Missing Mom`s Body Found; Guidance Counselor Accused of Inappropriate Behavior
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, the ultimate betrayal. Cops say a high school counselor who`s supposed to guide students was instead secretly photographing certain body parts of young girls. Cops say he literally used candy to lure them into vulnerable positions. We`ll tell you how these female students fought back. Then, Donald Trump claims victory after President Obama reveals his long-form birth certificate. But is the mogul taking credit for a controversy he himself stirred up for his own ratings` purposes? You will not believe what the Donald is demanding now. Plus, escalating outrage over a woman whose only crime is trying to get a better education for her 6-year-old son. She`s homeless, unemployed, and single and was arrested and jailed, all because she tried to enroll her child in the wrong public school. What? Is she being targeted, or are there holes in her story? I will talk to her tonight. And the royal wedding countdown. Red is up as William and Kate prepare for the big day. We`re learning all the inside scoop. Will Kate Middleton be a throwback to a traditional white? Or will she carry on in the strong footsteps of Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher and the Queen of England herself? We`re taking your calls. ISSUES starts now.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: We have some very tragic breaking news to tell you about. It has just come in moments ago. The body of that missing mom has now been found not far from where she was apparently snatched right out of her car. Krista Dittmeyer`s baby daughter was found inside the car Saturday evening with the door open and the engine running. Police reportedly found blood in the car, and this is the beautiful young mother who we are now learning has been found. Her body has just been discovered in New Hampshire. She is 20 years old. She went missing on Friday. And her car was found in a parking lot about 60 miles from her home near a mountain ski resort. Now, they always considered this to be foul play. There was a second car found in the area. They are also examining her cell-phone records for clues along with that second vehicle. But police have declined to say what role that second vehicle may have played in this case. I want to go out to former prosecutor Wendy Murphy. This again breaking news just in. It is the last thing we wanted to report. We wanted to say that this beautiful 20-year-old mom would be found alive. We know her family is devastated right now, because they were frantically searching for her. It is believed that this mother is a hero, that she somehow convinced whoever abducted her to leave the baby there and she had the quick thinking to leave the hazard lights on so that someone would see the car and find the child. The child is OK tonight. What is the next step that authorities take, given that now the very worst had happened? And you speak as a former prosecutor.</s>WENDY MURPHY: Yes, Jane. What a terrible development. We did know that police and law enforcement officials were searching in water. They obviously had reason to believe that not only foul play had followed but that she was likely dead. Which means -- I mean, the good news is, if there`s any good news, is they have a strong sense of who and why at this point. We have to believe that, because they did target this location where they did find her body. So now what we`re looking at is a homicide case, likely a first-degree murder prosecution. The next step is identifying and capturing whoever did this.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Look at this beautiful woman. There is a war on women in this country. A mother, 20-year-old, with her 14-month-old baby, simply trying to live her life, has now been found dead. It is an obscenity. And we really have to get beyond just the who, what, when, where, and get to the deeper why of why this is happening so much in America today. It`s unconscionable. And our hearts go out to the family of Krista Dittmeyer tonight. We know they are suffering. Nancy Grace has so much more on this at the top of the hour. She`s all over this story, right here on HLN. So 8 tonight, you`ll get more on this terrible development.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s scary to me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I trust all these teacher, and I want them to help me to get an education.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, trusted counselor or calculated perv? A high-school guidance counselor in suburban Boston accused of using candy as bait to take lewd pictures. Galen Stone would allegedly throw candy on cafeteria tables and snap cell phone photos of girls` clothes, chests, i.e., breast area as they reached for the candy. An investigation started last month when three girls reported Stone to their principal. Police searched his phone, and they say that`s when they found dozens of pictures and videos of females who didn`t know they were on camera. And it wasn`t just students either. The suspect allegedly videotaped and photographed random women at retail stores, as well. Now, the prosecutor says Stone has also downloaded porn on his phone. This man, by the way, has a master`s in social work and had worked with children for years. And this Stone man happens to come from a very prestigious and privileged Massachusetts family. Could that play a role in this case? But I guess the biggest question tonight: did this suspect`s alleged fetish with teenage girls` breast areas and with photographs and videos, or could he have taken it to another, more graphic level? Give me a call: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586-7297. I want to go straight out to Jon Lieberman, host of "True Facts with Jon Lieberman" on CyberUSA.com. He`s an investigative journalist. What do you know about this very perplexing case?</s>JON LIEBERMAN, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: Well, I`ll tell you, Jane, it`s concerning on a lot of levels. This guy Stone has now been released on $500 bail. That was $500 only bail. Prosecutors asked for $2,500. But because he didn`t have a criminal record and because, apparently, he`s not a flight risk, he was released on $500 bail and told not to have any unsupervised contact with children. One thing police are looking into right now is not only did this guy work at a high school, he also did some consulting work at a middle school with much younger kids. So one thing that police are still looking into right now is did he do anything improper at this middle school, in addition to what he apparently -- or is accused of doing at this high school? And one other point, Jane, is this. That when school officials confronted this guy after those three courageous high-school students came forward, when school officials confronted Stone and said, "What`s on your phone? Do you know why we`re asking?" He said, quote, "Yes, I`m sorry; yes, I do." So he inherently told his bosses at the school that he knew that what he was doing was not right.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, J. Wyndall Gordon, first of all, we attempted to reach the suspect`s attorney, leaving messages and e-mails. We did not hear back. But we want to be fair. If this suspect, Galen Stone, or his attorney want to come on our show, they are invited to tell their side of the story. We know there`s usually two sides to a story. So we`d like to hear from him. J. Wyndall Gordon, the fact that he allegedly admitted when confronted that I know what, "Yes, I know what they`re talking about," and then they looked at his cell phone, is that going to hurt him if and when he goes to trial?</s>J. WYNDALL GORDON: Absolutely. The old candy and the boob cam trick. This guy is more or less a freak, in my opinion. And I think his admission to what`s going on could almost be considered a plea for help to help him with this current situation. I mean, there are much deeper issues here. And yes, I`m also concerned with the fact that, you know, he`s been working around middle schoolers. And I think if you -- if the police continue to dig, there may be some additional information on this guy that could be even more troubling.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, I want to go out to former prosecutor, Wendy Murphy, because not even in the role of a former prosecutor, as a role of a mother, you have children and you live in the general vicinity, I understand. What`s your reaction to this really shocking story?</s>WENDY MURPHY, FORMER PROSECUTOR: You know, I`m not shocked that is happens. I`ve high schoolers, and they tell stories about teachers they think are lecherous or creepy. This goes way past that, though, Jane. And by the way, this guy has a high school daughter, senior, about to graduate, and because he`s been ordered away from kids, he can`t go to the graduation. Ba-dum-bum. I -- you know, I`m scared to hear these stories, because we think we know what the bad people look like. He looks real good on the outside. He`s rather dangerous, in my opinion, on the inside. Assuming the allegations are true.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Now, here`s my big issue. Faculty fetish. Not every pervert gets off with a violent act or has to take it all the way to a physical contact. A sexual deviancy, and I`m talking in general terms here, isn`t always so overt. Based on what investigators say they found on this guy`s phone, it looks like Stone may have been, allegedly was, obsessed with girls` breasts, even when they were clothed. Of course, police are going to look for other skeletons in his closet, other potential evidence of other interests. And they also claim that there was pornography on this camera, this video that he had downloaded onto his cell phone, as well as homemade videos showing some kind of interaction in a classroom setting. Dr. Judy Kuriansky, you`re a sex expert. This struck me, just from a layperson`s perspective as a fetish, somebody who is not necessarily interested in doing anything violent or physical, but who has an obsession with a particular aspect of sexuality, and that`s called a fetish.</s>DR. JUDY KURIANSKY, PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, that`s very smart, Jane. I always said I was going to give you an honorary degree. A fetish really means that you`re attracted to a body part and not really a person. Often, the fetishes cannot develop a real good relationship with a real person. Where does this come from that a guy is attached to the breasts? Well, there are three stages of development it can come from. When you`re a child, you may be cuddled and comforted by a mother figure who has very large breasts. That`s where it can start. Or for adolescent, they may be pleasuring themselves and get attached to breasts. And when you get older as a teenager and, as this guy is, by watching videos, you can see, as we all do know, in these videos, they have women with very over-large breasts. If the man pleasures himself while he`s watching these, that continues the fetish.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: So we are talking about fetishes tonight for a reason, because of the arrest of this high-school counselor who was allegedly photographing teenage girls` breasts. We`re taking your calls: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. Also, Donald Trump says he`s done a great service to the American people. We`re going to talk about some of his comments. Plus, more on this so-called sleazy -- alleged sleazy high school counselor.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s scary to me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I trust all these teachers, and I want them to help me to get an education.