we go. there is a helluva lot of swearing going on and damn it, officials in middleboro, massachusetts, have heard enough and now they want to pass a law making it illegal to swear. mom, that wasn't me swearing. i was just being cute because they don't want me to swear. is public cursing illegal and could such a law be epiforced, joey? >> i would tell you what i really feel but i don't want to get fined by this jurisdiction. of course, not. it is a first amendment. we may not like swearing but you are going to pass fines and tell people they can't do it? what are they going to do put them in jail ability?

you don't like people swearing, don't talk to them. >> is it protecting by the first amendment. >> if swearing was really against the law i wouldn't get out of jail until there was a space station. you can swear. there are cases where people try to flip off the cops. unfortunately, good idea but violates first amendment. >> some of the store owners say it hurts my business if you have people coming in some of them have had a few pops too many and there are parents with their kids in the store. is there no option? >> then do what i did when i had my son at a baseball game and there was this group in front and they were going off and i said listen i have my son with me can you hold it down. they were respectful and they were like you know what we are so sorry and they command up and did the write thing. >> a ground swell of support from the people would put an end to this. the minute the law and the police and the state gets

involved it as first amendment violation. >> judge jeanine: interesting to see what happens in this massachusetts town and how long it is going to take for the case to go up the ladder to the appellate courts because they are going to issue citations. >> you're right, judge. >> give them joey's number. >> judge jeanine: can you practice law in massachusetts, joey? >> no. >> we will get him admitted prohoc. he the right guy. >> their motto is do no evil but should google's motto instead be do no wiretapping?

>> judge jeanine: did google swipe data from private wi-fi

accounts? this week, the fcc slapped them with a $25,000 fine for deliberately impeding a federal investigation. scott cleland, author of search and destroy, why you can't trust google joins us. all right, scott, did google know that their street view wi-fi trucks that were going around neighborhoods mapping area were collecting personal information, e-mails, bank account numbers, all kinds of passwords? >> they did. the fcc investigation pointed out from the beginning it was written into the design document and in the design document for four years. multiple engineers knew and at least one senior manager knew. google knew what they were doing. they hired one of the best war driving or wi-fi folks in the country to do this. >> judge jeanine: and what is interesting, scott, he understand they called this guy god he was so good and now it is clear that they were doing

this. they basically said we weren't doing it and oh, if we did it, it was by accident. and then yeah, we collected some information and then gee, we are sorry. and then finally they issue a statement while we disagree with some of the statements made in the document we agree with the fcc's conclusion that we did not break the law. we hope that we can now put this matter behind us. so it is kind of disengine with for them to say we didn't know and now hear they had a discussion with someone as to how they were collecting and how they would collect this information. yes? >> this is a prime example of google's culture of deception. they are secretive and very, very interested in publicity and good pr. and they like to say if something isn't found to be illegal, they like to chime in and say we did nothing illegal. everybody knows that is not necessarily true.

the only reason the fcc could not find that they wiretapped is because going thel google pd their engineer and he plead the fifth not to incriminate himself. >> they said it was a rogue engineer and a lone guy doing this and then when the fcc wants to hear from him he pleads the fifth which the fcc says is the reason they don't continue the investigation. let's back up for a second here. when google whose motto is do no evil said we are glad this is over and we are going to put this behind us they issued a redacted fcc report. did they open pandora's box by issuing a redacted report to make themselves look good? >> they tried to spin it this their way because they knew under fed oia, the freedom of information act that information was going to come out this week so they chose to

release it and put their own spin on it. the problem is the facts that were blacked out showed that they knew exactly what they were doing which was the exact opposite of all of their public representations. >> judge jeanine: what is interesting is the feds said if yew are going to release the redacted we will release the whole thing. do you think a $25,000 fine which apparently google makes in 62 seconds is appropriate when you have the doj and fcc giving them a pass and saying for all you are allegedly doing which some people think is eavesdropping we will fine you $25,000. >> i think it is important because google which has been one of the number one brands in the world now has been caught not telling the truth and this is very important because what other stories has google told that aren't true? and there is probably a lot of them.

regulators and law enforcement around the world now know that they can't fully trust what google represents. >> we will stay on top of this. scott thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: and coming up, the john edwards trial. did he do anything criminal? and holder in hot water facing contempt charges. representative dan burton is here with us live. i was having trouble getting out of bed in the morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number bed conforms to you. i wake up in the morning with no back pain. i can adjust it if i need to...if my back's a little more sore. and by the time i get up in the morning, i feel great! if you have back pain, toss and turn at night or wake up tired with no energy, the sleep number bed could be your solution. the sleep number bed's secret is it's air chambers which provide ideal support and put you in control of the firmness.

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representative daryl issa started the process of holding eric holder in contempt of congress calling his actions inexcusable. indiana congressman dan burton former chair of the government reform and oversight committee and now a member joins us. thank you so much for being with us,ing congressman. >> thank you, judge. >> judge jeanine: why hold the attorney general in contempt? >> well, the fast and furious operation which most people in this country would deem illegal where we were allowing weapons like ak 47s to go across the border unimpeded to drug cartel members in mexico. we wanted to get all of the facts from that operation. and daryl issa asked the attorney general for the facts after one of our border agents was killed with one of those weapons and the attorney general and justice department balked and didn't give us the information. at first they said that it was false is that there was no operation like fast and

furious. and then ten months later they admitd that they were in error. and so issa doing his job as chairman said he wanted documents pertaining to this whole operation. he couldn't get it from the justice department and finally he subpoenaed them and the attorney general would not give them to us and finally he did give us ten of 22 items that we wanted and part of those ten weren't even come meated. and so issa said they are not cooperating with our committee in doing their job so he said he is going to attempt to move a citation against the attorney general. >> judge jeanine: congressman, at some point i heard numbers that the attorney general's office had given about 5,000 or 6,000 out of a requested 60,000. some ridiculous proportional number. is that accurate? >> that is traditional. i dealt with the attorney general when was deputy attorney general and one of the ploys that is made bid a a menstruations and justice

administrations and other agencies is you ask for documents and they will give you a number less than what you need. they say we gave you 3,000 and you wanted 12,000 and we are at least moving in the right direction. the whole purpose is delay, delay, delay until it is out of focus by the american public. >> judge jeanine: what do you say to people that say this is about election year bomb ticks as opposed to -- politics as opposed to about the fact that this is a search for the truth. >> it is unfortunate it is happening during an election year. the fact of the matter is we had a border patrol agent killed, murdered with one of these ak 47s. thousands killed in mexico we believe with many of these weapons. the atf and justice department knew the weapons were going across the border and we allowed them to be sold to the cartel members and we were supposed to be tracking them they said which is a crazy

thing to be doing in the first place and then the justice department denied it and said it didn't happen and then ten months later said it did. there is lieing that is going on over in the justice department. we had two atf agents come and testify. they both have been threatened. in fact, be one of them downloaded $8 worth of material on his government phone and they put him under watch now or are investigating h him for that $8 download into his phone. they are doing everything they can to stop the investigation. >> of course, the claim it retaliation against the whistle blowers but we will stay with this. representative burton thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> thank you very much. >> judge jeanine: how will contempt charges against holder affect politics in an election year? democratic strategic john alinco and kelly ann con way join us this evening. thanks for being with us. you heard me ask the congressman.

is this about a citation or election year politics? >> it is poe tally politics. holder has been down there to testify seven times and they delivered all kinds of documents. i think he could show up for are a strip search and issa still wouldn't be satisfied. it is political. >> it is not political. i hate that we are politicizing what resulted in the death of agent terry. two of the weapons were found next to his body. eric holder has been to congress to testify seven times. i'm not sure that he has said very much. i'm not sure he has been as revealing and as necessarily hope with this. he holds all the cards here. they had a shuffling at the atf and u.s. attorney general and the u.s. attorney for arizona resigned. there was wrong doing here. he called it a regrettable situation and apologized to the family but we still don't know who in the world thought it was a good idea from the beginning to have the firearms going over the border to mexico to track

them to drug king pens. the only place we have found them is next to the body of a dead agent. >> judge jeanine: how do you respond to the fact that eric holder uppishially said he knew nothing and then new nothing and next time said he knew it sooner than he said he knew it. >> that is why he has been there seven times. >> the fact that issa is just seeing the light. >> has it been around since 2006. >> some forms this of but not operation fast and furious. it began in october of 2009 according to the attorney general's own testimony and by march 23, 2011 president obama himself came out and said a serious mistake may have been made. >> judge jeanine: the direness is that the guns weren't tracked. why didn't they track them? how do you give drug guns to the drug cartels. we are arming the cartels? >> whether is it is a stupid idea or not is one question but

whether it h is contempt. the idea that he has been down there seven times and they are going to charge him with contempt. it is not an investigation it is an in quisition. >> if the gop finds h him in contempt is there a risk of backfire for the gop? >> this is good politics for darrell issa because it will get the lunatic friends against him -- >> i wouldn't call brian terry's family as lunatics. >> what many people see as incompetent or bad judgment or distractions away from the jobs or the economy. this election is a referendum on obama. not a choice, it is a referendum. he is running for reelection and this could hurt him. >> judge jeanine: thanks for being with us. will john edwards end up in jail or is this just a case of

another immoral politician? >> and do police finally have a break in the case of missing

>> judge jeanine: the john edwards trial heats up this week. of course, he stands accused of violating campaign finance laws by using nearly a million dollars in donations to hide his pregnant girlfriend. with the latest, dylon howard, editor and chief of buzz media. good to see you, dylon.

>> judge, how are you? >> what is the latest? >> well, judge after the first week of testimony it must be said that john edwards was emerging almost unscathed. they thought it would be difficult for the prosecution to pin this on him. that all changed in the final three days of testimony this week and focuses on two very important witnesses who took the stand. the first being brian hoffman who was the best friend of the ben any factor who donated more than $725,000 to the campaign. he took to the stand and when asked about the checks it emerged that the woman behind this rachel bunny mellon who is 101 years of age was well affair of what this money was being used. in fact, he told the jury that all she wanted was to make a president. even though this was second hand testimony this was particularly noteworthy because for the first time from a witness we heard this money was being used in a political

purpose. the second person that delivered potentially damaging evidence to john edwards' defense was that of his former traveling ca companion and top aide who recounted an incident in which he was on the senator's private plane and one described how rial hunter would never be found in the wake of the "national enquirer" report because they were using money to move her month. the media would never be able to find rial because they were keeping h her moving. edwards was sitting just three or four feet away. >> bunny mellon knew what the money was being used for but the question, the biggest issue for me is the meltdown that elizabeth edwards had based on the testimony this week. what did they testify to? >> not only knew about the affair. she was also well aware of what was going on. this according to the testimony

of kristina reynolds a former top aide and one of elizabeth edwards' closest pals. kristina recounted a particular particular incident in which they went to a private air field and elizabeth edwards ripped off her blouse and bared her chest as if to command john edwards attention. kristina said that in 2006 elizabeth was aware of this but despite that, though, according to the indictment the checks continued to roll in for hunter right through until he disband h his pressial campaign. >> stripping off her blouse and a bra in a meltdown is a sad thing for a woman who had cancer and ultimately died. thank you so much for being with us. will edwards be found guilty. calita mitchell and ken gross and former co-campaign finance expert for the edwards legal

team. does the prosecution have a case? >> they do have a case. whether they will froive we never know what is jury is going to do. in 2002 congress changed the mccainn it passed mccain feingold and added a new definition. payments by a third-party for expenses of a candidate. the question is that the prosecution has to show that these payments which were clearly made by a third-party were made because of and related to the campaign. >> judge jeanine: but wait a minute. what we just heard from dylon was that bunny mellon new that what the money was being used for but we haven't heard that john edwards knew what the money was being used for. and isn't that the issue, ken? >> yeah, this money never went into the campaign. this money was never part of the campaign money. this money went outside the campaign.

>> judge jeanine: so i want to go back to clita. the money didn't go to the campaign. how is the prosecution going to prove that they violated the campaign finance laws? >> that is actually he one of the charges that the prosecution. >> judge jeanine: i know what the charges are. >> the prosecution contends and government contends is this is money that should have gone through the campaign fund and therefore would be subject be to the $2,300 limit because they were used for a campaign purpose and all money that is relate to the campaign is supposed to by law be deposited into the campaign depository account and reported to the fcc. >> judge jeanine: how do you rebut that? >> this was not for campaign purposes. the money was used to keep this woman out of the eye of h his wife. this is turned into a tawdry soap opera. there has never been a criminal case in the history of this country on campaign finance violations for money going outside the campaign. if he had taken his campaign funds and spent it to shuttle

hunter around the country that may be a problem because that would be a personal use of campaign funds. >> what she is saying is that and kind of interesting is that that money should have gone into the campaign. if they can't prove that john edwards touchd that money that it went through andrew young, through the furniture guy then andreww young and then and young's wife how do they prove beyond a reasonable doubt that john edwards received the money. >> they don't need to show that john edwards received the money and ken, what you need to remember is the law changed in 2002. and added this new definition of a contribution that didn't exist before mccain feinfold and now the third-party payments for personal expenses are, indeed, a consideration under the law. and to your question. >> judge jeanine: what to dog leashes you say to that? >> it that is an d -- what do you say to that? >> the moneys paided to third

parties there are many examples iesmoneys paid to third-party after 2002. whether a corporation for a book tour. are it has a benefit on the candidate to keep her out of the public eye. >> judge jeanine: doesn't this come down to whether or not john wanted to hide her from the public or from his wife? isn't that what it comes down to. >> it certainly was about hiding it from his wife. the attacked that there was some collateral benefit to a campaign doesn't make a criminal case. i don't it think it makes a civil case. we are talking about a serious matter here. a criminal campaign finance case. there is no case here. >> judge jeanine: i will give you the last word. is the jury going to convict john edwards? >> i think they very well may, yes. >> we'll see what happens. thanks so much for being with us this evening. up next, can a man already in custody hold the keys to finding lauren spearer?

it has been almost a a year since 20-year-old indiana university student lauren spierer vanished. cops are investigating a possible connection to a murderer already in prison. bo deadle is working for the spierer family. >> why do police in bloomington think there might be a connection between this guy who is a serial killer on the lauren spierer disappearance? >> this man is involved with three murders as it stands now and still ongoing. the location where he lives is two hours from bloomington and we have a very good rapport with the bloomington police department and we have contact, we made some contact with them

and the thing is that they are looking at everything. >> judge jeanine: why do they think this guy is connected? >> well, anybody can be connected with this case. right now any one and everyone is a suspect but as far as this case goes, i really believe that this is not going to lead to him. >> judge jeanine: this is a guy who has killed three women. a 75-year-old and a 45-year-old and they just found a 35-year-old buried in his back yard and he is a registered sex offender. >> you have to look at where a person was when she disappeared. >> so he wasn't in jail when she disappeared was he? >> i would not like to comment on anything that i know but all i can say is that we are aggressively still look and need the help of everyone out there. any one who hears things after the fact. in a bar and hear conversations. most important thing is it is coming up on one year. i talked to robert and charleen and this family became like

part of my family and no one can even think of what this family is going through not knowing, not knowing where their little girl is. i need up a the help. call the police department in bloomington. call us or go to the website. >> judge jeanine: these kids who were with her that night and we know because we covered this story many times and our heart goes out to the spierer family, they all lawyered up. they are a bunch of college students and they lawyered up and leave town. do you think at one point one of them is going to come in and say i know what mapped to lauren? >> i'm hoping they have conscience if they know something. why does this family have to continuously go through this torture. >> that is not going to make them talk. they are not talking because they are worried about incriminating themselves. what do you think happened to lauren? >> i have a strong feeling about one person and i would rather not say it because we are actively investigating.

we were hired remember, three, four months after the fact. that first three or four months was the most important time so to try to investigate a case four months into it a lot of it has been dealt with and the really success of an investigation you know yourself is when you get it from the beginning. i wish i had my hands on those kids. >> judge jeanine: what we have got is the kids with her last night lawyered up. she is walking around the streets without her shoes and without her phone. leaves the friend's apartment. >> 2:00 in the morning almost. >> have you spoke tonight families of these boys? >> we have interviewed over 100 people there actively and we are talking to people who heard things. we are following up on leads. that is why i say it is so important. if one sends in a lead. we had seekic psychics involve. some other evidence developed sense some physical evidence

that we are checking out. >> judge jeanine: want to tell us what it is because i got to wrap. >> not going to tell you ba it is. all i hope is that we find lauren and we need the help of everyone out there, please. >> judge jeanine: thank you to beau dietl. if you have information call the bloomington police. thanks for joining us. that is it for us tonight. thank you for joining us. e-mail your comments. see you next week. same time, same place. captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

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