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Federal Agents Search Home of Hayden Panettiere Following Actress's Death | Crime Alert 09.17.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: Federal authorities execute a search warrant at the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: home of actress Hayden Panettiere just nine days after the
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  Speaker 1: 36-year-old star was found dead in South Carolina. According to TMZ,
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  Speaker 1: who was the first to report the story, agents with
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  Speaker 1: the Drug Enforcement Administration searched the residence on August 25th
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  Speaker 1: to gather evidence of potential illicit narcotics. A source close
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  Speaker 1: to the investigation previously indicated that federal agents became involved
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  Speaker 1: shortly after Panettiere passed away in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: August 16, just days before what would have been her
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  Speaker 1: 37th birthday. Emergency responders were dispatched to the residence at
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  Speaker 1: approximately 1.50 p.m. local time, where they administered medical assistance,
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  Speaker 1: but the actress was pronounced dead at the scene. Dispatch
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  Speaker 1: audio recorded at the time of the emergency revealed first
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  Speaker 1: responders discussing a possible drug overdose and cardiac arrest. A
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson for the police confirmed that an initial investigation showed
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  Speaker 1: no signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances. However, responding
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  Speaker 1: officers noted that Panettiere's on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, along with
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  Speaker 1: his brother Zach, were present at the residence when she
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  Speaker 1: went into cardiac arrest. A police report reveals that Hickerson
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  Speaker 1: showed officers a bag of medication Panettiere had allegedly been taking. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: sources indicated that Narcan, the life-saving medication used to reverse
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  Speaker 1: opioid overdoses, was located at the residence. On August 17th,
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  Speaker 1: the Greenville County Coroner's Office announced that an autopsy was completed,
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  Speaker 1: concluding that no physical trauma contributed to her death. Panettiere,
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  Speaker 1: who had previously been open about her lengthy battles with
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  Speaker 1: substance abuse and addiction, is survived by her 11-year-old daughter, Kaya.
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  Speaker 1: The acclaimed actress first began her career in 1994 on
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  Speaker 1: the ABC soap opera One Life to Live before rising
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  Speaker 1: to international stardom in TV hits like Heroes and Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: as well as major film franchises like Scream 4 and 6.
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  Speaker 1: Federal agents continue to investigate the source of any narcotics
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  Speaker 1: that may be connected to her untimely death. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. In Southern California, police have
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  Speaker 1: arrested an internet service contractor accused of using his position
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  Speaker 1: to steal explicit personal media from a customer. 37-year-old Logan
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  Speaker 1: Edward Gray McCannon of Hemet was arrested at his home
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, September 11th by the Irvine Police Department. Gray McCannon,
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  Speaker 1: a contract employee for ITC Service Group Acquisition working on
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  Speaker 1: behalf of G-Fiber, formerly Google Fiber, is charged with commercial burglary,
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  Speaker 1: sharing a private sexual image of a person without consent,
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  Speaker 1: and unauthorized computer access. The arrest follows a September 9th
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  Speaker 1: complaint from a female G-Fiber customer. According to the Irvine
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  Speaker 1: Police Department, the victim noticed a sexually explicit video, which
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  Speaker 1: she had previously sent privately to her partner, appearing in
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  Speaker 1: her sent iMessage history on her iPad. The message was
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  Speaker 1: untraceable on her primary cell phone because it had been
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  Speaker 1: manually deleted, but the recipient number belonged directly to Gray-McCannon.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say Gray-McCannon gained access to the victim's phone by
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  Speaker 1: claiming he needed to test the Wi-Fi signal throughout her residence.
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  Speaker 1: Irvine Police Department Public Information Officer Kyle Uldorp explained that
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  Speaker 1: Gray-McCannon used the routine check as a ruse to wander
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  Speaker 1: unattended through the house for 15 minutes, allowing him enough
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  Speaker 1: time to search through her private text messages, locate the
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  Speaker 1: intimate video, and text it to his own phone. Police
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  Speaker 1: are urging the public to treat their personal devices with
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  Speaker 1: extreme caution when technicians or service workers enter their homes.
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  Speaker 1: Irvine police suspect there may be additional victims who have
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  Speaker 1: not yet come forward, and Detective John Sanders is urging
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  Speaker 1: anyone with similar experiences involving Gray-McCannon to contact the department immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to Georgia... A 19-year-old cold case has taken a
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  Speaker 1: major turn as a husband faces trial for the murder
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  Speaker 1: of his wife. 39-year-old Doris Worrell, a mother of three,
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  Speaker 1: an active community member in Douglas, Georgia, was found shot
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  Speaker 1: to death on September 20, 2006, inside John's Sports Park.
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  Speaker 1: an amusement center operated by her husband, John Worrell. Doris
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  Speaker 1: was known throughout her community for her generosity. In 2003,
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  Speaker 1: after learning at church about a 15-year-old exchange student from
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela named Paola Yarbury, Doris welcomed the teenager into her home.
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  Speaker 1: Yarbury soon began working as a nanny for the couple's
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  Speaker 1: three young children, Amelia, Alexis, and Patrick, and assisted with
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  Speaker 1: operations at the family's sports park. On the morning of
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  Speaker 1: the murder, Doris and Yarbury were cleaning the facility when
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  Speaker 1: John left to run an errand. Upon his return around
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  Speaker 1: 11 a.m., John reported finding Doris dead from a single
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  Speaker 1: gunshot wound to the head in what initially appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be a robbery. At the scene, photographs captured John weeping
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  Speaker 1: beside his wife's body. However, investigators with the Georgia Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Investigation eventually uncovered that John was engaged in an
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  Speaker 1: extramarital affair with Yarbury. Authorities allege John wanted to end
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  Speaker 1: his marriage without risking a custody battle over his children,
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  Speaker 1: leading him to hire someone to kill his wife. In
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  Speaker 1: the years following the murder, initial charges against two potential co-conspirators,
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  Speaker 1: Glidden Rodriguez and Brandon Cages, were dropped due to insufficient evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after, John relocated his children to Costa Rica, where
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  Speaker 1: he launched an ice delivery business. Yarbery, who had been
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  Speaker 1: deported by immigration authorities, joined him in Costa Rica shortly thereafter.
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  Speaker 1: GBI Special Agent Jason Sechrist noted that once local community
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  Speaker 1: sympathy waned and suspicion focused on John, he fled the country.
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  Speaker 1: The breakthrough in the case came in 2025 when a
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  Speaker 1: new lead investigator traveled to Costa Rica following reports that
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  Speaker 1: John and Yarbery had ended their relationship. Information provided by
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  Speaker 1: Yarbery led to John's arrest in Missouri on May 20, 2025.
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  Speaker 1: John Worrell has pleaded not guilty to malice murder charges
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  Speaker 1: in Coffey County, Georgia, and is currently awaiting trial later
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  Speaker 1: this year. For more crime and justice news, be sure
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  Speaker 1: With this Crime Alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.