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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, our friends and partners at
- 0:02Speaker 1: Fox Nation have an exclusive new movie out right now,
- 0:06Speaker 1: Murder for Sale. In this new original movie, real estate
- 0:11Speaker 1: agent Violet Becker is devastated when her best friend and
- 0:15Speaker 1: fellow real estate agent dies at an open house. Violet
- 0:19Speaker 1: is suspicious about the circumstances of the death and sets
- 0:23Speaker 1: out to investigate. She soon finds herself in unfamiliar territory
- 0:27Speaker 1: as she uncovers shocking truths about her friends life and
- 0:33Speaker 1: mysterious death. Starring Caitlin Clark, Julia Benson, and Matt Hamilton,
- 0:39Speaker 1: Murder for Sale is available exclusively on Fox Nation. Fox
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- 1:16Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. Murder for Sale. It's actually the title
- 1:29Speaker 1: of a brand new movie, but woven into this movie
- 1:33Speaker 1: are real life elements. I mean it, see Grace, this
- 1:38Speaker 1: is crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here
- 1:40Speaker 1: at Foxnation. In Serious m one eleven. The premise of
- 1:45Speaker 1: this movie just grabbed me by the shoulders and shook
- 1:50Speaker 1: me because it is reminded me of so many other
- 1:53Speaker 1: similar cases, cases that stem from a gorgeous a real
- 2:01Speaker 1: estate agent who somehow ends up dead. You know what,
- 2:10Speaker 1: Let's just start off with a real life case, the
- 2:15Speaker 1: story of Beverly Carter. Listen to this. Beverly Carter was
- 2:21Speaker 1: my sweet mom. She was an executive broker and a
- 2:25Speaker 1: top producing real estate professional from the North La Rock,
- 2:28Speaker 1: Arkansas area. While doing the work that my mom loves
- 2:31Speaker 1: so much, she was kidnapped and murdered in the fall
- 2:34Speaker 1: of twenty fourteen. A couple of weeks before that showing
- 2:40Speaker 1: that took my mom from me, my mom began hearing
- 2:44Speaker 1: from a couple. Their story was that they were out
- 2:48Speaker 1: of state buyers. They were relocating due to work cash buyers,
- 2:55Speaker 1: and my mom was hearing from them from phone calls,
- 2:59Speaker 1: to x and emails. Their phone number matched that of
- 3:05Speaker 1: an out of state buyer, their email address matched the
- 3:08Speaker 1: fictitious names that they had given her. But my mom
- 3:13Speaker 1: had no idea that these people were not who they
- 3:16Speaker 1: said they were. She had no idea of their intentions
- 3:20Speaker 1: to kidnap her, to hold her for ransom, and to
- 3:23Speaker 1: take her perceived wealth. The husband of this couple that
- 3:28Speaker 1: took my mom said, when he was questioned why Beverly,
- 3:35Speaker 1: he said, because she was a rich broker that worked alone.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Just being in the profession, marketing herself as the professional
- 3:46Speaker 1: that she was made her a target, and she was
- 3:50Speaker 1: a target. She marketed herself. How many times do you
- 3:55Speaker 1: just drive down the street and you see billboards with
- 3:58Speaker 1: a realtor and they're usually glamour shots, and I look
- 4:04Speaker 1: at them and think, wow, you know, maybe if I
- 4:06Speaker 1: ever buy a house or that's who I'll call. I
- 4:09Speaker 1: don't think about it the way a predator would think
- 4:12Speaker 1: about it. You were just hearing Beverly Carter's own son
- 4:17Speaker 1: with the Beverly Carter story at Stewart Online, telling about
- 4:24Speaker 1: his mom who lost her life just being in realtory.
- 4:28Speaker 1: What I remember about that case is not only her
- 4:30Speaker 1: being found in a shallow grave, but also that the
- 4:34Speaker 1: husband and the son were at home heating up dinner
- 4:37Speaker 1: waiting for mom to come home, and then she never came.
- 4:42Speaker 1: That was a tangled web a ball of yarn that
- 4:47Speaker 1: was really hard to untangle, much like this new Fox
- 4:51Speaker 1: Nation movie Murder for Sale. It's really hard to detangle
- 4:57Speaker 1: this one. With me an all star panel to make
- 5:00Speaker 1: sense of this movie. And when you watch it, and
- 5:03Speaker 1: you can see it right now streaming on Fox Nation,
- 5:05Speaker 1: you're gonna love it. Let me first go to the
- 5:09Speaker 1: star Murder for Sale. Matt Hamilton. Hello, Hi Matt, thanks
- 5:15Speaker 1: for being with a star of Murder for Sale. You
- 5:18Speaker 1: play detective car Sitting and you can be found at
- 5:21Speaker 1: Matt Hamilton dot ca and on Instagram at Underscore Matt
- 5:26Speaker 1: Underscore Hammer. But I've seen you all over the place.
- 5:32Speaker 1: First of all, nobody can forget your blue eyes. I
- 5:34Speaker 1: hope my husband's not listening. He also has blue ish eyes.
- 5:39Speaker 1: But that said, Matt Hamilton, you have an incredible on
- 5:44Speaker 1: screen persona. How did you get involved in this movie?
- 5:48Speaker 1: Because I love the movie and I don't anybody on
- 5:52Speaker 1: this panel tell who did it? Don't think about it? Um,
- 5:58Speaker 1: how do I get involved? You don't want my kid?
- 6:00Speaker 1: I can't even remember if this was an offer or
- 6:02Speaker 1: I auditioned for it. To be honest with you, it
- 6:04Speaker 1: was during a busy period, but I'm up here in
- 6:08Speaker 1: Vancouver and it was filming and it kind of came
- 6:10Speaker 1: across my way. And one thing I love is I
- 6:14Speaker 1: love playing cops like I was. I grew up watching
- 6:19Speaker 1: like Bruce Willis, you know, action movies and slone movies.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Something I got to when I get to like playing
- 6:24Speaker 1: a cop, it's just like, oh, yes, yes, give me this.
- 6:27Speaker 1: And he's got that. The detective Carson Spann. We kind
- 6:31Speaker 1: of ongoing joke on set, me and the director Steven
- 6:34Speaker 1: would be like a detective Carson Spano talking like a
- 6:37Speaker 1: super cop boy. Um hold on, I've got to write
- 6:41Speaker 1: that down talking in a super cop voice to Robert
- 6:44Speaker 1: Christmin joining me. Private investigator but former fed with a
- 6:50Speaker 1: federal task Force for the US Department of Justice, also
- 6:54Speaker 1: with the d EA and the Miami Field Division Division.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Never a lack of business there. Former homicide in Crimes
- 7:02Speaker 1: against Children investigator. You can find it at Crispin Investigations
- 7:05Speaker 1: dot com. Crispin, do you have the supercop voice? Because
- 7:09Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard it or have you
- 7:11Speaker 1: used it? I mean I didn't notice. I tried to
- 7:13Speaker 1: use you and it just didn't work. Okay, he does
- 7:16Speaker 1: an amazing job in this movie. Outstanding and from a
- 7:19Speaker 1: cops perspective, right, man, Hamilton, what is the supercop voice?
- 7:22Speaker 1: Go ahead, hit me, Well, the supercop boys just kind
- 7:25Speaker 1: of deep, kind of like this, say, I mean the
- 7:26Speaker 1: Tective Carson Spanner. It's not like a voice I think
- 7:29Speaker 1: you used in any movie. I'm trying to think of where,
- 7:31Speaker 1: like where I'm like parrying it from. Um, there's got
- 7:36Speaker 1: to be some sort of movie where that's coming from.
- 7:39Speaker 1: I can't tell you to the top of the top
- 7:41Speaker 1: of every time I came into SAT Stephen would do
- 7:45Speaker 1: the same thing. Detective Curson span It's almost like, you
- 7:48Speaker 1: know what it is. It's like the movie trailer voice
- 7:50Speaker 1: you kind of sent Sam spay. You kind of sound like, um,
- 7:54Speaker 1: Steve Martin and one of his well, the only cop
- 7:58Speaker 1: case I can think if he did was Pink Panther.
- 8:01Speaker 1: But yes, he's play He's used his detective voice before.
- 8:04Speaker 1: So Crispin, did that sound like a super coup voice
- 8:07Speaker 1: to you? Fantastic? I'm here a great voice. It's perfect.
- 8:13Speaker 1: It's been a death screen so bad. It's funny how
- 8:17Speaker 1: Matt Hamilton people grew up thinking, Wow, I want to
- 8:19Speaker 1: be a cop. You know there are people that grew
- 8:21Speaker 1: up thinking I want to be the robber. I want
- 8:22Speaker 1: to be the bad guy. So at least you know
- 8:24Speaker 1: you're on the right track wanting to be a detective.
- 8:27Speaker 1: So you guys shot in Vancouver. Yeah, that's okay. Guys.
- 8:30Speaker 1: I want you to hear a tiny bit and I'm
- 8:32Speaker 1: not gonna give it away. Take a listen to this,
- 8:35Speaker 1: to this clip from Murder for Sale. Thank you for coming. Yeah,
- 8:41Speaker 1: of course, thank you. Call if you have any questions.
- 8:44Speaker 1: He and need an ambulance to one oh five. Okay
- 9:13Speaker 1: Avenue please, Marie so Lea's wrong with me? Ma'am? Are
- 9:18Speaker 1: you there? You hear me? Hello? Ma'am? What would you
- 9:22Speaker 1: have the man? Are you a dare? Hello? Okay, okay, wow,
- 9:32Speaker 1: I kind of want to hear that whole thing again.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Time Stories with Nancy Grace joining me right now. In
- 9:52Speaker 1: addition to the star of Murder for Sale, streaming right
- 9:56Speaker 1: now on Fox Nation, is a real life Southern California realtor,
- 10:02Speaker 1: I would say, a glam realtor. You can find her
- 10:05Speaker 1: at Chaison dot com and on Insta, the Hope Coulter realtor.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Okay she I can't imagine who came up with that, Chaison, Prince, Chaison,
- 10:15Speaker 1: I don't want to scare you away from your job.
- 10:17Speaker 1: You've still got to get those two children of yours
- 10:20Speaker 1: through college. But that said, what kind of precautions do
- 10:25Speaker 1: you take when you go show a home? I mean,
- 10:28Speaker 1: Beverly Carter had had extensive conversations with the prospective buyers.
- 10:34Speaker 1: How is she to know this was all to lure
- 10:37Speaker 1: her there, Robber's thinking that she would be loaded down
- 10:41Speaker 1: with cash AND's jewelry. Well that the reality is that
- 10:45Speaker 1: there is constant risk every day with this career, and
- 10:48Speaker 1: a lot of people think that it's all just blitz
- 10:50Speaker 1: and glamor are beautiful homes, but it is actually one
- 10:53Speaker 1: of the most riskiest careers. Well, hold on right there, Chaison.
- 10:57Speaker 1: You know what I noticed when I was looking for
- 10:59Speaker 1: a parents in New York and trying to find a
- 11:02Speaker 1: home when I was still a prosecutor. The realtor always
- 11:06Speaker 1: shows up dressed about one hundred times better than me,
- 11:10Speaker 1: dripping in jewelry, with designer sunglasses and clothes, and usually
- 11:15Speaker 1: an expensive sports car. Sometime always why and it's and
- 11:21Speaker 1: then that's like a calling card when you really dial
- 11:24Speaker 1: it back and look at the dangers of what that
- 11:27Speaker 1: can be, because watching the movie definitely was just chilled,
- 11:32Speaker 1: constant chills that I had. And when you're out there,
- 11:36Speaker 1: you've just become so vulnerable because you do have these
- 11:39Speaker 1: ongoing phone calls and emails and all this communication that's
- 11:43Speaker 1: going on. So you then tend to think that these
- 11:45Speaker 1: people are real. But then another vulnerable situation is meeting
- 11:48Speaker 1: them in person by yourself being inside of a home
- 11:52Speaker 1: for a showing and just never you just never know.
- 11:56Speaker 1: There's really no way of really knowing if you're in
- 12:00Speaker 1: complete danger, and that's the mindset that you have to have. Well,
- 12:03Speaker 1: that's the mind that I have every time I'm meeting
- 12:06Speaker 1: with someone, which is nerve wrecking, but that comes with
- 12:09Speaker 1: the job. But Shay, what I'm asking is what precautions
- 12:12Speaker 1: do you take? Because I'm sure Beverly Carter did all
- 12:14Speaker 1: of that too, And now I'm murder for sales about
- 12:17Speaker 1: a realtor that kills over at an open house. Well,
- 12:20Speaker 1: what I've started doing is that I don't go to
- 12:24Speaker 1: the showings and open house alone anymore. I try to
- 12:28Speaker 1: have someone there, or I have someone like my husband
- 12:32Speaker 1: if he's available in the driveway, just waiting because it
- 12:36Speaker 1: is nerve wrecking. And then the other things too, is
- 12:39Speaker 1: that when you're doing a showing, then I have a
- 12:42Speaker 1: setup pretty much like an instant dial. If something's wrong,
- 12:46Speaker 1: it sends a message because there's apps available, like if
- 12:49Speaker 1: you're in an urgent situation where it just dials out
- 12:52Speaker 1: to a number of people letting them know, like made
- 12:56Speaker 1: a and automatically they'll know. Because I let everyone know
- 12:59Speaker 1: before I'm to do a showing or an open house,
- 13:01Speaker 1: this is where I'm going, this is the address, this
- 13:03Speaker 1: is who I'm meeting with. So if there's a text
- 13:05Speaker 1: message coming from there like a mayde, then something's gone south.
- 13:09Speaker 1: And also the check in I have the check in
- 13:11Speaker 1: method letting people know when I get there. Halfway through,
- 13:15Speaker 1: there's that communication and when I'm closing up, I let
- 13:18Speaker 1: them know, so if they're not hearing back from me,
- 13:20Speaker 1: then they know this is an alert something's wrong. So okay,
- 13:24Speaker 1: hold on just a moment. Let me understand. You have
- 13:27Speaker 1: your husband sitting the driveway when you do a home showing.
- 13:30Speaker 1: If I'm meeting with someone for the first time, yeah,
- 13:32Speaker 1: if he's available, I have him come with me so
- 13:35Speaker 1: I'm not there alone. They don't notice that there is
- 13:38Speaker 1: a guy lurking in the driveway. I mean, what do
- 13:41Speaker 1: you pass them off as another potential buyer? Not necessarily lurking.
- 13:47Speaker 1: I've seen him. I can envision him lurking, just sitting
- 13:52Speaker 1: there in his car watching the house. Well, it's it's
- 13:54Speaker 1: parked up. Maybe you could pass them off as another
- 13:56Speaker 1: buyer and make them feel like they have to jump
- 13:59Speaker 1: on the house right then because there's this guy sit
- 14:01Speaker 1: in the parking lot. Okay, well, I didn't know that
- 14:03Speaker 1: you were a real estate team. Hopefully is employers at
- 14:08Speaker 1: his fancy job of that law firm. Don't hear that
- 14:11Speaker 1: he leaves every day it launch to go lurk in
- 14:13Speaker 1: a driveway so you can show a house. But okay, Jason,
- 14:17Speaker 1: you went into this knowing the risks. Have there ever
- 14:21Speaker 1: been times you felt afraid? Yeah. One of the showings,
- 14:26Speaker 1: coming to the closing, I was putting everything back in
- 14:30Speaker 1: place and then the door opened and this man walked
- 14:32Speaker 1: in and I knew at that point that something just
- 14:36Speaker 1: was wrong because my stomach dropped. And that's one of
- 14:39Speaker 1: the things that they tell you to watch out for,
- 14:41Speaker 1: is that you know people will tend to come at
- 14:44Speaker 1: the very end, because they know everybody's pretty much gone
- 14:47Speaker 1: at that time, and so he came in, asked a
- 14:50Speaker 1: bunch of odd questions, lurking around really slow, and I
- 14:54Speaker 1: followed my gut at that point and started talking about
- 14:56Speaker 1: the landscaping and the gardening and all the work that
- 14:59Speaker 1: was done to try to get him out of the house,
- 15:02Speaker 1: which he went along with it, and we stayed out there.
- 15:05Speaker 1: He was trying to come back in, and I told
- 15:07Speaker 1: him I had another appointment and just had to kind
- 15:09Speaker 1: of kind of clothes at that point. But I knew
- 15:13Speaker 1: something was off because you can just feel it, and
- 15:15Speaker 1: I knew that if I had gotten back inside of
- 15:17Speaker 1: the house, that probably wasn't going to be a good situation.
- 15:20Speaker 1: You know, she's on. You just gave me a chill
- 15:22Speaker 1: all the way down the left side of my body,
- 15:24Speaker 1: just the way you described it. You know, question, do you,
- 15:28Speaker 1: Matt Hamilton? You're the star of Murder for Sale, and
- 15:33Speaker 1: when you're thinking, and I know you went into it
- 15:36Speaker 1: just as an actor. You know your part, you know
- 15:39Speaker 1: what to do. But did it ever hit you that
- 15:42Speaker 1: realtors actually are female Realtors usually are attack and sometimes
- 15:47Speaker 1: and murdered as a part of their job. Yeah, actually,
- 15:52Speaker 1: funny should Actually it's not funny. You should ask that
- 15:54Speaker 1: at all. Addie should ask coincidentally should ask? We feel
- 15:57Speaker 1: you should ask. Well. I grew up in a place
- 15:59Speaker 1: called the Torria, which is close to Vancouver. It's about
- 16:02Speaker 1: an hour and a half ferry right, And I knew
- 16:04Speaker 1: a girl who was killed at an open house. It
- 16:09Speaker 1: was kind of like a hit. It made it made
- 16:12Speaker 1: the news, I think it was. It was on dateline
- 16:16Speaker 1: it was. Her name was Lindsay Booziac and she would
- 16:21Speaker 1: have been um and we still they still have never
- 16:24Speaker 1: found the killer. It was a really mysterious kind of setup.
- 16:28Speaker 1: And she had it was another one of those things
- 16:31Speaker 1: where she had a kind of a bad feeling. But
- 16:33Speaker 1: the house was it was it was a really expensive house,
- 16:38Speaker 1: and so she went to go meet the buyer and
- 16:41Speaker 1: it was basically an assassination essentially. And the motives are
- 16:48Speaker 1: a little iffy, but it's it's like, it's it's terrified.
- 16:51Speaker 1: You know. Matt Hamilton is joining me. He has been
- 16:55Speaker 1: in so many other productions and he was snagged to
- 16:59Speaker 1: do Murder for Sale and just did a phenomenal job.
- 17:04Speaker 1: This is I love this movie. In fact, I think
- 17:07Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it again. I love it. I don't
- 17:10Speaker 1: know if it's because I'm a crime aficionado. The acting
- 17:14Speaker 1: is great at everything, but you just said something really
- 17:21Speaker 1: key that she had a quote bad feeling about it.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Joining me is doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst out of Beverly Hills.
- 17:30Speaker 1: Never left a business there as well. You can find
- 17:33Speaker 1: out doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany. Do you
- 17:36Speaker 1: know how many times I have investigated, prosecuted, or plat
- 17:41Speaker 1: out a case, much less covered it where the victim
- 17:45Speaker 1: had an overwhelming sense of dread, a doomsday, a scary
- 17:54Speaker 1: not necessarily premonition, but just a bad feeling before their
- 17:59Speaker 1: demise or their tech. Nancy, I had a bad feeling
- 18:02Speaker 1: at the beginning of this movie, which I have to
- 18:04Speaker 1: say I loved so in the opening scene, which you
- 18:08Speaker 1: just played, you have to scare yourself. I started watching
- 18:13Speaker 1: it at five o'clock this morning, and I'm not kidding you.
- 18:16Speaker 1: I could not turn it off. I could hardly turn
- 18:18Speaker 1: my head away to make my morning latte. I was riveted.
- 18:22Speaker 1: And in the opening scene, you have this gorgeous mansion,
- 18:26Speaker 1: you have this beautiful Real Turn, Laney, this couple comes
- 18:29Speaker 1: in to look at the house, and right then I
- 18:33Speaker 1: had the bad feeling. I'm like, are they going to
- 18:35Speaker 1: do her in? And the reason I thought that was because,
- 18:38Speaker 1: as we've been talking about, real turns are basically sitting ducks.
- 18:42Speaker 1: I mean, they're by themselves, they're gorgeous. They have to
- 18:46Speaker 1: wear the great clothing in the jewelry because they have
- 18:48Speaker 1: to signal to the potential clients that they're successful. If
- 18:52Speaker 1: if they dressed badly in their in their gym clothes
- 18:55Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, the buyer's going to say, well,
- 18:57Speaker 1: why should I trust you, You're not even professional. But shere,
- 19:00Speaker 1: lady's in this this gorgeous home, and she's having a
- 19:04Speaker 1: hard time breathing, and there's this sense of danger that
- 19:09Speaker 1: gripped me, and I thought, something bad is going to
- 19:12Speaker 1: happen to her. Either she's having an asthmatic attack or
- 19:17Speaker 1: somebody poisoned her, or the next person who comes in,
- 19:21Speaker 1: you know, has some ill intent towards her. And then
- 19:25Speaker 1: the way this movie unfolded, I have to say, I'm
- 19:28Speaker 1: a Nancy Drew fan. I group up on Nancy Drew,
- 19:31Speaker 1: and that's how this folded. Unfolded so many characters. You know, Violet,
- 19:39Speaker 1: you know who is her best friend, Savannah her childhood friend,
- 19:43Speaker 1: too Careltors Ava who's a friendly rival, Bob who is
- 19:49Speaker 1: Ava's husband, and all these relationships are intertwined, and you know,
- 19:54Speaker 1: every single person except for Violet, her best friend. I thought, well,
- 20:00Speaker 1: maybe that person did it, or maybe that person did it,
- 20:02Speaker 1: or maybe that person did it. So there were if
- 20:06Speaker 1: you want a chill in the thrill, I mean really honestly,
- 20:09Speaker 1: there were bad feelings all around in this movie from
- 20:11Speaker 1: the beginning. But even in true life, I've had so
- 20:14Speaker 1: many victims tell their friends. You know, I've got a
- 20:17Speaker 1: really bad feeling about this. In fact, we just finished
- 20:19Speaker 1: covering the case of Alex and Murrague and his wife
- 20:22Speaker 1: Mackie told a friend before she went to meet Murdogue
- 20:27Speaker 1: and to her death. I got a really bad feeling
- 20:30Speaker 1: about this and what is he up to? What's going on?
- 20:32Speaker 1: She knew that but went into it anyway. This is
- 20:37Speaker 1: of course airing on Fox Nation Murder for Sale, But
- 20:42Speaker 1: in real life, this is the reality. Take a listen
- 20:46Speaker 1: our cut twenty nine, when it's your dad become concerned.
- 20:53Speaker 1: I'm early to go to bed and he called me
- 20:57Speaker 1: at nine o'clock and he sits on, I haven't heard
- 21:01Speaker 1: from your mom yet, and I'm getting concerned. And we
- 21:04Speaker 1: kind of joked and he said, he said, you know,
- 21:06Speaker 1: I'm getting gone a hungry too, And I said, well, Dad,
- 21:12Speaker 1: if it makes you feel any better, you know, Mom's
- 21:14Speaker 1: probably out. It's a it's a good deal. They wanted
- 21:19Speaker 1: to write an offer on the house and this is
- 21:22Speaker 1: this has nothing to worry about. And he said, Sun
- 21:25Speaker 1: will every time I call her, phone's just go into voicemail.
- 21:28Speaker 1: And I said, well, you know how busy she is.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Maybe her phone just died. That is beverly Son. Carl
- 21:34Speaker 1: Carter Junior speaking to me, And I will never forget
- 21:40Speaker 1: the suffering in his voice after his mom was killed
- 21:43Speaker 1: being a realtor. You know, Jack, I want to hear
- 21:45Speaker 1: our cut one one more time, the one that doctor
- 21:48Speaker 1: Bethany's describing. Take a listen. Thank you for coming, Yeah,
- 21:51Speaker 1: of course, thank you, Carl. If you have any questions,
- 22:21Speaker 1: and he's an ambulance to one O five, Okay Avenue,
- 22:24Speaker 1: Please Marie, something's wrong with me, ma'am. Are you there?
- 22:29Speaker 1: You carry? Come on, ma'am, what what are you gonna
- 22:32Speaker 1: ran the man. Are you a dare? Come on? Okay? Wow.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick joining me, California prosecutor, author of Whade Bad
- 22:45Speaker 1: Looks Good and author of Red Flags. She's the star
- 22:49Speaker 1: off today with doctor Wendy on Casey BQ. Wendy, the
- 22:54Speaker 1: first thing I like to do with is jurory if
- 22:56Speaker 1: I've got it, is to play the nine one one call.
- 23:00Speaker 1: And that nine one one call the victim trying trying
- 23:05Speaker 1: to get help was very realistic. Oh that's for sure.
- 23:10Speaker 1: The nine one one call actually brings the jurors to
- 23:12Speaker 1: the crime scene. And that is one of the best
- 23:15Speaker 1: ways that any case could start by really familiarizing themselves
- 23:19Speaker 1: with whatever fact pattern, how it began. You know what
- 23:22Speaker 1: makes this particularly chilling as we talk about how dangerous
- 23:25Speaker 1: it is for real estate agents if you're trapped with
- 23:26Speaker 1: a dangerous person where no one can hear you scream
- 23:29Speaker 1: as we say, what about being trapped in an empty
- 23:32Speaker 1: house in some remote location where no one can hear
- 23:35Speaker 1: you call for help. So, whatever it is, whatever the scenario,
- 23:39Speaker 1: bringing a jury in through listening to that struggling to breathe,
- 23:43Speaker 1: I mean, that's even hard to listen to for anyone,
- 23:46Speaker 1: and you can only imagine that the scene that that says,
- 23:49Speaker 1: no wonder we all had a bad feeling at the
- 23:51Speaker 1: beginning of the movie because it really gives you a
- 23:53Speaker 1: sense of how dangerous it is and a number of
- 23:56Speaker 1: a variety of levels to have this job as a
- 23:58Speaker 1: realtor Glham Old Chaison Prince joining US Southern California realtor
- 24:03Speaker 1: Star Chaison. Just tell me one word chaise on, one
- 24:07Speaker 1: word yes or no. You do take a fully charged
- 24:11Speaker 1: phone with you to every showing correct. Yeah, absolutely, Okay,
- 24:15Speaker 1: that was two words. But anyway that's said. Now we're
- 24:20Speaker 1: going to say something and murder for sale that we
- 24:22Speaker 1: don't see that often a very different type of m
- 24:25Speaker 1: O modus operandi method of operation. Take a listen nowur
- 24:30Speaker 1: cut too. She didn't have anything for breakfast, just coffee,
- 24:33Speaker 1: so that leaves the fig cookies, right, But the test
- 24:36Speaker 1: came back negative on those. Okay, So if the cookies
- 24:39Speaker 1: came back negative, it is I mean, we're looking at
- 24:40Speaker 1: something else with the source of the poison. Possibly, But
- 24:44Speaker 1: I did find one fig cookie in our victim's stomach
- 24:47Speaker 1: that wasn't fully digested. There was a thickening age in
- 24:50Speaker 1: present sometimes to Jan Canny, I'm still looking into botulism
- 24:54Speaker 1: toxin type A cosmetic botulism. Okay, Eli, if she's had
- 24:57Speaker 1: any recent doctor's appointments. Back to the cookie for a second,
- 25:02Speaker 1: Is it possible just one of the cookies could have
- 25:04Speaker 1: been poisoned? Now you're thinking like a detective right now,
- 25:07Speaker 1: And then I did some research. Things are low acid
- 25:10Speaker 1: with a page of four point six. So if during
- 25:13Speaker 1: the canning process, you know, acid was added, a thickening
- 25:16Speaker 1: agent was used, and if the heat failed to reach
- 25:18Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty degrees, it's a perfect breeding ground
- 25:21Speaker 1: for the spores. Do you think it could have been
- 25:23Speaker 1: a killer cookie? It could be whatever the source of
- 25:25Speaker 1: the botulism is. Based on everything we know this far,
- 25:28Speaker 1: and the fact that the toxic levels were so unusually
- 25:31Speaker 1: high in our victim's system, I feel confident this was
- 25:34Speaker 1: a malicious act. Later Prime stories with Nancy Grace, she
- 25:55Speaker 1: didn't have anything for breakfast, just coffee, so that leaves
- 25:57Speaker 1: the fake cookies, right, But the test came back negative
- 26:00Speaker 1: on those. Okay, So if the cookies came back negatives,
- 26:03Speaker 1: I mean we're looking at something else with the source
- 26:05Speaker 1: of the poison. Possibly, but I did find one fig
- 26:09Speaker 1: cookie in our victim's stomach that wasn't fully digested. There
- 26:12Speaker 1: was a thickening age in present sometimes to Jin Canning,
- 26:15Speaker 1: I'm still looking into botulism. Toxin type A cosmetic botulism. Okay, Elsie,
- 26:20Speaker 1: if she's had any recent doctor's appointments. Back to the
- 26:23Speaker 1: cookie for a second, Is it possible just one of
- 26:26Speaker 1: the cookies could have been poisoned? Now you're thinking like
- 26:29Speaker 1: a detective right now, And then I did some research.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Figs are low acid with the pH of four point six.
- 26:36Speaker 1: So if during the canning process, you know, acid was added,
- 26:38Speaker 1: a thickening agent was used, and if the heat failed
- 26:41Speaker 1: to reach two hundred and fifty degrees, it's a perfect
- 26:44Speaker 1: breeding ground for the spores. Do you think it could
- 26:46Speaker 1: have been a killer cookie? Could be whatever the source
- 26:49Speaker 1: of the botulism is. Based on everything we know this
- 26:51Speaker 1: far and the fact that the toxin levels were so
- 26:54Speaker 1: unusually high in our victims system, I feel confident of
- 26:57Speaker 1: this was a malicious act murder. Okay. To Alexis Tereshchuk
- 27:02Speaker 1: joining us climb online dot Com investigative reporter, Alexis Treshi,
- 27:06Speaker 1: thanks for being with us, so is it like a
- 27:09Speaker 1: thumb print cookie. You know, the cookies that have indentation
- 27:14Speaker 1: and the middle and there's icing or jelly or jam
- 27:18Speaker 1: or something in it. That's what we're talking about. Yeah, exactly,
- 27:21Speaker 1: they're like a yellow cookie and then they would have
- 27:23Speaker 1: a jelly in the middle. I personally would never eat
- 27:26Speaker 1: the cookies. They're so dry. And the thing was, there
- 27:29Speaker 1: was a clue in movie that she always had chocolate
- 27:34Speaker 1: chip cookies. She had a pattern. She would always get
- 27:38Speaker 1: fresh baked cookies and bring them to her open houses,
- 27:40Speaker 1: chocolate chip, chocolate chip chocolate chips. Always got them from
- 27:43Speaker 1: the same bakery. This time there were these dry jelly cookies,
- 27:48Speaker 1: which was a big clue as to why I thinks
- 27:51Speaker 1: we're different there and if that was them, because this
- 27:53Speaker 1: is clearly how she got poisoned. As the medical examiners up, Okay, guys,
- 27:57Speaker 1: we're talking about death by cookie, but this is by
- 28:02Speaker 1: far not the first time that a very unusual vehicle
- 28:08Speaker 1: has been used to commit a deadly crime. Take a
- 28:12Speaker 1: listen to our cut seven. Our friends at GMA investigators
- 28:16Speaker 1: say they still have no clear motive as to why
- 28:19Speaker 1: fifty two year old Lana Clayton allegedly used eyedrops to
- 28:23Speaker 1: kill her husband to four years or. She did admit
- 28:26Speaker 1: during interviews with our detectives that she committed the crimes.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Stephen Clayton was found dead in the four year of
- 28:32Speaker 1: this eight hundred thousand dollars South Carolina mansion he shared
- 28:35Speaker 1: with his wife in July. Police say they never suspected
- 28:38Speaker 1: foul play was involved until toxicology results from his autopsy
- 28:43Speaker 1: revealed high levels of tetrahydros lane, the chemical found in
- 28:46Speaker 1: eyedrops and nasal sprays in his blood stream. Wow okay
- 28:50Speaker 1: out to Wendy Patrick, California Prosecutor. At the crime lab
- 28:55Speaker 1: and at the Medical Examer's office, the coroner. The Morgue
- 29:00Speaker 1: normal or standard blood panels are on toxicology and they
- 29:05Speaker 1: don't typically look for tetra hi jazolene, which is basically
- 29:09Speaker 1: what's vizine. So in a case like this murder for sale,
- 29:15Speaker 1: you necessarily know what to look for. You just see
- 29:19Speaker 1: a very high toxicity level. Wendy, Well, you would do
- 29:23Speaker 1: is work backwards, that's right, So you would look at
- 29:25Speaker 1: whatever the cause of death was determined to be, look
- 29:27Speaker 1: at the types of substances that might have caused a
- 29:30Speaker 1: death in that manner, and then you're a you look
- 29:32Speaker 1: circumstantially as to what was present in the environment that
- 29:35Speaker 1: could have delivered those chemicals, and you would need to
- 29:39Speaker 1: run tox screens other than drugs and alcohol and the
- 29:42Speaker 1: usual suspects. As we say in the crime business, you
- 29:45Speaker 1: would need to think outside the box. When you have
- 29:47Speaker 1: a young, beautiful real estate agent dropping dead in a home,
- 29:51Speaker 1: you would certainly need to think creatively as to who
- 29:55Speaker 1: else might have had access to a substance that uniquely,
- 29:58Speaker 1: especially if you have a pre existed can do should
- 30:00Speaker 1: like asthma. We would need to look at that and
- 30:03Speaker 1: then run those tests. That's the best way to solve
- 30:06Speaker 1: these unusual crimes by poisoning, if you will, which is
- 30:09Speaker 1: often what causes these kinds of death, Doctor Bethany. Another
- 30:12Speaker 1: similarity is in that case, and in this case they're
- 30:15Speaker 1: in a mansion. Why do rich people kill each other?
- 30:18Speaker 1: They got everything that was an eight hundred thousand dollars
- 30:21Speaker 1: mansion and now in murder for sale. Of course, she's
- 30:25Speaker 1: showing a beautiful home. There's never a lie, you know,
- 30:30Speaker 1: a shot down by the railroad, it's part of this,
- 30:33Speaker 1: but it's actually true. It's actually true. Well can answer
- 30:37Speaker 1: You're going to have to the viewers are going to
- 30:39Speaker 1: have to watch the movie to get the answer to
- 30:41Speaker 1: that question. But I will say that, first of all,
- 30:44Speaker 1: forty four percent of all crimes are over money or property. Okay,
- 30:49Speaker 1: so that makes sense. But secondly, there was a lot
- 30:52Speaker 1: of behavioral evidence in this movie. And the behavioral evidence
- 30:56Speaker 1: was really uncovered by Violet, who was her best friend,
- 31:00Speaker 1: because violent knew all of Laney's habits. She knew what
- 31:04Speaker 1: kind of cookies she picked up, she knew what kind
- 31:07Speaker 1: of a relationship she had with her husband. At the funerals,
- 31:11Speaker 1: she snuck into her closet and looked in her jewelry
- 31:14Speaker 1: chest and she saw a business card to a divorce attorney,
- 31:19Speaker 1: So then she kind of knew about her relationship with
- 31:21Speaker 1: the husband. Doctor Bethany, you're reminding me of doctor Martin McNeil,
- 31:25Speaker 1: another high profile true to life case, a doctor and
- 31:31Speaker 1: lawyer whose beauty queen wife is found dead in the
- 31:34Speaker 1: tub and wisely one of the adult daughters who really
- 31:39Speaker 1: cracked the case when digging through all of her jewelry
- 31:42Speaker 1: and effects looking for clues. So did you have any
- 31:45Speaker 1: idea Matt Hamilton, who was the star of the movie
- 31:48Speaker 1: Murder for Sale. How many true life aspects that your
- 31:53Speaker 1: movie has? Well you know what, actually I did not?
- 31:56Speaker 1: Well you're learning now a little boy. Just call out
- 32:00Speaker 1: her supercop voice speaking of unusual vehicles used to poison
- 32:05Speaker 1: and murder people. Okay, Lana Clayton is not the only
- 32:09Speaker 1: one who thought of using vizine. Take a listen to
- 32:12Speaker 1: our cut eight. This is our friend Jim Murray inside edition.
- 32:15Speaker 1: He saved dozens of lives as a paramedic. Now prosecutors
- 32:19Speaker 1: say he murdered his wife by poisoning her with visine.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Joshua Huntsucker and his wife, Stacy were high school sweethearts,
- 32:27Speaker 1: raising two adorable daughters aged five and six. Stacy died
- 32:31Speaker 1: in September last year from what appeared to be a
- 32:34Speaker 1: heart attack, but in a stunning development, her thirty five
- 32:38Speaker 1: year old husband has just been charged with murder. Ed
- 32:40Speaker 1: is the one who poisoned miser visine or a similar
- 32:45Speaker 1: products her death and very often Okay, there it's very
- 32:50Speaker 1: hard to determine the substance used to poison the victims,
- 32:54Speaker 1: but sometimes when the victim is taken to the doctor
- 32:57Speaker 1: of the hospital or even the morgue. They can't figure
- 33:00Speaker 1: you're at the substance at first, and the death is
- 33:03Speaker 1: chalked up to something completely different, like a heart attack
- 33:06Speaker 1: or a stroke or some sort of seizure that causes
- 33:09Speaker 1: them to froth at the mouth and then asphyxiate. Take
- 33:14Speaker 1: a listen to our cut nine our friends at ABC
- 33:16Speaker 1: seven radiologists Jack Chen says he noticed a chemical taste
- 33:20Speaker 1: in his drinks. In March, he set up a hidden
- 33:23Speaker 1: camera in their kitchen, capturing video evidence of his wife
- 33:26Speaker 1: You you allegedly taking draino from under the sink and
- 33:30Speaker 1: pouring it into his lemonade in three separate instances. In July,
- 33:35Speaker 1: a duntor diagnosed Chin with two stomach as gastritus and
- 33:39Speaker 1: esophagus inflammation. Did you hear that? Alexis Tereschac. You and
- 33:43Speaker 1: I covered that case together. He was first diagnosed with
- 33:47Speaker 1: stomach ulcers guests stritus is suphageal inflammation before they realized
- 33:54Speaker 1: he was being poisoned with draino. So in murder for sale, no,
- 33:59Speaker 1: it's difficult to determine has there been a crime or
- 34:05Speaker 1: is the victim dying of some natural cause like an
- 34:08Speaker 1: acute asthmatic attack, right, and that was the thing with her,
- 34:11Speaker 1: and they couldn't find her in hailer. Originally we saw
- 34:14Speaker 1: you see in the very beginning of the movie she
- 34:16Speaker 1: has a bit of an as an attack. She uses
- 34:18Speaker 1: her inhaler. Then when her body is found just moments later,
- 34:22Speaker 1: they say there's no one had. In fact, Detective Carson
- 34:25Speaker 1: says that she says, there's no inhaler. We can't find it.
- 34:27Speaker 1: So that was one avenue of maybe she just died
- 34:31Speaker 1: from hannic attacker in asthma attack. Sorry, but the thing is,
- 34:37Speaker 1: the medical examiner quickly narrowed it down to their botulism,
- 34:42Speaker 1: and you're not going to get that from your inhaler. Guys,
- 34:45Speaker 1: take a listen to our sound from Martyr for Sale,
- 34:50Speaker 1: No No Uncle nine one one. Well, this is the
- 35:05Speaker 1: first two deaths in the same house and in a
- 35:12Speaker 1: couple of days. Can I still in this place? Can
- 35:16Speaker 1: you tell me not much until I can start running tests.
- 35:20Speaker 1: No signs of foul play, but we know how that
- 35:22Speaker 1: turned out last time. Yeah, I seem to scare a
- 35:24Speaker 1: lot of people when this comes out. I don't mvu
- 35:28Speaker 1: Now I found thumbring cookies again on a counter choice,
- 35:31Speaker 1: given what happened with the first step. Yeah, only this
- 35:34Speaker 1: time you're Raspberry. Well, I'm gonna start on Tumpsy tonight,
- 35:39Speaker 1: he rockstar. I'll take it. Rathby, she was poisoned? What
- 35:48Speaker 1: if it was meant for me? Okay, you know what,
- 35:51Speaker 1: Chaison Prance joining me glam or realtor in southern California
- 35:56Speaker 1: at Chaison dot com or on Insta could sure realtor. Okay,
- 36:02Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of that, but chasa
- 36:05Speaker 1: one of the first things they say trying to sell
- 36:07Speaker 1: this place. I guess the property value doesn't notice die
- 36:11Speaker 1: when not one but two people die there. Yeah, because
- 36:15Speaker 1: you definitely have to disclose that. How do you tell
- 36:19Speaker 1: a client, yeah, we've had two homicides right here in
- 36:22Speaker 1: the rain where you're standing. I mean I would run
- 36:25Speaker 1: as if I had seen a monster rear it's head.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Who want to I would probably be running it right
- 36:32Speaker 1: running along behind you. Nancy, this is the lexus. Can
- 36:36Speaker 1: I jump in? Yeah? When my husband and I were
- 36:38Speaker 1: looking for a house about a decade ago here in
- 36:41Speaker 1: Los Angeles, we looked at this home. It was beautiful.
- 36:44Speaker 1: It had a really cool backhouse. It was like an
- 36:47Speaker 1: art studio. I was like, I feel like this home
- 36:49Speaker 1: is so familiar, but I don't have feeling like I
- 36:51Speaker 1: don't have ghost feelings. I know this home. We went home,
- 36:54Speaker 1: unzoogled it and a very famous young woman had died
- 36:57Speaker 1: in that home like two years earlier. It was all
- 36:59Speaker 1: over the I had covered her death. I just didn't.
- 37:02Speaker 1: I had never been to the crime them. And then
- 37:04Speaker 1: the house was for sale two years later, did you
- 37:06Speaker 1: buy it? We did not. I would have been so
- 37:10Speaker 1: surprised that he had said yes. Surprise, bewildered, and happy,
- 37:14Speaker 1: all at the same time. You've been a murder house.
- 37:17Speaker 1: You also don't want to buy a house that's been
- 37:18Speaker 1: featured in one of those paranormal documentaries or murder house.
- 37:25Speaker 1: Say you have to disclose that as well. So, Matt Hamilton,
- 37:28Speaker 1: do they continue to try to sell the house? I
- 37:30Speaker 1: think they. I think they kind of forget about it.
- 37:32Speaker 1: Think it was more pressing matters. Yeah, the double murder,
- 37:35Speaker 1: who's the second Wait? Should we even ask as a
- 37:38Speaker 1: second murder victim? Should we let him tell? Because that
- 37:42Speaker 1: may touch on the plot? Okay, go ahead, who's the
- 37:46Speaker 1: second murder victim? Well? The second murder victim is just
- 37:49Speaker 1: a random person. So that's that's what makes it even more.
- 37:54Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to care about them, Yeah no, I
- 37:56Speaker 1: mean you don't. You don't see them before they're dead,
- 37:58Speaker 1: you don't know about them after. But that's what makes
- 38:02Speaker 1: the murders so the crime so confusing is there doesn't
- 38:07Speaker 1: seem to be a link between the Oh I hate that.
- 38:13Speaker 1: Let me explain what I hate so much about it
- 38:14Speaker 1: to Robert Crispin joining me, private investigator, former fed with
- 38:18Speaker 1: the US government DJ at Crispin Special Investigations. You know
- 38:23Speaker 1: how in every murder, you first look within a circle
- 38:27Speaker 1: of intimates, the husband, the boyfriend, the X, and then
- 38:30Speaker 1: you move out to the lawyer, the next door neighbor,
- 38:34Speaker 1: the grocery delivery guy. Then you move out and out
- 38:37Speaker 1: and out tell you where you have nowhere to go,
- 38:39Speaker 1: and then it's deemed random. That is like finding a
- 38:43Speaker 1: needle in a haystack. So when you get the first
- 38:46Speaker 1: murder of the real term, they're looking within her circle,
- 38:50Speaker 1: and all of a sudden there comes an unrelated murder
- 38:54Speaker 1: and it completely blows apart in the theory of the
- 38:58Speaker 1: intimate circle. But it happened at the same location as
- 39:02Speaker 1: a first one. So there's a connection to that house,
- 39:04Speaker 1: there's a connection to someone who's connected to that house.
- 39:07Speaker 1: And as an investigator, yeah, I'm focusing in who's coming
- 39:11Speaker 1: in and out of this house. Well, I can tell
- 39:12Speaker 1: you this much, I'm not buying that house. I don't
- 39:14Speaker 1: care what it looks like. Just like Alexis and you
- 39:16Speaker 1: and you're a beautiful home, I'm not buying it. Forget
- 39:19Speaker 1: it now. I could hear my husband saying, hey, but
- 39:21Speaker 1: it's a really good deal. No, it's not a really
- 39:25Speaker 1: good deal. You know, you're talking about all of the
- 39:27Speaker 1: similarities between this movie and what happens in true crime.
- 39:31Speaker 1: And I kept thinking about the husband because one of
- 39:34Speaker 1: the things we look at an investigation is the people
- 39:37Speaker 1: who are closest to the homicide victim. And it was
- 39:40Speaker 1: interesting that the husband had taken out a two million
- 39:45Speaker 1: dollar insurance policy on her and they were possibly going
- 39:49Speaker 1: through a divorce. You're right, but all of that is
- 39:52Speaker 1: part of any standard investigation. I would hope, Crispin, that
- 39:57Speaker 1: you would look up wife insurance policies potential divorces, right,
- 40:01Speaker 1: he would. Of course, it's a motive, sure, of course. Okay, guys,
- 40:06Speaker 1: I'll take another listen to murder for sale. Well, she
- 40:09Speaker 1: promised me and others a big return on her investment.
- 40:14Speaker 1: She needed commitments from us up to one hundred thousand
- 40:17Speaker 1: dollars In return, we would get a fifty percent profit
- 40:23Speaker 1: when the work was finished. But you didn't get the money. No.
- 40:28Speaker 1: I told her that I needed my payout or my
- 40:31Speaker 1: investment back. She said she didn't have it, but that
- 40:36Speaker 1: she was trying to get it. I had to close
- 40:41Speaker 1: the bakery. I'm so sorry. I just can't believe we
- 40:45Speaker 1: need to do something like that. I mean, either you'd
- 40:49Speaker 1: all be coming into the bakery for years. She's a
- 40:53Speaker 1: reputable real estate agent in town. I thought it was
- 40:56Speaker 1: a short thing. Can the FBI do anything? Apparently all
- 41:03Speaker 1: the money in her bank account is just up and vanished,
- 41:07Speaker 1: So either it's in a foreign account somewhere which they're investigating,
- 41:12Speaker 1: or someone else has it. Money. Money, money, the love
- 41:20Speaker 1: of money, the root of all evil. Well, I can
- 41:24Speaker 1: tell you this much. We've talked about murder for Sale
- 41:27Speaker 1: on flox Nation, but I bate you still can't figure
- 41:30Speaker 1: out he did it. Matt Hamilton's chas On, Prince, Wendy Patrick,
- 41:34Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall, Robert Crispin Alexis to rest Check. Thank
- 41:37Speaker 1: you for joining us. Hold on, I gotta go watch
- 41:40Speaker 1: the Restless movie. Bye everybody, thanks for being with us.
- 41:43Speaker 1: I'll see you guys on flox Nation. Bye.