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NANCY GRACE

3-Year-Old Kidnapped After Mother Found Murdered

Aired February 22, 2011 - 21:00:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Vanished into thin air.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look for her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just need to kind her.

GRACE: So many cases --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re still looking.

GRACE: -- so few leads.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.

GRACE: Missing person.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s our duty to find her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.

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GRACE: Found alive.

Fifty people, 50 days, 50 nights.

Let`s don`t give up.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s a single mother working to raise her 3-year- old daughter and stayed focused on that, and she just kept focused on getting her job done, knowing this is how she took care of herself and family.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): On the morning of March 6, 2009, the family of 3-year-old Allyson Corrales became worried when they had not heard from her mother. At the request of the family, the apartment manager opened the door to the mother`s apartment where they found her body and no sign of Allyson.

GRACE: This little girl is in extreme danger. Her mother, a 27-year- old single mom, found dead in her home. The little girl missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police immediately began focusing on the last person to see them alive, Allyson`s father, Luis Corrales. DNA evidence reportedly places Corrales inside the mother`s home during the murder, and his car was reportedly found at the home when cops arrived on scene.

GRACE: Here`s a guy that had a protective order against him. That didn`t seem to matter. He came to the home. The mother, the young mother, just 27 years old, Katia Laniez, is dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is a person of interest. We are looking for him. And we would like to speak to him as soon as we can.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Warrants for the arrest of Luis Corrales remain in effect in hopes of finding his missing 3-year-old daughter, Allyson. A witness in the case says he last saw the girl and her non-custodial father boarding a bus at a San Antonio Greyhound terminal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is from Honduras. He has connections in Texas and also in Virginia. We`ve alerted the FBI and the border authorities to be looking out for them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s a tragedy that Katia is gone, but she`s gone. Now we have got a 3-year-old girl that we`re looking for and I hope somebody can help find her.

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GRACE: Every day 2,300 people go missing in America. Disappear. Vanish. Families left behind waiting, wondering, hoping, but never forgetting.

And neither have we. Fifty people, 50 days.

Fifty nights we go live spotlighting America`s missing girls, boys, mothers, fathers, grandparents. Gone, but where?

Tonight, to the heartland, Kansas City, Missouri. After a day and night pass without hearing from 3-year-old Allyson Corrales or her mom, the little girl`s close-knit family heads to the apartment, asks the manager to let them in.

Their worse nightmare comes true. Mommy 27-year-old Katia, stabbed to death. Allyson gone.

Cops immediately hone in on little Allyson`s father, Luis Corrales, after his car found at the apartment and mommy`s red Kia missing. Credible sightings of baby Allyson pour in -- Texas, Virginia. And just weeks later, the red Kia recovered in Texas, but no sign of the baby girl.

Police on high alert. Tonight, little Allyson in extreme danger. Where is beautiful baby Allyson?

Jean Casarez, at this hour, what do we know?

JEAN CASAREZ, CO-HOST: Well, what is happening right now is that authorities believe that baby Allyson could be alive. They firmly believe that.

You see, it all happened back in November of 2008, and that is when this couple who had been dating and married for a long time, but they broke up. Well, Luis Corrales, after they broke up, he left -- he left Missouri and it`s believed he went to Texas.

He stayed there for a while. And while he was gone, the mother of Allyson Corrales, she got a protective order, a restraining order against him. Well, Luis Corrales came back to Missouri, and that`s when it all started to go down hill really, really fast.

I want to go out to Michael Board, reporter, WOAI Radio in San Antonio.

Start with the day that we know was the beginning of the end. And that would have been Wednesday, March 4th.

MICHAEL BOARD, REPORTER, WOAI: It`s just an absolute tragedy. If you can imagine not being able to hear, not being able to get in contact with the family, a loved one, a member. A brother-in-law was sent over to Katia`s house, her apartment, tried to find her because they tried to get her on the phone. They couldn`t get her to talk to them.

So they went over there, they went and knocked on her door. No answer to her door.

They went to the apartment manager. They said, we`re having trouble, we can`t get a hold of her, we think something is wrong. The apartment manager went with a key, unlocked her door.

They walked into her apartment and that`s where they made the tragic discovery. They didn`t even know it right away. That`s what`s tragic about this. They saw her in her bed.

They didn`t know what was wrong. And when her brother-in-law used his hand to go down to try to wake her up from her bed -- he thought maybe she was sleeping -- he felt her cold, dead skin. And that`s when he knew something was wrong.

That`s when police were called. That`s where the whole apartment was taped off. Under her bed they found the alleged murder weapon in this case, a bloody knife. And it`s only gone down hill since there for investigators and for family members.

CASAREZ: And everybody, what we really want to do tonight is we want to find Allyson, this beautiful little baby. She would be 6 years old now, Allyson Corrales.

That`s who we want to find. That is who authorities say they believe she is with, her father, her birth father. But they also believe that she could be alive.

Now, I want to go to Marlaina Schiavo, NANCY GRACE producer.

Let`s really go through this timeline, because so much time was lost to the fault of no one. But it all started with a phone call, right, that family members made to Allyson`s mother when she was still alive? When was that phone call ?

MARLAINA SCHIAVO, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: That phone call was two days before her body was found. It was about 9:00 p.m. in the evening.

She got a phone call from a family member who said that he could hear her and Corrales having an argument until he eventually just hung up the phone. That was the last time anyone had spoken to her.

Then her sister got suspicious on Thursday, when she couldn`t get in touch with her sister. She went over to the house, she saw her car was missing, the lights were off. She knocked on the door, couldn`t get in touch with her.

Finally, Friday, that`s when the brother-in-law told the apartment manager, we can`t find her. The apartment manager let her in -- let him in, excuse me. And that`s when they found her dead in the bedroom.

CASAREZ: So two days. Two days were lost. But Marlaina, why was Luis Corrales even in the apartment? There was a restraining order. He wasn`t supposed to be around her.

SCHIAVO: I know. There was a restraining order, but he was calling her a lot and saying that he wanted to see Allyson. And because of the child, she let him stay at her apartment, and at that point, that`s when the protection order became null and void.

CASAREZ: To Paul Penzone, a former sergeant with the Phoenix Police Department, joining us tonight from Arizona, child advocate.

First of all, what is the lesson we can learn here? Because the family spoke with her that night. They saw Luis Corrales was in the home. He shouldn`t have been.

They heard the argument. They couldn`t find her on Thursday. They went to the house. Her car was gone, lights were off, and it wasn`t until Friday.

We all don`t want to feel stupid in front of police, to call and say we think there`s something wrong and there really isn`t. But in retrospect, should you make that call sooner?

PAUL PENZONE, FMR. SGT., PHOENIX POLICE DEPT.: You always have to err on the side of safety regardless of what the circumstances are. It is so much better to be wrong and make an assumption when you`re concerned with someone`s safety than to not make that call and find out something as terrible as this has occurred.

And we see too many cases like this where there`s domestic issues and there`s a child involved, and unfortunately more than not the husband tries to take that child either through abduction or through violence, and now you have a situation where you have a citizen of another country who has likely fled out of this country. And the dynamics in bringing him back for prosecution, recovering that little girl, are extremely complicated and difficult.

CASAREZ: So the story goes on from there. And it is believed that Luis Corrales has little Allyson, that he has taken her, left his wife dead, allegedly, it is believed that at the time. And he has got relatives in Texas.

To Michael Board, reporter, WOAI News Talk Radio out of San Antonio.

Where do police believe at that point that he may be with the little girl in his wife`s car?

BOARD: Well, it was really a stroke of luck that they even tracked him to San Antonio. They had no idea he was going to San Antonio until the police in San Antonio got a report of a car accident.

They went out to investigate a car accident. The vehicle that was involved with this accident, it popped up on their national center for crime database, that this car was involved in some sort of a crime. This was not him. This was another man.

Luis apparently gave his car -- excuse me, gave Katia`s car to this guy and said, here, take this, I just want you to buy me bus tickets. I`m trying to get away. Buy me bus tickets and you can have my car.

So that`s what this gentleman told police. They said he told police that the guy who gave him his car, he drove him to the Greyhound station. That`s where the guy said he bought a bus ticket to El Salvador, and that`s the last anybody has ever seen of Luis Corrales.

CASAREZ: And you know, Michael Board, there are conflicting reports right here, because in the probable cause affidavit that I read, it didn`t say that there was an exchange of money. They said that Luis Corrales said to Castillo (ph) -- that`s the name of the man in San Antonio -- he said, look, just keep my car because I`m going to go see my mother in El Salvador, but I`ll be back for it, so you just keep my car. Didn`t say there was an exchange of money.

But you know, Michael Board, I used to live in San Antonio. For many, many years I lived there, and there are a lot of buses going to the border every day. The bus station is packed with people going to Nuevo Laredo and then coming back to San Antonio, so it isn`t out of the question that a bus was taken to at least Mexico.

But here`s another issue. To Marc Klaus, president and founder of KlaasKids Foundation.

An AMBER alert was issued in this case. Marc, for 24 hours an AMBER alert was issued, and then it was called off. Once again, in retrospect, what do you think?

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: Well, it`s appropriate in this situation to issue the AMBER alert.

I think that, you know, as an armchair quarterback, I would say it most likely should have been extended to Texas, into the surrounding states, once the girl was not recovered within the first 24 hours, for the simple reason that her mother was dead and that we know that this is a very dangerous guy. They may very well have lost an opportunity to capture him as a result of that.

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GRACE: Here`s a guy that had a protective order against him. That didn`t seem to matter. He came to the home. The mother, the young mother, just 27 years old, Katia Lainez, is dead. The little girl, Allyson Corrales, is gone.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Three-year-old Allyson Corrales has been missing since the morning of March 6, 2009. Police were called to her mother`s home when family members discovered the mother`s body inside. She had been murdered.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say the girl`s father, Luis Corrales, is a suspect in the murder. They say Corrales kidnapped Allyson and may have taken her out of the country. Police say Corrales should be considered armed and dangerous.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: DNA evidence reportedly places Corrales inside the mother`s home during the mother, and his car was reportedly found at the home when cops arrived on scene. The mother`s car was located a short time later in San Antonio.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A witness also tells police he drove Corrales and Allyson to a San Antonio Greyhound bus terminal, then watched the two board a bus to El Salvador. A $1,000 reward is offered for anyone with information leading to the arrest of Luis Corrales or the identification of Allyson.

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CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez.

We want to find Allyson Corrales. Look at her picture. Look at her.

She may be in Texas, San Antonio, Houston, Texas. Also, it`s believed that Luis Corrales had relatives in Virginia. But remember, he lived in Missouri. Independence, Missouri, is where he lived for quite a while.

I want to go out to Marlaina Schiavo, NANCY GRACE producer.

There currently is an arrest warrant for Corrales, right, for second- degree murder?

SCHIAVO: For second-degree murder. And it took a little while to get this arrest warrant because they couldn`t do it on kidnapping because he is the next of kin and the mother was clearly no longer living. And also, on the protection order, like we said earlier, it was null and void. So they could not get a warrant out on that. But once the DNA matched, they were able to get this second-degree murder warrant.

CASAREZ: And that is the DNA matching to the knife that was found under the bed that had the DNA and the blood of Mr. Corrales.

So was there a struggle? Was he injured as he allegedly killed his wife?

I want to go out to Eleanor Odom, felony prosecutor, death penalty qualified, joining us out of Atlanta.

You know, Eleanor, it was a victim of circumstances, I guess, because they couldn`t charge him with kidnapping. They believed he had the little girl. But because he`s next of kin, they didn`t know who murdered the mother. So he should have custody of her.

Also, she violated the protective order by having him over to the house that night. And so they couldn`t say there was a violation of a protective order.

Did that stand in the way, Eleanor, at all with law enforcement getting involved full steam ahead with trying to find the little girl initially?

ELEANOR ODOM, FELONY PROSECUTOR: Well, I think it did, Jean, because, unfortunately, in a lot of these domestic violence situations where there`s a temporary protective order, oftentimes the victim will allow the man, in most cases, back into the home for a variety of reasons. But what also concerns me about this case is the fact that there are other charges they could put on him for taking the daughter.

It might not be kidnapping, but it sure as heck is child endangerment. And I bet you anything the child was there in the home when the murder occurred.

CASAREZ: Yes. Really good point. The apartment wasn`t that big.

To Peter Odom, defense attorney out of Atlanta.

You know, Eleanor brings up a point. Protective orders, obviously we have them, obviously they do good. What good did they do in this case?

You know, in fact, with everything I`ve read, I think it may have infuriated this man to a point because it was protective order that also issued him -- he had to pay child custody and various other things.

To Eleanor Odom, once again, it didn`t work. It just infuriated him to possibly commit this act of violence.

ODOM: And that happens far too often, Jean, where they are angry. They want to see the woman. They want to see their child. So they will do anything, including violating that order. To a lot of defendants, it`s just a piece of paper and it doesn`t carry any real weight to that person.

CASAREZ: That`s very true. Very true.

Marlaina Schiavo, there`s a reward in this case, currently, right, for anyone that has any information?

SCHIAVO: Yes, Jean. Anyone who has information can call in their tips to Crime Stoppers. And there`s a $1,000 reward for those tips if they lead to something.

CASAREZ: Everybody, this little girl deserves to be found. Allyson Corrales, she deserves -- look at her. She is beautiful. And people believe her father is armed and dangerous.

This little girl needs justice. She needs to be found.

If you know anything about her, call the tip line, 1-816-474-TIPS. Allyson Corrales, she`d be 6 years old today.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Warrants for the arrest of Luis Corrales remain in effect in hopes of finding his missing 3-year-old daughter, Allyson. Allyson has been missing since 2009. Police say Corrales kidnapped the girl last seen with her mother March 4th. The mother`s body found two days later in the Kansas City apartment she shared with Allyson.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: DNA evidence places reportedly places Corrales inside the mother`s home during the murder. And his car was reportedly found at the home when cops arrived on scene.

Further investigation reportedly revealed Corrales and Allyson boarded a bus in San Antonio that was headed for El Salvador. Since then, there has been no sign of little 3-year-old Allyson Corrales.

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CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez.

This little girl lost her mother on March 6th of 2009. Her mother was stabbed to death in her bed.

They found her body on the bed, in the bed, a knife found underneath. And her car, the mother`s car, was gone. And it is believed that Luis Corrales, the father of this little girl, abducted the little girl and took her to San Antonio.

And Michael Board, News Talk WOA Radio in San Antonio, we know that they were in San Antonio because of a man by the last name of Castillo (ph) who authorities found, right?

BOARD: Right. And we know that, and we know that Luis Corrales told this guy that he could have his car, he could hold on to it, just buy me some bus tickets.

What we don`t know is if Luis and Allyson actually got on that bus. We know that they were at the Greyhound station. We know that they had money at the Greyhound station.

Nobody ever saw them actually physically get on that bus, so we don`t know if they ever really went to El Salvador or even to Mexico. They could still be in this country.

He has lived in San Antonio, he has got ties to Houston. There`s a very good possibility he still is in this country. There`s hope that we can still find this couple here in this country.

CASAREZ: To Paul Penzone, former sergeant, Phoenix Police Department, child advocate, joining us out of Arizona.

All right. First of all, he has got family in this country. Authorities need to talk to the family again and again and again. Right?

PENZONE: You have to take two directions. First, is just exactly what you`re saying. Those closest to him, he`s still going to keep contact with them whether it be by phone or in person. He may come back into the country if he`s living outside of it to visit.

So, you have to have either a relationship with them or your eye on them to be able to identify through informants, is he visiting, is he going back and forth, or is he staying in contact? The other thing you need to do is you need to build a relationship in the possible country where he`s living to see if you can locate him there and bring him back through extradition.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A relative found Allyson`s mom, 27-year-old Katia, dead inside her east Kansas City apartment. Relatives say she was missing for several days. Now it`s her daughter who disappeared.

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GRACE: Vanished into thin air.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look for her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just need to find her.

GRACE: So many cases.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re still looking.

GRACE: So few leads.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Missing.

GRACE: Missing person.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s our duty to find her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The witness seen the suspect on Nancy Grace.

GRACE: There is a God.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nancy Grace show was out there for us.

GRACE: Found. Alive. 50 people, 50 days, 50 nights. Let`s don`t give up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Single mother working to raise her three-year-old daughter. And stayed focused on that and just kept focused on getting her job done, knowing this is how she took care of herself and her family.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On the morning of March 6th, 2009, the family of three-year-old Allyson Corrales became worried when they had not heard from her mother. At the request of the family, the apartment manager opened the door to the mother`s apartment where they found her body and no sign of Allyson.

GRACE: This little girl is in extreme danger. Her mother, a 27-year- old single mom, found dead in her home. The little girl missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police immediately began focusing on the last person to see them alive, Allyson`s father, Luis Corrales. DNA evidence reportedly places Corrales inside the mother`s home during the murder, and his car was reportedly found at the home when cops arrived on the scene.

GRACE: Here`s a guy that had a protective order against him. That didn`t seem to matter. He came to the home. The mother, the young mother, just 27 years old, Katia Lainez, is dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is a person of interest. We are looking for him, and we would like to speak to him as soon as we can.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Warrants for the arrest of Luis Corrales remain in effect in hopes of finding his missing three-year-old daughter, Allyson. A witness in the case says he last saw the girl and her noncustodial father boarding a us at a San Antonio Greyhound terminal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s from Honduras. He has connections in Texas and also in Virginia. We`ve alerted the FBI and the border authorities to be looking out for them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s tragedy that Katia`s gone, but she`s gone. Now, we got a three-year-old girl that we`re looking for, and I hope somebody can help find her.

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GRACE: Every day, 2,300 people go missing in America, disappear, vanish. Families left behind waiting, wondering, hoping, but never forgetting, and neither have we. Fifty people, 50 days, 50 nights we go live, spotlighting America`s missing, girls, boys, mothers, fathers, grandparents, gone, but where?

Tonight, to the heartland, Kansas City, Missouri. After a day and night pass without hearing from three-year-old Allyson Corrales or her mom, the little girl`s close knit family heads to the apartment, asks the manager to let them in. Their worse nightmare comes true. Her mommy, 27- year-old Katia, stabbed to death. Allyson gone. Cops immediately hone in on little Allyson`s father, Luis Corrales after his car found at the apartment, and mommy`s red Kia missing.

Credible sightings of Baby Allyson pour in. Texas, Virginia. And, just weeks later, the red Kia recovered in Texas but no sign of the baby girl. Police on high alert. Tonight, little Allyson in extreme danger. Where is beautiful Baby Allison? Jean Casarez, let`s go through the timeline one more time.

JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": The timeline in this case is very, very sad because on March 6th, 2009, it was in the evening, and one of the relatives of Katia was on the phone with her, and she heard Luis Corrales in the background. Well, he wasn`t supposed to be at the house because there was a protective order, but she heard arguing. That`s the last time the family ever heard the mother, Katia`s voice.

The next day, Katia`s sister tried to get ahold of her, and she couldn`t by phone, went over to the house. Her car wasn`t there. The lights weren`t on. So, she just thought, well, maybe she`s gone. Thursday night, can`t reach her. Friday morning, finally, the brother-in-law of Katia goes over to the house, asked the manager for the key, gets in the house, and there is found the stabbed to death body of Katia, and little Allyson is gone.

I want to go out to Pat Brown, criminal profiler, author of "The Profiler," joining us tonight from Washington, D.C. It was determined through DNA tests that the blood of the father, Luis Corrales, was on the knife that was found underneath the bed. So, now, a warrant is issued for his arrest on second-degree murder charges, but here`s my question. We did some research, and they could have gone to El Salvador. There is an extradition treaty between U.S. and El Salvador. What do U.S. officials have to do so that El Salvador will work with us?

PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER: I personally think that there`s not a lot of hope there. I don`t think he`s in El Salvador. I think he went home to Honduras. If he goes to the capital city, they have a massive problem with lawlessness right now. They`ve got the Maras which are the gangs there. They`ve got Calle Dieciocho. They were just the big gangs, and they got the MS-13, and there`s a lot of battles going on and murders everywhere.

So, it`s really a mess down there. The police there are probably not going to spend a lot of time looking for this guy or his daughter. The good news is, I think she`s alive. The bad news is, I think he can blend in really easily, find some lady to take care of her, and it`s going to be up to the family, sadly to say, her family, the mother`s family, to go work with relatives down there trying to find, if they can find that little girl down there some place, and somehow, get ahold of her at that point (ph).

CASAREZ: Peter Odom, defense attorney, joining us tonight out of Atlanta. Here`s one of my concerns. There is an arrest warrant issued for this Luis Corrales. It`s second-degree murder. Obviously, he`s facing life in prison, but the point is, we want to find the little girl. We want to find her alive. If we focus too much on the arrest warrant, could the little girl`s life be in danger because he doesn`t want to be arrested and go to trial for this?

PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, of course, that`s the concern, and like a cornered animal, you would not want him to act like a cornered animal and do harm to this child. And I also need to tell you that the only way that the United States would ever be able to invoke that extradition treaty would be if we agreed that we would not put Mr. Corrales to death.

CASAREZ: And you know, I wondered, Peter Odom, if that`s why they charged him with second degree murder, because obviously, the death penalty is not available for second degree because when you look at the facts and you see the knife is under the bed, and it was a very large knife, I mean, I see premeditation and all of that, as we know premeditation, boom, can be formed like that, but with second degree, maybe not so threatening to officials from another country.

ODOM: Correct. We would -- but with a murder charge, we would still have to give those official assurances through the United States government that he would not face the death penalty. That would be our only chance of getting him back under the extradition treaty.

CASAREZ: Marc Klaus, president and founder of Klaaskids Foundation. So, what do we do now?

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT & FOUNDE, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: Well, I agree that he probably is in South America. If he were in the United States, it would be -- he would have to make a living, and he would really stand out. The problem in South America, though, as everybody knows, is that, you know, hundreds of Nazi war criminals responsible for the deaths of millions of people were able to hide out in South America for decades without being detected.

So, a Latino with a little girl would easily be able to blend in and probably go undetected for a very, very long time. I kind of agree with Pat that it might be up to her family in those communities to keep an eye out for that little girl and see if they might be able to help bring justice to this situation.

CASAREZ: Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, joining us from Los Angeles, author of "Deal Breakers," what lesson can be learned here of a woman who has a protective order? Look at the work she went to to get the protective order then allows him back in the apartment.

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: We have to learn to really step up and help women who are victims of domestic violence because, invariably, they do break the protective order. I do have women who present for treatment in my office, and often, they have small children. They have a protective order against their husband, and as soon as they begin treatment, they start campaigning with me to convince me that it is OK for them to break the protective order.

And the reason they want to do that is that the man plays on their sympathies. Domestic abuse is a crisis of boundaries, and what I mean by that is that the man is truly suffering from psychological disturbances. He wants power. He wants to seek revenge. He cannot stand separation from the woman, and the woman believes that his suffering is her fault. So, she drinks the Kool-Aid and she breaks the protective order.

CASAREZ: And you know, Bethany, you`re exactly right because in this situation, he begged and he pleaded saying, he didn`t have a place to stay, and she let him in.

Tonight, help us find Jennifer Casper Ross. She`s 30 years old and she vanished on May 5th, 2005, from Reno, Nevada. She is a white female, 5`9", 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. If you have any information, please call 775-334-2121.

If your loved one is missing and you need help, go to CNN.com/nancygrace. Send us your story. We want to help you find your loved ones.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s tragedy that Katia is gone, but she`s gone. Now, we got a three-year-old girl that we`re looking for, and I hope somebody can help find her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On the morning of March 6th, 2009, the family of three-year-old Allyson Corrales became worried when they had not heard from her mother. At the request of the family, the apartment manager opened the door to the mother`s apartment where they found her body and no sign of Allyson.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say the girl`s father, Luis Corrales, is a suspect in the murder. They say Corrales kidnapped Allyson and may have taken her out of the country.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The restraining order, of course, was in place against Corrales. The decease described an abusive relationship, abuse including threats of suicide and threats of witchcraft.

GRACE: He threatens to kill himself. Police suspect he may have killed the mother. How much danger is this little four-year-old girl in?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Clearly, the little girl`s in danger. He`s a threat.

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CASAREZ: Have you seen Allyson Corrales? Look at her face. Look at her eyes. She`s a little older now. Three years, it`s been, since she went missing, but Luis Corrales had relatives in Texas, in Virginia, and they could be in the United States. It`s believed this little girl is alive.

I want to go to Paul Penzone, former sergeant from the police, Phoenix Police Department Child Advocate joining us tonight. You know, we do know that they were spotted in San Antonio, and he gave up the car for a ride to the bus station. And it`s conflicting whether he got money to go to Mexico or El Salvador, but you know, the bus lines, wouldn`t they have a record if two bus tickets were purchased?

PAUL PENZONE, FORMER SERGEANT, PHOENIX PD: They could, but you have to keep in mind depending on where this is and how sophisticated they are, how long they keep the records, and if they have computer systems or not. So, it`s not going to be reliable enough. I think we should go back to what you brought up earlier. The family is the key. If he has family here in the states, he`s going to have some form of contact with them, maybe even coming back to visit.

That`s where you really want to start from because if you can find a time through informants or through the family`s cooperation when he comes back across to visit, you have an opportunity to recover this little girl. I live on a border state. So, we deal with cases like this often. We had a federal agent who was killed here when we sent two agents back and forth to Mexico over several years just trying to get their cooperation to locate, recover and bring that person back.

And as Peter stated, you have to waive the death penalty in order for them to even consider cooperating where this was extremely complicated.

CASAREZ: You know, Marc Klaus, I feel like one of the issues here is somebody just needs to care. You know, Marc, we wanted police to come on tonight. We begged them to come on, and the officer, lead investigator on this case, is on vacation. Nobody else could come, but it just takes that one person to care, right?

KLAAS: Well, it most certainly does. And one would hope that somebody in his family cares as has been stated before. They may not even have known that a crime had been committed when they first assisted him and perhaps helped him to get over the border, but it`s very clear now that this is a very dangerous individual, and these other people have to hold this child in their hearts and want what`s best for her, and hopefully, you know, play on those heartstrings will assist in this situation.

CASAREZ: But you know, Eleanor Odom, here`s the problem. If you go to the family members of Luis Corrales in the United States, in San Antonio, in Houston or Virginia and ask them, help us, help us find little Allyson, what they`re actually doing is they`re turning in their relative because he`s facing life in prison. So, how do you get around that?

ELEANOR ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, I don`t know that you can because they, if they give up his location, they may be considered a party to a crime. And if they don`t, and they do know the location, they could be charged with obstruction. So, you have to offer them immunity of any kind to get them to talk.

CASAREZ: That`s exactly right. To Michael Board, WOAI Newstalk Radio in San Antonio. The San Antonio Police Department and detectives were instrumental in really finding this car. They have a lot to be proud of, and we applaud them because of them we know little Allyson is alive.

MICHAEL BOARD, WOAI NEWSRADIO: They did the right thing. When they checked the number of this car, they ran it through the National Center for Crime Database. They came back. They did the right thing. They spoke up. One of the things, though, that`s very difficult for police in this situation is they know that Luis Corrales has family in San Antonio.

We also believe they`re illegal immigrants in San Antonio. They`ve been living in a shadowed life. They don`t know where to find the family. It`s not like they`re in the phonebook and they can just look them up. They`re probably renting a house, living in a guesthouse somewhere. It`s not like they can`t go down the street and find these people. Very difficult to find the family members of Luis Corrales. And even if you did, chances they`d talk, slim to nil.

CASAREZ: Yes. Very, very true. To Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of "Deal Breakers, psychologically speaking, what is this little girl going to go through, especially, since she was in that home when her mother was murdered?

MARSHALL: She has the trauma of the loss. Possibly, she witnessed her mother being stabbed. Very unlikely that her father`s attached to her. These perpetrators usually take the child as some form of revenge. They don`t want anybody else to have control over the child. She is at risk because she is the only witness to this crime. So, he can`t afford to have her here in the United States in the school system, going to counseling, going to classes, seeking medical care, having appropriate treatment.

Michael Board talked about a shadow life or a shadow existence. If this girl is in The United States, she is doomed to that shadow existence, and also, the family probably does not believe her father is guilty. They built some whole mythology about what happened to the bio mom of this little girl. So, she witnessed the crime, and then, she`s possibly being told a lie about it, and that lie will persist throughout her entire life which will interfere with her ability to organize her reality about what has happened to her and to her world.

CASAREZ: All right. We`re taking your calls. Sue in New York. Hi, Sue.

SUE, NEW YORK: Hi, Jean.

CASAREZ: Thank you for calling.

SUE: Is there any chance when they find this man that he can get the death penalty?

CASAREZ: You know, Sue, the answer is no. And that is because they have charged him with second-degree murder, and under second-degree murder, the government is not seeking death at all.

I want to go to Pat Brown, criminal profiler here. I understand what you`re saying, that they are probably in El Salvador or long gone, but we can`t give up. We got to try to find her. Now, let me tell you this. In the restraining order, there were allegations that he had threatened. That he was going to take the little girl, and he was going to kill himself. Now, what if that came to be? This little girl could be orphaned at this point.

BROWN: Well, I tend not to believe that. I think that`s a threat he gave while he was in the United States, but once he crosses over the border, he pretty much knows he`s free and clear. So, I think he`s gone on with his life and whatever area he`s gone on with. And I said I believe it`s Honduras. And the little girl, you know, there`s a lot of women down there who will help out a guy. And the saddest thing is that this little girl is probably not going to have a very good life down there unless she`s found.

A lot of girls down there at 12 years old enter into gangs which have rape initiations, and they`re out on the streets, and (INAUDIBLE) get involve with homicides. They`re just really horrific lifestyle. So, the most important thing is, hopefully, the mother`s family to find out where this little girl is and extricate her, maybe with the help of the police down there. once they find her, get her out of that situation so she can have a decent life.

CASAREZ: Marc Klaus, I want to give you the last word.

KLAAS: Yes. Well, that`s almost, that`s almost begging for vigilante response, and we can`t resort to that. I think that they have to work with the authorities. Somebody has to find the heart that`s necessary to help recover this little girl. And even if they can`t bring him to justice, they need to bring her back to America to the family that truly does love her.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Three-year-old Allyson Corrales has been missing since the morning of March 6th, 2009. Police recall to a mother`s home when family members discovered the mother`s body inside.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They`re all hoping Allyson is found safe.

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GRACE: These are the faces of America`s missing. Every 30 seconds, another child, a sister, a brother, a father, a mother, disappears. Families left behind wondering, hoping. We have not forgotten.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kerry Johnson vanished from Salem, Oregon in 1982 when she was 17. You are looking at a photo indicating how she may look in her 40s.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m always scared to death that she`ll pass me on the street, and I won`t know who she is. I`m Kerry Johnson`s sister. We just pray for her. And mostly, the greatest thing that come out of this is the prayers for all the other families who have lost their kids at a little age and didn`t get, you know, 16 wonderful years to be with them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Andre Bryant was an infant when he disappeared in the company of his mother in Brooklyn, New York. They had left their home to go shopping with two women in a burgundy Pontiac Grand Am. What happened then is unclear.

Karina Gaitan was last seen in her home in San Antonio, Texas in 1998. She has a scar in the shape of a cross on her right hand and may be wearing glasses.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The main thing that I remember about Karina, I loved her laugh. She had the most contagious laugh, and she just had the most beautiful smile. And she was very smart. She loved to play soccer. She loved to play goalie. And she was very creative. My daughter is registered with the National Center for Missing Exploited Children in Washington, D.C.

They do send out pictures, and they also do age progression on their posters. There have been times when I`ve been out, and actually, recently, I`m in a Wal-Mart and saw a picture of my daughter hanging up with all the -- it just makes my heart sink. There`s been no spottings, no signs. We`ve run her Social Security number. We have tried to track her down with every form of identification that`s used here in the United States, and no one`s been able to track her down. I would like to have closure because I miss her.

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GRACE: I`m Nancy Grace. See you tomorrow night, 9 o`clock sharp eastern. And until then, we will be looking. Keep the faith, friend.

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