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Former UKY Cheerleader Pleads Guilty in Death of Newborn Son | Crime Alert 08.24.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sylvanni, a former University of Kentucky student athlete,
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  Speaker 2: faces up to ten years in prison after changing her
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  Speaker 2: plea and pleading guilty in connection with the tragic death
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  Speaker 2: of her newborn baby boy. Twenty two year old Lacln
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  Speaker 2: Snelling was once celebrated as a standout student Division one
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  Speaker 2: athlete and community volunteer, as heard in this local pageant introduction.
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  Speaker 1: Good Reversity, Jefferson County Bear.
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  Speaker 2: I am Lady Selling.
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  Speaker 1: Land detains the University of Kentucky and she's twenty years
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  Speaker 1: of age. Her fears Jerry and Michelle Snelling a horse
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  Speaker 1: Maggie the names list, while also being a.
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  Speaker 3: Student athlete Division one athlete on the Sun team at
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  Speaker 3: the University of Kentucky, one hundred plus community service hours
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  Speaker 3: in the past year, honored to be ground the Jefferson
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  Speaker 3: County Fair's.
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  Speaker 1: Student Fare, and being able to represent her.
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  Speaker 2: Cause that public persona shattered on Friday when Snelling changed
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  Speaker 2: her plea in Fayette County court. Snelling was indicted by
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  Speaker 2: a Fayette County grand jury on a slew of charges,
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  Speaker 2: including abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and
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  Speaker 2: concealing the birth of an infant. Commonwealth's attorney Kimberly Baird
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  Speaker 2: stated that Snelling's defense attorney approached prosecutors as plans changed,
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  Speaker 2: leading to a plea deal for first degree manslaughter that
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  Speaker 2: was accepted by the grand jury. In a tearful admission
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  Speaker 2: before Judge Diane Minifield, Snelling wet as she confess that
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  Speaker 2: she was under emotional stress, her baby arrived unexpectedly, and
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  Speaker 2: instead of helping him, she ended his life by depriving
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  Speaker 2: him of oxygen. Lexington police officers responded to reports of
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  Speaker 2: an unresponsive infant on August twenty seventh, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: finding the child's cold remains in a trash bag in
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  Speaker 2: the closet. According to court affidavits, Snelling admitted hearing the
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  Speaker 2: newborn whimper and seeing fetal movement before passing out on
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  Speaker 2: top of him. When she woke up and saw the
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  Speaker 2: baby turning blue and purple, she wrapped him like a burrito.
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  Speaker 2: Told roommates she fainted from not eating, picked up McDonald's,
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  Speaker 2: visited a health clinic without entering, and deleted labor photos
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  Speaker 2: from her phone. More Crime and Justice news. After this
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  Speaker 2: turning now to Pennsylvania, where an incoming college freshman's life
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  Speaker 2: was tragically cut short, and police say the suspect's mother
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  Speaker 2: actively stepped in to help cover up the murder. Caroline Hints,
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  Speaker 2: an eighteen year old incoming freshman on the Pennsylvania Western
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  Speaker 2: University California soccer team, met her boyfriend, eighteen year old
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  Speaker 2: Royce Moser, outside his father's North Strabane residence to talk.
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  Speaker 2: According to criminal complaints, an argument erupted while sitting in
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  Speaker 2: her vehicle. Moser allegedly told investigators that a demon took
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  Speaker 2: over him, instructing him to stab his girlfriend. Moser told
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  Speaker 2: Heinz to wait because he had something for her, went
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  Speaker 2: inside to retrieve a knife, returned and stabbed her directly
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  Speaker 2: in the chest. As Heinz fell from the vehicle, police
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  Speaker 2: say Moser dragged her into the rear hatch of her
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  Speaker 2: jeep Cherokee and called his mother, Rachel Moser, for help.
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  Speaker 2: Court documents state Rachel Moser told her son to bring
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  Speaker 2: the car to her home, pull into the garage, and
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  Speaker 2: help clean the vehicle using disinfectant spray. She allegedly provided
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  Speaker 2: LaTeX's gloves instructed him to follow her vehicle. Toward the
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  Speaker 2: campus and left the victim's car in a parking lot
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  Speaker 2: near the California Library. She then placed the murder weapon
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  Speaker 2: into a garbage bag for disposal and washed her son's
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  Speaker 2: blood stained clothes. Officers found Heinz's body shortly after midnight,
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  Speaker 2: with noticeable blood spatter visible inside and outside the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: Royce Mosar is charged with homicide, tampering, abuse of a corpse, conspiracy,
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  Speaker 2: and obstruction. His mother, Rachel faces hindering apprehension, tampering, abuse
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  Speaker 2: of a corpse, conspiracy, and obstruction charges. Finally, in Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: a husband's claim that his wife took her own life
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  Speaker 2: has completely collapsed following an investigation by local law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: Forty year old Patrick Barnett of Lakewood faces first degree murder,
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  Speaker 2: tampering with a deceased body, and tampering with physical evidence
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  Speaker 2: in the death of his thirty seven year old wife,
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay Barnett. Patrick called nine one one on August thirteenth,
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  Speaker 2: claiming Lindsay suffered from postpartum depression and cut her own
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  Speaker 2: throat in the showerstall. However, Detective Victoria Wagner noted that
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  Speaker 2: investigators immediately doubted his story. Crime scene officers found large
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  Speaker 2: amounts of blood and blood clots on the right side
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  Speaker 2: of the bed, with minimal blood inside the bathroom. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: police documented fresh defensive fingernail scratches across Patrick's right arm, chest, abdomen,
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  Speaker 2: and collarbone, along side of fresh cut to his thumb.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay's mother, Donna Ott, refuted claims of suicidal ideation, emphasizing
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  Speaker 2: that her daughter was an art teacher at Hutchinson in
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  Speaker 2: Westgate Elementary Schools who loved her two children and was
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  Speaker 2: making plans for the school year. Hours after the body
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  Speaker 2: was found, a woman claiming to be Patrick's girlfriend requested
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  Speaker 2: a welfare check, revealing she and Patrick texted constantly and
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  Speaker 2: had met online three months earlier through the Ultimate disc Community.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick subsequently admitted to the extramarital affair. Hutchinson principal Diane
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  Speaker 2: Hoffman remembered Lindsay as a dedicated educator who brought passion
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  Speaker 2: and a sweet soul to her students. For more crime
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