055 - The Disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

On July 6th, 2001, ten year old Tionda Bradley was looking after her three year old sister, Diamond while their mother, Tracey went to work. The children were reportedly last seen by their mother at 6:30am, and when she returned home at 12:30 they were nowhere to be found. All that was discovered was a note, allegedly written by Tionda, saying that the girls were going to walk to the store and then a nearby school.

Tracey searched for the girls, and didn't call the police until 6:30 that evening, at which point they had been missing for at least six hours. Investigators launched one of the largest searches in Chicago history, but the wider their radius grew, the more they felt the answers may reside closer to home.

There were suspicions early on of Tracey and the man she was seeing, George Washington, Diamond's father. The note didn't make sense, and a voice mail discovered later, left by Tionda the day they vanished, stated that a man named George was at the door. The family was divided about what they believed happened, and to this day, some seventeen years later, the answers have never been found. Tracey stopped cooperating with authorities, and George Washington elected to never participate in the search.

What happened to Tionda and Diamond? Who wrote the note? Why was the voice mail deleted and how much does their mother know about the story, if anything, that she hasn't shared?Join host Steven Pacheco as he examines this deeply disturbing and utterly perplexing case.If you have any information about the disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley, you may call a Private Investigator's Tip Line at: 847-579-9771

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0:00.0	10-year-old Tiana Bradley was looking after her three-year-old sister Diamond, while their
0:13.4	mother Tracy went to work on the morning of July 6, 2001.
0:19.6	The girls were excited for the next day when they would be celebrating their sister Victoria's
0:24.9	birthday.
0:26.9	Victoria and their other sister Rita weren't at the Chicago apartment that morning and
0:32.2	were instead spending time with their grandmother.
0:35.5	Sadly, Tiana and Diamond would never make it to the party.
0:40.8	Tracy left the apartment at approximately 6.30 a.m. and returned shortly after noon.
0:47.3	Upon her arrival, she found her daughter's missing, and a note left behind allegedly
0:52.8	written by Tiana specified that they were taking a walk to a nearby store and then a
0:58.5	school.
1:00.2	Tracy notified family members and searched the area for over five hours before contacting
1:06.0	police, allegedly afraid that child protective services would charge her for leaving the young
1:12.6	children home alone.
1:15.2	This would be the first of many lies Tracy would tell about the events of that day, leading
1:20.7	to much confusion and time loss in the early stages of the investigation.
1:26.4	As a result of this behavior, police would become exceedingly suspicious, not only of Tracy,
1:32.9	but of George Washington, Diamond's father, and the man who had an on-again, off-again relationship
1:39.2	with her.
1:40.9	As suspicions grew, Tracy became less cooperative, and a battle would ensue between the mother
1:47.3	and the authorities and the media.
1:50.4	Over the course of the next 17 years, there would be many new leads, dead ends, frustrations,
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