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Tragedy in the Sanctuary: Grandmother Found Dead in Church, Grandson Charged | Crime Alert 6AM 11.03.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imansy Grace Breaking crime needs now straight out
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  Speaker 1: to Nicole Parton for the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, we begin today with a heartbreaking story out of Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: where a local church became the scene of a tragic
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  Speaker 2: and deeply disturbing crime. On Wednesday, authority say seventy three
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  Speaker 2: year old Ali Hamilton was allegedly killed by her own
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  Speaker 2: grandson inside Smith Chapel Holiness Church in Athens, located in
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  Speaker 2: Monroe County. According to Monroe County Corner Alan Gurley, police
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  Speaker 2: responded to a nine to one to one call around
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  Speaker 2: five forty five pm. They found miss Hamilton near the
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  Speaker 2: church kitchen, where she was pronounced dead at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: The suspect, a seventeen year old Jaden Hamilton, was arrested
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  Speaker 2: later that day. Officials say he confessed to the crime
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  Speaker 2: during questioning. Monroe County Sheriff Kevin Crook described the case
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  Speaker 2: as quote a tragic a tragedy of the worst kind,
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  Speaker 2: noting that both the victim and the accused were below
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  Speaker 2: members of the community. Sheriff Crook added that Jaden had
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  Speaker 2: initially sought help after the attack, but as the investigation progressed,
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  Speaker 2: evidence began pointing the finger directly at him. The team
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  Speaker 2: is now facing a charge of first degree murder and
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  Speaker 2: is being held on a bond of five hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation remains ongoing and authorities have you not yet
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  Speaker 2: released a motive. Attempts to reach the Monroe County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: Office and the Coroner's office to further comment have not
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  Speaker 2: been successful. The case has shaken the small community, leaving
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  Speaker 2: many grappling with the loss of a cherished elder and
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  Speaker 2: the unimaginable circumstances surrounding her death. Pastor Donald Errington had
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  Speaker 2: this to say.
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  Speaker 3: Terrible situation, and I will pray. I'll go out to
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  Speaker 3: the family and I think, really, what it's gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to come back to. A parent's gonna have to store
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  Speaker 3: back teaching that cheerodren and talking to that cheerodren and
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  Speaker 3: the young people got to understand when you go out
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  Speaker 3: and take make a life, you're stealing from God. And
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  Speaker 3: when you steal that life from God, then God gonna
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  Speaker 3: deal with you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll continue to follow this story and bring any updates
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  Speaker 2: as they become available.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you. More Private Justice News after this.
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  Speaker 2: A former television news anchor has been arrested on murder
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  Speaker 2: charges following the alleged stabbing of her elderly mother. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: responded to reports of a stabbing at a home in Wichita, Kansas,
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  Speaker 2: around seven point fifty two am, according to a statement
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  Speaker 2: from the Segwood County Police Department shared on their social media.
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  Speaker 2: Upon their arrival, officers discovered forty seven year old Angeline
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  Speaker 2: Angie Mack outside the home. Inside, they found her mother,
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  Speaker 2: eighty year old Anita Avers, unresponsive in her bed, suffering
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  Speaker 2: from multiple stab wounds. Avers was rushed to a nearby hospital,
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  Speaker 2: but tragically died from her in injuries later that same morning.
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  Speaker 2: Mack was also treated for unspecified injuries at the hospital
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  Speaker 2: before being taken into custody at the Segwood County Jail.
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  Speaker 2: She was formerly charged with first degree murder on October
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, and is currently being held on a million
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  Speaker 2: dollar bond. According to public records from Segwood County, the
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  Speaker 2: investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident are still ongoing. Mock,
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  Speaker 2: the accused killer, previously worked as a morning news anchor
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  Speaker 2: on Fox two in Saint Louis and kok h Fox
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  Speaker 2: twenty five in Oklahoma City and in Florida, a woman
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  Speaker 2: is behind bars after she tried to kidnap a child,
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  Speaker 2: just a five year old boy from his grandmother at
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  Speaker 2: a gas station, telling the grandmother to her face, I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking him. Evanna Noble, thirty eight, is now facing charges
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  Speaker 2: of false imprisonment of a child less than thirteen years old.
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  Speaker 2: She was booked into the Broward County Jail. It was
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning and the woman at a Shell gas station
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  Speaker 2: located in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She was there to pump gas.
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  Speaker 2: That's when police say she approached a grandmother and then
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  Speaker 2: tried to open the passenger door of her car and
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  Speaker 2: pull the grandson out. She looked the woman in the
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  Speaker 2: eye and said, I'm taking him. The grandmother began to
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  Speaker 2: fight the woman off, and witnesses called nine to one
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  Speaker 2: one Police arrived and took the woman into custody.
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  Speaker 1: Tensions high between Chantelle Hudson and her mom after they
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  Speaker 1: moved from Bishop, California to Dayton, Nevada, just after Chantelle
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  Speaker 1: starts her junior year of high school. Chantelle's mom thinks
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  Speaker 1: her teen girl has fallen in with the wrong crowd
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  Speaker 1: at her new school seven thirty Monday morning, Chantelle leaves
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  Speaker 1: home on foot after an argument. Her mom reports Chantelle
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  Speaker 1: missing when she's marked absent from school. Searches of Chantelle's
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  Speaker 1: route to school turn up nothing. Several reported sightings turn
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  Speaker 1: out to be misidentifications. Chantelle's social security number no activity,
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  Speaker 1: and extensive driver's license searches don't provide any leads. Chantale
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  Speaker 1: Hudson now missing thirty six years chantal Native American five five,
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  Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, has a scar on her
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  Speaker 1: left ring finger a birthmark on her lower back. If
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  Speaker 1: you have info on Chantale Hudson, call Lion County, Nevada
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's seven seven five five seven seven five zero two three.
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.