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Crime Alert 02.06.25 | Mom Finds Tot Dead After Leaving Children Home Alone Nearly 24/7 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert I means he grays breaking crimes. Now. Chantel
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  Speaker 1: Gardner has two children, ages two and four, at home,
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  Speaker 1: but she lives with her boyfriend. Gardner leaves the toddlers
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  Speaker 1: unattended practically twenty four to seven, only coming home a
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  Speaker 1: few hours and what's a day to feed them. When
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  Speaker 1: Gardner returns home for a feeding, her four year old
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  Speaker 1: son comes to greet her, but the taut girl, Skyler
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  Speaker 1: does not. Gardner finds the little girl under a dresser,
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  Speaker 1: cold and stiff, she runs outside calls nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: First Responders say Skyler died from a large puncture wound
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  Speaker 1: on her neck, the rest of her body covered in bruises.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy first responders have to wade through trash, rotting food,
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  Speaker 2: soiled items, and even things like steak knives to get
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  Speaker 2: to Skyler. Gardner admits the children are neglected and tells
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  Speaker 2: Belie she only bathes them about every two weeks, often
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  Speaker 2: finding them covered in feces when she returns home to
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  Speaker 2: feed them. Despite the neglected mission, Gardner denies physically abusing
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  Speaker 2: the toddlers and has no explanation for Skuyler's injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Chantel Gardner, thirty three, now charged with child neglect causing death.
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  Speaker 1: Florida CoP's called when a fight breaks out at a funeral.
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  Speaker 1: Officers five Marine and Kathleen Degan, sixty and sixty six,
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  Speaker 1: locked in a brawl just feet from their father's casket.
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  Speaker 1: After breaking up the fight, family explains the younger Deagan
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  Speaker 1: was upset that her daughter was left out of Kathleen's eulogy.
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  Speaker 1: The older sister, Maureene, reportedly chest bumped Kathleen, who responded
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  Speaker 1: by yanking her sister's hair. Maureene then began throwing punches
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  Speaker 1: at Kathleen until both women fall to the floor full
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  Speaker 1: on wrestling. The deacon's sisters both booked at Clearwater County
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  Speaker 1: Jail on battery in order to have no contact. Well
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  Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Dad. More crime and justice news after
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  Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking these
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  Speaker 1: crime on lines.
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  Speaker 3: John Lemley, South Carolina has carried out its third execution
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  Speaker 3: in four months, marking the first in the US this year.
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  Speaker 3: As Crime Online Sidney Sunder tells us, a forty four
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  Speaker 3: year old man was put to death, maintaining his innocence
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  Speaker 3: until the end.
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  Speaker 2: Marion Bowman, Junior was executed by lethal injection at Broad
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  Speaker 2: River Correctional Institution. Convicted in two thousand and two for
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  Speaker 2: the two thousand and one murder of twenty one year
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  Speaker 2: old Candy Martin, Bowman has always denied responsibility. His final words,
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  Speaker 2: I did not kill Candy Martin. Prosecutors built their case
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  Speaker 2: largely on witness testimony from friends and relatives who took
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  Speaker 2: plea deals. Bowman had refused a plea bargain, opting instead
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  Speaker 2: for trial. His was the first execution in the US
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  Speaker 2: this year, part of South Carolina's push to clear a
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  Speaker 2: backlog of death row cases after a thirteen year pause
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  Speaker 2: due to drug shortages. A new state law now shields
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  Speaker 2: the identities of lethal injection drug suppliers, allowing executions to resume.
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  Speaker 2: Bowman declined to request clemency from Governor Henry McMaster. His attorney,
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay Vaughan, said he refused to spend decades fighting a
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  Speaker 2: system he believed had failed him. In his final statement,
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  Speaker 2: Bowman expressed hope that Martin's family could find peace.
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  Speaker 3: Five members and associates of New York's Luksey crime family
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  Speaker 3: have pleaded guilty to racketeering, money laundering, and illegal gambling.
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  Speaker 3: Federal prosecutor say the group ran a multimillion dollar online
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  Speaker 3: sports betting operation called Rhino Sports that took in as
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  Speaker 3: many as thirteen hundred wagers a week, primarily in the
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  Speaker 3: Bronx and Westchester County. Among those pleading guilty Anthony Velani,
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  Speaker 3: a sixty year old Luksey soldier from Elmsford, New York.
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  Speaker 3: He admitted to owning and operating the betting rings since
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  Speaker 3: the early two thousands, employing mob connected bookmakers to collect winnings.
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  Speaker 3: As part of his plea deal, he'll forfeit four million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: He faces up to twenty years in prison. Federal prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: say illegal gambling businesses like this rely on violence to
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  Speaker 3: enforce debts and fend off rivals. US attorney John Durham
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  Speaker 3: call the case a reminder that quote the defendant's luck
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  Speaker 3: ran out. Four others tied to the operation have also
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  Speaker 3: pleaded guilty, while a sixth remains at large.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John, seven year old Patrick Alfred and his younger
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  Speaker 1: sister placed in foster care while mom finds a good
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  Speaker 1: home for the family in New York City. Three weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: seven year old Patrick, not adjusting well, says he wants
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  Speaker 1: to run away and find Mommy, Patrick's foster mom gets
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  Speaker 1: distracted by a phone call while Patrick helps her take
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  Speaker 1: out trash. Moments later, Patrick disappears. Police use canines to
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  Speaker 1: track the boy, but they lose his scent after just
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  Speaker 1: a few blocks. Police not on nine thousand doors, interview
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  Speaker 1: fourteen thousand people, search over two hundred buildings. There's no
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  Speaker 1: sign of Patrick. If you have info on Patrick Alfred,
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  Speaker 1: please contact New York Crime Stoppers eight hundred five seven
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  Speaker 1: seven tips. That's eight hundred five seven seven eight four
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  Speaker 1: especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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