[Unidentified Female:] ... the shape of an "F" and an "L" and an "R," and just scratchings on a piece of paper.
[Jane Velez-mitchell:] Tonight, as the desperate search continues for beautiful missing 27-year-old Kristy Kelly in Indiana, another woman who went missing around the same time in the same area is found alive, unbelievably, being kept in a wooden cage with a belt as a dog collar and working as alleged sex slave. What happened to 30-year-old Joelle Lockwood inside the trailer of horrors we will show you? And is it connected to the disappearance of still missing Kristy Kelly? Good evening, I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell coming to you live.
[Unidentified Female:] This is my daughter. I will do whatever I have.
[Unidentified Male:] The brave and difficult fight of holding onto hope.
[Unidentified Female:] Please take that extra moment and just look to the side of the road.
[Unidentified Male:] Towering over a map, volunteers mark areas that have been combed. What areas have been searched? Where do we need to go? Hundreds have joined in the search.
[Unidentified Female:] Please, please, I`m begging you from one mother to another mother. We won`t give up, Kristy.
[Velez-mitchell:] Mother of two, Kristy Kelly vanished into thin air in Boonville, Indiana, way back on August 15 after leaving a VFW post about 4:30 in the morning. She had been hanging out with some friends. She left her cell phone in the bathroom. And neither Kristy nor her car was ever seen again. It was just 20 miles away and five weeks earlier that another mother of two, Joelle Lockwood, disappeared after leaving a party. We are now learning that after that party, Joelle accepted a ride with one of her captors, this man, 37-year-old Ricky Roy House. They had apparently known each other since high school. And that`s the woman with House. Things took an ugly turn with Joelle agreed to go to House`s trailer, OK, the trailer he shares with his girlfriend, that woman right there. Cops say once Joelle arrived, she was held as a prisoner, raped, beaten, and forced to remain in a two-and-a-half-foot-tall wooden cage wearing a collar. She was discovered eventually by one of her captors` friends, who just stopped by the trailer for a visit. He said Joelle was wearing just a T-shirt and a collar, begging to be rescued.
[Ronald Higgs, Rescuer:] I`m not leaving this house without her. I don`t care what I`ve got to do. She`s coming home. Stuffed that shotgun right here under my chin with his finger on the trigger. He said, "I`m going to kill you." And you`ll probably bleep this out, but I said, "If you`re going to F-ing kill me, you`d better do it now. I`m going to take this F-ing away from you and beat you to death with it."
[Velez-mitchell:] That man is a hero. He got Joelle out. Joelle`s dramatic reappearance, does it mean police are any closer to finding this woman, Kristy Kelly? I want to hear from you. Do you think these cases are related? Call me: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1-877-586-7297. Join the conversation. Go to my Facebook page, Jane Velez-Mitchell Facebook. Or talk to me on Twitter, @JVM. We have a fantastic Lion`s Den panel ready to debate these issues, but first out to my very special guest, missing woman Kristy Kelly`s father, Todd Scales. Todd, if I may call you that, thank you so much for joining us on the phone as our expert panel listens. With the news that Joelle Lockwood has been found, I have to ask you, sir, does that give you and I know you`re going through a nightmare of a situation right now, does it give you any hope that your daughter who vanished just 20 miles away in the same time frame could also somehow disappear?
[Todd Scales, Kristy Kelly`s Father:] We can all hope so.
[Velez-mitchell:] Is there...
[Scales:] We cling to that.
[Velez-mitchell:] Have police told you anything about your daughter`s disappearance?
[Scales:] No, they haven`t. We`re still kind of waiting, I suppose. We know there`s still no clues, no evidence of anything.
[Velez-mitchell:] That`s unbelievable. Now, the night your daughter vanished, she was out having a few drinks with some friends at a VFW hall. Her cell phone was found inside the bathroom. The last trace of Kristy came from a surveillance camera down the street at a Tasty Freeze. And you see it right there. It looks like Kristy`s SUV driving past about 20 minutes after she was last seen at the bar. But of course, it`s difficult to tell who`s driving the SUV. Kristy drives a silver 2003 Nissan Xterra, license plate ZF858 [SIC]. She lives, I understand, just over a mile with you, with the parents, with you, Todd, I understand, just about a mile away from the VFW hall she was hanging out at. So what on earth, Todd, could have happened during that one mile or just over a mile after she`s last seen at the bar on August 15 and, in the early morning hours, about 1:30 decides to leave?
[Scales:] That is the question we would like some answers to also. Believe me, it`s ran through our mind many of times. It`s about a four-minute drive from the VFW, so we have no idea what has happened.
[Velez-mitchell:] Now I remember that we`ve covered this story before. She was talking to two friends. She happens to be friendly with the bartender. I believe that bartender is a woman. She had just started at the bar, and she was being instructed, kind of, by the manager. And those two went off to cash out the bar at the end of the night, and when they came back, your daughter was gone. But she had left her cell phone in the bathroom. Is that accurate, sir?
[Scales:] Yes, that would be accurate.
[Velez-mitchell:] They`ve talked to both those people, the manager, undoubtedly, and the female bartender. Did they get any sense that there was any creep weirdo hanging out there that night who may have gotten fixated on your beautiful daughter? Any tips offered by these two individuals? Have you talked to them?
[Scales:] We have spoken with them, and no there was nothing like that going on that we`re aware of. Unfortunately, the VFW doesn`t have any surveillance cameras in their parking lot. So once she went out to her car, we really have no idea what happened at that point.
[Velez-mitchell:] Unbelievable. Well, I want to stop for one second. Let me ask you one more question, Todd, if I may call you that. Did your daughter have any romantic interests, any boyfriend that she may have had a fight with, anything of that nature?
[Scales:] None that she would have had a fight with that again, that I`m aware of. She was seeing a gentleman. He`s been helping in the search efforts and doesn`t seem to be a suspect.
[Velez-mitchell:] And the cops won`t tell you a thing?
[Scales:] Well, they`re like us. They`re still searching for answers also.
[Velez-mitchell:] Unbelievable. Let`s go to that nearby case that was just solved. Joelle Lockwood`s family shocked when she suddenly arrived home. Listen to her mother`s 911 call after her daughter suddenly showed up on her doorstep.
[Unidentified Female:] We have got her. You have Joelle? Yes. Is she OK? Yes, she`s she`s fine. But we have not talked to her at any length yet. I don`t know but a man found her, and she`s alive.
[Velez-mitchell:] All right. Lisa Lockwood, investigator, author of "Undercover Angel," initially when we covered these stories, you said that you thought there could very well be a connection between these two disappearances. Both women are about the same age. Both have two children, two young children. Both were even wearing similar outfits, jean shorts and shirts. Both vanished within 20 miles and five weeks of each other. Now that Joelle has been discovered and went through this horrific horror, allegedly, where she was kept in a cage and raped, but rescued by that man that we saw a second ago, does that give you any new insight into whether these two are connected?
[Lisa Lockwood, Investigator/author:] I absolutely thought initially that that was the case, that they were connected. And I`m not even saying right now that they cannot be. I know what police are doing, though. They are searching that area. They`re probably looking for evidence within that mobile home and that community. They`re interviewing and canvassing every single neighbor to see if there was any suspicious in those hours, on that exact day that Kristy Kelly had disappeared. So I`m not saying that they`re still not connected, but what this does is it gives me incredible hope that Kristy may still be alive. Let`s go out to the phone lines. David, Nova Scotia, what do you have to say? David, Nova Scotia.
[Caller:] Jane, this is a pleasure to talk to you.
[Velez-mitchell:] Thank you.
[Caller:] This is great. It kind of reminds me of the Cleveland story where the guy had the three women, was it, down in his basement locked up?
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes, Ariel Castro.
[Caller:] Yes, that guy.
[Velez-mitchell:] Those were all connected. Those were women from the neighborhood. And there had been sort of a general extensive sort of network of friends and family they were somehow intertwined with. My gosh, Holly Hughes, former prosecutor, It`s not farfetched to ask the question could these cases be connected? Anybody who`s crazy enough to allegedly kidnap a high-school friend, he`s charged with unlawful confinement and rape, and then rape her, allegedly, and keep her in a cage, naked in a dog collar, is capable of doing something to two women.
[Holly Hughes, Former Prosecutor:] Absolutely, Jane. What we don`t know at this point, we have heard from some of the initial reports and interviews that the reason he kidnapped her was he wanted to impregnate her, because his own girlfriend could no longer have children. So if you`re going to take one woman for that particular use, why would you not have a back-up plan? I agree with our investigator that this still could still be linked. And perhaps, if he did try to abduct Kristy Kelly, something went wrong, and that`s why she was not found there at the house. So they`re going to continue to look into this, but let`s just hope that we find Kristy alive like we did Joelle.
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes, you know, Heather Hanson, criminal defense attorney, it makes sense. The guy who rescued them said this, which I think is one of the most bizarre things. He says this couple, who had been arrested and we`ve got footage of them. You saw them being arrested this is the woman who was rescued, Joelle. And there is the man who allegedly kept her in a cage and raped her, and there is his girlfriend. And here`s what the hero, who rescued her, said. "The whole time, it was all they was talking about was a baby. She`s not leaving here until she has the baby. I`m not selling her. You`re not taking her. You`re not doing nothing. She told me Ricky was raping her, making her have oral sex. Kendra can`t have more children. Ricky doesn`t have any children of his own. I hate to say this to the public, or even hearing it, but I think they were just going to have a baby and we`d never see her again." Heather Hanson, there`s still a missing woman.
[Heather Hanson:] Yes, I mean, it`s very concerning. And the hope is that, now that we have these suspects and they`ve been arrested, they can search the home, they can search the area around the home. The other thing that you pointed out, Jane, that`s a point well-taken, is that they`re going to look for connections between Kelly and this couple to see because more often than not, people are abducted or kidnapped by people they know. We know that they knew their victim that was returned home. So these are the connections that the police will be trying to make to see whether or not, in fact, there was some relationship between Kelly and this couple.
[Velez-mitchell:] Well, Chris on Facebook says, "Thank you to the friend who rescued her and praying the other woman is found alive." Absolutely. Amy on Facebook: "Too much of a coincidence." So we`re going to take a short break. On the other side, we`re going to continue to talk to the father of missing Kristy Kelly. We want to hear from you. What are your theories? Might these two be connected? I want to ask the dad, have the police come to him and, "No, it`s not connected or it is connected"? Have they said anything to him? Have police looked at the possibility that these two who they`ve arrested might hold the key to this other disappearance? Or are they saying flat-out no connection whatsoever? Stay right there. We`re going to be back with more.
[Unidentified Female:] My granddaughter told me today, because I had to go see my grandbabies. I hadn`t seen them for five days. My grandbaby told me, she said, "Nana, you need to take my back to my daddy`s, because you need to go look for my mommy."