[Velez-mitchell:] Exciting new leads in the nationwide search for little Haylee Donathan believed to be on the run with her mom and her mom`s sex- offender boyfriend. Surveillance footage shows the mother in Colorado two days after she was spotted with little Haylee in Ohio. So where, oh where are they now? And an infuriating case of justice denied. An ex-con rapes a 4-year- old and gets one year behind bars. I`ll analyze how the justice system dropped the ball. Troubled young starlet, Lindsay Lohan at the center of a scandal swirling around the disappearance of almost a half a million dollars worth of bling; this as the notoriously unpredictable Hollywood actress stays true to form and posts a picture of herself topless, topless while her hair is covering certain key parts to her Twitter page. that`s the photo right there. I am back with Mike Walters, assignment manager for TMZ. Where does this case go from here, Mike?
[Mike Walters, Assignment Manager, Tmz:] Yes, you`re showing the picture, it`s weird, we were talking about her behavior and how erratic it`s getting. And speaking of Twittering, this photo she twittered it`s like talking about erratic people and their behaviors, it`s like their worst nightmare. That you can write on it anytime of the day. Just this morning she also twittered that J.B. of talking about Jessica Biel that Justin Timberlake might be cheating on her she was in a nightclub I mean and she`s writing all of this early in the morning. It`s like one of those things where I`m looking at it going, Lindsay, I mean, I`m not sure number one she should be twittering at all, especially if she`s not in the right state of mind. but number two, like you said, putting herself up topless on her Twitter page so everyone can see it on purpose for what reason, I don`t know. But I think then we`re talking about this jewelry and that being stolen. People are going to start looking at her because of her erratic behavior. And every morning on TMZ, when we do the meetings there`s always the story that comes up about Lindsay`s behavior or what she did the night before or the photos of her coming out of the nightclub the night before or the that morning; or her insanity and the erratic behavior and the breakup. And they are back together and her dad, I mean all this stuff keeps coming up over and over. And I think you`re right I mean, at this point, I think this is why we`re going to have to keep discussing this and her, even if she`s not pointed out right away by Scotland Yard with the theft.
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes, and let me say this, her erratic behavior is really an addiction to drama. And I thought it was very interesting that when she Twitter-picked that photo of her topless with the hair covering her breasts. She said, "I`m that bored." That was her explanation for why she did this, old picture, I`m that bored. So obviously her idea of excitement is a lot of drama and she`s getting what she wants, a lot of drama.
[Walters:] Correct.
[Velez-mitchell:] Thank you, Mike.
[Walters:] All right Jane.
[Velez-mitchell:] A breaking development tonight in the nationwide manhunt for a precious Ohio 4-year-old Haylee Donathan, she is on the run with her mom and her mom`s tier-3 sex-offender boyfriend Robbi Potter. He escaped from a halfway house. Tonight a possible break in the case, even as the child`s family desperately pleads for her safe return.
[Mary Watson, Grandmother Of Missing 4-yr-old:] I`m scared something has happened to them. I don`t know what. I don`t know if he`s hurt my granddaughter or if he`s hurt them both or what, I`m scared.
[Velez-mitchell:] The trio`s truck has been spotted all the way in Colorado. U.S. marshals released brand new photos of the 1988 Chevy pickup at a Colorado gas station, more than 1,000 miles away from their hometown in Ohio. The surveillance camera even snapped a shot of Haylee`s mom, Candace Watson, putting gas into the truck. But unfortunately, U.S. marshals were not able to confirm that little Haylee was indeed inside the truck at that time. The new pictures were taken June 2nd, just two days after the truck was last seen at an Ohio Wal-mart. If this fleeing trio made it all the way to Colorado from Ohio in just two days, where could they be now? And what does this video tell us about the mom`s state of mind? Is she there of her own free will or is she being held hostage? Straight to my fantastic expert panel: Robin Bond, attorney and former prosecutor; Michael Cardoza, former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney; Curtis Sliwa, founder of the "Guardian Angels;" and by phone, U.S. Marshall Brian Fitzgibbon, the lead investigator on this case. Marshall, are you surprised that with all the national media attention, we`ve been talking about this and talking about this and the release of videos like this Colorado sighting, these people have yet to be spotted?
[Brian Fitzgibbon, Deputy U.s. Marshall:] Hey, it`s alarming. I mean, we received over 200 phone calls from our tip line in the past four or five days. We`re exhausted. We are talking to people and our concern is the citizens across the country, and this is a heart breaking story, they want to help. We can`t catch a break right now. They didn`t disappear, they didn`t fall-off the face of the earth they`re somewhere.
[Velez-mitchell:] Now, is there an incentive for this mom? Let`s say for example, she might be watching right now, to turn herself in now, would her penalties or possible prison sentence, what could happen to her in the justice system be a lot less if she came forward now than if she waited?
[Fitzgibbon:] Absolutely. If she takes the route of turning herself in, it could do nothing but help herself out. We would even encourage her to call our tip line or call her mother or call somebody close saying, "I`m ok, Haylee`s ok." We need to hear something. We haven`t heard anything from them in over two weeks. And their welfare at this point is just making everybody an emotional wreck that`s surrounded by both families.
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes, now she used to live in Arizona. There`s speculation that she might be headed there as well with this tier-3 sex- offender boyfriend and her child. What do you do? I mean, there`s so many states, is this a needle in a haystack situation? How are you focusing in?
[Fitzgibbon:] We`re trying to focus obviously, we track back to where she used to live, we spoke to some of her close friends. Everyone is saying, "Listen, we haven`t heard from her, she`s not reaching out to us." Now, she`s had history where she`s gone out west and she hasn`t spoke to anybody, but this is national news, this is making newspapers, this is making CNN news. She`s got to hear about it, she`s got to understand.
[Velez-mithcell:] Obviously, yes the biggest concern is for the child, is there any I know you have to be very careful with what you say, but obviously you originally believed that she the mother went of her own volition with this cretin and took the child with her. They were going on a camping trip. And now do you still feel that she`s there of her own volition with the child? Or is there any way to figure out what the emotional state of this mom and this child is right now?
[Fitzgibbon:] There`s just no way of figuring that out. A lot has changed, she met this man and in three days she decides to run cross country with him. In the past two weeks, she spends nothing but all of her time every hour of the day with him. She`s got to be realizing something isn`t right.
[Velez-mitchell:] Well, let`s hope let`s hope that she`s aware that the entire country is begging her for the sake of her beautiful precious 4- year-old child to get away from him, and if she can do that safely God willing and get to safety. Thank you so much Marshall, I wish the best of luck. I know you guys are working around the clock with no sleep to find this precious child. Let`s take another look at the surveillance shots from the Colorado gas station. These shots were snapped on June 2nd in Stratton, Colorado. That`s more than 1,000 miles away from where they started at their hometown in Ohio. They managed to travel very far in a very short period of time. Now, just two days earlier, the mom was spotted at a Wal-Mart in Ohio where she appeared to change clothes in a bathroom. So two sightings in two days, thousands of miles apart, but since then they`ve be totally off the radar. So Michael Cardoza, you`ve covered so many of these cases. Do you get a sense that they wised-up to the national manhunt, realized they couldn`t afford to be seen and have either switched cars or they`re still in Colorado because you can only drive so far without gas.
[Michael Cardoza, Former Prosecutor:] Well, certainly if she hasn`t, he has. I mean he apparently has some criminal smarts if there is such a thing and he appears to be taking the back roads and avoiding any contact with the public but for the necessities of life.
[Velez-mitchell:] You know, only one shot shows Haylee`s mom Candace Watson actually putting gas into the truck. Investigators won`t say how she paid for this gas and how it factors into their search for little Haylee. But Curtis isn`t it safe to say that the trio obviously needs money to survive during this time? Ok, so would it be a safe guess to assume that she used a credit card and cops traced that credit card to this gas station where they then found this video as opposed to randomly finding this video?
[Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels:] Oh Jane, no doubt that`s exactly it. And that`s generally what causes people on the lam to get bagged and tagged, the old credit card. For her sake, she should hope that that credit card number bounce, you know when you keep pressing you`re number in and it doesn`t seem to work. But thank God it did register and now they`re on their case. But could you believe this mother?
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes.
[Sliwa:] ...to actually participate in this? It`s not a Stockholm Syndrome. She`s not Tania Patty Hearst, you know under there because she`s been brainwashed. She`s willingly there with a tier-3 sex-offender who has fled with her and her child.
[Velez-mitchell:] Well, listen, extremely bad judgment in going off in the first place. But Robin Bond, former prosecutor, at some point she could have realized that this was an awful situation. Remember, they originally were going camping and they she actually returned the tent that they have used. She might have at some point realized "Oh, my gosh, this guy is dangerous, I need to get out of here," and become a hostage. So how do prosecutors deal with that? Let`s say they`re all found, God willing alive and ok?
[Robin Bond, Former Prosecutor:] Well, I think that one of the things they`re looking at and we`ve had this commentary before, is her conduct on the videotape, the surveillance tape. Does she appear to be walking with confidence which she has? Or does she appear to be having furtive glances and trying to escape. That has not been apparent so far in this case. But as a prosecutor, you want to encourage this woman to come in and bring the child back because, you know, you care as much about a reward for the safe return of the child as you do for apprehending Robbi Potter. And so I would not be focusing on charging her, I would be focusing on incentivizing her in some way to come back in bring the child back in. And then, you know, help us better understand what has really occurred here.
[Velez-mitchell:] All right, so if you`re watching, I want to send a special message out to this man, this tier-3 sex-offender, "let this mother and child go." Let them go and go on your way and take your chances but don`t take it with the lives of these two mother-child, two females who have nothing to do with your mess, please let them go. I want to thank my excellent panel. NFL star Donte Stallworth only gets one month behind bars for driving drunk and killing a pedestrian back in March. I`ll have the story of justice denied. And from one outrage to another, an ex-con rapes a 4-year-old girl and only gets a slap on the wrist; a year in the slammer. Did the criminal justice system drop the ball? Give me a holler.