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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:06Speaker 2: A bloody Valentine. A husband murders his wife because she
- 0:12Speaker 2: quote just didn't give a shit about his Paris themed date,
- 0:20Speaker 2: and Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Thank you for being with us. A Valentine's Day dinner
- 0:25Speaker 3: turns deadly and Indiana mother of three young kids is
- 0:28Speaker 3: murdered during a romantic dinner.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Does it sound that romantic to me? He goes to
- 0:34Speaker 2: Kroger to the Fine Wine aisle, brings home a bottle
- 0:39Speaker 2: of wine and plays their favorite song along with the
- 0:45Speaker 2: kids drawing of the Eiffel Tower? What is she not
- 0:49Speaker 2: supposed to remember the affair he had? Now let me
- 0:53Speaker 2: understand this is this real? A husband accused of bludgeoning
- 1:00Speaker 2: and stabbing his wife forty times his words, not mine,
- 1:06Speaker 2: because she didn't give a shot about his Paris themed
- 1:11Speaker 2: night date.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I think I've got that right, but maybe I'm wrong. Listen.
- 1:17Speaker 4: Jeffersonville, Indiana police get a call about a possible domestic disturbance.
- 1:21Speaker 4: May respond to the upscale sixty six hundred block of
- 1:24Speaker 4: Westwood Drive, but cannot get into the home. Officers knock
- 1:27Speaker 4: on the front door, but did I hear a response?
- 1:29Speaker 4: And decide force is necessary and breach the door.
- 1:32Speaker 1: I'm gonna get straight to the facts, but first I'm
- 1:34Speaker 1: going to go to doctor.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Bethany Marshall RENOUNCEDSYCHO and was joining us out of the LA.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Jurisdiction, author of deal Breaker.
- 1:42Speaker 2: You can find her at doctor Bethany MARSHALLMD dot com. Wait,
- 1:45Speaker 2: that's doctor Bethany Marshall dot com and you can see
- 1:48Speaker 2: her now on Peacock. Doctor Bethany, thank you for being
- 1:51Speaker 2: with us. Let me understand something. Hobby puts on a
- 1:55Speaker 2: sad little song, what does he pull it up on
- 1:57Speaker 2: his iPhone of what used to be their favorite song?
- 2:01Speaker 2: Buys a sad little bottle of wine at Kroger and
- 2:06Speaker 2: has his child draw a picture of the Eiffel Tower,
- 2:09Speaker 2: and he's angry that she quote his words, doesn't give
- 2:14Speaker 2: a about his Paris theme night date, so he murders her.
- 2:20Speaker 1: What is she was?
- 2:21Speaker 2: She supposed to forget about the affair he had and
- 2:23Speaker 2: be just bowled over by a glass of red wine.
- 2:26Speaker 5: If we look at this from a domestic violence perspective,
- 2:29Speaker 5: this husband probably wanted power and control over her, because
- 2:33Speaker 5: that's the m O with DV, and so probably him
- 2:36Speaker 5: having an affair in the past, making her feel bad
- 2:38Speaker 5: about herself. Probably giving her very little in the marriage
- 2:43Speaker 5: was probably getting her to a point where she wanted
- 2:46Speaker 5: some independence, and the fact that she wanted some independence
- 2:50Speaker 5: destabilized him. So he steps up, does this little Valentine's
- 2:53Speaker 5: Day dinner so he can try to get control over
- 2:57Speaker 5: him again. He's not trying to seduce her, give a
- 3:00Speaker 5: gift or do something nice for her. He wants her
- 3:04Speaker 5: back in the fold. But when she leaves for twenty minutes,
- 3:07Speaker 5: he becomes paranoid, thinks she's out with the boyfriend, and
- 3:11Speaker 5: then he decompensates, and that's when the ragefulness and you know,
- 3:15Speaker 5: he takes the power over her to a whole new level.
- 3:18Speaker 5: When you kill somebody, that's the ultimate power.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Correct.
- 3:21Speaker 2: Let me understand something, doctor Bethany, What does it mean
- 3:26Speaker 2: having not only prosecuted violent felonies for a decade in
- 3:29Speaker 2: intercity Atlanta, but volunteered for nine of those years at
- 3:33Speaker 2: the Better Women Center on the hotline? How does it
- 3:38Speaker 2: escalate or is that even the right word? To get
- 3:42Speaker 2: that angry because she didn't like your iPhone playing the
- 3:47Speaker 2: night we met or whatever it was, and giving me
- 3:51Speaker 2: a glass of wine how does that escalate into murder?
- 3:57Speaker 2: Because in my world, bethany years of training makes me
- 4:02Speaker 2: look at the world a different way, such as is
- 4:06Speaker 2: their premeditation? Was this planned? When did he hatch the plot?
- 4:09Speaker 2: What can I prove to a Jerry? What is probative
- 4:12Speaker 2: to me? So the term you use escalate, I don't
- 4:17Speaker 2: know that I agree with that, because that somehow means
- 4:20Speaker 2: that the situation got out of control and whoops, she's dead.
- 4:25Speaker 2: That's not what happened.
- 4:27Speaker 1: He had to go get the bottle that he used
- 4:30Speaker 1: to bludgeon her, stab her.
- 4:34Speaker 2: That took time and a forethought, a technical term we
- 4:38Speaker 2: use in the law.
- 4:39Speaker 1: It didn't just escalate and whoops, it happened.
- 4:43Speaker 5: Right right, He didn't. In other words, he didn't snap
- 4:47Speaker 5: because people love that word. So I see where you're
- 4:49Speaker 5: going with this, and you're correct. Probably what happened is
- 4:52Speaker 5: at the beginning of the marriage he had tight control
- 4:55Speaker 5: over her, and she wanted to have autonomy over her
- 4:59Speaker 5: whole life, her own life. Maybe she took a college course,
- 5:04Speaker 5: or started getting friends, or went out and got a job.
- 5:07Speaker 5: And as she became more and more independent, the escalation
- 5:12Speaker 5: was that he became more and more paranoid, insecure. Remember,
- 5:16Speaker 5: he sat on her back and was scrolling through her phone.
- 5:19Speaker 5: He was trying to spy on her through her watch.
- 5:22Speaker 5: So when it escalated in that moment, it wasn't just
- 5:26Speaker 5: like a snap or a sudden escalation. It had been
- 5:29Speaker 5: escalating over years. But the fact is, when she said, Okay,
- 5:34Speaker 5: what are you going to do?
- 5:35Speaker 1: Kill me?
- 5:36Speaker 5: That was one act of independence. When she left and
- 5:40Speaker 5: got in her car and drove away, that was another
- 5:42Speaker 5: act of independence. So I would think that homicide that
- 5:46Speaker 5: was contemplated at an unconscious level, or hatefulness that was
- 5:50Speaker 5: contemplated for months or years, finally finally finally spilled over
- 5:56Speaker 5: when she became her own person.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Okay, doctor Bethany, and I accept everything that you just said.
- 6:01Speaker 2: For those of you just joining us, a husband who
- 6:03Speaker 2: is presumed innocent is suspected of bludgeoning and stabbing his
- 6:08Speaker 2: wife dead when she quote his words, not mine when
- 6:12Speaker 2: she quote didn't give a share about his Paris theme party,
- 6:19Speaker 2: so he murders her. On Valentine's Greg Morris Joining Me Guys,
- 6:24Speaker 2: Greg Morse joining us out of Palm Beach, Florida is
- 6:27Speaker 2: a veteran trial lawyer. He's a partner at King Morse.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Your name should be first, by the way, former West
- 6:34Speaker 2: Palm Beach Public Defender's Office and author of the Untested
- 6:38Speaker 2: on Amazon. Greg, you know what of the many things
- 6:41Speaker 2: that I hate is when people say.
- 6:44Speaker 1: I snapped, or she snapped, or he snapped. There is
- 6:49Speaker 1: no snap defense under the law.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Okay, So given that, and don't try to convince me otherwise,
- 6:58Speaker 2: because that's a lie. He would have to in order
- 7:03Speaker 2: to murder her in this manner bludgeoning the Hey, Christina Raya,
- 7:08Speaker 2: I'm coming to you. But how many children.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Did they have? Two? Or three?
- 7:12Speaker 6: Three children, all under the age of.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Five, Greg Morse.
- 7:16Speaker 2: The children are at home, by the way, asleep, he
- 7:21Speaker 2: had to think. Under the law, premeditation does not require
- 7:26Speaker 2: a long period of time, such as I'm going to
- 7:28Speaker 2: poison Greg Morris over the period of the next month,
- 7:30Speaker 2: where the little r say, every day in his coffee
- 7:33Speaker 2: till he is dead, not required. In fact, the time
- 7:37Speaker 2: required under the law, whether we like it or not,
- 7:42Speaker 2: can be in an instant, the twinkling of the moment,
- 7:45Speaker 2: the blink of an eye, the time it takes me
- 7:47Speaker 2: to raise this gun and pull the trigger. That is
- 7:50Speaker 2: enough time. Under the law for premeditation. In other words,
- 7:54Speaker 2: murder one malice, murder, murder, A forethought this guy, if
- 7:59Speaker 2: the allegations are true, husband, how to go and get
- 8:02Speaker 2: the wine bottle, grasp it, raise it over his head
- 8:06Speaker 2: and bludget her over and over and over with the
- 8:10Speaker 2: thick glass of a wine bottle, and then stab her.
- 8:14Speaker 2: The knife to just materialize in his hand. Had to
- 8:17Speaker 2: get a knife and use it. So long story short,
- 8:21Speaker 2: that is time to form intent.
- 8:24Speaker 1: You're right.
- 8:25Speaker 7: Intent can come up in the moment. You're one hundred
- 8:27Speaker 7: percent right under the law. But in these type of cases,
- 8:30Speaker 7: when you talk about the phrase snapped, and I've represented
- 8:33Speaker 7: people accused of violent felonies for twenty five years, and
- 8:36Speaker 7: one thing is when the act to commit the violence,
- 8:40Speaker 7: most people don't understand that moment in time and the
- 8:43Speaker 7: consequence and wish they can take.
- 8:45Speaker 6: It all back.
- 8:46Speaker 7: But what we can't do is look at an insanity.
- 8:49Speaker 7: We can't look at the crime. It's violent, it's horrible,
- 8:52Speaker 7: So therefore the person must be insane. That crime is
- 8:55Speaker 7: the outgrowth of insanity. And what I think we have here,
- 8:58Speaker 7: and I've dealt with this before in cases, you probably
- 9:00Speaker 7: have a timeline of this person the husband you know
- 9:04Speaker 7: of getting frustrated, getting more warped than his understanding of
- 9:08Speaker 7: his wife's relationship. People think mental illness is someone in
- 9:11Speaker 7: a white coat in a room, but mental illness can
- 9:14Speaker 7: develop subtly, and it can develop over time. These folks
- 9:18Speaker 7: were looking for help that I guess an appointment with
- 9:20Speaker 7: a marriage counselor three days later. Unfortunately, that makes you.
- 9:24Speaker 2: You are actually plunging a dagger into my heart.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Your misstatement of the.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Law is shameless mental illness. He had no prior mental
- 9:39Speaker 2: illness at all. He got mad because his wife, and
- 9:45Speaker 2: he said this, she just didn't give us about my parents'
- 9:49Speaker 2: them mine.
- 9:50Speaker 1: He said that that is that is anger. Yes, no,
- 9:56Speaker 1: it's anger defense.
- 9:58Speaker 5: This was a regional law.
- 10:00Speaker 7: Yes, no, rageful killing, one hundred percent rageful killing that
- 10:04Speaker 7: amount of.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Under the law. Can you answer that with a straight face, Mors.
- 10:11Speaker 7: But if I'm living in reality where that is the
- 10:14Speaker 7: appropriate response to her reaction, then yes it is again, Nancy,
- 10:20Speaker 7: the crime.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Is he you say, is anger the appropriate response to her.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Reaction for his date nine? Okay, First of all, control.
- 10:38Speaker 2: Mike cut his mind right now, Shannon Henry, Right, there
- 10:44Speaker 2: is the problem crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Shannon Henry is joining me.
- 10:59Speaker 2: She's the president and founder of sas sass Go. It
- 11:05Speaker 2: is surviving assault, standing strong on a mission to eradicate
- 11:11Speaker 2: abuse and violence against women and girls.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Shannon, did you hear what he just said?
- 11:18Speaker 8: I did, and I'm so glad you cut him off
- 11:20Speaker 8: so that the people listening don't believe that crap. This
- 11:25Speaker 8: was not just about power and control. This was about ownership.
- 11:28Speaker 8: He didn't have any anymore, and so he stole it.
- 11:31Speaker 8: It was not about rage. It wasn't a crime of passion.
- 11:34Speaker 8: I don't want to hear that either. This was a
- 11:36Speaker 8: sadistic killing where he enjoyed watching her suffer from the
- 11:40Speaker 8: dress he made her put on, to the dance he
- 11:43Speaker 8: made her due to the end where she begged for
- 11:46Speaker 8: her life and the lives of her children. It was
- 11:49Speaker 8: the grand finale of their marriage, from start to finish,
- 11:53Speaker 8: and he enjoyed it all. And I guarantee you this
- 11:56Speaker 8: wasn't the first time she felt like her life was
- 11:59Speaker 8: being threatened, but it was the last.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Would you describe Shannon Henry?
- 12:02Speaker 2: And I'm going to go out to the national news
- 12:04Speaker 2: anchor at Salem News Channel, Christine Ohio. But Shannon Henry
- 12:09Speaker 2: joining us from surviving assault standing strong mission eradicate violence
- 12:14Speaker 2: on women.
- 12:16Speaker 1: You said from the dress he made her wear to
- 12:21Speaker 1: the dance he made her do. What are you talking about?
- 12:25Speaker 8: I'm talking about him setting up a stage where every
- 12:30Speaker 8: gift quote unquote was a threat and she knew it.
- 12:34Speaker 8: You don't go from zero to murder this fast. And
- 12:37Speaker 8: if she could clarify it for us all today, she
- 12:41Speaker 8: would beg us to listen to her final words of
- 12:44Speaker 8: help and what are you going to do? Murder me
- 12:46Speaker 8: and leave our children without parents? She was not confused
- 12:49Speaker 8: about him. There is a gap that we have in
- 12:53Speaker 8: the story between her working hard as a twelve hour
- 12:57Speaker 8: shift nurse to him being promiscuous and lazy up to
- 13:02Speaker 8: the date of February fourteenth, twenty twenty five where he
- 13:05Speaker 8: murdered her. But I guarantee you some of her friends
- 13:08Speaker 8: and co workers and family could fill in this gap
- 13:11Speaker 8: for us. But the red flags are there. This was
- 13:14Speaker 8: about ownership. He didn't have it anymore, so he stole
- 13:17Speaker 8: it and bragg to everyone who he could about taking it.
- 13:22Speaker 3: You details emerge after an Indiana doting husband and father
- 13:26Speaker 3: allegedly confesses to murder after feeling unappreciated, were warning signs missed?
- 13:31Speaker 1: Warning signs unappreciated?
- 13:35Speaker 2: That is not justification for murder and joining me who
- 13:40Speaker 2: I've got a lot of problems with him?
- 13:42Speaker 1: Greg Morris, a veteran trial lawyer.
- 13:44Speaker 2: He's the partner at a big law firm, King Morse,
- 13:47Speaker 2: He's apparently the king of the courtroom down in Palm
- 13:51Speaker 2: Beach County, Florida.
- 13:53Speaker 1: But to Shannon Henry.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Joining us, you can look at Morse, but keep his
- 13:57Speaker 2: MinC cut for just a moment, Shannon, he joining me
- 14:00Speaker 2: from sas surviving assault standing strong. We got off topic
- 14:06Speaker 2: because what you were saying was so interesting, But I
- 14:09Speaker 2: want to go back to what Morse said. He responded
- 14:14Speaker 2: and got angry to her because of her reaction to
- 14:20Speaker 2: his Paris theme night, which was basically a Bible cheat
- 14:25Speaker 2: red wine and playing a song on his iPhone that
- 14:28Speaker 2: was the theme night, and then getting some sexy dress
- 14:32Speaker 2: and making her wear it and dance with him.
- 14:35Speaker 1: That was the theme night.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Okay, right there, Shannon Henry, I can't tell you how
- 14:40Speaker 2: many times I heard.
- 14:42Speaker 1: I did it because she fill in the blank.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Here is my seminal example, Shannon, This is a real example.
- 14:51Speaker 2: This happened on the hotline at the Batter Women's Center.
- 14:56Speaker 1: The man beats the wife so badly she has to
- 15:00Speaker 1: go to the.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Hospital because he was bringing people from work home and
- 15:05Speaker 2: he told her to make a Mexican dinner, so she
- 15:10Speaker 2: makes a Mexican dinner. He comes in and finds out,
- 15:16Speaker 2: I don't remember which one she made, tacos not Enchilada's.
- 15:20Speaker 2: And he beat her to a pulp. So he actually said, well,
- 15:27Speaker 2: it's because she.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Made the wrong thing.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Here, you hear Greg Morrise defend and I know what
- 15:38Speaker 2: he's doing.
- 15:38Speaker 1: He's defending the husband here. That's his job. He is saying.
- 15:45Speaker 2: He just had this response because of her reaction. She
- 15:51Speaker 2: reacted badly, and he responded, it's always the woman's fault, Shannon.
- 15:59Speaker 8: It's always theman's fault. And what's so sad is to
- 16:02Speaker 8: look at the stack of red flags that are against him.
- 16:05Speaker 8: He had no remorse. He bragged about how big the
- 16:09Speaker 8: knife was. He sent the pictures. He made her do
- 16:13Speaker 8: a song and dance in front of him and act
- 16:15Speaker 8: like she enjoyed it, and when she didn't seem to
- 16:18Speaker 8: appreciate it, he murdered her. And he is the only
- 16:23Speaker 8: one responsible for that.
- 16:24Speaker 2: We also learned that he was convinced his wife was
- 16:30Speaker 2: dating a coworker.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Answer.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Barry Hutchinson, former law enforcement twenty six years veteran detective,
- 16:39Speaker 2: now owner chief operator of Barry in Associates Investigative Services,
- 16:44Speaker 2: and you can find him on his new website, p
- 16:47Speaker 2: I Pride Investigator Barry b A r R.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Wife Barry, thank you for being with us.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Oh what a tangled web results from imagining your mate
- 17:00Speaker 2: having an affair with a co worker. Lucky for me,
- 17:03Speaker 2: my husband he knew I would never have an affair
- 17:06Speaker 2: with a defense attorney or all the other eligible men
- 17:09Speaker 2: that were in the courtroom, mostly convicted felons in leg
- 17:13Speaker 2: irons and shackles.
- 17:15Speaker 1: And I have.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Never even considered that he would run around with a
- 17:20Speaker 2: client or a co worker. I just, in fact, one
- 17:23Speaker 2: time I read his emails one time. One time they
- 17:28Speaker 2: were so boring. He's a banker, My eyes bled. I
- 17:34Speaker 2: just it was awful if I had to check up
- 17:38Speaker 2: on a man to figure out if he's.
- 17:40Speaker 1: Cheating, why do I need him?
- 17:42Speaker 6: Bye bye?
- 17:43Speaker 2: But here this guy was convinced she's having an affair,
- 17:47Speaker 2: and it justified murder.
- 17:49Speaker 9: Well, there's no justification in murder, regardless of what the
- 17:52Speaker 9: circumstances are. I mean, so you know that as well
- 17:55Speaker 9: as I do. I think what we have here is
- 17:57Speaker 9: a classic case of when motive meets opperunity. I think
- 18:01Speaker 9: it was a long based talkic relationship that this young
- 18:05Speaker 9: lady unfortunately, should have been out of long before this
- 18:08Speaker 9: ever happened. The only saving grace in this whole scenario
- 18:12Speaker 9: that I can even come up with in my mind
- 18:15Speaker 9: is that I'm just thankful that it didn't turn out
- 18:17Speaker 9: to be a swat call where the kids were endangered,
- 18:20Speaker 9: where he actually executed the children too, as the ultimate
- 18:24Speaker 9: showing of I'm going to hurt them in front of you,
- 18:26Speaker 9: just to show you what I think of you. We've
- 18:29Speaker 9: seen that happen on swat calls many many, many times,
- 18:33Speaker 9: and we're fortunate if that didn't take place.
- 18:36Speaker 2: You mean, and what they call now Barry a family annihilator.
- 18:41Speaker 2: So what I'm asking you, and it was in a
- 18:43Speaker 2: very roundabout way, and I apologize for.
- 18:45Speaker 1: That, Barry. I know that as a PI you get
- 18:49Speaker 1: a lot of calls.
- 18:50Speaker 2: About I think my girlfriend, boyfriend, ex wife blah blah
- 18:54Speaker 2: is cheating. Isn't it true that very often people get
- 18:58Speaker 2: this in their head and it's absolutely not true at all.
- 19:01Speaker 9: That's very true, very true. In fact, the biggest thing
- 19:04Speaker 9: that we do, and we tell all of our clients
- 19:06Speaker 9: SYS up front, is that our mission is to vet
- 19:10Speaker 9: your spouse that they are not cheating, and if it
- 19:13Speaker 9: turns out that they are, then we'll address it at
- 19:15Speaker 9: that point. But our mission is to vet them that
- 19:17Speaker 9: they are not doing.
- 19:18Speaker 1: So, guys, listen to what happened.
- 19:20Speaker 4: Deborah's friend receives a photo texted from Deborah's phone. It
- 19:24Speaker 4: shows Deborah Meyer motionless and bloody on the floor of
- 19:27Speaker 4: her home with the caption your fault. Nine one one
- 19:31Speaker 4: Dispatch gets a call from the coworker of Deborah Meyer.
- 19:33Speaker 4: When they arrive, Taylor Meyer is refusing to come to
- 19:36Speaker 4: the door.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Almost as soon.
- 19:37Speaker 4: As police arrive, so does Deborah Meyer's coworkers.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Okay, I've got so much premeditation. It's out the ying
- 19:45Speaker 2: yang technical legal term. Here to Kristin Awayo joining me,
- 19:50Speaker 2: national news anchor Salem News, explain to me that sequence
- 19:54Speaker 2: of events, the.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Co worker.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Finds out that there's a quote domestic situation, which is,
- 20:03Speaker 2: you know, a euphemism for somebody's.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Getting their rear in beat, all right, that's what that means.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Coworker calls nine to one one and coworker says, Deborah
- 20:17Speaker 2: Meyer is being attacked right now, go to this address.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Cops get there, and then the coworker gets a text
- 20:26Speaker 2: describe that sequence of events for me, so I understand
- 20:28Speaker 2: exactly what happened.
- 20:29Speaker 1: That's the wildest part about all of this, right.
- 20:32Speaker 6: So, Deborah Meyer's husband, Taylor actually calls a contact in
- 20:36Speaker 6: the phone who he thinks is the boyfriend, which is
- 20:38Speaker 6: actually the co worker while he's sitting on Deborah Meyer's back,
- 20:42Speaker 6: and she's screaming in the background, help me, help me,
- 20:45Speaker 6: help me. So her coworker hears this while her husband
- 20:47Speaker 6: is telling the coworker this is all your fault. So
- 20:51Speaker 6: of course the coworker calls the cops and says she's
- 20:54Speaker 6: in danger. I can hear her screaming. He hops in
- 20:57Speaker 6: his car high tails it over to her house, as
- 20:59Speaker 6: do the cops, and they're meeting in the front yard.
- 21:02Speaker 6: The cops are trying to get into the front door.
- 21:04Speaker 6: Of course, Taylor Myers not answering the door because he's
- 21:07Speaker 6: abusing his wife, possibly killing her. At that very moment,
- 21:11Speaker 6: because it was while the coworker was standing in the
- 21:14Speaker 6: front yard of the home, he gets the text message
- 21:17Speaker 6: of the picture of Deborah Meyer on the floor of
- 21:21Speaker 6: her own home dead. So that's when police officers decide
- 21:25Speaker 6: to bust down the door. They said that Taylor Meyer
- 21:28Speaker 6: was aggressive, resisted arrest, and they finally arrested him. But
- 21:30Speaker 6: it's almost safe to presume that he could have been
- 21:34Speaker 6: in the act of killing her while the police officers
- 21:37Speaker 6: and the coworker we're out on the front lawn trying
- 21:40Speaker 6: to get into the house. I mean, it was that
- 21:42Speaker 6: tight of a timeline.
- 21:44Speaker 10: Accusing her husband of cheating on her and ignoring their
- 21:47Speaker 10: children via email, Deborah tries explaining her feelings by saying,
- 21:50Speaker 10: I'm supposed to be your wife, your partner, raising children
- 21:53Speaker 10: with you, co parenting. I get that you have hobbies
- 21:56Speaker 10: and want some time to yourself, but I also feel
- 21:59Speaker 10: like that should be limited to certain times of the
- 22:01Speaker 10: day and not just immediately get home, shower and go
- 22:04Speaker 10: play games and ignore your family that has missed you
- 22:07Speaker 10: all day.
- 22:08Speaker 2: That is an email that she, the murder victim, sent
- 22:12Speaker 2: to her husband prior to her murder. Christina Owyo joining
- 22:16Speaker 2: me national news anchor, Salem News. So she is asking
- 22:22Speaker 2: him to help her raise the children. I quote, get
- 22:26Speaker 2: you have hobbies and want time to yourself, but I
- 22:29Speaker 2: also feel like you should spend time with the children,
- 22:32Speaker 2: not just get home, shower and go play games. I
- 22:35Speaker 2: would do a backflip after I work all day long
- 22:39Speaker 2: and make dinner. And if my husband came home and
- 22:42Speaker 2: immediately went to the back and got on video games.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fur would fly. Let me just tell you that.
- 22:51Speaker 1: And she's writing in this nice email about it.
- 22:54Speaker 6: And this was back in twenty twenty three, and this
- 22:56Speaker 6: is the same email where she accused him of cheating.
- 22:58Speaker 6: So the story of Infhtae is going back to the
- 23:02Speaker 6: beginning part of their marriage. She said that he was
- 23:04Speaker 6: in the email accused him of having a relationship with
- 23:07Speaker 6: another woman which he kept in contact constant context with,
- 23:11Speaker 6: And she even accused him of seeing that woman who
- 23:15Speaker 6: she thought she was dating, directly before the family went
- 23:17Speaker 6: and took family Christmas pictures. So she already thought he
- 23:22Speaker 6: was cheating. He may have been cheating, he was ignoring
- 23:24Speaker 6: the family, she was reaching out, and she in that
- 23:26Speaker 6: email actually threatened to leave him, which she didn't want
- 23:30Speaker 6: to do because it was going to be hard to
- 23:31Speaker 6: take care.
- 23:31Speaker 8: Of the three kids.
- 23:32Speaker 2: But she was going to Yes, what did nude photos
- 23:35Speaker 2: and somebody's phone mean to you?
- 23:38Speaker 1: Cheatings?
- 23:39Speaker 2: For me? That means divorcee and doctor Bethany Marshall listened
- 23:46Speaker 2: to this.
- 23:47Speaker 4: Frustrated and feeling like a single mom, Deborah writes an
- 23:49Speaker 4: email to her husband accusing him of cheating, claiming he
- 23:52Speaker 4: met up with his girlfriend minutes before they took their
- 23:55Speaker 4: family Christmas photo together at the mall. In the explosive email,
- 23:59Speaker 4: Debraa said she doesn't want him sending and receiving nude
- 24:02Speaker 4: photos from people he was with before they were together
- 24:05Speaker 4: as a couple. Nebra also accuses her husband of ignoring
- 24:07Speaker 4: her and the couple's three children to play video games.
- 24:10Speaker 4: She concludes the email with quote, raising three kids is exhausting,
- 24:14Speaker 4: but if I have to, I'm going to do it alone.
- 24:17Speaker 4: Just let me know and I'll figure something else out.
- 24:20Speaker 1: Raising three children on her own. That's how she felt
- 24:24Speaker 1: nude photos he's exchanging.
- 24:26Speaker 2: With old girlfriends, according to her, ducking out to see
- 24:29Speaker 2: the girlfriend before the Christmas photo together. First of all,
- 24:33Speaker 2: Bethany Marshall, do you agree with me? That sending nude
- 24:37Speaker 2: photos is cheating.
- 24:40Speaker 5: I agree with you.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I'm really surprised you said, I thought you were going
- 24:43Speaker 2: to take the other tech.
- 24:44Speaker 1: But explain to me. I mean, I would be I
- 24:47Speaker 1: think so.
- 24:48Speaker 2: Hurt to find out my husband's exchanging nude photos. First
- 24:52Speaker 2: of all, I wouldn't believe it. I think somebody is
- 24:54Speaker 2: stolen his phone and was doing it.
- 24:56Speaker 1: But that said, it's cheating, Okay, Nancy.
- 25:00Speaker 5: Not only is this cheating, but Taylor entered this relationship,
- 25:04Speaker 5: this marriage with Deborah thinking he could do whatever he
- 25:06Speaker 5: wants to do, and Deborah was in a double mind.
- 25:10Speaker 5: She's sent out to work, she's a nurse, she supports
- 25:12Speaker 5: the family, and all the time that she's out there working,
- 25:16Speaker 5: he's just brewing up a fantasy that she's cheating on him,
- 25:19Speaker 5: when in fact it's a projection because he's cheating on her.
- 25:22Speaker 5: I love what Shannon said about this is not just
- 25:25Speaker 5: about power. This is about ownership. He owns her and
- 25:29Speaker 5: he can do whatever he wants. Send her out like
- 25:32Speaker 5: a dog to work, the minute she gets home, go out,
- 25:35Speaker 5: have his own affair, or do whatever he wants to do.
- 25:37Speaker 5: He's highly manipulative and he's been grooming her for years,
- 25:41Speaker 5: that she is just an object to be used. I
- 25:44Speaker 5: also think, Nancy, that he is so vindictive. This is
- 25:48Speaker 5: a part of his personality and it comes out when
- 25:50Speaker 5: he's talking to the police. It's almost like he's.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Bragging about the knife.
- 25:54Speaker 5: And I think one underlying component that we all need
- 25:57Speaker 5: to recognize about DV is that perpetrators everything hurts their feelings,
- 26:03Speaker 5: Everything makes them feel insulted, like they've been insulted by
- 26:07Speaker 5: the other person. So your story about the man who
- 26:10Speaker 5: beat his wife to a pault because she made tacos
- 26:12Speaker 5: rather than enchiladas, he probably.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Took that as a.
- 26:15Speaker 5: Personal affront, felt insulted, then felt diminished, then deflated, and
- 26:20Speaker 5: then went on the attack, because that is the classic pattern.
- 26:23Speaker 2: I want to go straight back out to Greg Morse
- 26:26Speaker 2: joining us please uncut his mic partner at King Morris,
- 26:33Speaker 2: veteran trial lawyer. I hope you've had time to think
- 26:36Speaker 2: about what you said, that he killed her because of
- 26:40Speaker 2: the way she reacted.
- 26:43Speaker 1: Would you like to clarify your opinion?
- 26:48Speaker 7: And with this premeditation stuff on these facts, everyone has
- 26:51Speaker 7: to make a lot of leaps of faith, and frankly,
- 26:53Speaker 7: it's just it's not there and what we know so far.
- 26:58Speaker 7: What I was saying is that when people have mental illness,
- 27:01Speaker 7: and this is a hard case. You know, you were
- 27:03Speaker 7: a prosecutor temporary insanity illness.
- 27:08Speaker 5: No, no, no, but I would.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Use the show, Nancy, all of your experts just made
- 27:14Speaker 2: my case for me.
- 27:14Speaker 7: I'd hire them in my case. Talking about how he
- 27:17Speaker 7: wants to control an act that would that would let
- 27:20Speaker 7: us believe that he made know. What I'm saying is
- 27:24Speaker 7: that this guy there's no domestic violence before. So if
- 27:27Speaker 7: he wants to control every aspect of our life, and
- 27:30Speaker 7: he's contrived and intentional, we're going to see police reports.
- 27:34Speaker 7: Generally we see this act out well before the murder.
- 27:36Speaker 10: In these cases, what we.
- 27:38Speaker 7: Have is mental illness doesn't just come with people in
- 27:41Speaker 7: white coats and screaming about aliens. It's very subtle. And
- 27:44Speaker 7: if this guy believed at the time that his wife's
- 27:47Speaker 7: reaction he was living in this alternate reality to him
- 27:51Speaker 7: that caused him to do this, well, you know, then
- 27:53Speaker 7: you have he wasn't thinking right and wrong in that situation.
- 27:57Speaker 7: There's no evidence whatsoever that this I was planning this.
- 28:01Speaker 7: Did he plan to buy the wine bottle before the
- 28:03Speaker 7: show and do I mean before the dinner so he
- 28:05Speaker 7: can hit her over the head with it. No, none
- 28:07Speaker 7: of that is there.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Did he planted under the law once again, you are
- 28:12Speaker 2: contorting the law to suit your purposes.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Again, that degree a premeditation is not required.
- 28:20Speaker 2: The only degree a premeditation can be formed in seconds,
- 28:24Speaker 2: by the time it takes him to walk in the
- 28:26Speaker 2: kitchen and get the wine bottle and come back.
- 28:28Speaker 1: That's the last time.
- 28:29Speaker 2: Plus he stabbed her forty times?
- 28:33Speaker 1: Do I have to say, Jody Arias, do I have
- 28:36Speaker 1: to raise up that specter?
- 28:40Speaker 2: Jody Arias standing traumas Alexander twenty nine times then shot
- 28:47Speaker 2: him in the head, leaving him to decompose in the
- 28:49Speaker 2: shower's tall Just because you attacked someone multiple times does
- 28:53Speaker 2: not insanity make it makes you a killer, a cold
- 28:57Speaker 2: bloody killer.
- 28:58Speaker 7: That's what I started out with, that the act doesn't
- 29:01Speaker 7: make someone insane at all. The act is the outgrowth
- 29:03Speaker 7: of insanity. Sometimes when we have that killing someone, people
- 29:07Speaker 7: shooting up a school, that seems insane to all of
- 29:09Speaker 7: us because we wouldn't do it. But you know, under
- 29:11Speaker 7: the law, just because you did that doesn't mean you're insane.
- 29:14Speaker 7: You knew, right from wrong. You shouldn't have done it.
- 29:17Speaker 7: What my point is, Jodyarius didn't take pictures and send it.
- 29:21Speaker 7: Jodyarius didn't act like this was no case, and she
- 29:24Speaker 7: got caught. She yes, she took pictures and she.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Busted. She did take pictures.
- 29:34Speaker 7: No, I understand that. I completely understand that she did.
- 29:37Speaker 7: Look how this guy acted in this case with the police.
- 29:40Speaker 7: That's not how someone that intends to commit murder acts.
- 29:43Speaker 7: They just don't.
- 29:45Speaker 1: They don't do that fighting.
- 29:47Speaker 2: The police come in by knowing enough to barrickade the door.
- 29:50Speaker 1: More more evidence of guilt.
- 29:53Speaker 2: You know what, let me jog your memory as to
- 29:58Speaker 2: the real facts, not the facts in Greg Morrese's world,
- 30:02Speaker 2: but the actual facts from the police reports.
- 30:07Speaker 4: Meyer decides to try and turn things around in his
- 30:09Speaker 4: marriage by preparing a Valentine's Day dinner with a theme
- 30:12Speaker 4: bring Paris to You. Pulling out all the stops, Meyer
- 30:16Speaker 4: has their children draw pictures of the Eiffel Tower to
- 30:18Speaker 4: decorate the table, buys Deborah a beautiful new dress, and
- 30:21Speaker 4: orders food from their favorite Japanese steakhouse. After a lovely dinner,
- 30:25Speaker 4: he gives his wife a Valentine's Day card with a
- 30:28Speaker 4: personal message and they dance to their wedding song.
- 30:31Speaker 3: When the song ends and the dance is finished, Deborah
- 30:33Speaker 3: Meyer doesn't give her husband the reaction he wants, and
- 30:36Speaker 3: they begin to argue.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace.
- 30:50Speaker 4: After hitting his wife in the head with a glass
- 30:52Speaker 4: wine bottle several times, Taylor Meyer says Deborah was unconscious,
- 30:56Speaker 4: but he wasn't sure if she was dead, so.
- 30:58Speaker 1: He went into the kitchen and got a quote.
- 31:00Speaker 4: Big knife, a long one, and came back to her
- 31:03Speaker 4: while she is laid out on the floor and stabs
- 31:05Speaker 4: her over and over again in the chest. All told,
- 31:09Speaker 4: the thirty six year old mother of three, Deborah Meyer
- 31:11Speaker 4: is stabbed forty times after being beaten in the head
- 31:14Speaker 4: with a wine bottle.
- 31:15Speaker 1: It is her.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Trial lawyer at a palm beach describing how the husband
- 31:20Speaker 2: in this scenario, now murder defendant. Taylor Meyer says to police,
- 31:25Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if she was totally dead, so after
- 31:29Speaker 2: I beat her in the head with the wine bottle,
- 31:31Speaker 2: I went in the kitchen and got a quote his words,
- 31:34Speaker 2: not mine, big knife, a long one, and while she
- 31:38Speaker 2: laid on the floor, stabbed her over and over again
- 31:43Speaker 2: in the chest.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Joining me now is.
- 31:48Speaker 2: Renowned chief medical examiner from Terrance County.
- 31:52Speaker 1: That's fort Worth.
- 31:54Speaker 2: Esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU,
- 31:58Speaker 2: Doctor Kendall Crowns. He's about to launch a hit podcast
- 32:04Speaker 2: called DOA Did on arrival April seven, Doctor Kendall Crowns,
- 32:10Speaker 2: could you describe what the victim endured after the first
- 32:15Speaker 2: blow with the thick end of a wine bottle?
- 32:19Speaker 11: Certainly so basically a bottle. When you're struck in the head,
- 32:23Speaker 11: the harder edge of the bottle will hit into your head,
- 32:27Speaker 11: causing contusions or bruises, tearing at the skin. Usually bottles
- 32:33Speaker 11: aren't heavy enough to break the skull, but they can
- 32:36Speaker 11: cause you to go unconscious or cause you to collapse.
- 32:40Speaker 11: You're going to have pain associated with that, headaches. But
- 32:43Speaker 11: if they beat you into unconsciousness, he's probably looking at
- 32:46Speaker 11: her still seeing she's breathing. I've seen that before where
- 32:50Speaker 11: they can't kill him with the wine bottle, so they
- 32:53Speaker 11: go switch up and find something else. He walked into
- 32:56Speaker 11: the kitchen, came back and then started stabbing where with
- 32:58Speaker 11: a knife. The fact that he stabbed her in the
- 33:01Speaker 11: chest over forty times, clustered all together is what we
- 33:04Speaker 11: call overkill. So she's obviously unconscious or subdued at that point,
- 33:08Speaker 11: and he just keeps stabbing her until she stops breathing.
- 33:12Speaker 2: Doctor Kendall Crowns, after the first blow to the head
- 33:16Speaker 2: with a wine bottle, we have no evidence that the
- 33:20Speaker 2: wine bottle was broken, so that corroborates your theory as
- 33:25Speaker 2: to the nature of the first blow.
- 33:29Speaker 1: I believe, based on the fact the wine bottle.
- 33:31Speaker 2: Was still intact, that she was conscious and saw him
- 33:37Speaker 2: coming at her with a knife, lying there immobilized with
- 33:42Speaker 2: her children above her, asleep in bed, she sees her
- 33:48Speaker 2: husband approach her with a knife and the stabbing begins.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Is that scenario feasible, Doctor Kendall Crowns.
- 33:57Speaker 11: Yes, that is a possibility that she could still have
- 33:59Speaker 11: been conscious. She could have been trying to fake that
- 34:02Speaker 11: she was conscious. There's also a possibility that when he
- 34:06Speaker 11: beats her to the ground with the wine bottle, that
- 34:08Speaker 11: he could have jumped on her back, breaking her spinal column.
- 34:12Speaker 11: If the many possibilities, and that could leave her paralyzed.
- 34:16Speaker 11: And so she could still be conscious and see him
- 34:19Speaker 11: approaching with the knife and not be able to do
- 34:21Speaker 11: anything about it.
- 34:22Speaker 2: She was stabbed forty times for zero with a quote
- 34:28Speaker 2: big kitchen knife, quote eight long one. Obviously she died
- 34:36Speaker 2: from bleeding out. So explain to me if she was
- 34:41Speaker 2: not killed in the initial stabs, what would she have endured.
- 34:46Speaker 2: As she was stabbed repeatedly in the chest, So it's
- 34:50Speaker 2: going to.
- 34:50Speaker 11: Take her a few minutes to bleed out from the
- 34:52Speaker 11: stab wounds. So each stab wound that he is able
- 34:55Speaker 11: to deliver is going to cause pain from the cutting
- 34:59Speaker 11: of the skin and the sing of the organs with
- 35:01Speaker 11: the knife. And then the fact that she's being stabbed
- 35:03Speaker 11: in the chest and could collapse lungs making it difficult
- 35:07Speaker 11: for her to breathe. She could also be coughing blood
- 35:10Speaker 11: up and then swallowing the blood, so she's getting blood
- 35:13Speaker 11: in her mouth and hailing the blood, gagging while she's
- 35:16Speaker 11: being stabbed over and over, feeling the pain until she
- 35:20Speaker 11: finally bleeds out after a few minutes. Granted forty stab wounds,
- 35:23Speaker 11: he could probably deliver those in that entire timeframe that
- 35:27Speaker 11: it takes her to bleed out.
- 35:28Speaker 4: Officers are shocked to learn that husband Taylor Meyer took
- 35:31Speaker 4: pictures of his wife's lifeless body and sent it to
- 35:34Speaker 4: Deborah's friend and coworker, who called nine one one. Meyer
- 35:37Speaker 4: also texted his wife's family and friends, saying I killed
- 35:40Speaker 4: Debbie because she's a cheating, lying bitch. Meyer says wife
- 35:44Speaker 4: just didn't give a shit about the Paris themed date
- 35:47Speaker 4: he planned.
- 35:48Speaker 3: And Indiana man sent photos to an alleged lover after
- 35:52Speaker 3: a Balentine's Day dinner went sour. What's next for the
- 35:55Speaker 3: father of three?
- 35:57Speaker 2: Let me understand what I'm hearing that he actually tells
- 36:02Speaker 2: police that.
- 36:05Speaker 1: He murdered his wife because she quote just didn't.
- 36:09Speaker 2: Give it about his Paris theme dinner, and Christina Ohio
- 36:15Speaker 2: joining a Salem news channel. He wrote the relatives, sent
- 36:20Speaker 2: her relatives a picture of her bludgeoned, stamped body and
- 36:24Speaker 2: said I killed Debbie because.
- 36:25Speaker 1: She is a cheating line. Is that right?
- 36:28Speaker 6: Yes, that is correct.
- 36:29Speaker 3: He did that.
- 36:30Speaker 6: He sent it to the coworker saying it's your fault.
- 36:32Speaker 6: And what's interesting is while he was speaking to police,
- 36:36Speaker 6: all of it just revealed in the abba.
- 36:37Speaker 1: David, he was almost trying.
- 36:39Speaker 6: To get them on his side, like explaining, you understand right,
- 36:42Speaker 6: she did this to me. This was the hardest I've
- 36:45Speaker 6: ever tried, he said. And if The hardest you've ever
- 36:48Speaker 6: tried is buying address taking your wife out to dinner.
- 36:50Speaker 6: It's pretty indicative of how much effort you put into
- 36:52Speaker 6: the relationship over the last four years.
- 36:54Speaker 1: But he was.
- 36:55Speaker 6: Literally explaining to the cops like they were boys, like
- 36:59Speaker 6: they were friends. This is why I did it. Can't
- 37:01Speaker 6: you understand she did this to me?
- 37:03Speaker 1: She didn't care.
- 37:04Speaker 6: I worked so hard on the celebration and she just
- 37:07Speaker 6: didn't care.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong, Christina, But I understood he
- 37:11Speaker 2: did not take her out to dinner that they ordered
- 37:14Speaker 2: delivery Japanese delivery.
- 37:16Speaker 6: Well, according to the what I read in the AffA David,
- 37:18Speaker 6: it wasn't clear on if they went out or ordered in.
- 37:21Speaker 6: It was that he got her a dinner from their
- 37:23Speaker 6: favorite Japanese steakhouse.
- 37:25Speaker 2: To go with their Paris theme night. Okay, uh, Doctor
- 37:29Speaker 2: Bethany Marshall, help me out here. I killed Debbie because
- 37:34Speaker 2: she is a cheating line.
- 37:37Speaker 1: You know what?
- 37:37Speaker 2: He might as well fill that in with I killed
- 37:39Speaker 2: Debbie because she made tacos, not enchiladas. There's always a
- 37:43Speaker 2: reason why the woman deserves to be murdered. Have you
- 37:47Speaker 2: noticed that talks to agree with him? She's such a hoe,
- 37:51Speaker 2: she's a liar, she's a cheater. She goes on and on,
- 37:55Speaker 2: she did this, she did that, I had.
- 37:57Speaker 1: To kill her.
- 37:57Speaker 2: Well, they're going to agree, and even Father of the Year.
- 38:01Speaker 5: You know, Nancy. Probably what was happening leading up to
- 38:03Speaker 5: this too, was that he was calling coworkers and family
- 38:06Speaker 5: members and trying to recruit everybody to be on his side.
- 38:10Speaker 5: Because this just spills over when he starts to talk
- 38:13Speaker 5: to the police. He probably feels very beleaguered by her,
- 38:16Speaker 5: and it's very common for these types of men to
- 38:19Speaker 5: invest very little into the relationship but expect everything back
- 38:24Speaker 5: from the house, from the spouse. So he just orders
- 38:27Speaker 5: up a steak dinner, he doesn't cook. Perhaps he doesn't
- 38:30Speaker 5: even take her to the restaurant, buys her probably a
- 38:33Speaker 5: horror stress, makes her dance to the music. But he
- 38:36Speaker 5: expects all these accolades and all this praise from her.
- 38:40Speaker 5: So it's almost like when you ask your child to
- 38:44Speaker 5: set the table for dinner and they just do something
- 38:47Speaker 5: really small like set a plate down, they think they
- 38:49Speaker 5: deserve so much a praise because that's where they are developmentally. Well,
- 38:54Speaker 5: these domestic abusers are caught developmentally at that same phase
- 38:57Speaker 5: of life where they just invest the tiniest, teensiest little
- 39:01Speaker 5: bit and when they don't get all the praise they
- 39:04Speaker 5: want all help breaks lose.
- 39:06Speaker 2: To Greg Morse, believe it or not, I'm giving you
- 39:09Speaker 2: the final argument.
- 39:11Speaker 1: Hit me, well, it is.
- 39:13Speaker 7: This is not all of these factors and inferences you're
- 39:17Speaker 7: making to show premeditation. He's controlling, he's a domestic abuser.
- 39:21Speaker 7: So let's suppose there is no murder and we hear
- 39:23Speaker 7: this guy does this. It's just a story. A Paris
- 39:26Speaker 7: theme night. What a romantic thing he tried to bring
- 39:28Speaker 7: his wife Paris. How nice. So my point is he's
- 39:33Speaker 7: not acting like someone who planned this. If he was
- 39:36Speaker 7: aggressive in an abuser the whole night, when she leaves
- 39:39Speaker 7: for twenty minutes, why does she come back? You would
- 39:41Speaker 7: have seen signs of that. My point is, insanity can
- 39:44Speaker 7: come up below the surface and it can be there.
- 39:47Speaker 7: And having the appointment in three days lends me to
- 39:50Speaker 7: believe that this was not planned. This was something unless
- 39:54Speaker 7: you believe he planned the appointment to show that he
- 39:56Speaker 7: really loved his wife and was trying and tried to
- 39:59Speaker 7: set up an insanity the defense. But it's a horrible outcome.
- 40:02Speaker 7: It's a difficult case to defend. Don't get me wrong,
- 40:05Speaker 7: it is very challenging. But I think mental illness is
- 40:09Speaker 7: a lot more prevalent in relationships. And I've talked about
- 40:12Speaker 7: this on TV and cases I've had before, and this
- 40:14Speaker 7: is the outgrowth of it, and it does create This
- 40:17Speaker 7: guy was living in his own reality, you know.
- 40:19Speaker 2: Shannon Henry joining me present, founder of SAS Surviving Assault
- 40:22Speaker 2: Standing Strong. If what he just said was true, they
- 40:26Speaker 2: would empty out every jail in the country because everybody
- 40:30Speaker 2: would say I had a mental illness.
- 40:32Speaker 1: I was angry, that's right.
- 40:33Speaker 8: And she came back because she had kids there and
- 40:36Speaker 8: she's a good mom. His last attempt to get help
- 40:41Speaker 8: was to kill her. Hers was to go to therapy.
- 40:44Speaker 8: And I do want to say she was a nurse
- 40:47Speaker 8: to Greg. She was a nurse. She knew exactly what
- 40:50Speaker 8: was happening to her body when it was happening, and
- 40:53Speaker 8: he knew that she would understand that experience too. So
- 40:56Speaker 8: while he may not have physically hit her before this day,
- 40:59Speaker 8: and there may not be police reports, he abused her
- 41:02Speaker 8: for years by doing his best to break her down
- 41:06Speaker 8: with infidelity and isolation and insecurity, and by the way.
- 41:11Speaker 8: You can be depressed, you can be a psychopath, you
- 41:14Speaker 8: can be a narcissist without being an abuser. And I
- 41:17Speaker 8: want you to know I would never you would never
- 41:21Speaker 8: be able to hire me, and if I did come,
- 41:24Speaker 8: I would be honored to clarify that the abused women
- 41:28Speaker 8: endure at the hands of unprincipled lawyers like you is awful,
- 41:34Speaker 8: just awful, And shame on you for trying to make
- 41:38Speaker 8: it clear that this person is insane when he's clearly not.
- 41:41Speaker 8: He knew what he was doing from start to finish,
- 41:44Speaker 8: from the dress to the stabbing, and then he bragged
- 41:46Speaker 8: about it.
- 41:47Speaker 1: Nancy Grace signing off, goodbye friend,