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Mom Finds Tot Dead After Leaving Children Home Alone Nearly 24/7 | Crime Alert 04.15.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes now.
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  Speaker 2: Chantel Gardner has two children, ages two and four, at home,
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  Speaker 2: but she lives with her boyfriend. Gardner leaves the toddlers
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  Speaker 2: unattended practically twenty four to seven, only coming home a
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  Speaker 2: few hours and what's a day to feed them. When
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  Speaker 2: Gardner returns home for a feeding, her four year old
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  Speaker 2: son comes to greet her, but the taut girl, Skyler
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  Speaker 2: does not. Gardner finds the little girl under a dresser,
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  Speaker 2: cold and stiff, she runs outside calls nine one one.
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  Speaker 2: First Responders say Skyler died from a large puncture wound
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  Speaker 2: on her neck, the rest of her body covered in bruises.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy first responders have to wade through trash, rotting food,
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  Speaker 3: soiled items, and even things like steak knights to get
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  Speaker 3: to Skyler. Gardner admits the children are neglected and tells
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  Speaker 3: belief she only bathes them about every two weeks, often
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  Speaker 3: finding them covered in feces when she returns home to
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  Speaker 3: feed them. The neglected mission. Gardner denies physically abusing the
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  Speaker 3: toddlers and has no explanation for Skuyler's injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Chantel Gardner, thirty three, now charged with child neglect causing death.
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  Speaker 2: Florida CoP's called when a fight breaks out at a funeral.
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  Speaker 2: Officers five Marine and Kathleen Degan, sixty and sixty six,
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  Speaker 2: locked in a brawl just feet from their father's casket.
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  Speaker 2: After breaking up the fight, family explains the younger Deagan
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  Speaker 2: was upset that her daughter was left out of Kathleen's eulogy.
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  Speaker 2: The older sister, Maureene, reportedly chest bumped Kathleen, who responded
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  Speaker 2: by yanking her sister's hair. Maureene then began throwing punches
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  Speaker 2: at Kathleen until both women fall to the.
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  Speaker 1: Floor full on wrestling.
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  Speaker 2: The deacon's sisters both booked into Clearwater County Jail on
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  Speaker 2: battery in order to have no contact.
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  Speaker 1: Well Rest in peace, Dad. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 4: John Lemley, a former Colorado Sheriff's deputy, will serve three
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  Speaker 4: years in prison for the shooting death of a twenty
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  Speaker 4: two year old man in the midst of a mental
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  Speaker 4: health crisis. Andrew Bwen, formerly of the Clear Creek County
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff's Office, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two death of Christian Glass. Glass had called
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  Speaker 4: nine to one one for help after getting stuck near
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  Speaker 4: silver Plume, but refused to leave. His suv prosecutor Say
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  Speaker 4: Bwen escalated the situation. The defense argued Glass had a
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  Speaker 4: knife and posed a threat. It was Bwen's second trial.
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  Speaker 4: A previous jury convicted him of only reckless endangerment. Glass's
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  Speaker 4: family supported the retrial and later reached a nineteen million
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  Speaker 4: dollar settlement with law enforcement agencies, one that also led
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  Speaker 4: to changes in police response to mental health calls. Convictions
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  Speaker 4: like this are rare experts. Juries often give officers the
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  Speaker 4: benefit of the doubt during crisis situations. A Kansas City
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  Speaker 4: man who was falsely accused in the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 4: Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting has died. Crime Online
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  Speaker 4: Sidney Sumner has more.
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  Speaker 3: Denton Ludermill, Junior, a forty nine year old resident of Oletha, Kansas,
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  Speaker 3: passed away recently, as confirmed by his attorney, Lronda Lasseter Saunders.
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  Speaker 3: Details surrounding his death have not been disclosed. Luder Mill's
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  Speaker 3: life took a tragic turn on February fourteenth, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: during the Kansas City Chief super Bowl Victory rally, a
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  Speaker 3: shooting outside Union Station left forty three year old DJ
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  Speaker 3: Lisa Lopez Galvan dead and over twenty others injured, many
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  Speaker 3: of them children. In the chaos, Lutermill was briefly detained
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  Speaker 3: by police, but was never charged. Despite his innocence, images
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  Speaker 3: of Ludermill and handcuffs circulated online, leading to false accusations
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  Speaker 3: labeling him as a shooter and an illegal alien. He
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  Speaker 3: subsequently filed defamation lawsuits against three Missouri state senators and
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  Speaker 3: a Tennessee congressman who shared these misleading posts. However, the
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  Speaker 3: cases were dismissed due to jurisdictional issues. Attorney Saunders stated
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  Speaker 3: that luder Mill spend his final days under immense stress
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  Speaker 3: striving to clear his name. She emphasized that efforts to
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  Speaker 3: restore his reputation will continue posthumously. Three men have been
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  Speaker 3: charged in connection with the rally shooting, Dominic Miller, Lindel Mays,
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  Speaker 3: and Terry Young. Authorities believe the violence stem from a
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  Speaker 3: dispute between two groups.
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  Speaker 4: Denton Loudermilk Junior's death underscores the.
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  Speaker 5: Profound consequences of misinformation, are the challenges individuals face and
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  Speaker 5: reclimbing their identities after being falsely accused, His family is
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  Speaker 5: request in privacy.
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  Speaker 1: During this difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Time, says he wants to run away and find mommy.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick's foster mom gets distracted by a phone call while
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  Speaker 2: Patrick helps her take out trash. Moments later, Patrick disappears.
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  Speaker 2: Police use caneyes to track the boy, but they lose
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  Speaker 2: his sin after day just a few blocks. Police knock
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  Speaker 2: on nine thousand doors, interview fourteen thousand people, search over
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  Speaker 2: two hundred buildings. There's no sign of Patrick. If you
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  Speaker 2: have info on Patrick Alfred, please contact New York Crime
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  Speaker 2: Stoppers eight hundred five seven seven tips. That's eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I Nancy Grace