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  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crimewatch Daily from here
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  Speaker 1: in New York. An adorable five year old suffering from
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  Speaker 1: a mysterious illness.
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  Speaker 2: We were told he has Celiac disease clones disease.
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  Speaker 3: His worried mother on a desperate search for answer.
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  Speaker 4: He meant the world to her, and she was a
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  Speaker 4: loving mother?
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  Speaker 3: Or was she?
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  Speaker 4: Nobody could really put that finger on what she was doing.
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  Speaker 1: So soon sympathies turned to suspicions, and a doting mother
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  Speaker 1: begins to look.
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  Speaker 3: Like the devil.
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  Speaker 5: What did that say to you? That she'd a war
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  Speaker 5: inside the.
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  Speaker 3: Case of Lacy's spears.
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  Speaker 6: Something was poisoning this kid and somebody was putting it
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  Speaker 6: in a system.
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  Speaker 1: And what cops say happened behind a hospital door that
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  Speaker 1: shocked everything?
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  Speaker 3: What do you believe happened in that passing?
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  Speaker 1: Then a boy's weekend on the water ends in a
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  Speaker 1: horrible tragedy.
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  Speaker 7: His last words were, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: In all American football star winds up in a life
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  Speaker 1: vest in handcuffs.
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  Speaker 7: It's like he's in a straight jacket.
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  Speaker 1: Then sinks into the lake like a stone. Was it
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  Speaker 1: an accident?
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  Speaker 8: He didn't try to save my son's life.
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  Speaker 5: Who does that? Who does that?
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  Speaker 3: Right now?
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  Speaker 5: Andrea Isisenser with Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 4: Jason Matara a crime Watch dairy This, I'm Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 9: I'm here with Crimewatch and Michelle from Crimewatch Daily.
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  Speaker 8: Anagarcia from Crimewatch is crime Watch deal will barn you again?
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  Speaker 3: We always do. Welcome to Crime Watch Daily, everyone. I
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  Speaker 3: Chris Hansen.
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  Speaker 1: First up, my all new investigation into the blockbuster case
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  Speaker 1: of Lazy Spears. It all starts when the Kentucky mother
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  Speaker 1: sets off on a desperate journey to find a cure
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  Speaker 1: for her son's unexplained illnesses.
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  Speaker 3: But was she trying to help him get better or
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  Speaker 3: was she the.
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  Speaker 1: One making him so sick he would eventually die.
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  Speaker 4: A young mother, he meant the world to her and
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  Speaker 4: she was a loving mother.
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  Speaker 9: A sick child, he's curled up in a ball in
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  Speaker 9: tremendous amount of pain. But was it an unexplained illness
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  Speaker 9: there were red flags obviously, or.
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  Speaker 3: A prolonged torture.
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  Speaker 5: It's something that will haunt me.
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  Speaker 3: All leading to this horrific discovery.
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  Speaker 10: We actually had to watch a video of five year
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  Speaker 10: old child being murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Lacey Spears grew up in Decatur, Alabama, and this all
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  Speaker 1: American girl loved American girl dolls.
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  Speaker 4: And she would live through them. She would have them everywhere,
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  Speaker 4: she would clothe them, and it was kind of more
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  Speaker 4: than the usual little girl and dough for Lacey. It
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  Speaker 4: seemed to be a much bigger thing.
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  Speaker 1: Soon, Lacey's love of dolls grew into a profound love
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  Speaker 1: for real children too.
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  Speaker 4: She wasn't wanted to be looking after children, and when
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  Speaker 4: she left school, she went into oldcare. And when she
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  Speaker 4: started taking care of children, people would notice how much
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  Speaker 4: more time she would spend with the children and everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Right away, Lacey wanted children of her own, and her
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  Speaker 1: dreams came true when she got pregnant and gave birth
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  Speaker 1: to a beautiful little boy she named Garnett. But motherhood
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  Speaker 1: get off to a rocky start when it just nine
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  Speaker 1: days old, Garnet became so ill that he had to
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  Speaker 1: be hospitalized.
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  Speaker 4: Within days, she was taking him to hospital and complaining
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  Speaker 4: that he wasn't eating and he was failing to thrive,
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  Speaker 4: and he was getting all these infections and everything.
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  Speaker 1: This will be just one of dozens of trips they
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  Speaker 1: will make to the doctor to address Garnett's growing list
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  Speaker 1: of mysterious health issues.
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  Speaker 4: The doctors were baffled by the various things that you know.
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  Speaker 4: She had Crone's disease. She said Garnet had many other
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  Speaker 4: diseases which were inexplicable.
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  Speaker 1: Most notably Lazy told that Garnett would not eat.
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  Speaker 3: Then this unusual request.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he had a feeding tube at one point that
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  Speaker 4: was put in about when he was eight months old.
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  Speaker 4: She asked to have a feeding tube put in because
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  Speaker 4: she said he was a failure to thrive child. She
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  Speaker 4: went to various doctors and hospitals. Many of them were
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  Speaker 4: very hesitant to put a feeding tube in, but eventually
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  Speaker 4: she found one doctor that did.
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  Speaker 3: But Lacey didn't stop. There were her son's surgeries.
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  Speaker 4: And he also had another procedure to close up his
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  Speaker 4: throat so he couldn't regaint or be sick.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Garnet will be fed through a tube and is
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  Speaker 1: no longer able to throw up. His little body is
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  Speaker 1: forced to ingest everything his mother is feeding him.
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  Speaker 4: She wanted to be able to control what he ate.
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  Speaker 4: She would say, in fact, that she wanted to protect
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  Speaker 4: him because he just couldn't eat many foods that everyone
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  Speaker 4: else can eat. So she wanted to protect him and
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  Speaker 4: give him juices and fresh you know, vegetables and things
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 1: In from Garnett's daily diet to his frequent hospital visits.
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  Speaker 1: It was all documented on Lacey's multiple social media websites.
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  Speaker 5: It appeared that this.
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  Speaker 1: Growing online community is where this young single mom turned
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  Speaker 1: for support, comfort, and sympathy. Lacey even kept a detailed
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  Speaker 1: blog called Garnett's Journey, as seen here. In one update,
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  Speaker 1: she wrote, September, what a month and it's only half over.
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  Speaker 1: Garnett has enjoyed driving his tractor through our neighborhood, playing
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  Speaker 1: in the rain, riding his bike for hours, and we
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  Speaker 1: spent a few days in the hospital. And despite Garnett's
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  Speaker 1: laundry list of medical treatments, was Garnett.
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  Speaker 5: Actually a sick kid?
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  Speaker 4: According to Lacey, he was a very sick kid. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: else never saw any of that. You know, Lacey would say,
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  Speaker 4: he wouldn't eat. He was a failure to thrive child.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Garnett has visited twenty different medical facilities, but Lacey
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  Speaker 1: claims there is still no relief for.
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  Speaker 3: Her little boy.
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  Speaker 1: Appearing desperate for a cure, Lacy and her son moved
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  Speaker 1: to Florida. There she discovers a possible solution for her
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  Speaker 1: son's medical needs.
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  Speaker 10: When Lacey said she wanted to change her son's diet
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  Speaker 10: over to a holistic diet, she was introduced to some
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  Speaker 10: people that said, you know, this is a place where
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  Speaker 10: the where they live fits the diet that we think
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  Speaker 10: your son might thrive with.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for the ultimate in holistic food, Lacy and Garnett
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  Speaker 1: move again, this time to the secluded area of Chestnut Ridge,
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  Speaker 1: New York, to a place called the Fellowship Community, where
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  Speaker 1: the focus on sustainable living and a farm to table diet.
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  Speaker 4: I mean she came into the Fellowship Community and she
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  Speaker 4: told everyone about Garnet, the terrible illnesses he'd had over
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  Speaker 4: his life. There were a lot of people that you
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  Speaker 4: were convinced that Lacey was a great mother. You know,
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  Speaker 4: she looked after Garnet.
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  Speaker 1: Lacy and Garnett are well him with open arms. Garnett,
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  Speaker 1: now a lively and happy little five year old boy,
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  Speaker 1: begins to make friends and hang out with other families.
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  Speaker 3: Then the honest thing starts to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever he'd be with other you know, friends, or they
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  Speaker 4: take him to the local diner and he'd wolf as
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  Speaker 4: much as he could. He always asked for seconds or thirds.
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  Speaker 3: He was hungry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was hungry, and by many accounts, a normal kid.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he had a very very healthy appetite, according to
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  Speaker 4: many of the friends that you used to see him,
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  Speaker 4: But Lacey would say he never ate.
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  Speaker 1: Eyebrows begin to rise. Lacey's new neighbors aren't seeing any
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  Speaker 1: of the signs of the sick child she's chatted about
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  Speaker 1: all these years on her social media accounts, But their
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  Speaker 1: suspicion turns to sympathy when Lady shares some devastating news.
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  Speaker 9: You know. Initially she had told me that her fiance,
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  Speaker 9: the baby's father, Blake, had perished. He was a former
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  Speaker 9: policeman who was killed in a tragic car accident.
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  Speaker 1: Blake's death appeared to be heartbreaking for Lacey, as seen
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  Speaker 1: on our blog post. Lacey wrote November celebrated Garnett's first
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving home in our first without Daddy Blake, and then
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  Speaker 1: this solemn post December, Christmas, Gee's first spent at home.
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  Speaker 1: Our home was quite still and simple. Christmas wasn't Christmas
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  Speaker 1: without Daddy Blake. As the community of Chestnut Ridge rallies around,
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  Speaker 1: Lacey knew question surface about their new neighbor and her ailing.
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  Speaker 4: Son, and there was certain suspicions that something was going on,
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  Speaker 4: but nobody could really put their finger on what she
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  Speaker 4: was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Up next, Garnett's appetite appears to be growing stronger.
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  Speaker 5: Everything What did that say to you? Does she's a liar?
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  Speaker 1: And this shocker about his dad's death, Daddy Blake Daddy Blake,
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  Speaker 1: five year old Garnett had been battling unexplained health problems
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  Speaker 1: all his life. A finder, his mom, Lacey Spears wrote
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  Speaker 1: about on her blog, But the little boy lay dying
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital. Police would suddenly realize something odd about
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  Speaker 1: his illnesses, and what they found inside his mom's home
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  Speaker 1: would shock everyone. Young mother Lacey Spears has been searching
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  Speaker 1: for answers for a chronically sick five year old son, Garnett,
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  Speaker 1: now living in the tight knit area of Chestnut Ridge,
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 3: People in the community become suspicious.
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  Speaker 4: She told everyone about Garnett, the terrible illnesses he'd had
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  Speaker 4: over his life, how he was a failus thrived child
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  Speaker 4: who had all these various diseases and couldn't meet They
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  Speaker 4: take him out to a diner and they'd see him meet,
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  Speaker 4: you know, double portions or whatever, and things started not
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  Speaker 4: to add up.
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  Speaker 1: But Lacey is adamant that something is very wrong with
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  Speaker 1: her son's health, and on one afternoon, following symptoms of
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  Speaker 1: a high fever, severe headache, and convulsions, Lacey rushes Garnett
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: It's Friday. When they check in, the.
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  Speaker 10: Mother complained that he was having seizure. They hooked them
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  Speaker 10: up to an EG the first day, there is no seizure.
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  Speaker 1: And no seizure activity on Saturday or Sunday. According to
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  Speaker 1: the medical staff, five year old Garnett is the picture
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  Speaker 1: of health.
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  Speaker 10: Sunday morning comes, the nurse comes in with some great
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  Speaker 10: news for Lacey that Garnett had no seizure activity. He
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  Speaker 10: most likely would be going home.
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  Speaker 1: Then, just moments after the nurses and doctors leave Garnett's
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  Speaker 1: hospital room.
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  Speaker 2: A young boy who's bouncing in the bed for one
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  Speaker 2: moment and within ten minutes deathly ill.
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  Speaker 1: Lacey gives a play by play on her Facebook page with.
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  Speaker 3: This post please please send g some love.
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  Speaker 1: Went from fine to really sick in minutes, then a
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  Speaker 1: tragic turn for the worse that no one's all coming.
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  Speaker 9: Essentially, the child was brain dead.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Lacey takes to Facebook. My sweet baby Garnett has
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  Speaker 1: been declared brain dead. It can't even be possible. That's
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  Speaker 1: my baby boy. I'm not ready to let him go.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors treating Garnett can't find a medical explanation for his
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  Speaker 1: current grave condition. Alarmed by the suspicious circumstances, they call
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  Speaker 1: the police.
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  Speaker 9: The only information that I received from my supervisor was
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  Speaker 9: that there was a child that was apparently on life
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  Speaker 9: support and there were some unusual circumstances surrounding the case.
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  Speaker 1: Blood test show Garnett has a lethal amount of sodium
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  Speaker 1: in a system.
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  Speaker 3: But how in the world did it get there? Not naturally,
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  Speaker 3: According to.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors, something was poisoning this kid and somebody was putting
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  Speaker 1: it in.
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  Speaker 4: A system that's correct.
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  Speaker 6: Who did you think that someone was?
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  Speaker 9: Well? I mean, obviously the caregiver is the mother.
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  Speaker 3: Right away, Lacy is interviewed by police.
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  Speaker 9: No immediate flags. I wanted to hear her story. Her
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  Speaker 9: story made sense, It made a lot of sense. She
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  Speaker 9: spoke pretty well, She had a pretty good working knowledge
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  Speaker 9: of hospital terms and illnesses. At that exact moment, I
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  Speaker 9: had no reason not to believe what she was telling me.
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  Speaker 1: According to investigators. They had to wonder if this was
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  Speaker 1: simply a tragic story of a young mother who has
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  Speaker 1: just lost her sick child. Detectives had to consider that
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  Speaker 1: maybe the doctors got it wrong. During that same interview
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  Speaker 1: with Detective Carfee, Lacy mentions the recent passing of Garnett's father, Blake.
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  Speaker 1: Around this same time, Lacey's own father arrives at the hospital.
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  Speaker 9: I introduced myself, shook his hand, told him who I was,
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  Speaker 9: and I told him that I was very sorry about
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  Speaker 9: the passing of Blake, Garnett's father. And he said to me,
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  Speaker 9: who's Blake?
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  Speaker 3: Daddy Blake?
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  Speaker 6: Daddy Blake, who was not the father, who was not
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  Speaker 6: the father who did not die in a tragedy accident.
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  Speaker 3: No ends up.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Robinson is alive and well and working as a
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  Speaker 1: Morgan County Sheriff's deputy in Alabama.
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  Speaker 6: Did he have any idea that Lacey was using pictures
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  Speaker 6: of him or someone she claimed to be him, calling
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  Speaker 6: him Daddy Blake, and she manufactured this entire story.
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  Speaker 9: No, not until I called him.
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  Speaker 3: Blake tells police.
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  Speaker 1: He went out on a couple of dates with Lazy,
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  Speaker 1: nothing serious or sexual.
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  Speaker 4: For me.
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  Speaker 9: That was the most the biggest bread flag if you will,
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  Speaker 9: about Lacey's truthfulness.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators wonder if she lied about Garnet's father, what else
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  Speaker 1: might she be lying about. Police obtain a search warrant
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  Speaker 1: for Lacey's apartment. When you executed the search for attor apartment,
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  Speaker 1: what did you find?
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  Speaker 10: When we walked in there was a open setting kind
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  Speaker 10: of apartment. In the middle of it was a feeding
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  Speaker 10: machine pump with what appeared to me to be breast
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  Speaker 10: milk and a feeding bag.
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  Speaker 3: And right next to the feeding bag.
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  Speaker 10: And there was a small table off to the side.
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  Speaker 10: It had all the medications that she had told us.
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  Speaker 10: It was like seven eight medications that she told Detective
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  Speaker 10: Carfee that she was currently giving her son lined up
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  Speaker 10: on the table and in the middle of those was a.
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  Speaker 5: Sea salt container.
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  Speaker 3: Sea salt, Sea salt.
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  Speaker 1: Please photograph the apartment. Then they receive a game changing
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  Speaker 1: phone call. It's shocking information coming from Lacy's neighbor, Valerie Planchet.
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  Speaker 10: Lacy had placed the phone call to her, and the
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  Speaker 10: phone call was, can you go to my apartment, take
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  Speaker 10: the feeding bag that's on the feeding machine, get rid
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  Speaker 10: of it, and don't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives recover the feeding bag in a second bag from
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  Speaker 1: the trash, but.
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  Speaker 2: They were submitted to the Westchester County Lab for analysis
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  Speaker 2: in an astronomical high level of sodium was found in
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  Speaker 2: those backs.
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  Speaker 3: Sodium correct, and he suffered sodium poisoning.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Please collect one hundred and seventy items from Lacy's apartment
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  Speaker 1: and question her again.
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  Speaker 3: What was her demeanor?
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  Speaker 10: She would come into the room crying, hysterical, put her
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  Speaker 10: head down, and when we talked to her, she would
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  Speaker 10: just look up. There'd be no tears.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators start digging. They discover apparent paper trail from hell,
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  Speaker 1: dozens of records from child protective services and doctor's offices
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  Speaker 1: from Alabama and Florida. Detectives begin to see a pattern
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  Speaker 1: of what they believed to be child abuse in one
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  Speaker 1: of the rarest forms.
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  Speaker 6: Had you heard of munchausens by proxy before this investigation?
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  Speaker 9: Truthfully no, I've heard of caregivers harming children, but the
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  Speaker 9: actual term no.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators start to build their case, believing Lacey was poisoning
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  Speaker 1: her son and then posting it all over social media
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  Speaker 1: to grab attention and sympathy, though she and her lawyers
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  Speaker 1: deny Spears sufferers from any mental health disorder. Lacey seems
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  Speaker 1: to be the poster child for Munchausen by proxy.
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  Speaker 3: But how did she get away with this for so long?
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  Speaker 10: If someone were to catch on to her, or they
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  Speaker 10: would try to investigate her, she'd move along. She knew
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  Speaker 10: how to play the system. When Child Protect their service
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  Speaker 10: in Alabama and Florida both.
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  Speaker 5: Were investigating her, she would move along.
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  Speaker 10: She knew when it was getting too hot for her
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  Speaker 10: to be there, it was time to move.
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  Speaker 3: But the bunk stops in New York. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators just need solid proof, more than just tainted feeding
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  Speaker 1: bags and a canister of salt. If only comps could
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  Speaker 1: catch Lacey red handed, perhaps they already have.
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  Speaker 5: She goes, well, where's the video to that? I didn't
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  Speaker 5: know there was a video?
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  Speaker 3: Who knew?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know the machine was hooked up?
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  Speaker 1: The video up next in unbelievable fine.
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  Speaker 5: It's something that will haunt me.
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  Speaker 1: The last few minutes of little Garnett's life. Frame by frame.
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  Speaker 10: We actually had to watch a video of a five
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  Speaker 10: year old child being murdered.
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  Speaker 1: New York investigators suspect Lisa Spears has just killed her
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  Speaker 1: own five year old son, the boy dying just hours
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  Speaker 1: after doctors in this hospital gave him a clean bill
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  Speaker 1: of health. Cops claimed Spears poisoned her son with lethal
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  Speaker 1: levels of salt, and now they believe they have proof
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  Speaker 1: actual videotape of the heartbreaking murder.
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  Speaker 10: Doing an interview with Garnett's kindergarten teacher, who also happened
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  Speaker 10: to be a nurse. We had talked to her several
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  Speaker 10: times before, and on this one occasion, we were discussing
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  Speaker 10: that things had happened in the hospital and she said
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  Speaker 10: he was on an EEG and we said, yes, he was.
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  Speaker 5: She goes, well, where's the video to that? I didn't
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  Speaker 5: know there was a video?
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  Speaker 4: Who knew?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know the machine was hooked up the video.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, video, frame by frame the final moments of Garnett's life.
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  Speaker 3: We want to warn you some of the images are graphic.
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  Speaker 1: The video begins when Garnett checks in on Friday, and
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  Speaker 1: it records through Sunday, when doctors and nurses tell Lacey
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  Speaker 1: that Garnett is healthy enough to go home. After medical
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: personnel leave the room, Lacy appears to take Garnett to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the bathroom just outside of camera range, but when they
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: come back into frame.
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: When he came back out of that bathroom a few
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: seconds minutes, he turned into the most sick child, burying
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: his head into the bed, the pillow, turning, wretching. He
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: was trying to throw up, but we already know that
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: he couldn't throw up because at nine months old, he
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: had an operation that kept him from throwing up. It's
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: something that will haunt me. It was probably the worst
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: video we actually had to watch, a video of a five.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Year old child being murdered.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Lacey is arrested and charged with murder. You actually were.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: They was the actual who arrested And what did she
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: say to you?
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: She didn't say anything. She was instructed not to say
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: a word by her attorney.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Lacey's defense team argued she didn't poison her son with salt.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: I think that she felt in her heart she was
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: going to get away with this.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Really, yes, what made you think that?
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't know if it was something
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: her attorneys were telling her, but I think that she
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: thought she might be able to get away with this.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: You were in the court room. I was describe Lacey's demeanor.
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: It was different each day. I think she looked a
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: little scared one time, she looked mad at other times,
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: and once or twice he cried a little bit.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But in court, prosecutors slowed down that video to show
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: what appears to be a feeding tube in some substance
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: in Lacy's hands when she returned from the bathroom with
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: her five year old son. Prosecutors claim that just off
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: camera in the bathroom, Lacey gave Garnett a lethal Joseph salt,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: which moments land caused his brain to swell.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: And ultimately killed him. But there's more.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: The videotape evidence also shows Lacey on her phone doing
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Google searches.
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: She had been on the phone laying in the bed,
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: and we observed that some of those searches were salt poisoning,
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: salt poison, salt.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Poisoning on the phone at the time.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: On the phone.
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: We can connect the time of the phone to the
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: video and the search that she.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Was doing unimaginable while her precious little boy lies next
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to her. Authorities say she's researching how to kill him.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: He had a right to grow up and a right to.
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: Grow old, and she stole that from him.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: She committed the ultimate betrayal that a mother can do.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: She was supposed to love him, nurture him, care for him,
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: and protect him, and she did the complete opposite, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: she killed him.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Well, she spears, is found guilty of deprived, indifferent murder
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of a child.
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: Instead of nurturing and protecting a beautiful child, you subjected
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: him to five.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Years of torment and pain. One does not have to
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: be a.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Psychologist to realize you suffer from a mental illness known
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: as Munchausen by proxy.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: What does this video indicate to you?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Well? Watching it in quote it was quote tis too
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: many of the jur.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Is How important was that video in this case?
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: I think between the video and the and the amount
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: of salt found in the feeding bags for the or
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: the icing on the cake, if you will.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: She's sentenced to twenty years to life in prison. Is
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: she a cold blooded killer?
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I believe she is.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: She sat in that hospital room when her child codd
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: and watched him die. She watched his life slip away
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: when there's a chance that if she would have stepped
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: up and told them what she did may have changed
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: the outcome.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Two more notes on this story.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: When Garnett passed away, his real father, Chris Hill, was
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: devastated and posted this message in part on his Facebook page.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I cried for hours when I found this out, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: it will continue to hurt till the day I die.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And lastly, detectives say that during their six month investigation
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: they were deathly afraid that Lacy might be trying to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: get pregnant again, that some of her online channer was
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: about trying to have another child. However, thankfully she was
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: arrested before that could happen. Coming up, a weekend of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: fun on the leg turns tragic. A young man dies
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: while in police customer.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: Because ham her handcuff from behind, so he had no mobility.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: He's like he's in a straight check.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: The officer claims it was an accident. Now a major
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: development could finally bring his family justice.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: That's next.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: What happens when the people you trust the most betray
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that trust in the worst way. It's a scenario the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: family of Brandon Ellingson know all too well. We first
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: brought you Brandon's story here on Crime Watch Daily. A
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: young man who was out having a good time in
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the lake when things would take an unbelievably tragic turn. Well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: now there's been a huge development in the controversial case
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: High school friends back from college.
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: I think it was like the first weekend back he
• 23:41
  Speaker 13: came back from Arizona.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: State reuniting for a carecree weekend of voting and beer.
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: I know I had worked that weekend and he's like, no,
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: I don't.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the fun begins at their friend Brandon Ellingson's home on.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: So I mean to me, he told me, he's like,
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: I plan on going to the and with him, it
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: was like, I'm going on the lake this weekend, let's go.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: But for Brandon, the weekend would take a dark turn,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: for ending in a horrible tragedy and a stunning case
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of possible criminal negligence.
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: Never in our minds were we expecting the situation that
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: had happened.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: So our Andrea Isisam is following new dramatic details as
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Brandon's friends and family are speaking out about the day
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: that would forever be etched in their memory. Brandon was
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a strapping twenty year old All American college student, a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: champion football player, and beloved son.
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: Being his mom continues to be your greatest joy.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Why, oh well, I was just blessed to have them
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: in my life. He was a wonderful kind They touched
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: so many people's lives. Well, he was here and I
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: got to be there for every moment of it. Yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: I don't remember.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: My life without him.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Before it happened.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: So anybody here had come in contact he that was
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: less fortunate than him. He was really kind too, So
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: I think that was probably the biggest thing.
• 25:13
  Speaker 14: You were honored to be his dad, Yes, very much.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: So I was very lucky, but.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Luck was scarce.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: On the day, Brandon and six friends headed to the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: lake and spent the afternoon at Coconuts, a popular lakeside
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: barn Grew.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Tell us what happened that day.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Brandon was gonna be flying out pretty soon to Europe
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: to study abroad for the summer, so this was his
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: only opportunity to go to the lake. He'd been looking
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: forward to it, and he wanted everything to be perfect
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: for his friends. That day, he'd been out at a
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: restaurant that we went to all the time they were
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: in the pool, and they'd been out eating. They had
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: been playing sand volleyball.
• 25:51
  Speaker 14: Had you guys had a few beers?
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Had that happened?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're I mean casually drinking like.
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: We're bleicheringly past out.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Nothing we ate.
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: I mean, our whole plan was to stay there all day.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Hang up.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: It was a great, beautiful day.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: So yet under the clear blue sky, trouble was looming
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: on the Picturesque Lake.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: I'd been down there a week before, and I noticed
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: that the water patrols all over the place. It just
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: looked like they were looking to write up tickets and
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: that type of thing. Because I'd seen this a few
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: boats pull over. So anyway, when he was going down,
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: I let him know that he needed to really watch
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: out for that and be careful.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Sure enough, as the guys leave the bar with plans
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for Brandon to operate the boat, Missouri Highway Patrol Officer
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Anthony Pearcy, Zero's in friends believe Pearcy was just waiting
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to pounce.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Tony Pearcy had spent the afternoon basically staking out this
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: place looking for somebody to pull over, and it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Didn't take long.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Within minutes of leaving Coconuts with Brandon at the helm,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Cooper Piercy bust him on suspicion of boating while intoxicated.
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: He was the first person to see the when he
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: was behind this, and He's like ba. Can you guys
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: like be cooperative, sit down, behave Brandon.
• 27:06
  Speaker 13: Took charge when we got pulled over and told us
• 27:09
  Speaker 13: to just chill out because everything's gonna be fine.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: No, it wasn't.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: The officer quickly ushers Brand into the police boat. The
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: arrest can be seen here in a picture stamp by
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: one of Brandon's buddies. Trooper Pearcy first does a field
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: test that puts Brandon in handcuffs and throws a life
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: vest over his arms cuffed behind his back, But tragically
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that life vest would soon become a cloak of death.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: At this photo image, the last taken of Brandon alive.
• 27:39
  Speaker 14: You guys saw Anthony Pearcy put the life jacket on Brandon.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, describe that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: I mean, right from the get and go, it just
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: didn't look right. It was already strapped up. It's one
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: of those life jackets where you got to put your
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: arms to Yeah, it was definitely not on properly at all.
• 27:57
  Speaker 13: What's the point of even having a life jacket at
• 27:59
  Speaker 13: that point?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Like, it was so bizarre.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: Those hands were handcuff from behind, so he had no mobility.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: He's like he's in a straight jacket.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Brandon's friends, say Officer Pearcy then quickly speeds off with
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Brandon in custody, leaving the other boys behind.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Lake of the Ozarks is a huge place, and he
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: didn't even ask if anybody really knew how to operate
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: the boat or how to get there. None of those
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: boys are from there, They didn't know the lake.
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: Luckily, one of our friends actually on the boat, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: he's comfortable at turning a boat. Our plan was to
• 28:33
  Speaker 13: follow him today's sud and it hadn't been thirty seconds
• 28:36
  Speaker 13: by the time we got all figured out situated, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: he was gone.
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: We had no idea where he.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Went out on the lake and out of sight.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: A simple misdemeanor arrest was about to go tragically wrong.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: While racing along the lake surface, Brandon is sitting in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the right front seat, his hands cuffed behind his back
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and his feet off the deck. Then, according to Pearcy,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: his patrol boat hit another boat's wait. He impacts so
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: strong Brandon flies overboard and Piercy radio's headquarters, saying, Brandon
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: may have jumped. I can't say one hundred percent for
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: sure if he did it on purpose or if it
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: was the way.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Now in the water.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Brandon's life vest slips off, floating to the surface, but
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: his hands are still cuffed behind his back and he's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: sinking fast.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: He just had no way to protect himself, and out
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: he went. He treaded water for three to four minutes.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Next tragedy on the lake.
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: I don't want this to happen to any other family.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Was it just an innocent accident? Brandon's family says, it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a cover up.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: You don't cover up if there's an accident, you just don't.
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: There were way too many people's hands in this that
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: did wrong.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: One minute, Brandon Ellingson was out with his buddies having
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: fun while boating on the Lake of the Ozarks.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: The next he was handcuffed in custody on.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: A sheriff's boat heading to shore. But what happened next
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: was not only tragic. Many feel it's criminal. Andrea isisim
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: is back with our whole new investigation. Brandon Ellingson and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: six buddies were out for a party filled reunion on
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the Lake of the Ozarks, but shortly after they left
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a local bar and grill, the fun came to a
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: crushing end.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Brandon knew that he had done wrong because he'd had
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: a drink and he was underage. He did not feel
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: like he was inebriated, according to his friends.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: But Brandon is pulled over by trooper Anthony Pearcy for
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: voting while intoxicated.
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: Never in our minds were we expecting the situation that
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: had happened.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So Brandon's friends and family tell our Andrea Isisam that
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it all began when Brandon is handcuffed with his hands
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: behind his back. Then the trooper slips a life vest
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: over him without looping.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: His arms through.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: A Short time later, his parents get the call no
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: one ever wants to hear.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: How did you find out?
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: What happened?
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: Has been called me. It's out to dinner, and he
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: was in shock because he just said to me, Sherry,
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Brandon's dead.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: They soon learned the trooper was heading back to shore
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: when the boat hit awake, flowing Brandon overboard. The life
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: vest is over his cuffed arms, but it's of no use.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: It slips right off. He sings toward the bottom of
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: the lake.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Brandon kicks and fights to keep his head above water,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but loses his battle and drowns.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: I can't go to sleep at night, thinking that he
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: thought he was going to die and during mid day.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Since that terrible day, Brandon's family believes there has been
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a cover up to protect Trooper Piercing. Now many discrepancies
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: have surfaced with allegations of a conspiracy within the Missouri
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: State Highway and Water Patrol.
• 31:49
  Speaker 15: I've never seen anything like this. It's unbelievable that they
• 31:53
  Speaker 15: would act this way. Most of the command's death, if
• 31:58
  Speaker 15: not all of them, have kids.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Sergt.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Randy Henry used to work this same beat, and in
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: fact was Trooper Pearcy's supervisor at one time. He bravely
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: came forward, risking his job to expose what he calls
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: a cover up in Brandon's death.
• 32:11
  Speaker 15: We killed Brandon Allison.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: The alleged lies covering up the travesty of Brandon's death
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: start with this radio call from Pearcy to another officer
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: saying that he was driving the patrol Vote at a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: safe speed.
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: I learned him go after brill Shops, but the Patrol
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: Vote GPS tells a different story.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Data reveals he hit speeds of up to forty six
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: miles an hour while Brandon was in custody and the.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Reason Piercey was speeding.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Henry says he thinks it's because the more tickets.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: The trooper writes, the better it looks on his record.
• 32:49
  Speaker 15: I think this is all about Tony Parricy trying to
• 32:53
  Speaker 15: make a name for himself so he can get promoted.
• 32:55
  Speaker 15: He told me he wanted to be in a position
• 32:57
  Speaker 15: and take my place when I retired, to be a sergeant.
• 33:00
  Speaker 15: Can you know, make himself a sergeant for he retires
• 33:02
  Speaker 15: for his retirement pay.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: As the boat sped along Purece, he admits they hit
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a wing, Brandon goes overboard, but when the trooper radios in,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: he says Brandon may have jumped.
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: I can't say a hundred percent for sure if he
• 33:15
  Speaker 12: did it on purpose or if there was the way.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: But Sergeant Henry says physical evidence on Brandon's body shows
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: he hit hard surfaces inside the boat, suggesting he was
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: thrown forward and ejected over the right side.
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: Of the boat.
• 33:28
  Speaker 15: Brandon he had bruising on his neck area that they tried,
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: saying in the corner's inquest that was caused by the
• 33:36
  Speaker 15: needle marks. They tried getting blood. The only problem with
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: that is dead people don't bruise.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: And when Brandon hit the water, his life vest slipped
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: off with hands cuffed behind him.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: He didn't stand a chance.
• 33:47
  Speaker 15: You're completely submissive to me.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I'm crapped in here.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: There's no way in the.
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: World that can get out.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: As soon as you hit the water.
• 33:55
  Speaker 15: Lat checker comes out.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Girls at a bachelor red party on a nearby barge
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: witnessed the whole event, reportedly pleading with Piercy to jump
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: in and save Brandon. Sergeant Henry says, those girls on
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the party boat said the trooper waited more than four
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: minutes before jumping in to help.
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: They were stun and they watched Brandon Allens and drown.
• 34:16
  Speaker 15: They witness Brandon Allens would take his last breath of air.
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: You know, his last words were, oh my God, that
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: was his last words. And the girls in the party
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: barge boat said.
• 34:25
  Speaker 14: That, knowing that that he didn't try to save your
• 34:28
  Speaker 14: son's life.
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: He didn't try to save my son's life.
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: Who does that?
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: Who does that?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: But what exactly Pearcy was thinking or doing when Brandon
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: was literally dying before his eyes is shrouded in mystery
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: because the camera cards installed to capture activity on the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: boat are gone.
• 34:50
  Speaker 14: Those st cards that should have been in the cameras
• 34:52
  Speaker 14: to show the truth without a shadow.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: Of a doubt.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, where do you think they are?
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: At the bottom of the lake.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And tragically, the bottom of the lake is where Brandon
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: was abandoned. Our Columbia Missouri affiliate Kmizie uncovered this sonar
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: photo where you can actually see his lifeless body Eatie
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: feet down. Moments later, you can hear Peercey complain the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: incident left him worn out or he stared water with
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the best for Roachoster spid.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Friend of Maraba.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Even more shocking, troopers reportedly told Brandon's friends he would
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: be held overnight in jail and they could get him
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Brandon had already been dead four hours,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and Missouri Highway and Water Patrol decided not to retrieve
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: his body until the next day. Then, in audio recording
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: reveals they callously joke about it over the radio.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: Dad is, Devin, we're not gonna die and design.
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: Yeah, And I wanted to just tell him talking to
• 35:50
  Speaker 15: any more dead in.
• 35:50
  Speaker 12: The morning and he is right down.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Randy Henry says he was disgusted by what he heard.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: As Piercy's immediate supervisor, he interviews the cop after Brandon's death,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: thrilling him about why he didn't use the proper type
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: of life jacket that would have held Brandon afloat.
• 36:07
  Speaker 15: Towards where he had a brain heart. He described a
• 36:11
  Speaker 15: first like it the life jacket he could get because
• 36:14
  Speaker 15: he wanted to get out of there.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: When Sergeant Henry takes his concerns to his supervisors, he
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: says they tried to muzzle him and didn't even.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Write a report.
• 36:23
  Speaker 15: So I upset a lot of people Highway troll a lot.
• 36:26
  Speaker 15: I mean, my name is a publicaman number one to
• 36:29
  Speaker 15: highway Patrol. That's fine, you know, if I really don't care.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: The case eventually goes to court, but amazingly, Pearcy is
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: given a slap on the rest, just a five days suspension.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Henry was transferred ninety miles away and says he
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: was forced into early retirement. He claims punishment for being
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a whistleblower and calling attention to problems with the merger
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: of Missouri's highway and Water Patrol, a cost cutting measure
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: that allegedly put inexperienced troopers like Piercy the water.
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: So if you can drive a car, you can drive
• 37:02
  Speaker 15: a boat. And they didn't take it seriously, but.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Someone did take it seriously.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: A special prosecutor has now charged Pearcy with involuntary manslaughter
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: in the first degree, accusing the trooper of recklessly causing
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the death and taking an unjustifiable risk, a class C
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: felony that could mean seven years in prison for Piercy.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: He's pleaded not guilty.
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: What would be justice for Brandon?
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, I'm not going to get Brandon back
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: in my lifetime, but I think you know, Piercon needs
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: to go to jail for what he did, and the
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: people that were covering this up he need to be
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: reprimanded or lose their jobs, and the system needs to change.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Piercy's trial has yet to get underway as the Ellingston
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: family suffers searing pain over their senseless laws. Brandon would
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: have celebrated his twenty third birthday yesterday.
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: Brandon wanted to get married, have children. He wanted four kids,
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: So that'll be tough, you know. So you know, his
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: sister's gonna probably get married someday and.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: He won't be there for that. So but stuff like that.
• 38:24
  Speaker 14: Does it hurt even more knowing that the kind of
• 38:26
  Speaker 14: young man you raised would never do to somebody what
• 38:30
  Speaker 14: somebody did to him, my.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: Son would have gave him up his life to rescue him.
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: Anyone a stranger.
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: And to your baby Brandon, you say, what's you