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Former UKY Cheerleader Pleads Guilty in Death of Newborn Son | Crime Alert 08.24.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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