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- 0:00Speaker 1: Bonchelle tonight and the death of TV and movie star
- 0:03Speaker 1: Hayden Panettiere. We learned tonight feds swarm the Hollywood home.
- 0:10Speaker 1: This as we also learned Hayden Panettiere plied with whippets
- 0:14Speaker 1: and booze before her death and that she tells security,
- 0:20Speaker 1: keep my boyfriend away.
- 0:22Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace.
- 0:24Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for
- 0:26Speaker 1: being with us. TV and movie star Hayden Panettiere's death.
- 0:37Speaker 3: Because there's a lot of stuff in there and a
- 0:39Speaker 3: lot of it doesn't add up. Initially, we were told
- 0:43Speaker 3: that she was found in a chair. Now we're being
- 0:45Speaker 3: told that she was in the bed.
- 0:47Speaker 4: And now what we know about her death is, well,
- 0:49Speaker 4: there's been obviously.
- 0:51Speaker 5: An apparent overdose.
- 0:53Speaker 6: The first scene that I'm directing Hayden in, we are
- 0:56Speaker 6: in the middle of a camera rehearsal and I'm at
- 0:58Speaker 6: the monitor and Hayden's about 15 feet away on set.
- 1:01Speaker 6: And I feel Brian hovering over my shoulder. And he
- 1:04Speaker 6: leans in and he says to me, you let me
- 1:06Speaker 6: know what you need her to do. I can get
- 1:08Speaker 6: her to do anything. And my immediate reaction to.
- 1:12Speaker 7: That was, what the * * * *? But what
- 1:16Speaker 7: I said was, all right, because what else do you
- 1:19Speaker 7: say when you're in the middle of rehearsal and somebody
- 1:22Speaker 7: you didn't hire says that to you? In fact, it
- 1:24Speaker 7: was a direct attempt to control and it was presented
- 1:27Speaker 7: like this bizarre power flex. We could all see it
- 1:30Speaker 7: and we all wanted to help.
- 1:31Speaker 1: That is Director Griff first on Instagram referring to Hayden
- 1:35Speaker 1: Panettiere's then-boyfriend leaning over his shoulder, stating, Just tell me
- 1:41Speaker 1: I can get her to do anything. Correct me if
- 1:45Speaker 1: I am wrong, Dave Mack, Crime Stories investigative reporter, but
- 1:49Speaker 1: was he on the scene when Hayden Panettiere is found dead?
- 1:55Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
- 1:55Speaker 9: He was right there. He was staying with her. They
- 1:58Speaker 9: actually traveled together and were in Greenville, South Carolina at
- 2:02Speaker 9: that Airbnb together when she passed.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Dave Mack, while I've got you, the feds swarming the
- 2:11Speaker 1: Hollywood home of Hayden Panettiere.
- 2:14Speaker 2: What happened?
- 2:16Speaker 9: Apparently, more than six feds showed up at her West
- 2:20Speaker 9: Hollywood building. And according to an eyewitness resident that they
- 2:25Speaker 9: had search warrants and were entering that facility, her home.
- 2:30Speaker 9: And the resident said that they were swarming all over
- 2:34Speaker 9: at least six agents counted by this resident. So it
- 2:38Speaker 9: was a fairly large show of force.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Straight out to veteran defense attorney specializing in drugs and
- 2:46Speaker 1: violent felony defense, Renee Rockwell out of the Atlanta jurisdiction,
- 2:51Speaker 1: never a lack of business there. This is significant that
- 2:55Speaker 1: the feds, specifically the DEA, have been brought in on
- 2:59Speaker 1: the investigation into Hayden Panettiere's death.
- 3:03Speaker 10: What does that mean, Nancy? It means nothing. The DEA
- 3:07Speaker 10: equals the federal government.
- 3:08Speaker 11: The federal government means resources, time, and it is not good.
- 3:15Speaker 11: You remember when you were a prosecutor, Nancy, you go
- 3:18Speaker 11: to court in state court, there's 80 people in the courtroom.
- 3:22Speaker 11: You go to federal court, you're the only case. What
- 3:25Speaker 11: does that tell you? Time is on their side, and
- 3:28Speaker 11: they're going to spend it on a case like this.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Let me refine my question to Renee Rockwell. One of
- 3:38Speaker 1: your main expertise is drug cases of all natures.
- 3:42Speaker 2: It could be a doper on the street. It could
- 3:43Speaker 2: be a drug Lord.
- 3:45Speaker 1: How often in your cases does the DEA swarm the home?
- 3:52Speaker 10: Not often, Nancy.
- 3:53Speaker 11: And let me tell you something. It is not good news.
- 3:57Speaker 11: These are the big boys and they're playing for keeps.
- 4:01Speaker 1: But back to my question, my original question, Why would
- 4:07Speaker 1: the DEA get involved in what seems to be, what
- 4:13Speaker 1: is said to be, an OD?
- 4:16Speaker 2: The feds don't care about an OD. They don't care
- 4:18Speaker 2: if you're a movie star or a TV star. Yes,
- 4:20Speaker 2: they care. They don't care. So why are they in it?
- 4:25Speaker 11: Nancy, the reason they care is if somebody else supplied
- 4:29Speaker 11: the drugs to her, even if it was a recreational,
- 4:32Speaker 11: even if she consented to it, even if it's something
- 4:36Speaker 11: they all decided and planned together, if someone else facilitated
- 4:41Speaker 11: her possession of these drugs, even if they are legal
- 4:47Speaker 11: drugs like whippets that might have been used in an
- 4:51Speaker 11: illegal fashion, it's illegal.
- 4:54Speaker 10: It's a felony.
- 4:56Speaker 2: I don't give a flying fig about a whippet. Whippet.
- 5:00Speaker 10: You can die from a whippet.
- 5:02Speaker 2: You don't OD on whippets typically. I mean, you know
- 5:06Speaker 2: what a whippet is, right?
- 5:08Speaker 10: Explain.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Yes.
- 5:09Speaker 11: Nitrous oxide, Nancy. And first-time users can overdose. Their life
- 5:16Speaker 11: can stop because of use of a whippet.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Renee.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Yes.
- 5:23Speaker 1: First-time users. Is there any suggestion? to Eileen Reslin joining us,
- 5:31Speaker 1: senior showbiz investigative exclusive reporter for Daily Mail, that Hayden
- 5:38Speaker 1: Panettiere and the boyfriend, either one of them, but let's
- 5:41Speaker 1: stick with Hayden, are afraid of a whippet. Whippet is
- 5:46Speaker 1: not my problem tonight. There's high schoolers, ninth graders out
- 5:49Speaker 1: in the parking lot at the school right now huffing
- 5:52Speaker 1: on whippets. I'm worried about why she OD'd and why
- 5:56Speaker 1: the feds have swarmed the Hollywood home.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Whippet, Schmippet, don't care.
- 6:01Speaker 4: Well, there are reports that she tried allegedly to get
- 6:07Speaker 4: Whippets a few months ago and was unsuccessfully unable to
- 6:10Speaker 4: do so during her book tour.
- 6:12Speaker 5: But what we do know is.
- 6:13Speaker 4: That when she died in Greenville, South Carolina, that there
- 6:16Speaker 4: was a bag of medication that she had on her person.
- 6:20Speaker 4: And we know that because in the police report it's
- 6:22Speaker 4: mentioned that that Brian Hickerson told police, look, she has
- 6:26Speaker 4: these bags of medications. And so alluding to maybe she
- 6:28Speaker 4: might've been using.
- 6:29Speaker 12: Them at the time.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Also, there was Narcan on the scene. So, and we
- 6:33Speaker 4: know now that it was used. And according to Brian's brother,
- 6:37Speaker 4: Zach Hickerson, who was also on the scene, Brian was
- 6:40Speaker 4: the person who allegedly administered the Narcan. So that also
- 6:43Speaker 4: shows to some opioid usage. So yes, Nancy, I agree
- 6:46Speaker 4: with you. There are signs there that there were stronger
- 6:49Speaker 4: drugs at play.
- 6:51Speaker 2: I'm curious.
- 6:53Speaker 1: About the use of the Narcan, which is a whole
- 6:56Speaker 1: other direction. But since you brought it up, let's go
- 6:58Speaker 1: with it. To Jeff Gentry joining us, forensic certified bloodstain
- 7:03Speaker 1: pattern analyst. He is a death investigator. He is author
- 7:07Speaker 1: of Forensic Science, Applications to Death and Crime Scene Investigations.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And you can find him at evidenceoverassumption.com. Jeff Gentry, thank
- 7:19Speaker 1: you for being with us. There has been a lot
- 7:22Speaker 1: of discussion and proof. It can, of course, be debunked.
- 7:28Speaker 1: There are allegations, let me put it more clearly, that
- 7:32Speaker 1: the Narcan was not administered until after Hayden was found dead.
- 7:39Speaker 1: That the boyfriend that she had told security to keep
- 7:43Speaker 1: him away woke up and looked over and Hayden is dead.
- 7:50Speaker 1: So Jeff Gentry, let's address the use of Narcan and
- 7:56Speaker 1: how we can tell if it was used by her
- 7:59Speaker 1: or administered to her in life or post-mortem.
- 8:05Speaker 13: Nancy, it's going to be a little difficult to tell
- 8:07Speaker 13: whether it was administered post-mortem or not. That can be
- 8:12Speaker 13: revealed with some toxicology testing. So you can test for
- 8:15Speaker 13: Narcan in someone's system. So if it was administered before
- 8:19Speaker 13: she was.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, Jeff, you just lost me right there.
- 8:22Speaker 1: If you can look in someone's tissue or blood and
- 8:25Speaker 1: determine if they ingested or were administered Narcan before they died,
- 8:30Speaker 1: that doesn't really sound hard to me.
- 8:31Speaker 2: You said it was difficult. That sounds easy.
- 8:35Speaker 13: It might be difficult, depending on the laboratory that they use,
- 8:38Speaker 13: depending on the toxicology tests that are utilized. but Narcan
- 8:42Speaker 13: should be able to be detected in someone's system, in
- 8:45Speaker 13: their bloodstream, if it was administered when they were still alive. Now,
- 8:49Speaker 13: Narcan is typically used for opioid overdoses, so it will
- 8:53Speaker 13: counter the effects of an opiate overdose, and it almost
- 8:56Speaker 13: snaps someone out of an opiate overdose almost immediately. But
- 9:00Speaker 13: they still have to be alive to be able to
- 9:04Speaker 13: snap out of this opiate overdose. So if somebody is
- 9:07Speaker 13: laying there deceased for a period of time, and then
- 9:10Speaker 13: they're discovered and Narcan is administered, but they're already deceased,
- 9:15Speaker 13: it's not going to have any effect and then you
- 9:16Speaker 13: won't detect it in their system. However, if they are
- 9:19Speaker 13: still able to be revived and if they're still alive,
- 9:22Speaker 13: the Narcan can be detected in their bloodstream and it
- 9:25Speaker 13: should have an effect if opiates were utilized. Now, if
- 9:29Speaker 13: there were other drugs administered or there were other drugs
- 9:31Speaker 13: utilized that the Narcan would not be effective for, then
- 9:35Speaker 13: it's not gonna help at all, but it's specific for
- 9:38Speaker 13: opiate overdoses. And you're correct that it can be diagnosed
- 9:43Speaker 13: or can be detected in toxicology testing if it was
- 9:46Speaker 13: administered when they were alive.
- 9:48Speaker 1: And isn't it true, Jeff Gentry, you're the death investigator
- 9:51Speaker 1: that if Narcan was administered post-mortem, after death, it would
- 9:57Speaker 1: still be discoverable in Hayden Panettiere's nose. It's like, you know,
- 10:04Speaker 1: when you took a COVID test with the long Q-tip,
- 10:10Speaker 1: it swabbed in the nose. With Narcan, let's see the Narcan, please,
- 10:14Speaker 1: so everybody knows what we're talking about. It has a
- 10:16Speaker 1: long nose. nozzle, a cylinder that goes up your nose.
- 10:21Speaker 1: When you take that off that, it goes.
- 10:22Speaker 2: Up your nose.
- 10:23Speaker 1: The Narcan would still be in her nose because she
- 10:26Speaker 1: would not have inhaled it if she was already dead, Jeff.
- 10:30Speaker 13: In theory, that should work. If it was administered through
- 10:33Speaker 13: the nose and wasn't absorbed into the body and absorbed
- 10:35Speaker 13: into the bloodstream, you might possibly be able to take
- 10:39Speaker 13: a swab and test that swab for Narcan.
- 10:42Speaker 1: I want to circle back to where we started to Dr.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall joining us, a psychoanalyst out of the LA jurisdiction.
- 10:50Speaker 2: This is in your backyard.
- 10:52Speaker 1: And I doubt with your clientele, the feds swarmed their
- 10:55Speaker 1: homes pursuant to search warrant.
- 10:56Speaker 14: Hold on.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Let me clarify that real quick before I come back
- 10:59Speaker 2: to you, Dr. Bethany.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Dave Mack, the feds had a search warrant to swarm
- 11:04Speaker 1: the home, correct?
- 11:06Speaker 10: Absolutely, Nancy.
- 11:08Speaker 9: And there were several feds that showed up with the
- 11:10Speaker 9: search warrant. to go into Hayden Panettiere's West Hollywood home.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Again, Renee Rockwell, I don't know why you keep talking
- 11:17Speaker 1: about whippets, but when the feds come in your home
- 11:23Speaker 1: pursuant to search warrant, which is significant, and they've got
- 11:27Speaker 1: a whole team.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Of this, this is not a well-being check.
- 11:32Speaker 10: No, no wellness check here. The fact that the feds.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Obtain a search warrant from a magistrate or judge and
- 11:38Speaker 1: then swarm the home with no warning.
- 11:41Speaker 2: These are DEA agents.
- 11:45Speaker 15: Why?
- 11:46Speaker 2: What are they looking for?
- 11:48Speaker 11: This is not a wellness check, Nancy. This is obviously
- 11:52Speaker 11: going to be a federal investigation. And does it disturb
- 11:56Speaker 11: you that somebody's got Narcan on the scene?
- 11:59Speaker 10: What does that mean to you?
- 12:02Speaker 11: Are they planning on having to rescue someone from an overdose?
- 12:08Speaker 1: We're still waiting on a timeline. No one is a suspect.
- 12:12Speaker 1: No one is a person of interest. That's what we
- 12:15Speaker 1: know tonight. But there is, let's just say, a development
- 12:20Speaker 1: in the investigation that feds swarmed the home. And they're
- 12:23Speaker 1: not just any feds. They're DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency feds. Dr.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, a psychoanalyst out of L.A. You can see
- 12:30Speaker 1: her on Netflix, Hulu, Bravo, author of a brand new book.
- 12:35Speaker 1: And she's a star of a new podcast, On the
- 12:38Speaker 1: Couch with Dr.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Bethany. Jump in, Bethany.
- 12:41Speaker 12: You know, Nancy, I'm going to guess that the DEA
- 12:44Speaker 12: was not doing a welfare check in West Hollywood. They
- 12:46Speaker 12: were swarming her home because there's a supply chain behind
- 12:52Speaker 12: this overdose. And let's think about what a supply chain
- 12:56Speaker 12: could be. It could be drugs being produced from overseas
- 12:59Speaker 12: coming over the border, or it could be doctors in
- 13:04Speaker 12: Beverly Hills. in West Hollywood, around the country, supplying opioids.
- 13:10Speaker 12: What was their drug of choice?
- 13:12Speaker 10: Opioids.
- 13:13Speaker 12: Who addicted her to opioids? Someone on a set when
- 13:16Speaker 12: she was 15 years old. They were together for eight years,
- 13:20Speaker 12: she and Brian. And it seems to me that she
- 13:24Speaker 12: might have done what we call falling out.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Dr.
- 13:27Speaker 12: Maroney talked about that this week. And I call it
- 13:30Speaker 12: in my practice, nodding out. When somebody comes in and
- 13:33Speaker 12: they're high on opioids, They will start talking and then
- 13:36Speaker 12: all of a sudden they just nod out. Like they
- 13:39Speaker 12: go back to sleep. They go to sleep and then
- 13:41Speaker 12: they start, they rouse themselves out of it. They start
- 13:43Speaker 12: talking again.
- 13:44Speaker 10: They don't even.
- 13:45Speaker 12: Realize that they nodded out. That's a sign of opiate abuse.
- 13:50Speaker 12: Who prescribes opiates?
- 13:52Speaker 2: Doctors.
- 13:53Speaker 12: As this story develops, we are going to learn who
- 13:59Speaker 12: is prescribing these illicit drugs and And you know, Nancy,
- 14:04Speaker 12: I want to say something about whippets. Who primarily uses whippets? Men.
- 14:09Speaker 12: Men and adolescent boys. They're trying to pin this on
- 14:13Speaker 12: Hayden as if she ordered.
- 14:15Speaker 10: Booze and whippets.
- 14:16Speaker 12: But I believe somebody was behind that because men use
- 14:20Speaker 12: whippets to experience, to enhance sexual excitement while they're using drugs.
- 14:27Speaker 12: That's why they order them. So there is a man around.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Back to Eileen Reslin joining us from Daily Mail. As
- 14:36Speaker 1: I recall, the timeline begins around 1030 where she's putting
- 14:43Speaker 1: on makeup and then I believe the boyfriend leaves to
- 14:47Speaker 1: go pick something up. Give me that timeline to the
- 14:50Speaker 1: best of your knowledge.
- 14:52Speaker 5: Yes, Nancy.
- 14:53Speaker 4: So this timeline is according to Hayden's mother, Leslie, who
- 14:57Speaker 4: claims that she spoke to police and they relate information
- 14:59Speaker 4: that Brian told them. So according to what Brian said
- 15:03Speaker 4: to police at 1030 in the morning, Hayden is getting ready,
- 15:06Speaker 4: putting on her makeup. They have plans later that day
- 15:08Speaker 4: to meet up with his brother, Zach, to go to
- 15:10Speaker 4: lunch and play some golf.
- 15:12Speaker 5: And so he then steps out.
- 15:14Speaker 4: We don't know when exactly he comes back, but apparently
- 15:18Speaker 4: we don't even know if they exchanged some words or
- 15:20Speaker 4: what exactly happened.
- 15:21Speaker 5: But at some point they lay down to take a nap.
- 15:24Speaker 4: Now, that time period is really important because when they
- 15:28Speaker 4: take a nap, were they high?
- 15:30Speaker 5: Had they used drugs? We don't know that yet.
- 15:32Speaker 4: And then what we know next is that sometime around
- 15:35Speaker 4: a later 1 o'clock to 2 p.m., Zach shows up
- 15:40Speaker 4: and he's knocking on the door because they're not answering
- 15:43Speaker 4: his texts and trying to, you know, reunite with them
- 15:46Speaker 4: to go to their plans.
- 15:48Speaker 5: And then that's when they found Hayden sadly unresponsive.
- 15:51Speaker 16: His brother... gave us a statement that he texted Brian
- 15:59Speaker 16: and Hayden on that Sunday morning, last Sunday, and didn't
- 16:04Speaker 16: get a response, went to this Airbnb where they were,
- 16:08Speaker 16: and then found Brian, who had just woken up, and
- 16:13Speaker 16: Hayden laying in a bed. And Brian then administered Narcan
- 16:19Speaker 16: to her.
- 16:20Speaker 1: From our friend Harvey Levin at TMZ, okay, Renee Rockwell,
- 16:24Speaker 1: you're the defense attorney. You do see the problems, the
- 16:29Speaker 1: implications of that statement that the boyfriend's brother gives as
- 16:35Speaker 1: to what happened. He texts, he texts, he texts, and
- 16:38Speaker 1: nobody answered. They're clearly out cold. Is she already dead?
- 16:43Speaker 1: That would be my question. What was the temperature of
- 16:45Speaker 1: her body when paramedics finally got there?
- 16:49Speaker 2: I need answers. They're out. They're not answering texts.
- 16:53Speaker 1: The brother gets there. The boyfriend is just waking up
- 17:01Speaker 1: and they see Hayden Panettiere out and then administer Narcan.
- 17:08Speaker 1: We don't know that that's what happened, but with what
- 17:11Speaker 1: he told Harvey, that's a big problem.
- 17:14Speaker 2: Is she already dead?
- 17:18Speaker 10: Well, Nancy, do you have Narcan at your house? I
- 17:22Speaker 10: don't have any at my house.
- 17:23Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
- 17:23Speaker 10: What does that mean to you?
- 17:25Speaker 1: I do, because my mom uses opioids for back pain.
- 17:29Speaker 11: Okay, so maybe I need to get some too. But
- 17:33Speaker 11: this is a young lady. They're staying somewhere else in
- 17:37Speaker 11: an Airbnb. Is this her permanent home? They happen to
- 17:40Speaker 11: have some Narcan that's readily available, hopefully, for the use.
- 17:46Speaker 11: Are they both out, like you said?
- 17:48Speaker 10: Is she, is it too little too late?
- 17:52Speaker 2: Dr.
- 17:53Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall, I just have a problem with this whole scenario,
- 17:56Speaker 1: the way it's playing out. The brother who goes on
- 18:00Speaker 1: TMZ and gives that statement, he knows he's not speaking
- 18:03Speaker 1: to law enforcement.
- 18:04Speaker 2: He's talking to Harvey Levin. He's being open, and.
- 18:06Speaker 1: He describes what happens. So they're trying and trying. He's
- 18:10Speaker 1: trying to get through. Nobody will pick up their phones.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Nobody will answer texts.
- 18:14Speaker 2: They're out cold.
- 18:16Speaker 1: I have reason to believe she's already dead. And then
- 18:19Speaker 1: the scramble is on.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I mean, I want to hear your analysis.
- 18:23Speaker 12: Well, there are so many story holes. One is that
- 18:26Speaker 12: if you're calling and texting and your brother doesn't wake up,
- 18:29Speaker 12: but you knock on the door and then he wakes up,
- 18:32Speaker 12: that's a little suspicious. You said earlier that Hayden Panettiere
- 18:36Speaker 12: was putting her makeup on, and then they decided to
- 18:39Speaker 12: take a nap. I can tell you right now, no woman,
- 18:42Speaker 12: especially an actress, is going to put her makeup on
- 18:46Speaker 12: and then lie down for a nap, unless she's extremely high,
- 18:50Speaker 12: because that's going to ruin her makeup. The idea that
- 18:53Speaker 12: she was in a chair, and then she was on
- 18:57Speaker 12: the bed. But also, why talk to Harvey Levin? Zach
- 19:02Speaker 12: has a long history with his brother, I'm sure, covering
- 19:05Speaker 12: for him, rescuing him, knowing about his history, knowing about
- 19:09Speaker 12: his relationship with Hayden, knowing about abuse.
- 19:13Speaker 10: This kind of.
- 19:13Speaker 12: Abuse does not happen with one beating. It happens with
- 19:17Speaker 12: isolating the victim from people in their lives, loved ones,
- 19:21Speaker 12: family members, then going into their work life like she's
- 19:24Speaker 12: on that set, then occasionally beating them. And to go
- 19:28Speaker 12: back to Zach and the scene, if Hayden was indeed
- 19:32Speaker 12: one of his best friends, if she was confiding in him,
- 19:35Speaker 12: he's torn between his brother, Brian and Hayden, and he
- 19:39Speaker 12: is going on the defensive.
- 19:41Speaker 15: I think it speaks for itself.
- 19:45Speaker 17: I mean, I, you know, I got arrested for, you know,
- 19:51Speaker 17: abusing her and I wouldn't blame her friends for being
- 19:55Speaker 17: pissed off at me.
- 19:56Speaker 8: I had a lot to drink and I got physical
- 20:01Speaker 8: with her and I got arrested, spent the night in
- 20:05Speaker 8: jail and, you know, That's just what happens when you
- 20:12Speaker 8: lay hands on women. So there's a story where.
- 20:20Speaker 14: I was drunk, right? Aiden was standing across the room
- 20:27Speaker 14: and I had a phone in my hand and I said, Hayden,
- 20:33Speaker 14: I said, I'll give you 10 seconds to run as
- 20:37Speaker 14: fast as you can before I throw it at you.
- 20:40Speaker 2: What does that mean?
- 20:42Speaker 1: I'll give you 10 seconds to run for the road.
- 20:45Speaker 1: That's from TMZ. What is he talking about, Eileen Reslin?
- 20:50Speaker 1: I'll give you 10 seconds to run for it.
- 20:53Speaker 4: No, he was incredibly manipulative with everything. Hayden, Nancy, he
- 20:57Speaker 4: would send her threatening messages. I mean, even after he
- 21:00Speaker 4: had gotten convicted for domestic violence, he told her time
- 21:04Speaker 4: to go to war if she didn't drop the charges.
- 21:07Speaker 4: And he also threatened to release information that he said
- 21:10Speaker 4: was overseas.
- 21:12Speaker 5: What that was, we don't know.
- 21:13Speaker 4: But he alluded to it being incriminating and to really
- 21:16Speaker 4: trying to ruin Hayden's reputation. So the lengths that this
- 21:20Speaker 4: man would go, I mean, everybody around her was really concerned.
- 21:23Speaker 4: I actually interviewed people in Hayden's inner circle who told
- 21:26Speaker 4: me that he was a lot of trouble and people
- 21:28Speaker 4: really tried to get her away from him. But unfortunately,
- 21:33Speaker 4: even to her final days, she just could not escape him.
- 21:36Speaker 17: What I did, you know, and I just.
- 21:40Speaker 15: Want people to know, I mean, like.
- 21:44Speaker 15: People do this all the time, you know? It's like,
- 21:49Speaker 15: you think I'm the only one that did that?
- 21:51Speaker 4: No.
- 21:52Speaker 15: People do that all the time.
- 21:53Speaker 1: From TMZ, people do what all the time? Beat up
- 21:57Speaker 1: their partner? Is that what he's saying, Dave Mack?
- 22:00Speaker 9: Yes, that is exactly what he is saying. Brian Hickerson
- 22:04Speaker 9: has been arrested at least four times across multiple... incidents
- 22:10Speaker 9: involving domestic violence and drug-related charges. And, you know, Nancy,
- 22:14Speaker 9: this even came up in the recent past, in the
- 22:16Speaker 9: last few weeks, when Hickerson actually went before a judge
- 22:20Speaker 9: to have his record expunged, and the judge referenced an
- 22:23Speaker 9: interview he did that you were just listening to with TMZ,
- 22:27Speaker 9: where Hickerson is obviously under the influence. But backing up
- 22:32Speaker 9: his history, Nancy, May of 2019, Hickerson arrested on suspicion
- 22:38Speaker 9: of domestic violence against Hayden Panicare. Charges were initially dismissed
- 22:42Speaker 9: when prosecutors couldn't secure a material witness, but later covered
- 22:46Speaker 9: a broader 2020 indictment when he pleaded no contest to that.
- 22:50Speaker 2: One in 2021.
- 22:52Speaker 9: In Wyoming in 2020, he was arrested on Valentine's Day
- 22:57Speaker 9: for misdemeanor battery after an alleged domestic incident. August 2025,
- 23:03Speaker 9: just over a year ago, arrested at a bar, Barney's Beanery.
- 23:08Speaker 9: That case was later declined for prosecution due to insufficient evidence.
- 23:12Speaker 9: And then we have August 6th of 2025, where Hickerson
- 23:16Speaker 9: was arrested. days after the Barney's Beanery incident and booked
- 23:20Speaker 9: on a misdemeanor count of being under the influence. So
- 23:24Speaker 9: Hickerson has a long record. But, Nancy, there's something really
- 23:28Speaker 9: important that Hayden Panettiere said in his statement in 2020
- 23:33Speaker 9: in talking about Brian Hickerson. She was speaking out publicly about,
- 23:37Speaker 9: you know, surviving domestic abuse. And she actually said this, quote,
- 23:41Speaker 9: I'm coming forward with the truth about what happened to
- 23:43Speaker 9: me with the hope that my story will empower others
- 23:46Speaker 9: in abusive relationships to get the help they need and deserve.
- 23:50Speaker 9: I am prepared to do my part to make sure
- 23:53Speaker 9: this man never hurts anyone again.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Renee Rockwell, defense attorney. Did you hear him say, yeah,
- 24:01Speaker 1: people do it all the time.
- 24:03Speaker 2: It's not just me.
- 24:04Speaker 15: What?
- 24:04Speaker 2: Is that the defense? Everybody else doesn't beat their partner?
- 24:11Speaker 11: How much as a prosecutor did you love that statement?
- 24:16Speaker 11: That was painful for me to watch. And you will
- 24:20Speaker 11: see that again and again. I don't know him in
- 24:25Speaker 11: any other context, but he sounds impaired to me and
- 24:29Speaker 11: he sounds like He gave her 10 seconds to take off,
- 24:33Speaker 11: and then he's going to throw the phone at her.
- 24:36Speaker 10: Oh, my goodness. How much did you love that, Nancy?
- 24:39Speaker 10: As much as I hated it?
- 24:41Speaker 1: Well, in a probative sense, I guess it proves something
- 24:45Speaker 1: to me, and that's how I see the world. What,
- 24:47Speaker 1: if anything, can each statement or piece of evidence prove
- 24:51Speaker 1: in a court of law? This is not in a
- 24:53Speaker 1: court of law. There's no suspect. There's no person of interest.
- 24:56Speaker 1: But I got a problem, Dr.
- 24:57Speaker 2: Bethany. I got a big problem. That's who is.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Her protege, that's who was with her the night she died.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Before you answer that question, Dr.
- 25:07Speaker 2: Bethany, listen.
- 25:08Speaker 15: I mean, it was, who wants to read something about
- 25:13Speaker 15: themselves like that, right? But, you know, you got to
- 25:18Speaker 15: be vulnerable. And, you know, I did it.
- 25:22Speaker 7: I did it.
- 25:23Speaker 15: It's fine. My biggest thing about domestic violence is I
- 25:30Speaker 15: don't think it is taught early enough in life. Never
- 25:36Speaker 15: in my life did I ever get taught what domestic
- 25:40Speaker 15: violence was, right?
- 25:42Speaker 17: Maybe if I did at an early age, maybe I
- 25:46Speaker 17: wouldn't have done what I did.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Back to Jeff Gentry, death investigator at evidenceoverassumption.com. Jeff, again,
- 25:57Speaker 1: thank you for being with us tonight. If she died
- 26:01Speaker 1: of an OD, by the way, that's from our friend
- 26:03Speaker 1: Harvey Levin at TMZ. If she did die from an OD,
- 26:08Speaker 1: how would I tell if someone else administered.
- 26:11Speaker 2: That to her?
- 26:13Speaker 13: That's exactly what we should be looking at in this case. Nancy,
- 26:16Speaker 13: I want to comment a little bit on the friend
- 26:19Speaker 13: that was with her. I know people and I have
- 26:22Speaker 13: people in my life that I am very close to,
- 26:24Speaker 13: that I care very much about, that are victims of
- 26:26Speaker 13: domestic violence. And The people that are abusers don't care
- 26:31Speaker 13: about the person they're with. They care only about themselves.
- 26:34Speaker 13: And just hearing his demeanor and the way he spoke
- 26:37Speaker 13: about her and his history of domestic violence, he didn't
- 26:39Speaker 13: care one bit about her. And you've got to look
- 26:42Speaker 13: very closely at these people when there are overdoses. You
- 26:45Speaker 13: have to look at cell phone records. You have to
- 26:47Speaker 13: look at the circumstances, the scene. You have to collect fingerprints,
- 26:50Speaker 13: every bit of evidence you possibly can to see what's
- 26:53Speaker 13: who was actually involved in administering these drugs, because that
- 26:56Speaker 13: could be a key factor in determining, was it her
- 27:00Speaker 13: that ingested these on her own under her free will,
- 27:03Speaker 13: or was she coerced into doing so? Was she forced
- 27:05Speaker 13: into doing so? That is a key part that needs
- 27:08Speaker 13: to be determined in this investigation.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Great example. Hold on, Jeff Gentry. Great example, Dr. Bethany Marshall.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Belushi, one of the greatest comedians that ever lived, was
- 27:19Speaker 1: reportedly afraid of needles, so he had a female inject
- 27:23Speaker 1: him with a lethal dose of drugs.
- 27:27Speaker 2: That would be an enabler. Here's another example. Listen.
- 27:32Speaker 18: Defendant Placentia knew full well the danger of what he
- 27:35Speaker 18: was doing. In fact, on one occasion, he injected Mr.
- 27:40Speaker 18: Perry with ketamine, and he saw Mr. Perry freeze up
- 27:44Speaker 18: and his blood pressure spike. Despite that, he left additional
- 27:48Speaker 18: vials of ketamine for defendant Iwamasa to administer to Mr.
- 27:54Speaker 14: Perry.
- 27:55Speaker 18: Of course, defendant Iwamasa had no medical training to speak of.
- 27:59Speaker 2: That was U.S.
- 28:00Speaker 1: Attorney Martin Estrada, and he was referring to not only
- 28:03Speaker 1: the doctor that supplied Friends of Star Matthew Perry ketamine illegally,
- 28:09Speaker 1: but also his dutiful and loyal assistant, Iwamana, who enabled
- 28:15Speaker 1: Iwamasa the lethal dose and then left Matthew Perry to
- 28:21Speaker 1: die in a hot tub. I mean, with friends like that, Dr. Bethany,
- 28:26Speaker 1: who needs enemies?
- 28:28Speaker 12: I'm thinking about a patient of mine whose husband was
- 28:30Speaker 12: extremely abusive. He would ply her with alcohol and the
- 28:34Speaker 12: next day say, you know, you gave me your credit card, right?
- 28:37Speaker 12: You know, you agreed that I would drive your Rolls Royce, right?
- 28:41Speaker 12: So when you ply a victim with drugs or alcohol,
- 28:46Speaker 12: it really cements your power over them because the victim
- 28:49Speaker 12: feels so helpless, so ashamed. They can't remember what happened
- 28:54Speaker 12: when they were high. They feel thrown off balance all
- 28:59Speaker 12: of the time. So that increases the power differential. Now,
- 29:03Speaker 12: when Brian Hickerson says in that interview, you know, I
- 29:07Speaker 12: had to be vulnerable and I had to read about myself,
- 29:11Speaker 12: you know, he's taking no responsibility for what he did
- 29:14Speaker 12: to Hayden or Hayden. that he brutalized her. So Hayden
- 29:18Speaker 12: is an it. She's not really a real person. He's
- 29:22Speaker 12: just talking about himself. And then when he goes on
- 29:25Speaker 12: to say, well, you know, they need to teach this
- 29:27Speaker 12: stuff earlier, you know, in education to young men, something
- 29:32Speaker 12: like that. Now he's shifting responsibility onto the educational system.
- 29:36Speaker 12: So in no way is he taking responsibility for himself.
- 29:40Speaker 12: And Nancy, the smoking gun here is two things. One,
- 29:44Speaker 12: that one little snippet you showed at the beginning of
- 29:47Speaker 12: the show where he's on set with a producer. He
- 29:50Speaker 12: had invaded her professional life and was taking over her friendships.
- 29:55Speaker 12: That's a classic sign of abuse, the fact that he
- 29:58Speaker 12: sold her vintage guitar before her death. He was already
- 30:03Speaker 12: taking her items and he was profiting from her financially.
- 30:07Speaker 12: And those two things, I think, that's not just enabling,
- 30:11Speaker 12: that's being a leech.
- 30:14Speaker 1: Question, Dave Mack, Crime Stories. What effect would the whippets
- 30:18Speaker 1: and boos have on Hayden?
- 30:21Speaker 9: You know, Nancy, the whippets and booze can really create
- 30:25Speaker 9: a major quag for anyone that abuses them. You know,
- 30:30Speaker 9: what she was asking for just a couple of months
- 30:33Speaker 9: before her passing, and it was industrial strength nitrous. Okay,
- 30:37Speaker 9: we're not talking about getting, you know, the generic cool
- 30:40Speaker 9: whip and sucking out the nitrous at the bottom of
- 30:42Speaker 9: the can here. But, you know— Whippets can lead to
- 30:46Speaker 9: seizure-like convulsions, Nancy. You do too much of them, you
- 30:52Speaker 9: become semi-conscious. You can end up with these convulsions that
- 30:55Speaker 9: send you into cardiac arrest. People die from nitrous oxide
- 31:01Speaker 9: and don't think it's going to hurt you.
- 31:03Speaker 10: It can.
- 31:04Speaker 9: Demi Moore almost died using whippets back in 2012, Nancy.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Renee Rockwell, you and I were both practicing in the
- 31:14Speaker 1: same courthouse when the star of All in the Family
- 31:19Speaker 1: and Heat of the Night, Carol O'Connor's son, had died
- 31:24Speaker 1: of a drug overdose. And the supplier ended up in court.
- 31:30Speaker 1: So this theory is not new. No.
- 31:35Speaker 10: No, but now people can prove these things.
- 31:39Speaker 11: Alley's a lot easier with phones, text messages, GPS. We
- 31:46Speaker 11: know where everybody is. There's cameras all over town now.
- 31:50Speaker 11: Hard to hide.
- 31:52Speaker 2: The legal theory is not untried.
- 31:56Speaker 1: We saw it with the so-called ketamine queen to Dr.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Bethany Marshall.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Let's see a look at this piece of work. This
- 32:04Speaker 1: is a multimillionaire socialite. that supplied Matthew Perry with ketamine,
- 32:12Speaker 1: including the fatal dose.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Look at her.
- 32:15Speaker 1: She looks like a fashion model. Everybody sucked up to her.
- 32:19Speaker 1: She was the queen because she supplied their drugs. What
- 32:24Speaker 1: about that luxe lifestyle, Dr.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Bethany?
- 32:28Speaker 12: You know, Nancy, every Hermes bag, every Christian Dior pair
- 32:32Speaker 12: of eyeglasses, the penthouse, the luxury car, All of that
- 32:37Speaker 12: was paid for by victims' lives, by addicting victims, by
- 32:42Speaker 12: supplying them in ways that led.
- 32:44Speaker 2: What is that on her foot? Wait, Bethany, what is that?
- 32:47Speaker 12: That is the Hermes bag, Nancy.
- 32:49Speaker 2: How much does that cost?
- 32:51Speaker 5: That was the burqa.
- 32:52Speaker 2: How much does that cost? $ 30, 000, okay?
- 32:57Speaker 12: And it looks like she may be in a penthouse there.
- 32:59Speaker 12: Maybe it's her own house. But, you know, Nancy, if
- 33:01Speaker 12: we take this back to Brian Hickerson, you know, just
- 33:04Speaker 12: like that.
- 33:06Speaker 5: Queen Bee.
- 33:07Speaker 12: Has Hermes bags on her foot. What did Brian Hickerson have?
- 33:12Speaker 12: I'd be so interested to know that. Did she pay
- 33:15Speaker 12: for his housing? Did she lease, rent, or buy a
- 33:19Speaker 12: car for him? Did he have a Rolex watch? Did
- 33:24Speaker 12: she just pay for his drugs? He benefited in some way, Nancy.
- 33:28Speaker 12: Hayden voluntarily entered rehab for 10 months. Insurance does not
- 33:33Speaker 12: pay for 10 months of rehab. She paid for that
- 33:36Speaker 12: out of her own pocket because she wanted.
- 33:38Speaker 5: To be sober.
- 33:40Speaker 12: Now, with Brian Hickerson, if he kept supplying drugs, what
- 33:44Speaker 12: might have happened is that they created what we call
- 33:47Speaker 12: a kindling effect in the brain. So if you go
- 33:50Speaker 12: on and off substances, it actually will light kindling a fire.
- 33:56Speaker 12: It will make the brain want those substances even more.
- 34:00Speaker 12: So this is not just him supplying her with opioids
- 34:03Speaker 12: one time. But if there was that intermittent supply of opioids,
- 34:07Speaker 12: she could have wanted it more and more. And we
- 34:09Speaker 12: saw with Whitney Houston, when she was sober for a long,
- 34:12Speaker 12: long time and then relapsed on drugs, she had heart attack.
- 34:17Speaker 12: So that's the other thing is Hayden may have been
- 34:19Speaker 12: trying to stay sober. But if Brian reintroduced the drug,
- 34:24Speaker 12: she could no longer tolerate that high dose of the medication.
- 34:29Speaker 1: But, you know, Bethany, and I'm going to throw this
- 34:32Speaker 1: to Eileen Reslin from Daily Mail, following up on what Dr.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Bethany just said.
- 34:35Speaker 1: To me, that is motivation for him to keep her
- 34:38Speaker 1: alive if she's his meal ticket. But motive doesn't matter.
- 34:45Speaker 1: If he enabled, like Ketamine Queen, who gave Matthew Perry
- 34:48Speaker 1: 50 vials, 5-0, not 15, not 5, 50, 5-0 vials
- 34:49Speaker 1: of ketamine.
- 34:50Speaker 2: Yeah, her vials. There she is with a Hermes bag.
- 34:58Speaker 2: At least she's not on her foot this time.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Her, the assistant that gave him the fatal dose was there.
- 35:08Speaker 1: And then he goes underwater and dies. Belushi, Carol O'Connor,
- 35:14Speaker 1: on and on and on. Did he have a job
- 35:18Speaker 1: or was he just a parasite, a leech sucking her dry?
- 35:24Speaker 4: He was absolutely using Hayden as his meal ticket. We
- 35:28Speaker 4: at the Daily Mail uncovered bankruptcy documents that showed this
- 35:32Speaker 4: man had no money to his name, pretty much only
- 35:35Speaker 4: 20 grand, but then like 60 grand in debt.
- 35:39Speaker 5: So he was broke.
- 35:40Speaker 4: And people that I spoke to said that he just
- 35:41Speaker 4: presented himself as a slob. So there were no fancy watches.
- 35:45Speaker 4: There were no designer clothes that he was wearing. I mean,
- 35:48Speaker 4: if he was using some of the money, it could
- 35:50Speaker 4: have been for drugs because we know that he had
- 35:52Speaker 4: substance abuse issues. But this man was not living the
- 35:55Speaker 4: high life by any chance or, you know, a fancy life.
- 35:59Speaker 4: So but he really was dependent on they had a
- 36:01Speaker 4: codependent relationship.
- 36:02Speaker 5: That's very, very clear. And sadly, he.
- 36:05Speaker 2: Just cut through all that. Who paid the bills? Did
- 36:10Speaker 2: he do anything?
- 36:12Speaker 4: No, he he only had, I believe, one acting credit
- 36:15Speaker 4: on IMDb and nobody would hire him. And actually, his
- 36:18Speaker 4: LinkedIn shows that he was the executive assistant to a
- 36:22Speaker 4: celebrity client.
- 36:23Speaker 5: So you can imagine who that would be.
- 36:25Speaker 4: He was essentially, if you look at his LinkedIn, it
- 36:27Speaker 4: states that he would do errands and, you know, just
- 36:31Speaker 4: like everyday chores.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Like pick up packages and deliver them to Hayden Panettiere.
- 36:38Speaker 8: Errands.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Okay, Renee Rockwell, you're the defense lawyer. It doesn't matter
- 36:42Speaker 1: if we like him. It doesn't matter if he's a slug.
- 36:46Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if he's a tick sucking her dry.
- 36:50Speaker 2: That does not a murder make. That does not.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Assisting in a homicide or assisting in an OD make.
- 36:56Speaker 2: He's not charged. He's not a person of interest. He's
- 36:59Speaker 2: not a suspect.
- 37:00Speaker 1: From what I can tell right now, he's just a leech.
- 37:04Speaker 1: But the fact that he is there and the timeline
- 37:09Speaker 1: seems to have been altered. At one point, they say
- 37:12Speaker 1: that she's in a chair. At one point, she's lying down.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Who left to go get something while Hayden's laying there
- 37:18Speaker 1: in the bed? If the timeline is inconsistent or statements
- 37:24Speaker 1: are given that conflict with each other, there is a problem.
- 37:29Speaker 1: But right now, tonight, we ain't got nothing on him.
- 37:32Speaker 2: Plain and simple.
- 37:33Speaker 11: Nancy, he is not a suspect. Maybe he's a leech.
- 37:37Speaker 11: Maybe he's a slob. What did he have? Bethany says
- 37:40Speaker 11: he didn't have anything. What he had was constant, consistent contact.
- 37:45Speaker 11: He kept getting back in, kept getting back in. Now,
- 37:49Speaker 11: he's made a statement. If the statements are inconsistent, that
- 37:54Speaker 11: puts his credibility at issue, and that's how a case
- 37:57Speaker 11: is built. Again, not a suspect, still innocent.
- 38:02Speaker 1: A leech does not an accessory to murder make. You
- 38:08Speaker 1: may have to hold your nose when you listen to
- 38:11Speaker 1: him talk, but still.
- 38:12Speaker 2: Gotta have more evidence.
- 38:16Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything regarding the
- 38:19Speaker 1: death of Hayden Panettiere, please dial 864-232-7463. If you need help,
- 38:22Speaker 1: dial the National Helpline at For mental, health, drug, alcohol issues,
- 38:36Speaker 1: you simply text or call 988. We remember American hero
- 38:42Speaker 1: patrolman Justin Hare, New Mexico State PD, shot and killed
- 38:47Speaker 1: in the line of duty at age 35, leaving behind
- 38:52Speaker 1: his pregnant fiancée, Dawn, and two little girls. American hero
- 38:58Speaker 1: patrolman Justin Hare. Thank you to our guests, but especially
- 39:02Speaker 1: thank you to you for being with us tonight. Nancy
- 39:05Speaker 1: Grace signing off, but I'll see you tomorrow night. And
- 39:07Speaker 1: until then, good night, friend.