Peas Interview with BB 2-6-11
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Starts at Min.37 on the audio file. There's an interview with an expert about teen dating violence before BB's part.
Peas-BB is coming on the show to update on how things are going now, and how the family is holding up.
Peas plays audio clip from news video early in the search, with RB talking about PB, and reporter talking about family and RB is keeping positive
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Peas-BB is the brother of PB. She has been missing since Dec. 28. Welcome to Peas Radio, BB.
BB Hello
Peas How are you doing tonight?
BB I am Okay. How are you?
Peas We are okay. We welcome you to Peas. You have joined us a couple times before. Thank you for coming back to talk to us again about how you and your family are doing. It has been weeks now since PB went missing. How are you and your family doing?
BB I guess you could say as well as can be expected at this time. It is a little rough still, with it being such a long period of time with no word and no nothing, so yeah, it is getting kind of rough again for everyone.
Peas Its getting rough again you said.
BB Yes maam. Yeah..
Peas I just played a clip, it was your fathers voice. How it he doing? What are his thoughts? Are you able to share?
(Minute 42)
BB He is kind of like the rest of the family we are just still kind of non stop moving trying to think of other things, other possible places to look and search and everything else, but we are coming up with nothing. Eventually all we have been doing since day one is working with LE the best we can and brainstorm as a family, to figure out what the next action is going to be, whether we will follow some leads, work with LE some more, or go out on our own. At this point in time it is kind of like nobody knows what do to. We have tried everything. Weve tried the police thing, They are still doing their thing. We went out personally searching, we have done a lot, still nothing. We are at a loss right now as far as knowing what to do.
Peas At a lost right now for what to do. Youve done the police thing. How helpful have they been in helping to unlock the clues and search for PB.
BB As of right now, I have not talked to any officers. For whatever reason that might be. I have not talked to anybody. So I honestly cant tell you. I now they are working really really close with DB and RB. My uncle being at the top tier in Bmore city, just because the investigation is still open, they are not trying to tell us too much about what they are finding, so as they find stuff they might go out and do things that we the family dont know about at the time. So we just gotta wait around to see, waiting for the call, waiting for the next thing they need from us and taking it from there.
Peas Sure. Waiting to see what happens. This past week, NG did a show in the middle of the week and she made mention that some folks had been pulled in and investigated by the police. Are you able to share anything about that?
BB From the clips I saw I mean, Once again, I havent talked to anybody. But from the clips I have seen, LE said that they pulled in everyone that PB may have known from here, whether it be my family, or my sisters ex-BFs family, as the case may be. Thats all I am hearing, they have pulled in everybody. But they have not pulled in me, and I am her brother. I dont know what they exactly mean by everybody, because I still asked to be included in everybody. Like I said, one step at a time I guess. We take it one day at a time and hope LE is putting on their best effort. It has been over a month and we still havent had anything..
Peas What are your frustrations. Do you have any particular frustrations in the way things are going. what would your recommendations would be for how things should go.
BB My only thing is, I was telling the family the other day, I dont want us, being the family, and LE just to be focused on one person or one group of people, because at the end of the day it might not be them. I mean, they might be POIs but there are a lot of people in the world. There are a lot of people here in Bmore who could abduct anything. I feel as though We need to take the investigation from down in NC before she came here, a couple days before she got here, working it back up to here. I mean, anything could have happened to her. It doesnt just have to stop here.
(Minute 45)
I am getting concerned we are getting tunnel vision just looking at this one group of people. We are not really getting anything from them, from what I hear. We are losing precious time, which is how I feel about it. It has been over a month, no new leads, no nothing. Nothing at all. Once again, I am getting a little concerned that we are getting stuck, and the LE's not knowing, That frustrates me the most.
Peas Absolutely. Do you feel that fingers are pointed to your family wrongly?
BB Um, Of course. There have been a couple things said on FB or different people have been reporting different things about my side of the family whatever the case may be. But my side of the family, the Barnes family, we have worked with LE from day one. My sister DB, she is willing to do anything and everything. They have pulled her in and she has been interviewed non stop. They pulled my dad in and interviewed him non stop. I am talking hours, and a day at a time, or two days at a time. Everybody is working here but it is kind of not turning up anything. My sister is taking all kinds of tests. She is willing to take a lot of other tests but LE doesnt want to go there for various reasons. They are kind of staying away from that but she is willing to do that. She is willing to do anything to help find our sister.. But like I said, for different reasons from LE wont let her do things or say certain things. If she seems a little quiet or MIA, whatever the case may be, thats the reason why. LE is keeping her in contact, controlling her movements, what she can or cant do, or say, as far as the case is concerned..
Peas Thats a good thing to say. People might wonder why DB isnt being more vocal, but Le arent letting her do her part in taking the lie detector test and things like that
BB LE is saying basically that they are not there, they are not that far in the investigation right now. They want to kind of wait and use that at a later time or whatever the case may be. they didnt give us specific reasons. But whatever reason is, They told us to stay away from that. My suggestion was to put everybody on a lie detector test. Everybody who knows PB who was here in Bmore, that was free around the time she went missing. Even as to myself. I mean, I... If we dont have anything to hide, we should have no problems like jumping through hoops with LE to find out what is going on. Like I said, we got to move when LE says to move, Do what they tell us to do when they tell us to do it. Thats all we have been doing.
Peas Introduces Jan
Jan- Thank you for coming on again. ... I cant put a finger on it, it is like she just vanished off the face of the earth, know what I mean?
(Minute 50)
BB Yes maam.
Jan- My concern is that MSM are not talking about PB like they were in the past. I know we want to continue to keep her face out there. As you said
I have read some things said on FB too, that have put the finger to your family. I just want to know, when you read things like that, how does that make you feel?
BB Me myself, because I know we are a million percent innocent of everything, it phases me, but then it doesnt phase me. But Then I talk to my sister because a lot of it is her and I see how hurt she is and it makes me angry. A couple of times, I wrote a couple of people back, and I had to catch myself. A couple of people wrote me on FB and said yeah, dont go there. I feel like, my sister has been missing for a month. Instead of being positive and giving us positive feedback like so many people are, there are a couple of people who just want to say things just because. No type of evidence, no back up, nothing. It kind of irritates us a lot but, we are trying to keep my family together. My sister, like I said, I can see it in her face as she is reading, we actually discussed it the other day. We are trying to guard from certain things being said. A couple teachers from her school are monitoring it and every time they see something, they just erase it. But since they are teachers they cant get to it all the time. So a couple of things do slip through But I try to brush it off. I mean, seeing as how I know it isnt true,.. I know my sister, I know her well. I mean, shes my sister, I know she has nothing to hide. Thats another reason we have been working effortlessly with LE, not so much to try to prove her innocence, but because we all know she is innocent, we have nothing to hide. But that is why we are working so hard. Non stop. Non stop.
Jan- There is one thing I want to clear up with our listeners. PB was not drinking or smoking pot the night before she went missing, is that correct?
BB The night before she went missing, I was actually working, so I cant
.I wasnt there. My sister KB was there, and she said that they were all three watching movies, just the three of them. Thats my sister. I dont think she has a reason to lie, so I am going to go based off of what she said. She said they were all watching movies just chilling. And thats what they usually do. I cant imagine, both of my sisters being there letting PB smoke or drink. I cant see that. Especially because, in the fields that both of my sisters were in, random drug testing occurs all the time. I cant imagine them just being around marijuana, or whatever the case may be, and enjoying it, living it up. I mean, KB works with kids, every day. shes is a
she actually works at a Kindercare, she manages it I believe, shes one of the head people there. And DB of course, working at a pharmacy, being a pharmacy tech, and her other job
I cant imagine them just letting PB or themselves, just smoke and drink. I've definitely never seen it
In the 22 years I have been around them, I havent seen anything like that.
Jan Thats what they also said, when they were on the show, that there was no drinking or smoking the night before. So Lets just clear that up, no, it didnt happen.
BB No maam, to the best of my knowledge it never happened. Like I said, all of this is based off of what they tell me. Because I am not around that much, or as much as I would like to have been. But from what they tell me, like I said, I have never seen any of my sisters smoking marijuana or drinking, anything of the sort. I dont know where that came from
.I am not sure where that came from, but as far as I know, that cant be proven, and I have never seen it happen myself.
Jan Thank you BB.
Peas Thats very important information. Thats misinformation thats been out there since the beginning. Thank you, BB, for clearing that up. BB has been on our show numerous times since the beginning of January. We want to encourage everyone to share whatever information no matter how slight, with the authorities
In this week coming up, what does your family have planned? Is the media continuously reaching out to you?
(Minute 56)
BB Yes maam, I have a lot of different media outlets wanting to interview. I have been kind of working with them, but I have been kind of busy, a lot of stuff is going on here, in my own personal life of course. Our family has a lot of different people speaking to the different news media. A lot of different people volunteering, stepping up, People that have been here since day one. Like My cousin A . She actually came down to DBs apartment the morning after DB went missing, her and her sister.. They have been here ever since. She knows what has been going on, and she has been speaking to the media a lot. RB has been speaking to them a lot, and I have been as well.
Peas. Thats terrific. How do you feel about the coverage of the last month and a half?
BB At one point in time, I really really thought it was a great thing. The first day when she meant missing, after a while we started getting random people calling us and wanting to do interviews, and at one point of time, at my sisters apartment there were four news vans parked outside. After a while of actually sitting down and listening to what they are saying, it kind of threw me off a little bit because I didnt listen to them right away, I was so busy doing them so much
. me and my sisters were always talking to someone. we didnt really get to see how the story was. Going back, they were saying she disappeared from my fathers house
he lives in Atlanta
this is in Bmore Maryland! It was different. And they were saying she left at 11:30 at night. Yeah
She didnt leave at 11:30 at night Its kind of like a lot of things that have kind of taken away from what actually happened. I think that started to put
I dont want to say a bad taste in their mouths, but it made people wonder "well what kind of life was she living that she was leaving the house at 11:30 at night?" Just the small inconsistencies I feel that could have possibly played a role in people just saying oh, yeah, shes just another girl, shes gone. It was a good thing, but it also could possibly be a bad thing.
Peas Thats a great point because the media is terrific because they can help publicize a cause but if the information they are sharing is not necessarily inaccurate, then it can bring us back several steps. The media didnt actually portray the facts correctly. Do you feel this might have hindered her case?
BB I believe at the beginning a lot of the clips were kind of short, hey, PB is missing, If you have seen her call LE. Kind of like that. But as the time started going on and the story started to get deeper, and people started to pick up stuff. The news started attaching to things that I had never even heard before. Some news people called me up and said hey, they are searching such and such a place, or is it true she was smoking weed and she was doing crack. I was like, okay, if you do not hear it from the family or from LE, please dont report it. I have had to call several different stations to get them to pull their stories or change their stories. Because a lot of people were just
they were putting out stuff that they had heard other reporters say, or they heard somebody else say. It is kind of
I was like
Yeah. I know that took a lot away from my sisters case. When stuff about drugs came out, and drinking and partying and stuff.
(Min. 60)
If I would have heard that on the news, I would have thought, hey thats just a girl, another wild girl, she left her house saying she dont want to come home. I thought
thats not who my sister is. That could have possibly made people turn away. So at the beginning it was cool,, but then towards the middle of everything it started to get worse and worse. Thats why I have been really really monitoring
I have actually had a couple of places send me their write ups before they reported it. That wasnt even a request, Someone actually respected our family enough to say "hey, I want to print something, heres a copy of it, Read, it, fix it say whatever you need to say if you need to fix anything, and send it back to me and Ill print it." So we have a couple of people working with us to make sure their stories are 100% right. There are still a few people going off of all the negative stuff, whether it be someone who said something or what they heard. I dont think that is helping right now.
Jan- (compliments Barnes family on their class, not talking bad about anyone, not pointing at people or telling people off. Commends Barnes family.)
BB Yes maam. Thank you very much. Actually my uncle Harry has been kind of keeping everything pretty cool. I mean, because There was a point of time when everybody was really angry. And rightfully so, I guess. My mom was really angry because the stuff that was going on about my sister. And she didnt raise her that way, she didnt raise none of us that way. For all of her hard work to come back
it was kind of like, yeah, like a slap in the face. Especially certain people saying certain things, whatever the case may be. There have been times when we have all been angry. We just keep it to ourselves, we have been trying to keep it in the room. We might talk about it, but we are trying our best to stay positive. It is not about who is saying what or who is throwing dirt. None of that really matters as of now. When my sister comes home, if they want to keep throwing it, they can. If they want to talk about it again, or If they want to keep saying stuff, thats cool. But my sister is still missing. At the end of the day she is still not home and thats what matters the most to everyone here in Bmore.
Peas people need to stay focused, and the issue is PB coming home. People wanting to be PIs or detectives, saying this person or that person
But people dont know the truth. Really. Honestly. Whatever it is that you feel, it may not necessarily be the truth. They need to focus on the person who is most important, and that is PB and her safety. From the Chat room: please tell BB it is important to take care of his health, and doesnt burn out. Being the spokesperson for the family, thats a lot for one person to handle. He needs to take care of himself. How are you handling your self and making sure you are okay?
(Minute 65)
BB I am pretty cool. Out of all the family members, I guess you could say I am the cooler one. I dont really get too stressed out. My own personal life, of course has taken wrong turns like everybody else. But at the end of the day, my sister is not here. That is most important to me. Relationships, family relationships
Nothing really matters right now. That may sound wrong, but to be totally honest. I am sitting here, I am walking around my house, I am warm. It is cold here in Bmore. There is snow everywhere, its icing up. For all we know, my sister could be out there somewhere. I always go back to that at the end of the day. The only thing that matters to me is finding my sister. I am (buried? married?) and sleeping, I am going back to my regular routines, but I dont want to be the one to forget my sister. I have been telling that to the various news outlets. We are not going to stop, forever. I cant talk for anybody else, but as for myself and my family, we are never going to stop until we find my sister. Going off of what you were saying, assuming stuff and thinking about all the things that could have happened. Of course your mind starts to try and come up with all the possibilities. What I have been telling my family is, when we find her, she can tell us what happened. There is no point of stressing ourselves all out going What if shes in another country What if this or what if that. What if she is in another state. All of the what-ifs are stressful. It kind of gets to me, like when I am trying to get to sleep or whatever the case may be. But that just gives me more motivation to get out there and find her.
Peas You know as a family in Peas in their Pods, we are here for you and want to help you in every way possible. WE want to make sure you, and your family, are okay as well. It can only be very very difficult, not knowing where your loved one is. You can lean on us for support.
Jan- PB and your family are in my prayers continuously. We really do hope we find her soon.
Peas Thank you so much for coming on tonight, again. I know your days are not quiet. They are very, very busy. The fact that you keep making time for Peas radio, we appreciate you.
BB We appreciate you. You have been one of the main organizations that has been by our side from day one. You and the Guardian Angels chapter down here in Bmore. They have been through everything with us, always checking on FB pages, calling to seeing if we need anything. You are like family now. My family has been really supportive of each other. No arguments, no fighting, nothing. Everybody is focused. We are all in this together. We are relying on each other and relying you guys to keep us going and keep our sisters story going. You are one of the main, most positive places to turn to when we need to get the information out We definitely appreciate that.
Peas Please stay focused. No matter what that negative energy is, keep focused.
BB Alright thank you.
Peas and Jan talk about PB, and cant imagine what happened to her