SHOW: The Montel Williams Show (5:00 PM ET) - SYND
November 5, 2002 Tuesday
LENGTH: 7568 words
HEADLINE: Vanished! With Sylvia Browne; guests discuss loved ones who have vanished and ask Sylvia for help
HOST: Montel Williams
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Montel Williams, Diane Rappoport
VANISHED! WITH SYLVIA BROWNE
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JODI (Her Brother Disappeared On February 15, 2001): So I'm sitting in the chair, it's about 2:00 in the morning and I hear a voice like somebody's right behind me and it says, 'Don't answer the door if somebody bangs on the door.' I didn't answer it. I was too scared to move. Was that him?
Ms. BROWNE: Uh-huh. Yeah. They--they didn't really give him...
WILLIAMS: But if Stevie said don't answer the door...
Ms. BROWNE: Yeah.
WILLIAMS: ...then who was at the door?
Ms. BROWNE: It was that--the nut case, that, you know--see, he was trying to protect you.
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JODI: My brother Steven has a great sense of humor. He loves to draw and he loves animals. I helped raise him so we were always very close. The last day I saw him we had gone shopping. He bought a book that day and never got to read it. One night last February, Steven asked my dad if he could go outside and play and that was the last time anyone in our family saw him. Steven had his two dogs with him. They came home a few days later without Stevie. We've searched every gully, every pond, every drain pipe for Stevie. NASCAR put his face on a car during a race hoping to get some answers. The whole community is still searching for Stevie. I don't want to leave 'cause I want to be here in case Stevie comes home.
WILLIAMS: Please welcome Steven's sister Jodi to the show. And--and I have to say this is one of those kind of cases where I would think that somebody--in s--in some way, shape or form, somebody in the neighborhood may have seen something and don't even realize what it is they saw. This young man was seen at a friend's house, correct, at 8 PM. Left the friend's house with his two dogs, walking home.
JODI: Yes. Well, actually, three days later we found one of the dogs.
WILLIAMS: You found one of the dogs.
JODI: About a mile away from the house. It was in some wooded areas eating garbage. We bring the dog home, and about two days later, the other dog walked home. It was real early in the morning so no one saw which way she came from. So she--she--when she came home, she woke somebody up and then everybody got up 'cause she was home, checked her for injuries and she was fine. But Stevie never came home. We just want to know where he's at, if he's alive, if--he's not?
Ms. BROWNE: Not alive.
JODI: Do we know who took him?
Ms. BROWNE: This is someone that used to work around this area and what bothers me is I don't know whether he was a--did something with trees, you know, like a--I don't know. Not necessarily a lumberjack, but you know, tree trimming or whatever.
WILLIAMS: Pruning trees.
Ms. BROWNE: Yeah. And he's the one that took him.
JODI: I have a question. A couple months after he came up missing, I was sitting on my chair and I had a wall behind me. It's probably about 2:00 in the morning. And since Stevie came up missing, we had went and purchased a firearm because somebody was like--we felt like somebody was messing around our house at night. So I'm sitting in the chair, it's about 2:00 in the morning and I hear a voice like somebody's right behind me and it says, 'Don't answer the door if somebody bangs on the door.' I didn't answer it. I was too scared to move. Was that him?
Ms. BROWNE: Uh-huh. Yeah. They--they didn't really give him...
WILLIAMS: But if Stevie said don't answer the door...
Ms. BROWNE: Yeah.
WILLIAMS: ...who was at the door?
Ms. BROWNE: It was that--the nut case, that--you know--see, he was trying to protect you. But see what bothers me and I don't want to scare you, this guy is still roaming around the area. So I'd look at anybody that trims trees.
JODI: I have another question. The guy across the street from us, the house he supposedly left at 8, trimmed trees and he's now dead. Did he know anything about it?
Ms. BROWNE: Yes. He did.
JODI: He did? This person, does he know where we live and stuff? I mean, is he like going to do it again?
Ms. BROWNE: Well, he's not stalking you, but see, the thing that always worries me when you get too close to a case like this, I'm--I think that was a warning. You don't want--look, with a psychotic you can never tell. You see what I'm saying?
JODI: Where's he at, though?
Ms. BROWNE: A crime of...
JODI: Where's Stevie at?
Ms. BROWNE: Listen to me. It's like--it's a wooded area and then it slopes down for some reason into a creek area. You know what I mean? In other words, a sharp slope down. It's not that far from where you are. I...
JODI: I had a feeling it was that one the day he came up missing.
Ms. BROWNE: So you--are...
JODI: That night I kept saying, 'Let's go there.' We went there.
Ms. BROWNE: Please, honey, let me finish.
WILLIAMS: Has anybody inspected it? Yes. Go ahead, Sylvia.
Ms. BROWNE: No, no.
WILLIAMS: Let her finish for a second.
Ms. BROWNE: You--are you aware of the big sharp slope and the creek? OK. And the little spindly trees that are there. That's where I'd look.
JODI: Did the police--have they talked to this guy? Do they know anything about him?
Ms. BROWNE: No, I don't think they know. But--see the--the--and of course, unfortunately, the guy that could have told something is dead, but there's still gotta be this guy out there by the name of--I mean, how many people trimming trees by the name of...
JODI: What's his race?
Ms. BROWNE: No, he's Caucasian, honey. he's Caucasian.
WILLIAMS: All right. Let me take a little break. We'll be back right after this.
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