Two mothers from Indianapolis used their maternal instincts and
amateur investigative skills to find a kidnapped five month old baby.
Now some in the media decided to erase these actual heroes from the story.
But before we even get to that, I think it's important to know the details and
the facts of what happened.
So a woman in Columbus, Ohio stole a running
car last week with two twin baby boys in it.
These situations actually happen far more often than I care to even know about but
it's true like there have been carjackings and things like that.
Where there are actual children in the back seat and
in this case we're talking about two baby boys, they're twins.
Now one of the babies Kyair Thomass was found by a pastor by early Tuesday
morning in a parking lot of the Dayton International Airport, but
the other child was still missing.
Okay, now let's get to the crazy part of the story.
An Indianapolis resident by the name of Cheyenne Delmar said
that she bought toys from a woman who was hanging out at a gas station on Tuesday.
Delmar then agreed to give the woman who referred to herself
only as May a ride to a nearby store.
But when she started acting erratically, Delmar recorded video of her on her phone.
Okay like I was acting a little crazy,
I might need evidence if anything happens she's recording her.
Now at the time she had no idea who the woman was but here's the thing.
She then began scrolling Facebook and she realized something.
After dropping the woman off Delmar shared the story and
a video she'd taken of the woman with her cousin Mecka Curry.
And then realized the woman seemed eerily similar to the Columbus Ohio kidnapping
suspect being shown in the news following what they chalked up to motherly
intuition and sleuthing the 27 year old woman followed their instincts and
decided to take action.
So the mug shot of Nalah Jackson,
the 24 year old woman who had referred to herself as
May made it clear that May is Nalah Jackson there.
Like the resemblance is uncanny, this is an issue.
So the women had exchanged numbers and later that day May actually
reached out to Cheyenne asking if she wanted to buy more toys from her.
Perfect opportunity to do a little more investigating work, right, unsure of what
to do with their newfound information, Delmar didn't immediately answer the call.
But on Thursday morning she called her back about the purchases.
They arranged to meet at a residence and Delmar who was convinced by
then that the woman was the suspect on the news brought Curry with her.
So the two women show up right allegedly to buy toys from the woman who
identified herself as May.
Now Delmar and Curry said that they came up with a plan to take the woman to
a store and called police to arrest her there instead of like trying to drive her
to a police station where she would realize, we're going to a police station.
Maybe she'd jump out of the car, they didn't want that situation so
they're like, let's go on a shopping trip.
And then they were gonna call the cops to come assist them.
There were some issues with that plan though.
First, the cousins called Columbus police who told them to call
the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
When they called Indianapolis Police the women struggled to get the point across
that they believed Jackson was in their car.
They got frustrated and hung up and took the woman to several more stores,
hoping she would shoplift and draw authorities attention.
Now there was no luck with that strategy either they didn't take her again to
the police station for obvious reasons.
They were worried that she would realize what was happening and
jump out of the car.
But throughout the shopping trips, Curry made calls to detectives trying
to relay all of the relevant information that she received from
her cousin about their belief that May was the suspected kidnapper.
So at one point, get a load of this Curry alleges the detective
asked her quote, well, what do you want me to do about it?
I don't know, show up and investigate what you're basically hired and paid to do.
But anyway, later on the police called while the women were in the car and
luckily they got the message across.
Okay, so not wanting to tip off the woman Curry, pretended to be talking to
her fiance and indicated that they were driving on the I-65 South.
Finally, the police found the car, pulled them over,
Curry describes how clueless the police seemed to be in the next clip.
Let's watch.
>> So we pulled over at this point, the police is acting super strange.
Like, I don't know all the information I gave you.
>> Literally.
>> You're not putting one and one together and make two.
You're puttingone and one together and making nine.
Like, what do you think?
Come on now, at this point,
I was trying to give them the information that they needed without asking.
So I'm even writing her name down, I'm like, give me a pen and
a piece of path and I Nalah Jackson down.
So I'm writing them, I'm giving them every clue that they need and
they're still putting me off because they're not putting two and two together.
>> How frustrating is that, that like,
you need to force feed the evidence to the authorities.
But luckily after that initial skepticism, the police realized what was going on.
Curry said, she showed police a screenshot of Jackson's mug shot and
after comparing the woman in the car, the officer decided she did in fact appear to
be Jackson and took her into custody at about 2 p.m, Thursday.
At that point that was a relief Curry said already these women are heroes detectives
in Columbus investigating the case did finally commend them.
You guys did fantastic, a detective wrote in an email reviewed by IndyStar that
curry received at 3.33 p.m Thursday because of your help we are so
much closer to finding that baby.
But they weren't satisfied because the five month old was still missing, right?
And the five month old name is Cason.
The women got in contact with the family of the kidnap babies and
found out what kind of car was stolen.
Like what's the make, what's the model?
They looked in their own car for clues the women may have left,
this is like mind blowing and they found a bus schedule, okay?
They decided to follow the bus line toward Indiana University which
Nalah apparently and that's the suspect kept referencing in the car.
Hungry and tired they pulled into a parking lot with some restaurants and
saw a Honda in the lot that matched the family's description and
here's what happened next.
>> Open the driver door at this point, I look in the back, I see baby legs,
I don't hear a baby, all I smell is a foul smell.
Now, instantly at this point I'm screaming, she hears me screaming,
she said no, she runs to go find the police, I'm so glad.
>> I really apologized and I told him, I said you need to call the police,
the baby that got kidnapped from Ohio is out here in his car and
I think he was dead but thank got he was not.
>> He was not.
>> And guess what happened, authorities retrieved a healthy baby boy from
the car and reconnected him with his parents with his mother specifically.
As officers were relaying the information to dispatchers women can be heard
in the background screaming with relief.
At that point, we didn't believe we really did this, we really did the unthinkable,
Curry said.
But despite the heroic actions and
the investigative skills of these two women CNN posted this on Instagram,
two police officers found a missing kidnapped baby when they stopped to eat.
Except that is not what happened, Ben.
>> Yeah. >> That is not what happened.
It's amazing.
And the headline, by the way on their website reads a missing kidnapped baby was
found in a stolen cars backseat hours after the suspect's arrest.
No mention of the women at all, it's unbelievable except no, it's not,
it's very believable.
I mean, just do basic research before reporting the story please, just basic.
>> And the police seemed also take credit for it themselves, when someone does your
job for you, I guess it's embarrassing and you don't want to let on that.
But give credit where credit is due, these women were incredible,
they were amateur sleuths is like some magnum PI level action.
I don't know how they pulled it off and an incredible story they just
figured out what I hope they open a private detective business or
something because they can call it, unofficial justice.
If the law does not help you out, you do it on your own and
they can do a private investigation company.
I will help them start the company If they're just take a small percentage,
it's pretty incredible.
Also such a great.
>> I'll Just take 10%.
>> That's right.
>> You know, ladies, you obviously have some investigative skills.
>> I just need someone to do bookkeeping, that's all.
Also, it's an incredible end to the story too because,
the mother had these twin babies and
you never want any of your babies to obviously go missing.
But when you get twins,
you hope at least one is still with you because you've got a perfect replacement.
>> Mu God.
>> And so now both were taken, both were found happy ending in every way.
Can you tell I don't have children that I don't understand that they're probably
still separate beings with their own personalities.
They're not exactly, it's not just like a spare one.
>> I think people picked up on a little bit just a little bit.
>> Fare, might happen one day maybe in 2023 that Anna hopefully is also
coming on board with there being positive hope for this year.
>> I mean.
>> Still not that pause, I mean.
>> The thing is a change of year doesn't really mean a change of the things
that make life difficult though.
>> We can contend though and we kind of.
>> That's true. >> We can give it energy.
>> Its a whole new year.
>> A brand new year.
>> CNN is gonna give these two heroic women credit for what they did.
>> Yes.
>> Dogs and cats will be walking in harmony in the streets.
>> Some dogs and cats.
>> Republicans and Democrats will get things done.
>> [INAUDIBLE] >> That's true.
>> They do.
>> That's true.
I dream of a better America where cats and dogs get along.
That's maybe the more likely thing we can achieve in this country in 2023 than any
than our politicians getting along.
Other species will finally put aside their beef and join hands and unity, join paws,
paws across America.
Let's do it.