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Mom of Four Hacked to Death by Man on Early Release | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 07.12.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard, hourly update and breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Jennifer Gould, a Washington State man with a laundry
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  Speaker 3: list of past violent attacks, now stands accused of brutally
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  Speaker 3: murdering his girlfriend, a beloved mother of four, then allegedly
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  Speaker 3: dismembering her body. Seattle police officers were summoned to an
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  Speaker 3: apartment where they discovered the gruesome scene. The body of
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  Speaker 3: thirty one year old Kiara Sewell bore obvious signs of trauma.
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  Speaker 3: The details are truly sickening. Seule's grieving mom, Tanika Tigner,
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  Speaker 3: spoke to reporters outside the courthouse.
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  Speaker 1: You did this to my daughter. What does she do
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 4: In the back of her neck is like de capitated
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  Speaker 4: off or something? What's wrong with you? You're crazy.
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  Speaker 3: The alleged killer, fifty five year old Willie James McCoo,
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  Speaker 3: was captured on surveillance video with Sewell, but in the
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  Speaker 3: days that followed only McCoo appeared on camera, seen hauling
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  Speaker 3: large duffel bags and garbage sacks out of the building.
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  Speaker 3: When detectives later executed a search warrant on mccoo's storage locker,
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  Speaker 3: they uncovered the suspected implements of terror, an eighteen inch
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  Speaker 3: machete and an eleven inch hunting knife, tools grimly consistent
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  Speaker 3: with the nature of the injuries found. Mccoo's criminal record
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  Speaker 3: is as long as it is disturbing. He was sprung
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  Speaker 3: from prison just last fall after serving nearly two decades
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  Speaker 3: for a vicious two thousand and five attack where he
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  Speaker 3: used a knife on a sleeping woman. He was initially
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  Speaker 3: handed a twenty eight year sentence for first degree assault,
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  Speaker 3: but that was controversially slashed due to the Blake Decision,
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  Speaker 3: a ruling that reevaluated drug possession convictions. Here's Kira's mom
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  Speaker 3: again outside the courthouse. I want him to pay for
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  Speaker 3: what he did in my dard.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to run, especially if he's got priors.
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  Speaker 4: He stabbed another girl.
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  Speaker 3: Cops finally apprehended mcoo for murder and are holding him
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  Speaker 3: on a four million dollar bond. This alleged monster, all
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  Speaker 3: already with convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and
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  Speaker 3: attempting to elude law enforcement, is even considered a person
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  Speaker 3: of interest in another murder investigation. Court record show McCoo
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  Speaker 3: was arrested on May twentieth for a department of Corrections
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  Speaker 3: release violation, but was released just nine days later. Jr's
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  Speaker 3: family is now desperately fighting for justice to hopefully prevent
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  Speaker 3: another tragedy like this from happening again. More crime and
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  Speaker 3: justice news after.
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  Speaker 1: This, I'm Drew Nelson. A Connecticut jury finds a young
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  Speaker 1: man not guilty of murder in the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: stabbing death of a prep school athlete, but the case
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  Speaker 1: may not be over. On Wednesday, jurors acquitted twenty year
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  Speaker 1: old Raoul Valley of murder, intentional manslaughter, and intentional assault
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  Speaker 1: in the death of seventeen year old James Jimmy McGrath.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy was stabbed during a drunken fight outside a house
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  Speaker 1: party in Shelton on May fourteenth of twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Three other teens were also stabbed, but they survived after
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  Speaker 1: the stabbings. Valley, aged sixteen at the time, had been
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  Speaker 1: charged as an adult and faced up to one hundred
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  Speaker 1: five years in prison.
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  Speaker 5: It goes without saying that we're extremely disappointed with the result.
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  Speaker 5: This was a fair trial.
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  Speaker 1: That's attorney Michael Rossnik representing the McGrath family.
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  Speaker 5: The family and I would like to point out our
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  Speaker 5: thankfulness for the state's attorney's office. They did an exhaustive job,
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  Speaker 5: They conducted a thorough trial, and they were indeed well prepared.
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  Speaker 1: A jury could not reach a verdict on reckless manslaughter
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  Speaker 1: and reckless assault charges. Judge Sherry Murphy declared a mistrial
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  Speaker 1: on those counts. Vally cried at the verdict and left
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  Speaker 1: the courthouse without speaking to the media. Valley had turned
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  Speaker 1: down a forty year plea deal. He testified in his
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  Speaker 1: own defense and admitted swinging a knife during the fight.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was overwhelmed and did not mean to
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  Speaker 1: kill anyone. Vali described how he felt surrounded as a
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  Speaker 1: friend handed him the knife. At one point, he said
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  Speaker 1: he blacked out. McGrath was stabbed in the heart and
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  Speaker 1: died there at the scene. Another team, Ryan Hines, was
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  Speaker 1: stabbed three times. Two other boys, faiz On Teal and
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Connery, were also wounded. The fight started at one
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  Speaker 1: house party and spilled into another on Laurel Glen Drive.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty five teams were involved. Valley, who was a
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  Speaker 1: student at Saint Joseph High School, allegedly brought a switchblade
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  Speaker 1: type knife. Witnesses say he swung the blade wildly. McGrath
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  Speaker 1: was a junior at Fairfield College Preparatory School, known as
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  Speaker 1: a standout football and lacrosse player. His obituary called him
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  Speaker 1: the sunshine of his parents' lives and a friend to many,
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  Speaker 1: quote he understood the meaning of being part of a team.
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  Speaker 1: His family later formed the Jimmy McGrath Foundation. Their third
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  Speaker 1: annual golf tournament in his honor was held in June.
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  Speaker 1: A wrongful death lawsuit remains pending. Retrial on the deadlock
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  Speaker 1: charges is still possible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole, parton a collection of Muckshots reveals the troubling
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  Speaker 2: case of a Tennessee man charged with manslaughter in connection
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  Speaker 2: with the death of his nephew in Mississippi. The teenager,
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  Speaker 2: who was in the custody of the Department of Children's Services,
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  Speaker 2: had recently been placed in the care of his uncle.
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  Speaker 2: As of Thursday, the man accused of his nephew's death
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  Speaker 2: remains incarcerated in Wayne County.
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  Speaker 4: Despite having a history of legal issues, DCS permitted him
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  Speaker 4: to take care of the teenager. Stacy o'daneil has been
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  Speaker 4: appointed by the court as guardian at Ledam to advocate
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  Speaker 4: for the welfare of the foster child and is devastated
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  Speaker 4: by the news of his passing. The Jasper County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 4: Department has identified Victor Jerry Jerome Carver as the individual
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  Speaker 4: suspected of killing seventeen year old Caden Cantrell. Sheriff Randy
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  Speaker 4: Johnson reported that deputies discovered Cantrell's body in a ditch
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  Speaker 4: on Monday in Vosburg, Mississippi. He was lying on his
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  Speaker 4: side in what appeared to be a critical position in
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  Speaker 4: the ditch. Johnson stated. Carver, originally from Collinwood, Tennessee, is
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  Speaker 4: now facing a manslaughter charge. According to Sheriff Johnson, Cantrell
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  Speaker 4: was under the care of Tennessee Child Protective Services at
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  Speaker 4: the time of his death, and he and Carver were
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  Speaker 4: en route to Louisiana for a family visit. Investigators, after
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  Speaker 4: speaking with relatives, shared insights with the sheriff. Sheriff Johnson
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  Speaker 4: about potential circumstances leading to the tragedy. Fox seventeen says
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  Speaker 4: that Carver has an extensive criminal record, including multiple convictions
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  Speaker 4: and felonies such as attempted aggravated assault. Odaneil expressed her
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  Speaker 4: concern that dcs should not have entrusted Cantrell to someone
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  Speaker 4: with Carver's background, suggesting that other family members might have
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  Speaker 4: provided a safer environment. I've been a certified child welfare
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  Speaker 4: specialist for fifteen years, and this is the worst outcome
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  Speaker 4: I've ever encountered, she said. DCS has issued a statement
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  Speaker 4: expressing their deep sorrow over Cantrell's death. The department indicated
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  Speaker 4: they are collaborating with law enforcement as a criminal investigation unfolds,
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  Speaker 4: and that employees involved are currently on leave while the
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  Speaker 4: agency reviews its policies and their application in the case.
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  Speaker 4: Odaneil highlighted the lack of oversight for DCS, noting that
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  Speaker 4: it largely it self regulates. She intends to petition the
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  Speaker 4: Juvenile Court to evaluate whether DCS took adequate measure to
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  Speaker 4: ensure the child's safety. Updates will be provided as this
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  Speaker 4: situation unfolds. Meanwhile, Carter is awaiting extradition to Jasper County, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 4: with the possibility of waiving his extradition rights. For the
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