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Crime Alert 11.13.24 | Mom Beats 5yo with 20LB Kettlebell · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime is now. Cedar
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  Speaker 1: Sartan calls Robert Gagner the biodad or five year old
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  Speaker 1: little boy Body to tell him something bad has happened.
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  Speaker 1: Gagner the biodad doesn't pick up, so Sartain leaves a
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  Speaker 1: voicemail stating, please don't freak out, we don't have a
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  Speaker 1: son anymore. Sartan then calls nine one one. Alaska paramedics
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  Speaker 1: find a bloody twenty pound kettlebell weight with little body
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  Speaker 1: beaten and stabbed dead Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say Certain stabbed Body's body after beating him to
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  Speaker 2: death with the kettlebell. Certain sliced her arms, neck and
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  Speaker 2: face after the attack in an attempt to take her
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  Speaker 2: own life, but was found still conscious at the horrific
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  Speaker 2: crime scene. Bodie's father, Robert Gagner, shared custody of the
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  Speaker 2: boy with Certain, and says Certain's demeanor was off when
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  Speaker 2: he dropped body off with her, but not enough to
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  Speaker 2: make him uncomfortable, leaving him. Sartain was previously charged with
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  Speaker 2: child endangerment after roughly twisting Bodie's head when he was
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  Speaker 2: sixteen months old.
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  Speaker 1: Mom, if you can collar that, Cedar, Sartin forty three,
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  Speaker 1: charged with murder one. Michael Schuer extremely upset Disney removes
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  Speaker 1: him from his role creating menus for the park's restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: His passwords still work, so he makes several edits to
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  Speaker 1: every menu. He changes the font to wingdings, adds profanity
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  Speaker 1: to the listings, and marks dishes with peanuts as allerge
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  Speaker 1: and safe. He also accesses employees' personal information and eggs
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  Speaker 1: one of their homes. Michael Schuer now facing a federal
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  Speaker 1: charge for his hack job. That jail sale is not
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  Speaker 1: going to be much of a Disney fantasy. Enjoy Schuer.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, attorneys for Brianburger, charged in the fatal stabbings
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  Speaker 3: of four University of Idaho students, have asked an Idaho
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  Speaker 3: judge to remove the death penalty as a possible sentence
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  Speaker 3: for the latest returned to Sidney Sumner of Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Coberger is accused in the murders of Ethanshepen, Xana Kernodle,
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  Speaker 2: Madison Mogen, and Kigley Gonsolves. On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say DNA evidence, surveillance footage, and sell data link Coberger,
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  Speaker 2: a former graduate student at Washington State University, to the crime.
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  Speaker 2: In the latest pre trial hearing, Coberger's defense argued that
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  Speaker 2: capital punishment violates federal, state, and international law, calling it
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  Speaker 2: cruel due to the prolonged weight inmates' face on death row.
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  Speaker 2: They cited international treaties claiming the prohibit execution under such conditions. However,
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  Speaker 2: Fourth District Judge Stephen Hipler questioned whether these treaties are relevant,
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  Speaker 2: noting they are primarily meant to ensure fair trials. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: countered that Idaho Supreme Court has previously upheld the death penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Coberger's defense is preserving these arguments for a potential appeal
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  Speaker 2: if necessary. Judge Hitler will rule on the motions later.
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  Speaker 2: Kilelygansolvez's parents, Christy and Steve, attended the hearing. They continue
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  Speaker 2: to support the death penalty, with Christie citing knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: the case's disturbing details. Kober's attorneys have claimed he was
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  Speaker 2: on a late night drive during the killings.
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  Speaker 3: Coberger's trial is set for next August and could last
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  Speaker 3: up to three months. Now to a disturbing story out
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  Speaker 3: of Colorado. John and Carrie Halford, owners of Return to
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  Speaker 3: Nature funeral Home, are expected to plead guilty to hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of charges, including corpse abuse. Prosecutors say the couple deceived
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  Speaker 3: families by storing one hundred and ninety bodies in a
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  Speaker 3: run down facility while giving loved ones fate ashes, often
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  Speaker 3: substituting dry concrete. Authorities discovered the bodies last year after
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  Speaker 3: neighbours reported a foul odour coming from a building in Penrose,
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  Speaker 3: southwest of Colorado's Springs. Inside, they found bodies stacked on
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  Speaker 3: top of each other in horrific conditions, so hazardous that
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  Speaker 3: has MATT teams needed full protective gear for entry. According
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  Speaker 3: to prosecutors, the Halford's misused customer payments and nearly nine
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars in COVID relief funds to finance luxury
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  Speaker 3: items like cars, vacations, and cryptocurrency. The Halford's previously pleaded
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  Speaker 3: guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting to defrauding customers and
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  Speaker 3: the government. The cases led to tighter regulations in Colorado's
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  Speaker 3: funeral industry, which had some of the nation's weakest oversight.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Melanie Ballinger forty six, spending a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time resting in preparation for upcoming heart surgery. Leans on
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  Speaker 1: her husband Daniel for help keeping up with their two
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  Speaker 1: young daughters and chores and their Wiley, Texas home. Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel joins Melanie in bad TENPN when you gets something.
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  Speaker 1: Next morning, six am, Melanie gone her phone, wallet and
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  Speaker 1: med's still inside. Her car still parked outside. There's no
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  Speaker 1: sign of mom. Intense foot searches turn up nothing. Police
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  Speaker 1: working to retrace her steps. The last confirmed signing is
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  Speaker 1: on surveillance video at Walmart with her family Saturday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It's extremely dangerous for Melanie to go without her meds.
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  Speaker 1: Her family desperate to bring her home. She's five seven,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five pounds, chestlink, black hair, brown eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Last scene wearing unspecified pajamas. If you have NFO on
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  Speaker 1: Melanie Ballinger now missing ten days, called Wiley, Texas PD
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  Speaker 1: nine seven two four two nine eight zero one four.
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  Speaker 1: crime stories With this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace