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Kentucky 'Nuclear Fallout' Home Invader Escapes Death Penalty | Crime Alert 06.01.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. A Shelby County jury has officially decided
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  Speaker 2: the fate of Sheen and Gilday, the man who violently
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  Speaker 2: invaded a Kentucky home in twenty twenty two and murdered
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  Speaker 2: thirty two year old Jordan Morgan. In a decision that
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  Speaker 2: fell short of what prosecutors and the victim's family fought for,
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  Speaker 2: the twelve jurors rejected the death penalty. Instead, they sentenced
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  Speaker 2: Gilday to life in prison, with the possibility of parole
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  Speaker 2: after twenty five years. It brings a dramatic close to
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  Speaker 2: a trial that laid bare the sheer terror of that
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  Speaker 2: early morning assault. Driven by a delusional obsession with nuclear war,
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  Speaker 2: Gilday broke into the home of former state Representative see
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  Speaker 2: Wesley Morgan to access a massive underground survival bunker. Armed
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  Speaker 2: with an AR fifteen, Gilday shot Jordan Morgan more than
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  Speaker 2: twenty times as she slept. Jordan's father, Wesley Morgan, recounted
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  Speaker 2: the frantic seconds he spent trying to protect his family
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  Speaker 2: to our friends at Fox fifty six.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a shot three times, I'm bleeding profusely. I know
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  Speaker 3: my daughter's been killed because there's no other explanation for
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  Speaker 3: the shots that I heard, and I'm trying to interdict
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  Speaker 3: him before he kills us.
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  Speaker 2: All the defense in prosecution offered vastly different pictures to
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  Speaker 2: the jury before they deliberated. Special Prosecutor Todd Willard argued
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  Speaker 2: forcefully for the ultimate punishment, telling jurors there are certain
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  Speaker 2: crimes of aggravated murder that deserve the death penalty, and
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those. Meanwhile, defense attorney Tom Griffiths
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  Speaker 2: made an emotional plea for mercy, arguing that Gilday suffers
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  Speaker 2: from severe mental illness and genuinely believed the world was ending.
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  Speaker 2: Griffith noted that Gilday remained so delusional he still asks
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  Speaker 2: if the jail is strong enough to survive a nuclear attack.
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  Speaker 2: But for the Morgan family, the trauma has completely broken them.
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  Speaker 2: They spent years living out of a heavily armed RV,
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  Speaker 2: too terrified to return home.
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  Speaker 3: That's what a parent's supposed to do, is provide security,
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  Speaker 3: it's safety to their family and their home. I failed
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  Speaker 3: to do that. I failed her miserably, and I can
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  Speaker 3: live over there for the rest of my life, Hell's
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  Speaker 3: ever can over it?
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  Speaker 2: Ever, God for nothing. As the Morgan family faces the
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  Speaker 2: reality that their daughter's killer could eventually taste freedom, they
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  Speaker 2: say they are now shifting their focus to fighting for
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  Speaker 2: stronger legal protections for victims of violent crime. More crime
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  Speaker 2: and justice news after this. A Texas high school teacher
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  Speaker 2: accused of faking her own stabbing and triggering a massive
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  Speaker 2: emergency response has officially pleaded not guilty. Fifty three year
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  Speaker 2: old Nicole Truelove is facing charges of tampering with evidence
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  Speaker 2: and making a false report after a morning of pure
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  Speaker 2: chaos at Splendora High School. Court record show she is
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for a status hearing on June fourth, with her
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  Speaker 2: defense attorney maintaining her absolute innocence, But investigators tell very different,
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  Speaker 2: deeply disturbing story. They alleged that True Love activated a
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  Speaker 2: school panic alarm, claiming a student had stabbed her. The
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  Speaker 2: report sparked immediate terror. More than eighty law enforcement officers
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  Speaker 2: rushed to the campus as it plunged into a total lockdown.
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  Speaker 2: Terrified students huddled in dark classrooms, calling their parents in tears,
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  Speaker 2: believing there was an active attacker on the loose. However,
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  Speaker 2: authorities quickly determined the threat was non existent. The Montgomery
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office says the entire incident was a hoax
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  Speaker 2: and that Truelove's injuries were completely self inflicted. At a
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  Speaker 2: detention hearing, Montgomery County prosecutors detailed the exact moment the
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  Speaker 2: alleged plot unraveled.
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  Speaker 1: She had marks on her chests that were not consistent
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  Speaker 1: with Stato marphs whore instead scratches. In the course of
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  Speaker 1: her attention, she made movements under her shirts, at which
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  Speaker 1: point a razorblade fells.
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  Speaker 2: Of the floor, which had been concealed.
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  Speaker 1: On her person.
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  Speaker 2: A motive remains completely unclear. True Love is currently out
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  Speaker 2: on a twenty thousand dollars bond in Louisiana, and admitted
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  Speaker 2: sex predator has been sentenced to thirty years in prison
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  Speaker 2: and surgical castration. Forty four year old Douglas Decour pleaded
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  Speaker 2: guilty to two counts of second degree rape, two counts
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  Speaker 2: of indecent behavior with a juvenile in two counts of
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  Speaker 2: sex abuse material involving juveniles with a victim less than
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  Speaker 2: thirteen years of age. The investigation began in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: one after two Galvez Middle School students aged eleven and
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  Speaker 2: fourteen at the time, disclosed to police that they had
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  Speaker 2: been sexually assaulted. Both girls gave detailed accounts of the
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  Speaker 2: assaults to forensic interviewers. Based on those interviews and other evidence,
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  Speaker 2: a warrant was issued for Decour and he was booked
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  Speaker 2: into the Ascension Parish jail in September twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators discovered Decur had been exchanging leude pictures and text
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  Speaker 2: messages about the two students with a Galvez Middle employee,
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  Speaker 2: Heather French. In February of twenty twenty two. French was
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  Speaker 2: booked as an accessory after the fact to two ducounts
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  Speaker 2: of first degree rape involving a child under the age
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  Speaker 2: of thirteen, failure to report the commission of felonies, two
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  Speaker 2: counts of sex abuse material involving juveniles, in two counts
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  Speaker 2: of video voyeurism. French accepted a plea deal in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, reducing her charges to conspiring to commit indecent
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  Speaker 2: behavior with a juvenile. French was handed a seven year sentence,
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  Speaker 2: but served just two years behind bars, followed by three
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  Speaker 2: years of supervised release. In mandatory notification and registration as
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  Speaker 2: a sex offender. Decorp initially pleaded not guilty by reason
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  Speaker 2: of insanity, but his trial approached also entered a deal
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  Speaker 2: exchanging his plea for thirty years in the Louisiana Department
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  Speaker 2: of Corrections with credit for time served. He must also
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  Speaker 2: undergo surgical castration administered by a licensed physician through the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The punishment was written
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  Speaker 2: into Louisiana law in twenty twenty four, applicable to adult
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  Speaker 2: offenders convicted of aggravated sex crimes against a child under
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  Speaker 2: the age of thirteen. Act six point fifty one stipulates
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  Speaker 2: that if the convict refuses the surgery, they will spend
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  Speaker 2: an additional three to five years in prison without parole,
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  Speaker 2: probation or suspension of a sentence. Decor will be required
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  Speaker 2: to register as a sex offender upon his twenty fifty
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  Speaker 2: six release. For the latest crime and justice breaking news,
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  Speaker 2: be sure to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast
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  Speaker 2: app with this crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvanni.