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Trust Fund Terror: Greedy Son Hacks Mom w Garden Tool Over Cash Grab| Crime Alert 6AM 10.02.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
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  Speaker 1: An entitled Missouri son is accused of committing a savage murder,
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  Speaker 1: bludgeoning his own mother to death with a gardening tool,
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  Speaker 1: official say. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole spoke to Ozark's
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  Speaker 1: First News.
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  Speaker 2: For all intentsive, perfect purposes, we believe that it could
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  Speaker 2: possibly have something to do with money.
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  Speaker 1: Christian County deputies were dispatched to the Ozark home of
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn Awling, sixty five, after her husband requested a well
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  Speaker 1: being check, concerned she hadn't returned his calls all day.
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  Speaker 1: Officers were met by her son, Derek Awling. Upon arrival,
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  Speaker 1: the thirty nine year old's bizarre behavior and conflicting answers
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  Speaker 1: immediately put the deputies on high alert. Sheriff Brad Coles
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  Speaker 1: stated his deputies had quote a gut feeling that something
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  Speaker 1: wasn't quite right end quote. That feeling was brutally confirmed.
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  Speaker 1: When officers pressed Derek about his mom's condition, he remained silent.
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  Speaker 1: Asked if she was still alive, the son delivered a
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  Speaker 1: chilling reply of quote, he didn't think so. Alling then
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  Speaker 1: told deputies his mom was in the guest house where
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  Speaker 1: they found Carolyn Awlling's bloodied and beaten body. Authorities say
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  Speaker 1: she had been bludgeoned repeatedly in the head and face
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  Speaker 1: with a scraping or gardening tool, an attack so gruesome
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  Speaker 1: it caused multiple school fractures. Prosecutors described Alling's alleged actions
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  Speaker 1: as quote violent and gruesome. According to court documents, Alling
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  Speaker 1: was the beneficiary of his mother's trust, Anne had been
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  Speaker 1: aggressively demanding access to the money. Carolyn even had been
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  Speaker 1: secretly recording her son acting aggressively in the weeks leading
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  Speaker 1: up to her murder, a pattern corroborated by her husband.
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  Speaker 1: Derek Holling has been charged with first degree murder and
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  Speaker 1: armed criminal action. He was booked into Christian County and
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  Speaker 1: is being held without bond. He pleaded not guilty. His
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  Speaker 1: next court appearance is set for October fourteenth in Christian
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  Speaker 1: County Circuit Court. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news. After this, a brutal sentence has
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  Speaker 1: finally closed the door on a year's long Georgia House
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  Speaker 1: of Whores, where a mother admitted to a monstrous act
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  Speaker 1: killing her own eight year old daughter by cramming toilet
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  Speaker 1: paper down her throat until she's suffocated. Britney Hall, thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: of Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty to felony murder, eleven counts of
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  Speaker 1: cruelty to children and concealing a death in Gwinnett County
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  Speaker 1: Superior Court, immediately drawing a sentence of life without parole.
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  Speaker 1: The plea exposed the gut wrenching details of the relentless
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  Speaker 1: abuse suffered by her daughter, Amari Maya Hall, who was autistic.
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  Speaker 1: The sickening murder unfolded on January eighteenth of twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors detailed the crime, stating Hall and her then girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Celeste Owens, both high on drugs, turned their rage on
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  Speaker 1: Amari after the girl simply went the bed. The punishment
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  Speaker 1: was utterly barbaric. Owens held the child down while Hall
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  Speaker 1: forced wads of toilet paper into Amari's mouth and throat,
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  Speaker 1: ignoring her desperate please. The pair then continued the torment,
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  Speaker 1: submerging Amari's head and a bathtub filled with water and
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  Speaker 1: ice until the child stopped breathing. Amari's younger sister, now nine,
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  Speaker 1: tragically testified that her mom had placed the paper in
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  Speaker 1: Amari's mouth so she quote would not wake up.
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  Speaker 2: End quote.
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  Speaker 1: This is her in court listen.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tried to wake her up, and then after
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  Speaker 2: that she got put in a container with the lead
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  Speaker 2: it and that put in a trink.
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  Speaker 1: Of a car. In the days that followed, Hall engaged
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  Speaker 1: in a cruel deception, posting frantic Facebook please claiming Amari
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  Speaker 1: was missing, even detailing the girl's blue tweetybird jacket and
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  Speaker 1: rainbow light up shoes. But the charade quickly crumbled. Amari's
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  Speaker 1: body was found in a wooded area near the Stone
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  Speaker 1: Mountain Freeway, wrapped in a blanket, three white colored trash bags,
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  Speaker 1: and duct tape. The mom's guilt was sealed by her
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  Speaker 1: own actions post killing. Prosecutors revealed Hal's shocking Google searches
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  Speaker 1: on the day Amari was reported missing, including quote lakes
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  Speaker 1: near me end quote quote ways to dispose of a
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  Speaker 1: body end quote, end quote you haul customer account end quote.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance footage later showed Owen's renting a U haul van
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  Speaker 1: and driving it towards the shallow grave where little Amari
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  Speaker 1: was found. Court records revealed the murder was the climax
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  Speaker 1: of a pattern of torment dating back to twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Owens repeatedly beat Amari and her younger sibling,
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  Speaker 1: then three, who suffered over thirty bruises and required emergency
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  Speaker 1: surgery for a ruptured ear drum. Amari's two younger siblings
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  Speaker 1: were put into state custody following the incidents. Owens is
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  Speaker 1: already serving life plus twenty years and finally talk about
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  Speaker 1: a date javu. A Miami date for one unlucky fellow
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  Speaker 1: turned into a big time luxury heist. Angela Tina Chanelle
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  Speaker 1: Etsy twenty five is known for allegedly giving men a
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  Speaker 1: sleeping beauty potion before swiping their pricey Rolex watches. Her
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  Speaker 1: latest alleged heist followed a familiar plot. Meet the victims
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  Speaker 1: at a bar, head back to a Brickell apartment, and
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  Speaker 1: then the men hit the snooze button. One victim woke
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  Speaker 1: up to find his twenty thousand dollars Rolex and four
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in cash all gone, all thanks to this
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  Speaker 1: bad date bait. Cops say this known offender faces multiple
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  Speaker 1: charges of grand theft in three separate cases across South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: With a history of snatch and grab dates, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like this brickle bandit though, just bought herself a very
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  Speaker 1: long time out in a concrete cell. For the latest
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