Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Alex Murdaugh Defense Demands Murder Charge Dismissal | Crime Alert 08.12.26

Transcript

Alex Murdaugh Defense Demands Murder Charge Dismissal | Crime Alert 08.12.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. Attorneys for convicted South Carolina legal scion
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Alex Murdau are making explosive new claims in court, alleging
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: that the lead agent in his murder investigation lied to
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: a grand jury and presented fabricated evidence. In a motion
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: to dismiss dated August seventh, Murdaw's defense team accused South
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Carolina Law Enforcement Division agent David Owen of delivering perjurist
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: testimony and fabricated physical evidence before the Colton County grand jury,
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: characterizing his actions as egregious prosecutorial misconduct. Murdaw's lawyers assert
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: that agent Owen admitted presenting physical evidence directly incriminating Murdau
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: that was false in which the defense claims was fabricated
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: by law enforcement. While defense attorneys noted that further details
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: will be laid out in an upcoming supporting memorandum, they
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: are asking a judge to dismiss the murder indictments entirely.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: In a second filing, Murdaw's atornyanis moved to transfer the
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: venue of his new murder trial to nearby Charleston County.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: They argue that an impartial jury cannot be found in
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: Colleton County because the prosecution has generated publicity without precedent
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: in state history, stating a move to Charleston would preserve
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: the values of a local trial while curing local prejudice.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: These legal maneuvers come ahead of a critical pre trial
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: hearing scheduled for Friday. Murdall was convicted in March twenty
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: twenty three of fatally shooting his wife, Maggie and son Paul. However,
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: after allegations surface that court clerk Rebecca Hill made inappropriate
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: comments to jurors, the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed Murdaw's
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: convictions and ordered a full retrial. In Ohio, three adults
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: are facing murder charges in connection with the horrific death
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: of a seven year old boy whose grandparents hired a
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: private investigator after suspecting severe abuse. Cincinnati police report that
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: thirty eight year old Caitlin Evans, along with her co parents,
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: thirty three year old c Rancin and twenty three year
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: old Nasa Kini, have all pleaded not guilty to murdering
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: young William Evans. Court records list rank in sex as male,
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: while police identify Rankin as female. According to police dispatch records,
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: the harrowing sequence began at the Mercy Rookwood Emergency room
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: when a charge nurse placed a desperate call to nine
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: one one after a barefoot woman entered the building, dropped
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: to the floor, and claimed someone was trying to kill
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: her and had taken her son.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Now, one one, what's the address to your emergency Mercy Rookwood.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Your name is Honor, Yes, my name is. What's going
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: on here? We have somebody that came in and kind
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: of just dropped herself on the floor. She's barefoot. She's
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: saying that her partner's trying to kill her, that they
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: took her son. I'm not sure if she's in danger
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: or it's a psychomer who took her son? Who who
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: Star Kirby. No, she's saying that he's hiding him up
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: in the attic of the apartments have addicts. The apartments
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: have addicts. Okay, I get a Norwood officer, Alver. Yeah,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: I'm the chargers of the emergency department. And she is
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: sitting on the floor, rocking back and forth him. Yeah,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: all right, we got him on the RST. All right,
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: That barefoot woman was identified as Caitlin Evans, who accused
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: her partner, Kirby Rankin, of taking her son. Police responding
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: to the family's apartment made a horrific discovery, finding seven
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: year old William tied up inside a closet and unresponsive.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: Fire department personnel pronounced the child dead at the scene.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati homicide Detective Kyle Smith testified in court that William
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: suffered severe beatings over the final two months of his
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: life and was held under water for prolonged periods, calling
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: it one of the most disturbing cases of child abuse
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: in his decades of law enforcement. Detective Smith stated that
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: Rankin disclosed her involvement in the prolonged abuse and implicated
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: both Evans and Keeney as active participants. Rankin's attorney has
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: requested a competency evaluation, citing mental health issues. Tragic statements
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: from William's grandparents, Mike and Tina Evans, revealed a saw
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: bruises on the boy and hired a private investigator after
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: William pleaded not to return to what they described as
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: a house of horrors. The Cincinnati Police Department Homicide Unit
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: continues its investigation. More crime and Justice news after this.
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: In Arizona, an international manhunt has ended following the tragic
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: murder of nineteen year old University of Arizona student Julyisa
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: Julie Salazar. Salazar was found strangled to death inside her
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: apartment near campus on Thursday. Investigators say her alleged killer,
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: twenty year old Varun Bachagari, boarded an international flight out
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: of the country and was captured by law enforcement in Berlin, Germany,
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: where he now awaits extradition. Authorities believe the motive stems
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: from a breakup. Federal sources confirm Batchagari entered the US
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: from India on an F one student visa in January
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Pma County court records show Bachagari was
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: charged with assault in May and expelled from the university
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: in July following a fight. University officials expressed deep condolences,
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: confirming support resources for campus members. Salazar's heartbroken mother described
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: her daughter as a bright light, top five percent high
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: school graduate and first generation college student studying to become
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: a child psychologist and campus survivor advocate. Her mother expressed
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: deep faith in the local justice system, stating I know
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: we will get justice. For my baby girl. For more
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: crime and justice news, be sure to join us for
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: crime stories with Nancy Grace on Fox One YouTube Serrius
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: XM and now streaming on two me With this crime alert,
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni