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Escort Pleads Insanity for Live-Stream Murder of Mom| Crime Alert Recap Sunday 10.06.24 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Gould, a former escort in California, has entered
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  Speaker 2: a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity in
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  Speaker 2: the grousome social media murder of her own mother. The
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  Speaker 2: shocking incident unfolded in January when Tanzani and Oris Beltrand
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  Speaker 2: stabbed her mom repeatedly while on their San Rafael balcony
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  Speaker 2: while live streaming the horrific act on Facebook. Alarmed viewers
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  Speaker 2: reported the disturbing footage to authorities. When officers arrived, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine year old refused to open the door, so
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  Speaker 2: officers were forced to break it down. They then reportedly
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  Speaker 2: found the suspect covered in blood and standing over her
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  Speaker 2: fatally wounded mother, Olivia Lucia Beltran Pacheco. She was holding
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  Speaker 2: a knife. Pachaco was still breathing, but later died at
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. Prior to the murder, Beltran had exhibited signs
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  Speaker 2: of mental distress in a now deleted TikTok video. She
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  Speaker 2: visited the Santa Rose police station to retrieve her impounded
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  Speaker 2: car and was described by officers as having quote some
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  Speaker 2: sort of mental health issues end quote. Additionally, a video
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  Speaker 2: from the day of the murder shows Pacheco pleading with
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  Speaker 2: Beltrand to calm down as she became increasingly agitated. This
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  Speaker 2: is a portion of that video. Take a listen, do
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  Speaker 2: you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: You gotta stop putting yourself and putting yourself in harms
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  Speaker 1: way you hear me.
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  Speaker 2: Bell Tran's history of drug and alcohol abuse, which reportedly
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  Speaker 2: began at the age of four, has also been cited
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  Speaker 2: as a contributed factor to her actions. That's according to
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  Speaker 2: Mercury News. Bell trans Plea has prompted a psychiatric evaluation
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  Speaker 2: to determine if she even meets the legal criteria for
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  Speaker 2: an insanity defense. If found to be legally insane, she
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  Speaker 2: could be admitted to a state hospital or mental health
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  Speaker 2: treatment facility instead of jail. Beltran's next hearing is set
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  Speaker 2: forward m twelfth. More Crime and Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson, a South Carolina managed charged with killing
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  Speaker 4: his wife, and their two roommates are accused of helping
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  Speaker 4: him move the body. Jessica Barnes eight twenty had been
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  Speaker 4: missing since August first. Our body was found in the
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  Speaker 4: woods near Twin Lakes and Pickens County on September twentieth
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  Speaker 4: Here is Pendleton Police Chief Robert Crosby.
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  Speaker 3: Pendleton officers and the Pickens County Corner were notified by
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  Speaker 3: a forensic odentologist that the remains were identified as Jessica Barnes.
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  Speaker 3: Officers from the Pendleton Police Department and agents from SLID
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  Speaker 3: brought Brandon Barnes and the two roommates, Kendall Memes and
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  Speaker 3: Victoria Tribbett to the Clemson Police Department to conduct interviews.
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  Speaker 3: All three of those individuals were then arrested and chores
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  Speaker 3: by the Pendleton Police Department.
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  Speaker 4: Brandon Barnes was charged with her murder. The roommates Mems
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  Speaker 4: and Tippett are charged as accessories after the fact and
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  Speaker 4: with obstruction of justice. According to arrest warrants, Brandon strangled Jessica.
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  Speaker 4: Roommates helped dispose of the body. Jessica was reported missing
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  Speaker 4: by her mother on September tenth. Investigators traced her husband's
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  Speaker 4: movements and discovered that he had visited the Twin Lakes
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  Speaker 4: area multiple times after her disappearance. September twentieth, as search
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  Speaker 4: led to the discovery of her remains, Pendleton Police Chief
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  Speaker 4: Robert Crosby says investigators had suspected more than just a
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  Speaker 4: missing person case.
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  Speaker 3: Quote.
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  Speaker 4: Most twenty year old ladies don't leave without a phone
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  Speaker 4: or social media trace. The Barnes family has suffered through
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  Speaker 4: domestic violence issues. Jessica's mother tells authorities that Brandon had
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  Speaker 4: sent her misleading messages from Jessica's phone, claiming she had
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  Speaker 4: moved to Michigan. The last time Jessica contacted her family
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  Speaker 4: was August twenty sixth, her mother's birthday, raising concerns that
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  Speaker 4: led to the police report. Brandon Barnes was denied bond,
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  Speaker 4: as were Mems and Tippett. The hearing of family spokesperson
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  Speaker 4: remembered Jessica as ambitious with dreams that were cut short.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 4: Her soul was a constant witness through her faith. Police
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  Speaker 4: also revealed that Jessica and Brandon's infant child was living
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  Speaker 4: with them at the time of her death. The child
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  Speaker 4: is now with Brandon's relatives.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nicole Parton and Idaho man has been sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life in prison for the murder of a homeless man.
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  Speaker 1: He had offered to help. Justin Fresner and his friend
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Russell, both homeless, accepted a kind gesture from Dallas Brower,
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  Speaker 1: who later took them to I Hop for breakfast. However,
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  Speaker 1: things took a dark turn when Brower offered them marijuana
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  Speaker 1: laced with finoneil, causing them to fall asleep. Cameron woke
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  Speaker 1: up to find his best friend being stabbed by Brower,
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  Speaker 1: who showed no remorse during the attack. The surviving man
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  Speaker 1: said the two had been huddled up at a bus
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  Speaker 1: stop when Brower approached the men and asked if they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go for a hot breakfast at I Hop.
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  Speaker 1: Brower told police he started thinking the men should die
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  Speaker 1: for all the bad things they had done. He said
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  Speaker 1: during breakfast he felt the urge to kill them, and
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  Speaker 1: then daring the attack, he said he felt like he
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  Speaker 1: was having an out of body experience. Despite Brower's claims
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  Speaker 1: of hallucinations and drug induced violence, the court found him
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  Speaker 1: guilty of first degree murder and aggravated assault. Freisner's body
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  Speaker 1: was found near the airport, with a corner reporting multiple
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  Speaker 1: stab wounds as his cause of death. Russell, who survived
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  Speaker 1: the attack, was deeply traumatized by the incident and spoke
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  Speaker 1: out about the loss of his dear friend. During the sentencing,
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  Speaker 1: the judge handed Brauer a life sentence with twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years fixed, taking into account the gravity of the crimes committed.
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  Speaker 1: The victim's families also shared their pain and lost to
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  Speaker 1: the court, emphasizing the impact of Brower's action on their lives, saying,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he was homeless, but he was still our beloved
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  Speaker 1: family member. For the latest crime and justice news, follow
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  Speaker 1: this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Park