EXCLUSIVE: Lucas Hernandez Dad: "I don't understand" as stepmom walks free after she reveals tots body

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The father of little Lucas Hernandez tells Nancy Grace he drove 11 hours from his job in New Mexico to Kansas, when he got the call that his 5-year-old son had disappeared from his bed in February. Jonathan Hernandez gives his first in depth interview about the discovery of his son's remains under a rural bridge after more than three months. Nancy's expert panel joining the interview include lawyer and psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, private investigator Vincent Hill, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, Atlanta juvenile judge and lawyer Ashley Willcott, and CrimeOnline reporter Leigh Egan.

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0:34.0	Climbed stories with Nancy Grace on SiriusXM Triumph channel 132.
0:40.0	A desperate search, neighbors, police, volunteers, helicopters, ATVs, tracker dogs, missing posters, tip lines, command centers, the works.
0:54.0	What happened to five-year-old Lucas Hernandez?
0:59.0	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Climbed Stories. Thank you for being with us.
1:03.0	The search came to an end and not the end. Any of us we're hoping for.
1:11.0	When a private eye, David Marshburn manages to somehow lure Lucas's stepmother, Emily Glass into a car.
1:22.0	For over four hours, they drive rugged terrain.
1:27.0	Until she points out an obscure bridge.
1:32.0	Underneath is the body of five-year-old Lucas Hernandez.
1:37.0	What happened? Joining me right now is Lucas's father, Jonathan Hernandez.
1:45.0	Jonathan, thank you for being with us.
1:48.0	Jonathan, so much has happened. I just don't know how you still managed to put one foot in front of the other.
1:58.0	Tell me what was going through your mind? When you first learned, Lucas was missing.
2:07.0	I thought that maybe he had wandered off. I got the phone call when I was working in New Mexico.
2:18.0	I immediately went into shock, especially when I spoke with police officers.
2:26.0	They said that they were at my residence and performing at least a neighborhood search in the immediate times after.
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