AT 10, A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED TO CHIMPANZEE WAS DEAD WHEN SHE REALLY LOCKED IT IN HER BASEMENT SAYS SHE'D DO IT AGAIN. INVESTIGATOR CHRIS HAYES FOUND OUT HE'S NOW FACING POSSIBLE FEDERAL PROSECUTION FOR HER ELABORATE STORY. TIME HADDOX INTERVENED ON A LAWSUIT YEARS AGO IN WHICH THE ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP PETA SUED THIS FESTUS CHIMPANZEE COMPOUND. >> HOPING TO GET THE CHIMPS BETTER HOMES. NOW HADDIX COULD FACE PRISON TIME FOR CLAIMING ONE OF THE CHIMPS WAS DEAD. SO IT WOULDN'T BE TAKEN. >> THIS IS TALK OF A CHIMP TODAY STRETCHING OUT OF HIS NEW HOME IN FLORIDA WITH THE ORGANIZATION CALLED SAVE THE CHIMPS DO OFFER HIM A WATER TONKA IS AN OLD MOVIE STAR. HAVING APPEARED IN THE 1997 COMEDY BUDDY. THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. HE'S BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A FEDERAL COURT BATTLE THAT LED TO A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE TINY HADDOCK SAID TACO WAS DEAD. I FOUND HIM IN THE CAGE. HE BEEN LIVING WITH 6 OTHER CHAMPS AT THIS FESTUS MISSOURI COMPOUND. THE ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP, PETA SUED, CLAIMING THE ANIMALS WERE NOT GETTING PROPER CARE. RANGE FOR ALL OF THE CHANCE TO GO TO A FLORIDA ANIMAL SANCTUARY EXCEPT TONKA WHO IS MISSING HADDIX TOLD A FEDERAL JUDGE DIED. >> SHE REPEATED HER CLAIM TO FOX 2 AFTER THE HEARING. YOU STAND BY THE ASSERTION THAT TALK IS DEAD. YES, AND I WILL GLADLY PETA. >> I CAUGHT AT >> PIECE OF THEIR ASHES ARE SOME ASHES SO THAT THEY CAN DNA TEST THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW IT'S A CHIMPANZEE AND THAT IT IS BLOODLINE OR TOM GOT THAT IS IN. AND THAT BOX TIGER WAS FOUND 11 MONTHS LATER IN A CAGE. AND HADDOCK SAYS LAKE OF THE OZARKS, HOME BASEMENT, A FEDERAL JUDGE ON THE CASE NOW MADE A CRIMINAL REFERRAL TO FEDERAL PROSECUTORS FOR PERJURY. >> AN OFFENSE THAT CAN BRING UP TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED. HADDIX TOLD FOX 2 TODAY SHE'S UNABLE TO TALK ON CAMERA BUT SHE MESSAGE QUOTE, I STILL STAND ON THE PROMISE TO AND I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE EVIL CLUTCHES OF PETA AND THE HELLHOLE THEY PLACED A MAN. AND IF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM WAS JUST HE NEVER WOULD HAVE LEFT THE ONLY HOME HE'S EVER KNOWN. PETA SAYS THE PICTURES TELL THE REAL STORY WHERE YOU CAN COMPARE THE BASEMENT CAGE WERE TACO WAS IN HIDING FOR ABOUT A YEAR TO THE FLORIDA SANCTUARY WHERE HE CAN CHOOSE TO BE INSIDE OR OUTSIDE AND HE CAN SEE OTHER CHIMPANZEES HADDIX WAS DUE IN COURT THIS COMING WEDNESDAY TO ANSWER TO HER CONTEMPT OF COURT. THAT'S BEEN CANCELED. >> AS CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE BEING CONSIDERED FOR PERJURY. NOW, THE JUDGE