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Found. certainly anxiety amongst the community. however, i have spoken to police about the progress that they're making on this case, and they tell me they have strong leads. they just cannot be releasing this information at this time. they're trying to protect integrity of the investigation and hope to have more developments soon. >> a bit reassuring to hear one month into this investigation now, vorcheronica miracle, than you. for more than six decades the 1957 killing of a young boy remained unsolved. ever since his body was found in a cardboard box. today thanks to new dna evidence polic...

Child's rights at school. >> laura: now here's an email confirmed by your attorney that your daughter received from a district staff member saying you're so brave and i'm so proud of you to be strong enough to be you you are an amazing person and you will be happier now that you can honor who you are. tammy, as a mom, what was your reaction upon reading this? >> i was quite upset. she's had a -- she had a long running rapport with the staff member who sent that email but, my underlying issue was the school itself, the district, once they were aware of my request to use her birth name and gende...

Tammy joins me now. tammy, you had two calls, i know, with the principal. it was the second call when he told you how the school was going to treat your daughter? what did he say? >> he said that he is an advocate or the school district is an advocate of the child and not of the parent. they currently have a policy in place where they allow the use of nicknames. and because my daughter was choosing to go by a different name, they were going to allow it. >> laura: wait a second so you told them that your daughter was to be referred to by her birth name and that didn't -- that simply didn't matt...

Depression. tammy, the mother, said they decided to work on her mental health and tried to improve her self-esteem before making such a drastic change. the next morning, tammy's daughter went to a mental health provider in town. now, tammy said staff immediately started referring her 12-year-old daughter as a boy named leo. and a day later suggested she go on medication. they urged tam my and her husband to use the name leo and male pronouns when talking to her daughter. tammy didn't agree to that. and says the facility didn't first address the underlying issues of depression and anxiety their...

The parents is, the schools are saying on the one hand, hey we stand in the position of parent and we can be judge and jury essentially as to whether or not it's in the child's best interest to share the child is changing genders at school but in practice and what they're actually telling the teachers to do is to not tell the parents. in fact instructing them to say doing so would be outing the child and that, you know, that that puts the child in danger and so therefore you need to essentially lie to the parents and use one name, the birth name with the parents while simultaneously using, you...