Missing Showgirl Recently Beaten Up by Boyfriend
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody look at this.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A missing persons case.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Las Vegas strip.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Showgirl Debbie Flores-Narvaez has been missing since December 12th.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a text message.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s kind of questionable if it makes sense.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That Debbie Flores sent to her mother.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was going through a bad time through a couple things.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She says, quite, "In case there is ever an emergency with me."</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can`t.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Contact Blu Griffith in Las Vegas.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A fellow Las Vegas performer.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She went to visit him between rehearsals.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was the last person to see her.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My ex-boyfriend, not my best friend.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He did confirm to me that she did come by.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police are not calling him a suspect.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did find out she was pregnant.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Griffith is accused of beating up Debbie on October 22nd.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look at this girl. She`s missing. She has to be found.</s>JEAN CASAREZ, GUEST HOST: We begin tonight with breaking news out of Nevada. We need your help to find a Las Vegas showgirl gone missing, nowhere to be found, and this is urgent. We are learning more details tonight from a stunning police report just uncovered. It reveals Debbie Flores-Narvaez was the victim of a domestic violence incident just weeks before she disappears. In this disturbing development, we learn the beautiful showgirl viciously attacked, elbowed in the chin, pushed to the ground, kicked, and her hair pulled out in clumps, all while she is pregnant. The alleged attacker, her ex-boyfriend, who police say is cooperating. Well, if so, then why didn`t he show up in court this morning? He was asked to. Tonight, the mystery deepens in the search for the missing Las Vegas showgirl. Good evening. I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session" on the truTV network, in for Nancy Grace. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. A shocking police report just uncovered reveals a missing Las Vegas showgirl was allegedly pushed down, kicked, punched, the victim in a vicious domestic violence attack, all just weeks before she disappears. Let us go straight out to Alexis Tereszcuk, reporter with Radaronline. Alexis, what`s the latest tonight?</s>ALEXIS TERESZCUK, RADARONLINE.COM: Hi, Jean. Well, this</s>CASAREZ: Well, Alex, we`ve got right here the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Report, which states that she was kicked and she was punched. Can you go through it with us, step by step, so we can really look at the facts, according to the police?</s>TERESZCUK: Yes. So according to the police report, Debbie went over to find Griffith. He was actually at his ex-girlfriend`s house. She went over there. She confronted him. They had an argument. We actually spoke with one of her friends at Radaronline, who said she found out that he had been cheating on her, so that may have been what caused her to go over there. So they got in a fight. He took her phone. He drove away. She followed him in the car. When he stopped again, she caught up with him. He got out of the car. That`s when he threw her phone. He started hitting her. He pulled out her hair. The police actually said they found chunks of her hair at the scene. And they got in a fight. That`s when he hit her. And as I said, she was pregnant at this time. So she called the police. They came. He was arrested and he was charged with this misdemeanor and this felony. And he was supposed to appear in court this morning, but he didn`t. The case has been continued until April, and that`s when he`ll appear again. But she`s been missing, and he was the last person to have seen her, is what we understand so far.</s>CASAREZ: All right, to John Shaffer, program director, Newstalk 720 KDWN in Las Vegas, according to this latest Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrest report, it says that when he initially tried to take that phone away, that she told police later that he said, Look, I`m not going to jail. And when he allegedly pushed her when she tried to retrieve the phone after he had thrown it, she said he again said, I`m not going to jail. Why didn`t he show up the this morning in court?</s>JOHN SHAFFER, NEWSTALK 720 KDWN: That we don`t know. He was supposed to show up. The case has been continued, a preliminary hearing set for April. There is no word on why he wasn`t in court this morning, or if there will be any repercussions because he wasn`t in court. However, he has denied all of the domestic allegations against him. He says he never kicked, punched, threw the phone or pulled her hair on that day.</s>CASAREZ: And police have said, repeatedly, as NANCY GRACE producers called him today, that he is cooperating with them in her disappearance and he is not at all a suspect. Let`s go out to the lawyers, Ray Giudice, defense attorney out of Atlanta, Alex Sanchez, defense attorney out of New York. All right, Ray Giudice, you know, I don`t get upset very often. I`m pretty calm, cool. I`m really upset tonight. And I`ll tell you why, all right. I know why he didn`t show up in court today, because his attorney could be his representative.</s>RAYMOND GIUDICE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That`s right.</s>CASAREZ: He didn`t have to show up in court. But Ray Giudice, let`s look at the circumstances. His girlfriend of more than a year, who was pregnant with his child, is gone. She`s missing. Why wasn`t he a man to stand up in court today? Go ahead and plead not guilty. That`s your constitutional right. But he didn`t come.</s>GIUDICE: Well, he listened to his lawyer, who said, I don`t want you walking through a line of reporters sticking a microphone in your face and saying, Why did you kill your girlfriend? Why don`t you admit to it? He doesn`t have to be there. He entered his "not guilty." He`ll be there for his preliminary charges, and he`ll fight the charges.</s>CASAREZ: Well, Alex Sanchez, why doesn`t he meet those microphones? Why shouldn`t he be asked that question? He can say, Look, I didn`t do it, and I want to ask everybody out there to try to find a wonderful person.</s>ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Because everybody`s already concluding that he is involved somehow in her disappearance and possible murder. That`s why he didn`t do it. So why should he show up, as Ray said, go on TV, be scrutinized by the media, have his face al over the place for everybody to point and say, That guy`s the guy who committed this crime? You know, it just doesn`t make sense. In addition, the police may have even told him, Since you`re cooperating, don`t go on TV right now. Just stay with us. Just cooperate. Stay out of the media for the time being.</s>CASAREZ: And for everybody, I`m licensed in Nevada, and at the arraignment today -- there`s constitutional reasons for having it. He is apprised of the charges in the criminal complaint and he is to enter a plea. That was not done today. Back to John Shaffer, program director in Las Vegas, Newstalk 720 AM KDWN. I want to talk more about this Las Vegas Metropolitan report in regard to alleged domestic violence. October 22nd is when this allegedly happened. Charges filed November 4th. A month later, she`s missing. Take it up from where her hair was pulled out and police took a picture of it.</s>SHAFFER: Yes, the police say they found clumps of her hair on the ground where this alleged domestic abuse took place. It was outside. It was at her car. Again, he`s denied being involved in any of this -- while she was pregnant. But there are these allegations. There was the arraignment this morning and will be a preliminary hearing. We will have to face these charges that he is denying.</s>CASAREZ: Well, you know what? I really read this complaint and I`ve re-read it and re-read it again. And he gave a statement. He was given Miranda. He waived his Miranda rights. And he does say that he grabbed the phone and he threw it down. Well, coercion is the felony that he`s charged with. Ray Giudice, tell everybody what coercion is, in this sense, where he allegedly took her iPhone and threw it.</s>GIUDICE: It`s an interesting name for the charge. Most states have a charge called interference with telecommunications, interrupting a potential 911 or a police call for help. In most states, it`s a misdemeanor. But if it`s done during the perpetration of another crime, i.e., the simple battery or the assault here, it can be elevated to a felony.</s>CASAREZ: Thank you. We have got special guests tonight, and I first want to go to a lady that joined us last night. And we thank her so much for coming with us again tonight. It is Celeste Flores-Narvaez, who is the sister of this missing Debbie Flores, a beautiful, educated girl, master`s degree, went to law school but wanted to pursue her dream of the stage. And she went to Las Vegas and became that Las Vegas showgirl. Celeste, did you talk with police today? And what is the latest that they have told you?</s>CELESTE FLORES-NARVAEZ, SISTER: I haven`t talked to police today. I actually spoke to them yesterday. I knew that they were most likely going to do a press release, and they basically had told me yesterday what they released today.</s>CASAREZ: What about this ex-boyfriend? You knew he was going to court today. Were you there in court, or did you find out that he didn`t show up?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: I did go there this morning. I was hoping that I would get a chance to meet him and just talk to him, just one on one. But he just didn`t show up.</s>CASAREZ: You know, I thought I saw you in the gallery in that courtroom feed. You know, we want to show everybody right here -- look at what you`re watching. This is the ex-boyfriend, all right, or as the criminal complaint says, Jason Omar Griffith, and that is Debbie Flores, right there. You`re watching her. This is a video that was done with the two of them. And it`s a music video. It`s on YouTube. But you know, Celeste, your sister, besides being so smart -- because I got to hand it to her, many, many young women don`t stay in school. They just pursue dreams. And she did, with a master`s degree. She was in law school, but then because of her artistic talent went to Las Vegas and currently is a showgirl. You know, we want everybody to think about if they have seen her anywhere because the goal, Celeste, is to find her. What is the latest that you`re hearing in Las Vegas? Are people passing flyers out? Is her picture -- there it is right there -- is it just plastered around Las Vegas?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: Yes. She has a huge, huge friend base out here in Las Vegas, dancers and performers. I mean, she`s literally known out here. And they have all come, being very supportive, passing out flyers, calling me, letting me know that they`re there, prayers and thoughts and hopes. And I just love them for it. They`re wonderful for that.</s>CASAREZ: We can`t imagine what you are going through, the not knowing, knowing they found her car, knowing, as you said last night, a make-up bag, knowing the domestic violence allegations. Did you know that your sister went through that on October 22nd?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: I didn`t find out any of that allegations until I got here to Las Vegas.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seemingly loved by everybody.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody`s really worried right now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sunday night, Debbie vanished, her car found abandoned days later.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We also have to be prepared for the worst.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just what happened to a budding Las Vegas star?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police are not calling him a suspect.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mom and Dad miss you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nor are they identifying him as a person of interest.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your nephews miss you. I miss you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Perhaps it`s just a coincidence that Jason "Blu" Griffith is dealing with legal troubles.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is being arraigned today on domestic violence charges.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tied to missing Luxor show dancer and rising star Debbie Flores-Narvaez.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We all know that that often is, you know, the person closest to the victim, is the one who`s involved.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Debbie Flores-Narvaez performs in the stage show "Fantasy" at the Luxor hotel.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On her way to rehearsal, she goes missing without a trace.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jason "Blu" Griffith. Police believe he was the last person to see her before she disappeared.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They`re just going through every possible lead, talking to individuals, and hopefully, gathering more information.</s>CASAREZ: Prosecutors in Las Vegas tonight are saying that this ex- boyfriend-slash-boyfriend of Debbie Flores pushed her to the ground, kicked her and punched her when she was pregnant with his child in October of this year. Her body, her legs were her profession. They were her life. And prosecutors are saying that amounts to physical violence and coercion, a felony, because he tried to prevent her from calling police to report what was happening. We are taking your calls live tonight. We have got another very special guest tonight, a very close, close girlfriend of Debbie Flores. She`s joining us from Las Vegas, Merriliz Monzon. Am I saying that correctly, Merriliz Monzon?</s>MERRILIZ MONZON, FRIEND: Close.</s>CASAREZ: All right, I`m sorry. Thank you for joining us.</s>MONZON: It`s OK.</s>CASAREZ: You were with Ms. Flores several days before she went missing. You went shopping together, right?</s>MONZON: Well, actually, it was my birthday, the 26th. And because my birthday is on Thanksgiving weekend, I celebrate the week after also. And she wasn`t able to make my birthday party. And she -- actually, she was at my birthday last year on Thanksgiving, and my family loves her. When she first came to Vegas, we took her in. She didn`t have family out here. And she loved my family also. We`re really close, and we have a lot of food we love to eat. And she just -- it reminded her a lot of home.</s>CASAREZ: But she got a phone call -- she got a phone call while you were with her. You only heard one side of it, but what did you hear her say? And who was she talking to?</s>MONZON: Well, we were -- after dinner, she took me back to my car, and we were talking about life and her new show. And it was a beautiful evening. And in the middle of our conversation, she excused herself. And it was obvious that it was a possible significant other who she told me at dinner that she recently ended a relationship with. And she said it officially ended October 22nd, and it was kind of rough on her. And I was there for her. So I didn`t inquire anymore than that. But when our conversation was interrupted by a call, she wanted to take it. And she just -- she was kind of shaken up, and she kind of -- she was telling the guy on the other line to wait for her to get -- to meet up. I feel like he was wanting to discuss something on the telephone, but she just wanted to drive safely. So she just kept saying, Just wait for me, respect me, respect me so I can drive safely, let me just get off the phone with you and let me drive. And...</s>CASAREZ: And three days later, she was gone. Three days later, she was gone. Let`s go to Wendy in Connecticut. Hi, Wendy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Jean. How are you?</s>CASAREZ: I`m fine. Thank you for calling.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You`re welcome. Yes, I have a couple questions here. I would like to know, does this guy that had abused her, disgustingly enough, while she was pregnant -- does he have any other past domestic violence, you know, arrests or incidents with her? Has it just been the one, or is there any more history of violence between the two?</s>CASAREZ: Right, criminal background. John Shaffer, program director, Newstalk 720 AM, Las Vegas, do we know anything about a criminal past of this man?</s>SHAFFER: As far as we know, this was it. These allegations and these charges are the only ones against him, and the only ones against him dealing with Debbie herself.</s>CASAREZ: All right. Well, it`s interesting because she told police he said, I`m not going to jail. So if he hadn`t been there before, it was definitely something he feared and could have motivated for that phone to try to not be in her hand to call police. But police did arrive at that scene. To Tom Shamshak, a former police sergeant and private investigator, also an instructor at Boston University, joining us from Boston tonight. You know, when you look at this domestic violence incident, what does that tell you about her now disappearing? Because there were obsessed fans, and she was very concerned about obsessed fans. So I think this is still a mystery and a very much open case because police are saying, he`s cooperating.</s>TOM SHAMSHAK, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: Well, we don`t have to go back too far in history, Jean, to see other high-profile cases where there has been cooperation -- Drew Peterson, Scott Peterson. He`s in their crosshairs. Make no doubt about that. They can say what they want to say up front, but they`re working on him.</s>CASAREZ: All right. And this man is not a suspect. Jason Omar Griffith not a suspect.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let her go and let her be. I can`t -- let her come home to us!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A sexy showgirl.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Las Vegas showgirl.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vanishes in Las Vegas.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This woman was last seen by her boyfriend.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Debbie`s ex-boyfriend, Jason "Blu" Griffith.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police saying the last person to see her was an ex-boyfriend.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They`re not saying there`s any foul play yet.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Debbie allegedly texted her mother, "In case there is ever an emergency with me, contact the ex-boyfriend in Vegas, not my friend."</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The way the message was written, it`s kind of questionable if it makes sense, in a way. My concern is bringing her home.</s>CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session," in for Nancy Grace tonight. We have to find Debbie Flores-Narvaez, 31 years old. She is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, 120 pounds, a former NFL cheerleader for the Washington Redskins. She had just gotten what she considered her big break, to be on Vegas, on the strip, at the Luxor hotel. I want to go out to her sister joining us tonight, Celeste Flores- Narvaez. Celeste, you are in Las Vegas. You are there searching, hoping, asking anyone if they have seen her. When was the last time that you spoke with your sister?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: It was Friday, December the 10th. She called me, wanting to speak to my older son in regards to Christmas and presents.</s>CASAREZ: Did you have -- did you have any conversation with her, or was her focus, Debbie`s focus, Christmas?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: For that entire week, our focus was on my son misbehaving in school and me kind of wanting to take his Christmas away, but you know, her making sure that I wasn`t going to do that. And it was just basically Christmas.</s>CASAREZ: To Sheeba in Illinois. Hi, Sheeba. Good evening.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, there. How are you? My question is, how long has she known this boyfriend, and have they ever lived together? And does he have a past of maybe knocking woman around?</s>CASAREZ: Well, Sheeba, we don`t and we can`t find any other criminal history on him, no. But to Alexis Tereszcuk, reporter for Radaronline, how long were they together?</s>TERESZCUK: They`d been together about a year. You know, he`s an aspiring rapper. She was in his video. They seemed to have a great time. They were very close. They were cross-promoting each other on their social networking sites. But it was until we heard from one of her friends, in fact, that he cheated on her. So it was only about October when things started going badly. They apparently, according to all of her friends, had a wonderful relationship up until then. So they were very close.</s>CASAREZ: And what you`re watching right here -- look at Debbie Flores. This is who we need to find. This is Debbie Flores-Narvaez and her ex-boyfriend, Jason "Blu" Griffith, in a music video on YouTube.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re going to look at every aspect into this investigation as if there was foul play.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ex-boyfriend was the last person to see Debbie.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is cooperating with us.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My concern is bringing her home.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She`s a Las Vegas showgirl.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Las Vegas showgirl.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Showgirl Debbie Flores-Narvaez hasn`t been seen for more than a week now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody`s really on edge and emotional right now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She was last seen by her boyfriend.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Griffith is accused of beating up Debbie on October 22nd.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her ex-boyfriend saw her around 7:38.</s>CELESTE FLORES-NARVAEZ, SISTER OF MISSING VEGAS SHOWGIRL, DEBBIE FLORES-NARVAEZ: It was only a small bag in her car that was found.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With the license plates removed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Strange text messages, she allegedly sent to her mother just days before she vanished.</s>JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": "In case there was ever an emergency with me, contact Blu Griffith in Las Vegas. My ex- boyfriend, not my best friend."</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: I miss you. And just want to give you a hug and a kiss and bring you home.</s>CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session" on the truTV Network in for Nancy Grace tonight. Debbie Flores-Narvaez, 31 years old. According to prosecutors, she was kicked, she was punched, she was hit. Her legs were black and blue. She`s a dancer. That`s what she uses in her profession, and she was pregnant. This all allegedly happened in October of this year. Straight out to Alexis Tereszcuk, reporter of Radaronline. Go through with us exactly what prosecutors are saying happened to Debbie Flores by this, allegedly, ex-boyfriend.</s>ALEXIS TERESZCUK, REPORTER, RADAROLINE.COM: Well, what they`re saying -- I don`t know that he was actually an ex-boyfriend at the time. I believe that Blu Griffith was her boyfriend at the time. She went over to confront him. He was with an ex-girlfriend of his. She went over to -- confront him. He was with an ex-girlfriend of his. They got in an argument, he took her cell phone, he drove away in the car, she followed him in the car. They pulled over at another location, they both got out of the car, they started fighting. What she says happened is he threw her phone and started hitting her and kicking her. She was pregnant at the time. She had bruises on her legs, she even said that he pulled out chunks of her hair, and the police said that they found her hair on the ground at the scene. He said -- she said that he kicked her car and that`s why she called the police.</s>CASAREZ: You know you make a really good point, because you`re right, they were boyfriend and girlfriend, and that`s what did it, that night. But to John Shaffer, program director, AM 720 News Talk Radio in Las Vegas. Here`s what I don`t understand. It seems like right when she gets to his ex-girlfriend`s house, and it looks like there could have been a romantic triangle there, he immediately tries to take her iPhone. What`s the motivation, because the alleged domestic abuse hadn`t happened quite yet, or is there more to this story?</s>JOHN SHAFFER, PROGRAM DIRECTOR, NEWS TALK 720 KDWN: We don`t know at this point what made him reach for the phone. She might have been dialing the phone at that time. He -- as you said, he told her he didn`t want to go back to jail. Maybe she had the phone and was getting ready to call 911, fearing something was going to happen, but it was after he grabbed the phone and threw it that the alleged domestic violence took place that night.</s>CASAREZ: Or go to jail. I want to go to Dr. Titus Duncan, general surgery physician, Atlanta Medical Center. Here`s one thing prosecutors are saying. That wads of her hair were pulled out during this domestic violence incident. What does it take to pull out somebody`s hair?</s>DR. TITUS DUNCAN, M.D., GENERAL SURGERY, ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER: It takes a pretty good amount of force. Obviously, it depends on the integrity of the hair. But it does take a pretty good amount of force. And you know that the other things that he did at the same time, of kicking her while she was down, causing bruising, even elbowing her in the chin can cause some pretty significant trauma. Now it sort of depends on how hard that trauma was inflicted upon her, but he could have done anything from bruise her to actually broke her bones, and obviously, if he kicked her if she was pregnant, she could have lost the baby as well. We don`t know what the status of the baby was. We don`t know what trimester of the pregnancy she`s in. So a lot of things could happen.</s>CASAREZ: To Caryn Stark, psychologist out of New York. Why, why does a woman keep going back to a situation like this? Because I don`t think this was the first time, if this is true, as to what prosecutors are saying. Let`s just look at the domestic violence aspect of this. It didn`t happen just once. Why do they keep going back?</s>CARYN STARK, PSYCHOLOGIST: They go back because they don`t feel good about themselves. And whatever makes them fall in love with the person who`s beating on them that starts to come out as soon as they want to leave. So first he`s abusive, and nine times out of 10, once she decides that she wants to leave, he starts to apologize and all the most wonderful parts of him -- and these guys are very capable of being charming and terrific, Jean. It`s unbelievable how they can win over women. That all comes out again. And each time it happens, she feels worse and worse about herself. Also, there`s the second part of it, which is people will want to know, why was she ever picking somebody like this to begin with? Why was she with a man like this? She starts to feel stupid. And so she needs to prove to herself that she can make this work, that this isn`t going to happen to her anymore. And her self-esteem is gone.</s>CASAREZ: To Pat Brown, criminal profiler, author of "The Profiler," you know, the one thing I just can`t get past, Pat, is this text message that she sent to her mother days before she went missing. Let`s show everybody what it says. It says, quote, "In case there is ever an emergency with me, contact Blu Griffith in Vegas. My ex-boyfriend. Not my best friend." We now know that charges were filed November 4th, felony charges against him. She sends this to her mother, December 1st. What does it mean?</s>PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER, AUTHOR OF "THE PROFILER": Well, I have to say one thing, first of all. First of all, I don`t think Debbie was all that open with her family or her friends. She spoke in very veiled manners, and I think a lot of people minimized what was going on in her life. Because I looked back on her Facebook for over a year, and I can tell you, she was very obsessed with Griffith. She had a lot of -- very -- you know those little sad faces, over and over and over again, peppered through the year, sad face, sad face, sad face. And people would say, what`s wrong, Debbie, what`s wrong? And she would never really tell them, but she would always say things like, love really hurts, men lie, or she might say something to the effect of -- one of the big ones she said was, that you have to go with your heart and not your head. So we can sort of see that there was -- this really was a troubled relationship that she was struggling with. So I`m thinking there`s a lot more going on with Griffith than we`ve been led to believe.</s>CASAREZ: And what you`re doing, Pat, is exactly what the CSI Vegas is doing right now in this criminal investigation. I want to tell everybody that he is not a suspect. Police are saying that he is cooperating. She did have concerns about fans that were obsessive. This is an open-end missing person`s case, and we need to find her and we need to find her alive. I want to go to the callers. Alice in Georgia. Hi, Alice.</s>ALICE, CALLER FROM GEORGIA: Good evening, Jean. First of all, I would like to send my thoughts and prayers to Debbie`s family. But my question is about the text message. I understand now that it was sent to her mother and it was several days, but is there any way that that text message could have been sent by the boyfriend?</s>CASAREZ: Very interesting. To Tom Shamshak, former police chief and private investigator, instructor at Boston University. Is that something that you, as a CSI Vegas, is going to look at now? Did she, in fact, send that message on December 1st, or how do you interpret it?</s>TOM SHAMSHAK, FMR. POLICE CHIEF, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, INSTRUCTOR AT BOSTON UNIV.: That`s a good question. But here`s what they`re doing CSI- wise. The plates were removed from the automobile. He`s been cooperating, so his lawyer has walked him in. They have fingerprinted him. They have taken, no doubt, all of the ridges and the palms of his hands, and they`re going to be comparing -- somebody took those plates off. He is among the people that they`re going to either include or exclude. So that`s what`s going on in terms of the CSI. Plus, they`ll be scouring the route where that automobile might have traveled to get to that final destination, looking for surveillance footage that can put somebody in that automobile. Jean?</s>CASAREZ: To John Shaffer, program director, News Talk 720 AM Las Vegas. Did they ever find that cell phone? We`ve heard that it was turned off, but do we know? Alexis Tereszcuk, reporter, Radaronline, do we know if they ever found the cell, or just through electronic means discovered that it was not on?</s>TERESZCUK: From what we understand, they have not found the phone. That it hasn`t been turned and that it is -- has been turned off. There has not been a single communication from her since December 12th. She hasn`t been on Facebook, she hasn`t been on MySpace, it`s been nowhere. It`s really -- she just has completely disappeared. So people are really trying to find other ways to find her, but she hasn`t been communicating with anyone, and certainly not through her phone.</s>CASAREZ: And you know, Alexis, what doesn`t make sense is she had just gotten this break at the Luxor. This is big time.</s>TERESZCUK: Yes.</s>CASAREZ: The Las Vegas strip. And if that`s what you want to do, to be in the show at the Luxor, she had just gotten an solo dance spot at the Luxor in their show. You just wouldn`t run away from that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The disappearance of Debora Flores-Narvaez.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Things seemed to be on the way up for her.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Had a gig lined up for the "Fantasy" showgirl in Sawford just days before she vanished.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was actually was excited.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She has a new solo, it`s a promotion for her.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Big-time show on the Las Vegas strip.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Showgirl Debbie Flores-Narvaez.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She didn`t show up for rehearsal.</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: It`s not her.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Where is the showgirl?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re going to look at every aspect as if there was foul play.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Foul play.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She didn`t come home that night.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Police say she was last seen with her boyfriend.</s>CASAREZ: The ex-boyfriend.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Tension between the two.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Debbie`s ex-boyfriend is a fellow Las Vegas performer.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Jason Blu Griffith.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Debbie`s car is found, her purse is still inside.</s>MERRILIZ MONZON, FRIEND OF MISSING LAS VEGAS SHOWGIRL, DEBBIE FLORES- NARVAEZ: She didn`t show up. She just kept saying, you know, wait for me, respect me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: An October arrest report alleged he also pushed her down and proceeded to kick her and pull her hair.</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: It`s not her to go missing, it`s not her to go take a small vacation.</s>CASAREZ: I`m Jean Casarez of "In Session" in for Nancy Grace tonight. Well, there was a court date this morning. The ex-boyfriend, Drew Griffin, was supposed to meet and appear in regard to domestic violence coercion charges. He didn`t show up. He had his attorney there for him. The question is, why didn`t he show up, especially since someone who is bearing his child is gone? She`s completely gone. I want to go out to Merriliz Monzon, a very close friend of Debbie Flores. In fact, Debbie is supposed to spend Christmas with you. I want to ask you, what is the normal day in a life of a Las Vegas showgirl, Debbie Flores?</s>MONZON: Well, with Debbie, she -- it`s kind of rare to actually have some really good quality time with her, and I appreciate it every time I do. She`s really busy with rehearsals. She works Friday, Saturday nights. She told me that`s her priority at the "Playboy," or at Rain at the Palms. She dances for them and then she has rehearsals. So she`s always really tired. And so the time that I do spend with her, it`s really meaningful.</s>CASAREZ: To the callers. Judy in Illinois. Hi, Judy.</s>JUDY, CALLER FROM ILLINOIS: Hi, Jean. Thank you for taking my call.</s>CASAREZ: You`re welcome.</s>JUDY: My question is twofold. Now last night her sister indicated she was no longer pregnant. If she had a miscarriage as a result of the beating, could her boyfriend be charged with more -- you know, like, more charges? Number two, if she had a procedure to terminate the pregnancy, could he have been upset with that, they got into an argument, and things escalated from there?</s>CASAREZ: To Celeste Flores-Narvaez, the sister of Debbie Flores. I know this is a very, very sensitive question, but you did tell us last night that you knew your sister was pregnant and you also knew that when she went missing, that she was not pregnant. Do you know how that pregnancy ended?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: I`m not going to comment on that, but I do want to make sure that everybody knows, my sister did not have low self-esteem about herself. She was very, very, very positive and highly thought about herself. She loved everything about herself. She had a happy life. She just loved -- and when she loved, she loved hard. That`s a big difference. I just want to clear that up, that she did not have low self-esteem.</s>CASAREZ: All right. Thank you for saying that. To Alex Sanchez, defense attorney out of New York. If, in fact, this alleged kicking, beating, punching led to the child not being able to be born, is that just an aggravating factor or are there charges out there that she subsequently could face?</s>ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: No, there are charges out there he could face, and depending on the degree of the pregnancy, he could face possible murder charges, murdering that child, depending on the state. But something about that case, Nancy, in her absence, this case may be very hard to prosecute. The case where he had assaulted her, unless there`s an independent witness. Or if the police can prove that her absence was caused by him.</s>CASAREZ: Right.</s>SANCHEZ: But without those two factors, unfortunately, that case may collapse.</s>CASAREZ: Right. But what you`re saying, what normally would be hearsay, statements that she made to the police, to her friends, if it can be found by a preponderance of the evidence that he caused her to not be that witness in court for the domestic violence charges, then all of that can come in.</s>SANCHEZ: Exactly.</s>CASAREZ: So she can be that witness that maybe isn`t there physically, but testifies anyway.</s>SANCHEZ: Exactly. But you have to have hearings and you have to take testimony, it has to be sworn testimony. There has to be evidence linking him to her disappearance. If they could do that, they may be able to get that hearsay evidence in and convict him of that offense.</s>CASAREZ: But at this point, we need to find her. Debbie Flores. The tip line, everybody, 702-828-2907. A beautiful 31-year-old young lady, educated and just beginning the career of her dreams. To Linda in Florida. Hi, Linda.</s>LINDA, CALLER FROM FLORIDA: Hi. My heart goes out to the family, first of all, and why I`m so much about this case is because I have a sister that -- her grace -- six feet under because of domestic violence. And she died -- she was murdered at the age of 33. So my heart really goes out to this family, because I believe that man is really guilty, because she`s such a pretty young lady, and I don`t know why she even settled for a deadbeat like him.</s>CASAREZ: Well -- we understand what you`re saying, but I guess we can`t be in Debbie Flores` shoes. To Celeste Flores-Narvaez, you can see the people are with you tonight. What message do you want to give to everybody out there, to help to find your sister?</s>FLORES-NARVAEZ: I want to say this. I want to say, just because there was a domestic case against him, that doesn`t mean that he did anything to her. Really, right now, I`m allowing the police to do exactly what they are trained to do, and that is to follow all possible leads and question who they need to question. I don`t believe in accusing anybody at all until proven guilty, and anybody watching, if you have any information in regards to my sister, please, just call the authorities, any little small detail could mean a huge deal. You know, just whether you saw her in the street or walking or in her car that night, it can place her in a certain place where we might have not known that she was there. So please, just call and just bring her home.</s>CASAREZ: Celeste, somebody has to know something and we need her back. To Tom Shamshak, former police chief, private investigator, what Celeste is saying I think is extremely important here. All right. Yes. Domestic violence. And prosecutors are charging that. But police should not discount obsessed fans, other people that she knew, because that could hinder CSI Vegas, right?</s>SHAMSHAK: Absolutely. But again, they`ll follow the -- where the evidence takes them. And rest assured the primary source of information right now they`re focusing on is that automobile. They`ll turn it upside down and look for any piece of evidence that will help in the prosecution of whomever was responsible for her abduction.</s>CASAREZ: Because she was last seen in that vehicle.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The missing person`s case is rocking the Las Vegas Strip.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A tumultuous past.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Recent domestic abuse.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Strange text messages sent to her mother just days before she vanished.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Debbie Flores-Narvaez is missing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Where is the showgirl?</s>CASAREZ: Debbie Flores was last seen in her car. That car has been abandoned, but it is a maroon, 1997 Chevy Prism four door. Tip line 702- 828-2907. Let`s go to Arnette in Mississippi. Hi, Arnette.</s>ARNETTE, CALLER FROM MISSISSIPPI: Hi, Jane. Thanks for taking my call.</s>CASAREZ: You`re welcome.</s>ARNETTE: My question is concerning the text message. Is it possible that she was telling her mother that her ex-boyfriend was not her best friend?</s>CASAREZ: You know, that`s how I interpreted it the first time I read it. Let`s show everybody. "In case there is ever an emergency with me, contact Blu Griffith in Vegas. My ex-boyfriend. Not my best friend." Pat Brown, criminal profiler, how do you define that? How do we interpret it?</s>BROWN: Well, I think that is a very good way to interpret it. And I want to point out how a person of interest is focused upon. We look at their behaviors in the past. We look at their opportunities that they have and their motive. And we have a guy here who has had this somewhat difficult relationship with the victim, possible victim, and then we see this, all this stuff happening right before he says, I don`t want to go to jail. I don`t want to go to jail. So we have a guy here, the motive is out there and he has the opportunity because he is the last person to be seen with her. Doesn`t make him the guy who did it but that is why they focus on him. But they also have to be careful, you know, sometimes that can look like the person but it could just happen to be something completely different like a carjacking. I mean, so you cannot over focus but you obviously have to follow all your leads.</s>CASAREZ: And Blu Griffith is not a suspect in the disappearance of Debbie Flores, although he has been charged with domestic violence. Coercion is the actual felony charge facing eight years in prison. Tonight let us stop to remember Army Staff Sergeant Brian Morris, 38 years old, from Centreville, Michigan, killed in Iraq on a second tour of duty. He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Combat Action Badge. He loved Michigan football. He`s remembered for always going the extra mile for others. He leaves behind his mother Leslie, his brother Richard, a retired staff sergeant, his sister, Sherry, his widow, Laurie, and his daughter, Emily. Brian Morris, an American hero. Thank you so much to all of our guests, to you at home. We`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. Until then, good night, everybody. And remember, Debbie Flores. END