Precious brothers Orrin and Orson West. 3 and 4 years old VANISH, still missing after a year.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The adoptive parents of 3-year-old Orson West and 4-year-old his brother Orrin, send the boys outside to play just days before Christmas. Mom is inside wrapping presents. The brothers haven't been seen since. The dad was outside collecting firewood when he says he couldn't see the boys. After confirming the boys weren't inside the home, a frantic search began.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Marc Klaas - Founder, Klaas Kids Foundation www.klaaskids.org
- Kathleen Murphy - North Carolina, Family Attorney, www.ncdomesticlaw.com
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga www.angelaarnoldmd.com
- Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert & Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder
- Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network
- Bayan Wang, Reporter 23ABC News Bakersfield
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| 0:00.0 | I hate to hit you with the bad news at the beginning of the new year, but the search |
| 0:18.0 | for missing children goes on 24, 7, 365, including today. |
| 0:25.8 | Let's take a listen to this. |
| 0:26.8 | It's been nearly a year since authorities and volunteers began searching for two young |
| 0:31.0 | boys, or in an orc and west in California city. |
| 0:34.6 | Bakers feel police officials releasing an update on the case this week. |
| 0:38.7 | The department says since June, they've executed four more search for and interviewed 33 |
| 0:43.6 | more people, conducted 11 more mass area searches and four out of state searches. |
| 0:49.8 | Over 170 items have also been collected since BPD announced they were taking over the |
| 0:54.6 | investigation in March. |
| 0:56.2 | You are hearing 23 ABC in Bakersville. |
| 1:00.4 | How did we get here? |
| 1:03.8 | Listen. |
| 1:04.8 | When you said you were searching for two missing boys, ages three and four, the children, |
| 1:09.5 | orc and west and orc and west were last seen in the 10,700 block of Aspen Avenue. |
| 1:17.9 | They're described as African American about three free tall, both wearing black sweatshirts |
| 1:23.2 | and gray sweatpants. |
| 1:25.2 | You were just hearing our friends at KGET17 news. |
| 1:28.8 | That was Taylor Shobb. |
| 1:30.3 | What Taylor Shobb said breaks my heart because I'm thinking of my children, John David and |
| 1:37.7 | Lucy at age three, their twins at three feet tall, where these two wearing black sweatshirts |
| 1:49.2 | and gray sweatpants. |
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