...GRACE: Unleash the lawyers, Robert Schalk, Randy Kessler. All right, Kessler, there are charges lodged against her right now. I guess you think that's not fair.
RANDY KESSLER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, she`s only a suspect. If there`s no bodies, you don`t know where they are, and you really have two people. You have this woman when she`s medicated and when she`s not medicated. And when she`s not medicated, that may be what you want to call temporary insanity. She may have done something when she was not on her meds. We don`t know nearly enough to charge her at this point.
GRACE: The Constitution, Robert Schalk, does not take into consideration split personalities when a crime has been committed. And yes, mothers are allowed to take their children but not take them away from the father. And now we have grave concerns the children are being mistreated or worse.
ROBERT SCHALK, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, we don`t know any of that, obviously. As the officers are even telling you, this investigation is in the early stages. Hopefully, everyone comes home OK.
GRACE: What are you talking about?
SCHALK. And Nancy, the...
GRACE: Don`t give me any legal mumbo-jumbo when there`s a 2 year old and a 3-year-old missing, and you`re saying we don`t any if there`s been a crime. A paranoid schizophrenic has made off with a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old!
SCHALK: Yes, but we need to use this system to get everyone...
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GRACE: Look down about three inches -- Maryland mom, schizophrenic, missing with children ages 2 and 3. You see that?
SCHALK: The goal is to get them back, not to prosecute this woman who has clear mental issues. That`s the goal, to get them back, not to prosecute.
GRACE: I agree with you. I agree with you the goal is to get them back first. Everyone, this is not the first time a mother with diagnosed mental ailments has made off with her children.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Eight-month-old Gabriel Johnson (ph) vanished just after Christmas 2009. Mom allegedly claimed to the boy`s father that she suffocated him. But Elizabeth Johnson also told the judge she gave Gabriel away to be with a real loving family.
Today, no sign of 6-year-old Timothy Pitzen (ph) after his mom took him out of school and ran off. Days later, she was found dead from suicide in a hotel room.
Another bizarre case, Dwight Falling`s (ph) mother allegedly said she gave the baby away to strangers in burqas. Bonnie Sweeten (ph) allegedly staged an elaborate kidnap hoax, calling 911, saying she and her 9-year-old girl were carjacked by two men. Prosecutors said it was a plot to swindle hundreds of thousands in ransom money.
