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- 0:05Speaker 1: Who loves you the most in the world, Mommy who
- 0:09Speaker 1: would take a bullet for you, Mommy who's there taking
- 0:13Speaker 1: care of you when you're sick at night, when you
- 0:15Speaker 1: scrape your knees, when you're growing up and you need
- 0:18Speaker 1: direction or a place to come home to mommy. But that,
- 0:23Speaker 1: according to prosecutors, was not the case for a little
- 0:26Speaker 1: seven year old girl, Olivia Gent. This little girl seemingly
- 0:32Speaker 1: had lived through so many serious, serious health ailments, surgeries,
- 0:39Speaker 1: all sorts of invasive procedures, all the while Mommy stood
- 0:43Speaker 1: by taking care of Olivia. Or did she now Olivia
- 0:51Speaker 1: is dead? Crime Stories with Nancy Grace it was a
- 1:06Speaker 1: sad but her warming tail. Little Olivia gat emerging from
- 1:10Speaker 1: a limousine as bat Princess two years ago. She said,
- 1:15Speaker 1: I want a battle with Batman. We're on a battle
- 1:17Speaker 1: or so We're on a battle Captain Hook and save
- 1:19Speaker 1: bell Inaria. The mother described it as a wish come
- 1:23Speaker 1: true for a child with the terminal illness Olivia, fighting
- 1:27Speaker 1: alongside her hero Batman attacked their foes. A go fund
- 1:31Speaker 1: me paige set up by the mom claimed Olivia had
- 1:34Speaker 1: a degenerative disease that attacks the vital Organs, another princess
- 1:40Speaker 1: trouble about Olivia was reported to have been placed in hospice.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Karen died in two thousand and seventeen. Little Olivia now dad.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Mother thought the fight bringing her daughter to the emergency
- 1:55Speaker 1: room starting at age two when the little girl started
- 2:00Speaker 1: having trouble eating. Since that time, this little girl has
- 2:05Speaker 1: been in and out, and in and out of the hospital.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Then she dies in hospice. But now a disturbing turn
- 2:16Speaker 1: in the story. I'm nazy, Grace, this is crime stories.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. Listen to our friends
- 2:23Speaker 1: at CBS four Denver. The Make a Wish Foundation made
- 2:26Speaker 1: this little girl's biggest dream come true because it thought
- 2:29Speaker 1: she was dying. But it turns out Olivia again might
- 2:32Speaker 1: not have been sick at all. Her mother told everyone
- 2:34Speaker 1: Olivia had an incurable and untreatable disease, but now investigators
- 2:40Speaker 1: say Kelly Turner made it all up. She has charged
- 2:42Speaker 1: with murder. According to court documents. Olivia was first treated
- 2:46Speaker 1: in Colorado back in twenty thirteen and two thousand and fifteen.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Her mom started to go fund me page asking for donations.
- 2:53Speaker 1: In February of twenty seventeen, the Make a Wish Foundation
- 2:56Speaker 1: granted Olivia's wish that August. She passed away. More than
- 3:00Speaker 1: a year later, the investigation into Kelly Turner began. Olivia's
- 3:05Speaker 1: body was even exhumed. At the first er visit, a
- 3:08Speaker 1: doctor thought the little girl appeared to be growing normally.
- 3:13Speaker 1: But the very next year, in less than twelve months,
- 3:16Speaker 1: another sergeant at the very same hospital, removed this little
- 3:22Speaker 1: girl's part of her intestine and inserted a feeding tube
- 3:28Speaker 1: into what we now know was a healthy child. Very quickly,
- 3:35Speaker 1: her mother, Kelly Turner, was presenting her daughter as a
- 3:40Speaker 1: dying child with a list of various ailments and diseases
- 3:47Speaker 1: and a list that we call a bucket list, a
- 3:51Speaker 1: list of wishes. The mom seeking massive donations to help
- 3:57Speaker 1: fulfill her dreams cashing a bad guy with Cobbs being
- 4:01Speaker 1: a firefighter to make a Wish Foundation, even through a
- 4:05Speaker 1: quote back Prince's costume party at a fancy hotel that
- 4:09Speaker 1: cost over eleven thousand dollars, joining me an all star panel.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Karen Smith, forensic expert, founder of Bare Bones Consulting. Jeff Cortesi,
- 4:21Speaker 1: former special agent with the FBI. You can find him
- 4:24Speaker 1: at Jeff Cortesi dot com Sharon Leko joining me. Denver
- 4:30Speaker 1: lawyer also with me a very special guest who actually
- 4:36Speaker 1: helped some of this little girl's dreams, the seven year
- 4:40Speaker 1: old little Olivia now dead come true. You may not
- 4:45Speaker 1: believe it because on TV he appears to be a
- 4:48Speaker 1: gruff Denver Bill Bodsman who appeared on Dog the Bounty Hunter.
- 4:54Speaker 1: But this guy, Bobby Brown, actually spent his time and
- 5:00Speaker 1: is money to make this little girl's wish come true.
- 5:05Speaker 1: But first to crime online dot Com investigative reporter Levi Page, Levi,
- 5:10Speaker 1: how many times did this seven year old, healthy little
- 5:14Speaker 1: girl gets said to the hospital? Too many times to count.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Nancy and her mother, Kelly Turner, claimed that she had
- 5:21Speaker 1: a disease that attacked the organs the digestive system, claimed
- 5:25Speaker 1: that she suffered from seizures. A doctor that examined her
- 5:29Speaker 1: said there's no sign that she suffers from seizure told
- 5:32Speaker 1: her to quit giving her anti seizure medication. Her mother refused.
- 5:37Speaker 1: She also claimed that Olivia had built up a fluid
- 5:41Speaker 1: in her cavities in the brain. That turned out not
- 5:44Speaker 1: to be true, and this little girl sadly died as
- 5:49Speaker 1: a result of all of this. Her mother said she
- 5:52Speaker 1: could not eat, she could not drink, so they put
- 5:55Speaker 1: her on a feeding tube. The doctor said, she's not
- 5:57Speaker 1: going to be able to survive just on the nutrients,
- 6:01Speaker 1: so her mother said, take her off. They took her
- 6:03Speaker 1: to hospice, and her mother gave medical employees strict orders
- 6:09Speaker 1: not to resuscitate her, and she died. I just can't
- 6:12Speaker 1: get over it, just standing there at your daughter's bedside
- 6:17Speaker 1: and watching her starve to death. Karen Smith, forensic expert.
- 6:24Speaker 1: I hope that hospice is tricked out with surveillance video
- 6:27Speaker 1: to get all this on camera. You know, last night
- 6:30Speaker 1: I made Swedish meatballs in the crop pot. I asked
- 6:34Speaker 1: the Tuesday they want mashed potatoes or pasta? They picked pasta.
- 6:39Speaker 1: My daughter and she's just eleven, Karen. All these little
- 6:44Speaker 1: girls at her school they ate nothing but let us.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Yeah at that age, yes, Karen, I know, she's just eleven,
- 6:53Speaker 1: and I know, and I call those little girls they
- 6:58Speaker 1: let us bunch like Karen's. But yes, that's what I
- 7:02Speaker 1: call them. To Lucy, not to anybody else. But every day,
- 7:05Speaker 1: first thing they get in the car and say what
- 7:07Speaker 1: was for lunch? To make sure Lucy ate, to make
- 7:10Speaker 1: sure she didn't have lettuce like her other skinny friends.
- 7:14Speaker 1: So long story short, I stand by them and make
- 7:17Speaker 1: sure they eat. This mom. I don't have a problem
- 7:21Speaker 1: with John David, you know, I've hide the candy from him.
- 7:24Speaker 1: But this mom stood by and LEVI didn't you just
- 7:29Speaker 1: say she ordered them not to give her daughter any
- 7:33Speaker 1: life sustaining nutrients. Just let her die? Correct? Oh, dear
- 7:37Speaker 1: Lord in heaven, I mean, Karen Smith, how are you
- 7:39Speaker 1: going to prove that? Well, listen, They're gonna have to
- 7:42Speaker 1: go back to these medical records. It's gonna take some digging.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Here's what I don't understand. The death certificate has listed
- 7:49Speaker 1: this little girl's death is undetermined, and yet the mother
- 7:52Speaker 1: is being charged with homicide. So that first of all,
- 7:55Speaker 1: they're gonna need to get that changed immediately. It changed
- 7:57Speaker 1: the death certificate to matter of death homicide the cause
- 8:01Speaker 1: of death. You know, I don't know if what they
- 8:05Speaker 1: can list as far as organ failure or these intestinal
- 8:09Speaker 1: problems that we're listed, but the doctors that we're treating
- 8:13Speaker 1: this little Olivia are going to have to be questioned.
- 8:16Speaker 1: The medical records are going to have to be gone
- 8:18Speaker 1: through with a fine tooth comb and they're going to
- 8:21Speaker 1: have to find out when she started bringing the daughter
- 8:24Speaker 1: to the doctors. She was doctor shopping. They moved from
- 8:26Speaker 1: Texas to Colorado. This is typical in these cases, so
- 8:30Speaker 1: doctor shopping, Who was treating her when, what were they
- 8:33Speaker 1: treating her for? How was her health before? How did
- 8:36Speaker 1: it decline? All of those things are going to come
- 8:39Speaker 1: into play, and the first thing they have to do
- 8:41Speaker 1: is change that death certificate. The mom thanking the illness
- 8:45Speaker 1: for money is one thing, but letting the daughter die
- 8:48Speaker 1: is something altogether different. With me a special guest Bobby
- 8:53Speaker 1: Brown Denver Bail Bosman, who actually helped the Olivia Gant
- 8:58Speaker 1: family trying to make poor little Olivia's dreams come true.
- 9:03Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to our friend
- 9:06Speaker 1: Karen Morphit at CBS for Denver. You could give me
- 9:09Speaker 1: all the money in the world and I'll give it
- 9:11Speaker 1: back to you to be able to watch this again.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Their hollow words now, as investigators believe Turner's motivation was
- 9:16Speaker 1: both attention and money. Multiple Go fund Me accounts show
- 9:20Speaker 1: she collected thousands of dollars from good people, even refusing
- 9:24Speaker 1: to pay local businesses simply wanting to help, including the
- 9:28Speaker 1: cemetery where her daughter is now laid to rest. What
- 9:31Speaker 1: has happened to us pales in comparison to what's happened
- 9:35Speaker 1: to Olivia, So it's certainly not about us. It's all
- 9:37Speaker 1: about Olivia, and we hope that justice can be served.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Now Make a Wish Again was among those who helped
- 9:42Speaker 1: make that bucket list happen. They released a statement that,
- 9:45Speaker 1: in part says they are disturbed by the allegations and
- 9:49Speaker 1: that their procedures for granting oh wish requires a referral
- 9:53Speaker 1: from the child's medical team. Now Make a Wish goes
- 9:56Speaker 1: on to say that as they seek to learn more
- 9:59Speaker 1: about this circumstances surrounding Olivia's death, that they hope that
- 10:03Speaker 1: granting her wish brought some joy to her tragic life.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace. Dear Bobby Brown. My name
- 10:31Speaker 1: is Kelly and I am a mother of three beautiful girls.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Hannah is twelve, Sam is four, and Olivia is two.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Sam was diagnosed with non Hodgkins lymphoma over a year
- 10:41Speaker 1: ago and we've been battling ever since. My youngest Olivia
- 10:45Speaker 1: has an inoperable brain tumor and a vascular malformation of
- 10:48Speaker 1: the brain, as well as several other neurological issues. Hannah,
- 10:53Speaker 1: my oldest, is a huge fan of yours as well
- 10:56Speaker 1: as Dog. As the older sister, Hannah has had to
- 10:58Speaker 1: give up a lot because most of my time back
- 11:01Speaker 1: home is spent driving to the hospital four days a
- 11:03Speaker 1: week for Sam's chemo and radiation, and four days a
- 11:07Speaker 1: week taking Olivia to therapy, doctor's appointments, and school. To
- 11:11Speaker 1: the last two years, things have been extremely rough, but
- 11:14Speaker 1: Hannah never complains. She never gets mad when I say
- 11:18Speaker 1: we can't do that, or we don't have the money
- 11:20Speaker 1: this month, or when we have to cancel plans because
- 11:23Speaker 1: I have ended up in the hospital or Olivia. I
- 11:28Speaker 1: know that it would mean the absolute world to Hannah
- 11:31Speaker 1: if we could just come by and meet Bobby Brown. Well, Kelly,
- 11:36Speaker 1: I honestly think we can do a lot better than that.
- 11:39Speaker 1: You are hearing the voice not only Bobby Brown, who
- 11:43Speaker 1: is with us exclusively today, but you are hearing Olivia
- 11:47Speaker 1: gat this little girl now did thanks to her mother.
- 11:51Speaker 1: According to prosecutors, you are hearing Kelly Turner's voice as
- 11:56Speaker 1: she's voicing for us in this video what she begs
- 12:02Speaker 1: Bobby Brown to do. Now Denver Bell Bonsman, famed Bell
- 12:07Speaker 1: Bondsman who appears all the time on Dog the Bounty Hunter,
- 12:12Speaker 1: actually reached into his pocket and spent his time trying
- 12:17Speaker 1: to help this little girl and make her wishes come true.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Bobby Brown number one, I am so knocked out by
- 12:25Speaker 1: your love and your generosity toward this beautiful little girl.
- 12:29Speaker 1: And I'm also sorry you got ripped off to the
- 12:33Speaker 1: tune of thousands, but I'm more sorry to find out
- 12:37Speaker 1: what's happened to this little girl Olivia. Again, Bobby, how
- 12:40Speaker 1: did you meet the mother, Kelly Turner and the little
- 12:44Speaker 1: girl Olivia? It was a shimple meeting. I received an
- 12:48Speaker 1: email and notification from them from the mom, Kelly, and
- 12:58Speaker 1: she explained about she had and I was under the
- 13:02Speaker 1: impression in the beginning that that at least two of
- 13:05Speaker 1: the three daughters may have a terminal disease, and gosh,
- 13:11Speaker 1: it just sounded like a horrible thing. But I'm Kelly
- 13:15Speaker 1: was extremely you know, because what happened is that I
- 13:17Speaker 1: got the email, so we had numbers to go back
- 13:21Speaker 1: and forth to each other. So I so I'll give
- 13:23Speaker 1: her a call, and I'll be honest, I get tons
- 13:26Speaker 1: and tons and tons of stuff because I volunteered to
- 13:28Speaker 1: do cold cases and uh, you know, so you just can't,
- 13:34Speaker 1: you can't do it at all. But this case really
- 13:37Speaker 1: really touched me by the way that that Kelly presented
- 13:42Speaker 1: it and and I mean the mom she had, you
- 13:46Speaker 1: would think that she was a a doctor from Boston
- 13:51Speaker 1: College or somewhere, that she had all of these medical
- 13:55Speaker 1: terms and explained to me about the disease that whatever
- 14:00Speaker 1: you had, and uh and the fact that Aunt Hannah,
- 14:04Speaker 1: her oldest daughter, was a huge fan of Dog the
- 14:08Speaker 1: Bounty Hunter and and me, you know, I'm the McMahan
- 14:12Speaker 1: of Dog Band Bounty Hunter them, I said beside there.
- 14:18Speaker 1: But I was able to uh get with Kelly and
- 14:24Speaker 1: make arrangements for the mom with Kelly and the three
- 14:29Speaker 1: girls through a friend of mine here in Colorado Springs.
- 14:33Speaker 1: I reached out to a couple of buddies to see
- 14:37Speaker 1: if they would be interesting and helping this little girl.
- 14:40Speaker 1: It was Christmas time and this family that was suffering
- 14:44Speaker 1: from this horrific I mean, you look at these little
- 14:47Speaker 1: girls as three girls, and they looked like Shirley Temple,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and I mean that was the that was the key
- 14:55Speaker 1: where they where they nailed me. Was I got. When
- 14:58Speaker 1: I got to meet them and see them, I was hooked,
- 15:02Speaker 1: and you know, I did it from my heart. I
- 15:08Speaker 1: don't know how many times during this entire time that
- 15:10Speaker 1: we filmed this, and it was all filmed on video
- 15:13Speaker 1: because we were doing an episode of something I was
- 15:16Speaker 1: working on. So everything I'm telling you is all on video.
- 15:20Speaker 1: And I'm sure that it will help law enforcement because
- 15:24Speaker 1: there was a there's a lot of interview with Kelly
- 15:26Speaker 1: and I and how she described all of this, and
- 15:31Speaker 1: you know, and you'll see pictures of me with these
- 15:35Speaker 1: girls and an arcade having a great time. Bobby, I
- 15:39Speaker 1: have watched the video in full. Our friend, your friend
- 15:45Speaker 1: and mine, Alan Duke sent it to me and I
- 15:48Speaker 1: watched it in full. If it weren't for him, I
- 15:51Speaker 1: wouldn't have known that you were one of the people
- 15:53Speaker 1: that got fleeced. To the tune of thousands, we are
- 15:57Speaker 1: talking to the Bobby Brand, the star on Dog, the
- 16:01Speaker 1: bounty hunter who opened up his wallet and spend his
- 16:05Speaker 1: time and his love to help this seven year old
- 16:09Speaker 1: little girl, Olivia Gat now dead thanks to mommy, who
- 16:13Speaker 1: apparently apparently suffers from munch housing by proxy, a condition
- 16:17Speaker 1: where an adult invents medical conditions for their child so
- 16:22Speaker 1: they the parent can get all the attention, the sympathy,
- 16:26Speaker 1: the love, the admiration, and in Kelly Turner's case, the
- 16:31Speaker 1: money thousands and thousands of dollars. But in this case
- 16:36Speaker 1: it wasn't just fraud and a rip off. It ends
- 16:40Speaker 1: in the little girl's death where mommy stands by the
- 16:44Speaker 1: bed like a ghost, like a ghoul, and orders doctors
- 16:49Speaker 1: not to put her on feeding on nutrients, on food
- 16:53Speaker 1: intravenously to let her die. That's what's being alleged. You
- 16:59Speaker 1: can look at Bobby Brown's a video at crime online
- 17:03Speaker 1: dot Com. I've watched it so many times because I
- 17:06Speaker 1: was looking at the little girl. Take a listen to
- 17:09Speaker 1: this to see the excitement on Verse days. I knew
- 17:13Speaker 1: that whatever we were going to do from that minute forward,
- 17:18Speaker 1: it was going to be four people. When they came
- 17:21Speaker 1: to put microphones on, I was like thinking, like maybe
- 17:24Speaker 1: we're gonna be filmed or something. And then when I
- 17:27Speaker 1: came down and saw Bobby Barren, I was just like
- 17:31Speaker 1: like all excited and overwhelmed because I never thought I'm meeting.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Going to his office was really cool because I've seen
- 17:39Speaker 1: it on TV and I never thought i'd get to
- 17:42Speaker 1: go in. It grabs people the reason that I'm not
- 17:47Speaker 1: getting this pictures because I took the picture and that's
- 17:50Speaker 1: why these are really cool pictures because nobody else has
- 17:54Speaker 1: and showed me a lot of cool stuff. So I
- 17:56Speaker 1: was just that they've missed court. Okay, so immediately did
- 18:00Speaker 1: can we know? And then we call right here. Since
- 18:04Speaker 1: Hannah gives up much of her time for her sisters,
- 18:07Speaker 1: I wanted to do something special just for her. I
- 18:10Speaker 1: read Hannah at a letter her mom sent and then
- 18:13Speaker 1: had a present waiting in my office. He gave me
- 18:17Speaker 1: some of the pictures that can't took like no one
- 18:21Speaker 1: else has them. I'm decided to find out what else
- 18:25Speaker 1: is coming. I just I don't know what to expect.
- 18:30Speaker 1: I didn't expect that and it happened. You can see
- 18:33Speaker 1: this video at crime online dot com where you see
- 18:38Speaker 1: Bobby Brown trying to make this little girl living against
- 18:41Speaker 1: the wishes come true and the mother, Kelly Turner, hovering
- 18:46Speaker 1: around all smiles for the camera, but prosecutors say she
- 18:51Speaker 1: is the one that caused her own daughter's death, insisting
- 18:55Speaker 1: her little girl in her hospice care and then pushing
- 18:59Speaker 1: doctors to stop feeding her till she dies. Crime Stories
- 19:20Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. In my thought, I says, no twelve
- 19:30Speaker 1: year old would ever think my sister needs to die
- 19:33Speaker 1: for change to my mom's sick. So I'll just do
- 19:35Speaker 1: it my three girls and my heroes, and she's one
- 19:37Speaker 1: of my biggest I couldn't have done this trip without her,
- 19:41Speaker 1: that's for sure. You know. It's compelling to me to
- 19:44Speaker 1: try to do something special for her, and what a
- 19:49Speaker 1: Tian year to do it. Nobody knew that there was
- 19:53Speaker 1: one big surprise left. We had arranged for the old
- 20:00Speaker 1: Santa from the North Pole to be here at the hotel.
- 20:03Speaker 1: It's so very nice to see you. How all of
- 20:06Speaker 1: a sudden they seem the real Santa Claus and it
- 20:10Speaker 1: was just an amazing woman. Hi Santa? What good? Yeah? Yeah?
- 20:21Speaker 1: What did you get? How? My? Yeah? Okay, that's just
- 20:26Speaker 1: breaking my heart. You are hearing the TV star of
- 20:30Speaker 1: Dog the Bounty Hunter, Bobby Brown, a Denver bill old bodsman,
- 20:35Speaker 1: who got a letter from this little girl's mom. The
- 20:38Speaker 1: little girl, seven year old Olivia, the mother Kelly Turner,
- 20:42Speaker 1: asking to make Olivia's dreams come true by I guess
- 20:45Speaker 1: getting a signed photo. But Bobby Brown, the TV star,
- 20:49Speaker 1: goes out of his way and he flies the family
- 20:54Speaker 1: to him. And you were just hearing where who a
- 20:57Speaker 1: child's wildest dreams would show up but Santa. And it's
- 21:02Speaker 1: making me think of my children and how thrilled they
- 21:06Speaker 1: are on Christmas Morning, and how much planning and preparation
- 21:12Speaker 1: Santa goes through just for that one moment of joy.
- 21:18Speaker 1: And then Bobby Brown arranges out of the blue to
- 21:22Speaker 1: have Santa Claus flown in from the North Pole to
- 21:25Speaker 1: surprise these girls, including Olivia. Olivia is dead, Olivia again,
- 21:32Speaker 1: just seven years old, whose bucket list of wishes just
- 21:36Speaker 1: breaks your heart. But a grid jury in the last
- 21:40Speaker 1: day said this little girl did not die from a disease. Instead,
- 21:45Speaker 1: she died of murder by her mother. Another thing I
- 21:50Speaker 1: don't understand is when this mom insists that her daughter
- 21:56Speaker 1: go into hospice care where she dies. The doctors didn't
- 21:59Speaker 1: say hey, wait, wait wait, They just go along with
- 22:02Speaker 1: her desire to stop feeding her own child. With me,
- 22:07Speaker 1: Bobby Brown, who shelled out thousands to make the little
- 22:10Speaker 1: girl's wishes come true at the behest of her mother,
- 22:13Speaker 1: now called a murderer, Sharon Lycho Denver lawyer, Jeff Cortezi FBI,
- 22:18Speaker 1: Karen Smith, forensic expert and Crime Online dot Com investigative
- 22:22Speaker 1: reporter where you can read this and all other breaking
- 22:25Speaker 1: crime and justice news. Leave I page to Sharon Lecho,
- 22:30Speaker 1: Denver lawyer. Sharon, what does it mean that this little
- 22:34Speaker 1: girl did not die of any intestinal failure? She has
- 22:40Speaker 1: been exhumed and doctors are trying to figure out why
- 22:44Speaker 1: she really died. Why did the doctors at the hospital
- 22:46Speaker 1: go along with the mother's plan. That's a great question. Supposedly,
- 22:53Speaker 1: somebody who has Munchhausen by proxy is really adept at
- 22:59Speaker 1: understanding and speaking medical language and persuading the medical personnel
- 23:05Speaker 1: that their child is sick. Um. Oh, daughter, Sharon Leco,
- 23:09Speaker 1: I want to follow up on something you just said.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Sharon Lyko, renowned lawyer in the Denver jurisdiction, just said,
- 23:17Speaker 1: these typically their mothers, which is bizarre because that's the
- 23:21Speaker 1: person you think is going to love you the most
- 23:23Speaker 1: that have this munchhouse and by proxy. Sharon Leco just says,
- 23:27Speaker 1: the moms know all the medical language. Bobby Brown TV
- 23:31Speaker 1: star on Dog the Bounty Hunter. You said you just
- 23:34Speaker 1: said the mom taught like she was a doctor from
- 23:36Speaker 1: Boston College, explain what you mean by that? And she
- 23:40Speaker 1: I mean she explained how literally. I mean, she went
- 23:43Speaker 1: into details about how the eating disorder about her head was,
- 23:48Speaker 1: you know, not the right size, and and and you know,
- 23:51Speaker 1: in all honesty, I look and I swear, I bet
- 23:54Speaker 1: I could not tell you how many times. And I'm
- 23:56Speaker 1: not ashamed to say it that I've tried listening to video,
- 24:00Speaker 1: watching that video and looking at Kelly Turner knowing that
- 24:06Speaker 1: I'm pouring my heart out and not only regret one
- 24:09Speaker 1: second of it, not one, but knowing that that woman
- 24:13Speaker 1: was doing this on purpose, and she had plans that
- 24:17Speaker 1: apparently she because she was already saying that the oldest
- 24:21Speaker 1: daughter that she was having issues, so that, you know,
- 24:24Speaker 1: it just it is absolutely sick me that when I
- 24:28Speaker 1: look at this and she tells me and she cries
- 24:31Speaker 1: and get ready a real tears or coming out of the
- 24:33Speaker 1: the moms about how I did all of this and
- 24:35Speaker 1: what a wonderful thing. And you know, I guess the
- 24:38Speaker 1: only thing that gives me a little bit of consolation
- 24:40Speaker 1: is the fact that there were other TV stations. I mean,
- 24:44Speaker 1: this thing kind of went around the internationally. I mean
- 24:47Speaker 1: that just this port a little girl and her bucket list,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and but you know, I just want to say one
- 24:54Speaker 1: thing real quick, and that is that one thing that
- 24:57Speaker 1: bothers me tremendously. And y'all just touched on it and
- 25:01Speaker 1: gave some good reasoning, But they had a care shelved
- 25:05Speaker 1: out five hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars on little Olivia,
- 25:11Speaker 1: and it just absolutely And I understand that the people
- 25:15Speaker 1: that have one that are into the munchhouse and that
- 25:19Speaker 1: they really they learned the technology and vocabulary, but I
- 25:23Speaker 1: don't know how you could. And there were eleven other
- 25:26Speaker 1: doctors that looked at examined or after the autopsy, or
- 25:30Speaker 1: after she had been exhumed, and they did an independent
- 25:33Speaker 1: autopsy and they still didn't find anything wrong with it.
- 25:37Speaker 1: So my question is who did all of these surgeries
- 25:40Speaker 1: to the little girl, Who prescribed brought all of this medication,
- 25:45Speaker 1: and who helped precipitate, who helped ALP. Kelly carry out
- 25:49Speaker 1: this bizarre mccop a plan that she had and you know,
- 25:55Speaker 1: and they can call it a disease, I call it
- 25:58Speaker 1: a disease of money, and that it was greed that
- 26:03Speaker 1: she wanted. This was her method that hey upon this
- 26:06Speaker 1: little girl, and it's just absolutely infuriates me and all
- 26:10Speaker 1: that somebody else. It's awful, terrible. This little seven year
- 26:14Speaker 1: old girl was told she didn't have long to live,
- 26:18Speaker 1: so her mother helped her then six year old girl
- 26:21Speaker 1: make a quote bucket list. A little girl was using
- 26:24Speaker 1: a wheelchair and a feeding tea, but her mother, Kelly Turner,
- 26:29Speaker 1: says she was a quote fighter and her last wishes
- 26:34Speaker 1: the gold girl wrote a bucket list with a sharpie
- 26:37Speaker 1: on a lime green posterboard. Be a fireman, feed sharks,
- 26:42Speaker 1: catch a bad guy with the police. And the months
- 26:46Speaker 1: before this little girl died, the Denver Police Department the
- 26:50Speaker 1: local fire department made her wishes come true. Make a wish,
- 26:55Speaker 1: they were a surprise and on go fund Me, mommy
- 26:59Speaker 1: raised over twenty thousand dollars from medical treatment, claiming Olivia
- 27:04Speaker 1: was fighting a rare, incurable ailment and after years of
- 27:11Speaker 1: ordering invasive surgeries in countless hospital stays, the little girl's
- 27:18Speaker 1: pain came to an end with mommy standing by Sharon
- 27:24Speaker 1: Leco What about all these doctors that went along with mommy? Well,
- 27:29Speaker 1: that's my question. I mean, obviously the mother is sick
- 27:33Speaker 1: to what extent I don't know whether the Munchhausen actually
- 27:39Speaker 1: clouds their judgment, whether she really believed that the kid
- 27:44Speaker 1: was sick, or she's intentionally with premeditation deciding the maker
- 27:51Speaker 1: kids sick and ultimately die for the attention. I don't know,
- 27:55Speaker 1: well what times the premeditation, Sharon. I mean, this was
- 28:00Speaker 1: done over a long period of time. She raised thousands
- 28:03Speaker 1: and thousands of dollars, There were multiple invasive surgeries, even
- 28:07Speaker 1: removing part of the girls intestine and more. I mean
- 28:10Speaker 1: that is clear premeditation. Premeditation can be formed in an instant, sure,
- 28:15Speaker 1: I agree with that, But whether the premeditation was actually
- 28:20Speaker 1: conscious or what was a result of the disease, the
- 28:24Speaker 1: mental illness that she has, I think is what's going
- 28:28Speaker 1: to be pivotal in the sentence that she receives, whether
- 28:32Speaker 1: she receives life or death, or whether she's adjudicated as
- 28:36Speaker 1: mentally impaired and ends up in a mental hospital. Munchhausen
- 28:40Speaker 1: by proxy, though, does not rise in any way to
- 28:46Speaker 1: legal insanity. For legal insanity, you have to know. Under
- 28:51Speaker 1: the old McNaughton rule brought over from Great Britain in
- 28:54Speaker 1: our common law, you have to not know what you're
- 28:57Speaker 1: doing is wrong at the time of the sent not
- 29:01Speaker 1: whether you're confident in Santchroal, but at the time you
- 29:03Speaker 1: did it, you didn't know it was right or wrong.
- 29:05Speaker 1: And clearly she lied for years and covered her tracks.
- 29:10Speaker 1: In fact, she was such a good liar to you.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Jeff Cortazzi, former special agent with the FBI at Jeff
- 29:17Speaker 1: Cortazi dot com. How would you go about working up
- 29:21Speaker 1: this case? Cortazi? And I'm not letting the doctors off
- 29:25Speaker 1: the hook. She may be the devil, but they were
- 29:27Speaker 1: bills above and letting this little girl die. Jeff, candidly,
- 29:32Speaker 1: you know, I feel like Kelly's ability to speak the
- 29:33Speaker 1: language of the various illnesses that her daughter allegedly had
- 29:39Speaker 1: was born out of necessity. Fraudsters need to be able
- 29:43Speaker 1: to speak the language and understand the triggers of their
- 29:45Speaker 1: audience in order to be successful, and she seemed to
- 29:49Speaker 1: have done that very well. You know, Ultimately, I think,
- 29:52Speaker 1: you know, people want to see the best in each other,
- 29:54Speaker 1: especially against claims of a dying child. But you know
- 29:58Speaker 1: that that large outstanding question remain as it relates to
- 30:01Speaker 1: the doctors. How did this go on so long? You know,
- 30:03Speaker 1: it wasn't as if Kelly was claiming her daughter had
- 30:07Speaker 1: an unknown disease, right she was claiming specific diseases, So
- 30:12Speaker 1: specific diseases against medical testing which said she didn't have
- 30:16Speaker 1: the disease would be a huge red flag if it
- 30:18Speaker 1: was an instance where she was claiming unknown disease, we
- 30:22Speaker 1: don't know what the problem is, and the doctor said, yeah,
- 30:24Speaker 1: we've We've spent years looking into this and found nothing.
- 30:27Speaker 1: That's a different approach or a different level of culpability,
- 30:31Speaker 1: a degree of responsibility the doctors might have. If you're
- 30:34Speaker 1: claiming publicly a specific disease and the doctors are saying,
- 30:37Speaker 1: which minute, this kid does not have that disease, and
- 30:40Speaker 1: they don't raise their hand, the law enforcements, red flags
- 30:43Speaker 1: are gonna be going your way up crime stories with
- 30:55Speaker 1: anti Grace. Seven year old Olivia Gant's story was as
- 31:02Speaker 1: touching as it was tragic. People were told she was
- 31:06Speaker 1: suffering from a terminal illness. In the months before she
- 31:09Speaker 1: died in twenty seventeen, she made a bucket list including
- 31:12Speaker 1: catch a bad guy with police, so the Maker Wish
- 31:15Speaker 1: Foundation and the Denver Police made her batwoman for a day.
- 31:23Speaker 1: CBS affiliate Casey nc's reporter Dylan Thomas covered the story.
- 31:28Speaker 1: When we saw her, she was energetic, a little shy,
- 31:31Speaker 1: but soft spoken at the same time, determined to do
- 31:33Speaker 1: the task at hand, which was taking down other bad villains.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Now it turns out her mother, Kelly Renee Turner, might
- 31:40Speaker 1: be the villain. She has been indicted by a Colorado
- 31:43Speaker 1: grand jury on two counts of murdering her daughter and
- 31:46Speaker 1: multiple accounts of fraud for stealing half a million dollars
- 31:50Speaker 1: from Medicave, as well as twenty two thousand dollars in
- 31:53Speaker 1: a go fund to me page for Olivia. And that
- 31:56Speaker 1: is just the tip of the iceberg. You're hearing our
- 31:58Speaker 1: friend Barry peter Sen at CBS News, Wow, forget about
- 32:03Speaker 1: the money for a moment. What about the little girl?
- 32:06Speaker 1: She's dead with me Levipage Crime online dot Com. Karen
- 32:11Speaker 1: Smith Barebon's consulting. Jeff Cortizi, former special agent FBI. Sharon Likeo,
- 32:17Speaker 1: renowned Denver attorney to Bobby Brown TV star on Dog
- 32:21Speaker 1: the Bounty Hunter, who spent thousands of dollars trying to
- 32:25Speaker 1: make the little girl's wishes come true way in Bobby Brown.
- 32:30Speaker 1: But I'd like to hit on something that just came
- 32:34Speaker 1: up a minute ago about her going to hospice, you know,
- 32:38Speaker 1: and the you know, I was a homicide detective and
- 32:42Speaker 1: I was in charge of her homicide bureau. And one
- 32:45Speaker 1: thing that I can't put my arms around, you know.
- 32:48Speaker 1: And it's not like it's I'm on a guilt trip
- 32:50Speaker 1: about Gosh, if I would have only known this little
- 32:52Speaker 1: girl could still be alive, sure, I would give anything
- 32:55Speaker 1: if that would be if that would have happened. However,
- 33:00Speaker 1: when they put her who she was placed in hospice,
- 33:04Speaker 1: I mean, you don't just drag somebody up to the
- 33:07Speaker 1: hospice and say here you are hospice. We all realized,
- 33:11Speaker 1: regretfully both of my parents died in hospice, that when
- 33:15Speaker 1: you go to hospice, you don't come out. So when
- 33:18Speaker 1: Kelly made arrangements through whomever to get Olivia into hospice,
- 33:27Speaker 1: Kelly knew absolutely she wasn't getting good any better, had
- 33:31Speaker 1: she lost weight, had all these things happened, Why did
- 33:34Speaker 1: she go to hospice? And knowing that when you go in,
- 33:38Speaker 1: you don't come out, so she knew that was going
- 33:40Speaker 1: to be the end of Olivia. And there's just there's
- 33:45Speaker 1: a lot of you know, she can claim PTSD, she
- 33:50Speaker 1: can claim a lot of things, but she did a
- 33:53Speaker 1: lot of things with a lot of thought for a
- 33:56Speaker 1: lot of time. You know what, Bobby Brown, you just
- 33:59Speaker 1: gave the her fit closing argument for the state. This
- 34:02Speaker 1: is what we know. In the last days, the Douglas
- 34:05Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office has announced that Mommy Kelly Turner, forty
- 34:10Speaker 1: one years old, is charged with first degree murder, fraud,
- 34:14Speaker 1: and theft for allegedly inventing her daughter's illnesses for years
- 34:20Speaker 1: before finally leaving her to die. It's a thirteen count indictment.
- 34:28Speaker 1: This little girl dies at age seven, and before that,
- 34:32Speaker 1: mommy put her in hospice, insisting that her quality of
- 34:37Speaker 1: life was so bad she should be withdrawn from all
- 34:41Speaker 1: medical treatment, withdrawn from all feeding, no feeding through the
- 34:46Speaker 1: feeding tube. Just let her daughter lie in the bed
- 34:50Speaker 1: and die. She even insisted on a due not resuscitate order.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Levi Page crimal line dot Com investigative reporter. Isn't it true? Now?
- 35:04Speaker 1: Nearly a dozen doctors are saying that's not what happened,
- 35:09Speaker 1: and that mommy benefited from all the attention. As a
- 35:13Speaker 1: matter of fact, mommy posts the daughter's bucket list for
- 35:18Speaker 1: her quote terminally ill daughter and it goes viral Levi,
- 35:23Speaker 1: you're correct, Nancy. And she actually started a blog when
- 35:27Speaker 1: she was basically a baby and was blogging about all
- 35:31Speaker 1: the fictitious illnesses that she had, and you know, doctors
- 35:36Speaker 1: became suspicious. And they really became suspicious after the child
- 35:40Speaker 1: died when she took her older at the time eleven
- 35:44Speaker 1: year old daughter to the doctor and said that she
- 35:46Speaker 1: was having bone pain. And the doctors that treated Olivia said,
- 35:51Speaker 1: wait a second, something is suspicious here. They contacted authorities
- 35:55Speaker 1: and say you need to look into Olivia's death because
- 35:59Speaker 1: now she's bringing her older daughter into the doctor. That's
- 36:03Speaker 1: in my way. Who contacted authorities? Levits Holy moly. Then
- 36:10Speaker 1: she started up with a second daughter has just like
- 36:13Speaker 1: what Bobby Brown said that she kept referring to the
- 36:17Speaker 1: other daughter's ailments to Karen Smith, forensic expert, Bare Bones
- 36:22Speaker 1: Consulting founder. You know, they exhumed little Olivia's body. It
- 36:27Speaker 1: takes a lot to get an examation order. What does
- 36:30Speaker 1: it mean to exume a body? Well, that's after a
- 36:33Speaker 1: body has obviously had a grave side, it's been buried,
- 36:36Speaker 1: and they exhumed the cough in the casket. It's a
- 36:39Speaker 1: very delicate process. Now I don't know whether little Olivia's
- 36:42Speaker 1: body was embalmed. That's going to make a big difference
- 36:46Speaker 1: if she was it. You can still do microscopy on
- 36:50Speaker 1: the organs, you can still do some analysis of the brain,
- 36:54Speaker 1: the liver, the kidneys, the spleen, all of the things
- 36:56Speaker 1: that would be involved here. But unfortunately the blood, any
- 37:01Speaker 1: type of biological fluids are gone. They're flushed out, so
- 37:04Speaker 1: there's nothing that can be tested that way. So what
- 37:08Speaker 1: they're dealing with now is microscopic analysis looking for any
- 37:11Speaker 1: anomalies in the organs, looking for any cancer cells, anything
- 37:15Speaker 1: that has been alleged by Kelly Turner to have been
- 37:18Speaker 1: afflicted in Olivia. And they're not finding anything. They're finding
- 37:24Speaker 1: nothing wrong with this little girl. And I'm just heartbroken
- 37:29Speaker 1: for her. For Bobby Brown, thank you for having such
- 37:32Speaker 1: a large heart and for doing everything, and my apologies
- 37:35Speaker 1: to you as well. Well. We know that mommy has
- 37:38Speaker 1: been arrested at a hotel in Glendale, Colorado. We also
- 37:42Speaker 1: know that Children's Hospital Colorado, where Olivia was treated, has
- 37:47Speaker 1: declined to comment. Boy, I bet they have declined to
- 37:50Speaker 1: comment because they got to figure out why they're doctors
- 37:53Speaker 1: and other doctors not just theirs, went along with this thing.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Jeff Cortes, a former FBI, what are the costs need
- 38:00Speaker 1: to do now to prove this case? I would imagine
- 38:03Speaker 1: much of the work has already been done at this
- 38:05Speaker 1: point to move toward this next phase of the investigation.
- 38:10Speaker 1: I would imagine they they've checked all their boxes, conducted
- 38:14Speaker 1: all their interviews, collected all their records, and measured that
- 38:17Speaker 1: against the timeline that the mother herself put online. So
- 38:21Speaker 1: she's going to create a timeline and a backdrop to
- 38:24Speaker 1: the information, so they'll be able to use a lot
- 38:26Speaker 1: of that as a collective in conjunction with the zoomed
- 38:29Speaker 1: body to make put forth third investigation you know to
- 38:34Speaker 1: Sharon Leco, denver lawyer, very renowned guys. Sharon was talking
- 38:39Speaker 1: about if this mom has much Hausen by proxy, which
- 38:43Speaker 1: is basically you get typically your child super sick or
- 38:47Speaker 1: pretend they're sick so you can get attention. She was
- 38:51Speaker 1: discussing whether this would be a mental defect as a
- 38:54Speaker 1: defensive trial. Listen to all the premeditation in Mommy's go
- 38:58Speaker 1: fund me campaign, She says, a little girl quote daughters
- 39:03Speaker 1: added a new diagnosis to her already long list, in
- 39:07Speaker 1: addition to a tumor, developmental delays, seizures, autism, sensory processing disorder,
- 39:14Speaker 1: focal cortical displasia, digestive issues, hydro encephalis. She goes on
- 39:23Speaker 1: her little girl now has quote nero gastro intestinal and cephalomyopathy,
- 39:30Speaker 1: also degenerative mitochondrial disorder that causes her little girl's entire
- 39:36Speaker 1: body to shut down one system at a time, eventually
- 39:40Speaker 1: leading to death. She writes, this is a story about
- 39:44Speaker 1: a sweet little princess that everyone has grown to love,
- 39:47Speaker 1: begging for money. Okay, what's the defense? Sharon leco mental impairment,
- 39:54Speaker 1: which is different from insanity. So oh, I make that
- 40:00Speaker 1: distinction that it would be an impairment that clouded her
- 40:05Speaker 1: ability to make decisions. And it goes to whether she
- 40:11Speaker 1: could form the requisite intent, which was the intention to
- 40:15Speaker 1: kill her child. That would be the defense. But back
- 40:20Speaker 1: to the doctors. I'm really concerned that these doctors did nothing.
- 40:25Speaker 1: I mean, why are they treating this girl when they
- 40:28Speaker 1: don't find anything wrong with her? Why did they remove
- 40:31Speaker 1: part of her small intestine to insert a feeding tube.
- 40:34Speaker 1: There was a therapist that worked with her and she
- 40:37Speaker 1: was able to eat solids food, But yet the doctor
- 40:40Speaker 1: removes the intestine. One doctor said told the mother to
- 40:45Speaker 1: stop giving the girl seizure medication, and she continued to
- 40:50Speaker 1: give her seizure medication. Who prescribed it? What doctor signed off?
- 40:55Speaker 1: Do not resuscitate order? What doctor signed off? I'm putting
- 40:59Speaker 1: this girl in hospice. I mean, these doctors, you know,
- 41:02Speaker 1: they can't just live in some cocoon. They've got to
- 41:05Speaker 1: use common sense. There was a witness that was interviewed
- 41:09Speaker 1: by one of the TV station stations. She didn't give
- 41:13Speaker 1: her name. She was a mother who was going to
- 41:16Speaker 1: children's hospital at the same time because her daughter was sick.
- 41:19Speaker 1: She thought something was wrong with Kelly Turner and she
- 41:23Speaker 1: tried to take action. She contacted the authorities that she
- 41:27Speaker 1: thought would help, and they did nothing. Yet these doctors
- 41:31Speaker 1: turn a blind eye. I mean, why would they treat
- 41:35Speaker 1: somebody just because the mother said this, that and the
- 41:38Speaker 1: other thing. They have to use their independent judgment. They
- 41:42Speaker 1: are licensed professionals, beautifully and eloquently, said Sharon Leco are
- 41:47Speaker 1: renowned in for attorney. And now I know why you're
- 41:50Speaker 1: renowned because the way you rattle that off convinces me
- 41:54Speaker 1: there must be a thorough investigation of these doctors. Final
- 41:59Speaker 1: word to Bobby Brown, who isn't just commenting or remarking
- 42:05Speaker 1: on this, He is part of that, having opened up
- 42:08Speaker 1: his heart and his life and his wallet to make
- 42:12Speaker 1: this little girl's dreams come true, only to learn it
- 42:15Speaker 1: was all a big fake. And now the little girl
- 42:17Speaker 1: is dead. And I will just say this match she was,
- 42:21Speaker 1: you know, obviously when I spent all my time with
- 42:25Speaker 1: him was in twenty thirteen, and that's when she was
- 42:28Speaker 1: really getting this until he was really getting this thing going. Uh,
- 42:34Speaker 1: you know, I just I guess I would just say
- 42:38Speaker 1: that I would think that the doctors would realize that,
- 42:43Speaker 1: you know, they did take that hippocratic oath oath and
- 42:48Speaker 1: I just, for the life of me, I can't understand it.
- 42:51Speaker 1: But just exactly what your previous guest just said. Why
- 42:55Speaker 1: why were they allowed to go? Were they allowed to go?
- 42:58Speaker 1: For the over half a million dollars go fund me pages?
- 43:02Speaker 1: And I will say this about the Make a Wish Foundation.
- 43:06Speaker 1: They are a phen phenomenal foundation. I've really supported them,
- 43:10Speaker 1: I've done a lot of things, but I can't understand
- 43:13Speaker 1: how they got bamboozles. I mean, they have a pretty
- 43:16Speaker 1: good system. They've been doing us a long time. But
- 43:18Speaker 1: that's how good she was, and it wasn't. In my opinion,
- 43:21Speaker 1: and this is just my opinion, she did this out
- 43:25Speaker 1: agreed out of money, out of a financial scheme. I
- 43:30Speaker 1: don't think it was the thrill of seeing her daughter
- 43:34Speaker 1: sick with munch house. I think it was strictly a
- 43:37Speaker 1: money thing. And I am not done yet because I'm
- 43:40Speaker 1: still working on that. I would like to speak to
- 43:43Speaker 1: the father, who we don't hear about. But there's there's
- 43:47Speaker 1: a lot more to go with this. But I would
- 43:48Speaker 1: never impeede with the law enforcement investigation, but I'll certainly
- 43:52Speaker 1: share what I have. Well, Bobby Brown, you're a better
- 43:55Speaker 1: person than I am, because I don't care why she
- 43:57Speaker 1: did it. She stood by the b and watched her
- 44:00Speaker 1: daughter die. In fact, ordered her daughter to die whether
- 44:05Speaker 1: it do not resuscitate order from a mommy, and I
- 44:09Speaker 1: will not stand by and be quiet while a murderer
- 44:13Speaker 1: hides behind a fake ailment claiming she had a mental
- 44:20Speaker 1: defect and that caused her to what cash those checks
- 44:25Speaker 1: and live in that hotel and rip off nearly a
- 44:29Speaker 1: million dollars from various entities, break a lot of people's hearts,
- 44:34Speaker 1: but most important, murder her own daughter. As far as
- 44:38Speaker 1: I'm concerned, she can wrought in hell, but I'll leave
- 44:41Speaker 1: that up to the Lord. Right now, it's going to
- 44:44Speaker 1: be in the jury's hands. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
- 44:47Speaker 1: crime stories. We wait for justice to unfold. Goodbye, friend,