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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel
- 0:09Speaker 1: one thirty two. Tampa police on the hunt for a
- 0:12Speaker 1: killer after the shooting gats of three people in ten days.
- 0:15Speaker 1: We will hunt this son of a down until we
- 0:18Speaker 1: find the three victims gunned down less than half a
- 0:21Speaker 1: mile apart. Tampa's mayor doing what he can to reassure
- 0:25Speaker 1: the public so that they've added a thousand street lights
- 0:27Speaker 1: to the Seminal Heights neighborhood and that they won't stop
- 0:29Speaker 1: until that killer is caught. Nobody comes into our house
- 0:31Speaker 1: and does this not now, not ever. Authorities pouring over,
- 0:35Speaker 1: bringing surveillance video for clues, looking at this person of
- 0:37Speaker 1: interest walking alone, wearing a hood on the night of
- 0:40Speaker 1: the first killing. I need that Seminar Heights community to
- 0:43Speaker 1: stand up and I need them to point out who
- 0:45Speaker 1: that man is. You guys, go hunt him down and
- 0:49Speaker 1: bring his head to me. One hundred thousand dollars offered
- 0:52Speaker 1: as reward for information on the Tampa serial killer. The
- 0:58Speaker 1: Tampa community lulled into us sense of safety and complacency.
- 1:02Speaker 1: When the serial killer strikes again, I, Nancy Grace, this
- 1:06Speaker 1: is Crime Stories, and we want to put a stop
- 1:09Speaker 1: to the Tampa serial killer. He has now claimed the
- 1:13Speaker 1: lives of four innocent people. Why joining me from w
- 1:19Speaker 1: f l A. Meredith SINCEULO on the scene. Dr Daniel
- 1:23Speaker 1: Bober forensics psychiatrists joining us and also death investigator, forensics
- 1:28Speaker 1: expert Professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University, Joseph Scott
- 1:33Speaker 1: Morgan first straight out to Meredith. SINCEULO with w f
- 1:38Speaker 1: l A on the scene, Meredith, what's the latest. Well,
- 1:41Speaker 1: Papa Police have now officially declared the person seen in
- 1:45Speaker 1: that first surveillance video. They now say that he is
- 1:49Speaker 1: a suspect, and they also believe that he is the
- 1:53Speaker 1: person involved in the fourth murder that occurred this week.
- 1:57Speaker 1: That's the murder of ron W. Felton. The right now,
- 2:00Speaker 1: Tampa police believe the person on the videotape is a
- 2:03Speaker 1: suspect in the murder of Benjamin Mitchell and very likely
- 2:07Speaker 1: a suspect, the very least a person of interest in
- 2:10Speaker 1: the murder of Ronald Sultan this week. They are not
- 2:14Speaker 1: saying that that person is a suspect in murders two
- 2:18Speaker 1: and three because they don't have actual suspect description in
- 2:24Speaker 1: those cases. But again, they are treating all four of
- 2:27Speaker 1: those cases as related. Meredith since Ulo with w f
- 2:32Speaker 1: l A joining us on the scene. Meredith, let's talk
- 2:34Speaker 1: about this new video that has been released. What do
- 2:37Speaker 1: you see and what can we learn? The new video
- 2:40Speaker 1: is more surveillance camera videos similar to what we saw
- 2:43Speaker 1: after the first murder. So these are new images captured
- 2:47Speaker 1: on surveillance video of a person walking down the street
- 2:51Speaker 1: in the moments before Ronald Felton was killed. So that's
- 2:55Speaker 1: what was released by the Tampa Police most recently. And
- 3:00Speaker 1: because of that, they believe that that person is the
- 3:04Speaker 1: person of interest in the fourth murder, and they're also
- 3:07Speaker 1: tying that person back to the first murder. The one
- 3:11Speaker 1: thing that they really want people to pay attention to
- 3:14Speaker 1: the interesting gait that this person has. They believe that
- 3:19Speaker 1: the way that this man walks, they describe it as
- 3:22Speaker 1: a very specific walk a stance, I guess you could say,
- 3:27Speaker 1: and they think that that is a distinguishing feature of
- 3:30Speaker 1: the person that may stick out to someone. Also, you'll
- 3:34Speaker 1: remember from the first surveillance video they pointed out an
- 3:38Speaker 1: interesting man rhythm that the man had where he was
- 3:42Speaker 1: fiddling and flipping his phone around. Those are just those
- 3:45Speaker 1: personality traits that they feel like somebody would notice those things.
- 3:51Speaker 1: They would notice the way that he handles the phone,
- 3:53Speaker 1: they would notice the way that he carries himself, the
- 3:56Speaker 1: way that he walked, And they are hoping that those
- 3:59Speaker 1: two things helped identify the person because, as you know,
- 4:02Speaker 1: the suspect description is incredibly vague. It's a tall, thin,
- 4:08Speaker 1: light skinned black man last seen wearing all black clothing
- 4:12Speaker 1: and a black baseball cap. That could describe a lot
- 4:15Speaker 1: of people. So they are hoping that the additional description
- 4:19Speaker 1: of those mannerisms will help trigger someone's knowledge about this person.
- 4:24Speaker 1: They're also pointing out that they want people to keep
- 4:28Speaker 1: in mind the times of day that these murders were committed.
- 4:31Speaker 1: The most recent one happened at four fifty one in
- 4:34Speaker 1: the morning, and so they say, you know, is there
- 4:36Speaker 1: somebody that was supposed to be home between four thirty
- 4:39Speaker 1: and five am and they weren't. Little things like that,
- 4:42Speaker 1: The mannerisms, the time of day could provide very important
- 4:46Speaker 1: clues to solving this spring of murders. With me there
- 4:51Speaker 1: in Florida is Meredith Cinculo, w f l A to
- 4:55Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan, death investigator, that sounds like, let me
- 4:59Speaker 1: just blunt bs. Okay, my B Sameter is really off
- 5:04Speaker 1: the chart right now. So if you think all four
- 5:06Speaker 1: murders random murders, this guy's picking people off like a
- 5:10Speaker 1: sniper in Tampa, are related, and they're saying he's a
- 5:14Speaker 1: suspect in one of the cases but not two and three,
- 5:18Speaker 1: that just doesn't make sense. If they're saying that all
- 5:20Speaker 1: four are connected, why are they saying that Joe Scott
- 5:23Speaker 1: maybe on those other two cases, they don't have definitive
- 5:26Speaker 1: connection to them as far as something like ballistics, which
- 5:29Speaker 1: to this point, to my knowledge, at least, they haven't
- 5:31Speaker 1: given us definitive proof. Uh. That's the only thing I
- 5:34Speaker 1: can think unless they're unless they're kind of vesting their
- 5:37Speaker 1: cards at this point in time and not wanting to
- 5:39Speaker 1: release any more information relative to this. I do know this.
- 5:43Speaker 1: The surveillance video that I've seen, UM, which is from
- 5:47Speaker 1: multiple points of view at different times, UH, certainly appears
- 5:51Speaker 1: that this, uh, this person who they believe is connected,
- 5:55Speaker 1: has the same gait and is proudly through this particular
- 5:58Speaker 1: same area in the m O Phil It's uh, in
- 6:01Speaker 1: all of these cases, UH, he's selecting these people apparently
- 6:05Speaker 1: connected to the bus line. Uh, he's approaching them with
- 6:09Speaker 1: stealth and UH and gunning them down and then X
- 6:13Speaker 1: filling from the area as quickly as he possibly can.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Nancy just got more death investigator. I hear what you're saying,
- 6:19Speaker 1: but they said the same thing. And the Missy Beaver's case,
- 6:22Speaker 1: they're in Middle Lothian, Texas. Oh, we got the person there,
- 6:26Speaker 1: this tall, there this, they weighed this much, and they've
- 6:28Speaker 1: got a peculiar gate that in four dollars will buy
- 6:32Speaker 1: me a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Okay, so the gate,
- 6:36Speaker 1: sch mate. I'm happy they noticed that. I noticed it too,
- 6:39Speaker 1: but that I don't know that's gonna help me. Joseph's
- 6:42Speaker 1: got Morgan. I don't know that it's necessarily going to
- 6:44Speaker 1: help in a specific identification, but it has it has
- 6:48Speaker 1: the ability to narrow things down, uh to the point
- 6:51Speaker 1: where we can exclude all others. And this is a
- 6:53Speaker 1: process that the investigators have to go through methodically, So
- 6:57Speaker 1: they're gonna be turning over every piece of evidence. In
- 6:59Speaker 1: one I say turning over, what I mean is look
- 7:02Speaker 1: under every possible rock that they can't uh. And this
- 7:05Speaker 1: is merely a starting place. Uh. In this case, Nancy
- 7:08Speaker 1: and there are multiple points of of of start here,
- 7:11Speaker 1: if you will, where everything from ballistic evidence to the
- 7:14Speaker 1: gate time of day. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
- 7:18Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I'm just remembering something. Joe Scott Morrigan,
- 7:20Speaker 1: I prosecuted a guy believed to be a serial killer
- 7:24Speaker 1: and the murder of Jane Doe was very hard prosecuting him. Um,
- 7:29Speaker 1: he turned out to be a chef and he had
- 7:31Speaker 1: a limp. And I later modeled a character in my
- 7:36Speaker 1: book Eleventh the Victim, after him, not totally him. I
- 7:40Speaker 1: changed him a lot, but it's a chef with a limp, okay,
- 7:45Speaker 1: and that limp was important. Now what you're saying, I said, Gates, mate,
- 7:49Speaker 1: I retract that. I asked that it be struck from
- 7:52Speaker 1: the record because you can at trial. Let me go
- 7:56Speaker 1: to Dr Daniel Bober, forensics psychiatrist at trial can absolutely
- 8:02Speaker 1: make somebody walk in front of a jury. And I'll
- 8:04Speaker 1: tell you how I know that, Dr Bober. One of
- 8:06Speaker 1: my very first jury trials, not the very first, which
- 8:09Speaker 1: was a shoplifting which I desperately eked, had an attempted
- 8:12Speaker 1: shoplifting conviction. Um, was a bank robbery and I was
- 8:17Speaker 1: so happy Dr Bober because um, I thought, Wow, the
- 8:21Speaker 1: fads usually take bank robberies, you know, because of the
- 8:23Speaker 1: f D. I c well, I know why they didn't
- 8:26Speaker 1: want it. It was very difficult to prove well. In
- 8:29Speaker 1: the end, they didn't even have surveillance video. They were
- 8:31Speaker 1: still Dr Bober and the guy was wearing a fake mustache,
- 8:35Speaker 1: fake beard, fake wig, fake outfit which he ripped off
- 8:38Speaker 1: in the alley. Hat, everything, sunglasses. You could see nothing,
- 8:44Speaker 1: and um, this is what I had. He walked like
- 8:47Speaker 1: a duck. He was slew footed is one foot was
- 8:51Speaker 1: nine thirty and the other foot was three o'clock. With
- 8:53Speaker 1: every step. Let me tell you something, Dr Bober, when
- 8:57Speaker 1: he got up in front of that jury to walk
- 8:59Speaker 1: out of the courtroom, every or twenty four eyeballs hanging
- 9:02Speaker 1: over the jury rail watching him walk, and sure enough,
- 9:04Speaker 1: quack quack, he walked like a duck. So I don't
- 9:09Speaker 1: know how I managed to forget that, Dr Bober. But
- 9:12Speaker 1: gate can matter, and it can be demonstrated in front
- 9:16Speaker 1: of a jury. All right. The constitution protects you from
- 9:19Speaker 1: having to speak, but the law can force you to
- 9:23Speaker 1: give a blood sample, a DNA sample, a bugle swab,
- 9:26Speaker 1: a voice test, a line up, a handwriting analysis and
- 9:31Speaker 1: a gate analysis. So Dr Daniel Bober, aside from my
- 9:36Speaker 1: bank robber whops was convicted um walking like a duck?
- 9:40Speaker 1: What is going through this guy's mind right now? On
- 9:43Speaker 1: Dr Bober? He's out smarting me, all of us on
- 9:47Speaker 1: the panel today here on serious sex and one two,
- 9:50Speaker 1: he's out smarting the cops everybody. What's going through his head? Bober? Nancy,
- 9:54Speaker 1: No one would consider you a quack for considering a
- 9:57Speaker 1: gait as an identify. But it's probably not a science
- 10:02Speaker 1: any more valid than say handwriting analysis, which is probably
- 10:05Speaker 1: weaker of the forensic sciences. But I think in this
- 10:07Speaker 1: particular case, the police either don't have much more than that,
- 10:11Speaker 1: or they're just keeping their cards very close to their
- 10:13Speaker 1: vest because besides the bus line, uh, there doesn't seem
- 10:17Speaker 1: to be much to connect these victims together, and it
- 10:20Speaker 1: doesn't seem like they have much where they're just trying
- 10:22Speaker 1: to protect the integrity of the investigation. Okay, number one,
- 10:24Speaker 1: that's not what I asked you, But I'm used to
- 10:26Speaker 1: men trying to dodge questions, so I'm gonna ask you again.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I do think they've got more they think the person
- 10:31Speaker 1: lives or freak lives in our frequency area. I think
- 10:34Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, we're gonna have ballistic matches.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Although I'm curious that they don't have a match on
- 10:40Speaker 1: victims two and three. So if they're saying, yeah, this
- 10:45Speaker 1: is a suspect and four and it's the same suspect,
- 10:47Speaker 1: what is he using different? AMMO is that it does
- 10:50Speaker 1: that mean he's got access to more than one gun?
- 10:53Speaker 1: But Dr Bober, my question, do you you're the shrink? Okay,
- 10:57Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan is a death investigator. Okay, Merita Cecilo
- 11:00Speaker 1: as a reporter, I'm a trial lawyer. You're the psychiatrist.
- 11:05Speaker 1: And let me remind everybody, a psychiatrist is somebody that
- 11:08Speaker 1: went and got their medical degree. I mean, he could
- 11:10Speaker 1: perform surgery on me right now. Uh, but then they
- 11:14Speaker 1: go on and get an additional specialty in psychiatry. So
- 11:17Speaker 1: what I'm asking you, again, Dr Bober, your honor, please
- 11:23Speaker 1: direct the witness to be responsive to the question. It's
- 11:27Speaker 1: what's going through this guy's mind. It's hard to know
- 11:29Speaker 1: why he's choosing these victims. Obviously, in a lot of
- 11:32Speaker 1: these cases, the assailant gets some kind of sense of
- 11:36Speaker 1: power and control. Maybe he feels marginalized, maybe he has
- 11:40Speaker 1: been wrong in some way and he's striking out at society.
- 11:42Speaker 1: But it's very hard to know that. You can only
- 11:44Speaker 1: look at common, more generic patterns, and it's difficult to tell. Hey,
- 11:47Speaker 1: Dr Bibera, are you telling me he hasn't claimed four
- 11:51Speaker 1: lives and he's not sitting back getting a kick out
- 11:54Speaker 1: of fact. We're trying to figure out who he is
- 11:56Speaker 1: and planning his next victim and knowing inside I'll ufed up.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I've got control over all these people. I can kill
- 12:03Speaker 1: whenever I want to, when they're not gonna catch me.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Look at me out smarting all of them are do
- 12:08Speaker 1: I have to Q and A with myself, Dr bober Nancy,
- 12:11Speaker 1: I actually agree with you. I think that he does
- 12:14Speaker 1: receive a lot of sick power and gratification from it,
- 12:17Speaker 1: and he probably is watching the news media and maybe
- 12:19Speaker 1: even listening to your show, uh, looking for some kind
- 12:23Speaker 1: of um, you know, pleasure from it. Okay, if you
- 12:26Speaker 1: are listening, you're gonna get caught, and when you do,
- 12:30Speaker 1: you're gonna get the death penalty. And in Florida, they
- 12:33Speaker 1: don't play, they don't play. I want to go back
- 12:37Speaker 1: to our reporter joining us on the same meridis Inceulo
- 12:40Speaker 1: with w f L A Meredith. Police in Tampa are
- 12:44Speaker 1: begging for more help from the public. Uh. And and
- 12:48Speaker 1: they're asking for simple things like turning on your lights
- 12:50Speaker 1: from six pm to six am. Why why do they
- 12:53Speaker 1: want that? Meredithin Culo. Yeah, that's right. That that's something
- 12:56Speaker 1: that they've been telling the community since day one. They're
- 13:00Speaker 1: re reiterating that now that now since we have this
- 13:02Speaker 1: as fourth murder. And one thing that I think could
- 13:07Speaker 1: be interesting, as they are relying heavily on surveillance video.
- 13:11Speaker 1: A lot of people in this neighborhood have home survivalance cameras,
- 13:16Speaker 1: and I wonder if having the lights on outside that's
- 13:20Speaker 1: going to help with the quality of capturing these images
- 13:23Speaker 1: could be very useful. Also, perhaps this person, you know,
- 13:28Speaker 1: we know that he likes to commit these crimes at night.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Having as much light as possible could be a great deterrent,
- 13:36Speaker 1: uh to to stop these Although I will point out
- 13:40Speaker 1: that the fourth murder occurred in the middle of a street.
- 13:44Speaker 1: It's a well lit street, it's a major thoroughfare. It
- 13:48Speaker 1: parallels one of our major interstates that cuts right through Tampa.
- 13:52Speaker 1: So that fourth murder was in a location that was
- 13:55Speaker 1: well lit. However, to get to that location, this person
- 13:59Speaker 1: had walk down very dark streets, So lighting up the
- 14:03Speaker 1: streets could play a major role in either deterring this
- 14:07Speaker 1: person or if he does strike again, maybe we get
- 14:11Speaker 1: better quality images. Both of the surveillance videos that we have,
- 14:15Speaker 1: unfortunately are very low quality. Some of them were shot
- 14:19Speaker 1: from quite a distance away, and as you know, if
- 14:22Speaker 1: you are trying to zoom in to get a better
- 14:26Speaker 1: image from those cameras, you're still going to have a
- 14:29Speaker 1: very poor quality. So any images that we can gather
- 14:33Speaker 1: that are going to continue to hone in on that
- 14:36Speaker 1: description are going to be helpful with me on the scene, Meredith,
- 14:39Speaker 1: Sincelo from w f l A said, Meredith, let me
- 14:42Speaker 1: ask you another question. What other strategies are being taken
- 14:45Speaker 1: by police and trying to catch this guy on surveillance
- 14:47Speaker 1: which you and I talked about, uh, immediately following the
- 14:50Speaker 1: fourth shooting, in the hours in fact, you were still
- 14:53Speaker 1: on the same Meredith, because I am saying everyone should
- 14:56Speaker 1: get the surveillance video home business, you name it, to
- 14:59Speaker 1: see catch where this guy is running to to try
- 15:03Speaker 1: to get a directional on where he lives. But what
- 15:05Speaker 1: other strategies are police taking meritus? Since you well, they
- 15:08Speaker 1: have increased the reward. It is now over ninety dollars.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Previously it stood around forty dollars. So they've added on
- 15:17Speaker 1: another fifty thousand dollars hoping that that will encourage anyone
- 15:23Speaker 1: with information to come forward that may lead to and
- 15:26Speaker 1: arrest in this case. So they feel that let's try
- 15:31Speaker 1: to INCENTIFYZ incentivize this. They that they by Tampa Police
- 15:36Speaker 1: FBI A t F. They truly believe that this is
- 15:39Speaker 1: someone who lives in this community. Somebody must know something
- 15:44Speaker 1: that their their belief and I believe that too. This
- 15:48Speaker 1: is a small neighborhood within the Tampa Bay area. They
- 15:52Speaker 1: believe that this person is well known. Uh and and
- 15:56Speaker 1: they're hoping, Okay, maybe if we increase this reward, we're
- 15:59Speaker 1: just a nine dollars now, maybe that will make the difference.
- 16:03Speaker 1: We also have companies donating a space on electronic message
- 16:07Speaker 1: boards to keep sharing that information, sharing the tip line
- 16:11Speaker 1: number UM the anonymous tip number that people can reach
- 16:15Speaker 1: out to them. And that's the other thing they're reiterating.
- 16:18Speaker 1: You don't have to tell us who you are. Call
- 16:21Speaker 1: in with your tips. After the fourth murder of Ronald Felton.
- 16:24Speaker 1: That day, four hundred and fifty new tips came in.
- 16:29Speaker 1: So these incentives continuing to share the story, it is
- 16:34Speaker 1: providing leads, but unfortunately it is not solved this case
- 16:37Speaker 1: just yet. Can you imagine the fear of knowing that
- 16:40Speaker 1: when you walk outside in the Tampa area, you're taking
- 16:43Speaker 1: your life in your own hands. I remember distinctly going
- 16:47Speaker 1: to d C on a daily basis. I would get
- 16:50Speaker 1: off for at Court TV and fly to DC every
- 16:53Speaker 1: day to do the Larry King Show. And I did
- 16:56Speaker 1: that for months. Um, do this show, spend the night
- 17:01Speaker 1: in DC, get up at four thirty the next morning,
- 17:04Speaker 1: and take a flight back to New York two do
- 17:07Speaker 1: Court TV. And it was in the middle of the
- 17:11Speaker 1: d C sniper tragedy. And I remember getting off the
- 17:17Speaker 1: plane and going out to Hellicab and just standing there
- 17:22Speaker 1: out in the open, thinking, is it gonna be me? Um?
- 17:26Speaker 1: And that's what it wasn't just me, it was everybody
- 17:28Speaker 1: in DC felt the same way. That's what's happening in
- 17:31Speaker 1: Tampa right now. I want you to take a listen.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Let's go straight to the police presser. Let's go Jackie.
- 17:39Speaker 1: If you recall this was the video. Noticed the the
- 17:42Speaker 1: hoodie or rain jackets, noticed the gate and how they're walking,
- 17:48Speaker 1: the phone flip and how they're nonchalantly just walking. Appears
- 17:53Speaker 1: to be looking at his phone. It appears to be
- 17:56Speaker 1: a light color jacket. I think that's very misleading. You
- 18:00Speaker 1: see it here. It now looks a little bit of
- 18:02Speaker 1: a color structor color jacket. Same individual. We originally called
- 18:09Speaker 1: him someone we wanted to talk to. It went to
- 18:12Speaker 1: a person of interest. Today we're gonna call the same
- 18:15Speaker 1: individual a suspect. And you're gonna see why. In just
- 18:19Speaker 1: a moment yesterday morning, November, moments before the homicide, same gate,
- 18:27Speaker 1: same walk, Maybe not the same jacket, definitely a hoodie.
- 18:31Speaker 1: I repeat, we are now calling this person a suspect,
- 18:35Speaker 1: and we need to know who this person is. We
- 18:39Speaker 1: need someone who is thoughtful, cares and has the heart
- 18:44Speaker 1: and the fortitude and the bravery to step forward and
- 18:47Speaker 1: tell us who this person is and give us the identity.
- 18:51Speaker 1: I don't need speculation, we don't need profiles. We need names.
- 18:57Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. All you have to do is called
- 19:00Speaker 1: crime stoppers tips that police press are out of Tampa, Florida.
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- 21:57Speaker 1: you murder your mom and you climb, you don't deserve
- 22:01Speaker 1: so much jail time. We'll take a listen to what
- 22:05Speaker 1: this daughter, Gypsy Blanchard, age twenty four, reveals in a
- 22:11Speaker 1: prison interview. Should you be in this prison? To be honest,
- 22:16Speaker 1: I have complicated feelings about that. I believe firmly that
- 22:20Speaker 1: no matter what, murder is not okay. But at the
- 22:23Speaker 1: same time, I don't believe I deserve as many years
- 22:27Speaker 1: as I got what Your mother is dead and she
- 22:31Speaker 1: was murdered, and you were involved, I was what would
- 22:36Speaker 1: be a just punishment. I'm not really certain on that.
- 22:38Speaker 1: I do believe that I do deserve to spend some
- 22:41Speaker 1: time in prison for that crime, but also I understand
- 22:46Speaker 1: why it happened, and I don't believe that I'm in
- 22:52Speaker 1: the right place to get the help that I need.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Are you glad your mother's did No, sir, I'm glad
- 22:59Speaker 1: that I'm out of the situation, but I'm not acious
- 23:02Speaker 1: that that's right. You heard it yourself there she is
- 23:05Speaker 1: talking about how she doesn't deserve this. It's a Missouri
- 23:09Speaker 1: woman who kills her mother. But that's not the entire story.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Out to John Limley, Crime Stories and crime Online, investigate
- 23:19Speaker 1: every reporter, John Limley, what's the rest of the story,
- 23:22Speaker 1: How this whole thing go down? Nancy, the sheriff in
- 23:25Speaker 1: Greene County, Wisconsin, where Gypsy Rose Blanchard was found after
- 23:29Speaker 1: her mom's murder, probably some this story up perfectly when
- 23:32Speaker 1: he said things are not always as they appear. Now
- 23:36Speaker 1: here's the picture of what was in most minds who
- 23:38Speaker 1: knew of Gypsy and her mother, Claudine or d D. Blanchard,
- 23:44Speaker 1: a loving, middle aged mom caring for her young daughter,
- 23:47Speaker 1: a little girl that suffered from a number of ailments
- 23:49Speaker 1: including muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, sleep apnea, leukemia, and severe asthma.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Over the years, Gypsy and Deed had become really the
- 23:59Speaker 1: poster child in mother for so many individuals and organizations,
- 24:03Speaker 1: people that helped with fundraisers. The two benefited from the
- 24:06Speaker 1: efforts of Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, and even
- 24:10Speaker 1: the Make a Wish Foundation. Those around them had only
- 24:13Speaker 1: known Gypsy Rose as a sweet, smiling child in a wheelchair,
- 24:18Speaker 1: her mother d D as the most caring and devoted
- 24:21Speaker 1: of mothers. So folks watching in the courtroom or on
- 24:24Speaker 1: TV as Gypsy Rose walked into a courtroom to answer
- 24:29Speaker 1: charges related to her mother's death could not have been
- 24:32Speaker 1: any more shocked. Here Gypsy Rose was not only accused
- 24:35Speaker 1: in taking part in her mother's murder, but she could walk.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Oh and she was not a little girl but a
- 24:42Speaker 1: woman in her early twenties. Okay, you're messing with my mind,
- 24:45Speaker 1: John Lamley, investigative reporter. Okay, wait, she's supposed to be
- 24:49Speaker 1: a little girl sick with leukemia and muscular distrophe and
- 24:53Speaker 1: all sorts of ailments. What do you mean I'm looking
- 24:56Speaker 1: at her. She's actually beautiful with long brunette hay error,
- 25:00Speaker 1: kind of in a shag cut. She's um, she's the
- 25:04Speaker 1: perfect weight, she's got a makeup. What happens? So you
- 25:08Speaker 1: just have to look at pictures posted, say even a
- 25:11Speaker 1: few years before this, where you see a girl with
- 25:15Speaker 1: a completely bald head, uh, sitting in a wheelchair, usually
- 25:19Speaker 1: her mother by her side, at some fundraiser or some sort. Now,
- 25:23Speaker 1: what has emerged is a long story of abuse at
- 25:27Speaker 1: the hand of that mother who had who is people
- 25:31Speaker 1: have surmise had Munchausen by proxy syndrome in which a
- 25:35Speaker 1: parent or caregiver. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you're
- 25:38Speaker 1: so messing with my hand, because I'm looking in the
- 25:40Speaker 1: picture of Gypsy. This is the little girl that I
- 25:43Speaker 1: now know is a twenty four year old woman. And
- 25:45Speaker 1: you're right. She's bald, she looks very ill, she's very pale.
- 25:53Speaker 1: She she looks like she's missing some teeth. Possibly. She's
- 25:57Speaker 1: hugging on her mom and they're holding a little Chihahwa dog.
- 26:00Speaker 1: The mom is smiling, she's smiling him. It looks like
- 26:03Speaker 1: they're putting on a brave front. She looks like she's
- 26:06Speaker 1: about twelve years old in this picture. Absolutely, well, that's
- 26:09Speaker 1: a big fat lie. So what was really happening? John
- 26:14Speaker 1: Limley Well of d D not only told others and
- 26:18Speaker 1: eventually convinced even Gypsy that she had all of these illnesses,
- 26:21Speaker 1: She made them reality whenever possible by finding chemicals medications
- 26:26Speaker 1: that would cause the appropriate symptoms. She even fooled a
- 26:29Speaker 1: majority of the girl's doctors over times. Another of d
- 26:34Speaker 1: d's deceptions concerns her age, which we've been talking about.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Gypsy Rose's mother had even convinced the girl and confused
- 26:41Speaker 1: her as to her real age, also making her out
- 26:43Speaker 1: to be younger than she was. As Gypsy Rose got older,
- 26:47Speaker 1: her mom would still contend that she had the brain
- 26:51Speaker 1: of a seven year old. Doctors were so convinced of
- 26:54Speaker 1: Gypsy's ailments that she underwent countless procedures, even having her
- 26:59Speaker 1: saliva gland is removed so she would stop drooling, and
- 27:02Speaker 1: installing a feeding tube, something that was in place for
- 27:06Speaker 1: quite some Putting a feeding tube into your child's body
- 27:11Speaker 1: having them operated on. I mean this mother d d
- 27:18Speaker 1: her her hoax, even fooled doctors who put the little
- 27:23Speaker 1: child on all sorts of prescriptions. They performed surgeries on
- 27:27Speaker 1: the little girl Gypsy. The mother accepted financial donations, went
- 27:33Speaker 1: on charity funded trips to places like Disney World. She
- 27:38Speaker 1: had Munchausen by proxy, and she went to such great
- 27:44Speaker 1: extent to get attention to herself via her child. She
- 27:49Speaker 1: even let the child undergo surgery, convincing this child she
- 27:55Speaker 1: was truly ill, making the child all sorts of horrible
- 27:59Speaker 1: sentence like vomiting in pain. To Dr Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist,
- 28:05Speaker 1: you have studied this case very carefully. The girl finally
- 28:10Speaker 1: killed her mother. Dr Bobera explained to me much Hausen
- 28:14Speaker 1: by proxy, Nancy Munchausen by proxy. The more formal name
- 28:18Speaker 1: is factitious disword imposed on another and it's a condition.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Where As the reporter said, uh, the caregiver, usually the
- 28:26Speaker 1: mother will make the child sick, either inducing seizures, poisoning them,
- 28:30Speaker 1: causing them to bleed, in order to get attention. These
- 28:34Speaker 1: are people who are essentially addicted to the attention that
- 28:37Speaker 1: they get from doctors. They very often have a history
- 28:40Speaker 1: of their own trauma and some sort of personality disorder,
- 28:43Speaker 1: usually narcissism or perhaps borderline personality diswitter. But in this
- 28:48Speaker 1: particular case, you know, the victim and I use the
- 28:51Speaker 1: victim in quotes, was both of these people. I mean,
- 28:53Speaker 1: the mother obviously should not have been murdered, but there's
- 28:55Speaker 1: obviously mitigating circumstances in that this child was undergoing traumatic
- 29:00Speaker 1: abuse for years by her mother, inducing her to be ill.
- 29:03Speaker 1: And looking at a picture of the little child, well,
- 29:05Speaker 1: I guess she's a little child, and she is in
- 29:08Speaker 1: the hospital bed it looks like an a vent later
- 29:13Speaker 1: with like she's just had surgery. She's I'm just sick
- 29:18Speaker 1: about it, and this child went through this for all
- 29:21Speaker 1: these years to Joseph's got Morgan death investigator, what can
- 29:26Speaker 1: you tell me about the murder of this evil mother?
- 29:29Speaker 1: She's evil, she is evil. The murder itself is rather gruesome,
- 29:35Speaker 1: very up close and personal case, Nancy. This Uh, this
- 29:38Speaker 1: woman was stabbed death, found, as the police described it,
- 29:43Speaker 1: in a pool of her own blood many times. As
- 29:46Speaker 1: you well know, the cases we've discussed, stabbing events, uh
- 29:50Speaker 1: turn out to be very very horrific, and they are
- 29:53Speaker 1: up close and personal. The individual has to be face
- 29:55Speaker 1: to face with them or immediately adjacent to their back
- 29:58Speaker 1: when this is occurring. But if I could add one
- 30:00Speaker 1: thing here, Nancy uh talking, you know, Dr bober Had
- 30:04Speaker 1: was given this description of of munch House and I've
- 30:07Speaker 1: worked munch House in cases, and what makes this case
- 30:10Speaker 1: so particularly bizarre for me, um is had. Most of
- 30:15Speaker 1: the time, when you're talking about munch housings, the victims
- 30:20Speaker 1: tend to be the children, which makes this in my case,
- 30:24Speaker 1: at least where where I've worked mothers that are attempting
- 30:29Speaker 1: to get sympathy from others, they will kill their own
- 30:31Speaker 1: children and bring them to the point of illness and
- 30:32Speaker 1: kill them. I don't recall in my memory of all
- 30:35Speaker 1: of my years of working a case. Uh that is
- 30:38Speaker 1: so polar opposite of that. And I could see how this,
- 30:42Speaker 1: how this young girl would have generated quite a bit
- 30:45Speaker 1: of anger. We're talking about feeding tubes being inserted. Uh,
- 30:49Speaker 1: this is horribly uncomfortable, traumatic, and Lord only knows what
- 30:54Speaker 1: else this woman was doing to this child to keep
- 30:56Speaker 1: her in this asymmetrical relationship that she had with her,
- 31:00Speaker 1: beating her down all the time, even metaphorically, um convincing
- 31:04Speaker 1: her that she is unhealthy, when all the while, you
- 31:08Speaker 1: know this child has got a mind, and she's saying,
- 31:11Speaker 1: I'm not these things or something inside, I'm not these things,
- 31:13Speaker 1: but I have to convince she's always putting on an act.
- 31:16Speaker 1: And so this makes this case for me. I think
- 31:18Speaker 1: that this is actually a case that people, particularly in
- 31:21Speaker 1: Dr Bobersfield, will study for years and years to come,
- 31:24Speaker 1: because it is certainly a typical. And when the girl
- 31:26Speaker 1: Gypsy is asked, is she glad her mother's dead, the
- 31:30Speaker 1: girl says, no, sir, I'm glad I'm out of that situation,
- 31:33Speaker 1: but I'm not happy she's dead. Now, she enlisted the
- 31:36Speaker 1: help of her boyfriend, Nicholas Goutt John, two days after
- 31:42Speaker 1: Claudine's body was found, walked into her first court appearance
- 31:46Speaker 1: on her own two feet, much to the shock of
- 31:49Speaker 1: everyone who thought this was a wheelchair abound little girl
- 31:53Speaker 1: suffering from leukemia and muscular distrophe. Now Here, here's the deal.
- 31:59Speaker 1: They lived in a home built by Habitat and Humanity
- 32:03Speaker 1: d D. Claudine full time care keep taker for Gypsy,
- 32:07Speaker 1: claiming all these chromosotal defects, epilepsies, sleep at nea, leukemia, asthma,
- 32:13Speaker 1: muscular dystrophy, even feeling doctors. But according to the little
- 32:17Speaker 1: girl's attorney, he says the mom even barred Gypsy from
- 32:22Speaker 1: attending school after kindergarten. Her mother would not allow her
- 32:26Speaker 1: to spend any time with any other human being. And
- 32:30Speaker 1: when they went to the doctor, the mom did all
- 32:33Speaker 1: the talking. You know, when I take the children to
- 32:36Speaker 1: the doctor. They asked me a few things, but then
- 32:39Speaker 1: they speak to the children and asked the children questions
- 32:43Speaker 1: as they should. And I just sit there and listen.
- 32:46Speaker 1: I want you to hear one more time this statement
- 32:52Speaker 1: from what I call the little girl. She's now a
- 32:54Speaker 1: grown woman. Should you be in this prison? To be honest,
- 32:58Speaker 1: I have complicated feel about that. I believe firmly that
- 33:03Speaker 1: no matter what, murder is not okay. But at the
- 33:06Speaker 1: same time, I don't believe I deserve as many years
- 33:09Speaker 1: as I got what your mother is dead, she is
- 33:13Speaker 1: and she was murdered, and you were involved. I was
- 33:18Speaker 1: what would be a just punishment. I'm not really certain
- 33:21Speaker 1: on that. I do believe that I do deserve to
- 33:23Speaker 1: spend some time in prison for that crime, but also
- 33:27Speaker 1: I understand why it happened, and I don't believe that
- 33:34Speaker 1: I'm in the right place to get the help that
- 33:37Speaker 1: I need. Are you glad your mother's did No, sir,
- 33:41Speaker 1: I'm glad that I'm out of that situation, But I
- 33:43Speaker 1: am not. How ISSUES said there, you were hearing this
- 33:47Speaker 1: little girl. I keep calling her that, but she's now
- 33:49Speaker 1: twenty four years old. You know what I've got to say,
- 33:52Speaker 1: Dr Daniel Bayber right or wrong? UM, I understand what
- 33:58Speaker 1: the girl felt. I mean, she meets this guy on
- 34:02Speaker 1: Christian dating website. They start talking that he discovers she's well.
- 34:07Speaker 1: She starts outlining what has been done to her over
- 34:10Speaker 1: so many years. I mean, I don't to me, it's
- 34:16Speaker 1: merely justifiable homicide. It's almost an act of self defense,
- 34:20Speaker 1: Dr Bober. I mean if I were sitting on a
- 34:22Speaker 1: jury and I knew what this mother had done to
- 34:25Speaker 1: this child, I have a hard time convicting her. Dr Bober, Yeah,
- 34:28Speaker 1: I agree with you. And um, it's interesting that only
- 34:31Speaker 1: about fifty of these cases is actually present to psychiatrists.
- 34:35Speaker 1: Most of the people that see them are the pediatrician,
- 34:37Speaker 1: and there's a lot of telltale signs, for example, the
- 34:40Speaker 1: parent not wanting to leave the child alone with the doctor,
- 34:43Speaker 1: and there are cases where the pediatrician will actually work
- 34:46Speaker 1: with police or hospital security to covertly film the interactions
- 34:50Speaker 1: between the parent and the child to try to get
- 34:52Speaker 1: some clues as to what's going on. But it does
- 34:54Speaker 1: require a very astute condition to figure it out, and
- 34:57Speaker 1: very often these cases slipped through the crash. So let
- 34:59Speaker 1: me go back to you, John Limley, Crime Stories and
- 35:02Speaker 1: climb online dot Com investigative reporter. She got ten years right,
- 35:07Speaker 1: and what was this? Was it on murder? Was it on?
- 35:11Speaker 1: Was it on second degree? I she'll probably be up
- 35:16Speaker 1: for parole and probably seven years. I'll tell you what
- 35:21Speaker 1: did This whole story is a tragedy, you know, and
- 35:26Speaker 1: when you put it to a judge. It reminds me
- 35:29Speaker 1: of Um Solomon, who said, I'll just split the baby
- 35:35Speaker 1: and each one of you can have half the baby,
- 35:37Speaker 1: so nobody would be happy that That's the story of
- 35:41Speaker 1: King Solomon, and just sometimes there is no good answer.
- 35:46Speaker 1: That's what I had to learn in the courtroom. There's
- 35:50Speaker 1: never a real winner at the end of the day.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Even if you win your case and you since the
- 35:55Speaker 1: bad guy to jail, everybody leaves with a broken heart.
- 36:00Speaker 1: We're on the case of Gypsy, you know what. We're
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- 38:08Speaker 1: And now we had across the country to the very
- 38:11Speaker 1: latest in the pen State hazing death to Alan Duke
- 38:18Speaker 1: joining me today, Alan, I, how could this story get
- 38:22Speaker 1: any worse than a young kid, an athlete, straight, a student,
- 38:28Speaker 1: his parents finally get him to college. He goes to
- 38:31Speaker 1: this fraternity party and he ends up commatos. I believe
- 38:35Speaker 1: he had uh shredded spleen and so many other injuries.
- 38:43Speaker 1: And he liked lay there in the floor for about
- 38:46Speaker 1: twelve to eighteen hours while everybody actually walked around him
- 38:51Speaker 1: and stepped over him. They slapped him, they beat him,
- 38:55Speaker 1: they moved him around. He was um vomiting. He tried
- 39:00Speaker 1: to get to the door. They wouldn't let him leave.
- 39:02Speaker 1: He died, and then they had to cover up. Alan
- 39:05Speaker 1: did what could possibly be worse. It's a parent's worst nightmare.
- 39:10Speaker 1: You you send your kid to college, you raise them,
- 39:12Speaker 1: you spend money to put him in there and get
- 39:15Speaker 1: him to that point. And of course they're going to
- 39:17Speaker 1: join a fraternity. I mean, you did it. I didn't
- 39:21Speaker 1: do it. I was in the military, so that was different.
- 39:23Speaker 1: But you put them into this situation where they're out
- 39:25Speaker 1: on their own. He was nineteen years old, he was
- 39:28Speaker 1: a football player. He was big, strapping young man, and
- 39:31Speaker 1: you would think that he could handle himself, but the
- 39:33Speaker 1: peer pressure. The new information that we are now learning
- 39:37Speaker 1: in this case is that over an eighty two minute period,
- 39:40Speaker 1: that's less than an hour and a half, they coerced
- 39:44Speaker 1: this young man I'm talking about his the frat members
- 39:47Speaker 1: allegedly because coerced him to take eighteen alcoholic drinks in
- 39:52Speaker 1: an hour and a half. And that is what they say.
- 39:56Speaker 1: A new charges have just been filed in the horrific
- 39:59Speaker 1: death of a Penn State University student. Video from a
- 40:03Speaker 1: base from a basement security camera has just been recovered
- 40:08Speaker 1: by law enforcement. Now this is what we know. The
- 40:12Speaker 1: fraternity brothers lad police to believe the basement cameras were
- 40:15Speaker 1: not working that night, on the bid acceptance night. I mean,
- 40:19Speaker 1: Alan's right. When I first went away to school, I
- 40:22Speaker 1: was seventeen. My parents dropped me off and left and
- 40:26Speaker 1: I did not know a single soul. I ran into
- 40:29Speaker 1: another girl from my hometown, Macon, Georgia. She was in
- 40:32Speaker 1: a sorority. She said, come over to our party. I'm like, okay,
- 40:36Speaker 1: and I went and I joined Alpha Delta Pie and
- 40:40Speaker 1: I made friends there. And let me tell you something.
- 40:44Speaker 1: They gave me a bouquet of violence. I mean a
- 40:46Speaker 1: pot of plant of violets and cupcakes and little presence
- 40:50Speaker 1: and which seemed to you and that that's what that
- 40:53Speaker 1: was like. And I made friends. Then I transferred to
- 40:57Speaker 1: Mercia University. My fiancee was murder and I fell out
- 41:02Speaker 1: of everything, including sorority and school and everything. At the
- 41:06Speaker 1: very end, when I went back to school my senior year,
- 41:09Speaker 1: I was working alone in the back of the library,
- 41:12Speaker 1: all by myself, processing books, and a girl came in.
- 41:16Speaker 1: She came back to drop some books off. She also
- 41:19Speaker 1: worked there. She said, hey, aren't you an ad pie. Okay, now,
- 41:23Speaker 1: almost three years had passed since I had anything to
- 41:27Speaker 1: do with the sorority, and I was getting over, well
- 41:31Speaker 1: like getting over. I was living through Keith's murder. And
- 41:34Speaker 1: I went yeah. She said me too, Come tonight and
- 41:38Speaker 1: come out and be with us. And at first I
- 41:41Speaker 1: said no because I just couldn't even stand to be
- 41:43Speaker 1: around people, but she kept asking me. Her name was Carol,
- 41:47Speaker 1: and you know what, I went and they were the
- 41:50Speaker 1: nicest group of girls, so I had life both ways
- 41:55Speaker 1: in college, and I'm thinking about this kid, this teen boy,
- 41:59Speaker 1: who hooks up with some guys and they seemed to
- 42:02Speaker 1: be nice guys, and he goes to the bid party
- 42:05Speaker 1: and he ends up dead. And its so called brothers
- 42:09Speaker 1: lie to police to say that basement camera wasn't working.
- 42:14Speaker 1: But guess what it was. It had been manually deleted
- 42:19Speaker 1: on purpose, just as the cops were about to seize
- 42:23Speaker 1: the recording equipment to allend. What more do we know, Well,
- 42:27Speaker 1: we know this because the prosecutor, Stacy Parks Miller announced
- 42:30Speaker 1: this week that they're leveling charges against ten more students
- 42:35Speaker 1: that had not been charged, bringing the number to about
- 42:37Speaker 1: two dozen who faced various charges, including manslaughter. Because this
- 42:42Speaker 1: video was recovered by the FBI. You delete it, but
- 42:45Speaker 1: it's still on the hard drive and these technicians with
- 42:47Speaker 1: the FBI can find it, and in this case, they
- 42:50Speaker 1: were able to restore it. The investigators were able to
- 42:52Speaker 1: see exactly what happened. And now the new indictments announced
- 42:56Speaker 1: by the prosecutor. You know, it's it's just overwhelming, overwhelming
- 43:02Speaker 1: to me what happened and the level of deceit and
- 43:08Speaker 1: deception to Dr Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist, that these guys
- 43:13Speaker 1: went through as part of the cover up to cover
- 43:15Speaker 1: up what they did. Nancy, it seems like you had
- 43:19Speaker 1: a pretty positive experience when you were in a sorority.
- 43:22Speaker 1: But a lot of what happens in these types of
- 43:24Speaker 1: cases where there's either a sexual assault or death is
- 43:28Speaker 1: a mob mentality takes over and people are afraid to
- 43:32Speaker 1: speak up because they're going to be uh, you know,
- 43:36Speaker 1: criticized by their peers. But I completely agree with you
- 43:39Speaker 1: that this is just an egregious chain of events and
- 43:42Speaker 1: someone really should have stepped it in essentially stopped this
- 43:46Speaker 1: kid from being poisoned in front of everyone. Jess Goott,
- 43:49Speaker 1: death investigator. Why Anne, about what this boy, Timothy Piazza
- 43:53Speaker 1: went through. Yeah, let me let me kind of run
- 43:55Speaker 1: this down to you. This laundry list of these things
- 43:57Speaker 1: that this poor kid went through. He's got a ruptured spleen,
- 44:01Speaker 1: he's gota collapsed along, so more than likely he's also
- 44:04Speaker 1: got fractured rips and Nancy, these are the types of
- 44:07Speaker 1: injuries that we see. These are blunt force trauma. This
- 44:11Speaker 1: is what we what we commonly see in motor vehicle
- 44:15Speaker 1: accidents that occur at a very high speed where these
- 44:18Speaker 1: types of things happen. So with ruptured spleen, what happens
- 44:21Speaker 1: is you begin to bleed out into your dominant area.
- 44:25Speaker 1: It's kind of a slow death that it has to
- 44:27Speaker 1: be taken care of by a surgeon. This kid wouldn't
- 44:29Speaker 1: get any help. And then, to make matters worse, he's
- 44:32Speaker 1: suffering from what's referred to as acute alcohol toxicity or
- 44:36Speaker 1: what is commonly referred to as alcohol poisoning. When his
- 44:40Speaker 1: alcohol level gets to this point and we're thinking probably
- 44:42Speaker 1: about poor uh point four oh. At that point, you're
- 44:45Speaker 1: at a lethal level where it's noncompatible with life. He's
- 44:49Speaker 1: unable to even form words. It goes to a very
- 44:53Speaker 1: primal thing where you're just trying to survive there, you know.
- 44:55Speaker 1: And plus you've got these people beating on you to
- 44:58Speaker 1: keep him away from the doors so he can and escape.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Dr Bober made a good point. It's almost like he's
- 45:03Speaker 1: in amongst a pack of wolves at this point in
- 45:05Speaker 1: top and they're just kind of circling him. They're probably
- 45:08Speaker 1: laughing at him periodically. You know. I heard one person
- 45:12Speaker 1: mentioned that they would either walk by and kick him
- 45:14Speaker 1: or slap him. And that's what's going on here. He's
- 45:16Speaker 1: probably repeated, repeatedly kicked multiple times and the abdomen and
- 45:20Speaker 1: the ribs, and this is a horrible, horrible way to die.
- 45:23Speaker 1: I'm a parent, I know, I know, Nancy, you are too,
- 45:26Speaker 1: and it's it's one of these things where your heart
- 45:29Speaker 1: just absolutely breaks. And listen to what the prosecutor says.
- 45:33Speaker 1: The Commonwealth is prepared today to announce new charges and
- 45:36Speaker 1: these charges are a direct result of new evidence in
- 45:39Speaker 1: this case. For those of you that are familiar with
- 45:42Speaker 1: the situation and the death of Tempiazza Um, we have
- 45:46Speaker 1: new evidence and that evidence is if you have been
- 45:49Speaker 1: following it Um. The State College Police Department was indeed
- 45:53Speaker 1: able to recover the basement video in this case, and
- 45:56Speaker 1: as a result of the conduct on that video, we
- 45:59Speaker 1: are today announcing the filing of new charges from brothers
- 46:03Speaker 1: from this fraternity. These charges raine range from manslaughter to hazing,
- 46:10Speaker 1: and also charges for the actual affirmative deliberate deletion of
- 46:15Speaker 1: that video, which obviously pertained to UM capturing criminal conduct.
- 46:22Speaker 1: We'd like to thank the District Attorney and the State
- 46:24Speaker 1: College Police for their continued commitment and efforts and finding
- 46:26Speaker 1: justice for us Tim's death. Tim wasn't happy and caring
- 46:33Speaker 1: human being in a wonderful son who just wanted to
- 46:35Speaker 1: join an organization to find friendships and camaraderie. Instead, he
- 46:39Speaker 1: was killed at the hands of those he was seeking
- 46:41Speaker 1: friendship from. We have spent the past eight months wondering
- 46:44Speaker 1: how can this happen on the campus of Penn State.
- 46:48Speaker 1: The visions of him lying in the hospital bed, battered
- 46:52Speaker 1: and bruised and on life support, looking as if he
- 46:55Speaker 1: got hit by a tractor trailer make no sense. He
- 46:59Speaker 1: was just trying to join an organization. Over the last
- 47:02Speaker 1: several months, we listened to defense arguments centered around victim blaming,
- 47:07Speaker 1: or how could the defendants have known they were putting
- 47:09Speaker 1: someone seriously seriously at risk since no one died before,
- 47:13Speaker 1: as if they were entitled to one free death, or
- 47:17Speaker 1: the catch all argument of we don't know. They claimed,
- 47:21Speaker 1: we don't know what else happened other than what was
- 47:24Speaker 1: seen in the upstairs video, and we don't know what
- 47:27Speaker 1: happened in the basement. Guess what, guys, now, we know
- 47:34Speaker 1: we're making holiday plans without our sun Tim, because of
- 47:39Speaker 1: your actions. If you did not commit the acts you did,
- 47:43Speaker 1: we would not be here today, and would we be.
- 47:46Speaker 1: We would be anxiously awaiting Tim's return home for Thanksgiving.
- 47:49Speaker 1: Break on Friday, the Penn State hazing death of this
- 47:54Speaker 1: young guy, Timothy Piazza. It's not over yet. Nancy Grace
- 48:01Speaker 1: crimed the story, sidling off Goodbye friend,