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- 0:05Speaker 1: Climb Stories with Nancy Grace on Serious x M Triumph
- 0:08Speaker 1: Channel one thirty two. The thirty seven year old mother
- 0:12Speaker 1: of six who just gave birth to twin daughters about
- 0:15Speaker 1: eight weeks ago, was returning home around midnight after visiting
- 0:18Speaker 1: the babies at a hospital when she was tragically killed
- 0:20Speaker 1: and a suspected d u I crash that night. I
- 0:24Speaker 1: knew she was on her way home, and when she
- 0:26Speaker 1: wasn't home when I thought she should be home, I
- 0:27Speaker 1: got worried. Investigators are still awaiting toxicology results, but say
- 0:31Speaker 1: they suspect a twenty one year old female driver may
- 0:33Speaker 1: have been impaired and slammed head on into Evans's car
- 0:36Speaker 1: after losing control while side swiping another vehicle. We had
- 0:40Speaker 1: people here when I told the kids that their mom
- 0:43Speaker 1: was gone, and that was really important because every kid
- 0:46Speaker 1: needed a hug, and I could only really hug one
- 0:48Speaker 1: at a time. A young mother was on her way
- 0:53Speaker 1: home from visiting her premature twin daughters still in the hospital.
- 1:01Speaker 1: She was heading home to her other four children to
- 1:04Speaker 1: take care of them when tragedy strikes. A drunk Kim
- 1:12Speaker 1: Kardashian look alike enters the scene and now mommy is dead.
- 1:20Speaker 1: I Meancy Grace. This is Crime Stories and we want justice.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Joining me right now. Dr Chloe Carmichael, psychologist and founder
- 1:30Speaker 1: of Anxiety tools dot Com. Also with me, Crime Stories
- 1:35Speaker 1: investigative reporter Drew Nelson, and Alan Duke joining me from
- 1:39Speaker 1: l A. Drew Nelson, I want to start at the beginning.
- 1:44Speaker 1: What happened years old? She I. We suppose she's been
- 1:49Speaker 1: out drinking or who knows what she'd been doing. What
- 1:52Speaker 1: we do know is that her blood alcohol content level
- 1:56Speaker 1: point to one. Now the legal limit is point zero eight.
- 2:01Speaker 1: That's about equivalent of one beer, almost three times over
- 2:05Speaker 1: the legal three times the legal limit. And she goes
- 2:08Speaker 1: out driving, she loses control over car. Women. Not only
- 2:11Speaker 1: does she lose control, Drew Nelson, you're right about that,
- 2:14Speaker 1: she actually jumps the central median. That's how bad she's
- 2:20Speaker 1: out of control. I mean, Alan, do true. I may
- 2:23Speaker 1: have run into a curb here and there, but jumping
- 2:27Speaker 1: the median, I don't mean when you find out you're
- 2:30Speaker 1: going the wrong way and you secretly get over the
- 2:33Speaker 1: media a little bit like maybe you know six inch tall.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I'm talking about a big concrete median design specifically, so
- 2:44Speaker 1: this exact thing wouldn't happen. She jumps the media alan,
- 2:48Speaker 1: that's how drunk she is, right across the center medium.
- 2:51Speaker 1: This is Golden Valley Road near Santa Clarita. This is
- 2:54Speaker 1: just maybe fifteen miles from where I'm sitting right now.
- 2:58Speaker 1: You know that's a huge median. It's there for a
- 3:01Speaker 1: reason to stop exactly this type of crash from occur,
- 3:05Speaker 1: you know, typically, Dr Chloe. I don't know what kind
- 3:07Speaker 1: of driver you are. I know you're a premier psychologist,
- 3:11Speaker 1: but you know, when you you know, you tap into
- 3:14Speaker 1: something like you back and you know immediately and you
- 3:17Speaker 1: veer away or stop your car. But this woman was
- 3:20Speaker 1: so out of control, this Kim Kardashian look about. I mean,
- 3:24Speaker 1: I'm not even going to comment on the sucked in cheeks.
- 3:29Speaker 1: You know how when you take a self you go
- 3:32Speaker 1: and you know, do a power I'm trying to do
- 3:34Speaker 1: it right now so you can hear it. But it's
- 3:36Speaker 1: like all sucked in with a giant implanted lips, the
- 3:41Speaker 1: puffed up trout pout that the hair parted down the middle,
- 3:45Speaker 1: long black Morticia looking hair. She's got the whole Kardashian
- 3:51Speaker 1: thing down pat except for the driver that would have
- 3:55Speaker 1: avoided this, this this kind of a crash. Dr Chloe,
- 3:59Speaker 1: when you're so out of your gored you jump over
- 4:01Speaker 1: a concrete median into oncoming traffic. What's that telling you, doctor, Well, obviously, Nancy,
- 4:08Speaker 1: it's somebody who is completely inebriated, you know, beyond their
- 4:12Speaker 1: capacity to meet good decisions. But of course she actually
- 4:16Speaker 1: did make the decision to put alcohol into her body,
- 4:20Speaker 1: so I believe that she needs to be held accountable.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Joining me right now is Cheryl McCullum, not only director
- 4:28Speaker 1: of the Coal Case Institute, but former president of Mothers
- 4:32Speaker 1: Against Drunk Driving Georgia. Cheryl, you know this fact has
- 4:36Speaker 1: never escaped me since you told me this many years ago.
- 4:41Speaker 1: When a drunk driver is caught one time how many times?
- 4:48Speaker 1: That is not the first time they've driven drunk. Absolutely,
- 4:52Speaker 1: you're right. They've driven on average eleven times intoxicated before
- 4:57Speaker 1: their stopped the first time. So this is a habit
- 5:01Speaker 1: of this perpetrator. I mean, NA said, they drive drunk
- 5:04Speaker 1: all the time. That's how they get where they're going.
- 5:06Speaker 1: It's not a one time thing. And you're talking now
- 5:10Speaker 1: about a woman that has left six children without a
- 5:16Speaker 1: mother for what for two beers, for three beers, for
- 5:22Speaker 1: six martinis. Whatever this woman chose to have. When she
- 5:25Speaker 1: got in the car, she took somebody's mother. This is
- 5:30Speaker 1: a habit, and again she has rendered six children's motherless.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Those precious premature babies. She won't hold them, she won't
- 5:43Speaker 1: feed them, she won't have that bonding moment that they
- 5:48Speaker 1: so desperately needed. And she did this for what, Cheryl,
- 5:52Speaker 1: do you remember when the twins were born? Just throw
- 5:56Speaker 1: me that shower where all the cops and investigators and
- 6:00Speaker 1: everybody from the d a's office showed up. We had
- 6:03Speaker 1: this great baby shower, and little do we know almost
- 6:06Speaker 1: you know, immediately after that, I would go into emergency
- 6:10Speaker 1: cesarean and Lucy was only two pounds, barely two pounds.
- 6:17Speaker 1: These two little girls um the victim in this case.
- 6:22Speaker 1: We're one pound each. And her husband, yes, I know,
- 6:27Speaker 1: she's the mother of six. I wish I was the
- 6:30Speaker 1: mother of six, Cheryl. I know it sounds crazy, but
- 6:33Speaker 1: I am so in love with the twins. I would
- 6:35Speaker 1: just love to expand it. This woman, according to her husband,
- 6:39Speaker 1: had waited fifteen years to have these children, two baby
- 6:46Speaker 1: girls one pound each. You know how much they need
- 6:50Speaker 1: their mother. They need round the clock care when they
- 6:54Speaker 1: get home from the hospital. At least my twins did
- 6:56Speaker 1: ground the clock. Remember my mission us to keep them alive?
- 7:01Speaker 1: Right and now no mom, no mom? And they need
- 7:07Speaker 1: that find they need that mother, and the they just do.
- 7:13Speaker 1: And Nancy again she did this for what for drinks?
- 7:18Speaker 1: Six drinks? Okay, so six martini, seven beers? You rend
- 7:24Speaker 1: their six children's muggless? You know? To Dr Chloe Carmichael,
- 7:29Speaker 1: psychologist and creator of Anxiety tools dot com. Dr Chloe,
- 7:33Speaker 1: why is it driving me so crazy to look at
- 7:36Speaker 1: the selfish she keeps taking of herself all dacked out
- 7:39Speaker 1: like Kim and Kardashian. Why that is just really getting
- 7:43Speaker 1: under my skin? And look she's she's a beautiful young girl,
- 7:49Speaker 1: the drunk driver. But the I guess it's the self
- 7:55Speaker 1: um congratulation, the self absorption of all of these photos.
- 8:03Speaker 1: When I know what has happened, and I can certainly
- 8:05Speaker 1: understand why the seutheast would drive you crazy. As you said,
- 8:09Speaker 1: it really suggests in this particular case, somebody who's actually
- 8:13Speaker 1: quite selfish, who doesn't have any empathy or regard for
- 8:18Speaker 1: other people, and who's literally making reckless um you know,
- 8:22Speaker 1: life ending choices for other people. So of course those selfies,
- 8:27Speaker 1: UM drive you crazy. It's totally understandable, you know. Also
- 8:31Speaker 1: to Drew Nelson, Crime Stories investigative reporter, the mom was
- 8:36Speaker 1: thrown from the car and was pronounced dead immediately by
- 8:39Speaker 1: first responders. I know she has four other children that
- 8:44Speaker 1: she was on her way home to take care of.
- 8:47Speaker 1: She's got four other boys, twelve year old Spencer, eleven
- 8:52Speaker 1: year old Travis, nine year old Nathaniel, and two year
- 8:58Speaker 1: old Gideon. You know, and I can speak to nine
- 9:02Speaker 1: year old how much they need their mom, because you know,
- 9:06Speaker 1: you think they need to when their babies and you're
- 9:09Speaker 1: changing their dipes and you're getting formula and milk down
- 9:13Speaker 1: them and teaching them to walk, and but really as
- 9:16Speaker 1: they get older and Carroyline know you agree with this,
- 9:19Speaker 1: they need you even more as they're navigating the world
- 9:23Speaker 1: and they're coming home from school upset or there's a bully,
- 9:26Speaker 1: or there's this, or there's that. They don't even remember
- 9:29Speaker 1: you changing those dipies. So Drew, I think I understand now,
- 9:34Speaker 1: Drew Nelson, why she's been waiting fifteen years. She finally
- 9:38Speaker 1: had girls. She's got four boys, she finally these little girls. Yeah,
- 9:44Speaker 1: and she's only been able to visit them at the
- 9:47Speaker 1: hospital up until this point. You know, they've only been
- 9:50Speaker 1: born just weeks earlier. Sarah and Hannah, these little girls,
- 9:56Speaker 1: and you know what it's like to be waiting on
- 9:59Speaker 1: twin and here she is having to go to the
- 10:02Speaker 1: hospital to visit them, uh, and then go home to
- 10:05Speaker 1: the boys. And what I have just I've been discovering
- 10:10Speaker 1: about this, this crash is just horrific. The woman we've
- 10:14Speaker 1: been talking about, the twenty one year old elect messina Um,
- 10:19Speaker 1: she had containers of alcohol in the car, according to
- 10:23Speaker 1: the car to the police, there were open containers. Cheryl
- 10:26Speaker 1: McCollum with me, former president of Mad Mothers Against Drunk Driving,
- 10:30Speaker 1: Georgia way In on what you're hearing. I really want
- 10:33Speaker 1: to hear your take on this. Of course she did, Nancy.
- 10:36Speaker 1: This is one crime that is so selfish. This is
- 10:41Speaker 1: not somebody that shop lift for Christmas presents for their
- 10:45Speaker 1: children because they're broke. This is not somebody that steals
- 10:48Speaker 1: food because they're hungry. This is somebody that willingly has
- 10:52Speaker 1: total and complete disregards for whoever might be in their path.
- 10:57Speaker 1: They don't give a dance, they're gonna get in the
- 11:00Speaker 1: car and they're gonna drive. Of course you had alcohol.
- 11:03Speaker 1: And the other thing that is so just despicable in
- 11:06Speaker 1: disgusting is, of course she's fine. She's not injured at all.
- 11:10Speaker 1: It's never the drunk driver. They get out like, what
- 11:13Speaker 1: what's happened? Why is that? Why do they never get hurt?
- 11:17Speaker 1: Sheryl McCollum. Every d u I manslaughter that I've ever seen,
- 11:21Speaker 1: which by the way, I don't think it should be manslaughter,
- 11:23Speaker 1: which I'm gonna get to. They're always fine, and so
- 11:27Speaker 1: is the innocent victim that dies. Why is that? Well,
- 11:30Speaker 1: one answer that I've been given is because they're so
- 11:33Speaker 1: relaxed because they're drunk, they're wasted, so they're just cruising
- 11:37Speaker 1: around barely even you know, so when they crashed, their
- 11:40Speaker 1: body is so relaxed they just have no injury where
- 11:44Speaker 1: the other person tenses up and bones break and you know,
- 11:48Speaker 1: they suffer horrific damage. It's just one of the pathetic
- 11:52Speaker 1: ironies of this crime, you know. And another issue. People
- 11:57Speaker 1: always call it an accident, but I, as I have
- 12:01Speaker 1: told many many juries Cheryl McCullum, it is no accident.
- 12:06Speaker 1: It is a crash, and I say it's a murdering.
- 12:09Speaker 1: This is my reasoning. You decide to go to a
- 12:12Speaker 1: bar and drink, you know what, fine, that's your decision.
- 12:17Speaker 1: But then you decide to fish through your pocketbook and
- 12:20Speaker 1: find your car keys. Then you decide to get another drink.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Then you manage to get off that bar stool and
- 12:26Speaker 1: head to the car. Then you decide to unlock it,
- 12:29Speaker 1: open the door and get behind the driver's seat. You
- 12:31Speaker 1: know you've been drinking. You decide to crank it up,
- 12:35Speaker 1: put it reverse, ease out and put it in drive.
- 12:38Speaker 1: You decide to get out on the highway. That's your decision,
- 12:44Speaker 1: all calculated decisions. And the law, says Cheryl McCullum, as
- 12:50Speaker 1: you and I have both said before, the law presumes
- 12:54Speaker 1: you intend the natural consequence of your act. In other words,
- 12:59Speaker 1: if I were to take a piece of fine china
- 13:02Speaker 1: and throw it to the cement floor, I couldn't then say, well,
- 13:06Speaker 1: I meant to throw it, but I didn't mean for
- 13:07Speaker 1: it to break. The law presumes you intend the natural
- 13:12Speaker 1: consequence of your act. So if you get in the
- 13:16Speaker 1: car drunk and start driving on a busy a three way,
- 13:20Speaker 1: why do you think's gonna happen, Cheryl, And they think
- 13:23Speaker 1: there's not one person at her age that did not
- 13:26Speaker 1: have something in her high school, something in her middle
- 13:28Speaker 1: school where they you know, teach there. They have you know,
- 13:32Speaker 1: drun this into people about point oh eight and drinking
- 13:35Speaker 1: and driving in the danger. She knew it, she didn't care,
- 13:40Speaker 1: and now she's the murderer as far as concerned. I
- 13:43Speaker 1: want you to listen to what her husband and aerospace
- 13:46Speaker 1: engineer has to say, who's now raising six children, four
- 13:52Speaker 1: boys and two premature baby girls still in the nick
- 13:57Speaker 1: you Neo natal intensive care unit. Now what he has
- 14:02Speaker 1: to say about losing his beautiful wife that night was hell.
- 14:07Speaker 1: I knew she was on her way home, and when
- 14:10Speaker 1: she wasn't home when I thought she should be home,
- 14:12Speaker 1: I got worried. We had people here when I told
- 14:15Speaker 1: the kids that their mom was gone, and that was
- 14:20Speaker 1: really important because every kid needed a hug, and I
- 14:23Speaker 1: could only really hug one at a time. I'm sure
- 14:26Speaker 1: she's gonna watch over them for the rest of their lives.
- 14:28Speaker 1: There's still so much good in this world and we
- 14:31Speaker 1: are seeing at firsthand, and I think that is the
- 14:33Speaker 1: thing that's sustaining me. Right now to Dr Chloe Carmichael's
- 14:37Speaker 1: psychologist and Vandervan's Anxiety tools dot com. What do you
- 14:42Speaker 1: think this dad is going through right now? I cannot
- 14:47Speaker 1: even imagine, Oh, Nancy, Um, it must just be as
- 14:51Speaker 1: you said, I must be on what we can comprehend.
- 14:53Speaker 1: Because a man has an innate desire to protect and
- 14:58Speaker 1: to care for women. That really something that mother nature
- 15:01Speaker 1: and evolutionary or evolution kind of programmed into men. And
- 15:06Speaker 1: that's actually heightened when the woman has given birth because
- 15:11Speaker 1: you know of a lot of complex reasons with evolutionary psychology,
- 15:14Speaker 1: but she's actually helping to pass on his genes at
- 15:17Speaker 1: that particular moment. So, Um, in terms of evolutionary psychology,
- 15:21Speaker 1: he has a heightened sense of protection. And then just
- 15:24Speaker 1: through being socialized of course as well, his wife has
- 15:27Speaker 1: just given birth, he has a naturally heightened desire to
- 15:30Speaker 1: protect and shelter her. So for this to happen at
- 15:34Speaker 1: this particular moment, when he was soaring in the heights
- 15:37Speaker 1: of you know, basking and being for the sixth time
- 15:40Speaker 1: now father with this woman, and they had four older
- 15:43Speaker 1: boys and now they have these two little girls, every
- 15:46Speaker 1: protection bone in his body was amplified at the moment
- 15:51Speaker 1: of this terrible um. You know, as you're saying, just
- 15:55Speaker 1: what what feels in many ways almost like a murder
- 15:57Speaker 1: of somebody that just took a huge each piece of
- 16:00Speaker 1: steel and and drove it into her car and and
- 16:03Speaker 1: had her thrown into the air and violently killed. UM.
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- 18:20Speaker 1: twenty one year old drunk Kim Kardashian look alike crosses
- 18:24Speaker 1: the Median at point two one slams into a mother
- 18:29Speaker 1: of six on her way home from visiting her premature twins.
- 18:33Speaker 1: That she had waited fifteen years to have, mother of
- 18:36Speaker 1: six premature twin girls on her way home to the
- 18:39Speaker 1: other four children when tragedy strikes. Is it true? Drew
- 18:42Speaker 1: Nelson Crime Stories investigative reporter that she also hit another vehicle.
- 18:47Speaker 1: She hit two cars that night, two cars, and then
- 18:51Speaker 1: as she collided with the mother of six, who knows
- 18:55Speaker 1: how fast she was going at that time. I mean
- 18:58Speaker 1: imagine miles an hour, just just plus twenty five for
- 19:03Speaker 1: the other car, that's a fifty four, and this this
- 19:08Speaker 1: mother of six is thrown from the car. You know, Cheryl,
- 19:11Speaker 1: she was almost home, and I know that doesn't mean anything. Probatively,
- 19:16Speaker 1: it doesn't prove anything. She was one mile from home.
- 19:21Speaker 1: How tired do you think she was, Cheryl, just trying
- 19:24Speaker 1: to get home. She's taking care of four boys, that's
- 19:28Speaker 1: not the easiest, and the husband's working full time in
- 19:33Speaker 1: the aerospace field. Her lifelong dream of having girls finally happens,
- 19:39Speaker 1: and she couldn't wait to take care of them. At
- 19:43Speaker 1: the hospital still in intensive care and is driving home
- 19:48Speaker 1: one mile. She almost made it, Cheryl, You know, needsy
- 19:53Speaker 1: they always tell you within that five mile radio. So again,
- 19:57Speaker 1: that tells you that this criminal was in a residential district.
- 20:03Speaker 1: She had no care or concerns who was in her path.
- 20:07Speaker 1: It could have been an elderly person, it could have
- 20:09Speaker 1: been a handicapped person, it could have been a small child.
- 20:12Speaker 1: She did not care. And horrifyingly, it's a mother of
- 20:17Speaker 1: six that was doing nothing wrong. She was doing everything
- 20:23Speaker 1: in the world right. What does it say to you,
- 20:26Speaker 1: Sheryl McCollum, former director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Georgia,
- 20:30Speaker 1: that she had open containers e r s that's plural
- 20:34Speaker 1: of alcohol in her car. You can't wait to get
- 20:38Speaker 1: home or to a bar. You got a drink in
- 20:40Speaker 1: the on the way. Yeah, she's an alcoholic and everybody
- 20:42Speaker 1: in her social group knows it, and her family knows it,
- 20:45Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to deny it. But she drank
- 20:47Speaker 1: till she blacked out. This has been going on since college.
- 20:51Speaker 1: And you know, this is probably not the first run in.
- 20:54Speaker 1: She's probably had feeding, she's probably had rentless driving. She
- 20:57Speaker 1: may or may not even have a d U. I
- 20:59Speaker 1: but I and telling you she has driven drunk more
- 21:03Speaker 1: than once, because again, this is a woman that by herself.
- 21:08Speaker 1: She's not in the car with six people where she's
- 21:10Speaker 1: partying and they're all headed to spring break. She's alone
- 21:13Speaker 1: and she's a point to one. The legal limit is
- 21:17Speaker 1: point oh eight. She wouldn't even trump almost three times
- 21:23Speaker 1: the legal limit. You know. The other day, UH dragged
- 21:28Speaker 1: the twins to go walk our crazy munt dog fat
- 21:31Speaker 1: boy with me and John David. You know, all the
- 21:36Speaker 1: boys were the baggy pants and so he had these
- 21:39Speaker 1: big baggy shorts on and he put a water bottle
- 21:41Speaker 1: in each bottle in each pocket, which made him go.
- 21:45Speaker 1: You know, they were like hanging down. I'm like, what
- 21:47Speaker 1: are you crossing the Sahara? You gotta have two water
- 21:49Speaker 1: bottles forty minutes you can make it, okay, be strong son,
- 21:55Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking it just strike. She has to
- 21:58Speaker 1: have two can to piners of booze at least, because
- 22:02Speaker 1: they say containers to get from what her house to
- 22:06Speaker 1: the gas station or the bar to the house, or
- 22:08Speaker 1: the house to the bar, she can't make it there
- 22:10Speaker 1: without down some booze. Cheryl the Coe probably going to
- 22:13Speaker 1: the bar, Nancy. This is how she travels. I'm telling you.
- 22:16Speaker 1: When she leaves her house, she's got her flask or
- 22:19Speaker 1: whatever the container is that she's got open. And this
- 22:22Speaker 1: is how she's going to Walmart. This is how she's
- 22:24Speaker 1: going to get her nail done. This is how she lives.
- 22:28Speaker 1: She's a drunk and and you know you're talking about
- 22:31Speaker 1: three times a legal limit. She should serve three times
- 22:35Speaker 1: what a normal person with her she needs to go
- 22:38Speaker 1: to pun. Know what, Cheryl, I'm afraid you and I
- 22:40Speaker 1: really just seem too much of this world because um
- 22:43Speaker 1: not that I want to leave, don't get me wrong, Lord,
- 22:46Speaker 1: But when you said flask, do you know what John David,
- 22:50Speaker 1: my son who's nine, said. He goes, Mom, I want
- 22:53Speaker 1: a flask, And I'm like, what's the flask? Of course
- 22:56Speaker 1: I knew it was, but I was hoping he didn't know.
- 22:59Speaker 1: You know, you put stuff in it to drink. I'm like, son,
- 23:04Speaker 1: why do you want a flask? And he went, Mom,
- 23:08Speaker 1: I want to put cold milk in it. And it
- 23:12Speaker 1: took all of my strength not to start laughing. And
- 23:17Speaker 1: you know what I did? Right when when the next
- 23:20Speaker 1: place we were at Target, So I don't know where
- 23:22Speaker 1: we were. We saw flask and like looke, John Davi,
- 23:23Speaker 1: there's flask. We were in the hardware store and they
- 23:26Speaker 1: had him for like campers or something, and I got
- 23:28Speaker 1: him a flask. He came home. He didn't even clean
- 23:31Speaker 1: it out, Mike, did you clean it out first? Even? No,
- 23:34Speaker 1: he poured milk in it started. And I think where
- 23:39Speaker 1: he saw it was on Harry Potter. I don't know
- 23:41Speaker 1: how much you watched it, but we've read them all
- 23:43Speaker 1: and watched them all, and mad I mood he drinks
- 23:46Speaker 1: from a flask all the time. And John David saw it,
- 23:48Speaker 1: decided put milk. And so when I and you and I,
- 23:56Speaker 1: you know, we just him. And when Cheryl is spouting
- 23:59Speaker 1: all this information out, it's because she We've done it
- 24:02Speaker 1: so many times. I mean, come on, Jackie here in
- 24:08Speaker 1: the studio, when you go to Target or Walmart, wherever
- 24:12Speaker 1: you go, do you carry two bottles of booze just
- 24:16Speaker 1: to make it to walk? I mean, I wouldn't even
- 24:19Speaker 1: think of it. And she's right, this is how she rolls.
- 24:22Speaker 1: But you know what we're we're talking lightheartedly about flasks
- 24:26Speaker 1: and Walmart and Target and Polly juice potion and Harry Potter,
- 24:32Speaker 1: Let's bring it all home, Alan, Please, let's hear one
- 24:35Speaker 1: more time Katie Evans husband. That night was hell. I
- 24:42Speaker 1: knew she was on her way home, and when she
- 24:45Speaker 1: wasn't home when I thought she should be home, I
- 24:46Speaker 1: got worried. We had people here when I told the
- 24:50Speaker 1: kids that their mom was gone, and that was really
- 24:54Speaker 1: important because every kid needed a hug and I could
- 24:58Speaker 1: only really hug one at a time. I'm sure she's
- 25:00Speaker 1: gonna watch over them for the rest of their lives.
- 25:03Speaker 1: There's still so much good in this world, and we
- 25:05Speaker 1: are seeing it firsthand, and I think that is the
- 25:08Speaker 1: thing that's sustaining me right now. For those who wish
- 25:11Speaker 1: to help the family of Katie Evans, Drew Nelson, Crime
- 25:16Speaker 1: Stories Investigative Reporter, Is there a way we can help?
- 25:20Speaker 1: Look at the website you caring dot com This that
- 25:25Speaker 1: shows a picture from from happier times, the four boys,
- 25:29Speaker 1: dad and mom. The girls aren't in the picture because
- 25:33Speaker 1: they haven't been able to come home yet, but there's
- 25:36Speaker 1: six children on this website you caring dot com and
- 25:40Speaker 1: look for the Evans Family Accident Expense Fund. And if
- 25:47Speaker 1: you can't contribute that way, I'm sure they can use
- 25:50Speaker 1: your prayers. And now we go to Panola County, Mississippi
- 25:56Speaker 1: and one of the most horrific cases Court Watches have seen,
- 26:01Speaker 1: which in the last hours has resulted in a mistrial.
- 26:06Speaker 1: It's all about a young cheerleader, Jessica chamber As a
- 26:11Speaker 1: cheerleader all the way through high school, who was literally
- 26:15Speaker 1: burned alive. The evidence has pointed to the defendant, Quentin
- 26:22Speaker 1: tell Us, who admits he was with her throughout the evening,
- 26:27Speaker 1: on and off. Their text messages are playing a major
- 26:32Speaker 1: role in this investigation where he continually via text message,
- 26:38Speaker 1: pressured her to have a romantic relationship. Well, I'm putting
- 26:42Speaker 1: that ephemistically. I'm definitely putting perfume on the pig. He
- 26:47Speaker 1: was pressuring her for sex over and over and over,
- 26:50Speaker 1: and you can see on the text messages where she
- 26:54Speaker 1: kept saying no, no, no, leave me alone, no no no.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Then how is it that they are alone in her
- 27:05Speaker 1: car by his own admission up until seven thirty p m.
- 27:10Speaker 1: The evening, she is doused with gasoline and set on fire.
- 27:16Speaker 1: What somebody else comes along in that thirty minute window
- 27:20Speaker 1: from the time he left her and the time she
- 27:22Speaker 1: spotted on the side of the road, burning alive. That's
- 27:25Speaker 1: kind of hard for me to believe. To Shane Dieter,
- 27:29Speaker 1: joining us assignment editor with W A. T. And Shane,
- 27:32Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Let's start at the beginning.
- 27:36Speaker 1: What happened the night that Jessica Chambers was spotted by
- 27:40Speaker 1: a motorist wearing nothing but her underwear. Her bra had
- 27:44Speaker 1: melted off her body, asking for help. What happened? Cool
- 27:49Speaker 1: Hely Uh former fire chief of that area, was the
- 27:54Speaker 1: first person on seen in uh Cole at the time,
- 27:58Speaker 1: said that he that's just Jessica. Who she was. He
- 28:03Speaker 1: described how she would looked. Wait a minute. He told
- 28:07Speaker 1: the jury that the moment he saw her, he knew
- 28:11Speaker 1: it was Jessica Chambers. It's a very low population. Everybody
- 28:15Speaker 1: knows each other. And she comes out of the woods.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Her car is on fires, totally destroyed by fire, out
- 28:21Speaker 1: in a field. She comes walking up along the roadway
- 28:28Speaker 1: on fire, and he knows it's Jessica Chambers right then
- 28:35Speaker 1: and there. Right He asked her her name to verify it,
- 28:39Speaker 1: and her answer, of course, you gotta remember she was
- 28:42Speaker 1: on fire. She's in incredible pain, she said, Jessica timbers
- 28:48Speaker 1: and obviously couldn't speak correctly. Mark Tate also with me,
- 28:53Speaker 1: veteran multi state defense attorney practicing out of the Savannah jurisdiction. Mark,
- 28:59Speaker 1: when I spoke to the father, which I did in depth,
- 29:02Speaker 1: he told me that at the time, doctors believed the
- 29:07Speaker 1: perpetrator had poured gasoline or lighter fluid down her mouth
- 29:12Speaker 1: and throat. That's how badly her insides were burned. She
- 29:18Speaker 1: could hardly terrific, which becomes very important later on. So
- 29:23Speaker 1: she they couldn't even understand when she tried to say Chambers,
- 29:26Speaker 1: it sounded like something completely different. Why is that so
- 29:29Speaker 1: significant that she can't speak? Mark take The reason that significant,
- 29:33Speaker 1: Nancy is this dying declarations carry a lot of evidentiary weight,
- 29:39Speaker 1: especially in this instance. And so she identified later a
- 29:43Speaker 1: name of the person who set her on fire, and
- 29:47Speaker 1: people who were interviewing her said it sounded like she
- 29:49Speaker 1: said tell Us or Eric or something along those lines.
- 29:53Speaker 1: And so as a result of that dying declaration, law
- 29:57Speaker 1: enforcement proceeded to conduct interviews of numerous people who had
- 30:01Speaker 1: those names and ruled them all out. And so the
- 30:04Speaker 1: notion is that her, gosh, it's just unbelievable that her
- 30:09Speaker 1: mouth and tongue and teeth were so destroyed that she
- 30:13Speaker 1: couldn't speak correctly. But that the word that she said
- 30:17Speaker 1: was so close to the name of the man who
- 30:21Speaker 1: clearly had contact with her throughout the evening and day
- 30:25Speaker 1: and has evidence of having harassed her for sex. The
- 30:30Speaker 1: name sounds close enough, and so that's the argument to
- 30:33Speaker 1: the jury. I think it's a good argument, and I
- 30:35Speaker 1: think the judge was correct in letting that evidence in
- 30:38Speaker 1: as a dying declaration to let the jury determine whether,
- 30:42Speaker 1: in fact she identified her her killer. I've got no
- 30:47Speaker 1: one word. You're so right, Mark, take Shane Deeter joining
- 30:51Speaker 1: me as Sigmon editor w A t in, Shane, when
- 30:55Speaker 1: the far she've got there, as you were just telling us,
- 30:58Speaker 1: I mean the woman she can't talk. She's been on fire.
- 31:04Speaker 1: In fact, every square inch of her body was burned
- 31:07Speaker 1: except for the soles of her feet and her rear
- 31:11Speaker 1: end where she had been sitting in the car where
- 31:14Speaker 1: I think she was raped in the car myself, because Shane,
- 31:18Speaker 1: isn't it true that tell Us himself says they quote
- 31:24Speaker 1: had sex in the car, Yes, Nancy, he said that
- 31:27Speaker 1: they had sex in the passenger seat of her car,
- 31:30Speaker 1: and so how is it, Shane Deeter, that all these
- 31:34Speaker 1: text messages where she's saying no, no, no, no no,
- 31:38Speaker 1: and then she apparently gives him a ride. Next thing
- 31:41Speaker 1: you know, whoops, they're having sex and now she's dead.
- 31:43Speaker 1: It sounds to me more like she was raped in
- 31:46Speaker 1: the car and he had to get rid of her
- 31:50Speaker 1: or else she would report the rape and she ends
- 31:52Speaker 1: upset on fire. Now, Shane, what happened? Mark tate Uh,
- 31:57Speaker 1: the multi state defense lawyer, was describing some of the facts,
- 32:01Speaker 1: But what happened when the fire chief spoke to her?
- 32:04Speaker 1: At first, Nancy, he said he was trying to get
- 32:06Speaker 1: her help and all that. He said that he couldn't
- 32:10Speaker 1: understand the name that she said, which everyone has said
- 32:15Speaker 1: in testimony, she said Eric. He said that he had
- 32:19Speaker 1: his ear down to her mouth he couldn't understand it.
- 32:22Speaker 1: And then a couple of days later, when he was
- 32:24Speaker 1: doing his written statement, then he said she said Eric.
- 32:29Speaker 1: So eventually he said he couldn't. Yeah, he asked her,
- 32:33Speaker 1: who did this to you? And she tried to say
- 32:36Speaker 1: a name, a single word, and he said it sounded
- 32:39Speaker 1: like Eric. Here's the fire chief. What was this person
- 32:44Speaker 1: wearing when I said her. She had nothing on them
- 32:49Speaker 1: with her bands and what did you tell me you did? You?
- 32:54Speaker 1: You gotta blanket. I got it out and I gotta blanket.
- 32:57Speaker 1: And she had her arms out, was coming to with
- 33:00Speaker 1: me saying help me, help me, help me, Nicole. I
- 33:04Speaker 1: want you to describe for this jury what type of
- 33:06Speaker 1: what did she look like? What was the condition of
- 33:08Speaker 1: Jessica Chambers? Her hair was her hair was fried out,
- 33:24Speaker 1: like she's stuck in the light socket, and she had
- 33:32Speaker 1: black all over her face. Her body was severely burned
- 33:38Speaker 1: and just all the way down her body was was
- 33:44Speaker 1: it was very badly burned, and proceeded a layer down
- 33:49Speaker 1: on the ground. She reached out from I am. I
- 33:57Speaker 1: held onto her hand and I talked to her and
- 34:05Speaker 1: asked her her name, and she said what come out like?
- 34:09Speaker 1: I said, her mouth inside her mouth was just charred black.
- 34:17Speaker 1: And could not understand her very well at all. Were
- 34:25Speaker 1: you able to get a name? When I asked her
- 34:28Speaker 1: her name, she said Jessica Chambers. And hey, like I said,
- 34:38Speaker 1: she was not recognizable to me. I know what Jessica
- 34:42Speaker 1: Chambers looked like. Did not look like Jessica Chambers at
- 34:45Speaker 1: the time. Now describe her voice for the jury. How
- 34:50Speaker 1: is it coming out? When you were talking to her?
- 34:52Speaker 1: It was very gargled and just dry. I mean, you know,
- 35:00Speaker 1: I was. I was face to face with her, and
- 35:06Speaker 1: she uh, like I said, he could he could barely
- 35:11Speaker 1: understand her. And she she kept asking for water, and
- 35:18Speaker 1: and I I knew in my mind she didn't need water.
- 35:23Speaker 1: I knew that was not the best, you know, not
- 35:26Speaker 1: to give her water. Held her hand beside her and
- 35:32Speaker 1: asked what happened? And she told me she said, I
- 35:37Speaker 1: was set on fire again. It was her voice clear,
- 35:42Speaker 1: it was not not clear, Like I said, you know,
- 35:49Speaker 1: some words come. You were able to tell what they
- 35:54Speaker 1: were plainly, but it was not clear. Year, if it
- 36:01Speaker 1: makes sense, did you ask her? Who did this? Her?
- 36:04Speaker 1: I asked her, I said, who did this? She tried
- 36:08Speaker 1: to say a name. I could not understand the name,
- 36:12Speaker 1: but it sound like anything to you. I could. I
- 36:15Speaker 1: couldnot make out anything to what she said. The only
- 36:21Speaker 1: time I heard a name was after uh Daniel Cole
- 36:28Speaker 1: got on sing Medstet got there, and I believe the
- 36:31Speaker 1: deputy was there, and they had turned her head away
- 36:37Speaker 1: from and they had started taking to her up and
- 36:43Speaker 1: they kept question or you know who did this? Who
- 36:48Speaker 1: did this? Who did this? And then I heard them say,
- 36:55Speaker 1: like I said, I never personally, I never heard her
- 36:58Speaker 1: say a name. M They went on though, the first responders,
- 37:03Speaker 1: there were eight of them, plus the chief, and they
- 37:05Speaker 1: said that they couldn't understand what she was saying. The
- 37:10Speaker 1: emergency equipment was blaring in the background, all these fire
- 37:15Speaker 1: trucks then and police, all these people were there, and
- 37:18Speaker 1: she couldn't speak, and she was barely whispering. And then
- 37:22Speaker 1: they said they couldn't make out the word. But Mark,
- 37:25Speaker 1: take let me compare it to the moment in court
- 37:28Speaker 1: when Orenthal James Simpson O J. Simpson held up the
- 37:31Speaker 1: glove which was dried blood, soaked with dried blood and shrunken,
- 37:37Speaker 1: and he pulls it over his fingers that let's just
- 37:39Speaker 1: say the top digits and says it doesn't fit, and
- 37:44Speaker 1: that one thing was the lynchpin and the not guilty verdict.
- 37:50Speaker 1: That one moment, and that's how I say, well, I'm
- 37:52Speaker 1: saying about this dying declaration just like I know, darn
- 37:56Speaker 1: well that was his glove because Nicole Brown bought it
- 37:59Speaker 1: for I mean, there's a proof of that, plus a
- 38:01Speaker 1: receipt and a picture of what she bought him. It's
- 38:03Speaker 1: that glove, okay. And I know in this case the
- 38:08Speaker 1: drama of a dying declaration where she allegedly said Eric.
- 38:13Speaker 1: I think she was trying to say tell us, but
- 38:17Speaker 1: they thought she said Eric. They didn't know the name
- 38:19Speaker 1: tell Us, and so they figured they deciphered she said Eric,
- 38:23Speaker 1: and that is what hung this jury up. I'm telling you, well,
- 38:27Speaker 1: first of all, let me about the Simpson trial. I
- 38:30Speaker 1: think there was a whole lot going on there besides
- 38:34Speaker 1: the gross prosecutorial mistake of crying the jury show. I
- 38:39Speaker 1: think we had a judge. You and I both know
- 38:42Speaker 1: never do a demonstration. You have not practiced, But I
- 38:46Speaker 1: think I agree with you. But the judge let the
- 38:50Speaker 1: defense team run rampant, and I think that he was
- 38:54Speaker 1: impressed with the celebrity status of his trial, and I
- 38:58Speaker 1: think that he and the way he conducted that trial
- 39:00Speaker 1: contributed in large part. There's no question that the prosecutors
- 39:04Speaker 1: made a tragic error, and boyd they paid for that
- 39:07Speaker 1: tragic error and continue to in their careers because they're
- 39:11Speaker 1: never going to live that down. Similar to this case,
- 39:15Speaker 1: I think we have a judge, you made it one
- 39:17Speaker 1: mistake and I'll talk about that when you're ready. But
- 39:19Speaker 1: the things that you have gone over about whether the
- 39:22Speaker 1: police chief could hear her at the time she was
- 39:25Speaker 1: making her dying declaration or whether he remembered it later,
- 39:29Speaker 1: whether the first responders who had the sirens blaring with
- 39:33Speaker 1: them could not understand it here. Yeah, that's all good.
- 39:37Speaker 1: That's great evidence for the defense to put on and
- 39:42Speaker 1: cross examine these witnesses with in order to create a doubt.
- 39:47Speaker 1: And that is listen, it's it is circumstantial evidence. It
- 39:53Speaker 1: is something that should be examined in questions. Well, yeah,
- 39:57Speaker 1: but I think you're right to start with I think
- 39:58Speaker 1: the judge should have allowed the dying declaration. And you
- 40:01Speaker 1: can't keep something like that out. You'll get reversed on appeal.
- 40:04Speaker 1: If they thought she said Eric at the time, the
- 40:06Speaker 1: jury has a right to know that. You can't wrote,
- 40:08Speaker 1: you know, sweeping under the rug. They thought she said Eric.
- 40:11Speaker 1: In retrospect, they realized that's not what she's saying, because,
- 40:15Speaker 1: I mean, the other evidence is so overwhelming. Dr Chloe Carmichael,
- 40:20Speaker 1: Psychologists joining US and founder of Anxiety tools dot Com.
- 40:25Speaker 1: Dr Chloe, I mean, let's take a look at Quentin
- 40:30Speaker 1: Tell us his own words. First of all, he changed
- 40:33Speaker 1: his story multiple times. Finally, the story he decided to
- 40:38Speaker 1: go with was that he was with a friend of
- 40:40Speaker 1: his the whole night. Well, of course police find the friend.
- 40:43Speaker 1: The friend says, what, I wasn't even in the state.
- 40:46Speaker 1: I was out of the state that night. I've been gone.
- 40:48Speaker 1: So he's lying blatantly. He admits he had quote sex
- 40:54Speaker 1: with Jessica. Well, we know that he had been rebuffed
- 40:59Speaker 1: over and over and over the states. Theory is that
- 41:02Speaker 1: he quote had sex I call raped her and asphyxiated
- 41:07Speaker 1: her in the car. That then he had to get
- 41:10Speaker 1: rid of the evidence. So he goes to his house,
- 41:14Speaker 1: where he admits he keeps a five calin drum of gasoline,
- 41:19Speaker 1: and he's caught on surveillance video leaving the house where
- 41:24Speaker 1: the shed is with the gas and within fifty minutes
- 41:27Speaker 1: she's on fire. I mean, oh, also, Dr Chloe. He
- 41:31Speaker 1: deletes all the texts from his phone that referenced to Jessica. Now,
- 41:37Speaker 1: why would you do that? If my husband, which is
- 41:40Speaker 1: not I don't want this, has some kind of an accident,
- 41:43Speaker 1: I don't run to my phone and delete every text
- 41:46Speaker 1: from him. Why would I do that? Well, you're absolutely right,
- 41:49Speaker 1: Nan stiff feels like a coordinated pattern here. Um, so
- 41:54Speaker 1: of course, why why would he lie to the police
- 41:57Speaker 1: in the first place. So right there, he's and streating
- 42:00Speaker 1: a disregard for law and order, and of course the
- 42:04Speaker 1: idea that he would have sex with her and then
- 42:06Speaker 1: be seen getting a five gallon jug of gasoline. Um,
- 42:10Speaker 1: it's it doesn't seem like it's that difficult to understand. Um,
- 42:14Speaker 1: you know what what he was saying leaving the spot
- 42:17Speaker 1: with where the gas can had been. I mean, you can't,
- 42:21Speaker 1: you don't know what he's got with him. But I mean, yeah,
- 42:25Speaker 1: Dr Chloe, I mean, what what do you need a
- 42:28Speaker 1: video of him killing her? Well, I agree completely, and
- 42:33Speaker 1: I mean there's also the fact that you know, behavior
- 42:35Speaker 1: does often tend to occur in patterns, and from what
- 42:38Speaker 1: I understand this, Quentin verdel tell Us is also currently
- 42:43Speaker 1: under investigation for another murder because he was using the
- 42:46Speaker 1: credit card of a woman that that was murdered as well.
- 42:50Speaker 1: So it seems like he certainly has a pattern of
- 42:53Speaker 1: being involved around you know, women who are murdered, dead women,
- 42:58Speaker 1: dead women. You know, Dr Chloe Carmichael, psychologists joining us,
- 43:03Speaker 1: You just read my mind. I guess you're clear voyant
- 43:06Speaker 1: to boot because Shane Deeter joining us from w A
- 43:11Speaker 1: t N. The fact is he's also facing trial in
- 43:15Speaker 1: Louisiana for the murder, the torture slaying of a graduate
- 43:21Speaker 1: student there. Her name was seeing Low and she was
- 43:28Speaker 1: brutally stabbed multiple times. Then after she was stabbed. Oh,
- 43:33Speaker 1: and many of those stabs, Shane were torture stabs in
- 43:37Speaker 1: other words, like slicing her down the arm to try
- 43:40Speaker 1: to get information about her pass code for her a
- 43:43Speaker 1: t M. Then after she gives it up, she's murdered.
- 43:47Speaker 1: And he, it's absolutely proven by photographic evidence, uses her
- 43:52Speaker 1: a t M card repeatedly after she's dead. So there
- 43:57Speaker 1: you go. There's another dead woman everywhere he goes. As
- 44:00Speaker 1: he leaves a trail of dead bodies. He is he
- 44:02Speaker 1: is a bad guy. I mean, she was an exchanged
- 44:04Speaker 1: student from Tailan. She was at the University of louis
- 44:08Speaker 1: Anna Monroe. And he now sits in Washington Parish jail
- 44:13Speaker 1: there and that's where he was when February of two
- 44:17Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen he got the indictment for the murder
- 44:20Speaker 1: of Jessica Chambers. Well, the jury has hung. The jury
- 44:24Speaker 1: has hung regarding Jessica Chambers. But Mark Tate, it ain't
- 44:28Speaker 1: over yet. They're going to retry him on that. What
- 44:30Speaker 1: do you think they'll do any differently second time around? Mark, Well,
- 44:34Speaker 1: first of all, this will allow me to comment on
- 44:37Speaker 1: the judge. And you know, it's dangerous for a trial
- 44:39Speaker 1: lawyer to say something negative about a judge. But at
- 44:43Speaker 1: least from what has been reported about the charge he
- 44:46Speaker 1: gave the jury, this judge did not charge correctly. He
- 44:50Speaker 1: told the jury that they had to have a unanimous
- 44:53Speaker 1: verdict for a guilty verdict, but he did not tell
- 44:56Speaker 1: them what it had to be unanimous for a or
- 45:00Speaker 1: not guilty verd And so he corrected that charge when
- 45:04Speaker 1: the when the jury came out and said they're deadlocked,
- 45:07Speaker 1: and then they came back and could not resolve it enough.
- 45:10Speaker 1: If I recall correctly, it was a seven five. It
- 45:13Speaker 1: was seven five in favor of guilty. And at first
- 45:15Speaker 1: they came out twice with verdicts. The first time they
- 45:19Speaker 1: said not guilty because they thought you had to be
- 45:21Speaker 1: unanimous on guilty, and if you weren't unanimous on guilty,
- 45:25Speaker 1: then it just automatically was not guilty. They did not
- 45:28Speaker 1: understand the law. But all that you're you're absolutely right
- 45:31Speaker 1: on the law as usual, Mark take. But to me,
- 45:34Speaker 1: it's neither here nor there now because there was a
- 45:37Speaker 1: hung jury, so there's not gonna be an appeal, there's
- 45:39Speaker 1: gonna be a retrial. Then tell you this, They better
- 45:43Speaker 1: be ready and hit that digital evidence and hit it hard,
- 45:48Speaker 1: because there's no way in h E double l that
- 45:50Speaker 1: this guy was with her at seven thirty five and
- 45:55Speaker 1: at eight o'clock she's running down the road or approaching
- 45:58Speaker 1: the road almost Nate hit on fire and she's with
- 46:03Speaker 1: him fifteen minutes before. Uhh, yeah, I would quit. They
- 46:06Speaker 1: got to hit the timeline in the digital evidence. I mean,
- 46:08Speaker 1: I think that's the strongest case i've If I were
- 46:11Speaker 1: a prosecutor, I would uh sich a question whether I
- 46:16Speaker 1: wanted to get into the evidence where the dying decoration
- 46:20Speaker 1: seemed to be shifting and somewhat sought Nancy Grace Crime Stories,
- 46:27Speaker 1: signing off Goodbye friend,