Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Gorgeous teen girl ambushed, killed by "masked men"? WHY?
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- 1:00Speaker 1: x M thank you for being our partner. You have children,
- 1:09Speaker 1: right or a grandchild, or a niece or a nephew
- 1:14Speaker 1: mine or twelve right now, imagine Honey Malone's mother, her
- 1:21Speaker 1: teen girl, Vanessa Honey Malone, just eighteen years old, great grades,
- 1:27Speaker 1: never in trouble, even has a job. She comes home,
- 1:32Speaker 1: she steps out in the condo complex. The next thing
- 1:36Speaker 1: you know at the door and Mom discovers Honey has
- 1:41Speaker 1: been shot dead. Why right now a major break in
- 1:48Speaker 1: the case. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Crime
- 1:59Speaker 1: Story with Nancy Grace. How does a beautiful and I
- 2:10Speaker 1: mean beautiful eighteen year old girl end up dead? A
- 2:15Speaker 1: girl scrubbed in sunshine? You know my children now, my
- 2:20Speaker 1: twins John, David and Lucy are twelve, they'll soon be thirteen.
- 2:24Speaker 1: God help me this young girl just five years older
- 2:29Speaker 1: than them. I'm talking about a beautiful girl, Vanessa Malone,
- 2:34Speaker 1: so sweet. Her nickname's Honey. I Nancy Grace, this is
- 2:39Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. The night
- 2:43Speaker 1: of October twenty three began to play out like every
- 2:48Speaker 1: other night, except somehow Vanessa Honey Malone ends up dead.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us here at
- 2:57Speaker 1: Crime Stories on Fox Nation and Sex one eleven with
- 3:02Speaker 1: Me and all Star Powell. But first, take a listen
- 3:05Speaker 1: to our friends at CBS forty six CSI, Atlanta's podcast
- 3:10Speaker 1: host Karen Greer. Police in decap County, Georgia, respond to
- 3:15Speaker 1: a call at an apartment complex. Two victims meet police outside.
- 3:20Speaker 1: They claim a group of masked men barged into their apartment,
- 3:23Speaker 1: tied them up and locked them in the bathroom. Police
- 3:29Speaker 1: walk into the Dingy Rundown apartment, they see a trail
- 3:32Speaker 1: of blood leading from the front door to a bedroom
- 3:36Speaker 1: in the back. There in the closet is the body
- 3:41Speaker 1: of eighteen year old Vanessa Malone. Three or Honey's friends
- 3:44Speaker 1: were at the apartment that night before Honey got there.
- 3:47Speaker 1: They claim three to six men dressed in all black
- 3:51Speaker 1: stormed into the apartment. One of Honey's friends was able
- 3:54Speaker 1: to get away, while the horde of masked bandits tied
- 3:57Speaker 1: the other two victims together with an extension chord and
- 4:00Speaker 1: lock them in the bathroom. The burglars were ransacking the
- 4:04Speaker 1: apartment when the victims heard Honey come in the front door,
- 4:07Speaker 1: and then there were gunshots. You were hearing our friend
- 4:12Speaker 1: Karen Greer at CBS forty six, the news anchor and
- 4:15Speaker 1: host of CSI Atlanta with me as I mentioned an
- 4:19Speaker 1: all star panel including Karen Greer from CBS forty six Atlanta,
- 4:25Speaker 1: my longtime colleague Cheryl mccollin, director of the Cold Case
- 4:29Speaker 1: Research Institute and forensic expert who took this case national
- 4:34Speaker 1: with me, Wendy Patrick former prosecutor and author of Red Flags.
- 4:40Speaker 1: On Amazon, you can find her at Wendy Patrick PhD
- 4:44Speaker 1: dot com. Renowned psychoanalyst to the stars, doctor Bethany Marshall
- 4:48Speaker 1: joining us from Beverly Hills you can find her at
- 4:50Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. And two very special guests
- 4:56Speaker 1: joining me, and I feel like I know them. Flora Malone,
- 5:01Speaker 1: this is Vanessa Honey Malone's mother, and Cassandra Kennedy, her sister. Ladies,
- 5:08Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. First of all, to
- 5:14Speaker 1: Miss Malone, this is Honey's mother, Miss Malone. I feel
- 5:18Speaker 1: like over time since I first covered Honey's death, I
- 5:24Speaker 1: feel like I've gotten to know you. But nobody understands
- 5:30Speaker 1: the grief a mother endures when her child is dead,
- 5:37Speaker 1: When her child, much less is dead from violence. It's
- 5:42Speaker 1: not like she got ill and was in the hospital.
- 5:45Speaker 1: It's not like she had a car crash, nothing like that.
- 5:49Speaker 1: To have her taken away from you so young, such
- 5:53Speaker 1: a beautiful girl, with her life in front of her,
- 5:57Speaker 1: it's something I don't think you ever get over this day,
- 6:02Speaker 1: Miss Malone. Do you still feel what you felt the
- 6:07Speaker 1: night that Honey was killed? Absolutely? Because we miss them
- 6:12Speaker 1: every day. We're still in shocked. It means you took
- 6:16Speaker 1: a big part of our lives away from them. You know, sometimes,
- 6:20Speaker 1: Cheryl McCallum, you know my twins very well. I look
- 6:24Speaker 1: at them and I imagine, you know, when they get
- 6:26Speaker 1: eighteen and they, I hope, go away to college. I
- 6:32Speaker 1: think about how empty our home will be without them.
- 6:37Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what I did before them.
- 6:40Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do after they go away.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Do you remember, Cheryl McCollum, when Honey, when it first
- 6:48Speaker 1: hit the news, Honey Malone had been killed. Yes, And
- 6:53Speaker 1: I remember the first time that I met her mom.
- 6:56Speaker 1: She came to the college and tracked me down and
- 7:00Speaker 1: just wanted help. I mean she was digging, begging for help, begging.
- 7:05Speaker 1: I mean, she just wanted help from anybody. And you know,
- 7:09Speaker 1: she touched me so much that the way she talked
- 7:11Speaker 1: about Honey, I just felt kind of a connection, and
- 7:16Speaker 1: I thought, we're gonna do everything we can to try
- 7:19Speaker 1: to help her. You know, I'm curious, Cheryl McCollum, why
- 7:24Speaker 1: do you think Honey's mother had to seek you out?
- 7:28Speaker 1: Of course you're an expert. I mean that goes without saying.
- 7:31Speaker 1: But why wasn't she getting answers to what happened to
- 7:36Speaker 1: her daughter? I think law ENFORCEMNT wanted to play it
- 7:40Speaker 1: close to the vant as sometimes they do, and she
- 7:44Speaker 1: wasn't getting a lot of response. That she was craving.
- 7:49Speaker 1: She had said it herself that she just felt like
- 7:51Speaker 1: she was this crazy person that her mind could not
- 7:54Speaker 1: rest because she had so many questions and they were
- 7:58Speaker 1: not providing these just for her, that she was desperate for.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Nancy Back to Honey's mother, Miss Malone, Miss Flora that day,
- 8:09Speaker 1: and now I know Honey was living with you and
- 8:13Speaker 1: you picked her up from work. Where was she working?
- 8:16Speaker 1: She worked at a little company called C W. Price.
- 8:19Speaker 1: What was that? A little um kind of like a
- 8:22Speaker 1: mini wrong? And you picked her up from work that day? Yes,
- 8:26Speaker 1: I drove her to work. I took her early so
- 8:29Speaker 1: she could get her nails done and eat before work,
- 8:32Speaker 1: and then I picked her up around nine thirty five
- 8:36Speaker 1: ninety was a typical predis then what happened? What happened? Then?
- 8:41Speaker 1: When we came home, she was telling me she had
- 8:43Speaker 1: a long day, she was tired. Um, I said, okay,
- 8:49Speaker 1: And then she was talking to somebody, and then she said,
- 8:54Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna be right back,
- 8:56Speaker 1: all right. And I said, well, you tired, so just
- 9:00Speaker 1: stay home. She's like, no, I'll be right back. And
- 9:03Speaker 1: then she left out and came right back then walked
- 9:07Speaker 1: around the whole condo all the way back to my room,
- 9:11Speaker 1: and she's like, I love you, Mom, Like I love
- 9:14Speaker 1: you too. And it didn't seem strange until after I
- 9:19Speaker 1: found out what happened. That maybe she knew I have
- 9:24Speaker 1: one of these minds that has I'd like to feel
- 9:27Speaker 1: her the blanks of everything. So when she said she
- 9:30Speaker 1: was going out, you just assumed that she was walking
- 9:34Speaker 1: around the neighborhood. Yes, I figured she would stop by
- 9:37Speaker 1: just a person that's really closed because she doesn't have
- 9:40Speaker 1: a car and nobody was there to pick her up. Oh,
- 9:44Speaker 1: she said she would be right back, so I think
- 9:45Speaker 1: that she would go some places. You know, I'm looking
- 9:48Speaker 1: at her picture right now, missing alone, and I'm looking
- 9:51Speaker 1: she's got her hair pulled up and then down and
- 9:53Speaker 1: curls on the side. That's the way my sister wore
- 9:57Speaker 1: her hair in high school. How long would it take
- 10:01Speaker 1: honey to do those curls? Natural? Curly here really because
- 10:07Speaker 1: she looks like a model. Guys, if you want to
- 10:10Speaker 1: see this gorgeous girl, go to crime online dot com.
- 10:14Speaker 1: And I'm just looking at her, the whole world in
- 10:18Speaker 1: front of her. How did it all go wrong? You know?
- 10:22Speaker 1: To doctor Bethany Marshall, Psycho Allen's joining me out of
- 10:25Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, Doctor Bethany, I still speak about my dad
- 10:32Speaker 1: Mac usually as if he's still alive, because to me,
- 10:36Speaker 1: he's so real to me all the time. In fact,
- 10:40Speaker 1: I mean, I've got a shirt right here that I
- 10:42Speaker 1: wear all the time. I'm do. Have you noticed when
- 10:46Speaker 1: Miss Malone is speaking it sounds as if Honey is
- 10:49Speaker 1: still alive? What does that mean? What is that? And
- 10:53Speaker 1: don't tell me there's something wrong with us, doctor Bethany. Okay,
- 10:56Speaker 1: I know Nancy because she is alive and her heart
- 11:01Speaker 1: and in her mind, in her memories. And Miss Malone
- 11:05Speaker 1: loved Honey. And I saw that picture too of Honey.
- 11:09Speaker 1: She had the blue nails, she had the jeans on,
- 11:13Speaker 1: she's kind of posed like a model. She is such
- 11:16Speaker 1: a gorgeous girl. And the day that she left her
- 11:19Speaker 1: mother's house, she had worked a long ship. She'd gotten
- 11:22Speaker 1: her nails done. This was a young woman with her
- 11:26Speaker 1: whole life ahead of her, who was leading such a
- 11:30Speaker 1: good life. Do you know how many eighteen year olds
- 11:32Speaker 1: don't want to work and this girl went out and
- 11:35Speaker 1: was working and was supporting herself and taking care of herself.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I would say that her mother speaks of her in
- 11:41Speaker 1: the present tense because she is alive. Her mother's has
- 11:45Speaker 1: kept her alive in memory. You have kept her alive.
- 11:48Speaker 1: We have kept her alive, Cheryl McCallum. She is active
- 11:51Speaker 1: in all of our minds. We are all attached to
- 11:55Speaker 1: her and engaged with her beyond the grave because she
- 12:00Speaker 1: is meaningful to us, and her mother has done what
- 12:03Speaker 1: every victim of crime should do. She has made meaning
- 12:07Speaker 1: out of this situation, and hopefully this helps other victims
- 12:10Speaker 1: to keep the memories of their loved ones a life too.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Farrel. Are you just joining us?
- 12:31Speaker 1: We are bringing you breaking news and the sudden and
- 12:37Speaker 1: shocking death a beautiful eighteen year old girl, Honey Malone.
- 12:42Speaker 1: What happened? How does a gorgeous eighteen year old girl
- 12:46Speaker 1: world in front of her living at home with mom,
- 12:49Speaker 1: having a job, continuing with school, How does she end
- 12:52Speaker 1: up dead in a closet. Dead in a closet. Take
- 12:58Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at CBS forty six CSI Atlanta.
- 13:03Speaker 1: This is special guest host Karen Grier. She was found
- 13:06Speaker 1: in a bedroom closet, shot once in the back and
- 13:09Speaker 1: again her chest. We're talking about broad people that had
- 13:13Speaker 1: weapons in the apartment, and she was the lease of
- 13:18Speaker 1: the threat, and she was the one murder. I just
- 13:22Speaker 1: I can't wrap my head around that her two friends,
- 13:25Speaker 1: a man and a woman, had been tied up in
- 13:27Speaker 1: the bathroom by an unknown number of masked men with
- 13:30Speaker 1: guns who had kicked down their door. But why was
- 13:34Speaker 1: Honey the only one harmed? No one? No one was
- 13:38Speaker 1: pissed a whip, nobody was stabbed, nobody. Her family believes
- 13:44Speaker 1: Honey's friends truly know what happened and possibly played a
- 13:48Speaker 1: part in her death. I just want to sleep. Police
- 13:52Speaker 1: remained tight lipped about the investigation. We need answer. I
- 13:54Speaker 1: don't want to wake up and hear the phone. Range
- 13:58Speaker 1: detective called me in and say him, got him. This
- 14:02Speaker 1: is what happened. Guys, you're hearing our friend Karen Greer
- 14:06Speaker 1: CSI Atlanta podcast and joining me right now. Is Karen Greer,
- 14:12Speaker 1: along with my longtime colleague, director of the Cold Case
- 14:15Speaker 1: Research Institute, Cheryl McCollum. Karen Greer, you and Cheryl have
- 14:20Speaker 1: been on this case since the beginning, and it has
- 14:22Speaker 1: taken a really long time to crack. I want to
- 14:25Speaker 1: go back to that night because so many things are
- 14:28Speaker 1: wrong for me with what I'm hearing about the crime scene.
- 14:33Speaker 1: It's not fitting together. And when it's not fitting together,
- 14:36Speaker 1: that means I'm missing a piece of the puzzle, or
- 14:38Speaker 1: somebody's lying. For a girl like Honey Malone to end
- 14:42Speaker 1: up dad in a closet in an apartment where some
- 14:46Speaker 1: of her friends have been masked men. That sounds like
- 14:52Speaker 1: it's out of a movie and made up drama. Tell
- 14:55Speaker 1: me what you recall, Karen, regarding the night, what you
- 14:59Speaker 1: have learned about the all right, that Honey Malone, eighteen
- 15:02Speaker 1: year old innocent girl ends up dead gunshot wounds in
- 15:07Speaker 1: a closet. Carol, you know we've talked about saf Sheryl
- 15:11Speaker 1: and I walked to that crime scene. We went from
- 15:14Speaker 1: you know, where Honey's house was, to the apartment where
- 15:17Speaker 1: she lost her life. None of this made them. You know,
- 15:21Speaker 1: I've got children too. You talk about the twins, you know,
- 15:24Speaker 1: minor now twenty one and twenty four, and I can't
- 15:26Speaker 1: imagine them showing up at a friend's apartment and then
- 15:31Speaker 1: being tied up the friends supposedly and she's killed. No
- 15:36Speaker 1: one else in the apartment was hurt. They were just
- 15:39Speaker 1: supposedly tied up. Who whoa whoa right there, caring career,
- 15:45Speaker 1: you're sounding like, oh, they were in the kitchen have
- 15:47Speaker 1: a pizza, but you're saying, oh, they were tied up
- 15:49Speaker 1: in another room. No, that's not normal. And for Flora Malone,
- 15:55Speaker 1: her daughter says, I'm gonna go outside. That's like John
- 15:58Speaker 1: David Saint, Mom, can I get ride my bi or Ken?
- 16:00Speaker 1: Can't we come over? We go ride our bikes and
- 16:03Speaker 1: I'm fine. You don't expect to hear shots ring out
- 16:07Speaker 1: and then the friends end up in a closet. She's
- 16:11Speaker 1: in a closet and they're in another room tied up, Karen,
- 16:14Speaker 1: and you never hear anything from police. I mean, the
- 16:16Speaker 1: story just from the beginning just had too many holes.
- 16:20Speaker 1: She's sitting there waiting for a beautiful daughter to come
- 16:23Speaker 1: back home, worried because she did hear loud noises. Never
- 16:28Speaker 1: do police knock on her door to tell her something happened.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Someone else told her, supposed friend told her. I really, Oh,
- 16:38Speaker 1: that's an important fact, Cheryl McCollum. When a friend knows
- 16:43Speaker 1: your daughter has been killed before the cops know, there's
- 16:46Speaker 1: something way wrong with that scenario, with that timeline, way in,
- 16:50Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum. There is something all with that townline. The
- 16:53Speaker 1: friend did not even live in so mountains of town,
- 16:56Speaker 1: but he was in the vicinity, which is questionable, and
- 17:00Speaker 1: he knew that Honey had been shot. He told her specifically,
- 17:04Speaker 1: and at this point the police had not even a
- 17:07Speaker 1: difficult Well to me, that makes him a witness or
- 17:09Speaker 1: a suspect. Right there, somebody comes to your door before
- 17:13Speaker 1: police even know what happened. The word hasn't gotten around
- 17:16Speaker 1: the neighborhood. And there, Oh yeah, ma'am, Honey has been shot.
- 17:21Speaker 1: I mean to you, Floram alone. Do you recall when
- 17:24Speaker 1: that happened, when the friend came to the door and
- 17:27Speaker 1: told you Honey had been shot. He came to the door,
- 17:30Speaker 1: but the police is already at the apartment. But the
- 17:33Speaker 1: police never told me who it was. But I'm guessing
- 17:37Speaker 1: that the people that was in the apartment told him
- 17:41Speaker 1: it was Honey because he came to the door and
- 17:44Speaker 1: he said, Honey's gone. I'm still very suspicious. Why would
- 17:48Speaker 1: he Why would the friends tell him and they don't
- 17:51Speaker 1: tell the police. Cassandra Kennedy is with me. This is
- 17:54Speaker 1: Honey Malone's sister, Cassandra. What do you remember of that night?
- 17:59Speaker 1: I ended up going to work that full day open
- 18:02Speaker 1: a close at them all, and when I got back,
- 18:05Speaker 1: jumped in a shower as usual. Mom called me. It
- 18:09Speaker 1: may have been ten thirty, ten forty five, and she's
- 18:14Speaker 1: crying hysterically, and I'm like, oh my god, Mom, was wrong?
- 18:17Speaker 1: Was wrong? Was wrong? She's like, I think my worst
- 18:21Speaker 1: nightmare has happened. And I'm like, what, Just say what
- 18:24Speaker 1: it is. She was like, I think Vanessa was shot
- 18:27Speaker 1: or something. I don't even remember the exact words, but
- 18:31Speaker 1: I hung up so fast. I hung up so fast.
- 18:35Speaker 1: I sped to her house. It's like a thirty minute drive.
- 18:38Speaker 1: It probably took twenty. And I sat with my mom
- 18:43Speaker 1: until I got there, maybe at eleven thirty. We didn't
- 18:48Speaker 1: find out. They didn't confirm to us that it was
- 18:50Speaker 1: two fifty at two fifteen, that it was Vanessa. So
- 18:54Speaker 1: it was a torturous timeline from that shot to us
- 19:02Speaker 1: find an out. It was Vanessa, it was it was unbelievable,
- 19:07Speaker 1: you know. To Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor, author of Red
- 19:10Speaker 1: Flags on Amazon, Wendy, it's interesting to me, and I've
- 19:16Speaker 1: heard this from so many victims, and I guess looking back,
- 19:19Speaker 1: I experienced it myself and still do. When regular people
- 19:25Speaker 1: find out someone in your family has been murdered, they
- 19:29Speaker 1: think somehow that that reflects on you, that it would
- 19:35Speaker 1: never happen to them, that you're somehow of a lower
- 19:39Speaker 1: class because your crime victim. You just have a certain stigma.
- 19:43Speaker 1: I can't really put my finger on it. I don't
- 19:45Speaker 1: know the right word to say it, but I remember
- 19:48Speaker 1: speaking with Chucky Mak's mom after her Chucky had been murdered,
- 19:52Speaker 1: and she said people would say things like, well, a
- 19:56Speaker 1: good mom wouldn't have let him go ride his bike.
- 19:58Speaker 1: They somehow treat you different, as if it could never
- 20:02Speaker 1: happen to them, and somehow, because you're you, it happened
- 20:06Speaker 1: to you. Have you ever, I can't describe it, Wendy,
- 20:09Speaker 1: what is that? Yeah? You know, Nancy, I've experienced it
- 20:12Speaker 1: as well, and It's one of those things that unless
- 20:14Speaker 1: you're actually in the scenario, it's really hard to put
- 20:17Speaker 1: into words. I know our psychology guests probably can probably
- 20:20Speaker 1: do it very well also, but when it actually happens
- 20:24Speaker 1: to you, it's not fair. It's like people don't know
- 20:27Speaker 1: what to say, and so it's almost like they assume
- 20:29Speaker 1: the worst and they wonder some kind of guilt by association.
- 20:33Speaker 1: And we're talking about crime victims, and I mean, I've
- 20:36Speaker 1: been listening and watching. I know more about Honey than
- 20:39Speaker 1: I think many of our listeners because I've spent so
- 20:43Speaker 1: much time actually learning about her as a person and
- 20:46Speaker 1: the loving family she comes from, and it is unimaginable
- 20:49Speaker 1: that they've had to be retraumatized, as you mentioned Nancy
- 20:54Speaker 1: simply by virtue of having a beloved daughter be the
- 20:58Speaker 1: victim of this type of crime. And I joined many
- 21:01Speaker 1: of our listeners and viewers across the world and being
- 21:03Speaker 1: just so thankful that there's finally been an arrest made.
- 21:07Speaker 1: We can't bring back Honey, but maybe we can bring
- 21:10Speaker 1: finally the adjuster, Yeah, to justice. I want to cut
- 21:14Speaker 1: up to what you were saying about her family, Miss Malone.
- 21:18Speaker 1: How many children do you have I have the two girls,
- 21:21Speaker 1: and both of them, which is really perfect from a parents'
- 21:25Speaker 1: point of view, got through school, went out and got jobs.
- 21:30Speaker 1: They're physically beautiful. You live in a nice apartment area.
- 21:35Speaker 1: It's not like it's a high crime area. Nothing like that.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Guys, we are talking about
- 21:55Speaker 1: the sudden death of Honey Malone, murdered an eighteen year
- 22:00Speaker 1: old girl who just went outside in her condo complex.
- 22:05Speaker 1: That apartment's a condo complex, and the next thing you know, Mom,
- 22:10Speaker 1: here's a knock knock at the door and finds out
- 22:12Speaker 1: her teen girl who has never been in trouble at all, beautiful, responsible, educated,
- 22:20Speaker 1: everything is dead. To doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst joining us
- 22:26Speaker 1: out of Beverly Heels, what is that stigma that crime victims'
- 22:29Speaker 1: families bear, like somehow you're in a rotten class of
- 22:34Speaker 1: people because you're hanging around thugs and criminals. That's not
- 22:38Speaker 1: what happens, Nancy, It's not what happened at all. I
- 22:42Speaker 1: was thinking, actually beyond the stigma when you were talking
- 22:45Speaker 1: about this, to the fact that when you are a
- 22:48Speaker 1: parent and you know, because you've had the twins and
- 22:51Speaker 1: they're almost thirteen years old. Your primary job is to
- 22:56Speaker 1: keep your children safe, right, that is your job. Of course,
- 23:00Speaker 1: you're going to educate them, nurture them, feed them, you know,
- 23:04Speaker 1: provide everything for them so they have a great life.
- 23:07Speaker 1: But do you remember when those twins were little, if
- 23:10Speaker 1: they so much as scraped a knee, you would feel guilty,
- 23:14Speaker 1: like you caused it to happen. Or if they fell over,
- 23:17Speaker 1: you would think, oh, I'm a bad mom. We call
- 23:20Speaker 1: it omnipotent guilt, the belief that you're all powerful and
- 23:24Speaker 1: therefore any bad thing that happens to your child is
- 23:27Speaker 1: all your fault. Jathane, can I tell you a little
- 23:29Speaker 1: known story. I was in CNN Center. The twins were
- 23:34Speaker 1: with me. We're about to go to air. I had
- 23:36Speaker 1: left something in my office. I handed the twin to
- 23:40Speaker 1: a producer, a female producer. Both of them. One was
- 23:44Speaker 1: sitting on the floor plight, the other I was holding.
- 23:47Speaker 1: I gave it was John David to her. I ran
- 23:52Speaker 1: to my office. I said, be careful with the water bottle,
- 23:56Speaker 1: don't let them get near the cat in to my office.
- 24:01Speaker 1: I came back and guess what. John David had swallowed
- 24:05Speaker 1: the water cat and all stuff right there. You know,
- 24:10Speaker 1: Oh my God reached my hand down in his mouth
- 24:13Speaker 1: and fished it out immediately he couldn't breathe. Long story short,
- 24:17Speaker 1: I still think about that today. It's traumatic this day,
- 24:21Speaker 1: even though he is twelve. When I give him a drink,
- 24:23Speaker 1: I hould a cat. Yes, I still blame myself. And
- 24:27Speaker 1: can you imagine what Honey's mom has been thrown? So, Nancy,
- 24:30Speaker 1: I don't want to betray your confidentiality, so I won't
- 24:32Speaker 1: tell you the specifics. But right after the twins were born,
- 24:36Speaker 1: I remember you pulled me aside on set and you
- 24:38Speaker 1: told me you had all these fears of bad things
- 24:42Speaker 1: happening to them. And I'll never forget the stories you
- 24:45Speaker 1: told me. As if again, the smallest little thing would
- 24:49Speaker 1: be your fault. So imagine you give your child permission
- 24:54Speaker 1: to go visit a friend's house, or go for a
- 24:56Speaker 1: walk or something to nine and then they're murder? How
- 25:01Speaker 1: did that disrupt the very fabric of her psyche of parenthood?
- 25:07Speaker 1: And speaking of trauma, you know, trauma is when there's
- 25:10Speaker 1: a sudden, unparticipated, horrible event for which there's no prior learning,
- 25:17Speaker 1: meaning nothing in your life has prepared you for this. Nothing, nothing,
- 25:21Speaker 1: nothing has thought you had a cope, Well, brace yourself.
- 25:25Speaker 1: I hope everybody's sitting down for this. Take a listen
- 25:27Speaker 1: to our friends. Julia Reynolds at Fox five News. I'll
- 25:30Speaker 1: do whatever it takes because she is my baby. Floram
- 25:36Speaker 1: Malone says she's offering a reward for information about her
- 25:39Speaker 1: daughter's murder. She's only eighteen years old. Head dreams she
- 25:44Speaker 1: had a family who loved her, friends who loved her.
- 25:47Speaker 1: Eighteen year old Vanessa Malone, called Honey by family and friends,
- 25:51Speaker 1: was shot several times. After police day she interrupted an
- 25:55Speaker 1: armed robbery at this apartment complex. It happened seventeen days ago.
- 26:00Speaker 1: This homicide is our top priority in the office right now.
- 26:02Speaker 1: We're working in at every different angle possible. We really
- 26:06Speaker 1: need help from the community. Detective Lynn Schuller says, Honey
- 26:09Speaker 1: Malone walked in on four to six men who tied
- 26:12Speaker 1: up three people inside and were armed with semi automatic weapons.
- 26:17Speaker 1: And the three victims that we had tied up in
- 26:19Speaker 1: the bathroom all heard her come in and then they
- 26:22Speaker 1: heard the shots. So it appears that she was just
- 26:24Speaker 1: at the wrong place at the wrong time, wrong place,
- 26:27Speaker 1: wrong time. How many times have we heard that, but
- 26:29Speaker 1: then everything went silent. Any neighbors or actors or players
- 26:36Speaker 1: or witnesses afraid they would be killed two if they
- 26:40Speaker 1: came forward. Take a listen to Fox five. Well, police
- 26:43Speaker 1: are following leads. They're not sure they will pan out
- 26:47Speaker 1: and say this case may hinge on people in the
- 26:49Speaker 1: community calling in anonymously. People over there know what happened.
- 26:54Speaker 1: We just need somebody to come forward and let us know.
- 26:57Speaker 1: Pep down. They have to have a heart someplace. They
- 27:00Speaker 1: have to not think that it is right for these
- 27:02Speaker 1: people to be out on the street thinking that they
- 27:05Speaker 1: can just have fun and play their video games and
- 27:07Speaker 1: go hang out at the mall. Honey Malone's friends are
- 27:11Speaker 1: also seeking justice and are continuing their social media campaign
- 27:15Speaker 1: for information. Their Facebook page, called rip Honey, has generated
- 27:20Speaker 1: more than one hundred and twenty five thousand followers. But
- 27:23Speaker 1: the months pass and still no resolution. Honey's mother, Flora,
- 27:30Speaker 1: seeks out help from the Cold Case Research Institute Cheryl McCollough.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend Anna Garcia, a Crime
- 27:36Speaker 1: Watch Daily. Cops believe Honey stumbled upon an armed robbery.
- 27:42Speaker 1: I believe it was a home invasion robbery with the
- 27:44Speaker 1: main purpose to steal the drugs and the money out
- 27:47Speaker 1: of that apartment. Invasion maybe an understatement. Honey's friends who
- 27:54Speaker 1: were in the apartment told cops between three and six
- 27:57Speaker 1: men with guns kicked down the door. They claimed they
- 28:01Speaker 1: were beaten and tied up with a belt in the
- 28:03Speaker 1: cord of an electric razor and herded into the shower,
- 28:07Speaker 1: and then gunshots pierced the night. Honey was shot once
- 28:13Speaker 1: at the back, a second shot to the chest, the
- 28:16Speaker 1: bullet plunging straight through her heart while the robbers were
- 28:21Speaker 1: ransacked in the apartment. I believe Honey walked in and
- 28:25Speaker 1: when she turned to leave, that's when she was shot.
- 28:27Speaker 1: When she turned to leave. Yes, so you think she
- 28:30Speaker 1: was trying to get out of there when she was shot,
- 28:33Speaker 1: Yes to Cheryl mccollin, director Cold Case Research Institute for
- 28:36Speaker 1: insuc's expert tell me about the scene. Tell me, because
- 28:41Speaker 1: I find it really hard to believe that three people
- 28:44Speaker 1: tied up in the bathtub know nothing, armed intruders nobody
- 28:48Speaker 1: can identify. Then Honey, who's just leaving her mom's condo
- 28:52Speaker 1: to go gousit her friend walks in the door as
- 28:54Speaker 1: she's gunned down what does the scene tell you? Cheryl McCall,
- 28:58Speaker 1: I'm a honey is shot in the living room of
- 29:00Speaker 1: a one bedroom apartment in the back, Nancy. She is
- 29:04Speaker 1: then drug through the apartment, leaving a trail of blood
- 29:08Speaker 1: where she is thrown in the closet of the master's
- 29:11Speaker 1: bedroom where she's shot. Wait wait, wait where based on
- 29:16Speaker 1: the trail of blood, where was she shot? Right by
- 29:18Speaker 1: the front door, trying to leave in the back? Okay,
- 29:21Speaker 1: so that's where the theory is coming from. That she
- 29:24Speaker 1: came in, she tried to leave, hence the shot in
- 29:27Speaker 1: the back, and that's where the blood trail starts. Got it,
- 29:30Speaker 1: go ahead. When she's in the closet, she has shot
- 29:34Speaker 1: a second time in the chest. Now to me, that
- 29:38Speaker 1: means they're making sure where she is not going to survive.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Then they steal her cell phone and leave the apartment,
- 29:46Speaker 1: leaving the two alleged victims caught up in the bathroom unharmed.
- 29:52Speaker 1: They weren't slapped, they weren't kicks, they weren't pumped, they
- 29:54Speaker 1: weren't even threatened. They were just put in the back room. Yeah,
- 29:57Speaker 1: I don't like it. Karen Career with Me, investigative reporter,
- 30:02Speaker 1: News anchor at CBS forty six Atlanta and host of
- 30:06Speaker 1: CSI Atlanta, which we're linking to at crime online dot com,
- 30:10Speaker 1: so you can find out about that as well. Karen Greer,
- 30:15Speaker 1: I don't get it. If they're masked, why did they
- 30:18Speaker 1: have to shoot Vanessa Honey Malone when the others were
- 30:22Speaker 1: just tied up and left in the bathroom. They saw
- 30:25Speaker 1: the same thing Honey did. So why did they live
- 30:29Speaker 1: and Honey had to be shot dead? Is there a
- 30:32Speaker 1: chance the one supposedly tied up in the bathroom or not?
- 30:37Speaker 1: I just heard that, Karen. Karen Greer says, supposedly tied up,
- 30:43Speaker 1: and yeah, it just does not make sense. They're three
- 30:46Speaker 1: to six, four to six. The numbers don't even add up.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Nothing about what was told the police is the same.
- 30:54Speaker 1: And to have these people tied up with I think
- 30:58Speaker 1: it was twist ties in one paw are a belt?
- 31:01Speaker 1: Um some kind of cable? My cat could get out
- 31:06Speaker 1: of a belt. Okay, tied up with a belt? I
- 31:10Speaker 1: am not abide why they lived, Karen Grier and Honey
- 31:14Speaker 1: had to be shot dead. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
- 31:32Speaker 1: we were talking about a sudden break in the case
- 31:35Speaker 1: in the murder of a beautiful young girl in Atlanta
- 31:38Speaker 1: native Honey Malone. Take a listen to our friend's crime watch.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Deli correspondent Anna Garcia Flora and honey sister Cassandra believe
- 31:46Speaker 1: Honey was lured to the apartment to silence her. Why
- 31:50Speaker 1: don't you believe that she walked into a robbery? I
- 31:54Speaker 1: believe that they thought she knew something or saw something
- 31:57Speaker 1: and was worried that she was gonna tell. She wouldn't
- 32:00Speaker 1: just walk into a kicked indoor to see what happened.
- 32:04Speaker 1: That's not her. So you think his whole home invasion
- 32:09Speaker 1: robbery theory is what I set up to make it
- 32:12Speaker 1: look like it was a robbery so they can get off.
- 32:17Speaker 1: One troubling question, why was Honey's cell phone found far
- 32:21Speaker 1: away from the murder scene. We tracked her cell phone
- 32:25Speaker 1: after the murder to a location about a half mile away,
- 32:30Speaker 1: where it stayed there until it died. So how did
- 32:33Speaker 1: Honey's cell phone end up half a mile away stolen
- 32:37Speaker 1: during the incident? Why would they take her cell phone?
- 32:40Speaker 1: They've already killed her. What do they need her cell
- 32:41Speaker 1: phone for? Thinking that maybe she could call for help? No,
- 32:45Speaker 1: they're just easy to resell on the street. But Honey's
- 32:48Speaker 1: family doesn't buy that explanation. I don't buy it either.
- 32:52Speaker 1: Karen Career, CBS forty six Atlanta and news anchor host
- 32:56Speaker 1: of c S I Atlanta. Karen, that was an excellent point.
- 33:00Speaker 1: This girl would never go into an apartment with the
- 33:03Speaker 1: door already kicked in, wouldn't happen. I think the people
- 33:08Speaker 1: in the bathtub are all lying about what happened, which
- 33:13Speaker 1: makes me wonder why why would they lie about it,
- 33:18Speaker 1: unless somehow they were part of something much more nefarious.
- 33:22Speaker 1: Karen Greer helped me understand the scenario. I know when
- 33:25Speaker 1: talking to Flora, I remember her saying Honey was tired,
- 33:30Speaker 1: she was going to lay down, she was resting in
- 33:32Speaker 1: her room. Then she got a phone call, then she said, Mom,
- 33:35Speaker 1: I'll be right back. So I believe that story that
- 33:40Speaker 1: she was lord there and once she got there, everyone
- 33:45Speaker 1: appeared to be against her. She was the one that
- 33:48Speaker 1: was glutally murdered, and then all of her supposed friends,
- 33:52Speaker 1: alleged friends, kind of turned I knew nothing and just
- 33:57Speaker 1: left her there to die. It's the worst story you
- 34:02Speaker 1: can ever amass. What could she possibly have seen? This
- 34:06Speaker 1: girl has never even been stopped as a juvenile for jaywalking.
- 34:10Speaker 1: For Pete's sake, she's every parent's dream as opposed to
- 34:14Speaker 1: a nightmare. You know, Cheryl McCollum, I tell my twins
- 34:19Speaker 1: all the time, listen, even if somebody at school, because
- 34:22Speaker 1: they're a students. I want that a Cheryl. I feel
- 34:25Speaker 1: like I deserve those a's as much tutoring as I do.
- 34:28Speaker 1: But I say, don't even let anybody look at your paper,
- 34:31Speaker 1: because if somebody cheats off you, you're going to be
- 34:34Speaker 1: the one they get kicked out. Both of you. You'll
- 34:38Speaker 1: boil in the same pot. In other words, your friends
- 34:42Speaker 1: that you make. This young girl, Vanessa Honey Malone, I
- 34:47Speaker 1: think went to go see friends and it turned They
- 34:51Speaker 1: all turned on her because they were part of something nefarious. Absolutely,
- 34:57Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind she was Luis there.
- 35:00Speaker 1: The only thing stolen from that apartment that night was
- 35:06Speaker 1: Honey's cell phone and her life. I want to go
- 35:10Speaker 1: back to Honey's mother, Flora Malone, and her sister, Cassandra Kennedy,
- 35:15Speaker 1: Miss Malone, and her whole life. Your daughter had never
- 35:21Speaker 1: once been in any trouble. She was a great student.
- 35:25Speaker 1: She had a job. I don't want to hear their names.
- 35:29Speaker 1: But who were these friends? Were they school friends, neighborhood friends?
- 35:34Speaker 1: Who were they? Well, I've never met any of them,
- 35:38Speaker 1: but I'm I'm hearing that she liked to go over
- 35:43Speaker 1: there and play cards and listen to music and hang
- 35:47Speaker 1: out because she considered them friends. You know what's interesting
- 35:50Speaker 1: to Wendy Patrick, how many times did I prosecute a
- 35:54Speaker 1: case whether there be four teens and a stolen car,
- 35:58Speaker 1: and that I'll say it's not my car, and then
- 36:01Speaker 1: the driver it would be their car, and the other
- 36:03Speaker 1: teams are caught in the same mess and they all
- 36:08Speaker 1: get charged. Who you hang out with, it's not your fault.
- 36:13Speaker 1: You don't always know who you're hanging out with, Wendy.
- 36:16Speaker 1: It's so true. It's why we tell our kids, show
- 36:18Speaker 1: me your friends, and I'll show you your future. We
- 36:21Speaker 1: really are guilty by association in the eyes sometimes of
- 36:24Speaker 1: law enforcement of the community. And that is why when
- 36:27Speaker 1: we're warming up a cold case like this, talking about
- 36:30Speaker 1: who is socializing with who, it is imperative. And I'm
- 36:33Speaker 1: so pleased that you that honey had such a loving
- 36:36Speaker 1: mother and sister that are able to show us who
- 36:39Speaker 1: she really was, so we can actually know that. You know,
- 36:43Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor and author. Even when John David
- 36:47Speaker 1: is playing his games online, I get right up in
- 36:50Speaker 1: the picture and see who he's on with. If there's
- 36:54Speaker 1: not a pitch, I'm like, who is that? Who is that?
- 36:56Speaker 1: Let me hear their voice. I know it drives him crazy,
- 36:59Speaker 1: but I want to know this girl had never once
- 37:03Speaker 1: been in trouble. To Cheryl McCollum, I'm not buying anything
- 37:08Speaker 1: they're saying about the crime scene. I don't think the
- 37:11Speaker 1: people were tied up and put in the bathtub. I think,
- 37:15Speaker 1: like you and Karen Greer do, that she was lured
- 37:18Speaker 1: there because somehow she had seen or knew something had
- 37:23Speaker 1: gone on, as she had to be gotten rid of
- 37:27Speaker 1: taking listen guys. In the last hours, a major break
- 37:31Speaker 1: in the case and arrest has been made in the
- 37:34Speaker 1: murder of Honey Malone. This good news comes with mixed
- 37:38Speaker 1: emotions for Honey's family. They spoke exclusively to me about
- 37:41Speaker 1: how they're dealing with all of this. I want to
- 37:44Speaker 1: wake up and hear the phone ringing. Detective called me
- 37:48Speaker 1: in and say we got him, We got him. Flora
- 37:51Speaker 1: Malone got that call just three months after this interview,
- 37:55Speaker 1: to Cap County Police making an arrest in the twenty
- 37:58Speaker 1: twelve murder of her eighteen year old daughter, Vanessa Honey
- 38:01Speaker 1: Malone to a shot to death inside her friend's Stone
- 38:04Speaker 1: Mountain apartment. They drug a trail of blood of my
- 38:08Speaker 1: sister on the carpet and put her in the closet.
- 38:11Speaker 1: After years of frustration and grief, justice finally feels insight
- 38:16Speaker 1: for Flora and her daughter. Cassandra. Just grateful that I'm
- 38:21Speaker 1: alive to see this coming, because I'm worried about that sometimes.
- 38:24Speaker 1: The Cap County Police arresting thirty five year old Donald
- 38:26Speaker 1: Lash Friday at his mother's home in Stone Mountain. We
- 38:29Speaker 1: do believe that multiple people are responsible for this crime,
- 38:33Speaker 1: and the investigation is ongoing. We hope more arrests will follow.
- 38:38Speaker 1: You are hearing the police speaking out on the arrest
- 38:41Speaker 1: that has just happened a thirty five year old Donald
- 38:45Speaker 1: Ash to Karen Greer, CBS forty six, Atlanta anchor and
- 38:50Speaker 1: host of CSI Atlanta podcast, Karen Greer, who is this guy,
- 38:55Speaker 1: thirty five year old Donald Ash? What did he have
- 38:58Speaker 1: to do with this young girl? Interesting that he seemed
- 39:03Speaker 1: to know everybody involved in all of this. Interesting note,
- 39:11Speaker 1: Flora and Cassandra were no strangers to this gentleman, so
- 39:18Speaker 1: this could be very interesting to see if in fact
- 39:21Speaker 1: he's gonna turn into the other people who might have
- 39:25Speaker 1: been in that apartment or who were in that apartment
- 39:29Speaker 1: when he was there when Honey was killed. Flora Malone,
- 39:33Speaker 1: do you know Donald ashe he's never agreed to meet
- 39:37Speaker 1: with us. Me and Cassandra had tried several times over
- 39:40Speaker 1: the years. Cassandra, did you know this guy before Honey
- 39:44Speaker 1: was killed? No, okay, so you did not know him.
- 39:47Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum, who is this guy? And can't we make
- 39:51Speaker 1: him roll over on the everybody else in that apartment? Well,
- 39:54Speaker 1: they knew him by a nickname, so he went by Mercy,
- 39:57Speaker 1: so they knew of him, and he was the apartment
- 40:00Speaker 1: earlier in the day, but he left before law enforce
- 40:03Speaker 1: has showed up. The person he was meeting at the apartment.
- 40:06Speaker 1: They also are aware of and know of this person
- 40:09Speaker 1: and he goes by Yaps. So yes, absolutely law enforcement
- 40:12Speaker 1: has got to go back and reinterview these people. And
- 40:16Speaker 1: I've made it very very clear. The first one that
- 40:18Speaker 1: talks gets the deal. So somebody needs a role on somebody. Oh,
- 40:22Speaker 1: they will, they will. To Flora Malone and Cassanga Kennedy,
- 40:28Speaker 1: I'm so relieved that at least one arrest has been made.
- 40:33Speaker 1: Flora Malone, Honey's mother, what is your message to everybody
- 40:38Speaker 1: else that was in that apartment and had anything to
- 40:41Speaker 1: do with your daughter's death. My advice to anybody who
- 40:44Speaker 1: even knows what happened is go ahead and say no.
- 40:49Speaker 1: Because I don't know who else is going to be
- 40:54Speaker 1: charged or what the church will be, but I know
- 40:57Speaker 1: they would feel better if they could get this off
- 41:00Speaker 1: their chest. They have to to Cheryl McCollum direct to
- 41:05Speaker 1: Cold Case Research Institute. For any people that have information
- 41:10Speaker 1: that are willing to come forward, where can they call?
- 41:14Speaker 1: They need to call the Cab County Police, or if
- 41:18Speaker 1: they don't want to call the police, they can certainly
- 41:20Speaker 1: call you know, channel forty six CBS. They can call
- 41:25Speaker 1: Atlanta Crime Stoppers. There's a plethora of people they can
- 41:28Speaker 1: call with information and it's imperative they do so. They
- 41:32Speaker 1: can even leave a message on honey Facebook page. Karen Greer,
- 41:36Speaker 1: tell me the number that you guys have that anyone
- 41:39Speaker 1: with information can dial four zero four three two seven
- 41:44Speaker 1: three thousand four zero four three two seven three thousand,
- 41:49Speaker 1: and you can even send us an email at CBS
- 41:55Speaker 1: Atlanta forty six dot com. We do get a lot
- 41:59Speaker 1: of anonymous tips, and I will say Sherlin and I
- 42:02Speaker 1: have been looking through some tips that people have been
- 42:05Speaker 1: sending us for weeks, so we try to make sure
- 42:09Speaker 1: that law enforcement gets a hold of those and that
- 42:12Speaker 1: any leads that we may get are followed. For right now,
- 42:16Speaker 1: a major break in the murder of this eighteen year
- 42:19Speaker 1: old girl scrubbed in Sunshine Vanessa Honey Malone. But it's
- 42:24Speaker 1: ain't over yet. Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off Goodbye friend,