[Ashleigh Banfield:] Smack, junk, dope, big H, black tar heroin has so many different street names, but whatever you call it, heroin is causing hellish scenes across this country every day. Is this tragic photo the new normal? A young mother OD`s on heroin behind the wheel of a car, syringe still in hand, baby boy crying in the back seat.
[Banfield:] It`s heroin rearing its ugly truth across America. But can we fight back? Dozens of young women are emerging from the shadows after a frat brother is accused of a string of violent sexual assaults against University of Wisconsin co-eds. Now police have his sinister journal that details sex fantasies, killing, and actually names names. Is it the smoking gun? And close to a dozen women have accused Donald Trump of unwanted sexual advances. Trump says they`re all liars and he`s threatening to sue.
[Donald Trump , Presidential Nominee:] Total fabrication.
[Banfield:] So why hasn`t he followed through on his threats, especially since he`s sued hundreds and hundreds of people before? Hello, everyone. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome. This is PRIMETIME JUSTICE. We`re on top of some breaking news in that nationwide manhunt for Michael Vance, Jr. New tonight, one of Vance`s former bosses says that he fears he`s one of the people on the accused killer`s hit list. Here`s what Luke Reeve`s told HLN affiliate KOCO why he believes that`s the case. Reeve said they were close. They were close friends. But when his fiancee`s 13- year-old sister reported that Vance touched her during a sleepover, he says that enough. He called the police. Vance did not end up being charged in that incident, but Reeve said Vance vandalized his property, sprayed orange graffiti all over his car in retaliation. And now he says his family is in protective custody because U.S. Marshals feared they might just be a target. Vance is accused of shooting six people, including two people who he shot dead and tried to butcher. Two police officers, as well, were shot in Oklahoma. He`s been on the run ever since. He shot two civilians, too. And he posted much of this on Facebook Live after the shooting. Take a listen to what these witnesses saw during that shootout between Vance and the officers.
[Unidentified Male:] I thank God for Wellston PD and them two officers. If it wasn`t for them, I think we all would probably be dead. It was just back and forth, back and forth, aiming and shooting at everybody. Two bullet holes, that`s going to be an
[Ak. Unidentified Male:] Intense. It`s like being in a small war without a gun. That`s no good. I got bullets coming behind me and bullets coming at me because he`s over here, the cops are behind me, so I had to like a snake and get on out from
[Banfield:] I want to bring in Scott Mitchell, the host of "Mitchell Talks." He`s covering this story in Oklahoma City. Scott, the sheriff there says there`s not necessarily a written hit list, but they know of it somehow. But do we know if there are other targets besides this potential former boss?
[Scott Mitchell, "mitchell Talks":] Ashleigh, we can assume the answer is yes. Apparently, he had a number of folks, it`s been reported, that he was after, and it appears that they`re taking these threats very seriously, law enforcement is.
[Banfield:] Well, the funeral for the two people who were murdered, the aunt and uncle of this fugitive that`s tomorrow. So you can only expect his
[Mitchell:] Well, lots of precautions. First, Luther schools have been dismissed for the day. So that makes it easier for them to guard the place where they`re going to have their funerals, called the Luther auditorium. So there will be family members there. But we can assume and we also have sources who say the police presence in Luther tomorrow will be massive.
[Banfield:] And what about this notion that, you know, while he was on the run, he spoke about being shot and bleeding, and now we`re hearing from the police that he was shot twice. Do they think he is able to survive those bullets?
[Mitchell:] Well, that`s the question everybody wants to know. Sources tell me there were two gunshot wounds to his shoulder. Now, you talk about four days. If he`s not received assistance, medical assistance, infection could set in. He could be bleeding badly. We just don`t know. It`s safe to assume that he`s in a bad situation medically, if he`s still alive.
[Banfield:] Scott Mitchell, we`re going to keep on this story. You report back to us the minute you hear anything new. The tipline`s up on the screen. This is a dangerous man. I`ll remind you again, if you see him, he`s considered armed and dangerous, very dangerous. The police say stay away, don`t get near him, may be armed with an AK, and he has shown he is prepared to use it. Got another story for you tonight, heroin. This is a drug that is virtually haunting America. The latest very public and disturbing example tonight is coming from the ironically named town of Hope, Indiana, population 2,100, and this is one of them. In this photo just released by police, 25-year-old Erica Hurt there she is just a few weeks out of rehab, there in her hand the syringe as she is slumped behind the wheel of her car. What you`re not seeing is what`s in the back seat. Her baby is crying. Her 10-month-old baby boy is crying while she`s still gripping the syringe, out of it. Erica`s own mother put the tragedy into perspective.
[Unidentified Female:] Heroin is the devil. It is the devil. Yes, heroin addicts, including my daughter they choose to take that first hit. But then that drug takes their soul.
[Banfield:] Heroin is the devil. Police say they released this photo not to embarrass, not to humiliate, but as a wakeup call, a tough-love public service announcement aimed at stopping this epidemic. But it is certainly something we have seen all too often. Take a look.
[Unidentified Female:] In Ohio, this picture going viral and highlighting the dangers of addiction.
[Unidentified Male:] It`s an epidemic. It`s everywhere. We got people that are dying.
[Unidentified Female:] A couple sprawled out along the sidewalk. They say that they are breathing, possible overdose. Wife and husband were high on heroin. Meaning my mom?
[Unidentified Male:] Yes.
[Unidentified Female:] How?
[Unidentified Male:] On drugs. Maybe my son`ll think about this, see what it did to his family, see what it did to his mother.
[Unidentified Female:] Screaming, the 2-year-old is seen tugging at her mother`s limp body.
[Banfield:] It is necessary to take a closer look at this, especially this latest case from Indiana and the ballooning heroin problem nationwide. Ray Caputo is a reporter for News 96.5 WDBO radio. Ray, thanks for being with us. What do you know about the baby in the back of that car? How long was the child in the car with the mother in that condition?
[Ray Caputo, Wdbo:] Well, the good news, Ashleigh, is that it wasn`t a very hot day. It was actually a crisp fall day. So it was in the upper 50s. The child was in the car for probably about a half an hour, at least. We know it took some time before when paramedics and police actually arrived on the scene to actually get Hurt to come to. They had to give her two doses of Narcan. So that child was in the car most of this time, and the kid had to be traumatized. I mean, could you imagine?
[Banfield:] Ten months old, still in a carseat, I`m assuming, at 10 months old. Where is that baby right now?
[Caputo:] The baby`s in the care of the young woman`s mother. In fact, she was on the scene pretty quickly, and we heard some video from her. She`s not too happy about this. But she is defending her daughter in the sense that she says that her picture shouldn`t have been posted all over social media, and she`s a little upset about that. But the child is doing OK and the child in the care of his grandmother.
[Banfield:] Yes, I just saw a mugshot of Erica Hurt. That`s the kind of thing that`s public record. But when it comes to Erica, is she behind bars right now? What`s her status? Where is she?
[Caputo:] She`s behind bars. She was on probation when this happened, for forgery. So when she got caught, you know, in this predicament, she was taken in for a probation violation, but she`s also been additionally charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and of course, child neglect.
[Banfield:] I want to hold that thought for a minute. Brad Lamm is an addiction specialist and himself a former heroin user. Brad, it`s great that you`re here because there are a lot of questions. When we see that Erica Hurt was just a couple of weeks out of rehab, had her baby in the back seat of the car and just needed a fix, no matter what she`s behind the wheel, she has a baby and she still had to have that fix. Can you explain this to me?
[Brad Lamm, Addiction Specialist:] Well, here`s something that a lot of people don`t understand, Ashleigh. So there are more than two million Americans that are addicted to opiates right now. And people often confuse detoxing with treatment. People will say, Oh, my daughter has been through treatment five or six times, when in fact, they`ve just been through detox. So it`s really important to even educate yourself about the loved one you have that`s addicted. What have they really been going through because long-term treatment does work, but just detoxing off the drug will likely send you right back into the drug because your body has not only a physical craving for it but a psychological
[Banfield:] That`s the addiction part of it, and it is a vise. I get it. Heroin is like a vise that seizes your entire soul and your physical body. But the question I have...
[Lamm:] "Vise" makes it sound like yes.
[Banfield:] I mean, like a vise, I mean like a gripping vise. I don`t mean like a bad habit vice, I mean like a vise that grips you. And here`s the question. Look, I`m of a certain age, and when I was young, heroin was a bad word. It was for street urchins who were dying in the gutter in New York or the scene of a Hollywood and So Brad, your Skype line is a little bit shaky, but I think one of the words that dropped out that our audience absolutely needs to know is you were talking about opiates. And I think the pill, you know, epidemic, as well, where people get hooked on the pills. They`re very expensive. We have a graphic that shows the cost of some of these drugs. And I want to put it up there so people know why maybe heroin is so alluring because it`s as little as 5 bucks for a hit. What you`re seeing there is not a lie. As little as $5 to get high on heroin, compared to $45 for a gram of coke, 20 bucks for an Oxycontin, roughly 10 bucks for a gram of weed. And these are all estimated prices, but that should give people a rough estimate of why perhaps heroin is getting so much popular. And there`s something else, Brad, I want to show our viewers because if you don`t think this is a deterrent, if you see the faces of drugs and what 10 years can do to someone who is abusing heroin this is the kind of thing you would think Amy at 35 years old, looks like she did in 2013, and look at her 10 years prior at the beginning of that string. That is what happens with just 10 years of drug addiction. And there are strings and strings of people just like this. Here`s Herbie, who goes from 1998 to 2014, aging what looks like about 30 years. And these are the and look at the injuries on his face all the way through in the mugshot. These are the kinds of things you would think would be deterrents, and they`re not. And Brad, if I still have you, if you can hear me, you would think a 10- month-old baby in your back seat is a lot more of a deterrent than the faces of drugs.
[Lamm:] It`s not a deterrent because opiates
[Banfield:] I want to update our viewers on some stories that we`re breaking right now on tracking justice here on PRIMETIME JUSTICE. In California, a woman is suing a long-time doctor for USA Gymnastics for sexual assault. The gymnast, who isn`t named in the civil suit, is claiming that coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi famous coaches turned a blind eye to Dr. Larry Nassar`s abuse. It is the second suit filed since September. USA Gymnastics is denying the allegations. In Nebraska, a former doctor could get the death penalty after a jury found him guilty of stabbing four people to death in two separate incidents five years apart! Among Anthony Garcia`s alleged victims, an 11-year-old boy. Prosecutors say Garcia testified or targeted the families of two professors at Creighton University, one who had fired him, another who kept him out of the medical school`s residency program. And across the U.S., that heroin epidemic we`re talking about seemingly getting worse by the day. What this drug can do to you, what it can make people do, as others simply roll tape on their tragedy.