'Tummy Tuck Four': Americans Kidnapped, Murdered, En Route to Tuck
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Five friends set out from South Carolina to Mexico. Latavia "Tay" McGee, a mom of 6, wanted a tummy tuck.
The surgical procedure to remove abdominal fat was scheduled with a doctor in Matamoros, just across the US/Mexico border. One of the friends stayed behind in a Brownsville, Texas hotel room. The woman didn’t have the proper documentation to cross the border.
The four Americans traveled to Matamoros from Brownsville in a rented white minivan. Shortly after they crossed the border, the minivan was fired at. Reportedly, rival drug cartels mistook the friends for Haitian drug smugglers.
Two of the friends died in the attack. The other two were held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Neama Rahmani- Former Federal Prosecutor, Legal Commentator, and President of West Coast Trial Lawyers; Author: “Harvard to Hashtag;" INSTAGRAM: @Neamarahmani, Twitter: @NeamaRahmani
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
- Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert, Founder: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute in Atlanta, GA.; Twitter: @ColdCaseTips and Host: "Zone 7"
- Dr. Stephenie Poris- Plastic surgeon in Orlando, FL (only female-owned and operated plastic surgery practice in Orlando); INSTAGRAM: @Stiletto_surgeon FACEBOOK: @porisplasticsurgery
- Dr. Jan Gorniak- Medical Examiner, Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner (Las Vegas, NV); Board Certified Forensic Pathologist
- Nicole Partin - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter; Twitter: @nicolepartin (Naples, FL)
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:06.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:07.0 | Music |
| 0:14.0 | Americans kidnapped at gunpoint when they're on a vacation in Mexico. |
| 0:21.0 | It turns out there are murders of Americans on vacation in Mexico. |
| 0:28.0 | And why are people still flooding across the border? |
| 0:32.0 | And how did this happen? |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Station and Series XM111. |
| 0:40.0 | First of all, take a listen to our friends at WPDE. |
| 0:43.0 | We're closely following the kidnapping of four US citizens in Matamoris on March 3rd. |
| 0:50.0 | The FBI working very closely with other federal partners in Mexican law enforcement agencies to investigate this. |
| 0:57.0 | Christopher Hicksam says she had no clue her son, 28-year-olds in Del Brown, had left the state yet alone the country. |
| 1:05.0 | Brown is one of four missing and feared kidnapped in Mexico. |
| 1:09.0 | Grant says she talked with her brother last Thursday while he and three other friends were driving to Mexico. |
| 1:15.0 | I felt a little uneasy because I told him I had a dream. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, I said, so I'm just checking on you. |
| 1:21.0 | That's what I told him Thursday. |
| 1:23.0 | And then, like I said, Friday morning, I take still not getting anything. |
| 1:28.0 | The four are believed to have been targeted by mistake and were not the intended victims. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, that dream turned into a nightmare. Take a listen to KTRK. |
| 1:39.0 | Clues on where and what happened to four Americans continue to emerge following their kidnapping in Matamoris |
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