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Parent Serves Elementary School Students Jello Shots! | Crime Alert 05.05.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert. I mean see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: An elementary school parent serves up a special treat to
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  Speaker 1: fifth graders at a party and ends up behind bars.
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  Speaker 1: Teresa Bernal, thirty three, brings vodka laced jelly shots to
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  Speaker 1: Joan Elementary school, Tyler, Texas. Multiple children eat them. Once
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  Speaker 1: teachers realize what's going on, they send the students to
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  Speaker 1: the school nurse. Bernal feigns innocence and says she has
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  Speaker 1: no idea the treats, some that had whipped cream and
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  Speaker 1: strawberries on top, contained alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, it wasn't until most of the students had already
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  Speaker 2: eaten one, but teachers tasted them and suspected they contained alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: At least fifteen students are sent to the school nurse
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  Speaker 2: with reports of stomach or headaches. Some even vomited and
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  Speaker 2: felt dizzy. Bernald tells police she bought the shots from
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  Speaker 2: a home business on Facebook marketplace. According to officers, the
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  Speaker 2: ad clearly shows the jello shots are made with Smirnoff vodka.
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  Speaker 1: Bernal arrested charge with felony injury to a child. Westchester County,
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  Speaker 1: New York police receive a frantic No. Nine one one
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  Speaker 1: about a lama on the run. Cops set out to
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  Speaker 1: capture the lama, but realize it's actually an escaped alpaca.
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  Speaker 1: Subtle but important distinction. The adventurous alpaca heads to a
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  Speaker 1: land Rover dealership, and cops joke the animal is looking
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  Speaker 1: to upgrade its ride. Police capture the fluffy critter and
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  Speaker 1: return it to the owner. Officer's surmise, somewhere, a kid's
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  Speaker 1: birthday party went on just as planned. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news after this Now with the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice breaking news. Crime on Lines John Lenley.
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  Speaker 3: The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal
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  Speaker 3: of Mississippi Death Row inmate Willie Corey Godbold, convicted in
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  Speaker 3: a twenty seventeen shooting spree that left eight people dead,
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  Speaker 3: including a sheriff's deputy.
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  Speaker 4: And his mother in law. The violence began during a
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  Speaker 4: domestic dispute at his in law's home in Bogue, Chitto.
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  Speaker 4: A responding deputy was fatally shot along with three others.
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  Speaker 4: Four more victims, including two children, were killed at separate
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  Speaker 4: locations overnight. In twenty twenty, Godbolt was convicted of capital
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  Speaker 4: murder and other charges. He received the death penalty six
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  Speaker 4: life sentences and additional prison time. Mississippi's highest court upheld
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  Speaker 4: his convictions. In March, the US Supreme Court rejected his
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  Speaker 4: handwritten appeals, citing claims of ineffective council and unlawful search
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  Speaker 4: without comment as is typical, Godbolt remains on death row
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  Speaker 4: at Mississippi State Penitentiary and Parkman, a Louisiana man's murder
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  Speaker 4: conviction has been overturned after nearly thirty years on death row.
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  Speaker 4: Crime Online correspondent Sidney Sumner has the story behind the ruling.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Duncan was convicted in nineteen ninety eight of killing
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend's twenty three month old daughter, Hailey Olivo, in
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  Speaker 2: what prosecutors claimed was a brutal crime involving rape and drowning.
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  Speaker 2: But now Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Alvin Sharpe has
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  Speaker 2: vacated that conviction, citing expert testimony that the bitemark evidence
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  Speaker 2: used to convict Duncan was quote not scientifically defensible. The
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  Speaker 2: analysis was performed by forensic dentist Michael West, a figure
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  Speaker 2: long criticized in wrongful conviction cases. Has suppressed video later
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  Speaker 2: revealed West pressing Duncan's dental mold into the child's skin,
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  Speaker 2: effectively fabricating the marks cited as evidence. The judge also
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  Speaker 2: noted that Duncan's defense council was ineffective and that a
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  Speaker 2: jail house informants testimony had since been recanted. Washta Parish
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Robert iiO has yet to announce whether he'll
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  Speaker 2: appeal or retry the case. His office says prosecutors are
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  Speaker 2: assessing options. Duncan's attorneys, who declined to comment, argued in
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  Speaker 2: court filings that the case bears quote all the hallmarks
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  Speaker 2: of a wrongful conviction.
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  Speaker 4: The decision could lead to Duncan's release, unless prosecutors seek
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  Speaker 4: a new trial.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, a concerned relative of Tiffany and William's forty four,
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  Speaker 1: caused police report they haven't been able to reach her
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  Speaker 1: or husband, David Dwayne Walker, forty two in over a week.
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  Speaker 1: Parker County, Texas sheriffs go to the home the two
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  Speaker 1: share with Robbie Allen Head fifty five. They say the
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  Speaker 1: condition of the home and the witnesses who last had
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  Speaker 1: contact with the three make the disappearance even more suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Tiffany White female, four eleven about one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: pounds light brown, curly shoulder lengthd hair, blue eyes, Husband
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  Speaker 1: black mail six y two, two hundred forty pounds, short
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  Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes. Robbie Head white male five three,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred forty pounds, short brown hair, brown eyes. Crime
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  Speaker 1: Stoppers offering a one thousand dollar reward for info leading
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  Speaker 1: to the location of Tiffany, David, and Robbie. If you
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  Speaker 1: have info, please contact Parker County Sheriffs eight one seven
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  Speaker 1: five nine four eight eight four five or Parker County
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stoppers eight one seven five nine nine five five
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