Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / GIRL, 2, DIES IN SCORCHING CAR WHILE DOCTOR'S HUSBAND SURFS PORN, GUZZLES SHOPLIFTED BEER
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A little girl just two
- 0:09Speaker 1: years old bakes dead dies in a scorching hot car
- 0:16Speaker 1: while daddy, the doctor's husband, is inside in the air condition,
- 0:22Speaker 1: surfing porn and guzzling shotlifted beer. Okay, what I said
- 0:28Speaker 1: that correctly? I'm sure that I did. A female doctor's
- 0:33Speaker 1: husband they have money to buy beer, is guzzling shop
- 0:40Speaker 1: lifted beer and surfing porn while his two year old daughter,
- 0:48Speaker 1: strapped in a car seat facing the sun directly bakes
- 0:55Speaker 1: dead in a car while mommy is at work. I
- 1:02Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I want to thank
- 1:04Speaker 1: you for being with us.
- 1:07Speaker 2: In a shocking incident and Arizona father left his two
- 1:10Speaker 2: year old daughter in a car as temperature soared to
- 1:12Speaker 2: a deadly one hundred and nine degrees, resulting in a
- 1:17Speaker 2: heartbreaking tragedy.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Just imagine the heat in Arizona when little Parker is
- 1:24Speaker 1: strapped in her car taking a nap for what three
- 1:29Speaker 1: four hours while dad claims he's playing games. Turns out
- 1:33Speaker 1: he's surfing porn guzzling shotlifted beer. One thing I found
- 1:41Speaker 1: very effective when trying cases is to start the case
- 1:44Speaker 1: off right, and that is taking the jury to the
- 1:47Speaker 1: moment of the incident, whatever that incident might be. With
- 1:51Speaker 1: a nine to one one call the real thing, the
- 1:57Speaker 1: unvarnished truth, the unadded on fieltered reality. Let's listen.
- 2:04Speaker 3: One, what's the address?
- 2:08Speaker 1: What's going on?
- 2:10Speaker 3: My big was in the cars of Okay, hold on
- 2:14Speaker 3: in trency in the medical dispatches, Dana Line ook hour.
- 2:24Speaker 1: It was when it burns off. I've been checking, my god,
- 2:30Speaker 1: she was in the car.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Three things, she's on the sponsor okay, and who is.
- 2:36Speaker 1: My daughter?
- 2:38Speaker 4: My daughter? And this was out in the driveway.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:42Speaker 5: Doctor Erica Schultz arrives home around four PM and sees
- 2:45Speaker 5: husband Chris, and two daughters, ages nine and five, but
- 2:48Speaker 5: doesn't see Parker. Chris begins looking in all the rooms
- 2:51Speaker 5: of the house, then suddenly runs outside the accurate and
- 2:54Speaker 5: the driveways off. The air conditioner is off. The outside
- 2:57Speaker 5: temperature is one hundred and nine degrees. Two year old
- 3:00Speaker 5: Parker is removed from the vehicle, unresponsive, strapped in her
- 3:03Speaker 5: child restraint system.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Hold on, because I'm hearing two people speaking to the
- 3:09Speaker 1: nine to one one dispatch operator. I hear a man
- 3:12Speaker 1: and a woman, and I hear the man saying, oh,
- 3:15Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god. I hear the woman saying,
- 3:18Speaker 1: how long has it been? And the man says an hour.
- 3:21Speaker 1: The woman says, you didn't have the car on, it was,
- 3:24Speaker 1: but it turns off right there. I'm looking down because
- 3:28Speaker 1: I'm reading verbat and what was said on that nine
- 3:31Speaker 1: one call right there? The dad acknowledges he knows that car,
- 3:37Speaker 1: that type of car, that making model, turns off after
- 3:41Speaker 1: thirty minutes. The engine turns off and so does the
- 3:45Speaker 1: air condition He knew that when he went inside to
- 3:49Speaker 1: watch porn. Yeah, listen, she still breathing.
- 3:54Speaker 4: No, you're not breathing right now. Okay, we need to
- 3:57Speaker 4: start CPR right now. Yeah, we are red. The helpers
- 4:01Speaker 4: on the way to you. I need to hear CPR.
- 4:03Speaker 4: I need them to count it out for me one two,
- 4:06Speaker 4: one two. But my life, the doctor, my wife, the doctor.
- 4:09Speaker 4: Tom Okay, Oh my god, oh my god.
- 4:14Speaker 5: Christopher Schultz returns home from running errands and realizes his
- 4:17Speaker 5: two year old daughter, Parker, is a sleep in her
- 4:20Speaker 5: car seat, leaves her in the running car with the
- 4:22Speaker 5: air conditioner on.
- 4:23Speaker 1: What in the world. Straight out to doctor Bethany Marshall,
- 4:28Speaker 1: renowned psycho analy's joining us out of LA. You can
- 4:31Speaker 1: see her now on peacock is. She is the author
- 4:33Speaker 1: of deal Breaker. She's at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. Wow,
- 4:38Speaker 1: daddy has been living a good life. All he has
- 4:41Speaker 1: to do is watch porn and drink beer. Wait a minute,
- 4:45Speaker 1: while mom's out working, she's the doctor. She's making the living. Fine,
- 4:51Speaker 1: My mom made a living too. My dad also worked.
- 4:54Speaker 1: But all he has to do. But can I see Bethany, please, Bethany,
- 5:00Speaker 1: all he has is one job, and granted it's a
- 5:05Speaker 1: big job, the most important job. Forget the doctor. The
- 5:10Speaker 1: job of raising the three girls and ensuring their safety
- 5:15Speaker 1: day and day out. That's his job. He has one
- 5:18Speaker 1: thing to do. Does he have to cook a gourmet
- 5:20Speaker 1: meal at night?
- 5:21Speaker 3: No?
- 5:21Speaker 1: Does he have to clean the house?
- 5:23Speaker 6: No?
- 5:24Speaker 1: One job, one thing, and he didn't do it.
- 5:30Speaker 7: Nancy, you know I have not treated or evaluated this guy,
- 5:33Speaker 7: But if this family was my patient, I would.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Wonder a couple of things.
- 5:38Speaker 7: First of all, did this guy have children so that
- 5:40Speaker 7: he didn't have to work? Sometimes people hide behind children,
- 5:44Speaker 7: They have them to avoid responsibility. What about the shoplifted beer?
- 5:49Speaker 7: Is he shoplifting beer because he knows he's not supposed
- 5:52Speaker 7: to drink. And if he buys it and has a
- 5:55Speaker 7: receipt or it's on a credit card, his wife.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Is going to find out.
- 5:58Speaker 7: And then finally that Parnaga financy. You know, pornography addiction
- 6:02Speaker 7: is such a problem. When men and sometimes women, but
- 6:05Speaker 7: mostly men watch pornography, they try to delay ejaculation as
- 6:10Speaker 7: long as possible. They do not use it for immediate
- 6:14Speaker 7: masturbatory purposes. And because of that, once they start watching pornography,
- 6:19Speaker 7: it can go on for hours and hours and hours.
- 6:22Speaker 7: So this guy knew that once he started watching, he
- 6:26Speaker 7: was not going to stop in a short period of time.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Bethday, look at your screen. Right there there is Schulte's
- 6:33Speaker 1: aka Doctor's hobby. There he is there, He's got the beer. Whoa, whoa,
- 6:39Speaker 1: whoa what did he go in the bathroom? He went
- 6:41Speaker 1: in the bathroom, I guess, and stuck it down his
- 6:44Speaker 1: pants and out he goes. Hey, Dave mac joining me,
- 6:48Speaker 1: I investigative reporter with crime stories. Dave is the stealing
- 6:52Speaker 1: the beer. By the way that videos for our friends
- 6:55Speaker 1: every cases we follow on YouTube, Dave is stealing the
- 6:59Speaker 1: beer the same day that Parker dies in the car.
- 7:04Speaker 5: It is the exact same day.
- 7:05Speaker 8: That's how they pulled the surveillance butage and we're.
- 7:07Speaker 9: Able to build a timeline for him.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Okay, that leads me to a whole other thing. You
- 7:12Speaker 1: know what, doctor Bethany, let me go to Josh coles Rude,
- 7:16Speaker 1: a criminal defense attorney, former assistant US Attorney, and founder
- 7:20Speaker 1: of coles Rude Law Offices. That's quite a mouthful. Coals Rude.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Let's see him coles Rude. This leads me to where
- 7:27Speaker 1: are the children while he's inside shotlifting beer out in
- 7:31Speaker 1: the parking lot waiting to get kidnapped?
- 7:35Speaker 6: Well, you know, the father in this case certainly failed
- 7:40Speaker 6: at his duties. Now you know what we want to do, though,
- 7:44Speaker 6: is really look at what's going on with you know,
- 7:49Speaker 6: try to take an emotion out of this.
- 7:51Speaker 10: You know.
- 7:52Speaker 6: So we have somebody who certainly is not good at
- 7:57Speaker 6: being a father.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Now you wait him, excuse me, I think I just
- 8:02Speaker 1: choked because of you not good at being a father.
- 8:07Speaker 1: I've got him on video going into shoplift beer stuffing
- 8:11Speaker 1: it down his pants in the bathroom. Where are the
- 8:15Speaker 1: children sitting out in the car in the heat again
- 8:20Speaker 1: just before and you say he's not good? Is that
- 8:22Speaker 1: a little bit of an understatement.
- 8:25Speaker 10: Yes, you know, not good.
- 8:26Speaker 6: He's a failure as a father, and that is true
- 8:29Speaker 6: to see for everybody there. It's inexcusable and it's indefensible,
- 8:36Speaker 6: you know, having your children in the car, especially when
- 8:39Speaker 6: you're shoplifting, it really goes to show not only negligence
- 8:44Speaker 6: but criminal conduct.
- 8:45Speaker 1: He stole the beer at twelve oh seven. Just imagine
- 8:52Speaker 1: stuffing a cold one down your pants. He gets home
- 8:56Speaker 1: at twelve fifty three and leaves the daughter in the car,
- 9:01Speaker 1: this one, he says, is dozing off with the car
- 9:04Speaker 1: seat on, and he wants to let her sleep, that's
- 9:07Speaker 1: his story. So he takes his beer and goes inside,
- 9:12Speaker 1: leaving her outside. And you say, quote, he's not a
- 9:16Speaker 1: good father. Is that a tiny bit of an understatement,
- 9:19Speaker 1: Cols Rude?
- 9:21Speaker 10: No, I think that it's not.
- 9:24Speaker 6: You know, this isn't a case where a father did
- 9:28Speaker 6: something out of hatred or breed, or even.
- 9:32Speaker 10: That he intended something bad to happen.
- 9:36Speaker 6: This was simply a father who was distracted not only
- 9:42Speaker 6: in what he was doing in the moment, but also
- 9:44Speaker 6: through his arrogance.
- 9:47Speaker 10: And because of.
- 9:48Speaker 6: That, you know, we obviously know the result in this
- 9:52Speaker 6: case but it isn't more than that, and we shouldn't
- 9:55Speaker 6: make it into.
- 9:56Speaker 10: Something that it's not.
- 9:58Speaker 6: This is simply a who, through neglect and his own arrogance,
- 10:05Speaker 6: failed at his basic duties.
- 10:07Speaker 10: Nothing more than that.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Let me just clear something up. Erica Wursey is joining
- 10:12Speaker 1: me with the She's the public safety reporter for the
- 10:16Speaker 1: Arizona Daily Star at Tucson dot com. Erica, thank you
- 10:22Speaker 1: for being with us. Erica. We just heard Josh Colesrude
- 10:27Speaker 1: stay that this was just a case of dad being negligent. Erica,
- 10:33Speaker 1: let me do a lightning round with you so we
- 10:35Speaker 1: can establish the actual facts in this case, not the
- 10:39Speaker 1: wonderland that Josh Colesrud would like us to believe to
- 10:43Speaker 1: enter in and get lost. Erica, Yes, no. Isn't it
- 10:48Speaker 1: true that the dad in this case, Chris Schultez, drives
- 10:53Speaker 1: home from the liquor store? Correct? Yes, no, then he
- 10:59Speaker 1: goes in with his beer, leaving his daughter pictured here
- 11:03Speaker 1: to your old Parker in the car, strapped in unable
- 11:05Speaker 1: to get out. Is that true? Erica wurst Absolutely correct.
- 11:10Speaker 1: He opens the door of the home, he goes back
- 11:13Speaker 1: to his computer, claiming that he is playing games while
- 11:18Speaker 1: his other two girls go somewhere else in the home
- 11:21Speaker 1: and he begins to surf porn and drink beer. Right, yes, no, yes,
- 11:25Speaker 1: absolutely crime stories with Nancy Grace Cole's rude. You see
- 11:39Speaker 1: one intentional act after the next. How are you coming
- 11:44Speaker 1: up with the defense of negligence. It just quote happened
- 11:49Speaker 1: through no one's fault. He has one intentional act after
- 11:54Speaker 1: the next. That's intentional, That is not negligence.
- 11:59Speaker 6: Well, you know the way that the case was charged
- 12:02Speaker 6: with child abuse and first degree murder, you know you
- 12:05Speaker 6: have to prove that intentionally committed the act. And if
- 12:11Speaker 6: you look at his actions, you don't see the motive
- 12:16Speaker 6: or intent to cause the death. You certainly see recklessness.
- 12:21Speaker 6: That he was aware of the harm and he disregarded
- 12:26Speaker 6: the harm and forgot what time it was and by
- 12:31Speaker 6: the time he realized what happened, unfortunately his daughter had
- 12:35Speaker 6: passed away.
- 12:37Speaker 10: That's not intentional. That is recklessness.
- 12:41Speaker 6: And you can see that previous distances where he's done
- 12:46Speaker 6: this before. Right, So he was aware of the danger
- 12:50Speaker 6: and he disregarded the danger by being on the porn
- 12:55Speaker 6: website and playing the PlayStation COLSRD.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Do I look like I just fell off the turnip truck.
- 13:05Speaker 10: No, you certainly don't, but I do know that you're reasonable.
- 13:09Speaker 1: That was a yes and you care about it. Thank you.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Murder cals rude, That was a yes. No, Col's rude.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Isn't it true? Under the law the law presumes we
- 13:27Speaker 1: intend the natural consequence of our act. In other words,
- 13:32Speaker 1: if I pick up a beautiful, thin, fragile china plate
- 13:36Speaker 1: and I throw it to a cement floor, the law
- 13:39Speaker 1: presumes that I intend to break it. The law presumes
- 13:44Speaker 1: we intend the natural consequence of our act. Isn't that true?
- 13:49Speaker 10: I respectfully disagree.
- 13:51Speaker 6: You know, context matters, and here what we have is
- 13:56Speaker 6: a okay.
- 13:56Speaker 1: You want me to read the black and white Arizona
- 13:59Speaker 1: law to you. Can you not admit that that is
- 14:03Speaker 1: the law in Arizona?
- 14:06Speaker 6: There is a different men's raa for every crime on
- 14:10Speaker 6: the statute book.
- 14:12Speaker 10: Not all of them are intentional.
- 14:14Speaker 6: Many are a lesser men'sraa, which is what the what
- 14:20Speaker 6: you intended to happen? Or we're reckless about right? So
- 14:24Speaker 6: here you can either be reckless, knowing, intentional, or willful.
- 14:28Speaker 6: Those are four different states of mind. You're talking about
- 14:31Speaker 6: just one of them intentional. But here the actions speak
- 14:36Speaker 6: of recklessness, that he knew of the danger and he
- 14:40Speaker 6: disregarded that danger by his distraction and arrogance. That context matters.
- 14:48Speaker 6: There's nothing in the motive here that says that he
- 14:51Speaker 6: intended for this act to happen. There's no hatred, there's
- 14:55Speaker 6: no greed, there's nothing of that sort.
- 14:58Speaker 1: I tell you, I say, we're you're going calls thru.
- 15:01Speaker 1: But now you have forced me to read the black
- 15:05Speaker 1: and white letter of the Arizona law. I thought you
- 15:09Speaker 1: would can see that that is the law. But let
- 15:11Speaker 1: me read it. In Arizona law, a person is considered
- 15:15Speaker 1: to intend a natural and probable consequence of their act. Okay,
- 15:21Speaker 1: so you leave a child in the car, Chris McDonough.
- 15:26Speaker 1: The heat, the temperature on that day was one hundred
- 15:31Speaker 1: and nine degrees outside, and you know the car temperature
- 15:39Speaker 1: vastly increases in a stifling, hot, enclosed car in direct sun.
- 15:45Speaker 1: So have you ever heard of like serial killers when
- 15:49Speaker 1: they're little, they'll take a magnifying glass and put it
- 15:53Speaker 1: on an insect and they burn it dead. They know
- 15:56Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Right, you've heard of that? Correct?
- 16:00Speaker 11: Yes?
- 16:02Speaker 4: Absolutely?
- 16:03Speaker 1: Okay, God bless you for a single syllable answer. So
- 16:07Speaker 1: McDonough leaving a child and one hundred and nine degree
- 16:13Speaker 1: outside strapped in a car with the windows up, what
- 16:18Speaker 1: do you assume the natural consequence would be death?
- 16:26Speaker 12: Evident of the fact that he didn't leave his family
- 16:28Speaker 12: dog in the car. The child is an inconvenience for
- 16:32Speaker 12: this guy. I mean he goes earlier at the heat
- 16:37Speaker 12: of the day, between twelve noon and two pm, in
- 16:41Speaker 12: the middle of July, where the highest temperature in that
- 16:45Speaker 12: area is one hundred and fifteen degrees. He steals a beer,
- 16:49Speaker 12: brings the child home, and leaves her in the car.
- 16:53Speaker 12: If that's not intent, I don't know what is.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Under the law. Also, thank you for schooling the veteran
- 17:01Speaker 1: defense attorney. He's tried a lot of cases. Josh Coles rude.
- 17:05Speaker 1: I'm afraid to open his mic, but I'm going to
- 17:07Speaker 1: go out on a limb. Josh Coles rude. Isn't it
- 17:10Speaker 1: true that murder one can be proven under the theory
- 17:15Speaker 1: of the abandoned and malignant heart. Example, there's a street
- 17:20Speaker 1: festival and I get in my beat up mini van
- 17:24Speaker 1: and I sit on the break at the same time,
- 17:27Speaker 1: I guess it and I take off at one hundred
- 17:30Speaker 1: mph through that festival, and I mow down several people
- 17:33Speaker 1: and kill them. That is an abandoned, malignant heart, abandoned
- 17:39Speaker 1: to the suffering of others, And that can equal murder one.
- 17:44Speaker 1: It is a theory that supports murder one abandoned and
- 17:48Speaker 1: malignant heart. Isn't that true?
- 17:51Speaker 6: Well, context matters, and what you're talking about is circumstantial evidence.
- 17:57Speaker 6: So you know, let's look at the circumstantial evidence too,
- 18:00Speaker 6: so determine what the defendant's state of mind is.
- 18:04Speaker 10: So we know that he was drinking, and that he
- 18:08Speaker 10: was aware of the risk.
- 18:10Speaker 6: That the car's air conditioning was shut off after thirty minutes,
- 18:14Speaker 6: and this hadn't happened before, and he left his daughter
- 18:18Speaker 6: in the car so he could go look at porn
- 18:21Speaker 6: and play on his PlayStation and allegedly play games with
- 18:25Speaker 6: his other kids.
- 18:27Speaker 10: And during that time he lost track of time.
- 18:29Speaker 6: There's no evidence that he intended for this act to
- 18:33Speaker 6: occur or that he had some okaylie.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Back to my question, if I can get us back
- 18:38Speaker 1: in the middle of the road. I was prepared for this.
- 18:41Speaker 1: I'm ready for you. I looked at the loss so
- 18:44Speaker 1: I could read it to you again. Verbatim out of Arizona.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Abandoned malignant heart is a legal concept known as depraved
- 18:51Speaker 1: heart murder. It is implied malice and a basis for
- 18:56Speaker 1: murder in Arizona. It is a killing that results from
- 19:01Speaker 1: extreme indifference to human life, even though defendant did not
- 19:05Speaker 1: specifically intend to kill. So that said, there are three lines,
- 19:16Speaker 1: three avenues under which the state can get a murder conviction.
- 19:20Speaker 1: One the law presumes you intend the natural consequence of
- 19:26Speaker 1: your act the plate of China to the cement floor.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Number two abandoned and malignant heart. He did something with
- 19:34Speaker 1: such extreme indifference to the life of his daughter that
- 19:38Speaker 1: it results in a murder charge. And three felony murder.
- 19:44Speaker 1: That is, when a death occurs during the commission of
- 19:47Speaker 1: a felony. The felony here would be child neglect. A
- 19:52Speaker 1: death occurred during child neglect. Now, I know what you're
- 19:56Speaker 1: about to do. You're about to throw some contextual argument
- 20:00Speaker 1: at me. But I know for a fact that those
- 20:03Speaker 1: three theories i've murder apply to this case. I'm not
- 20:08Speaker 1: arguing he intended to kill his daughter when he slammed
- 20:11Speaker 1: the door. I'm not arguing that. I don't believe that's true,
- 20:14Speaker 1: but I believe all of the other three avenues to
- 20:18Speaker 1: murder fit Shultice.
- 20:21Speaker 10: Well, those three.
- 20:23Speaker 6: Theories may or may not work in front of a jury,
- 20:28Speaker 6: but what does matter is circumstantial evidence, because in order
- 20:32Speaker 6: to prove that he had some malignant intent or that
- 20:38Speaker 6: this is a felony murder, you have to really delve
- 20:42Speaker 6: into his motivation.
- 20:44Speaker 10: What was he doing at the time that this happened.
- 20:49Speaker 6: He was drinking, He was distracted by watching porn on
- 20:55Speaker 6: the PlayStation and playing with.
- 20:57Speaker 10: His other children. You know, there's notion.
- 21:01Speaker 1: He wasn't playing with them. He sent them to another
- 21:03Speaker 1: room so he could watch porn, you know, naked ladies.
- 21:11Speaker 4: Oh my god, baby bpr is still going on. Yeah,
- 21:18Speaker 4: you're still going on. Okay, you're going to perform that
- 21:22Speaker 4: until the units arrive and take over for you.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Baby babe, Babe, babe.
- 21:39Speaker 2: The child's mother returned home to a scene of unimaginable grief,
- 21:43Speaker 2: finding her daughter lifeless after being trapped in the sweltering
- 21:48Speaker 2: vehicle for over three hours.
- 21:51Speaker 1: So daddy has the other two girls at a trampoline
- 21:54Speaker 1: part with friends. Okay, So they're at a kind of
- 21:57Speaker 1: a jumpy house type thing, and it's our understanding that
- 22:01Speaker 1: that trampoline park is indoors in an air conditioned facility
- 22:06Speaker 1: where literally the floors are all trampolines. Okay, so the
- 22:09Speaker 1: two older children five and nine are there, he only
- 22:12Speaker 1: has to take care of one child one. Okay, Welcome back, everybody.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Daddy under suspicion in the death of his two year
- 22:24Speaker 1: old little girl, Parker. Daddy's inside drinking stolen beer and
- 22:28Speaker 1: watching porn while this child dies out in a baking
- 22:34Speaker 1: hot car.
- 22:35Speaker 5: Listen Filter Scull's nine one one as Erica performs CPR
- 22:39Speaker 5: and her daughter. When responders arrived, the temperature is one
- 22:42Speaker 5: hundred and nine degrees and Parker is transported to Banner
- 22:44Speaker 5: University Medical Center or fifty eight PM to year old
- 22:48Speaker 5: Parker pronounced Debt. The medical examiner says the temperature inside
- 22:51Speaker 5: the car was one hundred and eight point nine degrees
- 22:53Speaker 5: when first responders arrived, confirming she died of heat exposure.
- 22:58Speaker 1: How hot does it get in a car when the
- 23:01Speaker 1: tip is one hundred and nine outside? Watch this, So
- 23:06Speaker 1: let's start.
- 23:06Speaker 11: A timer and let's see exactly how hot it gets
- 23:10Speaker 11: in here. I'm at five minutes in. It is unbelievably hot.
- 23:15Speaker 11: In here. We're nearing one hundred degrees already, and I
- 23:21Speaker 11: can tell you that it is stifling in here. Okay,
- 23:25Speaker 11: I'm at fifteen minutes now and it's about one hundred
- 23:30Speaker 11: and ten in my car. The temperature right now is
- 23:34Speaker 11: about one fifteen. What I really wanted to set out
- 23:38Speaker 11: to do is see how I felt to be left
- 23:40Speaker 11: in a parked car.
- 23:42Speaker 1: He's talking about a pet in a parked car, not
- 23:45Speaker 1: a child, but the physics, the law, the law of
- 23:49Speaker 1: nature applies. And that is from our friend doctor Ernie
- 23:52Speaker 1: Ward joining us now dtor Kendall Crowns. He is a
- 23:57Speaker 1: renowned chief medical examiner in Terrent County. That's Fort Worth.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Never a lack of business in the morgue there. He's
- 24:06Speaker 1: the esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU,
- 24:12Speaker 1: and he is the star of a hit podcast series,
- 24:16Speaker 1: Mayhem in the Morgue. Doctor Kindle Crowns U Control Room.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Could you show me a picture of two year old Parker.
- 24:26Speaker 1: Every time I look at her, I think of my
- 24:28Speaker 1: twins at age two, age two. While we look at Parker,
- 24:35Speaker 1: Doctor Kindall Crowns, could you explain what happens to a
- 24:39Speaker 1: child in a stifling hot car temp out side one
- 24:42Speaker 1: o nine.
- 24:43Speaker 13: Certainly, so when a child's left in a car that
- 24:45Speaker 13: it's at a high temperature of one oh nine, their
- 24:48Speaker 13: bodies heat up about three to five times faster than
- 24:51Speaker 13: an adult. So within minutes they're already starting to sweat,
- 24:55Speaker 13: and then their body becomes overwhelmed and they start feeling dizzy.
- 24:58Speaker 13: They start having had a and begin vomiting at about
- 25:02Speaker 13: a temperature of one hundred and four. When the core
- 25:05Speaker 13: body temperature of the child reaches one hundred and four,
- 25:08Speaker 13: they're starting to really feel the signs of heatstroke and
- 25:11Speaker 13: they're beginning to go even further, passing out going into
- 25:15Speaker 13: a coma. At about a body temperature of one hundred
- 25:18Speaker 13: and seven, their entire organ systems begin to fail and
- 25:21Speaker 13: shut down. They go to into a coma and die.
- 25:25Speaker 13: So it takes a matter of minutes, especially in a
- 25:28Speaker 13: temperature of one hundred and nine, for a child to
- 25:30Speaker 13: go from normal to fatal. It'd probably be about twenty
- 25:36Speaker 13: minutes tops.
- 25:38Speaker 1: When they endure that. Doctor Kimdl crowns, what does the
- 25:43Speaker 1: child live through? Because in a case that we went
- 25:49Speaker 1: to the courtroom and watched gabble to gabble justin Ross Harris,
- 25:55Speaker 1: Baby Cooper dye in a hot car while he was
- 25:58Speaker 1: inside his workplace at home Depot corporate texting sexting with
- 26:04Speaker 1: underage women and other women. Baby Cooper died in the car,
- 26:10Speaker 1: and I recalled distinctly that his head was scratched in
- 26:16Speaker 1: the back and I think across his neck, but I'm
- 26:20Speaker 1: sure the back of the head where he was banging it,
- 26:23Speaker 1: banging it against his car seat, trying to get out
- 26:28Speaker 1: and trying to breathe. So that tells me, Doctor Kimdle Crowns,
- 26:34Speaker 1: that the child doesn't just pass out and die like
- 26:39Speaker 1: they told us in Brian Coburger that the four Ido
- 26:43Speaker 1: students went to sleep and they woke up in heaven.
- 26:45Speaker 1: That's not at all what happened. Killy gonsolve us was
- 26:49Speaker 1: dead like thirty times in the face alone. So I
- 26:53Speaker 1: know the child is awake based on what Baby Cooper's
- 26:59Speaker 1: body revealed and the way you said it. It just
- 27:02Speaker 1: gets hot and they die. That's not what happens, Doctor
- 27:06Speaker 1: Kendall Crowns.
- 27:07Speaker 13: Well, that is I agree with you. That is not
- 27:10Speaker 13: what happens. And I did say that there is a
- 27:12Speaker 13: time period between the initial beginning of the heatstroke, where
- 27:16Speaker 13: the child is feeling hot, sweating, having to breathe in
- 27:20Speaker 13: this hot air, and begins to become confused, dizzy, starts vomiting,
- 27:26Speaker 13: and eventually, after several minutes, will pass out and then
- 27:30Speaker 13: go into a coma and die. But that time period
- 27:32Speaker 13: between the beginning and the coma is a very difficult
- 27:36Speaker 13: time period with the sweating, the vomiting of the dizzyness,
- 27:39Speaker 13: and it can even result in a seizure.
- 27:41Speaker 10: At some point.
- 27:42Speaker 13: Kids strapped into their car.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Seat it so they'll be when you were in a
- 27:48Speaker 1: hot car, it feels like there's air in there, but
- 27:52Speaker 1: it feels like you can't breathe.
- 27:56Speaker 13: It's because the heated air actually is makes your co
- 28:00Speaker 13: of your mouth and your airway kind of swell and
- 28:03Speaker 13: become a demitus, and it's almost burning your airway to
- 28:06Speaker 13: breathe in this hot air, so it's.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Uncomfortable, Doctor Kimmel Crown's in preparation for tonight's show yesterday,
- 28:17Speaker 1: I sat out in the car and I turned it
- 28:20Speaker 1: off and let the windows were already up, and sat
- 28:23Speaker 1: there in the sun, and it got harder and harder
- 28:27Speaker 1: to breathe, and I up here I knew there was
- 28:32Speaker 1: air in the car, but it didn't feel that way.
- 28:35Speaker 1: It felt like all the air had been sucked out
- 28:38Speaker 1: of the car. How does that happen.
- 28:41Speaker 13: It's your body's reaction to the heat, and it's starting
- 28:44Speaker 13: to decompensate because of the heat. You're sweating and you're
- 28:48Speaker 13: slowly becoming dehydrated, and your organs are starting to shut
- 28:52Speaker 13: down because the elevated temperature eventually would cause you to
- 28:56Speaker 13: go into multi organ failure and die.
- 28:58Speaker 2: Schultez claims he was putting up groceries and got distracted
- 29:01Speaker 2: playing video games on PlayStation. Investigators find out he was
- 29:05Speaker 2: drinking beer and watching porn on the internet while his
- 29:08Speaker 2: older daughters, nine and five are playing nearby.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Joining us. Erica Worst, a public safety reporter with the
- 29:16Speaker 1: Arizona Daily Star in tusaun dot com Erica. So at
- 29:20Speaker 1: the beginning, hey lied. He said that he was putting
- 29:24Speaker 1: away groceries and playing PlayStation.
- 29:27Speaker 14: Yeah, he said he was home way after he actually
- 29:33Speaker 14: got home, and that was caught on neighbor's security camera.
- 29:36Speaker 14: So she was not in there for thirty to forty
- 29:40Speaker 14: five minutes, and they were able to prove that she
- 29:43Speaker 14: was in there for hours. Based on his life, which
- 29:48Speaker 14: they were absolutely able to prove. We're life well.
- 29:52Speaker 2: Christopher Schultez, the father, failed to rescue his daughter from
- 29:56Speaker 2: the scorching car reportedly consumed by video games and explicit
- 30:01Speaker 2: online content.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Police immediately, as you just heard Erica Werced from the
- 30:07Speaker 1: Arizona Daily Star in Tucson dot Com report, police were
- 30:12Speaker 1: first told and you hear him saying this in the
- 30:14Speaker 1: nine one one call. He's already saying this in the
- 30:17Speaker 1: nine to one one call that baby Parker was only
- 30:21Speaker 1: in the car for minutes minutes, but based on security
- 30:27Speaker 1: camp from neighbors videos, their ring cams, or surveillance videos,
- 30:32Speaker 1: he was actually in the home for hours and he
- 30:35Speaker 1: knew the vehicle cut off. The engine and air go
- 30:39Speaker 1: the air conditioner both cut off after thirty minutes.
- 30:44Speaker 5: Investigators began creating a timeline. Shelters tells them he got
- 30:48Speaker 5: home to thirty pm and Parker was asleep in the car.
- 30:51Speaker 5: Surveillance footage shows Sheltas did not arrive home at two
- 30:54Speaker 5: thirty as he claims he got home at twelve fifty
- 30:56Speaker 5: three pm. Shelts is seen walking into the house and
- 31:00Speaker 5: not coming back out again until after his wife gets
- 31:03Speaker 5: home at four oh eight pm when Shelters is seen
- 31:05Speaker 5: running out.
- 31:06Speaker 1: To the car, running but too late. I want you
- 31:09Speaker 1: to see daddy. I don't when I compare him to
- 31:13Speaker 1: my daddy, he really doesn't deserve that title. Christopher Schultee,
- 31:17Speaker 1: speaking on bodycam to police.
- 31:21Speaker 10: So any any.
- 31:22Speaker 13: Death, they have to treat it like a crime scene.
- 31:29Speaker 13: I know this is extremely difficult for you.
- 31:32Speaker 10: This is a normal process.
- 31:34Speaker 13: That you have to follow through with.
- 31:36Speaker 10: I don't want you to be blindsided by anything, but
- 31:40Speaker 10: that's that's.
- 31:41Speaker 13: What's going to be going on for an of the friends.
- 31:47Speaker 1: I know, and I know this isn't easy for you.
- 31:50Speaker 10: That's that's why I'm trying to be straightforward and honestly you. Okay,
- 31:53Speaker 10: I don't want to keep any secrets. I don't want
- 31:55Speaker 10: to hide anything for you. Someone's going to talk to
- 31:57Speaker 10: you about what happened.
- 31:58Speaker 4: Then, all right.
- 32:04Speaker 1: Quite so, I'm being treated like a murderer. And he
- 32:08Speaker 1: starts crying because he's being treated like a murderer. Josh colsrude,
- 32:13Speaker 1: don't you hate it when your clients are caught completely
- 32:18Speaker 1: self absorbed?
- 32:20Speaker 6: Well, this is a situation where a father is dealing
- 32:26Speaker 6: in grief. I think we can all see that he
- 32:30Speaker 6: just lost a two year old daughter, and he's reacting
- 32:34Speaker 6: like somebody.
- 32:35Speaker 10: Who loves his child.
- 32:38Speaker 6: He's not acting like somebody who intended for this to happen.
- 32:44Speaker 6: And you know there is an element here of mercy,
- 32:48Speaker 6: you know, you know, justice demands accountability, but it also
- 32:53Speaker 6: demands a dose of mercy. And we're looking at human
- 32:57Speaker 6: emotion at its most raw form. And you know, what
- 33:02Speaker 6: would you expect a father to do or act like
- 33:05Speaker 6: if he lost what you.
- 33:07Speaker 1: Mean, the father that's getting himself some cold water out
- 33:09Speaker 1: of the fridge right there, That father, he probably.
- 33:13Speaker 6: Doesn't even know that he's doing that. He's lost in grief,
- 33:17Speaker 6: which is what you would expect for somebody who truly
- 33:20Speaker 6: loved their daughter. You're not seeing crocodile tears here. You're
- 33:25Speaker 6: seeing genuine emotion and love for somebody and.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Genuinely get himself a glass of cold water on ice
- 33:32Speaker 1: side of the fridge after his daughter just thirsted in
- 33:35Speaker 1: the heat in the car. Yeah, okay, fill up, and
- 33:40Speaker 1: that ain't all. Listen.
- 33:42Speaker 2: You will keep.
- 33:46Speaker 7: Family, our whole family.
- 33:55Speaker 13: So we can't let you do that right now.
- 33:57Speaker 3: We have to stand by with you, Okay, as soon
- 33:59Speaker 3: as he can't really.
- 34:00Speaker 1: Elect you stay in the room if you want under
- 34:02Speaker 1: that house.
- 34:04Speaker 12: I know this isn't easy for you.
- 34:05Speaker 10: But the quicker we get this son in fishelp so s.
- 34:09Speaker 13: You can be with your wife, all right, so.
- 34:13Speaker 7: I could go with my wife.
- 34:15Speaker 10: We're not going to shower anymore.
- 34:16Speaker 13: Now you need to stand by with it.
- 34:18Speaker 1: I don't understand why then crime stories with Nancy Grace,
- 34:31Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall help me. He's saying, I have to
- 34:35Speaker 1: get to my wife at the hospital, but first I'm
- 34:38Speaker 1: going to luxuriate in hot shower. What this isn't fitting
- 34:42Speaker 1: together for me? Now, I'm just a trial lawyer. You're
- 34:45Speaker 1: the shrink. You're the renowned psychoanalyst out of LA. What
- 34:49Speaker 1: is going on? He's fighting about taking a shower.
- 34:53Speaker 7: Parker is not a real person to him. He's stuck
- 34:57Speaker 7: her in the car so he could watch pornography while
- 35:00Speaker 7: the other girls wore away at a trampoline party. That's
- 35:03Speaker 7: what he wanted to do. He itified her, He treated
- 35:06Speaker 7: her like she was an it. I have watched all
- 35:09Speaker 7: the police surveillance and what I noticed he does not
- 35:12Speaker 7: get upset until they say it's a crime scene. Prior
- 35:16Speaker 7: to that he looks panicked, not sad. Getting into the
- 35:20Speaker 7: shower is to kind of pull himself together to go
- 35:22Speaker 7: to the hospital. If your baby died, you would be
- 35:25Speaker 7: rushing out the door. You would be saying to the
- 35:28Speaker 7: police officers, take me in the car now, I'm going
- 35:31Speaker 7: to run to the hospital if you will not put
- 35:34Speaker 7: me in the car. He is taking time to pull
- 35:37Speaker 7: himself together, which tells.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Me that he's a hardish minute. Dr Bethany, I have
- 35:44Speaker 1: a question which may bear on what you're saying. Erica
- 35:49Speaker 1: were joining us Arizona Daily Star. Erica wasn't maybe Parker
- 35:56Speaker 1: pronounced dad at the hospital? Yeah, so, Dave Matt Crime
- 36:01Speaker 1: Stories investigative reporter. Is it possible that he wanted to
- 36:04Speaker 1: take a shower before Parker had even been declared dead?
- 36:11Speaker 9: Nancy, He actually gets a phone call from or a
- 36:15Speaker 9: text from Erica, and that's when he tells the police,
- 36:18Speaker 9: my wife wants me at the hospital. I'm guessing based
- 36:21Speaker 9: on the fact that he didn't start screaming my daughter's dead,
- 36:25Speaker 9: he actually is. You know, he says, I got to
- 36:27Speaker 9: get a shower, I got to rinse off before I
- 36:29Speaker 9: go to my wife at the hospital. I'm need to
- 36:31Speaker 9: be there with her.
- 36:32Speaker 1: But look at him.
- 36:33Speaker 9: He's not focused on anything except himself and the police
- 36:36Speaker 9: are going he's trying to wash off evidence.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Oh okay, I was wondering about the desire to watch
- 36:42Speaker 1: Chris McDonough. I've seen it in gunshot cases where the
- 36:47Speaker 1: defendant can't wait. He suddenly has to go to the
- 36:49Speaker 1: bathroom or take a shower to get that GSR gunshot
- 36:52Speaker 1: residue off his hands, which you can do really easily
- 36:55Speaker 1: with tap water. But here I was trying to figure
- 36:58Speaker 1: out why is he so held bit on taking a shower.
- 37:01Speaker 1: His wife and daughter are at the hospital. What's with
- 37:06Speaker 1: the hot shower?
- 37:08Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 37:08Speaker 12: I think Dave maybe onto something here. Is there something
- 37:11Speaker 12: else that we're just not aware of? But he is
- 37:14Speaker 12: in his mind and talk about malignant intent, right, the
- 37:17Speaker 12: one question where's Parker at that moment? That guy is
- 37:22Speaker 12: in a whole different world, and this video shows us
- 37:25Speaker 12: it's his world, it's not her world.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Okay. Doctor Bethany Marshall weighan.
- 37:31Speaker 7: Nancy act is because he was watching pornography. He could
- 37:34Speaker 7: have lubricant all over himself and he's trying to clean
- 37:37Speaker 7: himself up because the evidence in this case would not
- 37:40Speaker 7: be gun shot residue. It would be evidence that he's masturbating.
- 37:45Speaker 1: While his daughter's in the car.
- 37:47Speaker 7: I think that would be the evidence he would want
- 37:49Speaker 7: to wash off.
- 37:51Speaker 2: The investigators uncovered text messages hinting that this tragic over
- 37:55Speaker 2: saying was not an isolated incident, raising questions about a
- 37:59Speaker 2: history of.
- 38:00Speaker 1: Negligence, joining us an all star panel to make sense
- 38:05Speaker 1: of what we know tonight? Do I understand correctly? Dave
- 38:10Speaker 1: Matt Crime Stories investigative reporter that Daddy Schultics knew the
- 38:16Speaker 1: car would cut off, and he had been warned before
- 38:20Speaker 1: by his wife not to leave the girls in the car.
- 38:25Speaker 1: And we hear Mommy saying that when she gets home,
- 38:28Speaker 1: I told you not to do this.
- 38:30Speaker 10: Yes, exactly, Nancy.
- 38:31Speaker 8: He knew exactly how long that NBAC stayed on in
- 38:35Speaker 8: idle before it was cutting off automatically, and she had
- 38:39Speaker 8: continually warned him about leaving the children in the car unattended.
- 38:44Speaker 9: This was a regular habit of his, and she warned
- 38:46Speaker 9: him not to do it.
- 38:48Speaker 1: You know, over and over we learn he knew very
- 38:52Speaker 1: well not to do this. Look at this text mom
- 38:55Speaker 1: sent him. I told you to stop leaving them in
- 38:57Speaker 1: the car. How many times have I told you? And
- 39:00Speaker 1: he says, Babe, I'm sorry, but I want you to
- 39:03Speaker 1: hear what mommy does in court. He's charged with murder
- 39:08Speaker 1: and mommy insists the judge let him out on bond,
- 39:13Speaker 1: says he is a quote good dad and he needs
- 39:17Speaker 1: to come home out of jail so he can grieve. Listen,
- 39:21Speaker 1: I'm just asking if you can allow him to come
- 39:22Speaker 1: home to us. This was a big mistake, and I
- 39:26Speaker 1: think that this doesn't represent him that from our friends
- 39:30Speaker 1: at KVATV and eight fifty seven to two, son Erica
- 39:34Speaker 1: Wrest joining us Arizona Daily Star. Is it true that
- 39:40Speaker 1: when the judge lets him out on bond, he goes
- 39:44Speaker 1: with the family on a vacation to Hawaii? Is that true?
- 39:51Speaker 14: Is one of the.
- 39:52Speaker 1: Weirdest things, jos Coles, Rude, How's that going to look
- 39:57Speaker 1: to a jury that mommy goes in front of a
- 40:00Speaker 1: judge and begs for a lower bond so he can
- 40:02Speaker 1: come out and grieve. And what he grieves at the
- 40:07Speaker 1: big island on the beach with one of those big
- 40:10Speaker 1: drinks in a pineapple, Well, I.
- 40:13Speaker 6: Think it says a lot about the victims in this case.
- 40:18Speaker 10: And the mother is a.
- 40:21Speaker 6: Victim, and she's the next of kin, and she's grieving,
- 40:27Speaker 6: and she understands the context in which this happened, and
- 40:32Speaker 6: she knows her husband and she knows that he's not
- 40:36Speaker 6: a danger to her family anymore, and she wants to
- 40:42Speaker 6: forgive him. And the judge saw it the same way and.
- 40:46Speaker 1: Rules, Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. You're talking
- 40:49Speaker 1: Christy talk, doctor Bethony Marshall. Can't she forgive him while
- 40:53Speaker 1: he's in jail? Does he have to be forgiven? On
- 40:55Speaker 1: the beach at the Big Island.
- 40:58Speaker 7: You know Nancy on the bodycamp. You see her comforting him,
- 41:02Speaker 7: very calmly. It's the same woman. It's the doctor mother.
- 41:06Speaker 7: You can tell by the tattoos on her arms. And
- 41:08Speaker 7: she's calmly saying it's okay, babe, something that extent. So
- 41:12Speaker 7: she is more concerned about him than she is about
- 41:15Speaker 7: the baby. It's very, very perplexing, Nancy. She's an anesthesiologist,
- 41:20Speaker 7: you know what that means. She her profession is keeping
- 41:24Speaker 7: people alive while under surgery. She knows that these kids
- 41:29Speaker 7: have been left in the car. She knows the risk
- 41:32Speaker 7: to them. She may be one of these mothers. Again,
- 41:34Speaker 7: I've never treated or evaluated her, who is more bonded
- 41:38Speaker 7: with the father with the love object than with her
- 41:42Speaker 7: own children.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Shockingly, the hubby slash dad turns down a sweet heart
- 41:50Speaker 1: deal for maximum ten years. He would probably have been
- 41:55Speaker 1: out on in about five years. I don't know why
- 41:59Speaker 1: the yests of children are treated differently than deaths of adults.
- 42:04Speaker 1: Why did he turn down the deal because the judge
- 42:11Speaker 1: gutted the state's evidence.
- 42:13Speaker 5: Listen, Shelton's face is a first degree murder trial, and
- 42:16Speaker 5: the prosecutors intend to introduce evidence of Shelton's porn surge
- 42:19Speaker 5: at trial, but the request was denied by Judge Kimberly Ortiz.
- 42:23Speaker 5: The judge decided the state is precluded from any eliciting
- 42:27Speaker 5: testimony in its case in chief regarding the defendant looking
- 42:30Speaker 5: for pornography on PlayStation before his daughter's body is discovered.
- 42:34Speaker 1: Well, thanks, judge. By doing that, you gutted the state's case,
- 42:40Speaker 1: showing his course of conduct, frame of mind, his motivation
- 42:44Speaker 1: at the time the child was killed. Did that really happen?
- 42:49Speaker 1: Dave Mack? The judge ruled out any evidence of pornsurfing.
- 42:54Speaker 15: Absolutely, Nancy, and this is something that shocked everyone involved
- 42:59Speaker 15: in the case.
- 43:00Speaker 10: That the judge said, you.
- 43:01Speaker 9: Can't let anything in about it. You can't let anybody
- 43:04Speaker 9: talk about it. This is off the table.
- 43:06Speaker 1: Take a look at this bodycam video. Parker has been
- 43:09Speaker 1: brought into the home and you see everyone there. It
- 43:13Speaker 1: looks like some of the police know that Parker is dying,
- 43:16Speaker 1: while one person a minister CPR. In the end, Daves
- 43:20Speaker 1: mac as he approaches trial after he's turned out a
- 43:24Speaker 1: sweet heart deal, he suddenly pleads guilty when he looks
- 43:28Speaker 1: at the evidence against him. What's the sentence?
- 43:30Speaker 10: Fancy?
- 43:31Speaker 15: The sentence comes out as a flat time sentence of
- 43:35Speaker 15: twenty to thirty years without parole and with the sentences
- 43:40Speaker 15: for the various charges to run consecutively.
- 43:44Speaker 1: Shulti now facing a sentencing range of twenty to thirty
- 43:47Speaker 1: years flat time. What does that mean? Will he get
- 43:51Speaker 1: out early? Will there be a sudden turn of events
- 43:54Speaker 1: like there have been in the past, And what if
- 43:58Speaker 1: any duty does Mommy face? We wait as justice unfolds,
- 44:05Speaker 1: and we remember an American hero, Lieutenant Albert Stout, Robstown Police, Texas,
- 44:10Speaker 1: killed in the line of duty after thirty one years
- 44:13Speaker 1: on the force, leaving behind his wife and three children.
- 44:18Speaker 1: American hero Lieutenant Albert Stout, Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,