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Great Wolf Lodge Double Murder: Pennsylvania Mother Charged in Stabbing Deaths of Husband and Toddler | Crime Alert 10.19.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A chilling double murder inside a Pennsylvania resort has left
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  Speaker 1: a community stunned and a young mother facing homicide charges.
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  Speaker 1: 27-year-old Metallica Rose Harrison of Tawanda is behind bars, charged
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  Speaker 1: with two counts of criminal homicide after her husband, Charles
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  Speaker 1: Chaz Harrison, and their three-year-old son were discovered stabbed to
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  Speaker 1: death inside their guest room at Great Wolf Lodge in
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  Speaker 1: the Pocono Mountains. According to a probable cause affidavit filed
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  Speaker 1: by Pocono Township Police, officers rushed to the resort around
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  Speaker 1: 3.15 on the afternoon of Monday, October 12, after Metallica
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  Speaker 1: called 911, telling the dispatcher she needed help dying and
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  Speaker 1: was too weak to stab her own neck. On the call,
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  Speaker 1: she admitted she had knives and stated her husband and
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  Speaker 1: toddler were already gone, adding, I'm sorry. Responding officers discovered
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  Speaker 1: a horrific scene. Charles lay dead on a floor mattress
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  Speaker 1: with a single chest stab wound, while their three-year-old son
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  Speaker 1: lay on a separate mattress with multiple fatal chest wounds.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives recovered two teal green kitchen knives that staff confirmed
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  Speaker 1: did not belong to the resort, alongside several medication bottles
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  Speaker 1: and containers believed to hold blood. Metallica, suffering from cuts
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  Speaker 1: to her wrist and neck, was taken into custody, reportedly
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  Speaker 1: telling police she wanted to be with her husband and son.
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  Speaker 1: During transport, Metallica allegedly told first responders, I effed up.
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  Speaker 1: I just needed energy and strength, claiming she worked hard
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  Speaker 1: to be a good mother and envisioned a happy family
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  Speaker 1: since childhood. At the hospital, she declared she was suicidal,
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  Speaker 1: not stupid, and refused to speak with officers. Stepmother April
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  Speaker 1: Thetka believes the attack was pre-planned, noting the family brought
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  Speaker 1: knives from home and that Metallica may have drained her
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  Speaker 1: husband's 401k to fund an expensive three-week stay. Resort surveillance
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  Speaker 1: captured the family entering their room Sunday evening and visiting
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  Speaker 1: the arcade before disappearing. Addressing reporters, Monroe County District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Mike Mancuso confirmed the isolated nature of the tragedy to
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  Speaker 1: local station 2822 News.
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  Speaker 2: It's been determined that there's no threat to public safety,
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  Speaker 2: that this was a violent domestic tragedy in which two people,
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  Speaker 2: a boy and his father, lost their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Great Wolf Lodge expressed heartbreak and pledged full cooperation, while
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  Speaker 1: a GoFundMe campaign launched by grieving relatives has raised thousands
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  Speaker 1: to cover burial expenses for Chaz and his little boy.
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  Speaker 1: Metallica Harrison remains held without bail at the Monroe County
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  Speaker 1: Correctional Facility, awaiting her preliminary hearing. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this. In Florida, a horrific act of domestic
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  Speaker 1: violence has turned into a first-degree murder case following the
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  Speaker 1: tragic death of 30-year-old Jessica Antolini. The Pinellas County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office confirmed that Antolini passed away on the evening of
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  Speaker 1: October 15th from catastrophic injuries sustained two days earlier across
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  Speaker 1: the street from a Safety Harbor bar. Her heartbroken mother,
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne Reese Antolini, remembered her on social media as a
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  Speaker 1: treasured friend and a loving advocate for human rights and
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  Speaker 1: animal welfare. According to a criminal complaint, 40-year-old Christopher Dodge
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  Speaker 1: Smith arrived at the bar looking possessed, actively hunting down
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  Speaker 1: Antolini before confronting her outside. Following a heated argument, deputies
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  Speaker 1: say Smith shot Antolini in the face. He then drove
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  Speaker 1: his SUV directly over her body and sped away, leaving
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  Speaker 1: her critically injured on the pavement while his five-year-old daughter
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  Speaker 1: sat inside the vehicle. Witnesses dialed 911, prompting Pinellas County
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  Speaker 1: deputies to track down the fleeing SUV. When Smith refused
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  Speaker 1: orders to pull over, a deputy executed a precision pit
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  Speaker 1: maneuver to immobilize the vehicle, captured in dramatic video released
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  Speaker 1: by the sheriff's office. Get on the ground now!
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  Speaker 2: Got him, got him. Following Antolini's death, prosecutors upgraded Smith's
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  Speaker 2: charges to first-degree murder alongside child abuse.
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  Speaker 1: He is currently locked inside a Pinellas County jail cell
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  Speaker 1: held without bond. Finally, in Tennessee, a 30-year-old mother is
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  Speaker 1: facing felony charges after allegedly driving her vehicle directly off
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  Speaker 1: a steep cliff with her two young children strapped in
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  Speaker 1: the back seat. State investigators report that Chase Ryan Kleindienst
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  Speaker 1: was driving a Honda CR-V when she reached a dead-end
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  Speaker 1: street near Coffey's Cliff in Chattanooga. Instead of stopping, Kleindienst
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  Speaker 1: allegedly kept driving forward, plummeting approximately 25 feet off the
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  Speaker 1: bluff before the SUV flipped upside down near active railroad
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  Speaker 1: tracks below. Emergency crews quickly transported both young children to
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  Speaker 1: a nearby hospital. One child suffered a fractured arm and
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  Speaker 1: a bruised lung, while the second child was evaluated, treated,
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  Speaker 1: and released. According to an arrest affidavit, responding officers noted
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  Speaker 1: that Kleindienst reeked of alcohol, exhibited heavily slurred speech, and
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  Speaker 1: became combative with medics attempting to render aid. Investigators searching
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  Speaker 1: the overturned vehicle discovered two bottles of wine, one of
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  Speaker 1: which was completely empty. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is charged
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  Speaker 1: Klein-Dinst with driving under the influence, vehicular assault, and two
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  Speaker 1: counts of child neglect. She is scheduled to appear before
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  Speaker 1: a judge on November 17th. For more crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: on Tubi. With this crime alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.