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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:08Speaker 2: She's beautiful, she's brilliant, she is a hard working graduate,
- 0:16Speaker 2: and she's just nineteen.
- 0:20Speaker 1: This beautiful grad.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Nineteen years old, enjoying her very first apartment.
- 0:29Speaker 1: She's so proud, she enjoys it until a monster creeps in.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Good evening.
- 0:42Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to
- 0:45Speaker 2: thank you for being with us.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Oliah Kyle's a nineteen year old recent high school grad
- 0:50Speaker 3: with a promising future ahead of her, wishing to follow
- 0:52Speaker 3: in her sister's footsteps. Aliah is an ROTC, hopeful and
- 0:56Speaker 3: dedicated employee, but things take a sinister turn when neighbors
- 1:00Speaker 3: report a disturbance at Elijah's apartment.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Can you imagine this little girl, all proud of her
- 1:08Speaker 2: very first apartment until a figure clad entirely in black
- 1:14Speaker 2: sneaks into the garden. Joining me right now are two
- 1:19Speaker 2: very special guests. Let me introduce to you Anthony and
- 1:25Speaker 2: Mantina Kyles.
- 1:27Speaker 1: They are joining us from Memphis. Mister and missus Kyles,
- 1:31Speaker 1: thank you for being with us tonight.
- 1:36Speaker 2: I really don't know exactly where to start, because when
- 1:39Speaker 2: I first heard about your girl and I saw her picture, my.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Heart nearly broke.
- 1:48Speaker 2: How proud were you, missus Kyles on her graduation day.
- 1:53Speaker 4: I was so proud of her because she it was
- 1:57Speaker 4: she's my baby.
- 1:58Speaker 5: Of I have floor dear girls, and she was the baby.
- 2:02Speaker 4: And I was so proud that we was attending her graduation.
- 2:06Speaker 5: She was so ready get out.
- 2:09Speaker 4: Of school, and she was looking forward to moving through
- 2:14Speaker 4: a sister's flo steps and going.
- 2:16Speaker 5: To the army.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Now the sister was in the military. Correct, she was
- 2:22Speaker 2: considering following in her sister's footsteps. Now I'm looking at
- 2:26Speaker 2: that graduation photo, and I've just got to tell you
- 2:31Speaker 2: that it was the proudest day of my parents' life
- 2:35Speaker 2: when I graduated. I mean we, my brother, sister, and
- 2:42Speaker 2: I were first generation college grads. My dad worked on
- 2:46Speaker 2: the railroad Norfolk Southern. My mother worked her way up
- 2:50Speaker 2: from being a bank teller, and I remember my father
- 2:55Speaker 2: full on crying.
- 2:58Speaker 1: When I graduated. It was so proud when I.
- 3:02Speaker 2: Saw that picture of your girl, mister Kyles, Do you
- 3:06Speaker 2: remember that moment she graduated.
- 3:09Speaker 6: Yes, I was so proud of my daughter. You know,
- 3:13Speaker 6: she was looking forward to doing a lot and she
- 3:17Speaker 6: loved to work. She loved to work, and she wanted
- 3:22Speaker 6: to go to the service.
- 3:24Speaker 7: That was her nicked cole.
- 3:25Speaker 6: But I just hated I allow her, which I didn't
- 3:30Speaker 6: allow her to move.
- 3:31Speaker 7: She did it behind my back of getting all apartments.
- 3:35Speaker 6: I wasn't ready, and I just want you know, I
- 3:43Speaker 6: didn't want to say no. I wanted to give her
- 3:47Speaker 6: a space just so she can see a little bit
- 3:50Speaker 6: what's going on in life.
- 3:53Speaker 7: I think that was the worst mistake.
- 3:55Speaker 2: I mean, mister Kyles, you're right, because if you don't
- 4:00Speaker 2: let them go a little bit, then they rebel and
- 4:06Speaker 2: they could leave forever, or they could have a bad
- 4:08Speaker 2: reaction and everything goes sideways. I mean, you can't hold them.
- 4:13Speaker 2: And I'm having a hard time with that right now
- 4:16Speaker 2: because my twins are about to turn eighteen and they
- 4:20Speaker 2: want to do things, and I think if all the
- 4:22Speaker 2: dangers involved, but I have to bite the bullet and
- 4:26Speaker 2: let them do things.
- 4:30Speaker 1: You did the right thing. I hope you're not blaming.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Yourself, because everything that ever went wrong with me, my
- 4:37Speaker 2: mom and dad thought, oh, we should have fill in
- 4:40Speaker 2: the blank. So this little girl you said, she wanted
- 4:46Speaker 2: to go into the military. That was her dream.
- 4:50Speaker 7: She was going. She was on her way.
- 4:54Speaker 6: I was talking to her I was trying to get
- 4:56Speaker 6: her to come back home and she said, Okay, Dad,
- 4:58Speaker 6: I don't come on back home.
- 4:59Speaker 7: This was a month before.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Now what is this picture?
- 5:02Speaker 2: It was of her in like a beautiful red sequined
- 5:06Speaker 2: dress and she's wearing a crown.
- 5:08Speaker 7: What is that?
- 5:09Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 5:10Speaker 7: Well that no, the red dress.
- 5:16Speaker 8: She was.
- 5:18Speaker 7: Two three, Queen of Woodale.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Look at her. Note she was the queen of what.
- 5:24Speaker 7: Woodelle class of twenty three.
- 5:28Speaker 1: She's gorgeous. Where did she get that dress?
- 5:32Speaker 7: We got it made, right, Yeah, she got it made.
- 5:35Speaker 5: That was a prom dress.
- 5:37Speaker 2: I thought I was the only one that did that.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Mister and missus Kyle's where I grew up in rural
- 5:43Speaker 2: bid County. Hey, we can afford a prom dress like that.
- 5:47Speaker 2: We had to get it, go to cloth world.
- 5:50Speaker 1: And get the material and make the dress. That is amazing, amazing.
- 5:57Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking behind you at it looks like
- 6:02Speaker 2: a cutout of her.
- 6:04Speaker 1: What what is that behind you? Is that her?
- 6:07Speaker 5: It's it's a cut out.
- 6:10Speaker 7: And I got done.
- 6:14Speaker 4: When she passed and I had at the barrier it
- 6:17Speaker 4: us general room.
- 6:22Speaker 1: What did you say about burying her?
- 6:25Speaker 7: That's what That was a.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Cut out that we did and I had it at
- 6:30Speaker 4: bar Buria.
- 6:32Speaker 5: And from when they we got ready to bury on,
- 6:37Speaker 5: I put it up.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Miss Kyle's when did you learn.
- 6:43Speaker 2: That something horrible had happened to your baby girl?
- 6:47Speaker 5: I said, work.
- 6:49Speaker 4: I got a couple of phone calls from my oldest daughter,
- 6:53Speaker 4: and the phone kept hanging up, maybe two three times.
- 6:57Speaker 4: So I worked, I was at the time, and I
- 7:00Speaker 4: was working with Chick fil like, I just have to
- 7:02Speaker 4: be at work at five. So she kept calling and
- 7:07Speaker 4: the phone kept hanging up. So when I finally got
- 7:10Speaker 4: her on the phone, she was crying and she was
- 7:14Speaker 4: like mom, Lely Indeed, I said, what it's like, my
- 7:22Speaker 4: Lely did?
- 7:23Speaker 5: I was like shot, saying to come out.
- 7:26Speaker 4: So I screamed real loud, start shaking and went to
- 7:34Speaker 4: my car, got my stuff, went to my car, but
- 7:37Speaker 4: I couldn't crack my car up. It just I just
- 7:40Speaker 4: couldn't move, and I cried. I cried for maybe thirty
- 7:47Speaker 4: minutes before I could put their car and drive. From
- 7:51Speaker 4: that point, I called her dad, piled her other two
- 7:57Speaker 4: siblings and my aunt and just called them and so
- 8:03Speaker 4: we went out to our house on the scene. Once
- 8:14Speaker 4: we got there, of course crime scens there play police.
- 8:21Speaker 4: They wouldn't let us go towards her apartment.
- 8:25Speaker 5: So and that morning it was running very, very hard.
- 8:29Speaker 4: So we had to sit after maybe four hours before
- 8:32Speaker 4: they broke up.
- 8:33Speaker 5: All yell.
- 8:35Speaker 6: In the bag.
- 8:37Speaker 4: And there was the worst feeling to saw her being
- 8:45Speaker 4: rolled out her apartment. Did she really loved being there,
- 8:51Speaker 4: but to see her roll out on this, on this stretcher,
- 8:58Speaker 4: it took up. Its just my life. It's not been
- 9:01Speaker 4: inside it took It's just something took all of mine.
- 9:06Speaker 4: The life I have on the inside out is.
- 9:11Speaker 6: Not the same.
- 9:12Speaker 5: Is the way of life.
- 9:15Speaker 4: The feeling to wake up, the pine, the hurt, the
- 9:19Speaker 4: missing her, and she was my kid that always mom,
- 9:27Speaker 4: what you cook. I'm gonna gonna get something I want
- 9:30Speaker 4: to I want some chips, and I want spaghetti, I
- 9:33Speaker 4: want some dressing.
- 9:34Speaker 5: I'm gonna come help you do it.
- 9:36Speaker 4: And so this holiday after she was murdered in July,
- 9:41Speaker 4: so when Thanksgiving came, it was hard. Christmas it was
- 9:44Speaker 4: hard because around those days all the time, she will come,
- 9:49Speaker 4: I'm gonna cut up the onion and bell pepper for.
- 9:51Speaker 5: The dressing and spaghetti. She's always in the kitchen to
- 9:54Speaker 5: help you. Love to eat, and she'll tell you.
- 9:58Speaker 2: I mean, I ain't been did you do you make
- 10:00Speaker 2: special things for her to eat as a way to
- 10:04Speaker 2: get her to come over.
- 10:06Speaker 5: I didn't have to. I have to do the same.
- 10:07Speaker 5: I'm cooking, and they I'll come. I like it. They'd
- 10:11Speaker 5: be like, Mam, what you're doing? I said, no, I
- 10:13Speaker 5: just got through cooking.
- 10:14Speaker 7: What you cook?
- 10:14Speaker 5: Once I say what I cook, say on their way.
- 10:17Speaker 2: I do the same exact thing when my children leave
- 10:22Speaker 2: for school in the morre, I tell them we're making whatever.
- 10:26Speaker 2: I'm making, chicken and dressing or whatever. I'm making things
- 10:31Speaker 2: that I know they're gonna lie. I'm like, I come
- 10:34Speaker 2: home straight from school now because the house is gonna
- 10:37Speaker 2: smell good.
- 10:38Speaker 1: They do.
- 10:42Speaker 2: Mister Kyle's when did you learn? What were you doing?
- 10:48Speaker 2: When did you learn about what happened? And when you
- 10:52Speaker 2: first learned that she had passed? Could you imagine someone
- 10:57Speaker 2: had actually broke in her little apartment and killed her?
- 11:04Speaker 2: Did that possibility cross your mind at the beginning?
- 11:08Speaker 7: Well, I wasn't for sure what happened.
- 11:11Speaker 6: But when I first heard my mom gave me a call,
- 11:17Speaker 6: and I can hear it just like it happened yesterday,
- 11:25Speaker 6: her crying and telling me I really don't want to
- 11:29Speaker 6: repeat what she said, but just some words really just
- 11:35Speaker 6: hurt me to my heart. To keep then think about
- 11:38Speaker 6: my baby being gone. I was devastated. I've never been
- 11:44Speaker 6: heard it, but that's.
- 11:48Speaker 7: The only thing that really broke me down. I never
- 11:56Speaker 7: I don't think I ever be the same again. That
- 12:01Speaker 7: was my baby girl.
- 12:02Speaker 6: She was she was my everything, you know, and from
- 12:08Speaker 6: the time that we separated and and she stayed with me.
- 12:19Speaker 6: It's just it's just hard could deal with her being
- 12:22Speaker 6: gone and trying to keep my life going and oh
- 12:29Speaker 6: scuriously Brandon.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Around three am on Tuesday morning, July ninth, a resident
- 12:34Speaker 3: at the Boulevard hears gunshots and sees a man dressed
- 12:37Speaker 3: in all black running from an apartment next door. She
- 12:39Speaker 3: calls nine to one one to report the shooting, but
- 12:42Speaker 3: can't get the operator any more details about the suspected shooter.
- 12:50Speaker 2: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed
- 12:54Speaker 2: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,
- 13:01Speaker 2: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed
- 13:05Speaker 2: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what
- 13:09Speaker 2: happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice.
- 13:16Speaker 2: For an in depth look at the facts, see what
- 13:21Speaker 2: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National
- 13:27Speaker 2: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
- 13:31Speaker 3: Eleiah Kyles is a nineteen year old teen from Memphis
- 13:34Speaker 3: and recent high school grad But police are called to
- 13:37Speaker 3: the scene when a worrying disturbance is reported at Eliah's
- 13:40Speaker 3: apartment and a man clad in all black is spotted
- 13:44Speaker 3: fleeing from the scene.
- 13:45Speaker 2: I mean, right there, a man clad in all black.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Chris McDonough joining me a director Cole Case Foundation, but
- 13:55Speaker 2: for my purposes. Former homicide detective has worked hundreds, literally
- 14:01Speaker 2: hundreds of homicides. You can find him on his YouTube channel,
- 14:06Speaker 2: The Interview Room.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Chris McDonough.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Much like the case you and I have been investigating
- 14:13Speaker 2: Brian Coberger charged in the slay of four Idaho students.
- 14:17Speaker 2: When you have a purp show up in a clad
- 14:22Speaker 2: in all black sneaking around the outside of someone's apartment,
- 14:29Speaker 2: it clearly shows premeditation. Don't you agree? It's not like
- 14:34Speaker 2: this just happened. He entered this apartment complex, which by
- 14:39Speaker 2: the way, has a horrible track record.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Hold on, let me pull this up.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Chris, between nineteen and twenty four five homicides, eighty five
- 14:54Speaker 2: agg assaults, two hundred twenty four assaults, Arson's burglary, vandalism.
- 15:01Speaker 2: It's too long for me to read. But when you
- 15:04Speaker 2: look at the apartments. When you look at them, they
- 15:08Speaker 2: are the boulevard apartments on Bald Eagle Drive, they look beautiful.
- 15:14Speaker 2: There is if we could pull up the pictures of
- 15:16Speaker 2: the apartments, beautiful manicured lawns. They've gone to trouble to
- 15:24Speaker 2: have it landscaped with gorgeous vegetation. Parking lot perfect there is.
- 15:32Speaker 2: There are security lights outside. Everybody gets to has their
- 15:35Speaker 2: own spot to park so they can go straight into
- 15:38Speaker 2: their apartment.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I guess they didn't say anything to this little girl,
- 15:44Speaker 1: Aliyah Chiles when.
- 15:46Speaker 2: She rented her very first apartment there about the crime record,
- 15:50Speaker 2: but I'll get three inches up their tailpipe in a moment.
- 15:53Speaker 2: I want to deal with someone coming to the scene
- 15:56Speaker 2: allegedly like Brian Coburger, sneaking around, skulking around clad in
- 16:02Speaker 2: all black in his case, even wearing a balla clava
- 16:05Speaker 2: over his face like a ski mask. I mean it
- 16:08Speaker 2: shows premeditation.
- 16:09Speaker 9: Absolutely, Nancy.
- 16:11Speaker 10: I mean this is this is every parent's worst nightmare,
- 16:15Speaker 10: that the Kyles are experiencing a wolf in sheep's clothing.
- 16:22Speaker 10: I e the den the apartment complex, and this is
- 16:26Speaker 10: an apex predator. This guy came to.
- 16:28Speaker 9: That apartment with one in ten and that was to
- 16:32Speaker 9: victimize this sweet child and then ultimately take her life.
- 16:37Speaker 1: It's disgusting.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Joining me, Sidney Sumner, Crime Stories, investigative reporter, Sidney, what
- 16:42Speaker 2: do we know about the night that this little girl
- 16:46Speaker 2: was murdered in her own apartment?
- 16:49Speaker 11: And see, what we know about that night is that
- 16:52Speaker 11: Aliyah was minding her own business. She was in her
- 16:55Speaker 11: apartment doing her thing. It was just after three am.
- 16:59Speaker 11: She was proud asleep when someone broken to her apartment
- 17:04Speaker 11: through a broken window. Somebody entered her apartment through that
- 17:09Speaker 11: broken window, you hear multiple gunshots. A neighbor overheard the gunshots,
- 17:16Speaker 11: called nine one one and watches as possibly the shooter
- 17:20Speaker 11: runs out of her front door.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Guys, we learn more from Memphis police. Listen.
- 17:26Speaker 12: Memphis police arrive and find the door to Eliah Kyles's
- 17:30Speaker 12: apartment thrown open. Inside, nothing immediately seems out of place,
- 17:35Speaker 12: but officers discover a gruesome scene in the bathroom. Aliah
- 17:39Speaker 12: Kyles is lying dead in her bathtub. Aliyah is naked
- 17:44Speaker 12: and has multiple gunshot wounds. Police determine her killer gained
- 17:49Speaker 12: access to her apartment through a window with a broken log.
- 17:53Speaker 12: The medical examiner later determines Aliyah had been raped.
- 17:58Speaker 4: She should have more time she was on nineteen from
- 18:01Speaker 4: our friends at w R e G.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Three.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Mister Tyles, when did you learn the extent of the
- 18:07Speaker 2: injuries to your daughter?
- 18:10Speaker 6: We found out about it when he was able to.
- 18:13Speaker 6: We already knew it was a gunshot. We knew some
- 18:17Speaker 6: knew she had got shot, but not knowing where she
- 18:20Speaker 6: got shot at until we had a chance to get
- 18:24Speaker 6: to see her. And the octos had also told us
- 18:28Speaker 6: a lot about what went off.
- 18:30Speaker 2: What did you learn from the autopsy, mister Kyles?
- 18:34Speaker 6: I learned that my baby had been shot and the
- 18:37Speaker 6: shes and he had found out that he raped my baby.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Who did this thing to this beautiful young girl? Why
- 18:49Speaker 2: did her parents have to get a call that their
- 18:53Speaker 2: daughter was found unclothed, bleeding out in the bathtub of
- 19:01Speaker 2: her very first apartment, then to add insult to injury,
- 19:07Speaker 2: to learn that this girl had been raped?
- 19:13Speaker 1: Why? Why did this happen?
- 19:18Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner joining us, explain to me how this I.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Don't even know what to call him other than a monster.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Dressed all in black sneaks into her apartment, clearly with
- 19:33Speaker 2: the intent to rape her.
- 19:35Speaker 1: How did he get in? What happened?
- 19:38Speaker 2: For instance, Sidney Sumner, did Alia live on a ground floor?
- 19:43Speaker 11: Yes she did, Nancy, she lived on the ground floor.
- 19:45Speaker 2: And was there something wrong with her window, probably unbeknownst
- 19:50Speaker 2: to her.
- 19:50Speaker 11: Yes, that window was broken. That's what police found when
- 19:53Speaker 11: they searched her apartment that night.
- 19:55Speaker 2: So all it would have required is someone going up
- 19:59Speaker 2: to that round floor window and just basically climbing in.
- 20:05Speaker 11: That's exactly what happened.
- 20:06Speaker 2: Was there video surveillance our police security guards walking the
- 20:10Speaker 2: apartment complex, Sydney Summer.
- 20:12Speaker 1: I guess not.
- 20:13Speaker 11: No, no surveillance footage of this incident, and the apartment
- 20:17Speaker 11: complex plane claims they have patrol units, but apparently no
- 20:22Speaker 11: one was around that night.
- 20:24Speaker 3: Eleah Kyles is found shot dead and naked in the
- 20:27Speaker 3: bathtub of her new apartment. Authorities are on the hunt
- 20:30Speaker 3: for her killer, who shot and assaulted the nineteen year
- 20:33Speaker 3: old Memphis girl.
- 20:35Speaker 1: We want justice for this teen girl.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Joining me with an All Star panel, her parents and
- 20:41Speaker 2: the family lawyer. High profile lawyer joining us as Beranza King.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Miss King, thank you for being with us, Miss King.
- 20:52Speaker 2: I'm very curious what you have learned. I've read your
- 20:56Speaker 2: massive civil lawsuit against the apartment, but what have you
- 21:01Speaker 2: learned after.
- 21:02Speaker 1: Careful reading of the autopsy report?
- 21:06Speaker 13: Yes, Nancy, thank you again for having us and for
- 21:08Speaker 13: sharing Aliah's story with the world. So this is still
- 21:12Speaker 13: an ongoing investigation, and within the last couple of weeks
- 21:16Speaker 13: we've learned new information. But when we did receive the
- 21:19Speaker 13: autopsy report, we did learn that Aliyah was shot twice,
- 21:24Speaker 13: once in the chest and once in the head, and
- 21:28Speaker 13: we also learned that she put up a fight. That
- 21:31Speaker 13: this was not something that you know, went down easily.
- 21:37Speaker 13: She put up a fight, there was evidence of some bruising,
- 21:41Speaker 13: and then we also learned recently that she was raped
- 21:44Speaker 13: by the assailant.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Joining me is a special guest to support the kyles
- 21:49Speaker 2: is Esperanza King. She's a high profile lawyer and founder
- 21:53Speaker 2: of EA King Law there in Memphis. Let me go
- 21:57Speaker 2: to doctor Thomas con joining US Chief Medical Examiner District
- 22:03Speaker 2: to Medical Examiner's Office in the State of Florida forensic
- 22:07Speaker 2: pathologist and neuropathologist, toxicologist. It goes on, doctor Coin, thank
- 22:12Speaker 2: you for being with us, Doctor Coin, you have performed
- 22:16Speaker 2: literally thousands, thousands of autopsies. Now, depending on the timing
- 22:24Speaker 2: of the gunshot wounds, it is very possible we've got
- 22:31Speaker 2: a shot to the chest and a shot to the
- 22:35Speaker 2: head on this teen girl.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Isn't it true?
- 22:38Speaker 2: Doctor coinne that if she was shot in the chest first,
- 22:43Speaker 2: she would have lied in that bathtub knowing what was
- 22:50Speaker 2: happening to her. We know she put up a fight,
- 22:54Speaker 2: a fight for her life.
- 22:56Speaker 1: When you hear.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Attorney Esperanza King described defensive wounds and bruising, what does
- 23:03Speaker 2: that mean? That means she's very likely got wounds to
- 23:07Speaker 2: the outside of her arms and hands.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Maybe her nails are torn off.
- 23:13Speaker 2: There is probably bruising on her arms where she was grabbed.
- 23:17Speaker 2: She was unclothed, Doctor Coin, that wasn't done easily. You'll
- 23:22Speaker 2: think this girl fought back to some intruder clad in
- 23:26Speaker 2: solid black trying.
- 23:27Speaker 1: To take her clothes off. Oh hg ln Oh.
- 23:32Speaker 2: This girl thought she knew what was happening to her,
- 23:36Speaker 2: and if she was shot in the chest first.
- 23:39Speaker 1: She very likely knew she was dying, doctor Coin.
- 23:43Speaker 8: If the wounds of the chest came first, and it
- 23:45Speaker 8: did not strike the heart, but did strike you know,
- 23:48Speaker 8: a major arterial structure, she could have lost a significant
- 23:51Speaker 8: amount of blood and probably had upwards of a few
- 23:55Speaker 8: minutes or perhaps even a minute of consciousness before a
- 24:00Speaker 8: significant amount of what to her head was lost. But
- 24:04Speaker 8: with regards to defensive wounds and such, the autopsy report
- 24:08Speaker 8: or the autopsy position would have described all of the wounds, bruises,
- 24:14Speaker 8: injuries to our body to our extremities. Defensive wounds are
- 24:17Speaker 8: those which we see on the backs of the hands,
- 24:20Speaker 8: on the forearms, which indicate that a person is trying
- 24:23Speaker 8: to parry a blow while being attacked. Of course, obviously
- 24:28Speaker 8: the head wound would have been the fatal wound. I
- 24:30Speaker 8: don't know when that occurred. With regards to the order of.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Injuries, Doctor Thomas Coin, wouldn't you agree that shooting someone
- 24:38Speaker 2: in the head is what we call execution style?
- 24:44Speaker 1: Would you agree with that, Yes, it's a fatal wound.
- 24:47Speaker 2: And what do you mean, doctor Coin, when you use
- 24:52Speaker 2: the phraseology execution style.
- 24:54Speaker 8: Well, generally, any wound that is intended to be a
- 24:59Speaker 8: fatal wound, and so of course any gunshot wound to
- 25:03Speaker 8: the head will be immediately fatal.
- 25:05Speaker 2: To Coin, would it matter to you if you found
- 25:10Speaker 2: stippling or gunshot residue around the gunshot wound to the head.
- 25:18Speaker 8: Yes, that is how we determine a range of fire.
- 25:23Speaker 8: And so when we are examining a gunshot wound, first
- 25:26Speaker 8: and foremosts we have to make the determination is this
- 25:28Speaker 8: an entrance wound versus an exit wound? But there are
- 25:31Speaker 8: certain features of a wound that allow us to determine
- 25:35Speaker 8: whether a wound was perhaps contact distance, or whether it
- 25:40Speaker 8: was within close range. And so, as a bullet exits
- 25:44Speaker 8: the muzzle of the gun, with it comes gunpowder residue
- 25:49Speaker 8: and soot, and that is traveling in a high velocity,
- 25:52Speaker 8: will strike the skin, producing very punk tate or tiny abrasions,
- 25:56Speaker 8: which we call sipling or tattooing tattooing because that carbon
- 26:01Speaker 8: will actually get deposited in the skin much like a tattoo.
- 26:04Speaker 7: And when we see that.
- 26:06Speaker 8: That indicates to us that the person shooting the victim
- 26:11Speaker 8: was within three feet of.
- 26:12Speaker 1: Distance, Doctor Coin.
- 26:15Speaker 2: Gunshot residue alone, which is like a fine powder, can
- 26:20Speaker 2: be left behind thirty six inches or less. If the
- 26:24Speaker 2: gun is thirty six inches away from the body or less,
- 26:28Speaker 2: isn't that true?
- 26:30Speaker 7: That's correct?
- 26:32Speaker 1: Okay, But if you've got stipling.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Stipling as you describe a tattooing on the skin that
- 26:40Speaker 2: comes from the gun being much closer to the victim,
- 26:46Speaker 2: doesn't end.
- 26:47Speaker 8: Yes, we can see stippling up to three feet from
- 26:50Speaker 8: the skin surface. The pattern of sipling indicates also how close, right,
- 26:56Speaker 8: So if the stippling is much close together, you know,
- 27:00Speaker 8: or densely populated around the actual entrance, it will suggest
- 27:04Speaker 8: the s that the project that the gun was much
- 27:07Speaker 8: closer to the skin, let's say a foot or less.
- 27:10Speaker 8: As you get further from the skin, up to a
- 27:12Speaker 8: distance of three feet, that stippling will be more widespread.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Doctor Coin.
- 27:17Speaker 2: When you refer to a gunshot wound as a contact wound,
- 27:21Speaker 2: how do you identify a contact wound and what does
- 27:26Speaker 2: that mean?
- 27:26Speaker 8: Sure, a contact wound indicates that the gun was held
- 27:30Speaker 8: against the skin when it was fired, and you will
- 27:33Speaker 8: see telltale features of a contact, especially that on the
- 27:37Speaker 8: head because the skin is directly against the skull, and
- 27:40Speaker 8: so as the bullet exits the gun, all of that
- 27:43Speaker 8: gas that soot goes underneath the skin and will expand outward,
- 27:47Speaker 8: and it can create a large stelliate or star like
- 27:51Speaker 8: wound pattern on the actual skin. You will also see
- 27:56Speaker 8: all of that soot deposited immediately within the tissues, allowing
- 28:01Speaker 8: us to say this was a contact wound, and you
- 28:03Speaker 8: may also see features like a muzzle imprint if the
- 28:07Speaker 8: gun was pressed very hardly against the skin when fired.
- 28:09Speaker 14: Police initially do not have any suspects, asking the public
- 28:13Speaker 14: for tips to help solve the case. Aliah's heartbroken family
- 28:16Speaker 14: calls for answers and justice. Devastated that Aliah's life has
- 28:19Speaker 14: been ripped away from her just as it began, the
- 28:22Speaker 14: family begins to speculate as to who could do this
- 28:25Speaker 14: to their loving, outgoing and happy, go lucky Aliyah.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Elia's family wants justice after their nineteen year old daughter
- 28:38Speaker 3: is shot dead in her own apartment. A lawsuit file
- 28:41Speaker 3: shows Alia's apartment complex reported five homicides, two hundred and
- 28:44Speaker 3: twenty four assaults, two kidnappings, over one hundred and fifty burglaries,
- 28:49Speaker 3: thefts and robberies, and many other crimes in the span
- 28:53Speaker 3: of just five.
- 28:54Speaker 2: Years straight out to mister and missus Kyles, Anthony Kyles
- 29:00Speaker 2: and Martina Kyles. I'm very curious when you began to
- 29:06Speaker 2: speculate as to who could have done this to Elijah?
- 29:10Speaker 2: What went through your mind?
- 29:11Speaker 1: What were you thinking?
- 29:12Speaker 7: A lot of things was going through my.
- 29:15Speaker 6: At the time. I couldn't trust nobody.
- 29:18Speaker 15: I just.
- 29:20Speaker 6: Stayed to myself A lot had a lot of things
- 29:23Speaker 6: going through my head. What could have happened? Who done it?
- 29:26Speaker 5: And work for?
- 29:27Speaker 2: What did you think, Martina, missus Kyles, what went through
- 29:31Speaker 2: your mind as you try to figure out who would
- 29:34Speaker 2: have done this?
- 29:35Speaker 15: What went through my mind? The only thing that kept
- 29:40Speaker 15: going through my mind when I happened was who did
- 29:44Speaker 15: And my prayer from the day she got killed murdered
- 29:50Speaker 15: up until maybe two three weeks ago, my prayers to God,
- 29:55Speaker 15: will our way, God let me know. I want to
- 29:58Speaker 15: know who did.
- 30:00Speaker 6: I want to know.
- 30:01Speaker 15: I didn't want it to take so long and to
- 30:04Speaker 15: go years. Our way great every night, I just want
- 30:10Speaker 15: to know.
- 30:10Speaker 2: We did Thy joining me is doctor Jory l Across
- 30:15Speaker 2: and renounced psychologist's faculty Saint Leo University.
- 30:19Speaker 1: Doctor Jory, thank you for being with us.
- 30:21Speaker 2: You've heard Aliah's father say, what could I have done?
- 30:27Speaker 1: Was this my fault. Did I do the wrong thing.
- 30:31Speaker 2: That's a type of survivor guilt where you blame yourself
- 30:36Speaker 2: because the one you love the most has been killed, and.
- 30:40Speaker 1: The interminable wondering what.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Happened, just having a few pieces of the puzzle, trying
- 30:48Speaker 2: to put it together and figure out what happened that night.
- 30:52Speaker 1: It's awful for crime victims. Dtr Jory.
- 30:55Speaker 16: Yes, that's the I won't say normal reaction, but that
- 30:59Speaker 16: is the reaction of a parent, especially a father. I
- 31:03Speaker 16: lost my son. It was the same thing. I failed
- 31:05Speaker 16: there to protect him, you know, And even though the circumstances,
- 31:09Speaker 16: once they come out, you see that this was just
- 31:12Speaker 16: a pure act of evil, and you know, there was
- 31:16Speaker 16: nothing there really that could have been prevented from the
- 31:20Speaker 16: parental perspective as protecting her. You train your child how
- 31:25Speaker 16: to secure the house and all of that, but those
- 31:29Speaker 16: were overcome by this evil individual that broke in and
- 31:32Speaker 16: killed her.
- 31:33Speaker 1: And then a break in the case. A week after
- 31:35Speaker 1: the shooting, Memphis police questioned.
- 31:37Speaker 17: A seventeen year old suspect about his whereabouts the night
- 31:40Speaker 17: of Eleah Kyle's murder. Initially reluctant to answer, he eventually
- 31:45Speaker 17: confesses he raped and killed Aliyah. He biked to Aleah's
- 31:48Speaker 17: apartment complex, had no trouble breaking into her apartment through
- 31:52Speaker 17: a window, then ran back to his bike before police arrived.
- 31:56Speaker 2: To high profile lawyer Esperanza King helping the Kyles. What
- 32:02Speaker 2: led police to this seventeen year old now almost eighteen
- 32:06Speaker 2: year old.
- 32:07Speaker 13: Man, Nancy. It's still an ongoing investigation. We learned just
- 32:11Speaker 13: a few weeks ago. At this point, it's been almost
- 32:14Speaker 13: seven eight months since Aliah passed, and we just learned
- 32:18Speaker 13: that they were able to catch this juvenile. So we
- 32:22Speaker 13: are waiting to hear more about this. We hope to
- 32:25Speaker 13: learn more in the coming weeks as more information comes
- 32:29Speaker 13: comes from the.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Police, Miss King.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Before I went on to superior court trying adults, I
- 32:38Speaker 2: did a stint in juvie court. Isn't it true that
- 32:42Speaker 2: juvenile felony records are kept a secret?
- 32:45Speaker 1: Isn't that true? Yes, Miss King?
- 32:47Speaker 2: Isn't it true that we have learned this suspect has
- 32:52Speaker 2: been charged with sex assaults, specifically rape, in the past.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Isn't that true?
- 32:58Speaker 13: We're still learning, so we're still waiting to hear all
- 33:01Speaker 13: the information about this juvenile.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Cidy summer joining US Crime Stories reporter. Isn't it true
- 33:07Speaker 2: that there are several arrests and charges of a sex nature,
- 33:12Speaker 2: of predatory sex nature in this suspect's.
- 33:16Speaker 11: Past according to several sources. Yes, that is true. We
- 33:20Speaker 11: do not have official record of this as the perf
- 33:24Speaker 11: the suspect is a minor, but that's what several sources
- 33:27Speaker 11: have revealed, Nancy.
- 33:30Speaker 2: So if that's true, and of course his name is
- 33:33Speaker 2: being kept a secret, his record is being kept a secret.
- 33:37Speaker 1: What about her? What about Aliyah? What about your daughter?
- 33:43Speaker 1: Miss Kyles?
- 33:45Speaker 2: If this is true, If these allegations are true, it
- 33:49Speaker 2: means that this predator dressed in black, had already gotten
- 33:56Speaker 2: out on multiple sex attacks. If this is true, and
- 34:00Speaker 2: was skulking around outside your girl's window.
- 34:05Speaker 1: He went straight to it.
- 34:06Speaker 2: That tells me that he had already cased it, had
- 34:09Speaker 2: already seen it. He had probably seen her. How did
- 34:13Speaker 2: he know she was in there? It was three o'clock
- 34:16Speaker 2: in the morning. You know, she had her blinds and
- 34:18Speaker 2: curtains pulled. How did he know unless he had been
- 34:22Speaker 2: not been watching her before that? He went straight to
- 34:25Speaker 2: her place, dressed in all black and broke in. He
- 34:28Speaker 2: sex assaulted her and shot her multiple times, including in
- 34:33Speaker 2: her forehead right here in the forehead execution style.
- 34:38Speaker 1: This perp had been let go before. That is wrong,
- 34:45Speaker 1: Miss Kyles.
- 34:46Speaker 15: I agree, I'm there. It's like I we went to
- 34:52Speaker 15: court yesterday and it's like all their same protecting him
- 34:56Speaker 15: because he's a mind of everything about for kicking him.
- 35:00Speaker 5: Ill monsters was out.
- 35:04Speaker 2: Can I tell you something, Miss Kyles, At seventeen years old,
- 35:09Speaker 2: my father had already lied to the Navy and was
- 35:12Speaker 2: halfway around the world on a fighter ship.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Okay, so I don't even want to hear this.
- 35:19Speaker 2: Miners under our constitution can be treated as an adult. No,
- 35:26Speaker 2: we don't throw them behind bars with adult males. They
- 35:29Speaker 2: stay in GV jail until they're eighteen to twenty one.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Then they go into the system.
- 35:36Speaker 2: But this is not his first time as a felon,
- 35:40Speaker 2: as a predator.
- 35:42Speaker 1: If these reports are true, this is not some baby
- 35:46Speaker 1: at the ice cream shop. Fat Did you see him
- 35:50Speaker 1: in court? Did you see him.
- 35:52Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am?
- 35:54Speaker 6: Indeed, what does.
- 35:55Speaker 1: He look like? Is he tall? Is he skinny? Is
- 35:59Speaker 1: he pitiful looking? What does he look like?
- 36:03Speaker 16: Look?
- 36:04Speaker 15: Guy, gott.
- 36:07Speaker 6: Don't look groomed.
- 36:08Speaker 15: Groomed groomed up at all, looked like somebody gets out
- 36:13Speaker 15: of here, or don't mind about taking people live, young
- 36:17Speaker 15: girl life.
- 36:18Speaker 1: What did he look at you? Did he look at
- 36:21Speaker 1: you in court?
- 36:23Speaker 2: No?
- 36:23Speaker 6: Man, No, ma'am, you wouldn't look. He would not And
- 36:29Speaker 6: he came.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Into that courtroom, did he even look over at y'all?
- 36:33Speaker 6: You wouldn't look. He wouldn't look.
- 36:34Speaker 1: No, ma'am, you are bringing back a very bad memory
- 36:37Speaker 1: for me.
- 36:38Speaker 2: My first first exposure to a court of law was
- 36:42Speaker 2: this a witness in my fiance's a murder case. And
- 36:45Speaker 2: when I came down off that witness stand, I didn't
- 36:47Speaker 2: even know what was going on. I walked by the
- 36:50Speaker 2: defendant and he looked down, and I looked at his lawyers.
- 36:55Speaker 2: They all looked down. They wouldn't even look at me.
- 36:58Speaker 1: Is that what he did in court?
- 37:00Speaker 15: Yes, mayam?
- 37:02Speaker 9: Yes? Maya.
- 37:05Speaker 14: Aliah Leeley Kyles nineteen is born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 37:09Speaker 14: She's the baby of the family with three older sisters.
- 37:12Speaker 14: Aliah is full of dreams and has a bright future ahead,
- 37:15Speaker 14: just graduating from Wooddale High School. While Aliah is considering
- 37:19Speaker 14: following in her sister's footsteps and joining the military, for now,
- 37:23Speaker 14: she's focused on striking out on her own. Aliah takes
- 37:26Speaker 14: a job at a restaurant while also working on a
- 37:28Speaker 14: small business selling handmade candles. Aliah is also living on
- 37:32Speaker 14: her own for the first time, settling into her new
- 37:34Speaker 14: apartment at the Boulevard.
- 37:36Speaker 2: Straight Out to veteran homicide detective now star of the
- 37:39Speaker 2: Interview Room on YouTube, my longtime friend and colleague Chris mcdona. Chris,
- 37:45Speaker 2: do you ever just get weary, I mean bone weary
- 37:51Speaker 2: when I hear the kyles tell me he wouldn't even
- 37:55Speaker 2: look at them in the courtroom and his mother wouldn't
- 37:58Speaker 2: even look at them at the court room.
- 38:01Speaker 1: I know why, But.
- 38:05Speaker 2: Chris, according to these reports, he's done this over and
- 38:09Speaker 2: over and over in multiple ways, whether it's breaking in,
- 38:14Speaker 2: sex attacks, you name it. It just it's exhausting, and
- 38:20Speaker 2: now the childs are paying the price.
- 38:23Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, Nancy, it's disgusting.
- 38:25Speaker 18: I mean, here we have a young girl who's about
- 38:30Speaker 18: ready to take on the world and become and become
- 38:34Speaker 18: a military veteran at the same time, and yet she's
- 38:38Speaker 18: completely unaware that there's a hunter, a predatorial hunter for
- 38:43Speaker 18: sexual desire, hunting her down and the fact that he
- 38:48Speaker 18: broke into her house, rapes her, maybe in.
- 38:51Speaker 9: One room, and then does he move her into the
- 38:55Speaker 9: bathtub for the coupdi gras.
- 38:58Speaker 19: I mean, this is a moral problem that we're having
- 39:03Speaker 19: a society, and no parent should ever experience this.
- 39:09Speaker 2: Ever, Doctor Coin, you have read the autopsy report, as
- 39:14Speaker 2: have I, and I would like to direct your attention
- 39:16Speaker 2: to the perforating gunshot wound in the victim's head. Look
- 39:23Speaker 2: at her picture and imagine a gunshot entrance wound to
- 39:29Speaker 2: the left of her forehead, one half inch to the
- 39:36Speaker 2: left of the center.
- 39:38Speaker 1: Above her nose.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Notice the angle, doctor Coin, the trajectory path.
- 39:50Speaker 1: What did you learn from that?
- 39:54Speaker 7: Well, it's front to back and downwards.
- 39:56Speaker 8: So it tells me that number one, the perpetrator was
- 40:00Speaker 8: facing the victim at the time and more than likely
- 40:03Speaker 8: standing above her, giving that downward trajectory as a projectile passed.
- 40:09Speaker 16: Through the head.
- 40:09Speaker 2: McDonough, Do you hear what Coin just said? Do you
- 40:12Speaker 2: know what that means?
- 40:14Speaker 1: That means as this little girl.
- 40:19Speaker 2: Lying in the tub wearing nothing but a little orange
- 40:23Speaker 2: T shirt. By his own admission, he raped her. That's
- 40:27Speaker 2: why she doesn't have on underwear pants after shooting her
- 40:31Speaker 2: in the chest, stood over her, and shot this girl,
- 40:37Speaker 2: this beautiful girl, in the head.
- 40:41Speaker 1: Did you hear what doctor Coin said?
- 40:44Speaker 7: Absolutely?
- 40:45Speaker 9: And does this not even confirm for us that this
- 40:50Speaker 9: individual has no feeling for humanity. The fact that this
- 40:56Speaker 9: young girl is looking up at that gun and pointing
- 41:01Speaker 9: at her and for sure saw the flash of that muzzle.
- 41:05Speaker 2: Mister and missus Kyles, these are the facts that must
- 41:11Speaker 2: be presented to a jury. This cannot result in a
- 41:17Speaker 2: cheap plea. According to these reports, he's had many, many chances.
- 41:22Speaker 1: To turn his life around.
- 41:26Speaker 2: I feel horrible going through these facts with you listening.
- 41:32Speaker 2: I would never let parents sit in the courtroom unless
- 41:35Speaker 2: they insisted on it when I discuss autopsy reports. But
- 41:40Speaker 2: I know it's nothing you haven't already dreamed about, had
- 41:46Speaker 2: nightmares about Miss Kyles.
- 41:48Speaker 1: Ma'am sorry that every.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Time you talk about this you have to relive what
- 41:54Speaker 2: happened to Aliah. What is your message for the justice
- 42:01Speaker 2: system and to other parents tonight?
- 42:04Speaker 15: I wouldn't want any parents to fill this hurts because
- 42:09Speaker 15: then was very simple. My daughter worked hard, she was
- 42:14Speaker 15: loving her apartments, work two jobs, she.
- 42:20Speaker 5: Loves her nieces and next fews, she just.
- 42:22Speaker 6: The life of the family. Uh, I will.
- 42:26Speaker 15: We'll never get to see her coming through the door
- 42:31Speaker 15: with their lovely smile. What's y'all door?
- 42:34Speaker 5: What y'all's finna eat?
- 42:35Speaker 15: What we gonna eat?
- 42:36Speaker 6: Who cook?
- 42:37Speaker 18: It?
- 42:38Speaker 1: Just want?
- 42:38Speaker 16: I will?
- 42:39Speaker 11: I'm just everything about her.
- 42:41Speaker 6: She was a sweet It was my sweet little girl.
- 42:45Speaker 6: It was my baby. Love their mouths.
- 42:50Speaker 5: It hurts.
- 42:51Speaker 15: I'd be trying to be so strong, but sometimes it's
- 42:57Speaker 15: a lot of times when I get home from work
- 42:59Speaker 15: and I just sit here and not think about my baby.
- 43:03Speaker 15: I talk to God. I get asked us for strength,
- 43:06Speaker 15: but I am so sad and hurt. It's like my
- 43:10Speaker 15: life is not to sign anymore. I'm a chine. My
- 43:14Speaker 15: life is not. I don't life not to sign. It's
- 43:19Speaker 15: not every day insight on life, and how I feel just.
- 43:24Speaker 6: A hurt that I have to walk around.
- 43:28Speaker 15: And you know, try to act like everything signed.
- 43:33Speaker 11: It's not.
- 43:34Speaker 6: It's not sign it out.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Mister Tyles, Mister Tyles, what is your message for the
- 43:41Speaker 2: justice system and for other parents tonight?
- 43:45Speaker 7: We do want justice and.
- 43:49Speaker 6: They couldn't have come no quickly. Our daughter was a
- 43:53Speaker 6: light life by a life, and it's just been real
- 43:57Speaker 6: from us. But one thing I do liked. Thank God,
- 44:02Speaker 6: we're giving us the justice and we can't do nothing
- 44:05Speaker 6: but continue to pray and try to come together as
- 44:09Speaker 6: a family until we get healed.
- 44:10Speaker 2: Joining me Anthony and Mantina Kyles seeking justice for their
- 44:16Speaker 2: daughter Aliah.
- 44:18Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds.
- 44:20Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about the
- 44:25Speaker 2: brutal death of this beautiful teen girl, Aliah, please dial
- 44:29Speaker 2: nine zero one five two eight two two seven four
- 44:34Speaker 2: repeat nine zero one five two eight two two seven four.
- 44:42Speaker 2: Nancy Grace signing off good night,