Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Teen Kills Mother, Lies in Wait for Stepdad|Crime Alert Recap Sunday 9.22.24

Transcript

Teen Kills Mother, Lies in Wait for Stepdad|Crime Alert Recap Sunday 9.22.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hourly update breaking crime news Now.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. A fourteen year old girl is accused
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: of fatally shooting her mother and trying to kill her stepdad.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: That girl is now on trial. According to prosecutors, fourteen
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: year old Carly Greggson a text message to her friend
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: shortly after she had killed her mother, saying quote, can
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: you come over and help me with an emergency? Are
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: you squamish around dead bodies? According to prosecutors, the friend
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: did come over, and the teenage girl led her to
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: a bedroom where her mother was dead on the floor
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: from three gunshots. According to police reports, it's believed that
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Carly killed her mother after her mother had searched her
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: room and found vape pins. The young girl used the
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: mother's own gun to shoot her inside the family's Brandon,
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Mississippi home. To make matters worse, prosecutors say after killing
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: her mother, Carly waited for her stepdad to come home
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: from work and then ambushed him and shot him. He
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Smiley survived his wounds and was called as a witness
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: to the stand in his stepdaughter's murder trial.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: The gun went off in my face before the door
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: was I don't know three or four inches wide open,
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: and everything kind of kind of went pretty fast from there.
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: It was a blur. Just gun flashed in my face
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: and and it went off two more times, but my
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: hand was on the gun. After the first shot. She
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: was screaming out her for her mind, scared. It was
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: like she had seen a demon or something. She was terrified.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say when the teenager arrived home from school with
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: her mother, Ashley Smiley, who is a math teacher, Carly
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: went straight to her parents bedroom and retrieved a three
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: point fifty seven magnum pistol from beneath the mattress. Prosecutors
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: say she then hid the gun behind her back until
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: she confronted her mother and fatally shot her three times.
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: Security footage from inside the house shows the teenager carelessly
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: returning to the kitchen after allegedly killing her mother. The
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: suspect can be seen texting from her phone asking the
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: friend to come over, and also texting her stepdad to
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: see what time he will be home. Police reports say,
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: after killing her mother and waiting for her stepfather, Greg
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: to come home, she can be seen in the video
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: singing to her dog. When the stepfather arrived. It's alleged
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: that the girl attempted to shoot him and then fled
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: through the family's backyard after they scuffled over the weapon.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: She was arrested near her home. Carly Gregg faces two
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: life sentences if convicted in the murder and the attempted
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: murder of her mother stepfather.
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: I'm Jennifer Gould. In a heartbreaking update, human remains discovered
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: in two Rivers, Wisconsin have been confirmed as those of
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: missing three year old Elijah who These skeletal remains, including
• 3:13
  Speaker 4: a skull and bones, were found last Saturday by a
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: deer hunter on private property. The site, located just over
• 3:21
  Speaker 4: three miles northwest of where Elijah was reported missing, had
• 3:24
  Speaker 4: been previously searched multiple times by law enforcement and rescue teams.
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: Two Rivers Police Chief Benjamin Minart confirmed the id during
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: a news briefing Take a Listen.
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: Today.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: Both were identified as Elijah Ruth.
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: With the news and following this briefing, the Amber Lily Answer.
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: Little Elijah disappeared on February twentieth while staying with his
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: mother's boyfriend, Jesse Vang, who reported the child missing after
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: finding him gone following a nap. Elijah's mother, Katrina Bauer
• 3:59
  Speaker 4: told police she had left her three year old with
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: Vang on February twelve because she wanted him to quote
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: be a man end quote. She had intended to pick
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: Elijah up on February twenty third. Prosecutors revealed that Bauer
• 4:13
  Speaker 4: had left Elijah unattended for at least an hour on
• 4:17
  Speaker 4: February sixteenth while she and Vang traveled to other locations. Additionally,
• 4:22
  Speaker 4: they discovered evidence that Bauer had left a six year
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: old child unattended in a vehicle for about an hour
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: in sub freezing temperatures without the car running. Bower thirty
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: one was initially charged with one felony count of a
• 4:35
  Speaker 4: party to a crime child neglect and two misdemeanor counts
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: of resisting or obstructing an officer. However, these charges were
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: later amended to include a felony count of party to
• 4:46
  Speaker 4: a crime chronic child neglect and a misdemeanor count of
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: neglecting a child. Vang was also formerly charged in February
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: with one felony count of party to a crime child neglect.
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: No charges have been filed Elijah's disappearance. Chief Minard urged
• 5:03
  Speaker 4: anyone with information about Elijah's whereabouts or the case to
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: come forward As authorities continue to work to uncover the
• 5:10
  Speaker 4: full details surrounding this tragedy.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson, an eleven year old in Florida face
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: this felony charges after threatening a mass shooting at a
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: middle school in Port Orange. The unidentified boy as a
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: student at Creekside Middle School. He was arrested after showing
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: off weapons and making threats during a video chat with
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: other students. For Lucia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who has
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: been vocal about the surgeon school threats, shared the arrest
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: on social media, revealing that the child had written a
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: list of targets. Despite the boys claim that it was
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: quote just a joke, authorities are taking it seriously. So far,
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: fifty four tips have come in through fort to five
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Florida talking about school shootings.
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: All of them have been deemed bogus.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: We have two people in custody. We have another person
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: who were investigating and probably will take into custody.
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: I can't say that's clearer.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: I don't stand up on an airplane and YO hijack.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: You don't walk into a movie theater and yell fire
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: and you don't get online and post that you're going
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: to shoot up at school.
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: It's going to get your sent to jail.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Chetwood warns parents that his department will be holding them
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: accountable for their children's actions. He shares a pretty harsh
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: sentiment quote parents, since you don't want to raise your kids,
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start raising them. He promised to publish
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: the photos of any child arrested for making threats, and
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: if possible, purp walk both the kids and their parents
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: and handcuffs to a police cruiser. Chetwood emphasizes that these
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: threats are no laughing matter, especially in a time when
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: school shootings are a very real concern. He says, hoax
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: investigations have already cost the department twenty one thousand dollars.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: The arrest of eleven year old was found to have
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: airsoft guns, knives, and other weapons in his possession, despite
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: the boy's insistence that it was a joke. He faces
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: charges of making written threats and could be charged with
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: additional offenses. Chetwood warns that there will be no leniency
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: in these cases, saying quote threats made his folks are
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: no exception. This arrest comes amid a rise in school
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: threats across Florida following the shooting in winder Georgia about
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Sheriff Chipwood says, quote, if I find
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: out a parent knew what was going on and did nothing,
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: yours is getting purp walked with them. For the latest
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: crime and justice news, foddew the Crime Alert hourly update
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert, I'm
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: Drew Nelson.