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Therapist Drowns Infant Daughter, Part of Plan "To End It All" | Crime Alert 04.02.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now. Mackenzie Rose
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  Speaker 1: Colgan wakes up with a plan to quote end everything.
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  Speaker 1: The thirty seven year old Maryland mom allegedly intends to
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  Speaker 1: kill her husband, her two children, and herself eleven forty am.
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  Speaker 1: She takes a three month old daughter upstairs to the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: puts the infant in a small tub inside the bathtub,
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  Speaker 1: and holds the baby's head under water until she stops breathing.
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  Speaker 1: After the drowning, Colgan climbs onto the ledge of a
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  Speaker 1: second story window.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Colgan, a licensed family and child therapist, tells police
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  Speaker 2: she considered jumping, but stepped off the ledge and told
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  Speaker 2: her husband what she had done. The father tried to
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  Speaker 2: revive their girl while Colgan dials nine one one, but
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  Speaker 2: she's pronounced dead at a local hospital. Reportedly, officers were
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  Speaker 2: called to the home twice in recent months. A friend
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  Speaker 2: called for a welfare check and Colgan called, reporting her
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  Speaker 2: daughter wasn't breathing. On both occasions. When police arrived, Colgan
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  Speaker 2: told them everything was fine.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow Colgan managed to live, but she's charged with murder.
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  Speaker 1: One band, Oregon. Someone's having a little too much fun
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  Speaker 1: sticking googly eyes on the public art fixtures, dub the
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  Speaker 1: googly eye bandit. The prankster hits eight pieces of art
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  Speaker 1: in the Roundabout art route, including a family of deer
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  Speaker 1: and a six foot sphere. While residents enjoy the humor,
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  Speaker 1: officials have problems removing the adhesive without damaging the art.
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  Speaker 1: The cleanup costs fifteen hundred dollars, with some sculptures needing repainting.
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  Speaker 1: Officials emphasize they appreciate creativity but must protect art. No
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  Speaker 1: word yet on the Google des bandits secret identity. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this Now with the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: Crime allized John Lemley. The US Supreme Court has rejected
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  Speaker 3: an appeal from Texas death row inmate Aurelli Escobar, despite
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  Speaker 3: questions over flawed DNA evidence. As Crime online Sydney's Now
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  Speaker 3: tells us, the decision comes as the court recently overturned
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  Speaker 3: a similar conviction in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: Arelli Escobar remains on death row after the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: declined to hear his appeal upholding his conviction for the
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and nine murder of seventeen year old Bianca
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  Speaker 2: Maldonado in Austin. Escobar was convicted largely on DNA evidence
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  Speaker 2: from the Austin Police Department's crime lab, but years later
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  Speaker 2: an audit exposed serious issues with the lab's testing methods
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  Speaker 2: that led Judge David Wahlberg to rule that Escobar's trial
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  Speaker 2: was unfair, writing that unreliable DNA evidence had undermined fundamental justice.
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  Speaker 2: In a rare move, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza agreed,
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  Speaker 2: refusing to defend the conviction. But despite this, the Texas
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  Speaker 2: Court of Criminal Appeals twice rejected Escobar's efforts to secure
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  Speaker 2: a new trial. The Supreme Court recently overturned the conviction
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  Speaker 2: of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, citing prosecutorial misconduct
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  Speaker 2: in the use of false testimony. Oklahoma's Attorney General even
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  Speaker 2: backed the call for a new trial, but in Escobar's case,
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  Speaker 2: the justices gave no reason for denying review. Escobar's execution
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  Speaker 2: is not imminent, and his attorneys continue fighting for another
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  Speaker 2: chance in court.
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  Speaker 3: With the Supreme Court declining to intervene, Escobar's legal options
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  Speaker 3: are narrowing. New Hampshire has agreed to a ten million
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  Speaker 3: dollars settlement with Michael Gilpatrick, who says he was raped
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  Speaker 3: and abused at a state run youth detention center in
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  Speaker 3: the nineteen nineties. Gilpatrick's lawsuit was set for trial, but
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  Speaker 3: was settled instead. His payout is four times the state's
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  Speaker 3: usual compensation for victims, but far less than a thirty
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  Speaker 3: eight million dollar jury award in a similar case last year,
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  Speaker 3: a verdict the state is fighting to reduce. Gilpatrick, now
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  Speaker 3: forty one, was fourteen when he was sent to the
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  Speaker 3: Youth Development Center in Manchester. His allegations led to criminal
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  Speaker 3: charges again against four former staffers. Two have faced trial,
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  Speaker 3: One was sentenced up to forty years in prison, while
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  Speaker 3: another's case ended in a mistrial. The facility, now named
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  Speaker 3: for former Governor John H. Senunu, is set to close,
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  Speaker 3: with a smaller replacement planned. Since twenty nineteen, the eleven
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  Speaker 3: former staffers have been arrested in connection with abuse claims,
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  Speaker 3: two have been convicted, and more trials are pending. Thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Danielle alis Adam tells mom she's grabbing food and never
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  Speaker 1: comes out and never comes back. Next day, a cousin
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  Speaker 1: sees her on Detroit's West Side, but after that she vanishes.
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  Speaker 1: Phone is social media goes silent weeks after her family
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  Speaker 1: discovers a backpage dot com listing with her photo, raising
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  Speaker 1: fears she has fallen victim to sex trafficking. Danielle for
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  Speaker 1: eleven one hundred and twenty pounds, light skinned African American, black,
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  Speaker 1: curly hair often straightened, and beautiful hazel eyes, La Sene
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  Speaker 1: in a sweatshirt and dark jogging pants. Tattoos Shelley on
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  Speaker 1: her right bicep and a ying yang on her left arm.
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  Speaker 1: Danielle would be twenty nine today. Anyone with info on
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance of Danielle Elise Adams please call Detroit Police
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  Speaker 1: three one, three five nine six two two two one.
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  Speaker 1: where we do our best to find missing people, especially children,
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime Alart, I'm Nancy Grace.