"LaLa" Clark- RIP LaLa- Wilkesbarre Pa PART 1

La’Nyiah Clark aka LaLa went missing from my town last month… it’s been confirmed her remains were found. 

 La'Niyah was last seen leaving her home in South Wilkes-Barre PA on January 17, 2026 . However, it was not until Feb 10th that she was officially reported missing. 

On Saturday, February 21, human remains were discovered in a wooded area off Thayer Street in Wilkes-Barre. On Tuesday afternoon (Feb 24), District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce confirmed that investigators believe these remains are connected to the case of the missing 15-year-old girl, though they have not yet officially explained the nature of that connection or confirmed the identity through the coroner's office. She was found 3 blocks away from her residence behind a garage- nude- face down. The street she was found in is on Meghans Law. 

Throughout the day on Tuesday, multiple law enforcement agencies, including investigators in hazmat suits, executed a search warrant at an apartment building located at New Alexander and Charles streets in South Wilkes-Barre. This location is roughly half a mile from where the remains were found. 

There were rumors her aunt had a protection order refraining her from having contact with LaLa- The local PD made a post a few weeks ago for the community to come forward if they knew of her aunts whereabouts . 

The community speculated family involvement but nothing has been confirmed - again it’s just speculation and as we know rumors are just that and false accusations or “theories” do not help investigators or the PD or the family; and most of all it doesnt help getting LaLa justice or getting the truth.  

As of this evening, the District Attorney has stated he cannot yet comment on the specific "nature of the connection" or release a cause of death until the Coroner’s Office completes its examination.

Police and investigators in hazmat suits have converged on an apartment building at the intersection of New Alexander and Charles streets—roughly half a mile from where the body was found. A search warrant was executed at this location on Tuesday. The investigation is extremely active. 

Authorities have not yet released the cause of death or confirmed the identity of the remains, pending a report from Luzerne County Coroner Dion Fernandes.

If you have any information regarding this case or the apartment on New Alexander Street, authorities urge you to contact:

Wilkes-Barre Police/Detective Mike Dennis: (570) 208-6699

Luzerne County DA’s Detective Division: (570) 825-1674

From the family : 

“It has been confirmed that La’Niyah “LaLa” Clark was the young woman found on Thayer Street, and we have been informed by police that this was a homicide.

Law enforcement has shared that this is an active investigation and that they are confident they know what happened and that an arrest will be made.

Out of respect for the investigation and for LaLa’s family, we ask for privacy and compassion as we begin to process this devastating news and start to grieve.

Please keep her loved ones in your thoughts and prayers. We will share updates when we are able.”

I’ll post updates as they arise since I live right here. 

My prayers and thoughts are with LaLas friends and family.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Hi everybody, this is True Crime with Tiff Klein. I am back after a two-week hiatus. The last episode I did was about the memory of Libby and Abby from the Dilphi case, uh, featuring my friend Aspen. And um, I took some time off because I've been studying to pass a state exam. And uh I had to put my podcast aside for a little bit, but I am back. Not the way I would like to be, but a way that I feel like I have to be. I am from the Northeast PA area, the Scranton Wolks Bear territory, and there's something happening right now that is very important, very heartbreaking and devastating. And my goal is to be as ethical and responsible as possible while telling you this information. As you know, I've been to CrimeCon. I'm a volunteer at the Gabby Petito Foundation, and it changes your way of how you view, quote, true crime. And you start to empathize with the victims' families, and you realize that it's not about, you know, seeing them on TV or it being entertainment. It's not. I put up a post last night that talked about why I love Crime Con. So I'm gonna start off with that before I move into the case about Lania Clark of Wilkes Bear, aka Lala, because that's the main focus this evening. So last night, um, I've had some people ask me recently, like, why do you love crime con? And that it has this stigma that they think we dress up and go to these conventions for crime and sensationalize it and make it entertainment, but it's it's not that. And those who go know what I mean. So, what do I love most about Crimecon? Well, it's the fact that it isn't a convention at all. It's an educational advocacy conference. There are no costumes or paywalls for photos. There is real connection. I met nearly every speaker or guest just by crossing paths with them in the lounge and in the resort, sitting outside by the campfire. And they were happy to engage with us, take photos with us, have deep, meaningful conversations with us. This is about meeting guest speakers at the heart of the movement and standing with victims' families who are fighting for justice. It's a weekend that forces you to check your perspective. Beyond the networking, the experience is a sobering reminder to avoid the quote entertainment trap of true crime. It teaches us to prioritize the dignity of victims over sensationalized theories and to support the foundations doing the hard work. The true power lies in the presence of the families, foundations, and advocates. And seeing booths dedicated to missing loved ones and hearing from those left behind, it changes you. It shifts, quote, true crime from entertainment to reality. It teaches us to stop sensationalizing trauma, to quit the unethical rants and false accusations, and to remember that these are real lives. They are not TV scripts. If you've tuned into my podcast before, you would know that I don't talk much about these victims, perpetrators, abusers, autolivers, or dive into the minds of serial killers. That's not what my podcast is about because now I have a different perspective. After diving into the Gabby Petito story and being able to relate to it a lot and meeting their families and being a volunteer for the foundation and sponsoring events, I have learned to stop putting my quote theories out there or my opinions on shit. I don't know what anything about, things that I'm not uh educated about. If I wasn't there or if I haven't talked to the families themselves, I'm not going to give my perspective of what could, what should, what was, what had. No, that's not ethical, that's not responsible. So again, if you've tuned in, you know that I don't talk about that, you know, false information as much as I can. I try my best to give facts, to show compassion, and to focus on the victims and their families, to educate about who the victim was and what they contributed to the world. I try my best, guys, to be as ethical and responsible as possible. But I get to reunite with my true crime compassionate community in Vegas this May. And once again, I will be taking flyers of missing persons from this area. If you'd like to email me them, it's true crime tiffklein at gmail.com. There is a big wall that they hang missing persons' flyers up. Or you could write on a post-it in their names. I didn't get to bring any flyers last year, so I wrote some names on some post-its like Felicia Thomas of Sweet Valley and a few others. So if there's anybody you want me to hang on the wall, it will be in Caesars Palace in Vegas at CrimeCon in May. Just email it to me at truecrime tiffcline at gmail.com. So that I wanted to give you a preface of my podcast if you've never listened before. And because tonight I'm talking about Linaya Lala Clark, I wanted to just give you some information on what I talk about. And I try to make it more about the victim and the families and shine some light on their contribution to the world. So I decided I was going to do a podcast tonight after everything that's been happening the past two days. And I watched a lot of footage from the news and watched the families speak for themselves and had a few different perspectives and a few different people telling their truth. And um I've been able to connect all the pieces of what, where, and when, but we still need to find the who and why. This story is devastating. I've been following this since January 17th, 2026, when she went missing. And I live about 10 minutes away from where she resided. So when I saw that come across my Facebook that day, I immediately contacted Missing in America Network and found out who Lala's guardian was, contacted her on Facebook and put her in touch with that network. And she submitted the information to get a flyer maid for Missing in America Network. And it was published and posted. And I also had the Gabby Petito Foundation site, Gabby Find the Missing, post the info of Lala as well. And there was some traction on the case and on Lala, but there wasn't enough. And that's why we're talking about it tonight, because Wilkes Bear is up in arms today, which I fully support and fully understand where this is coming from, from the community, from the families. And um, because, like I said, I try to be as ethical and responsible as I can. I didn't want to make this podcast until I researched. So I took about eight pages of notes and compiled them. And my podcast tonight's not going to be so, I don't want to say scripted because I don't write scripts, but I try to follow a five a timeline. And I wrote these by hand, mind you, eight pages. And um, I took as much information as I could write from the families, posts, videos, what have you. I wanted to get the facts right and I wanted to get it from the family before I made this. So we all know gossiping and coming up with theories and making false accusations only hurt the victim and their families. It doesn't help the investigation. In fact, it can make it a lot worse. So let's not do that anymore. Let's not put out false accusations and put out uneducated hypothesis, and let's not put out information that you don't have both sides of. Now, I try to keep my opinion out of it. I'm not gonna tell you who I think is involved or what I think. I'm gonna tell you what I have heard the family say, what I have read the family that posted, and I'm not here to persuade anybody, I'm not here to accuse anybody. I'm not an investigator. I'm just trying to bring Lala's case to light and to shine more on it so she gets the justice she deserves because the case was not given the time it deserved. And it's my duty to bring you the information in an ethical manner. So, you know, there's a lot of information that cannot be released to the public because it isn't an act of investigation. And I um talked to Lala's biological grandma, Sabrina. I've talked to her friend, and her friend had told me that personally. I I don't know a lot of the information. So again, I'm going to give you what I do know and what I could at least verify from the family and tell you a little more about Lala, a little bit more about what happened and piece it together because I know a lot of you are very confused. And I'm gonna do my best. After this is posted, it will be on Apple, iHeart, Spotify, YouTube. And again, because I'm I live in the Wilkes Bear area, this hits close to home, pun intended. And this little girl Lanaya Clark, Lala, deserved more. She deserved better, and the system failed her, which seems to be a huge issue here in Northeast PA and across the country and across the world. So, you know, again, when I when this first happened on January 17th, I contacted Lala's Guardian to fill out a form on Missing in America Network. And I kept them up to date with the story. And again, I had also had the Gabby Petito Foundation page posted on Gabby Find the Missing. So thank you to both of those foundations and being a voice for Lala. And I will do what I can to keep bringing you information that's accurate, ethical, and responsible. So I'm gonna get into it again. This is all very new, so it's not like I've had time to really sit and write a big thing about it, but there's a bit enough put out there by the family and the friends of the family that I am going to do my best. And if I forget something or leave something not explained thoroughly, I do apologize in advance. Please don't come at me. I'm doing my best to give the facts here, but please, I'm always open for feedback and constructive criticism. Just be nice. You don't have to be a dick about it. So without further ado, Flinaya La La Clark left her residence on January 17th, 2026. It was in the morning, and she was most likely headed to the corner store. She was going down because she had gotten some money from helping her grandma and she just went for a stroll. So before I get into where she was found, she did not have a phone on her. There were no confirmed sightings that morning, no confirmed video footage, no confirmed direct communication, all from the time Lala left that morning. But the only communication that existed came from the aunt's son on Snapchat, and it was sent to a friend. That was brought up to the police. But before I get into all that, her adoptive parents, Amira and Antoine, adopted Lala eight years ago. And she was loved and she was cherished and she had energy and she had a spark, and everybody around her loved her. From what everything I've read, she had a spunky personality. She was hard of hearing, but that didn't stop her from being an angelic, fun, uh, you know, firecracker in the family. So on January 17th, her mom reported her missing. That was a Saturday. January 17th, 2026, was it a Saturday? Her mom, the adoptive mom, called on Monday, the 19th, to see if there was any updates, to see if there was a detective on the case. And one wasn't assigned yet. And she didn't get in touch with a detective until that Thursday. So she went Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday with no contact from a police department or a detective. And when she finally did talk to one, they said that they were out all week due to sickness and the case was not worked on. So let me rephrase that. From Saturday to Thursday, nothing was being done on a reported 14-year-old missing girl. They shrugged it off as a runaway when it when it did get some movement. And she went missing on a Saturday, and they didn't hear from the police until Thursday. I am going to interject here because I have a similar story because I live in this county that Lala lived in. I have a PFA against my recent ex, and I won't name names, but I had to contact the police about a month ago because I'm being stalked on my Facebook and TikTok stories, and not only by him, but by his neighbor. And because my PFA says no online stalking from the judge, the cops decided they weren't going to take it seriously. So I reached out to the sergeant who was on my case originally, and he is on leave. Now, this isn't in the jurisdiction of Wilkes Bear, this is another police department in a different town, close to Wilkes Bear, but not in. And that sergeant, where the first report actually happened, was back in January of 2025. The second violation happened in the same town on in July of 2025. So I had reached out to that sergeant. That sergeant had told me he was out on leave for being hurt in a line of duty. But he told me to go to that police department and make a report. So I did. And the two young cops, you could tell they were not very experienced with this. They didn't really know what to do because it's an online thing, which to me is stalking. You know, that's that's, you know, when I'm not friends with someone and I don't have any contact with them, and I did everything I could to stay away from them and they're watching what I'm doing. Yeah, that's stalking. So the cops took my report and I didn't get a follow-up. And this will all come together, I promise. And Sunday went or Saturday came, nothing. Sunday came, nothing. Okay, I didn't think I would. Monday comes, nothing. Then I call the police department of the jurisdiction I live in, nothing. I reach out to another dirt jurisdiction, nothing. I would just contact every police department just to get a response. So that goes Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. That's four days now from a violation of a PFA. Stay with me here, nothing. So I decide to email one chief or sergeant from each jurisdiction. And I put it on one big email. I also included two DAs, which one is included that's working on this case for la la. Ignored. Emails, ignored, phone calls, ignored. Nothing had been done. No call, now calls, no emails, no follow-ups, absolutely nothing, just silence. So I tell my therapist. I'm like, this is some bullshit, right? So he goes, keep calling, keep calling. If it's probably not until about Wednesday or Thursday that I got a phone call from my town police department and they called exactly at four o'clock when they closed. And when I went to call them right back, no answer. So they responded, but they did it in a way where they didn't have to deal with it. So they can put it on the report that they followed up. Bullshit, no, they didn't, because I still didn't get to talk to anybody. So I'm livid at this point. And you know, sometimes, sometimes you just have to go to Facebook and post your shit. And people are like, don't air out your dirty laundry, don't tell people your business, don't tell people you're going through this. No, bullshit on that. Because I'm not gonna sit silent to make other people comfortable. Not when I'm a victim. Fuck you. So I posted something about what was going on and I tagged like all the local police departments, the district attorneys, the senator, the governor, the Congress, right? Nothing. It wasn't until about seven o'clock that night when one of those police departments got so mad that I called their asses out online for not following up with me that they called me and they were so pissed off. Now, this was a chief, mind you, a chief. Now, I'm a victim of domestic, well, was a victim of domestic violence in in two relationships, one physical, mental, emotional, verbal, and then the most recent mental, verbal, narcissistic, emotional, whatever it is. I was the victim. I'm being stopped. Okay. He's mad at me, screaming at me because I told the community that the police weren't doing their job. Does this sound familiar? Does does anybody can anybody connect the dots here from this to Lala's case, the timeline of not hearing back from anybody? So finally, you know, he's yelling at me and he's like, Why are you dragging my police department into this? And I said, Because your sergeant told me to go to your police department. He's like, I wasn't in all weekend, so that's why I didn't call back. But the DA told me that this isn't a violation. I said, I thought you weren't in all weekend and didn't know what was going on. Now all of a sudden, you're telling me you talk to the DA. Why didn't the DA reach out to me after I called and emailed? Nothing. He's still yelling at me. I'll get on your Facebook and I will embarrass you in the comments. Now, this is a police officer who I'm supposed to feel safe to go to, who's supposed to advocate for me and is yelling at me. I'm the victim here. So when I said, Do you want to play that game? And I was screaming, if I was in person, I probably would have been arrested. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. And I said, Do you want to go tit for tat? Because I'll get right back in the comments and show you the screenshots of the emails from the sergeant that works for you who told me to go to your police department. Well, then he backed down. And this is why, and I kept telling him, this is why people end up dead. Police do not take abuse, domestic violence, missing people, anything in that genre seriously. But if it was their sister, their brother, their aunt, their grandma, their mom, you better bet your damn horses that they're gonna be at that the racetrack making sure that their information comes in. They're gonna be on it. So I'm getting heated a little bit. I'm sorry. I haven't talked about this in a month. So when I saw Lala's case and how it went that many days with no traction, no contact, no response at all, slipped right through the cracks. It triggered me. And clearly you can hear it in my voice that it still does. Because I know what that's like. I know what it's like to sit and wonder and wonder and wonder. And then they're so short-staffed anymore. You go to your local police department, you walk in and you tell them, and they say, Well, we have to go out on a call. You can sit here. It might be an hour, it might be three, but if you want to wait for us, you can. If not, just come back a different day. Ma'am, my PFA was violated and you can't do anything right now. I was so pissed. So the next day, another police department called me. Now he was very nice, very kind, talked to me like I'm a human being and not dog shit on the floor, and told me, he's like, Yes, Pennsylvania needs help with PFAs and domestic violence and missing persons. We can only do what we're trained to do. We can only do what we're allowed to do. But I agree with you 100%. It's a broken system and we need help. Because he was very kind, I was kind. And I don't care if you're a cop, I don't care if you're a teacher, I don't care if you're a librarian. If you disrespect me, talk down to me, and talk above me because you're a man, I'm gonna put you right back in your fucking place because I don't care. I've been through it all with men, and I'm men are not going to talk down to me. He was nice, so I respected him. But if you're not gonna give me respect and you're gonna treat me like I'm the problem when I'm being the victim, no, I'm not playing that game. So I gathered all this information and I had reached out to my friends who run the Gabby Petito Foundation, Gabby's parents. And I pleaded with them because they are getting laws passed in different states. I think Utah and Florida got passed, and now they're working on New York and Indiana to have lethality assessment questions done by the cops because they're not trained enough in domestic violence. And they're going around training first responders and students and the public about domestic violence. Now, I know, you know, a little bit of domestic violence does not really go with la la, but from what I heard, she was abused before when she was in foster homes and there was a PFA between her and her aunt. So it kind of ties together. So I talked to Gabby's parents and I said, we need help in Pennsylvania because when I went to court over the summer, I heard the judge tell two people who were physically abusing each other that they could stay in the same home as long as they promise not to hit each other. It was a peaceful agreement until he goes home and beats her again and then she's dead. Like I couldn't believe what I heard. And I looked over at my mom and my friend Jim and I went, did I just fucking hear what I thought I just heard? So I wrote a letter to the congressman, the senator, the governor, local police departments, and local DAs asking for help to change laws. Because Tennessee passed a law for a registered domestic violence um platform where if you abuse somebody and have multiple violations, your ass is going on the registry just like you're a sex offender. And I said, we need that in Pennsylvania, we need help with the PFAs, we need help with domestic violence, we need help with missing persons. And I had sent it to Gabby's mom to proofread, and they endorsed it. And I had sent it along to the Pennsylvania senator, governor, district attorneys, police departments, what have you. Do you think, do you think two months later I've heard anything from any of them? I'm gonna go ahead and give you a second to think about that. Nope. I have not heard one thing from any department, local, state, regional. It's disgusting and it's devastating. It's bullshit, really. I mean, I'm gonna be frank on this podcast because if you know me, I don't hold back. And yes, I might swear, and it may not make me look professional, but right now I don't care because this matters. And this means when I'm fired up like this, it's because I give a shit. You know, I have a degree in child and family services. I did my internship at Marley's Mission, where I observed like three or four hundred hours of kids dealing with loss and trauma. And the cases and the files that I read was disgusting and heartbreaking and devastating. So, yes, I take this case very close to heart because this little girl did not deserve everything she's been through leading up to this point. So my point of all that is it does not surprise me to find out that a police department in Lazerne County dropped the ball on communicating with a family. It does not surprise me because I did it myself. And I felt bullied from a police department. Now, I'm already dealing with trauma and in therapy and all this other shit. And I told my therapist, well, he started calling the police departments because he thought maybe because he has a name, you know, he's a doctor, they'd call him back. And he was not happy the fact that they were contributing to my trauma. Do you think he ever got a call back? Nope. So I had an advocate, which was nice. He was just as pissed as I was because he knows what's been going on this whole time. And there's so much more to my story, but that's this is not about me. I just wanted to connect you to how I understand the bullshit it is that Lala's parents and family went from Saturday to Thursday with not one follow-up. That's a lot of time to issue an Amber alert, to get cadaver dogs, to do an investigation on the last place she was seen, to look into leads. That's a long time. And maybe, maybe if the ball wasn't dropped and somebody took accountability and somebody did their job, or even started the case, maybe they would have had answers a lot faster. That's all I'm saying on that. But it does not surprise me that these local police departments do what they do. And then they get mad at us when we call their bullshit out online. So, as you know, if you're listening to this, it's probably because you have been following this case. And there was a lot of people that showed up to the Wilkes-Barrh Police Department at 10 a.m. this morning for a peaceful protest, Justice for Lala. And people are not happy in this community. There's no transparency, there's no urgency. So a lot of people went out this morning to support the families and to support Lala and to make a change, to be a voice for Lala, to be a voice for those who can't speak for themselves. So again, she left on January 17th in the morning. She made money from her grandma that week, wanted to go to the store, and um, there was no direct contact. She had no cell phone on her. But what they did say is they found her in her room. There was an outfit laid out on the bed, and there was a note that she wrote to her crush. And all of this was given to the police. She also was preparing to attend a school for the deaf in Pittsburgh. So nothing was pointing to Lala being a runaway as the cops wanted to deem this. And I'm, let me just make a very clear statement here. I'm not anti-police. I'm not anti-authority. There are really good police officers out there. There are ones who actually do give a shit. But unfortunately, in this circumstance, apparently, allegedly, and blatantly, this was not the case. Again, I don't know what the police are doing behind closed doors. I don't know. All I know is the facts that have been given by the family and their story. That's it. And this is about the victim and the victim's family, not the perpetrators, not the abusers. So let's focus on la la. I'm sorry I'm getting heated up. This is what happens when I go on a free-for-all podcast and I don't really have it laid out. I just go with my emotions, and sometimes it's for the best, sometimes it's not. So she was found three blocks from where she lived. Okay, so again, she went missing January 17th. Her mom reported it January 17th. The police didn't announce it until February 10th. Now, that's almost a whole month. The family gave leads, screenshots, persons of interest to check out, information on locations to check, and apparently none of that was followed up on. So earlier years, Lala had six siblings, I think I read, five or six, and was in and out of some foster homes. And in 2020, she was adopted by a really great family, who you may have seen on the news, Antoine and Amira. And they've had her for quite some time. But before she was with them, she was in and out of foster homes. And according to her biological grandma, that foster home physically abused and mentally and emotionally and verbally abused Lala. Lala was deaf. She was called stupid. She had bruises all up and down her body. The biological grandmother, Sabrina, had helped other families bring their kids home. And she's devastated because she said that they didn't let her help enough. And she's beating herself up because she said, I helped bring other families together and bring other kids home, and I couldn't do it for my granddaughter. Now, grandparents don't have legal rights. So back when Lala was in foster care, the grandma said she wanted Lala, but they wouldn't give them give her to her. But what I heard from the adoptive parents said their friend that's been advocating for them, Can Lowe, today said that the biological grandma had an opportunity to take Lala and she didn't. So there's some contradictory going on in that. Again, I'm just giving you what I watched the adoptive mom's friend say and what the biological grandma said. This is straight from their mouths. So the biological grandma wanted Lala and they wouldn't give him to her. And the adoptive parents' advocate said that she had the opportunity and she didn't take her. So I don't know what was going on on that, but that's information given. There was a time back in October of 2025 where Lala did run away for a few days and she ran to her aunt's house, who she's not allowed to be around because there was a PFA between Lala and her aunt, Bobby Jo. So I don't know why, if there was a PFA, I don't know the reasoning behind that. I don't have that information. So maybe that will come out later. So don't ask me. I don't have that information. I just know there was a PFA, and Lala wasn't supposed to have any contact with the biological family. But she ran to her aunt and her adoptive family stood out in the rain in Wilkes Bear City for 10 hours, wanting to get Lala from her aunt, and nobody would give them Lala. So they eventually got her back, and then in January she goes missing, and this is why the cops kept saying she was a runaway. I wish I knew why there was a PFA, and I feel like that would bring a lot of it together. But again, I don't know. Um I know a few weeks ago the police departments posted they were looking for Bobby Joe, and if you had any information to contact them, but I only saw that once or twice. Lala's biological father, Joey, is deceased, and her biological mom lives in Illinois. Now, when they needed DNA, they got DNA from her mom in Illinois, but couldn't bother to ask Sabrina, her biological grandmother, right here in Wilkes Bear, for a DNA sample. So that's thrown people for a loof. They didn't check phones, they didn't thoroughly check laptops, they didn't thoroughly investigate the Snapchat discussion that was had the day that she was last heard from. And when the adoptive mother asked the police department why they took so long to get back to her, they said, we don't work weekends. They don't work past four o'clock either, do they? So when there was over the weekend, there were remains found, but they didn't confirm it was Lala, but it matched up to the description. And unfortunately, yesterday they confirmed that those remains are Lala and they did an autopsy. It was inconclusive. And she was found on the same street she was last seen on, near a garage, face down and naked. I'm gonna say that again. She was found in the last place that she was seen. Um, sorry, New Alexander Street. I drew a blank, I'm sorry. And that was the last place area she was seen. They found her laying down, face down and naked. Now, I don't know how long she was laying there. I I know we had some snowfalls, and I had asked somebody very close to Sabrina, the biological grandma. I asked someone that is friends with her if she was there the whole time or if they think she was placed there recently. But I do know that she wasn't recognizable by her face. And I think maybe because, you know, with decomposition, when blood settles, it could have done something, or maybe she was abused physically in the face. I don't know, but I know they really couldn't identify her from that. And the investigators won't tell the family how long she may have been outside. So it could have been the whole entire time. It could have been a day, it could have been a week. Um, clearly it's a homicide. What they think of is right now, and they, you know, foul play is involved. And what's sad is the street that Lala is found on is near somebody who is on Meghan's Law. And the adoptive family had given that information to the police department. Apparently, his name is Jamal Her Hernandez. Now, I don't know the, you know, I don't want to accuse somebody, I'm just saying that's the information that was put out in the public. He was registered on December 14th, 2011. And it was updated last on January 18th, 2026, the day after Lala went missing. Not only did he live on that street, he was friends with Lala's aunt, who's not supposed to have contact with Lala. So that brings a whole different perspective, mindset, curiosity of are they connected, are they not connected? And you know, in America, everybody's, you know, innocent until proven guilty. And I'm not pointing fingers, I am not saying that these two had anything to do with it. I'm not saying they didn't. I am just giving you the information that is out on the internet. Um, and posted by La La's adoptive family. They had posted pictures of the aunt in a story saying she wasn't gonna cooperate with the police if they didn't give her translation, and it was very hard to understand with broken English. Um but that's what I got from it. And then they put out Jamal's sex offender photo and information, and they said they had submitted that to the police and it wasn't investigated, and they said that the aunt wasn't investigated. And when they finally did say they said they couldn't get a hold of her, and then when they did, she didn't want to communicate. Now, if you were an aunt of a child that went missing, wouldn't you want to help in any way you can? And the fact that she is a PFA against her, I I'm just I wish that piece of information, unless I missed it somewhere, I wish it would come out on why, specifically the aunt. But I know la la and siblings were taken away from her biological parents because of drugs and domestic violence. And the mom lost rights to all the kids, and they weren't allowed to have contact with the biological family. Now, this is going back like years ago. So I don't know what the full situation with the aunt is, unfortunately. I this is just all I found. And again, she's friends with the guy registered on Megan's Law and friends with that guy's girlfriend. And they verified this through photos on Facebook of them hanging out. So Lala goes missing on January 17th. This guy's sex registry is updated the day after Lala goes missing. He's friends, and so was his girlfriend, with Lala's aunt, who's not supposed to have contact with her. On, you know, he's residing on New Alexander Street, and this is all public information because he's in the sex registry, so I'm not telling somebody's information or whereabouts. And she's found nearby, naked, face down on that street. I mean, you can put the clues together. You can come up with your own hypothesis, you can form your own educated opinion and guess, but don't make up rumors and don't falsely accuse somebody of something they didn't do. Just because the guy is a sex offender and lives on that street does not mean he did it. Doesn't mean he knew about it. It's coincidental, and there's some circumstantial evidence here. Just because he's friends with her aunt and she's friends with him and the girlfriend doesn't mean the aunt had anything to do with it. Doesn't mean she did. Doesn't mean she didn't. It's all speculative. And it could have been a random person. It could have been anybody. Um, again, it's not been investigated enough, and I'm not here to spread rumors or light a fire of speculation. I'm just trying to explain to you that without all the facts, you can't just go around accusing people, pointing fingers and blaming, because it can destroy lives, it can destroy families. And the only reason why I said the names is because it's public. It's on Facebook, it's on Megan's Law. It's photos and information that Lala's parents have posted. And it's not violating anybody. I'm just bringing up names of people that may have known or been around Lala or maybe knew where she was last seen. I don't know. So the advocate of Lala's family, you may have seen her posting. Her name's Kan Lowe. She started a Facebook group called Help Find Lanaya Lala Clark. And she was being a voice for the family because it was just too hard for them. And she had added me and reached out and uh I was sharing everything I could. And they did a hell of a job because I saw it constantly on TikTok. I mean, they did a lot. And that's what it that's what, you know, they did so much, but they can only do so much. And if the police would have stepped in immediately or at least a day or two later, maybe we wouldn't be at this point. Again, I don't work at the police department. I don't know exactly everything that happened. And um, the biological grandmother, Sabrina, was very upset today um at the police department where everybody gathered and, you know, just wanted the respect to be told what happened to Lala. She's they said that the Wilkes Bear police or the DA, neither of them came to their residence to tell the family that it was confirmed. They found out through the coroner. And that's pretty sad. That's their story on it. Um, but my condolences go out to the family and friends of Lala, no matter what side of the family they're on. It's horrible all the way around. And this is not like the advocate can said, this is not about if she was fostered or adopted. Wasn't it's not about her if she was a runaway or not. At the end of the day, it's a fact that a 14-year-old went missing and the ball was dropped. There wasn't enough urgency, there wasn't enough investigation, and there shouldn't have been a delay from Saturday to Thursday. There just, that should not have happened. And I think that's where everybody is up in arms. I think that's think that's where people are so mad and so pissed off because there was no cadaver dogs, there was no amber amber alert, there was no thorough investigations. They didn't apparently, allegedly, didn't go to the locations that she was last seen and didn't look into the ant with a PFA. I mean, again, this is all what I've heard. I don't have the facts on this. This is what the facts are coming out of the family's mouth. Um, now, again, the adoptive moms living in Illinois, they got her DNA, but didn't bother to ask the local grandma here in Wilkesbury. That's baffling. And I don't know why she was on that street, but apparently that street with the corner store she was going to is on the path to the store. So that street was on the path to where they think she was going with her money. And she could have stopped. Maybe she saw her aunt. I don't know. It's speculative, and I don't want to say what I think or she may have, because that just starts rumors, but it's a possibility, right? There's always a possibility she saw her aunt stop by and something happened between that time frame. You know, if the cops didn't go to the place they were told to and look into the person who had a PFA, I mean, wouldn't that be the first place she would start? I'm not a mom, but I'm not stupid. You know, like it's just common sense. And the fact that they just kept pushing it off as a runaway is they do that a lot. And I'm not saying just Luzerne County police. I'm talking across the world because they don't want to take the time to thoroughly investigate or quote waste time or they don't have the man hours. Or I'm sorry, what did I say earlier? They don't work weekends and mine don't work after four o'clock. Even my therapist goes, Why is nobody answering the police department phones? And I said, Oh, because they don't work past four o'clock. And he literally laughed. He's like, Are you fucking kidding me? And I'm like, no, like honestly, like that's so like I know that this 99% happened because it happened to me. And I get so fucking fired up over it. You know, they they said that La La, everybody that knew her loved her. And she just had this spirit and a light. And something that stuck out that Can said today was today it's La La, but tomorrow it can be your child. Today it's La La and tomorrow it can be your child. So they're not down there just for La La. They're down there to be a voice for other kids who are missing still, who will be missing, because we know that it's not gonna stop, right? So everybody needs to come together. Everybody needs to be a voice. And that brings me back to something else I saw last night. I want to interject here since it's local. The Casa of Wyoming Valley is looking for volunteers to be a voice for kids from broken and abused and neglected homes. There's about 300 kids in the system that need people to show up to court for them and speak for them. And because I have a degree in child and family services and I worked with kids with loss and trauma to an extent, I applied to be a volunteer. Now, this won't be taking place until September, I think, but I did apply for that last night. Kids need a voice, kids need help, help them. Be an advocate, speak for them. They're helpless and they need somebody to stand up for them. So I wanted to bring that up. Lala was found three blocks away from her residence, naked, face down, unrecognizable. And again, they don't know for how long she was laying there. Now we did have some snowfalls, but and a body can stay within 40 degrees without rapidly decomposing. So I don't know if she was under the snow. I don't know if she was placed there recently. I don't have that information, and the family doesn't either. So that's something that I'm sure will come out later in time. We know how they how the cops and the media keep things to themselves for investigation purposes, because if they leak too much and the suspect acts weird or flees or does something to to mess up the case, they they they stay quiet for certain reasons. There's usually a strategy behind it. So I'm sure that will come out in time, as well as why her aunt had a PFA against her. Well, there was one protecting Lala from her aunt, and there just wasn't enough pressure. You know, the fact that they kept saying she was a runaway wasted so much time. And if they would have just gone to the address that she was last seen, and they never went there, apparently. And three weeks ago, the adoptive mother, Amira, had contacted the cops with the person of interest with the address that they thought she'd be at, and apparently it wasn't looked into. People are out there saying that the foster parents abused them. People are out there saying that the adoptive family abused La La, but I don't find that to be accurate from what I've researched and heard. Um a foster care, yes, because I do believe a lot of kids get abused from foster parents and fall through the cracks. And from what the biological grandmother said, I believe that. Now, the adoptive parents, I don't think, I don't think so. Their main goal is to get justice and be a voice for Lala. They loved Lala so much. And it's not about Lala being adopted. You know, it answers the question on why she was adopted that I didn't know earlier that, you know, all the kids were taken away from the biological mother who now lives in Illinois, and these people were gracious enough to take her in and adopt her. They loved her. Somebody said again that the biological grandmother had the opportunity to take La La and she didn't. But the biological grandmother stood outside the police department today and said she wanted her. She had five bedrooms. She would have taken all the kids, but they just wouldn't give them to her. She has, we don't abuse kids. And she said that she's helped so many families bring their kids home, but she couldn't do it for her own. That was heartbreaking. Um, again, I I apologize, apologize if this is a little all over the place and it's not clearly laid out, but all this information came out in the past two days. So I'm doing my best. You know, her biological mother, like I said, lost custody of multiple kids. And they were adopted out to other families who all had been not allowed to have any contact with the biological family. It was not permitted due to the drugs and alleged domestic abuse that was going on in the home. Lala was fostered for two years, then she was adopted and got a great family. And the grandmother said that she fought for her and wanted her, and they just would not give her the opportunity or because she was didn't have the rights. Um, I'm not sure what happened there, but she said she wanted her. The adoptive family advocate said she had the opportunity and decided not to. Regardless if she had even ran away, she was at risk. She was hard of hearing and she was missing. That should have been the focus. Not that she had ran away in the past. That was then, this is now. They have no idea. Well, the biological grandma had said that she has no idea what happened or who did it. And the fact that they couldn't identify her broke her heart. I saw that today on a live stream. And um, obviously it's an investigation, so they're not gonna release all the information as much as we want it, guys. You know, I know firsthand from victims' families that you guys have watched on TV that I personally know have told me that they keep shit to themselves on purpose and the media will only release what they want. Please keep that in mind. Think of all the crime cases you've watched your entire life. OJ, John Bene, Lacey Peterson, Murdoch, Casey Anthony, you know, Delphi. Think of all the stories that the big ones, right? Like the ones that really got national attention. Think of all the what's the one thing they have in common? They didn't have all the information given to us, so we're sitting here pulling our hair out, trying to fill in the gaps and the holes, okay? Think of that. Think of what the families feel when they read your stupid comments online and your hurtful opinions and your disgusting comments on shit that you don't know what you're talking about. The siblings that could be reading these posts, the aunts, the uncles, the grandparents, the friends that Lala went to school with. Think about other people before you say something you don't have anything nice to say or don't have the education to back it up. Like just think before you post and don't fight with each other. Don't be mean to one another. Help La La get justice. That's what this is about. This isn't about red, blue, no, left, right. Like keep that shit off the post. I saw a lot of that today. And, you know, people ought to go right and blame the president and on this side and the president on that side. This, no, this is about a local girl who went missing who had the system had failed her since years ago, not just today, up to this point. That's what it's about. It's about her not having the justice she deserved, not getting the investigation that she deserved, about being abused in foster homes, about slipping through the system, child and youth. We all know Lizerne County. We we know they're famous for the shit that goes on in the children and youth departments here. We know that. They need to be investigated. There's so many people that failed this and fail kids every single day. Fail teenagers, feel fail adults, elderly. It goes on every single day. I hate saying what I'm about to say, but I'm gonna say it because that's who I am. I believe things happen for a reason. I believe people are put on this earth to serve a purpose for if it's five years, 15 years, 20 years, 100 years, there's a reason why they're here and then gone. And maybe, you know, I mean, look at the changes Gabby Petito made. The domestic violence laws and regulations and schools and first responders training have changed drastically because of what happened. Maybe this was Lala's purpose. And that's how I get through grief. That's how I make sense of the world of fucked up things that doesn't make sense. And maybe things will change because one, her family's not backing down. Two, Lala's face is everywhere. And it takes one person to start a a ripple effect, right? So it's horrible. It's horrible, but let's not her die in vain. Let's not let her die in vain. Let's take this and make a change. Let's be nicer to each other. Let's come together as a community, like everybody did at the police department this morning. And I would have been there if I didn't have to go to work. Um, unfortunately, I couldn't go. I'm in training and I had to be there. But please don't go to the comments and and talk out your ass. Just don't, just don't do that. There's just there's a lot of information to this case, and I hope I pieced it together as much as I could with the information that I have. A lot of it is repetitive, but that that's the information, guys. That's the that's the story, that's the timeline that I was able to piece together from Facebook posts and news um reports and videos of the family and the family's friend talking. And I had to, I had to piece it all together and I had to verify who it came from. You know, this information is not from people's opinions. This information is from Lala's biological grandmother, Sabrina, and this information is also from Lala's adoptive parents, Amira and Antoine, and their advocate can. I did not pull this out of my ass. I did not find stuff in the comments and just roll with it. This is stuff from the families. And regardless of the families come together, if they're against each other, if their stories don't match, it's still the family's story. It's not yours. It's not mine, it's theirs. And I'm just trying to portray that to help them get this escalated. It's it's got some hits. People are not happy and they want justice. And as much as a horrible, disgusting, vile thing that happened, I'm also proud to see the community come together for this little girl. And it breaks my heart that this girl lived the life that she did, but it seemed she was happy anyway. It seemed like she was loved and she loved those around her. I couldn't imagine being in a broken home like that, not being allowed to contact any of my biological family at the age of 14. And the one that does potentially puts me in danger. So there's a PFA against her now. Not being able to have her biological parents because one is deceased and one is in Illinois and got her kids taken away from her. But luckily, from what it seems, she got a very, very, very good adoptive family with a friend who has been their voice who gives a shit just as much as they do. Who loves Lala, who loved Lala, who's going, was down at the Wilkes Bear Police Department today, standing up for Lala. I mean, she was. I watched a little bit of her video and she was not having it. Like she had the right idea. It doesn't matter. The nitty-gritty doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if she ran away or not. It doesn't matter if the family's stories don't match. It doesn't matter if, if, if what matters in she was 14, cops were unresponsive for days. There was no amber alert, which there are reasons behind that. And I'm not defending it, but you can't just issue an amber alert for every single kid that goes missing. It just, they don't do it like that. There's regulations. Get on the website for the government. You'll learn about it. Amber Alert. There's regulations and guidelines they have to follow too. But I understand, I understand the families and friends' frustration on why it wasn't done. I I get that wholeheartedly. I'm not saying it shouldn't have been. I'm just letting you know there are actual guidelines they have to follow. And not every missing person ends up on Amber Alert. I'm just, it just sucks that there weren't cadaver dogs. And if they if the locations that she was last seen wasn't investigated and that they didn't really follow up too hard on the ants. And I just put my prayers with the family and with Lala. And I ask you to be kind to each other, be kind to the com in the comment section to the families out of respect. Out of respect for Lala, out of respect for the families. They're dealing with enough. And the last thing they need is have to get on there and defend themselves because you're talking shit out your ass that you don't know what you're talking about. So that's all I ask from you. I will continue to make updates as this progresses. Because I live right here in the town. It's easier for me to keep updates every day. And I work, you know, I worked in the media for a while, and I know some TV reporters and radio people, and I'll do my best to keep this going and get it in front of the people it needs to be in front of. When this happened, I did tag Nancy Grace, Cyril McCollum, Joseph Scott Morgan, Nate Eaton, Ashley Greenfield Ashley Greenfield, Jesus, it's not Twilight, Ashley Banfield and some uh Brian Enton. And I tried, but you know, they're inundated right now with that with the Nancy Guthrie case. And I understand that. But if I can get it in front of people, I will. With the connections they have through CrimeCon and that community, um, I'll do whatever I can. So if Lala's family is listening to this, please let me know what I can do to help be a voice. If there's anything I can do, post, say, just please let me know. Privately message me or email me at true crimetiffclein at gmail.com. Message me on Facebook or Instagram, and just know that the community is behind you. And I think you saw that today. Don't give up. Don't back down. Don't take no for an answer. And that goes for anybody. Do what's right, be a voice, help somebody. Because you saying something or doing something could change the world. One person can hear it and it starts a ripple effect. So please send prayers and good thoughts to Lala and Lala's family. And let's hope that they get the answers they need sooner than later. Thank you for tuning in. Again, I am so sorry if this is all over the place. I did my absolute best to piece it together and make it make sense because some of the information's missing and I only had so much information. So I know it's a little repetitive, but I think I brought it together pretty well for you to understand. If not, message me and I'll I'll try to clean it up and join the Facebook group. Help find Lanayo, La La Clark. Stay updated on that. If you haven't already, follow my podcast, True Crime, at with Tiff Klein on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and iHeart. And give me some feedback. I always appreciate it. And give me a rating if you want. I'd appreciate it. And I have some swag on my store on the fourth wall. The link is in my bio on Instagram if you want to buy some shirts, coffee mugs, stickers, what have you. I will be at CrimeCon in May in Vegas for the second time. And well, I was in Denver last year. Now it's in Vegas this year. And then July 17th, I am sponsoring and volunteering at the third annual Gabby Petito Golf Fundraiser with her family and friends. So I'm looking forward to that. And then I went last year. It was a freaking blast. And then in October, I will be a guest podcaster at Crime Stereo in Boston. And I've never been to Boston. And my girl Danny after dark, tune into her podcast, um, told me about it. And Cheryl McCallum will be there, and your host Jules will be there, and some other people. So I'm looking forward to my first event because I hope to be at CrimeCon on podcaster creator row in the next few years. And um, that's a good starting point. I'm gonna check out Boston and check out Salem while I'm there. And I think my mom's going, and Aspen's going with me. Aspen's also gone to the Gabby Golf Fundraiser with me too. We're partners in crime, no pun intended. If you listen to my last episode, he I interviewed him about his connections and personal relationships with Abby and Libby of Delphi, his relationships and story on how he knows their family and how connected he is with them now. And he produced Catching a Killer, the Delphi case on Hulu. There's three episodes. He helped, he was an assistant producer. He's awesome. He's very insightful, and he too is all about ethics and morals and being responsible. And um, he's great, he's amazing energy. And yeah, he's my partner in crime. So I did send him this story, so I'm sure he'll he'll dig in. But um, I did also send it to Nancy Grace, Joseph Scott Morgan. Um, let me pull up my phone here. Who else did I send it to? Nancy Grace, Cheryl McCollum, Joseph Scott Morgan, Gabby Betito Foundation, Britney Phillips Murder, Body Bags Joe Scott, Jen Tobias, Danny After Dark, Like Mother Like Murder, Crime Con, and some others. So I'm trying. And I thank you for your support. I thank you for listening, and I thank you for giving me a chance to explain this. And once I get some more information, I'll clear it up. And then the next episode, it will probably make a lot more sense because I'll have some more gaps to fill in and I'll have some updates. And I know the timeline now. So it'll be a lot easier to piece together. But I appreciate you and thanks for listening. And this was True Crime with Tiff Klein giving criminals the disrespect they deserve.