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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greace. What does a gorgeous young
- 0:16Speaker 1: mom of a top girl have to do with a
- 0:21Speaker 1: woman's body washing up on the beach only identified by
- 0:26Speaker 1: a scorpion tattoo. I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us here at Foxination and Sirius
- 0:34Speaker 1: XM one eleven. Let's start with the young mom. Take
- 0:40Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at crime Online.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Christine Belusko was raised in Montville, New Jersey. Her dad, Frank,
- 0:46Speaker 2: was a New Jersey glass molder, while her mom, Dorothy,
- 0:49Speaker 2: worked as an auto dealership secretary. Frank and Dorothy didn't
- 0:53Speaker 2: tell Christine that they adopted her as a baby, not
- 0:56Speaker 2: an uncommon practice at the time. Christine grew up not
- 0:59Speaker 2: knowing that Friend and Dorothy Belusko were not her biological parents.
- 1:03Speaker 2: It was only after Christine had a daughter of her
- 1:05Speaker 2: own that the truth came out. Christine's biological mother had
- 1:08Speaker 2: given birth to eight other children and decided to give
- 1:11Speaker 2: up Christine for adoption when she was still an infant.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Christine was shocked.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Well, okay, before I even get into the facts any further,
- 1:18Speaker 1: I've got to address that glaring, gaping issue. Karen Stark
- 1:24Speaker 1: is with me, a renowned psychologists a joining us out
- 1:27Speaker 1: of New York in Manhattan today.
- 1:28Speaker 3: You can find her at Karenstark dot com.
- 1:31Speaker 1: That's Karen with a se Karen, how do you handle
- 1:37Speaker 1: how well? I know it's different with every family, it
- 1:40Speaker 1: must be, but in your mind, how do you believe
- 1:44Speaker 1: adoptees adoptees should be informed and when they're adopted.
- 1:49Speaker 4: Nancy, I have no doubt that someone who's adopted should
- 1:53Speaker 4: be told strongly, in my opinion, and known that they
- 1:57Speaker 4: are adopted for as soon as you can, and possibly
- 2:01Speaker 4: tell them that story when their children you presented as
- 2:05Speaker 4: a story in you use their name. You know, Sally,
- 2:08Speaker 4: we saw this beautiful little baby and decided that we
- 2:13Speaker 4: wanted a baby. We couldn't have one.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Things like that.
- 2:15Speaker 4: They need to know that this is not their biological parents,
- 2:20Speaker 4: but it doesn't matter because they're being loved and cared for,
- 2:24Speaker 4: not a surprise. That's the worst thing you could possibly do.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Just trying to think of the right way to say
- 2:30Speaker 1: something like that.
- 2:32Speaker 5: The stories for children.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know that I would say, well,
- 2:36Speaker 1: we couldn't have a baby, so we got you, like
- 2:38Speaker 1: you're the consolation prize.
- 2:39Speaker 3: I think I would say.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Something like, we wanted you so much and then we
- 2:48Speaker 1: found out about you, and we took you because we
- 2:51Speaker 1: wanted you to be in our home when your mommy
- 2:55Speaker 1: couldn't take care of you.
- 2:57Speaker 3: I don't know how to say it.
- 2:58Speaker 4: You're bringing up good point because I worked with someone
- 3:02Speaker 4: who was told that that story that you're saying right now,
- 3:06Speaker 4: and he decided that he didn't turn out the way
- 3:10Speaker 4: they would have wanted him to. So what a mistake
- 3:12Speaker 4: they made choosing him. So you have to be really
- 3:16Speaker 4: careful about the story that you decide to tell, but
- 3:19Speaker 4: you need to tell as soon as you can.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Well, I mean, and look, in this case, Christine Belisko
- 3:25Speaker 1: finds out and is shocked, and she doesn't find out
- 3:29Speaker 1: until she has a child, and I guess Nicole Parton
- 3:35Speaker 1: joining me Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, Nicole, thanks
- 3:38Speaker 1: for being with us. How did it come out that
- 3:41Speaker 1: once she had the baby, she found out she was adopted?
- 3:45Speaker 3: How did that happen?
- 3:46Speaker 6: She began to inquire about family history, as so often
- 3:50Speaker 6: mothers do when they're having children of their own, and
- 3:53Speaker 6: they told her the truth.
- 3:54Speaker 3: They came out.
- 3:55Speaker 6: Honestly and began to tell her the story of her adoption.
- 3:59Speaker 6: At that point, of course, now she's an adult woman,
- 4:02Speaker 6: she's thirty years old, and she didn't handle that quite well.
- 4:05Speaker 6: And that's when she became very upset with her family
- 4:09Speaker 6: and said that she was leaving.
- 4:10Speaker 1: I mean, Karen Stark, you're the renowned psychologist. Isn't that
- 4:15Speaker 1: a little extreme to be so upset with your mom
- 4:18Speaker 1: and dad that you just leave?
- 4:20Speaker 5: Well, if you.
- 4:20Speaker 4: Think about it, I mean leaving, that's very extreme.
- 4:24Speaker 5: But if you think about the fact.
- 4:25Speaker 4: That your whole life you believe a certain story, that
- 4:31Speaker 4: this is where you come from, this is what happened,
- 4:33Speaker 4: and then the shock of realizing that the people you
- 4:37Speaker 4: trusted the most lied to you, that's really hard to digest. Nancy,
- 4:41Speaker 4: think about that.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you what happened the other day.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Lucy and John David were in the backseat. This is
- 4:46Speaker 1: where everything always happens. When they were three, they'd say,
- 4:50Speaker 1: I heard so, and so what did they say the
- 4:53Speaker 1: first time? The first time they ever said that, they said,
- 4:55Speaker 1: I heard it was John David. OI heard Miss Cartwright
- 4:59Speaker 1: gives out candy and reading circle.
- 5:02Speaker 3: That was the big hot news on the playground. I'm like,
- 5:05Speaker 3: where did you hear that?
- 5:06Speaker 1: And he goes on the playground that's like on the street,
- 5:09Speaker 1: you know, the playground. Well, the other day trying and
- 5:14Speaker 1: Lucy said, I don't even remember which girl it is, says,
- 5:17Speaker 1: I'll just pretend it to you.
- 5:18Speaker 3: Jackie. Jackie came from an egg.
- 5:22Speaker 1: And I said, okay, first of all, he's Jackie, And
- 5:25Speaker 1: what do you mean a chicken egg?
- 5:26Speaker 3: I was just kidding around, didn't know what she was
- 5:28Speaker 3: talking about.
- 5:28Speaker 1: She goes, now, her mom got the egg from somebody
- 5:31Speaker 1: else because she couldn't have babies. This was last year,
- 5:35Speaker 1: maybe the year before that. They already knew about, you know,
- 5:40Speaker 1: donor eggs and all that. And she said, mom, am
- 5:45Speaker 1: I from your egg. I'm like, yes, Lucy, you and
- 5:48Speaker 1: John David both And she really believed me until she
- 5:54Speaker 1: insists on having twenty three and me and we did
- 5:57Speaker 1: it and she saw that we had the same exact ancestry.
- 6:00Speaker 1: But a long story short, this little girl had known
- 6:04Speaker 1: whoever the little girl was, had known for years and
- 6:07Speaker 1: years and years that her mom used an egg doner
- 6:10Speaker 1: and it was just kind of like matter of fact,
- 6:13Speaker 1: see what I'm saying Karen start. It's not like a
- 6:15Speaker 1: big issue that she's suddenly going to run away from
- 6:17Speaker 1: home over That's.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Why it's really important to tell the story as soon
- 6:21Speaker 4: as you can, right from the beginning, because then it
- 6:24Speaker 4: really isn't the same kind of big deal that it
- 6:27Speaker 4: is if you're already grown up and you're hit with
- 6:30Speaker 4: this news and the way that you think about yourself
- 6:32Speaker 4: and your whole life then has changed overnight.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Wow.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Okay, so you know, Karen Starr, you've led me down
- 6:39Speaker 1: the garden path. I want to get back to the
- 6:42Speaker 1: girl whose body washes up on the shore, But more
- 6:45Speaker 1: about this young mom of a taught girl herself who
- 6:49Speaker 1: discovers kind of like ey the blue no idea this
- 6:53Speaker 1: was going to happen, that she was adopted.
- 6:57Speaker 3: Take a listen to this.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Christine was raised in mom but her last known address
- 7:01Speaker 2: was in Clifton, New Jersey. Once she learned about being
- 7:04Speaker 2: adopted as a baby, the single mother announced to the
- 7:07Speaker 2: family she was leaving for Florida. She left in July
- 7:10Speaker 2: and stayed at the Mount Airy Lodge near Mount Pocono.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Well certainly not Florida, but she had left New Jersey.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Family members didn't hear from Christina and just assumed that
- 7:18Speaker 2: she had moved to Florida and just wasn't communicating with
- 7:21Speaker 2: them for the time being. A friend saw her at
- 7:24Speaker 2: the mount Airy Lodge in September, but shortly after that
- 7:27Speaker 2: she was gone. Her family still thought she was in
- 7:29Speaker 2: Florida with her toddler, Kristen Nicole, starting a new life together.
- 7:33Speaker 7: Christine Belusko, a thirty year old single mother to a
- 7:35Speaker 7: two year old girl, works for the retail chain Rainbow Shops,
- 7:39Speaker 7: setting up new stores when they open. After telling her
- 7:42Speaker 7: family she was moving to Florida.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Okay, So she heads to Florida to start a new
- 7:48Speaker 1: life with her little girl, and the family thinks that
- 7:52Speaker 1: at some point she's going to cool down and she's
- 7:55Speaker 1: going to come back.
- 7:56Speaker 3: Is that right, Nicole parton.
- 7:57Speaker 6: Right, So her family thinks, believing her story, she's going
- 8:00Speaker 6: to go to Florida. Probably things will settle down, she'll
- 8:03Speaker 6: enjoy the sunshine in the sea for a while, and
- 8:06Speaker 6: she'll come back to us. So they're not really concerned.
- 8:09Speaker 6: They're upset, of course, to lose their daughter and their granddaughter,
- 8:12Speaker 6: but they also feel like things will simmer down and
- 8:15Speaker 6: she'll return.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Shortly Jason Jensen joining me.
- 8:17Speaker 1: High profile private investigator, owner of Jensen Private Investigations and
- 8:22Speaker 1: the co founder of Cold Case Coalition. You can find
- 8:26Speaker 1: them at Jensenprivate Investigations dot com. Jason, thanks for being
- 8:30Speaker 1: with us now. Isn't that true? Isn't it true that
- 8:33Speaker 1: very often a family will believe a family member has
- 8:36Speaker 1: gone missing, and ultimately the family member wanders back into
- 8:42Speaker 1: their life.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Yes.
- 8:43Speaker 8: Yes, oftentimes people do leave and come back, and frequently
- 8:48Speaker 8: that family member will report this person as missing and
- 8:52Speaker 8: law enforcement will resist, say, well, everybody, as an adult
- 8:56Speaker 8: has a right to disappear, and nothing gets to pursue,
- 9:00Speaker 8: No paperwork gets filed for like a missing person's report.
- 9:05Speaker 8: That's usually the biggest problem here because what I see
- 9:08Speaker 8: that's glaringly obvious in this case is there's no missing
- 9:12Speaker 8: person's report filed.
- 9:14Speaker 1: But Nicole partner it's not weird because she says, how
- 9:18Speaker 1: dare you not tell me, adopted, I'm leaving, I'm going
- 9:22Speaker 1: to Florida to open the next Rainbow store, and off
- 9:24Speaker 1: she goes.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Right, So why would they file a missing person right?
- 9:28Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 9:28Speaker 6: They had no reason to believe that she was missing.
- 9:31Speaker 6: She clearly told them what her plans were she was leaving.
- 9:35Speaker 6: She was going down there to open the clothing store.
- 9:37Speaker 6: She was upset, so they had no reason to believe
- 9:40Speaker 6: anything other than she was really upset with us, so
- 9:43Speaker 6: she's left no reason for concern.
- 9:46Speaker 1: At the same time, on a parallel path, the discovery
- 9:51Speaker 1: of a dead body makes headlines. Take a listen to
- 9:56Speaker 1: Michael McMahon today.
- 9:57Speaker 9: We want to speak about the case of the Girl
- 10:01Speaker 9: with a Scorpion tattoo. This is a story about a
- 10:04Speaker 9: brutal and depraved murder, depraved acts of violence that killed
- 10:10Speaker 9: this young girl in her prime, and the dumping of
- 10:13Speaker 9: her body in a lonely and desolate field. On east
- 10:17Speaker 9: shore of Staten Island.
- 10:19Speaker 7: Monday morning, just after dawn, a body was found across
- 10:22Speaker 7: the road from South Beach Psychiatric Two employees walking by
- 10:26Speaker 7: initially thought it was a discarded mannequin. The woman was handcuffed,
- 10:30Speaker 7: strangled and struck with a hammer seventeen times. The body
- 10:34Speaker 7: was then set on fire. The murder weapon was found
- 10:37Speaker 7: in theeath the body.
- 10:37Speaker 9: A young woman was found brutally beaten, strangled and burned
- 10:44Speaker 9: on Stetm Island's east shore. She had been handcuffed partially
- 10:48Speaker 9: clothed and had numerous blunt trauma forces to her head.
- 10:54Speaker 9: She was found with a distinctive scorpion tattoo and this
- 10:58Speaker 9: case was followed with great sorrow and public intrigue across
- 11:02Speaker 9: the borough and beyond, and she became known as the
- 11:05Speaker 9: Girl of the Sporting Tattoo.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, please join us now on
- 11:15Speaker 1: Fox Nation for a brand new investigation, Parallels of Evil
- 11:20Speaker 1: the Bundy and Idaho Killings. In this gripping special investigation,
- 11:26Speaker 1: we bring together an incredible panel of guests who analyze
- 11:30Speaker 1: disturbing similarities of evil between these horrible crimes. We speak
- 11:37Speaker 1: with two female Ted Bundy survivors, Karen Pryor and Cheryl Thomas,
- 11:43Speaker 1: who described their life before and after they were victims
- 11:49Speaker 1: of Ted Bundy. We also speak with the renowned private
- 11:53Speaker 1: investigator Bill Warner who worked the cases, and Ted Bundy's
- 11:57Speaker 1: defense attorney, John Henry Brown. We traveled to Moscow, Idaho,
- 12:02Speaker 1: to speak with Washington State University students and interview neighbors
- 12:07Speaker 1: of Brian Coburger. One neighbor shares exclusive insights about the
- 12:13Speaker 1: suspect in the Idaho killings, Brian Coburger, don't miss Parallels
- 12:18Speaker 1: of Evil the Bundan and Idaho killings, streaming now exclusively
- 12:23Speaker 1: on Fox Nation.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Crime Stories with Nancy.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Grease straight out to renowned forensic pathologist, medical examiner, and
- 12:49Speaker 1: former detective author of homicide investigation field Guide, doctor Michelle,
- 12:56Speaker 1: doctor dupre, thank you for being with us. You know,
- 13:00Speaker 1: when these two employees at a health facility across the
- 13:03Speaker 1: street from where the body had washed up on the shore,
- 13:07Speaker 1: they first said they thought they were looking at a mannequin.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Now I heard that before many times before, no, several
- 13:18Speaker 1: times before, not many, and one of them was when
- 13:23Speaker 1: baby Connor washed ashore, that is the unborn child, the
- 13:28Speaker 1: unborn son of Lacey and Scott Peterson.
- 13:33Speaker 3: Remember, I do remember, I believe. Well, one body washed
- 13:37Speaker 3: up and then twenty four hours later, on the next tide,
- 13:40Speaker 3: the next body washed up, and Baby Connor was described
- 13:44Speaker 3: as looking like a baby mannequin or a baby doll.
- 13:50Speaker 3: There's totally pristine.
- 13:53Speaker 1: And we now know the reason was that while Lacey's
- 13:58Speaker 1: body had decomposed underwater, one of the strongest portions of
- 14:03Speaker 1: the human body, and that being the uterus and the
- 14:07Speaker 1: muscle surrounding it, protected baby Connor from much of that decomposure.
- 14:14Speaker 1: As her body decomposed, her stomach literally opened up and
- 14:20Speaker 1: Connor floated out. Is the way that I understand the
- 14:24Speaker 1: medical testimony in the Scott Peterson.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Double murder trial.
- 14:28Speaker 1: So when the baby washed up on the shore, much
- 14:32Speaker 1: as we have with the girl with a scorpion tattoo,
- 14:37Speaker 1: he looked like a mannequin. How can a dead body
- 14:41Speaker 1: look like a mannequin?
- 14:44Speaker 5: Nancy, That's a very good idea. The reason is is
- 14:46Speaker 5: because when a body is preserved in water, especially coomer water,
- 14:51Speaker 5: it's going to actually help to preserve that body. But
- 14:54Speaker 5: once it comes out of the water and it touches air,
- 14:57Speaker 5: then decomposition set sen fairly rapid. So in this case,
- 15:01Speaker 5: just like in Connor's case, the uterus as well as
- 15:04Speaker 5: being in the cooler water help protect him, as it
- 15:07Speaker 5: did with the girl with the scopion tattoo.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Wow, just like that, you explained the whole thing away,
- 15:13Speaker 1: doctor Duprie.
- 15:14Speaker 3: Could we go through.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Some of these injuries beaten, strangled, burned, handcuffed, stripped, blunt
- 15:24Speaker 1: forced trauma to the head that's killing her like three
- 15:28Speaker 1: times over, Doctor Duprie, how do you determine a cause
- 15:31Speaker 1: of death and all that trauma to the body.
- 15:34Speaker 5: It is nancy, this is overkill. I mean, somebody wanted
- 15:38Speaker 5: one of this person dead very badly. Handcuffing obviously was
- 15:42Speaker 5: to keep her restrained. We can tell most of the
- 15:46Speaker 5: time whether she was beaten to death or strangled first.
- 15:49Speaker 5: Most likely obviously she was burned last. But when someone
- 15:54Speaker 5: is beaten, there's something called a vital reaction. And even
- 15:58Speaker 5: though the body has been in the water, look at
- 16:00Speaker 5: the tissues and see if there is a quote, vital
- 16:03Speaker 5: reaction or blood in those tissues. If so, then that
- 16:07Speaker 5: body was most likely at least still partially alive when
- 16:10Speaker 5: they were beaten strangled. Of course, we look for things
- 16:12Speaker 5: like particular hemorrhages in the eyes and that sort of thing.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Okay, you're going to have to say all that again,
- 16:18Speaker 1: please so we can understand it. When you were saying.
- 16:20Speaker 5: A vital what a vital reaction?
- 16:23Speaker 3: So you mean bleeding and bruising.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Yes, those are both vital reactions as it relates to
- 16:29Speaker 1: a human body.
- 16:31Speaker 3: Now, if the.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Person, if the girl with a scorpion tattoo, was already dead,
- 16:35Speaker 1: you would not expect any bleeding or bruising to the body.
- 16:39Speaker 5: Why that's correct. You would not expect it in the
- 16:42Speaker 5: same areas. Of course, blood could seep out from after
- 16:46Speaker 5: you're dead, but it isn't going to be pumping through
- 16:48Speaker 5: your organs, and so blood found in tissues can be
- 16:52Speaker 5: this vital reaction, which means the person was still alive
- 16:55Speaker 5: at the time that injury occurs.
- 16:57Speaker 1: And regular people talk was your day. Your heart's no
- 17:00Speaker 1: longer beating, it's no longer pumping blood. So if you
- 17:04Speaker 1: are beaten or stabbed postmortem, after death, there's not going
- 17:08Speaker 1: to be a lot of blood and there's not going
- 17:09Speaker 1: to be any bruising because there's no blood to cause.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Either of those quote vital reactions. Is that right?
- 17:16Speaker 5: That's correct.
- 17:17Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking about Karen Stark the psychological aspect
- 17:23Speaker 1: of this young girl with the scorpion tattoo being handcuffed.
- 17:28Speaker 3: What if anything does that tell you?
- 17:30Speaker 4: It tells me that something awful has happened, Nancy, because.
- 17:34Speaker 1: You know what, anybody, the guy walking down the street
- 17:38Speaker 1: can tell me that, I already know something horrible happened.
- 17:41Speaker 1: She's bludging, she's burned, she's handcuffed, she's strangled.
- 17:45Speaker 3: I was looking for a little bit more. You're the
- 17:48Speaker 3: trained psychologist, and she was not able.
- 17:51Speaker 4: To descend herself. She had no ability to get this
- 17:55Speaker 4: person to whoever it may be, offer her. That's what
- 17:58Speaker 4: I think about when I think about handcuffs. I mean,
- 18:02Speaker 4: that's it. You're dead if someone is beating you.
- 18:05Speaker 3: Just trying to think this through.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen joining me, high profile lawyer out of the
- 18:10Speaker 1: Atlanta jurisdiction, former prosecutor, and you can find them on
- 18:15Speaker 1: Facebook at Darryl B.
- 18:17Speaker 3: Cohen co h E n Darryl.
- 18:21Speaker 1: You've prosecuted and defended a lot of murder cases. But
- 18:26Speaker 1: that is just an added fact you don't normally find
- 18:30Speaker 1: when you find your victim has been handcuffed.
- 18:34Speaker 10: Nancy. It's unbelievable when a victim has been handcuffed. What
- 18:38Speaker 10: does that tell you? It tells you is that the
- 18:41Speaker 10: person or persons who's after that victim, who destroyed that victim,
- 18:45Speaker 10: is going to make sure they suffer, is going to
- 18:48Speaker 10: make sure that they die in a way that the
- 18:51Speaker 10: the perpetrator wants them to die. Very unusual. It's not
- 18:56Speaker 10: a crime of passion, it's a crime of I'm going
- 18:59Speaker 10: to do it, and this is how I'm going to
- 19:01Speaker 10: do it. This didn't just happen, It happened in advance.
- 19:05Speaker 3: Well, another thing, Darryl.
- 19:07Speaker 1: It has to do with what what has happened to
- 19:09Speaker 1: the victim in that. Yes, I know she's been murdered
- 19:12Speaker 1: three times over, she's been beaten, she's been burned, she's
- 19:15Speaker 1: been strangled. Okay, but the handcuff aspect means she was disabled.
- 19:24Speaker 1: The perp went to the extent of disabling her. In
- 19:29Speaker 1: other words, he didn't sneak up on her and an
- 19:32Speaker 1: alley and bopera in the head and raper and run.
- 19:35Speaker 3: He went.
- 19:36Speaker 1: And I say yes because statistically, and jump in Dodgor debrief,
- 19:40Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Statistically, this killer is a man. He went
- 19:44Speaker 1: to great lengths, to a great extent, to disable her,
- 19:48Speaker 1: so she couldn't fight back, so she couldn't get away,
- 19:52Speaker 1: and yet he still killed her three times over.
- 19:57Speaker 3: That tells me a lot about the mind the killer Nancy.
- 20:01Speaker 10: He was furious, he was so mad. It's something she
- 20:04Speaker 10: did or he perceived that she did. That he had
- 20:07Speaker 10: to make sure that she was dead, dead, dead and
- 20:11Speaker 10: hurting and terrorized.
- 20:13Speaker 3: You know, with me.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Jason Jensen, high profile private investigator, owner of Jensen Private Investigations,
- 20:20Speaker 1: what would you do as soon as you see this body?
- 20:24Speaker 1: What would be the first thing investigators should.
- 20:26Speaker 8: Do well in this particular case. In light of the
- 20:29Speaker 8: fact that she was cuffed, this is clearly somebody that
- 20:32Speaker 8: had restrained her. This was premeditated. So who would want
- 20:37Speaker 8: to abductor likely where would they take this person? You know,
- 20:42Speaker 8: the victim, and how do they commit this crime? You're
- 20:47Speaker 8: going to want to try and retrace the last steps
- 20:50Speaker 8: that she had that were known for the victim and
- 20:53Speaker 8: see who she interacted with. We know that her type
- 20:57Speaker 8: of injuries were blunt first trauma, and they found on
- 21:00Speaker 8: the murder weapon underneath her body. What kind of weapon
- 21:03Speaker 8: was used, what kind of professional use is that kind
- 21:07Speaker 8: of weapon?
- 21:07Speaker 1: And what idiot would leave the murder weapon under the body.
- 21:11Speaker 1: But here, I agree with everything you just said, Jason Jensen.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Here's the problem. We can't trace her footsteps because we
- 21:17Speaker 1: don't know.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Who she is.
- 21:19Speaker 1: So how can we say, oh, where was Jackie last night?
- 21:22Speaker 1: You know what, I'll call her son and find out.
- 21:24Speaker 1: I'll get her cell phone and see who you call last.
- 21:27Speaker 1: I'll look at the NAP system on her car.
- 21:29Speaker 3: We don't know who this woman is.
- 21:31Speaker 1: To look at anything we don't have any indication of
- 21:34Speaker 1: who she is, But what do we know?
- 21:36Speaker 3: Take a listen to our cut six.
- 21:38Speaker 1: This is David Nilsen, a criminal investigator.
- 21:42Speaker 3: Listen discovery.
- 21:44Speaker 11: She was wearing the dress, speakers, She had two gold
- 21:48Speaker 11: chains on and a ring launch. She also had a
- 21:51Speaker 11: squoby attention on her right buttox.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Based on witnesses.
- 21:54Speaker 11: Accounts, body had been a deceit from at least six
- 21:58Speaker 11: PM to ninety for finger Prince entered into state local
- 22:03Speaker 11: databases for identification purposes. Sketches of the victim, her tattoo
- 22:09Speaker 11: and jewelry were just seventy into the public via cap
- 22:13Speaker 11: and names we utilized during the closenest investigation and attempts
- 22:17Speaker 11: to identify our victory.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Okay too, Darryl Cohen, high profile defense attorney joining us
- 22:24Speaker 1: out of the Atlanta jurisdiction. But former felony prosecutor. Why
- 22:28Speaker 1: would you disseminate her clothing and her jewelry. Well, she
- 22:32Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot of clothing left. She was
- 22:35Speaker 1: partially nude, but her watch, anything that she was.
- 22:39Speaker 3: Wearing, was the significance of that.
- 22:40Speaker 10: Well, there could be any number of reasons that we
- 22:43Speaker 10: have to get into the mind of the perp we
- 22:45Speaker 10: have to get into and I say his and I
- 22:47Speaker 10: agree with you, and I don't think it was multiple people.
- 22:50Speaker 10: I think it was one. We have to get in
- 22:52Speaker 10: their mind. Why are they doing what they're doing? Why
- 22:54Speaker 10: did they do this? I don't know, Nancy, because there's
- 22:57Speaker 10: so many reasons that it could have been. It could
- 23:01Speaker 10: be that they're jealous of her, they want the jewelry.
- 23:05Speaker 10: I can't believe she's doing so well. I hate it.
- 23:07Speaker 10: She did something to me, she did something to my family.
- 23:11Speaker 10: There are so many reasons, and we have to know
- 23:13Speaker 10: more before I can even continue to speculate. It's just
- 23:18Speaker 10: too much at this point.
- 23:19Speaker 3: Nancy, is that Karen started jompaning Karen.
- 23:21Speaker 5: No, it's doctor pray. So the other thing is when
- 23:25Speaker 5: we examined that body, when we removed that body from
- 23:27Speaker 5: the crime, saying, I have actually seen cases where the
- 23:30Speaker 5: perpetrator left a perfectly preserved footprint under the body, because
- 23:34Speaker 5: they'll dump the body and they'll roll it over and
- 23:37Speaker 5: they will just cover up their own footprint. So we
- 23:39Speaker 5: need to search that scene and everything around it as well.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Oh, that's a really really good point. That's a really
- 23:46Speaker 1: good point because he's already left the murder weapon.
- 23:49Speaker 3: What was it? Was it a hammer in cole Parton.
- 23:51Speaker 6: That's right, he left the hammer, which is a thirteen
- 23:54Speaker 6: inch body shop hammer. They found that underneath that body,
- 23:59Speaker 6: the hammer was incribed with a name and initials, and
- 24:02Speaker 6: so clearly someone wasn't thinking that through.
- 24:05Speaker 10: They left not only.
- 24:06Speaker 6: The weapon, but the weapon has a name inscribed on it.
- 24:10Speaker 3: What's the name and initial place.
- 24:12Speaker 6: Lloyd and then the letter L Lloyd.
- 24:15Speaker 1: L l lyd capital L got it Lloyd L. You
- 24:20Speaker 1: know about the jewelry When I was thinking about that,
- 24:23Speaker 1: Jason Jensen, private investigator. For instance, my grandmother Lucy, who
- 24:29Speaker 1: helped raise me, gave me her engagement ring before she
- 24:34Speaker 1: passed away, and it's a very it's a diamond and
- 24:41Speaker 1: it's been reset in like a Victorian What do you
- 24:44Speaker 1: call that diamond shape? Marquis shape thing? Anyway, it's unique
- 24:49Speaker 1: if somebody's small, but it's unique if my body couldn't
- 24:54Speaker 1: be identified, and I hope that never happens. If someone
- 24:58Speaker 1: saw that engagement ring, they could identify it. So that
- 25:02Speaker 1: is why very often clothing or jewelry found on an
- 25:05Speaker 1: unidentified victim will be released and disseminated.
- 25:08Speaker 8: Correct. The whole point is hopefully the information will get
- 25:12Speaker 8: out to the right individual and the public that's familiar
- 25:15Speaker 8: with the tattoo, the jewelry, warned by the victim the clothing,
- 25:20Speaker 8: and be able to come forward and say, hey, I
- 25:23Speaker 8: think you're describing this person a friend of mine or
- 25:26Speaker 8: a family member.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Doctor Michelle dupre joining me forensic pathologist, medical examiner, former
- 25:31Speaker 1: detective A. Dmichelle MD dot com. Doctor Dupree, have you
- 25:36Speaker 1: ever worked with a face reconstructionist on a victim that
- 25:41Speaker 1: nobody could identify?
- 25:42Speaker 5: Yes, I have Nancy, and it's fascinating.
- 25:44Speaker 3: I have two.
- 25:44Speaker 1: And it was really critical improving a Jane Doe murder
- 25:48Speaker 1: for me because guess what, doctor Dupree, the journey really
- 25:51Speaker 1: fell out as they should have when I put her
- 25:54Speaker 1: the victim's reconstructive sketch done by one of these artists
- 26:00Speaker 1: up beside the defendant's girlfriend that he tried to strangle.
- 26:04Speaker 1: They look like twins, no relation, and it was I mean,
- 26:09Speaker 1: even to just a lawyer like myself, I could see
- 26:13Speaker 1: the connection between those two women.
- 26:15Speaker 3: They look so much alike. How does that happen?
- 26:18Speaker 1: How do you when you've got a body that's starting
- 26:20Speaker 1: to decompose. How do you make a facial reconstruction sketch?
- 26:24Speaker 5: Well, you can do the sketch, or you could do
- 26:25Speaker 5: actually a likeness where you take the skull and then
- 26:28Speaker 5: recreate the skull or the face of that person out
- 26:31Speaker 5: of clay, and that is also very effective. The purpose
- 26:35Speaker 5: is not to make it identical to the victim, but
- 26:38Speaker 5: to trigger someone's mind and oh gosh, that looks like
- 26:41Speaker 5: so and so, and to generate leads from that.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Has anybody today told you that you're amazing, doctor Duprey,
- 26:47Speaker 1: because they shouldn't. You're just every time you can say anything,
- 26:51Speaker 1: I have to kind of digest it. I'm looking at
- 26:54Speaker 1: the girl with the scorpion tattoos face sketch, and she's
- 26:59Speaker 1: got the gold.
- 27:00Speaker 3: Nachel says, it's a really good sketch.
- 27:03Speaker 1: By the way, So you can't find out who did
- 27:06Speaker 1: it until you find out who she is.
- 27:11Speaker 3: Guys, take a listen to this.
- 27:14Speaker 12: She was unidentified until recently. Investigators in the Staten Island
- 27:18Speaker 12: DA's office used familial DNA and public DNA databases to
- 27:22Speaker 12: identify her. We sat down exclusively with the Staten Island
- 27:26Speaker 12: DA's office today to discuss the case and their mission
- 27:29Speaker 12: to still find her killer. The name engraved on the hammer,
- 27:33Speaker 12: Lloyd l has not given them any leads up to
- 27:35Speaker 12: this point, but they say they're not giving up.
- 27:38Speaker 9: And the men and women who work in my office,
- 27:39Speaker 9: to prosecutors and investigators, don't give up, and they fight
- 27:43Speaker 9: every day to bring justice to the victims of crime.
- 27:46Speaker 1: You were just hearing our friends at ABC, but now
- 27:49Speaker 1: take a listen to the investigator, the criminal investigator, David Nielsen.
- 27:54Speaker 11: In twenty nineteen, d mcvah made a decision to start
- 27:58Speaker 11: the path of geneology research. The Richmond County District Attorney's
- 28:02Speaker 11: Office collectively worked with the FBI, the NYPD, the Medical
- 28:08Speaker 11: Examiner's Office, and what from forensics law.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Joining me right now is an extremely talented geneticist.
- 28:18Speaker 3: It's Sharah Lapointe.
- 28:20Speaker 1: She's known as the gene Hunter and you can find
- 28:25Speaker 1: her at the gene hunter dot com. And I say gene,
- 28:29Speaker 1: I mean gne the gene hunter who has done amazing work.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Cheryl LaPoint thank you so much for.
- 28:42Speaker 3: Being with us.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Explain what they're saying in terms we can understand.
- 28:47Speaker 13: So what they're saying is, you know, defite all the
- 28:51Speaker 13: work that was done on this case before forensic genetic
- 28:55Speaker 13: genealogy is what was actually able to identify her.
- 29:00Speaker 8: And.
- 29:02Speaker 13: The DNA that they retrieved from her body was used
- 29:08Speaker 13: to actually pull a profile, even though it was almost
- 29:13Speaker 13: thirty years prior that they had retrieved that DNA, and
- 29:17Speaker 13: they were able to make a profile that was suitable
- 29:21Speaker 13: to be used in genetic genealogy, and that profile is
- 29:28Speaker 13: put into these websites that are that allow law enforcement
- 29:34Speaker 13: to use family treat DNA or JED match, and you
- 29:38Speaker 13: will find DNA matches relatives of the person you're looking for,
- 29:45Speaker 13: and we find a recent common ancestor amongst all these
- 29:50Speaker 13: DNA matches, and we build reverse family trees, so we
- 29:54Speaker 13: may be going back to a second or third grade
- 29:58Speaker 13: grandparent couple and building down to the time of that
- 30:04Speaker 13: person's age and place to figure out who the person
- 30:08Speaker 13: might be.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Okay, let me understand with me, is a so called
- 30:13Speaker 1: Jane Hunter Sharah Lapointe. Sharah, you you get the unidentified
- 30:20Speaker 1: victims DNA, then can you isolate the mom and dad
- 30:25Speaker 1: or you just build out what do you mean, you
- 30:27Speaker 1: build out a family tree?
- 30:29Speaker 13: Okay, so when we get the DNA, we won't necessarily
- 30:33Speaker 13: know who the mother and dad. Is what we will
- 30:36Speaker 13: know is people who are DNA matches to this person.
- 30:42Speaker 13: So if you were a DNA match to this person
- 30:47Speaker 13: and I was a DNA match to this person, it's
- 30:50Speaker 13: my job to figure out how you and I may
- 30:54Speaker 13: connect and we may be second cousins and share a
- 30:59Speaker 13: set of grains grandparents. So that's the point where I
- 31:04Speaker 13: would start the tree from that couple, and then I
- 31:08Speaker 13: would look at their children and who they married and
- 31:13Speaker 13: tried to incorporate as many of these DNA matches that
- 31:17Speaker 13: come up to build this family tree.
- 31:20Speaker 3: Okay, now I'm getting it.
- 31:23Speaker 1: Guys, I want you to take a listen not only
- 31:26Speaker 1: to the criminal investigator David Nilsen, but also to our
- 31:31Speaker 1: friends at NBC.
- 31:33Speaker 11: As a result of genealogy research combined with dedicated investing
- 31:37Speaker 11: anti work, Christine Mlusko was identified in April of twenty
- 31:42Speaker 11: twenty one as our HONEYCRI.
- 31:45Speaker 14: A woman found dead on Staten Island has now been identified.
- 31:49Speaker 14: Investigators say Christine Velusko was hit with a hammer more
- 31:52Speaker 14: than a dozen times and then set on fire. Her
- 31:55Speaker 14: body was found in a vacant lot in the Ocean
- 31:58Speaker 14: Breeze area. She had this distinctive scorpion tattoo, but authorities
- 32:02Speaker 14: were not able to positively id her until they could
- 32:05Speaker 14: use her DNA to trace her genealogy. Police have since
- 32:10Speaker 14: located and interviewed Belusko's brother, and they also learned she
- 32:13Speaker 14: had a young daughter named Krista Nicole. That daughter would
- 32:17Speaker 14: be around thirty four years old now, and police are
- 32:19Speaker 14: working to find her.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Prime stories with Nancy Grace back to a Crime online
- 32:37Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter Nicole Parton, So Christine Mlusko did
- 32:42Speaker 1: not move to Florida.
- 32:44Speaker 6: That's correct, she did not, even though that's what she
- 32:46Speaker 6: had told her family. She did not make it to Florida.
- 32:50Speaker 6: Something clearly horrible happened between her leaving, which was in July,
- 32:56Speaker 6: and then her body is found in set Timber, So
- 33:01Speaker 6: something really bad happened just between those couple of months.
- 33:04Speaker 1: So all this time the family is thinking, Wow, we
- 33:09Speaker 1: hurt her so badly by not telling her she was adopted,
- 33:13Speaker 1: that she's now gone years without speaking to us. She's
- 33:17Speaker 1: started a whole new life without us. So they spend
- 33:21Speaker 1: Karen Stark, a psychologist. They spend all these years devastated
- 33:28Speaker 1: that they ran her out of their lives when in
- 33:32Speaker 1: fact she's the girl they read about with the scorpion tattoo.
- 33:37Speaker 4: Exactly, Nancy. If you consider, just think about it, that
- 33:42Speaker 4: one of the twins gets terrible news, goes away, plans
- 33:47Speaker 4: to come back again, and then never returns. As a parent,
- 33:51Speaker 4: it's devastating because you keep thinking I'm going to hear
- 33:55Speaker 4: from this person. You will have to assume that your
- 33:58Speaker 4: child is still alive and that they don't want to
- 34:01Speaker 4: be in touch with you. That's a killer.
- 34:04Speaker 1: It's so painful to think that they lived thinking they
- 34:08Speaker 1: had run her away when all the time she was
- 34:11Speaker 1: the girl that they had read about in the newspapers.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Now take a listen to the elected district Attorney, Michael
- 34:19Speaker 1: McMahon and our friends at ABC.
- 34:21Speaker 15: This is now the time that we ask the public
- 34:24Speaker 15: for its help. We have pretty much run down all
- 34:27Speaker 15: the leads we can and trying to locate individuals who
- 34:31Speaker 15: would know Kristen to call and any of the leads
- 34:34Speaker 15: that may help us in solving the underlying crime.
- 34:38Speaker 3: The daughter would be in her thirties.
- 34:40Speaker 16: Now, if you have any information, you are asked to
- 34:42Speaker 16: call the police.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Wow, Nicole Parton, what about the tattoo? Itself. When did
- 34:48Speaker 1: that happen? And if anything, can that tell us.
- 34:51Speaker 6: We don't know when the tattoo happened. What we do
- 34:53Speaker 6: know is that her family didn't know about the tattoos.
- 34:58Speaker 6: So when they're hearing this in the news for all
- 35:00Speaker 6: all of these years, the girl with a scorpion tattoo,
- 35:03Speaker 6: they had no idea that she had the scorpion tattoo
- 35:06Speaker 6: on her right buttock area, So they were never imagining
- 35:09Speaker 6: that it was their daughter, their sister.
- 35:12Speaker 3: No one knew about it.
- 35:13Speaker 1: So now we know that she was murdered. But we're
- 35:19Speaker 1: forgetting someone take a listen to our cut fifteen.
- 35:22Speaker 11: Christine's last known address was in Clifton, New Jersey. She
- 35:27Speaker 11: lived there until late July. She was a longtime resident
- 35:31Speaker 11: of New Jersey, and investigators know that she was staying
- 35:35Speaker 11: in a Mountinairy lodge near Mount Pocono in the weeks
- 35:39Speaker 11: before her death. In June of twenty twenty one, Christine's
- 35:44Speaker 11: brother was interviewed and was informed of his sister's death.
- 35:48Speaker 11: During the interview, we were made aware that Christine had
- 35:53Speaker 11: a daughter who was born on August first of nineteen
- 35:55Speaker 11: eighty nine.
- 35:57Speaker 3: The birth name of that.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Child was Kristin Nicole So Nicole Parton joining us from
- 36:03Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com. We're not looking only for the mother's killer,
- 36:09Speaker 1: for Christine Belusko's killer, we're looking for her little girl.
- 36:15Speaker 3: What happened to her? What do we know about that?
- 36:17Speaker 6: Absolutely? And that's the thing. She was two years old
- 36:21Speaker 6: at the time of her mother's death and disappearance. She
- 36:25Speaker 6: was last seen about a week prior to this by
- 36:29Speaker 6: a friend of her mother's at this mount Airy lodge
- 36:33Speaker 6: in the Poconos. So we know that someone saw the
- 36:36Speaker 6: little girl about a week before this crime took place,
- 36:39Speaker 6: but she has not been seen or heard from since.
- 36:43Speaker 6: There was no sign of her at the crime scene.
- 36:46Speaker 6: It's as if she vanished into thin air.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Cheryl Lapointe joining us, author of the Jeane Hunter, and
- 36:52Speaker 1: you can find her at the Jeenehunter dot com. Cheryl,
- 36:56Speaker 1: What if anything can DNA do to find Christine's daughter?
- 37:03Speaker 13: Krista So Nancy that that's a very difficult situation because
- 37:08Speaker 13: unless the daughter's DNA is in one of these systems
- 37:15Speaker 13: or one of her children, if she has a child,
- 37:20Speaker 13: it would be very very hard for DNA to identify her.
- 37:24Speaker 13: I mean, she would either have to have been put
- 37:26Speaker 13: in CODIS for some reason, or submitted her DNA to
- 37:31Speaker 13: one of the direct to consumer DNA site just for
- 37:35Speaker 13: genealogy purposes.
- 37:37Speaker 6: You know, often people who.
- 37:39Speaker 3: Are adopted do that.
- 37:40Speaker 13: If she, if she knows she was adopted, then possibly
- 37:44Speaker 13: she would do that. But if if that's not the case,
- 37:48Speaker 13: it would be very, very difficult to identify her.
- 37:51Speaker 1: Just trying to take this all in, the scenario has
- 37:54Speaker 1: changed drastically, Darryl Cohen. We're not just looking for a
- 37:59Speaker 1: killer of brutal killer, but we're looking for the baby.
- 38:04Speaker 10: It's unbelievable, Nancy. It is possible, as I think through this,
- 38:08Speaker 10: that whoever murdered the mother may have taken the baby,
- 38:14Speaker 10: may have made sure that that now thirty two years
- 38:18Speaker 10: older baby is in their custody, not custodial, but custody.
- 38:26Speaker 10: May have done that, and looking for that baby may
- 38:29Speaker 10: be impossible. Wow, may absolutely be impossible.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Okay, Jason Gisons joining me, private investigator, what do you
- 38:36Speaker 1: do to find the baby?
- 38:37Speaker 8: You know there's some clues here that you could follow
- 38:41Speaker 8: to possibly find this baby, because now you know we're
- 38:45Speaker 8: talking to an adult female. At one point, we know
- 38:49Speaker 8: that law enforcement release a composite, you know, with age progression,
- 38:55Speaker 8: that's a possibility. The others are We know from our
- 38:59Speaker 8: experi speriences in hunting cases and you know killers and
- 39:04Speaker 8: cold cases that these kind of scenarios where the victim
- 39:09Speaker 8: is beaten the way that she was, that it may
- 39:12Speaker 8: be domestic violence, you know, in a familial setting where
- 39:17Speaker 8: maybe there was a custody to speak through over the child.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't heard anything about who the father is.
- 39:25Speaker 1: You're absolutely right on Nicole parn Do we have any
- 39:27Speaker 1: idea who the biodad was this child?
- 39:30Speaker 10: We don't.
- 39:31Speaker 6: And when her when Christine's brother was questioned and he's
- 39:36Speaker 6: the one who told authorities that she had a daughter,
- 39:38Speaker 6: he said he too did not have a clue who
- 39:41Speaker 6: the father was.
- 39:42Speaker 1: Oh, okay, guys, take a listen to Maurice Dubois, our
- 39:46Speaker 1: friend at CBS.
- 39:47Speaker 16: Investigators breathing new life into a cold case on Staten Island. Today,
- 39:51Speaker 16: detextas investigating the brutal murder of a woman released her identity.
- 39:55Speaker 16: They say she was Christine Bulusko of Marris County, New Jersey.
- 40:00Speaker 16: She was brutally beaten, strangled, and burned in the woods
- 40:03Speaker 16: on Seaview avenue. Investigators had been unable to uncover her
- 40:06Speaker 16: identity all these years until now using forensic genealogy. Now
- 40:11Speaker 16: they say they want to track her down, track her
- 40:13Speaker 16: down her daughter, who was two years old at the
- 40:15Speaker 16: time of Belasco's death.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Where is the baby now a grown woman, if she survived.
- 40:24Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about Krista
- 40:29Speaker 1: Nicole Belusko, age two at the time her mother was
- 40:33Speaker 1: brutally murdered, please dial the tip line seven one eight
- 40:38Speaker 1: five five six seven zero eight five repeat seven one
- 40:43Speaker 1: eight five five six seven zero eight five.
- 40:48Speaker 3: We wait as just as un falls. Goodbye, friend,