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Tipsy Texas Housewife Who Blamed Fashion Fail for Fatal Crash, Caged for 11yrs| Crime Alert 6AM 11.06.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm miss Grace breaking crime news now. A
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  Speaker 1: wealthy Texas woman blames her pricey Lubaton heels for killing
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  Speaker 1: a pedestrian. Okay, Joseph McMullin, thirty three on his date
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  Speaker 1: walking from a donut shop when Christina Chambers hits a curb,
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  Speaker 1: sending her Porsche careening into the couple. Joseph thrown thirty
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  Speaker 1: feet in the air dead. Police say Christina Chambers had
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  Speaker 1: a blood alcohol content of point three zero one, and
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  Speaker 1: that's an hour after the crash, time for the blood
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  Speaker 1: alcohol to dissipate. Charged with second degree manslaughter, she pleads
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  Speaker 1: not guilty and blames the shoes. I hope their estate's witness,
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Gould has the details.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, this alleged fatal fashion fail argument did not work
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  Speaker 2: at all. Houston socialite Christina Chambers was not only found guilty,
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  Speaker 2: she was slammed with a symbolic prison turn for turning
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  Speaker 2: her high life drama into a death sentence for thirty
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  Speaker 2: three year old Joseph McMullen as he walked on that
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  Speaker 2: first date on April nineteenth, twenty twenty three. Her ludicrous
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  Speaker 2: defense that her expensive Christian lubiton high heels jammed the
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  Speaker 2: gas pedal of her Porsche. Was utterly rejected by the jury,
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  Speaker 2: who agreed with prosecutors that the claim itself proved her
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  Speaker 2: wanton disregard for safety. Here's Harris County DA Andrew Figliuzi
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  Speaker 2: talking to Inside Edition. If you're drunk going seventy eighty
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  Speaker 2: ninety miles per hour in a sports car and you're
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  Speaker 2: wearing high heels, I mean, that doesn't absolve you. That
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  Speaker 2: makes it even worse. Chamber's own friends delivered devastating testimony
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  Speaker 2: confirming she was intentionally speeding and showing off the luxury car,
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  Speaker 2: a Porsche, a flashy toy gifted by her rich husband.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, that husband filed for divorce right after
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  Speaker 2: the incident. The socialite's fatal ride, though, wasn't just about booze,
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  Speaker 2: to testimony, exposed chambers coke fueled antics as well. She
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  Speaker 2: followed heavy drinking at the upscale Blue Doorn restaurant with
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  Speaker 2: a stop at a drug dealer's house to buy cocaine
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  Speaker 2: and adderall. She tested positive for the drugs hours after
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  Speaker 2: the rack, a crucial detail she weakly tried to blame
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  Speaker 2: on quote day's earlier use end quote. Then came the
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  Speaker 2: biggest bombshell. Chambers is four months pregnant by her ex husband,
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  Speaker 2: prompting speculation the pregnancy was a calculated sympathy play. The
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  Speaker 2: jury ignored her plea for probation, and she is now
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  Speaker 2: destined to give birth behind bars in the Texas Department
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  Speaker 2: of Criminal Justice custody. The judge handed down a sentence
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  Speaker 2: of eleven years and fourteen days, a precise duration chosen
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  Speaker 2: to mimic Mark McMullen's November fourteenth birthday eleven fourteen. Chambers
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  Speaker 2: apologized on the stand during the trial, but when asked
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  Speaker 2: for a final statement before sentencing, she went stone cold,
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  Speaker 2: whispering no, she had nothing to say. McMullen's family, though,
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  Speaker 2: had plenty to say in their powerful impact statements. They
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  Speaker 2: also embraced prosecutors for trying to achieve a measure of
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  Speaker 2: justice for their loved ones. The family is also continuing
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  Speaker 2: their fight, actively pursuing a wrongful death civil lawsuit to
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  Speaker 2: ensure the punishment continues long after her time is served.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, no Pricey heels in prison. For the
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  Speaker 1: Nancy, Thanks Jennifer more crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: In a stunning cold blooded maneuver from behind bars, Susan Larnz,
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  Speaker 2: the Ocala Florida woman serving twenty five years for the
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  Speaker 2: ruthless shooting of her neighbor Adja k a j Owens,
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  Speaker 2: has fired a shocking handwritten threat to sue the victim's
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  Speaker 2: grieving children and mother for defamation. The development deepens the
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  Speaker 2: wounds of a nationally publicized tragedy detailed in the Netflix
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  Speaker 2: documentary The Perfect Neighbor. Lawnz, sixty, was convicted of manslaughter
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  Speaker 2: in August twenty twenty four after fatally shooting Owens, thirty five,
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  Speaker 2: through her locked front door in June of twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: The confrontation began after Owens, a mother of four, went
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  Speaker 2: to Lawrence's apartment in the Silver Road Quadplex to confront
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  Speaker 2: her after Lawrence allegedly through a roller skate at one
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  Speaker 2: of Owens's young sons during a playground spat. Lawrence, barricaded inside,
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  Speaker 2: fired a single three to eighty bullet through the front door,
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  Speaker 2: striking and killing Owens. In the chest as the victim
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  Speaker 2: stood with her child nearby. Here's Lorenz talking to deputies
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  Speaker 2: after the shooting. I just remembered being terrified that she
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  Speaker 2: was banging and screaming, and I just remember hearing her
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  Speaker 2: say I'm going to kill you. I wasn't feared for
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  Speaker 2: by my side, I mean, honest to god.
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  Speaker 1: I just feared that she was going to come through
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  Speaker 1: that door. I'm sorry, That's how I felt. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Responding to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Owens's mother,
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  Speaker 2: Pamela Diaz, Lawrence has panned a four page handwritten letter
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  Speaker 2: to the Marion County Circuit Court. In it, she lashes
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  Speaker 2: out at the family, reiterating her desperate trial claim that
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  Speaker 2: she was the true victim of harassment from Owen's and
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  Speaker 2: her kids, who allegedly played ding dong ditch and ignored
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  Speaker 2: her no trespassing signs. Lawrence is not just defending the lawsuit,
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  Speaker 2: she is flipping the script. She vows to quote counter
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  Speaker 2: super slander, libel, and defamation of character end quote against Dias, Owens,
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  Speaker 2: his minor children, and the property owner, Charles Gabbard. Lorence
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  Speaker 2: demands damages that exceed fifty thousand dollars, accusing the children
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  Speaker 2: of quote unquote lying in depositions about the skate incident
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  Speaker 2: and demanding money from the family she destroyed. Diaz's original
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  Speaker 2: suit accuses Lawrenceus's former landlord Gabbard of negligence for ignoring
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  Speaker 2: Lawrenceus's alleged quote propensity for gross negligence and or intentional
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  Speaker 2: harm end quote. Meanwhile, Lawrence, who declined to testify at
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  Speaker 2: her own trial, is using her prison sentence at Homestead
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  Speaker 2: Correctional Institution to continue her relentless campaign of victimhood. The
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  Speaker 2: audacious letter is also now a matter of public record.
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  Speaker 2: Court records do not list any attorney for Lawrence in
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  Speaker 2: the civil case, and no hearing dates have been set.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, this he is officially the ultimut hero story.
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  Speaker 2: An adorable little escape artist named Moose decided he'd had
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  Speaker 2: enough of daycare and went on a little walk about
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  Speaker 2: on the wild side. Unfortunately, his big city tail ended
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  Speaker 2: when he found himself pawking ride under the Number two
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  Speaker 2: train at Fourteenth Street, forcing a major subway pause. Luckily,
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  Speaker 2: Detective Frank Sarrow arrived ready for the rescue and proved
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  Speaker 2: he is the finest in the new York Pause. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of a net, Sarah used whistles and sweet talk, literally
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  Speaker 2: crawling on the tracks to coax the terrified pup into safety.
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  Speaker 2: The moment he emerged clutching the little dog, the whole
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  Speaker 2: precinct fond moose, who looked like a furry felon, caught
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  Speaker 2: red handed, was quickly scooped up for cuddles before being
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  Speaker 2: waggingly reunited with his owner, a dogne happy ending. If
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