7-Month-Old Vanishes in California: Is This Mother Telling the Truth? | Emmanuel Haro

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A 7-month-old baby boy named Emmanuel has disappeared in Yucaipa, California. His mother, Rebecca Haro, told investigators she was attacked outside a sporting goods store and that her baby was taken during the chaos. Deputies searched with K9s, but no suspect or vehicle description has been released and no Amber Alert has been issued. Investigators now say there are inconsistencies in the mother’s account, leaving more questions than answers. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield examines every detail of the case and is joined by behavior expert Scott Rouse, who provides analysis of Rebecca’s interview and her body language.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. I have a story to bring you out of California
0:05.3	and I am telling you I have been in this business long enough to see a few things and I think
0:11.7	I'm seeing a few things in this story out of California. That said, I can't be certain if my spidey
0:19.0	senses are right. But nutshell, woman says she's hit over the head,
0:25.5	in a parking lot, at a store, and when she comes to her seven-month-old baby is gone.
0:31.2	She gives interviews, and so does her husband. And the internet kind of lit up, shall I say. It's giving a bit of Susan Smith
0:40.2	vibes, although I will say this. If this really happened to her, it would be horrendous
0:45.8	that she were going through, you know, people who don't believe her, services that are cut
0:51.8	back. If anybody thinks she's lying and she isn't, it would be
0:56.8	the worst thing in the world. If she is lying, it is the worst thing in the world. But it's a
1:03.2	big, big story with an interview that you can dissect. And so in this episode, I do exactly
1:10.7	that. I call the expert, the guy who's worked
1:13.5	with all the government agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. military, to talk about the
1:18.9	nonverbal cues, the stuff that you aren't saying, but you're saying with your face. And so Scott
1:26.3	Rouse, the expert is going to join me in just a
1:28.0	moment to go through all of these issues and find out if what we're seeing is the real deal
1:33.4	or if it is a big, fat lie. I want to start right from the very beginning. A seven-month-old baby
1:41.0	has vanished in San Bernardino County, California. His name is Emmanuel Harrow. His mother says that she was attacked outside of a sporting goods store, rendered unconscious. And when she came to her baby, Emmanuel, that little boy was gone, kidnapped. And as the hours ticked by, the search for baby Emmanuel only grew more
2:02.5	desperate. But after several days, something seemed to change. And investigators are now saying that
2:10.0	this case may not be as straightforward as it first appeared to be. So it all started on Thursday
2:16.0	night, August 14th, just before 8 p.m. It was a busy stretch of
2:20.6	Yucaypa Boulevard. Rebecca Harrow pulled up to a big five sporting goods store. She needed to buy
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