LITTLE GIRL SKELETON IN ATTIC FALLS THRU CEILING

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The parents of a 10-year-old Arizona girl have been charged with murder after the girl’s remains were found in an attic after a house fire— three years after the girl disappeared. An investigation began when an 11-year-old girl called police and said she’d been left in her Phoenix home alone for two days and was hungry. Authorities said the girl reported that she’d been neglected and abused by her adoptive parents Maribel Loera, 51, and Rafael Loera, 57. She said that Maribel Loera was in Minnesota with two siblings, a 4-year-old boy, and a 9-year-old girl. The girl told investigators that Maribel struck her with knotted extension cords, and officials said she had injuries that were consistent with being struck by a “rope-like object.” She also told officials she had an older sister who vanished in 2017. She said that Maribel told her the girl was adopted and sent to Columbia, but Rafael said she was sent to Mexico. Phoenix police officers who responded to the call said the home was in “disarray” and ahs feces on the floor. While fighting the fire, the child's remains fell out of the attic. Joining Nancy Grace today:Daphne Young - National Chief Communications Officer, www.Childhelp.org, @childhelp, Melissa Hoppmeyer - Chief, Special Victims & Family Violence Unit, Prince George's County State's Attorney's Office, Co-Founder of Right Response Consulting, "No Grey Zone" Podcast, www.rightresponseconsulting @NoGreyZoneRRC Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, New Netflix show: 'Bling Empire'Dan Scott - Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sergeant, 26 years with Special Victims Bureau Specializing in Child AbuseDr. Michelle Dupre - Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Ret. Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s DepartmentMary Jo Pitzl (PIT-zul) - Senior Reporter, The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com covering child well being and at-risk kids, www.azcentral.com @maryjpitzl

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0:00.0	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:07.0	How do loving parents who care so much about their children that they decide to even homeschool them?
0:22.0	End up in a story titled The Girl in the Wall?
0:28.0	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:35.0	The Neighbor's family has lived by the lawyer for about a decade.
0:44.0	She says the couple has four kids, three girls and one boy, but it's been years since they've seen them.
0:50.0	We would hear them every now and then in the backyard, sometimes on the pool.
0:54.0	Claudia told us those four kids were adopted.
0:56.0	So I remember the little ones say, hey, you know, now we have mama and papa.
0:59.0	They were all together, brothers and sisters, and they were happy because they didn't have to be apart.
1:04.0	Claudia says about four to five years ago she briefly carpooled with the lawyers and would take their three oldest kids to a local elementary school.
1:10.0	We would drop off two girls and then maybe like a week later by young boy.
1:15.0	He started kindergarten, I remember because he was really small.
1:18.0	And all of a sudden they told us they were going to be homeschooled and we haven't seen them ever since.
1:24.0	Well, right there, that's a red flag to me that you never see your neighbor's children.
1:30.0	I mean, if you can't see them, you can at least hear them playing in the backyard, playing basketball,
1:36.0	running through the water sprinkler, but nothing.
1:40.0	Time passes and ever since the children began being homeschooled, the neighbors saw heard and knew nothing.
1:47.0	With me and all star panel to make sense of what we know to be true, first of all joining us from childhelp.org.
1:56.0	Daphne Young. She's a national chief communication officer of child help.
2:01.0	Melissa Hutmeyer, the chief of the special victims and family violence unit in Prince George County.
2:07.0	And you can find her and her no-grays on podcast and right response consulting.
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