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Son Murdered As Mom Listens | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 05.31.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: I'm Jackie Howard and eleven year old boy in your home.
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  Speaker 1: Mother begging for help. As she listens, his father shoots
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  Speaker 1: him in the head at close range. Police say David Huff,
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  Speaker 1: forty three, uses a Remington twelve gage shotgun to fire
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  Speaker 1: several times into his girlfriend euraldus Tshodi at a home
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  Speaker 1: in sarahcues. Then he turns the gun on his son,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Huff. The child, still alive after the first blast,
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  Speaker 1: manages to call his mother. She hears everything. District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: William Fitzpatrick says she had the unbearable tragedy of listening
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  Speaker 1: to her son be murdered. She'll never forget that ever.
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  Speaker 1: Huff is being held without bail. War Crime and Justice
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  Speaker 1: News after this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. A town is preparing for the murder
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  Speaker 2: trial against Brian Kohlberger. On Wednesday morning, Ada County District
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  Speaker 2: Court Judge Stephen Hipler issued a direct concerning jur questionnaires.
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  Speaker 2: Similar to the high profile cases of Lori Valodabel and
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  Speaker 2: Chad day Bell, the Ada County District Court plans to
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  Speaker 2: call upon hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals to come
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  Speaker 2: to the courthouse to complete these questionnaires. This process is
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  Speaker 2: intended to take place in the weeks leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the stage where the attorneys evaluate potential jurors in groups
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  Speaker 2: to narrow down the jury pool as the trial date nears.
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  Speaker 2: A media town hall organized by the Ada County Fourth
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  Speaker 2: District Court for Brian Kolberger's quadruple murder case brought to
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  Speaker 2: light several logistical challenges, especially regarding parking and media workspace.
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  Speaker 2: The virtual event attracted over one hundred media representatives and
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  Speaker 2: provided an opportunity for direct inquiries to Adjudge Scott Wilder
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  Speaker 2: of Fox News. Representative expressed concerns about the courthouse's accessibility
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  Speaker 2: for media personnel, highlighting that while the courthouse has an
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  Speaker 2: appealing exterior, its practical use for media setup was lacking.
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  Speaker 2: The front of the courthouse is a beautiful view, but
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  Speaker 2: looking on Google Earth, it's not practical, he said.
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  Speaker 3: If we had a parking lot with a few spots
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  Speaker 3: for network and local media together, Wilder suggested, it would
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  Speaker 3: be easier. Judge Jame Cothwin, who facilitated the town hall meeting,
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  Speaker 3: recognized these issues but emphasized the limited space available both
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  Speaker 3: inside and outside the courthouse. I do appreciate that and
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  Speaker 3: we can discuss it further. But there is no open
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  Speaker 3: parking spaces near the courthouse. He said. Those lots are
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  Speaker 3: intended for public use and they tend to be quite
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  Speaker 3: full during the day. Couthwyn explained the town hall was
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  Speaker 3: held during ongoing pre trial activities. Notwithstanding a recent motion
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  Speaker 3: from Coburger's defense team seeking to delay the trial, which
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  Speaker 3: is currently scheduled to start on August eleven, Judge Stephen
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  Speaker 3: Hipler has not yet made a decision regarding that request.
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  Speaker 3: For Coburger's trial, twelve jurors an eight alter ns will
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  Speaker 3: be selected. Judge Couthin informed the media during that virtual
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  Speaker 3: town hall that jury selection is set to start on
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  Speaker 3: August four at the Ada County Courthouse, with opening statements
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  Speaker 3: expected to follow on August eleven. The trial is projected
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  Speaker 3: to continue through November.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson, an eighty three year old man in
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  Speaker 4: Texas's charged with murder after allegedly shooting a man he
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  Speaker 4: knew from church on a roadside and later boasting about killing.
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  Speaker 4: Wilmer Clifford Brillhart was arrested May sixteenth. He's accused of
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  Speaker 4: killing sixty six year old Glenn Davis one week earlier
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  Speaker 4: in San Leon. Police say Davis was found shot on
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  Speaker 4: FM five seventeen near the old HLN P Bridge around
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  Speaker 4: three thirty pm May ninth. He later died at the hospital.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't Brillhart's first homicide. According to the man himself,
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  Speaker 4: he was found not guilty in another case, and that
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  Speaker 4: victim's brother got to know brill Hart well.
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  Speaker 5: He spoke to KPRC.
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  Speaker 6: He was known as Camman Bill. From what I hear,
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  Speaker 6: people would throw cans out when they passed File on
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  Speaker 6: five seventeen, and he would go out there and pick
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  Speaker 6: them up.
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  Speaker 5: Bill Hart and Davis both attended Lighthouse Christian Ministries in
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  Speaker 5: Baycliffe for meals. Witnesses told police brill Hart had made
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  Speaker 5: threats in early May. One woman said he told her
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  Speaker 5: he would quote put some lead in Glenn Davis's head.
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  Speaker 5: She also said brill Hart often bragged about killing others
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  Speaker 5: and getting away with it, claiming self defense. Detective said
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  Speaker 5: witnesses told them brill Hart joked that killing a third
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  Speaker 5: person would make him a quote serial killer. A Galveston
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  Speaker 5: County judge issued a warrant, and police arrested brill Hart
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  Speaker 5: and San leone with help from the Texas Department of
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  Speaker 5: Public Safety Special Response Team. He remains in the Galveston
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  Speaker 5: County Jail on a five hundred thousand dollars bond. Court
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  Speaker 5: record show brill Hart was arrested in twenty fourteen for
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  Speaker 5: the shooting death of thirty one year old James Warren.
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  Speaker 5: In that case, brill Hart called nine to one one
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  Speaker 5: and said he acted in self defense. Here again is
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  Speaker 5: James brother, Joseph Warren.
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  Speaker 6: I think they said that my brother was the aggressor,
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  Speaker 6: but the witness that was there that said what he
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  Speaker 6: saw that my brother didn't approach the truck, but this
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  Speaker 6: man got out of his truck. He was sitting there
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  Speaker 6: waiting on my brother.
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  Speaker 5: Joseph Warren says he now stands with Davis's family.
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  Speaker 6: But whenever we have justice for grand and my family
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  Speaker 6: can can finally risk as well.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Jennifer Goold. The serene, ultra exclusive enclave of Monasito, California,
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  Speaker 7: has been rocked by a scene straight out of a
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  Speaker 7: Hollywood thriller. A violent break in at the sprawling estate
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  Speaker 7: of Beanie Baby's billionaire Ty Warner has left a sixty
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  Speaker 7: year old woman in a coma her life hanging by
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  Speaker 7: a thread. The brutal assault has sent shockwaves through the
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  Speaker 7: affluent community, a haven known for its celebrity residents such
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  Speaker 7: as Prince Harry, Megan Markele and Oprah, and its tranquil estates.
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  Speaker 7: Roquel Zick with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, spoke
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  Speaker 7: to NBC News.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's odd for Santa Barbara County. I think
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  Speaker 3: it really shook a lot of our community members.
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  Speaker 7: The alleged attacker, Russell Maxwell Fey, forty two, a cop
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  Speaker 7: bad veteran with a criminal pass, was arrested after savagely
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  Speaker 7: assaulting the victim and then barricading himself inside the lavish home.
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff's deputies swarmed Warner's mansion on Fairway Road, just north
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  Speaker 7: of Butterfly Beach after a frantic nine one one call
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  Speaker 7: reported a disturbance at four thirty pm. Take a Listen
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  Speaker 7: with deputies arrived to find Fay had forcefully entered the
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  Speaker 7: property and brutally attacked Linda malickslani In, a financial services
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  Speaker 7: expert who previously worked for Warner's hotel division. Prosecutors confirmed
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  Speaker 7: malik Islani in sixty suffered severe brain injuries and remains comatose,
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  Speaker 7: her future uncertain. Fay, displaying bizarre behavior, claimed the mansion
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  Speaker 7: was his and demanded that everyone leave. He then barricaded
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  Speaker 7: himself in an upstairs bathroom, leading to tense standoff before
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  Speaker 7: deputies finally took him into custody. Faye was charged with
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  Speaker 7: attempted murder, burglary, kidnapping, and assault, and other charges. He's
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  Speaker 7: being held at the Santa Barbara County Southern Branch Jail
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  Speaker 7: and is not eligible for bail as he's been deemed
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  Speaker 7: a threat to the community. Court documents highlight Phase criminal history,
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  Speaker 7: including prior convictions for domestic violence and unsatisfactory parole performance.
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  Speaker 7: Ty Warner, the eighty year old CEO of Ty, Inc.
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  Speaker 7: Who famously amassed a six billion dollar fortune through his
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  Speaker 7: Beanie Babies empire, was home during the terrifying ordeal, but
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  Speaker 7: escaped unharmed. He has not commented publicly on the incident.
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  Speaker 7: Authorities are continuing to investigate the motive behind Phase actions.
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  Speaker 7: So far, there is no known connection between the suspect
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  Speaker 7: and the victims. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 8: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
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  Speaker 8: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
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  Speaker 8: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
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  Speaker 8: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
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  Speaker 8: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.
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  Speaker 8: For an in depth look at the facts, see What
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  Speaker 8: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National
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  Speaker 8: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.