Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Alleged perv arrested in school girl Hania Aguilar kidnap-murder; Beautiful mom stabbed dead giving money to lady panhandler
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- 2:02Speaker 1: um they were just turning the truck on right now
- 2:05Speaker 1: to um, she was about to leave. It took the
- 2:07Speaker 1: kids to go to school, and some black mail just
- 2:11Speaker 1: came and stole the trunk. Left in the trunk with
- 2:14Speaker 1: a child in the car. Also, what's the girls? You
- 2:20Speaker 1: are hearing the nine one one call reporting that little
- 2:23Speaker 1: Honya Aguilar was missing. An incredible and bizarre circumstances. The
- 2:28Speaker 1: little girl goes right outside her home to get into
- 2:33Speaker 1: the car to get driven to school, and in that
- 2:37Speaker 1: short space of time, some perv is standing by dressed
- 2:43Speaker 1: all in black like a ninja and a yellow bandana
- 2:47Speaker 1: covering his head and her face and takes the little girl,
- 2:52Speaker 1: takes her seven o'clock in the morning. How many times
- 2:57Speaker 1: have I sent my twins out to go get in
- 2:59Speaker 1: the car, Go get in the car. Copy right there.
- 3:02Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened here and now Hanya is gone.
- 3:06Speaker 1: In the last hours, her body has been identified in
- 3:09Speaker 1: a body of water, and now breaking news in the
- 3:13Speaker 1: search for Hanya Aglar, a perp has been arrested. I mean, see, Grace,
- 3:20Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Straight out to Crime online dot Com investigative reporter Robin
- 3:27Speaker 1: will Lensky, author of Beautiful Life, The CSI behind Casey
- 3:30Speaker 1: Anthony Trial. Robin Wilenski, just just start with the perp.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Who is he, how is he found? And where was
- 3:37Speaker 1: he arrested? Okay, well, his name, Nancy is Michael McClellan.
- 3:41Speaker 1: He is thirty four years old, and he has an
- 3:45Speaker 1: arrest record the length of which we're going to run
- 3:48Speaker 1: out of paper and have to cut down all the
- 3:51Speaker 1: trees because he in this case has been charged with
- 3:55Speaker 1: ten felonies. That's right, ten felonies, concealment of death, first
- 4:00Speaker 1: degree kidnapping, first degree murder, forcible rape, and so on
- 4:05Speaker 1: and so on, And in an ironic twist, he was
- 4:09Speaker 1: already in police custody. This incident happened on November fifth
- 4:15Speaker 1: with the thirteen year old, but on November thirteen, he
- 4:19Speaker 1: was locked up on another matter for a different arrest
- 4:23Speaker 1: warrant from another case. I wonder what that other arrest warrant.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Hey guys, take a listen to w ABCTV's Gloria Rodriguez
- 4:31Speaker 1: breaking news happening now an arrest in the kidnapping and
- 4:33Speaker 1: murder of thirteen year old Hanya Agular. She's the girl
- 4:36Speaker 1: snatched from her home in Lumberton in early November. It
- 4:39Speaker 1: was an all out search for her that sadly ended
- 4:42Speaker 1: with her body being found in a body of water
- 4:44Speaker 1: not far from where she disappeared. This is the man
- 4:47Speaker 1: now charged. He is thirty four year old Michael Ray McClellan.
- 4:51Speaker 1: The list of charges is long, including first degree murder, rape, kidnapping,
- 4:55Speaker 1: and concealment of death. The FBI telling us when the
- 4:58Speaker 1: body was found that they had persons of interest. However,
- 5:02Speaker 1: McLellan has been in custody on other charges since mid November.
- 5:06Speaker 1: McClelland was also the subject of internet rumors when Aguilar's
- 5:09Speaker 1: body was discovered, but the FBI and authorities in Lumberton
- 5:13Speaker 1: were adamant that they had no suspect and the cutity
- 5:16Speaker 1: needed to remain on alert. The FBI tells us today
- 5:19Speaker 1: that the case at the time, they say McClelland was
- 5:22Speaker 1: arrested in the agular case late Friday nights and he
- 5:25Speaker 1: had not confessed, and they continue to gather evidence. Police
- 5:28Speaker 1: do believe McClellan forced Hanya into an SUV while she
- 5:32Speaker 1: was warming up her family's car to go to school.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Details on how Hanya was murdered have not been released.
- 5:38Speaker 1: The news of the arrest comes on the same day
- 5:41Speaker 1: that Hanya is being laid to rest in Lumberton at
- 5:43Speaker 1: a funeral happening today at Lumberton High School. You're hearing
- 5:47Speaker 1: our friend Gloria Rodriguez reporting back to Robin Willinsky, Crime
- 5:50Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter. You know, I'm very curious,
- 5:54Speaker 1: Robin Wilinsky, what the other charge is that he was
- 5:58Speaker 1: being held on. This goes down November five. He's arrested
- 6:02Speaker 1: on another charge November thirteen, and I'm going to go
- 6:05Speaker 1: to doctor Brian Russell. Doctor Brian Russell, psychologist, lawyer, host
- 6:09Speaker 1: of IDs hit series Fatal Vows. Doctor Brian Now, you
- 6:14Speaker 1: may know the ins and out of the human mind,
- 6:17Speaker 1: but I can tell you anecdotally there are a couple
- 6:19Speaker 1: of type of offenders that can't stop what they do.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Surprisingly one is peeping tom there. They just can't stop.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Is something inside of them. That's where they get joy.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Second sex offenses and third burglars. In this case sex offense.
- 6:36Speaker 1: I guarantee you this is not his first offense, Doctor Brian.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Why I agree with you. The only thing that I
- 6:44Speaker 1: would say differently is I would replace the word can't
- 6:47Speaker 1: with the word won't. These people are not suffering from
- 6:51Speaker 1: some kind of disability whereby they cannot control themselves. These
- 6:55Speaker 1: people are entitled narcissists who will not control themselves and
- 6:59Speaker 1: will satisfy whatever desires they have, regardless of who gets hurt.
- 7:03Speaker 1: So people need to understand that we're talking about evil people,
- 7:06Speaker 1: not ill people here, and I think you agree with that. Probably.
- 7:12Speaker 1: What I would point out here is that we've got
- 7:14Speaker 1: a guy who was convicted in two thousand and seven
- 7:18Speaker 1: of assault with a deadly weapon, sat in prison for
- 7:21Speaker 1: that until twenty sixteen, already had committed another crime felony
- 7:26Speaker 1: breaking and entering in twenty seventeen, so he had been
- 7:30Speaker 1: out about a year and he's already committing another felony.
- 7:33Speaker 1: And so do we look at him and go, Okay,
- 7:35Speaker 1: this is a guy who is not about to abide
- 7:38Speaker 1: by the law and live in society peacefully. Under the
- 7:41Speaker 1: rule of law. We got to put him away for
- 7:43Speaker 1: a long time. No, we lock him up for about
- 7:46Speaker 1: one year, and he's back out again to do this
- 7:50Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. That's our problem. We don't learn what
- 7:55Speaker 1: people tell us. He told us what he was. He's
- 7:58Speaker 1: somebody who had no intention of following the law, and
- 8:01Speaker 1: we let him what We had him. We had him.
- 8:04Speaker 1: This has happened so many times when you and I
- 8:06Speaker 1: talk about these cases. We had him and we let
- 8:09Speaker 1: him loose on Hannah Agiar and whoever else. He's hurt.
- 8:13Speaker 1: It's and I guarantee you, doctor Brian, I guarantee you
- 8:16Speaker 1: there are others to Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina family lawyer.
- 8:21Speaker 1: When I hear this family begging for help and the
- 8:24Speaker 1: mom crying, it breaks my heart, especially knowing as doctor
- 8:30Speaker 1: Brian Russell from Investigation Discovery Fatal Vows just said, we
- 8:34Speaker 1: had him. But yet every time I hear like a
- 8:37Speaker 1: symposium or so called experts on TV, they're talking about
- 8:42Speaker 1: what's wrong with the prison system we keep people behind
- 8:46Speaker 1: bars and how wrong it is. This guy should have
- 8:49Speaker 1: been locked up, the key thrown away instead. Hanya's dead.
- 8:54Speaker 1: It's irreversible. Irreversible. It will the pain will never go
- 8:59Speaker 1: away for her family. Her life is cut short because
- 9:03Speaker 1: of this gay and him getting out. Nancy, I could
- 9:10Speaker 1: not agree more with doctor Brian Russell. I mean, he
- 9:13Speaker 1: put the words right in my mouth. I have a question, though, Nancy,
- 9:17Speaker 1: how far away did this creature live from where Hanya lived.
- 9:25Speaker 1: I'm very curious about that, and I want to know.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Was it a crime of opportunity? Was he following her?
- 9:31Speaker 1: Did he know what the family's history was in the
- 9:35Speaker 1: morning or the procedures in the morning. What is his
- 9:39Speaker 1: backstory as it relates to that neighborhood. You know, what
- 9:43Speaker 1: do we know about that? Robin Willinski Crime Online investigative reporter?
- 9:46Speaker 1: What do we know? You know, I'm not sure where
- 9:48Speaker 1: he was living, but it's pretty crystal clear that he
- 9:52Speaker 1: was lurking and knew the habits because the crime that
- 9:55Speaker 1: took place before this crime with the thirteen year old,
- 9:59Speaker 1: the crime and Chober fifteenth, why he was being held
- 10:02Speaker 1: is that he pointed a gun at another woman in
- 10:05Speaker 1: that area and attempted to steal her car and money.
- 10:09Speaker 1: So it's an escalation and he was lurking in that
- 10:13Speaker 1: area where he was living I'm not exactly sure. There
- 10:17Speaker 1: is a large amount of full private and public land
- 10:20Speaker 1: that we have been searching since November five, and while
- 10:23Speaker 1: law enforcement was making a search on Wiregrass Road, we
- 10:27Speaker 1: came upon the area where we found the FBI now
- 10:30Speaker 1: says a neighbor called nine one one once she saw
- 10:33Speaker 1: Anya being forced into that trug by a man wearing
- 10:36Speaker 1: a yellow bandana. The girl's mother not quite ready to
- 10:39Speaker 1: talk to media today, but during a press conference, the
- 10:41Speaker 1: FBI shared this message from her to her daughter and
- 10:45Speaker 1: her kid never quote. I just want my daughter back
- 10:49Speaker 1: with me. I'm here waiting for you. I love you
- 10:55Speaker 1: and only care about you, and I don't have anything
- 10:58Speaker 1: against whoever did this to you. I just want you back.
- 11:02Speaker 1: You are hearing WTVDTV Durham reporter Morgan Norwood reporting an
- 11:08Speaker 1: FBI agent Andy Delarocha giving the message from Honya's mother.
- 11:15Speaker 1: That message was not meant to be. I want you home.
- 11:19Speaker 1: My arms are open. I miss you. Honeya's body was found.
- 11:24Speaker 1: This little girl was kidnapped just outside the door of
- 11:29Speaker 1: her own home as she got into the car to
- 11:33Speaker 1: go to school seven o'clock in the morning. Two forensics
- 11:40Speaker 1: expert Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath
- 11:45Speaker 1: My Feet, death investigator Joseph Scott Morgan Joe Scott, I
- 11:50Speaker 1: want to talk to you about how they arrested this guy.
- 11:53Speaker 1: For those of you just joining us in the last hours,
- 11:56Speaker 1: a purp has been arrested. He's being held without bond,
- 12:00Speaker 1: and we'll be making a first court appearance at any moment.
- 12:04Speaker 1: McClellan name surfaced in online rumors as a suspect within
- 12:11Speaker 1: just hours after Hanya's little body, battered and abused was found,
- 12:16Speaker 1: but authorities did not confirm any connection until the last hours.
- 12:22Speaker 1: You know, pictures of Hanya and colorful flowers surrounding the
- 12:27Speaker 1: stage of her funeral service, purple balloons to honor her
- 12:32Speaker 1: favorite color. Everywhere you look in that county are memories
- 12:37Speaker 1: of Hanya, and it is so painful. The father was
- 12:43Speaker 1: out of the country and could not even attend his
- 12:47Speaker 1: daughter's funeral. To Joseph Scott Morkham, all I can do
- 12:54Speaker 1: now is look for justice. How are we going to
- 12:59Speaker 1: get at a true verdict? How tell me? Well? The
- 13:05Speaker 1: police have spoken a mouthful of the prosecutor because they've
- 13:08Speaker 1: charged this guy with first gree murder, which means that
- 13:12Speaker 1: this is an act that is premeditated. They have an
- 13:16Speaker 1: indication that he had planned, that he had schemed, and
- 13:20Speaker 1: I suspect stalked her for some period of time and
- 13:25Speaker 1: he went with purpose, Nancy, he stole this vehicle and
- 13:28Speaker 1: then you took her along on this ride to her death.
- 13:34Speaker 1: Another key here. One of the things he's been charged
- 13:37Speaker 1: with is concealment of a death, and that means that
- 13:40Speaker 1: he specifically took her body. And keep in mind, the
- 13:44Speaker 1: body was three miles away from the abandoned vehicle that
- 13:47Speaker 1: had been found earlier, and she was found in a
- 13:51Speaker 1: small body of water. They're not calling it a pond,
- 13:53Speaker 1: they're just calling a small body of water. And it
- 13:56Speaker 1: was out of you a matter of fact, if you remember,
- 13:58Speaker 1: the search had said we couldn't even find we you know,
- 14:03Speaker 1: on first blush, we didn't even know there was a
- 14:05Speaker 1: little body of water down there, and they found her floating.
- 14:08Speaker 1: So does that give us an indication that he was
- 14:10Speaker 1: trying to put her body in that water in order
- 14:13Speaker 1: to try to destroy evidence. At the end of the day,
- 14:16Speaker 1: you look at this guy and I think that what
- 14:18Speaker 1: is going to come out is that he is a real,
- 14:21Speaker 1: real monster. Monster is one way to put it. Now
- 14:24Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, speaking of him being a monster,
- 14:27Speaker 1: as to what kind of person as outwaiting at seven
- 14:32Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning to abduct a little girl, rape
- 14:37Speaker 1: sodom eyes, murder her, hide her body underwater, ripping her
- 14:42Speaker 1: away from her family. It makes me just want to
- 14:45Speaker 1: run to the twins right now. Whenever I hear a
- 14:48Speaker 1: story like this, I want to go stare in their
- 14:50Speaker 1: window at school, or go check and make sure they're
- 14:52Speaker 1: in bed at night. But who's doing that? And you know,
- 14:56Speaker 1: I was once talking to a strict vegetarian and they said,
- 15:04Speaker 1: just think about it. When you're walking along and you
- 15:07Speaker 1: see a fuzzy little rabbit pop by, is your first
- 15:10Speaker 1: instinct to attack it and kill it and eat it,
- 15:14Speaker 1: as opposed to when you see an apple on the tree,
- 15:17Speaker 1: you almost instinctively want to just go pick the apple
- 15:20Speaker 1: and eat it. So anyway, I was thinking about that
- 15:23Speaker 1: as it relates to this case. Hold it, wait for it.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Let me make the connection. Who is it, Doctor Brian Russell?
- 15:30Speaker 1: You're the shrink that when I see a little girl,
- 15:34Speaker 1: I think, oh, look at her hair, look at the
- 15:36Speaker 1: little brace, she's so cute, look at her a little outfit,
- 15:40Speaker 1: or isn't she precious? Or look at all the books,
- 15:42Speaker 1: or look at her soccer outfit or whatever, or she
- 15:44Speaker 1: so this or that. I don't think. Oh, let me
- 15:49Speaker 1: stuffer in the backseat murder her at seven o'clock in
- 15:53Speaker 1: the morning or anytime, Doctor Brian Russell, whether he had
- 15:56Speaker 1: planned it or whether it was a spur of the
- 15:59Speaker 1: mom at crime, a crime of opportunity, Still, who thinks that,
- 16:03Speaker 1: As we so often have discussed over the years, if
- 16:07Speaker 1: you understood it, then I would be concerned about you psychologically.
- 16:11Speaker 1: The fact that nobody listening hopefully can understand it is
- 16:15Speaker 1: a good sign because it is somebody who is totally
- 16:21Speaker 1: totally sociopathic, totally narcissistic, totally entitled, feeling totally entitled to
- 16:28Speaker 1: take what they want. And this is it. You got
- 16:30Speaker 1: to think, this is this is not somebody who is
- 16:33Speaker 1: interested in getting their you know, sexual needs met by
- 16:38Speaker 1: going out and actually getting a job and being a presentable,
- 16:42Speaker 1: respectable person and finding somebody who's voluntarily interested in dating them.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Not Oh, that's way too hard. What's easy is to
- 16:49Speaker 1: go after some kid and one thing I want to
- 16:52Speaker 1: point out here is if you look at the charges,
- 16:56Speaker 1: it looks like they have charged him both with fable
- 17:00Speaker 1: rape and statutory rape. And what that indicates to me
- 17:04Speaker 1: is that they anticipate that he is going to at
- 17:07Speaker 1: least say in his defense that initially this thing started
- 17:12Speaker 1: as some kind of voluntary thing, which there is no
- 17:16Speaker 1: such thing when the person is as young as Hannett,
- 17:18Speaker 1: but that's going to be the exact initially, and that
- 17:21Speaker 1: everything just got out of control. Kathleen Murphy, that doctor
- 17:25Speaker 1: Brian Russell is exactly correct. That's why fatal VOWS is
- 17:29Speaker 1: such a hit. Kathleen. Yeah, they're gonna claim since a
- 17:33Speaker 1: DNA according to Joseph Scott Morgan, and I think Joe
- 17:35Speaker 1: Scott is correct, says DNA is going to nail him.
- 17:40Speaker 1: DNA on and in the child's body, probably sperm, of course,
- 17:44Speaker 1: maybe touch DNA, but it's been submerged in water, so
- 17:47Speaker 1: probably sperm. Back up, it was consensual, right, Kathleen Murphy,
- 17:54Speaker 1: North Carolina family lawyer. Like at seven ams, she goes, Okay, Mama,
- 17:58Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get in the carry up. Hurry up,
- 18:00Speaker 1: I gotta get to school. She goes out to the car,
- 18:03Speaker 1: and then she says, Oh, I'm gonna go on a
- 18:05Speaker 1: consensual date with this much older guy who's just wandering
- 18:09Speaker 1: through my neighborhood. Right, let me be on that jury, Nancy.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Let me be on that jury. And I'm so thoroughly disgusted. Welloa,
- 18:21Speaker 1: Jackie just reminded me he's thirty four years old. Kathleen Murphy.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Please let me be on that jury, Nancy. This is
- 18:29Speaker 1: in my neighborhood. Please let me be on that jury.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Mind me be on that jury. I am outraged that
- 18:35Speaker 1: he was out of prison. I am outraged that this
- 18:39Speaker 1: child I have a twelve And why do we keep
- 18:41Speaker 1: doing it? Yeah? Robert will Lensky crime online dot Com
- 18:45Speaker 1: investigative reporter, author of Beautiful Life, cside behind Casey Anthony trial.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Robin does anybody I'm not tired of it. I'll keep
- 18:53Speaker 1: screaming it from the mountaintop, said, do we ever notice
- 18:56Speaker 1: we keep saying why was he out of jail? Everybody
- 19:01Speaker 1: moans it and cries and whys about it, But apparently
- 19:05Speaker 1: nobody in our government's listening because it keeps happening. Right,
- 19:09Speaker 1: because there's all this boo hoo hoo, and all this
- 19:12Speaker 1: sympathy and he's going to be rehabilitated, which he's never
- 19:15Speaker 1: going to be rehabilitated because the guy, simply put, has
- 19:19Speaker 1: no moral compass. He has no moral compass, and so
- 19:23Speaker 1: you cannot rehabilitate him because every time he gets Robin
- 19:26Speaker 1: will Lensky, You're you're so prim and proper, you say
- 19:30Speaker 1: he has no moral compass. You know what I say.
- 19:33Speaker 1: He's the devil, the devil. He is evil, pure evil.
- 19:39Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they have a death penalty in that jurisdiction,
- 19:42Speaker 1: and I certainly hope that the prosecutor is going to
- 19:46Speaker 1: put that out there and seek the death penalty. I
- 19:49Speaker 1: know a lot of you disagree with me. That's okay,
- 19:52Speaker 1: Let a jury decide, but this is heinous. As a
- 19:55Speaker 1: child is waiting to go to school in the morning,
- 20:01Speaker 1: Mom and Auntie right inside the home. I mean, I
- 20:08Speaker 1: thought on my fiancee was murdered. I knew all about grief,
- 20:12Speaker 1: but now that I have my children, there is could
- 20:15Speaker 1: be nothing like the pain of losing a child. Right now,
- 20:21Speaker 1: our prayers aren't with Hania Aguilar's family. Hi, Nancy Grace here,
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- 21:42Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, please say. Fifty two year old Jaqueline Smith
- 21:47Speaker 1: was stabbed to death after rolling down her car window
- 21:50Speaker 1: to give a woman money. This was a good Samaritan.
- 21:52Speaker 1: She saw an individual that was holding a sign who
- 21:54Speaker 1: appeared to be down on her laws. Pola Say. It
- 21:57Speaker 1: was just after midnight Sunday. Smith was with two religios.
- 22:00Speaker 1: The family had attended a gathering in the area. They
- 22:02Speaker 1: stopped their car after noticing a woman holding what appeared
- 22:05Speaker 1: to be a baby, as well as a sign that
- 22:07Speaker 1: read please help me feed my baby, please say. Smith
- 22:10Speaker 1: gave the woman money. Then a man appeared, first thanking Smith,
- 22:14Speaker 1: then lunging for her wallet. That's when the suspect approached
- 22:17Speaker 1: and fatally stabbed her. You are hearing the very latest
- 22:20Speaker 1: on a good Samaritan stabbed dead. I mean, Sey Grace.
- 22:24Speaker 1: This is crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Straight out to John Limley, Crime online dot Com investigative
- 22:31Speaker 1: reporter John, it's almost too much for me to take
- 22:34Speaker 1: in what happened. Well, this was the end of what
- 22:37Speaker 1: had otherwise been just a perfect evening with family. Both
- 22:42Speaker 1: Keith and Jacqueline Smith had been dancing and having a
- 22:46Speaker 1: really great time with their family at an American Legion
- 22:49Speaker 1: hall on Madison Street in Baltimore. They had been celebrating
- 22:53Speaker 1: with their daughter, chavon her twenty eighth birthday. The couple
- 22:57Speaker 1: were on their way home from the gathering as we
- 23:00Speaker 1: heard around twelve thirty in the morning when they see
- 23:02Speaker 1: a woman holding what appeared to be a baby, an
- 23:05Speaker 1: infant and a cardboard sign that read please help me
- 23:09Speaker 1: feed my baby. Keith says he's never big on slowing
- 23:14Speaker 1: down or getting out of the car in certain neighborhoods,
- 23:17Speaker 1: but his wife is a different story. She has had
- 23:21Speaker 1: the most generous spirit and she rolled down her passenger
- 23:25Speaker 1: side window to give some money to the woman. This
- 23:28Speaker 1: is when a man comes out of nowhere, comes up
- 23:30Speaker 1: to the car, pretending to thank her for the generosity,
- 23:34Speaker 1: and just a moment later, he's trying to steal her wallet,
- 23:37Speaker 1: her pocketbook and necklace, and that's when he stabs Jacqueline
- 23:41Speaker 1: in the chest. Oh my stars, I just I'm so overwhelmed.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Her husband, Kevin, rushes her to the hospital, but even
- 23:49Speaker 1: though she got there so quickly, she did not live.
- 23:52Speaker 1: At this hour. Police are still looking for the two responsible.
- 23:57Speaker 1: To Josh Scott Morgan joining me as well as doctor
- 24:00Speaker 1: Brian Russell, psychologist, lawyer, host of investigation Discoveries Fatal Vows
- 24:04Speaker 1: as she Wilcott with me as well, judge lawyer. You
- 24:07Speaker 1: can find her at asked Wilcott dot com. To doctor
- 24:11Speaker 1: Brian Russell, doctor Russell, what a ruse. I can remember
- 24:15Speaker 1: as a prosecutor, there was a hangout I would stop
- 24:17Speaker 1: at a lot of times after being on the street
- 24:20Speaker 1: or being in court for long hours that a lot
- 24:22Speaker 1: of prosecutors and cops would go to and out in
- 24:25Speaker 1: the parking lot, there was a lady with a little
- 24:28Speaker 1: bitty child that couldn't have been over two years old,
- 24:31Speaker 1: and she asked me for money. Well, I had practically
- 24:33Speaker 1: nothing as a prosecutor. I had to work in two
- 24:35Speaker 1: night jobs as it was. But I took the cash
- 24:37Speaker 1: that I had. I gave it all to her. The
- 24:40Speaker 1: next night, she says she needed a ticket to get home,
- 24:43Speaker 1: a bus ticket to get home. I'm like, sure, I'll
- 24:45Speaker 1: give you everything I got, all right. The next night,
- 24:48Speaker 1: the woman comes up to me and gives me the
- 24:50Speaker 1: same story with the baby and says she needs a
- 24:53Speaker 1: bus ticket aget home. I said, lady, you took all
- 24:55Speaker 1: my money last night, and you are nowhere near the
- 24:59Speaker 1: Greyhound bus, so let me let me give you a
- 25:03Speaker 1: look at this. And I held out my badge or
- 25:05Speaker 1: so I'm calling de facts right now. And I did.
- 25:08Speaker 1: I certainly did, dragging that little baby around scamming money
- 25:12Speaker 1: out in a parking lot at night. I mean I
- 25:14Speaker 1: was working late. It had to be eight thirty nine o'clock.
- 25:17Speaker 1: It was pitched dark. Using a baby to scam to
- 25:22Speaker 1: start with, much less killing your victim. But let's just
- 25:25Speaker 1: start with using the baby. Doctor, Brian Russell, you're the shrink. Yeah.
- 25:29Speaker 1: I think for most people listening, there's something particularly evil,
- 25:33Speaker 1: particularly sociopathic, about this kind of a ruse for multiple reason,
- 25:38Speaker 1: not only because it involves the use of a child,
- 25:40Speaker 1: but it involves playing upon you the best of somebody
- 25:45Speaker 1: else's human nature. And not only that, the fact that
- 25:48Speaker 1: we're talking about this now and it's news. While it
- 25:52Speaker 1: is protective and helpful for people to see that there
- 25:54Speaker 1: are better ways to go about charity than rolling down
- 25:58Speaker 1: your window and handing money to people on the street,
- 26:01Speaker 1: but it also does inhibit people from being generous because
- 26:06Speaker 1: some people will hear this and go, yeah, you know,
- 26:08Speaker 1: these people are criminals, and they're not really needy, and
- 26:11Speaker 1: some of them are so for all of these reasons,
- 26:13Speaker 1: it's just a particularly heinous act. You know, the other
- 26:17Speaker 1: night I went in why was I at? I still
- 26:19Speaker 1: call it kerts, but I think it's a right aid.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Why was I there? What was I get? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
- 26:23Speaker 1: yeah yeah, prescriptions from my mom. So I go in
- 26:26Speaker 1: and there's a guy sitting on the sidewalk outside and said, hey, hey, hey,
- 26:31Speaker 1: can you buy me some trail mix? I'm like sure,
- 26:33Speaker 1: And I had this on my mind, so I get
- 26:35Speaker 1: him a bunch of packs of trail mix. When I
- 26:37Speaker 1: came out, I basically just threw it at him and
- 26:39Speaker 1: he looked at me like what. I'm like, I'm sorry, man,
- 26:41Speaker 1: I am not getting close to you. I'm gonna give
- 26:43Speaker 1: you what. I'm not gonna get closed yet because I
- 26:45Speaker 1: had this lady on my mind. To Joseph Scott Morgan,
- 26:50Speaker 1: the roots that was used and the mortal wounds that
- 26:53Speaker 1: were sustained after way in, Yeah, did you see how
- 26:56Speaker 1: quickly she died? They transported or from the scene to
- 26:59Speaker 1: the hospital little And the reason this happened is that
- 27:02Speaker 1: she was stabbed in the Torso this is a very
- 27:05Speaker 1: up personal, I mean up close, very personal event. There's
- 27:09Speaker 1: more than likely he nicked a major vessel or maybe
- 27:13Speaker 1: even directly into the heart. She had no chance of living,
- 27:16Speaker 1: and that's because she let her defenses down. I'll tell
- 27:19Speaker 1: you what I preached my wife all the time about
- 27:21Speaker 1: this because I've seen I'm so callous, I've seen so
- 27:24Speaker 1: many things on the street. And she's got a big, open,
- 27:27Speaker 1: warm heart. She wants to give everybody and their brother change.
- 27:31Speaker 1: And I tell her this is dangerous to do. I'm
- 27:34Speaker 1: of the mind that you seek somebody out that needs
- 27:36Speaker 1: help as opposed to allowing somebody to seek you out.
- 27:39Speaker 1: And you can just be suckered in by this, and
- 27:41Speaker 1: unfortunately that's what happened to this poor woman. Well, I mean,
- 27:44Speaker 1: not helping those in need goes against everything that I
- 27:49Speaker 1: believe in, and so it's very hard for me. Well
- 27:52Speaker 1: I which is rare that I have any money on me,
- 27:54Speaker 1: but when I do have money on me, not to
- 27:56Speaker 1: try and help somebody. Take a listen to this, police say.
- 28:01Speaker 1: The man and woman ran from the scene. Smith died
- 28:04Speaker 1: a short time later at a nearby hospital. Tonight, investigators
- 28:07Speaker 1: warning other drivers and asking for help solving the case.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Maybe you heard something, maybe you saw something, whether it
- 28:14Speaker 1: was in the front of or house, the rarreor house
- 28:16Speaker 1: you know. Chase Street is a busy thoroughfare even around
- 28:19Speaker 1: twelve to twelve thirty in the evening. Police describe the
- 28:21Speaker 1: suspect as a man about thirty years old, standing approximately
- 28:25Speaker 1: six feet tall with a goatee. Anyone with any information
- 28:29Speaker 1: on this case is asked to call police. The last
- 28:31Speaker 1: night of Jacqueline Smith's life, she and her husband danced
- 28:34Speaker 1: at their wedding song at a party. She was just
- 28:36Speaker 1: everything to me, my everything. We call each other soul meets.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Hours later, the fifty two year old was murdered on
- 28:41Speaker 1: this East Baltimore block near Latroball snatched that necklace before
- 28:44Speaker 1: I knew it in a girl Paki book in the
- 28:48Speaker 1: seat in the both rain. I jumped out the car
- 28:51Speaker 1: to run, and I heard my wife's scream, is my
- 28:52Speaker 1: ka back to car? Oh my stars? That husband what
- 28:55Speaker 1: he is going through? You were hearing our friends at
- 28:58Speaker 1: w BFTV Alexa Ashwell and Devin Barlotta reporting on this
- 29:04Speaker 1: John Linley Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter, What do
- 29:07Speaker 1: you know about the roost they use that they had
- 29:09Speaker 1: a baby with them, Well, Nancy, Jacqueline was the type
- 29:13Speaker 1: of person that even if there hadn't have been an
- 29:16Speaker 1: infant or what appeared to be an infant in the
- 29:18Speaker 1: woman's arms, she would have been more than glad to
- 29:21Speaker 1: help this woman anyway, but add the factor of what
- 29:26Speaker 1: appeared to be an infant in her arms, and that
- 29:29Speaker 1: just broke Jacqueline's heart. She had to help this woman.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Keith says, though, that once the couple started moving around,
- 29:38Speaker 1: he is pretty sure that that was simply a doll
- 29:42Speaker 1: or something, that it was not a real baby that
- 29:46Speaker 1: was used to lure them in, and Nancy listened to this.
- 29:49Speaker 1: We've heard that the pair ran away as soon as
- 29:52Speaker 1: the stabbing occurred, but Keith says that the woman actually turned.
- 29:56Speaker 1: She paused for a moment long enough to say something.
- 30:00Speaker 1: The woman, the one that had preyed on Jacqueline's generous spirit,
- 30:04Speaker 1: actually said God bless you after the man stabbed Jacqueline
- 30:08Speaker 1: as she Walcott. I mean, I don't even know what
- 30:12Speaker 1: to how to respond to this woman trying to help
- 30:15Speaker 1: someone and being stabbed dead. I am heartbroken for her husband,
- 30:20Speaker 1: for her family, first and foremost. I am in no
- 30:23Speaker 1: way blaming the victim when I say what I'm about
- 30:26Speaker 1: to say, but I agree with Joe Scott Morgan, and
- 30:28Speaker 1: that is you need to pick the people you're going
- 30:30Speaker 1: to help, and if you want to help someone who's
- 30:32Speaker 1: on the street, a lot aren't going to hurt you,
- 30:35Speaker 1: are not They actually need help, but do it safely
- 30:39Speaker 1: in daylight hours when there are lots of people around,
- 30:43Speaker 1: when everyone can see you. And the other thing I'm
- 30:45Speaker 1: gonna say, and again, no blaming the victim. This is unacceptable,
- 30:49Speaker 1: horrific killing someone who is a good samaritan. But if
- 30:53Speaker 1: anyone tries to take your purse, your necklace while you're
- 30:57Speaker 1: sitting in a car, give it to him. Do whatever
- 31:00Speaker 1: you have to do. That's stuff, it doesn't matter, pass
- 31:03Speaker 1: it over, doesn't excuse this horrific murder. You know. I
- 31:06Speaker 1: just I think in that moment, Jacqueline, the victim, Jacqueline Smith,
- 31:11Speaker 1: didn't think of any of that. She was just trying
- 31:14Speaker 1: to help. I want you to hear our friends at
- 31:18Speaker 1: w jay Z TV, it's Devin Borolott to listen. Interim
- 31:21Speaker 1: Police Commissioner Gary Tubble says this kron was likely premeditated
- 31:25Speaker 1: and the pair was working together. We also want to
- 31:27Speaker 1: caution the public about the game with panhandlers. Smith, while
- 31:32Speaker 1: hoping for their arrest, is now left grieving the loss
- 31:34Speaker 1: of his beloved wife. For anybody that's in Baltimore, be
- 31:37Speaker 1: careful when we see these panhandlers out and getting close
- 31:40Speaker 1: proximity to your car. The last thing I thought that
- 31:42Speaker 1: they would want to take my wife's life. So now
- 31:45Speaker 1: I gotta live with that. I gotta live with that.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Every death we're going to leave no start in turn.
- 31:49Speaker 1: With respect to this case, Interim Police Commissioner Gary Tubble says,
- 31:52Speaker 1: this kron was likely premeditated and the pair was working together.
- 31:56Speaker 1: They're using this ruse as panhandlers to get the attention
- 32:00Speaker 1: of there would be victim, and we also want to
- 32:03Speaker 1: caution the public about and gaining with panhandlers. Police are
- 32:09Speaker 1: looking for a black woman in her twenties, medium building,
- 32:11Speaker 1: about five feet tall, a possible drug user, wearing a
- 32:14Speaker 1: long brown coat and may have a baby. And they're
- 32:17Speaker 1: looking for a black mail in his thirties I foot ten,
- 32:20Speaker 1: average build, with a goatee and wearing a black hoodie. Smith,
- 32:23Speaker 1: while hoping for their arrest, is now left grieving the
- 32:26Speaker 1: loss of his beloved wife. For anybody that's in Baltimore,
- 32:29Speaker 1: be careful when we see these panhandlers out and getting
- 32:31Speaker 1: close proximity to your car, because like me, I'm from Baltimore.
- 32:35Speaker 1: The last thing I thought that they would want to
- 32:36Speaker 1: take my wife's life. So now I got to live
- 32:39Speaker 1: with that. I got to live with that every day.
- 32:41Speaker 1: You're hearing the husband of the so called Good Samaritan,
- 32:45Speaker 1: Jacqueline Smith dead after being stabbed in the chest. Her husband, Kevin,
- 32:50Speaker 1: was driving her home from dinner with your daughter. Jacqueline
- 32:54Speaker 1: asked him to stop when she saw a lady panhandler
- 32:57Speaker 1: holding a baby in her arms. They rolled she Smith.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Jacqueline rolled down her window to give money to the
- 33:04Speaker 1: woman begging for help, and then suddenly, out of nowhere,
- 33:07Speaker 1: a man appears from the side and stabs Jacqueline over
- 33:10Speaker 1: and over in the chest. Kevin raced Jaqueline to the
- 33:15Speaker 1: hospital immediately, but she died from her injuries. Police now
- 33:20Speaker 1: looking for the pair of panhandlers responsible. Joining me. John
- 33:24Speaker 1: Limley Crime online dot com investigative reporter Ashley Wilcot, judge, lawyer.
- 33:29Speaker 1: You can find her at Ashley Wilcot dot com. Doctor
- 33:33Speaker 1: Brian Russell, psychologist, lawyer and hosts of discoveries hit series
- 33:37Speaker 1: Fatal Vows. John Limley Crime online dot com. What where
- 33:41Speaker 1: can you tell me? Well, one thing I can tell
- 33:44Speaker 1: you is that, of course every murder is tragic and senseless,
- 33:48Speaker 1: but this was one amazing woman who lost her life
- 33:52Speaker 1: that night. We can go back to her high school
- 33:54Speaker 1: years when Jacqueline Smith was first interested in science and math,
- 34:00Speaker 1: but she was told at classical high school that she
- 34:02Speaker 1: couldn't be an engineer. Her mom, Anna tris Vane, has
- 34:07Speaker 1: told us some wonderful stories of Anna says she didn't listen,
- 34:12Speaker 1: that she was determined. You could even tell her. You
- 34:15Speaker 1: could even see it in her walk, that determination in
- 34:18Speaker 1: her walk, and true to that determination, Smith did become
- 34:22Speaker 1: an engineer. After she graduated from Classical High School. She
- 34:25Speaker 1: earned a degree in electrical engineering. Then she worked for
- 34:29Speaker 1: the Naval Underwater Systems Center. This is a forerunner of
- 34:33Speaker 1: the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, and after a
- 34:36Speaker 1: couple of years there, she landed a job at the
- 34:39Speaker 1: Aberdeen Proving Ground, that army research facility in Hartford County, Maryland,
- 34:44Speaker 1: about twenty five miles northeast of Baltimore. That's where she
- 34:48Speaker 1: was working at the time of her murder. Perhaps snatches
- 34:51Speaker 1: Jacqueline's necklace and grabbed her pocketbook. The two fled, leaving
- 34:57Speaker 1: her bleeding in the passenger seat there next to her husband.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Now Keith and his wife had been out with her daughter,
- 35:05Speaker 1: chavan to celebrate her birthday, and Chavanne was also in
- 35:09Speaker 1: the car when her mother was attacked. To doctor Brian Russell,
- 35:13Speaker 1: so you've got the husband witnessing his wife's murder and
- 35:17Speaker 1: her daughter seeing her mom getting stabbed in the front seat.
- 35:21Speaker 1: It's it's unimaginable what that must be like for that
- 35:25Speaker 1: family to go through this. This reminds me Nancy. Have
- 35:28Speaker 1: a time in the year two thousand, I was in Peru.
- 35:31Speaker 1: I was in Lima, Peru, and I was going up
- 35:35Speaker 1: from Lima to a town up in the mountains and
- 35:37Speaker 1: the Andes. And on the way up there, I noticed
- 35:41Speaker 1: that we were kind of going off the road a
- 35:43Speaker 1: little bit. We were going around something and there was
- 35:46Speaker 1: a body in the street and I was saying, oh
- 35:49Speaker 1: my god, there's a body in the street. We have
- 35:51Speaker 1: to stop and help this person. And we actually had
- 35:54Speaker 1: a military police escort in front of and behind the
- 35:57Speaker 1: vehicle that I was in, and they they did not stop.
- 36:01Speaker 1: They went right around that body and they went right
- 36:03Speaker 1: on past. And when we got to our destination, I said,
- 36:05Speaker 1: you know, should we call somebody, should we do something?
- 36:07Speaker 1: And they said, no, the bandits do that. It might
- 36:11Speaker 1: have been a real body, or it might have been
- 36:13Speaker 1: somebody playing dead, but they do that to get people
- 36:16Speaker 1: to stop, and then they ambush them. And why do
- 36:19Speaker 1: they do that Because it works. People who don't know
- 36:21Speaker 1: that's a tactic will get out to try to help,
- 36:23Speaker 1: and then they'll end up being taken hostage or robbed
- 36:26Speaker 1: and killed or whatever. And so of course we're always
- 36:29Speaker 1: telling people this program to please, if you have any information,
- 36:32Speaker 1: if you've seen anything that might help, call the police
- 36:35Speaker 1: and let them know. In this case, I just want
- 36:38Speaker 1: to double down on that, because this cannot work. These
- 36:42Speaker 1: people cannot get away with this, because we cannot start
- 36:46Speaker 1: becoming like that, like that lawless place where I was
- 36:49Speaker 1: in the year two thousand, where this stuff happens, and
- 36:52Speaker 1: it happens increasingly when it works. We can't let this work.
- 36:55Speaker 1: You know what you're right, Brian, four one zero three nine.
- 37:00Speaker 1: It's the tip line four one zero three nine six
- 37:03Speaker 1: twenty one hundred police desperately working right now to solve
- 37:06Speaker 1: this crime. Listen to our friends at wmaartv Naughtia sin Smith,
- 37:12Speaker 1: who was in the front seat, rolled down the window
- 37:14Speaker 1: to give the woman money and when she did, an
- 37:16Speaker 1: unknown man reached and signed to grabber Walllett and police
- 37:19Speaker 1: say there was a struggle. Investigators tell WMAAR he took
- 37:22Speaker 1: out a knife and stabbed Smith in the torso before
- 37:25Speaker 1: running away with the woman holding the sign. Makes you
- 37:27Speaker 1: find twice about helping anyone looked twice. Colaborer work gold
- 37:31Speaker 1: in the morning and my guard's up. Police echo that advice,
- 37:35Speaker 1: saying crimes like these can happen anytime. You always be
- 37:38Speaker 1: aware of your surroundings, and it doesn't matter if it's
- 37:40Speaker 1: the middle of the day or the middle of the night,
- 37:42Speaker 1: if you're driving, if you're walking, if you see something
- 37:45Speaker 1: or someone that's suspicious, call nine one one. Our officers
- 37:47Speaker 1: work twenty four hours a day. The driver of the
- 37:49Speaker 1: car Smith was in when she was stabbed over to
- 37:51Speaker 1: the hospital and called police. She died at the hospital.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Tip line four one zero three nine six twenty one hundred.
- 37:57Speaker 1: The irony is had been a perfect night. Listen to
- 38:03Speaker 1: w jay Z TV's Devin Barolotta danced a little bit man,
- 38:07Speaker 1: it was just a beautiful night. Outrage over Smith's brazen
- 38:10Speaker 1: and brutal murder has gathered national attention, Oprah tweeting, I
- 38:13Speaker 1: hope her death gets people woke to change. Along with
- 38:16Speaker 1: outrage nationwide comes some questions about the story, police insisting
- 38:20Speaker 1: they're following all leads we can get. The information we
- 38:23Speaker 1: have is the information that we have until we can
- 38:26Speaker 1: disprove that that nessa we're going to go with, but
- 38:28Speaker 1: we're going to leave notes stone in turn with respect
- 38:30Speaker 1: to this case, Polisa looking for a black woman in
- 38:32Speaker 1: her twenties with a medium build and about five feet tall,
- 38:35Speaker 1: lasting wearing a long brown coat, and possibly carrying a baby.
- 38:38Speaker 1: The other suspect is a black man in his thirties,
- 38:40Speaker 1: about five feet ten inches tall with an average build
- 38:43Speaker 1: at a goatee, lasting in a black hoodie. Police asking
- 38:46Speaker 1: residence citywide to be aware and on the lookout. Please
- 38:50Speaker 1: help us solve this horrible murder of a good Samaritan.
- 38:54Speaker 1: Four one zero three nine six twenty one hundred Nancy
- 38:58Speaker 1: Grace Crime Story, signing off Goodbye friend,