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Crime Alert 01.22.25 | Father Kills Toddler, 2, When Mother Breaks Up With Him · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news. Now It's
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  Speaker 1: life behind bars for a Texas man who killed his
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  Speaker 1: two year old daughter during a police chase, all while
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  Speaker 1: facetiming the live video to the girl's mother. Deontre Flanagan,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, picks his daughter up from daycare, then confronts
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  Speaker 1: the mother, Kirsten Watson, at work. He accuses her of
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  Speaker 1: talking to another man, strikes her or takes her phone,
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  Speaker 1: and flees with the daughter, Zavaya Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: That's when Flanagan facetimes Watson with Zebah sitting in his lap.
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  Speaker 2: Flannagan's hand is around her throat, keeping the little girl
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  Speaker 2: from breathing. Flannagan repeatedly shouts this is what you mean
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  Speaker 2: you do, while Watson begs him to stop. The chase
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  Speaker 2: ends when Flannagan crashes into two cars. When cops move in,
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  Speaker 2: they find Flanagan used a blunt object to hit Sevia
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  Speaker 2: in the head and smash Tavia's head against a blunt object.
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  Speaker 2: The little girl is rushed to a hospital but pronounced
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  Speaker 2: dead upon arrival. Watson called police several times in the
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  Speaker 2: days leading up to the murder. Worried Flannaga and would
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  Speaker 2: become violent. After their breakup, a jury convicts Flannagan of
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  Speaker 2: capital murder. Watson vows to keep Savia's memory alive. Ricky
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  Speaker 2: Holly wants a late night snack and decides on Domino's pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Ready to dig in, Holly goes into a rage and
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  Speaker 2: she discovers the pizza is uncut and cold.
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  Speaker 1: She gets in the car and drives to the closest
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  Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg, Florida Dominoes to berate employees. When they refuse
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  Speaker 1: to replace the pizza, she throws the pizza at them
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  Speaker 1: and rips their phone off the wall. Well police are called.
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Holly, twenty two, spends the night in jail for
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  Speaker 1: criminal mischief that she won't find Dominoes on the commissary menu.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: We begin in North Carolina as a deadly shooting has
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  Speaker 3: unfolded at a Raleigh restaurant during the morning preparation period
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  Speaker 3: for lunch. Police say George collumj the executive chef at
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  Speaker 3: Coquette Brasserie in North Hills, fatally shot twenty six year
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  Speaker 3: old co worker Jonathan Mark Schaeffer before turning the gun
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  Speaker 3: on himself. The incident occurred just before the restaurant's scheduled
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  Speaker 3: lunch opening. Column was hospitalized in critical condition but later
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  Speaker 3: died from his injuries. A bystander, identified as twenty four
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  Speaker 3: year old Jonathan Aguilar Vega was also injured, but has
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  Speaker 3: since been treated and released from the hospital. Raleigh Police
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  Speaker 3: Chief of Stella Patterson confirmed the shooting was not random,
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  Speaker 3: as Column and Schaeffer knew each other. The incident prompted
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  Speaker 3: a heavy police presence, temporary lockdowns at nearby schools, and
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  Speaker 3: left the usually bustling district unusually quiet. Coquette's parent company,
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  Speaker 3: Urban Food Group, has expressed gratitude for community support and
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  Speaker 3: is focusing on supporting its staff. A South Carolina inmate
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  Speaker 3: who has spent more than two decades on death row
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  Speaker 3: is said to be executed at the end of this month.
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  Speaker 3: Mary and bow as the third person to face execution
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  Speaker 3: since the state resumed the death penalty last year following
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  Speaker 3: a thirteen year pause. Crime Online Sidney Sumner has more
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  Speaker 3: on this story and the controversy surrounding it.
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  Speaker 2: Forty four year old Marion Bowman Junior is scheduled to
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  Speaker 2: be executed on January thirty first, by lethal injection, a
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  Speaker 2: method he chose over the electric chair and fire and squad.
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  Speaker 2: Bowman's execution comes as South Carolina continues a renewed use
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  Speaker 2: of the death penalty after overcoming years of legal and
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  Speaker 2: logistical hurdles, including a shortage of lethal injection drugs. Bowman's
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  Speaker 2: conviction stems from the two thousand and one murder of
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  Speaker 2: Candy Martin, a twenty one year old whose body was
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  Speaker 2: found in the trunk of her burned out car. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: relied heavily on testimony from friends and relatives who struck
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  Speaker 2: plea deals. Bowmen has maintained his innocence, claiming the evidence
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  Speaker 2: against him was incomplete and his trial defense inadequate. The
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Bowman's recent appeal to review
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  Speaker 2: new evidence, calling it without merit. His last hope now
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  Speaker 2: lies with Governor Henry McMaster, who is yet to grant
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  Speaker 2: clemency in any case. During his tenure, Bowman's attorneys argue
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  Speaker 2: he has been a model prisoner, supporting fellow inmates with
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  Speaker 2: mental health struggles and serving as a liaison between death
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  Speaker 2: row inmates and prison officials.
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  Speaker 3: With just days until his scheduled execution. Mary and Bowman
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  Speaker 3: Junior is asking for mercy, though history suggests a clemency
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  Speaker 3: grant is unlikely. Thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Morris mullis, mother of three, last seen in a
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  Speaker 1: family reunion Royalton, Indiana, days after her parents find her
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  Speaker 1: home locked and empty. Notes left on our door go unanswered.
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  Speaker 1: Dad reports are missing. Two weeks later, Ashley twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: claims Daniel York Senior, a married man she singing, is
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  Speaker 1: the father of her kneeborn. She lives in a home
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  Speaker 1: owned by Yorke and his wife, Sheila. After Ashley disappears,
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  Speaker 1: her baby girl remains with the Yorks. Two years later,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel dies, Sheila moves to Florida with ashley daughter. Sheila
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  Speaker 1: later adopts her, claiming no living relatives exist. Ten years
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  Speaker 1: after Ashley's disappearance, Sheila Yorke arrested for kidnapping and obstruction.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say she falsifies adoption records and lies about family ties.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley five feet six, brown hair, brown eyes. Tattoo of
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  Speaker 1: Ashton upper left arm, butterfly right leg. If you know
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  Speaker 1: or think you know anything about the disappearance of Ashley, Mullis.
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  Speaker 1: Please contact Delaware County Sheriffs seven sixty five seven four
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  Speaker 1: seven seven seven eight one. For the latest crime injustice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and please join us
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  Speaker 1: best to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.