Pt. 1: Honors Student Vanishes After Visiting Sister - Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen

she's a small-town girl visiting her big-city half-sister over the Christmas holidays but before the high school honor student can ring in the New Year Phylicia Barnes vanishes without a word to anyone I was praying that maybe someone had just maybe kidnapped her and we let her call when suddenly a mysterious sex tape surfaces they were intoxicated they were partially nude it's not the kind of video you would necessarily want played if she was your child and a sickening secret is unveiled hello Elsa gonna from crime watch daily what happened to pretty Phylicia Barnes now the last known person to see Felicia alive is put on trial for a third time he's gonna be found guilty will he receive a guilty verdict or will Michael Johnson walk out of court a free man Phylicia Barnes the naive 16 year old idolized her older half-sister Dena I know there was an age difference but she was like my best friend they had a wonderful bond and Dena was a good influence on Felicia yes you just watched them blossom yes together yes it was three days after Christmas Felicia had decided to sleep in rather than go with her sister to her job they would meet up later at home but those best laid plans would take a mysterious turn was it like her to go somewhere without telling you no no and I called her phone numerous times repeatedly like hang up call back hang up call back I was panicking at the point where I couldn't find her like I called everybody I could think of and no one had heard from her and I couldn't reach her that's the media panic it's not like Felicia hours trickle by Felicia's obsessive postings on social media as mysteriously come to a dead stop at what point do you say this is serious enough I need to call please yeah that didn't take long at all for me to call police it was like within an hour of me getting home there's not a whisper of her whereabouts there is no track of Phylicia Barnes no sightings investigative reporter joy la polla from our Baltimore affiliate Fox 45 says with each new clue it became clear Felicia didn't leave willingly she didn't take any of her money it seemed like she didn't really take what she needed to be able to go out anywhere in the cold and I believe she was in her slippers the search was looking grim it seems like everybody was helping except one person yeah who was that my ex now Felicia had a passing schoolgirl crush on Deena's acts 28 year old Michael Johnson and he often volunteered as her chaperone so I'm sure there was some appeal whether she wanted to be involved in a relationship beyond friendship that's hard to say but on the night Felicia mysteriously disappears Michael Johnson reportedly calls in sick to work and vanishes for a while - what was he not doing I called and asked him to come around it took him I couldn't find him when Dena finally did reach Johnson she told him Felicia was missing and she was terrified he was like whoa do you want me to come around there do you want me to come over okay keep me updated keep me informed strange behavior from a man who playfully called Felicia little sis are you thinking that was odd it was his brother or sister I would have been out there in my car driving around looking I would have come right away and I would have been looking at some point Michael does come over I remember him saying this isn't good I was the last person I saw he said that yeah I remember him saying that not only that Dena's ex had been moving his things out of her apartment on Sene de Felicia mysteriously went missing and Johnson was seen dragging a 35 gallon plastic tub out of Deena's place and up the stairs into his new apartment a neighbor came out across the way in the building and saw him struggling trying to push this plastic tote up the steps and the neighbor asked him if he needed any help and he said no I got it but he was struggling up next the theory goes that Felicia's body was in that box evidence eventually surfaces that will put Johnson on trial but will it put him away do you know he did it and we know he did it a neighbor claims he offered to help but Johnson told him to stay away but he was struggling and the theory goes that Felicia's body was in that box

Channel: True Crime Daily

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Keywords: phylicia barnes, crime, crime watch, crime watch daily, crime watch daily with chris hansen, chris hansen, michelle sigona, baltimore, maryland, michael johnson, wbff, fox baltimore, hoy lepola

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Length: 4min 51sec (291 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 17 2018