Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Beautiful 28-yo Shannon Graves’ body parts sealed in plastic bags, stored in freezer while look-a-like allegedly steals identity
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A missing woman's body was
- 0:13Speaker 1: the one being stored in a Camel freezer. Police have
- 0:16Speaker 1: just confirmed that it was Shannon Graves. She hadn't been
- 0:20Speaker 1: seen for several months. First, Who's anchor, Stanboni is live
- 0:24Speaker 1: outside of the Youngstown Police Department right now with more information.
- 0:27Speaker 1: I'm standing tonight just outside of the Youngstown Police Department
- 0:30Speaker 1: of downtown Youngstown, where in the past hour, the police
- 0:33Speaker 1: department has confirmed the identity of the woman found Saturday
- 0:38Speaker 1: in a freezer in Camel. Her name is Shannon Graves.
- 0:42Speaker 1: She is twenty eight years old. For a while, she
- 0:45Speaker 1: was actually on the Ohio Attorney General's missing Person's list.
- 0:49Speaker 1: The confirmation of the identity of Shannon Graves was made
- 0:53Speaker 1: this afternoon after an autopsy done by the Cuyahoga County
- 0:57Speaker 1: Corner's Office. Shannon Grave was just twenty eight years old,
- 1:03Speaker 1: goes missing for a period of time, and then she
- 1:05Speaker 1: is reported missing by her family. So how does a
- 1:10Speaker 1: body end up in a freezer? First? I want to
- 1:15Speaker 1: find out, Well, you know, let's just start at the beginning.
- 1:18Speaker 1: I'm Nasy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I've got an
- 1:21Speaker 1: all star panel lined up to figure this out? How
- 1:24Speaker 1: does a woman go a young woman in the prime
- 1:27Speaker 1: of her life, just twenty eight years old, got her
- 1:30Speaker 1: whole life in front of her, got parents, got siblings,
- 1:35Speaker 1: people that love her. How does she end up not
- 1:40Speaker 1: just in a freezer? You know why it took so
- 1:44Speaker 1: long to figure out who it was? She was dismembered?
- 1:49Speaker 1: What did they just move over the ground beef? They
- 1:53Speaker 1: just move for her body over and reach through the
- 1:55Speaker 1: ground beef down to the frozen pepperoni pizza. How did
- 1:59Speaker 1: this happen to this beautiful young girl. I'm looking at
- 2:02Speaker 1: her right now. She looks like she should be on
- 2:05Speaker 1: the front of some organic, natural, living, wholesome magazine. Jackie,
- 2:10Speaker 1: look at her? Look out pretty? I mean when you yeah, yeah,
- 2:15Speaker 1: that's exactly what I thought, Jackie said. It looks like
- 2:17Speaker 1: clean living. She's beautiful. I don't mean that in a
- 2:20Speaker 1: homely kind of way, like no makeup and frumpy hair
- 2:24Speaker 1: all that. She's beautiful. She's got kind of brownish honey
- 2:29Speaker 1: blonde hair pulled over. It looks like a kind of
- 2:31Speaker 1: a loose side pony. She's got big, beautiful brown eyes,
- 2:37Speaker 1: a very pretty smile. She's just pretty. She looks like
- 2:42Speaker 1: the girl next door with me. Doctor Michelle Dupree, medical examiner,
- 2:47Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide, doctor Wendy Dickinson, psycholog's
- 2:52Speaker 1: founder of Grow Counseling. Stephen Lampley, detective extraordinaire. Kathleen Murphy,
- 2:59Speaker 1: veteran trial lawyer out of North Carolina. Nimah Hadatti, former
- 3:04Speaker 1: California prosecutor, trial veteran. But right now, to John Limley,
- 3:09Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, who is this woman?
- 3:14Speaker 1: Why is she in a freezer? Nancy, the way you've
- 3:16Speaker 1: described Shannon Elizabeth Graves is really perfect. You know, she's
- 3:21Speaker 1: like somebody's beloved daughter or granddaughter or best friend, and
- 3:25Speaker 1: she was all of those things. Yeah, I was gonna say, correction,
- 3:28Speaker 1: She's not like somebody's beloved. She is somebody's beloved daughter, right.
- 3:35Speaker 1: I mean, don't start I'm beloved children because I have
- 3:38Speaker 1: been a nervous wreck about children. My children, they're eleven. Nimahdatti, Dotor,
- 3:44Speaker 1: Wendy Dickinson. You may not have heard me go on
- 3:47Speaker 1: and on and on about them, but they're eleven year
- 3:50Speaker 1: old twins. They're my world. John David just fractured his
- 3:54Speaker 1: foot walking off the playground and Lucy Santa. What was
- 3:59Speaker 1: Heath thanking? I disagree with this. Basanta brought up trampoline,
- 4:03Speaker 1: Lucy jumped on a ball instead of the trampoline and
- 4:08Speaker 1: sprained her ankle, and then the dog the docks and
- 4:10Speaker 1: Mutt hurt his back. Everybody's sick, and I think about
- 4:14Speaker 1: it all day long while they're at school. Yes, this
- 4:18Speaker 1: woman is beloved. Her parents probably thought about her all
- 4:22Speaker 1: the time, like I think about the twins all the time.
- 4:24Speaker 1: John Linley and most of her family last remember seeing
- 4:29Speaker 1: Shannon on Christmas Day. Now, her sister Debbie to Paul
- 4:34Speaker 1: says that she last saw her almost two months later
- 4:38Speaker 1: in mid February. That's when Debbie says she spent some
- 4:41Speaker 1: time with Shannon at her apartment with Shannon's boyfriend. But
- 4:46Speaker 1: then Shannon misses two key family events that spring, first
- 4:51Speaker 1: her sister's birthday in March and then Easter two, which
- 4:55Speaker 1: was a big celebration for the family on that year
- 4:59Speaker 1: in twenty seven teen, Easter was on April sixteenth. Debbie
- 5:03Speaker 1: says that it was not unusual for Shannon to go
- 5:07Speaker 1: really long periods of time without communicating with family members. However,
- 5:12Speaker 1: by the time June arrived. This is when she had
- 5:16Speaker 1: passed a threshold that she'd never crossed before. So Shannon
- 5:20Speaker 1: had never gone so long without contacting someone. So that's
- 5:25Speaker 1: when the family decided this time was different, something was wrong,
- 5:29Speaker 1: so they filed a missing person report with the Youngstown,
- 5:33Speaker 1: Ohio Police Department. Shannon's name was also very quickly added
- 5:37Speaker 1: to the Ohio General's Missing Person's website. When they spoke
- 5:42Speaker 1: with police, the family told them that what really bothered
- 5:46Speaker 1: them this time about Shannon's disappearance is what she left behind.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Her car, her cell phone, and most importantly, her dog.
- 5:56Speaker 1: That's something they say Shannon would never in a million
- 5:59Speaker 1: years due is leave her dog behind. Oh goodness, no,
- 6:02Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to our friend
- 6:05Speaker 1: at WKB and TV, Shannon Graves when he eight year
- 6:09Speaker 1: old was added to the Ohio Attorney General's Missing Person's
- 6:12Speaker 1: website earlier this month after concerns about her well being. Tonight,
- 6:16Speaker 1: we reached out to the homeowner who discovered the body.
- 6:19Speaker 1: He told us he is too distraught to talk after
- 6:21Speaker 1: finding out that it was Shannon Graves in the freezer,
- 6:24Speaker 1: just like you're saying. John Lemley Crime Online dot com
- 6:27Speaker 1: investigative reporter, where you can find this in all other
- 6:30Speaker 1: breaking crime and justice news Crime online dot com. The
- 6:34Speaker 1: fact that she left behind her dog, and I want
- 6:37Speaker 1: to go for a moment to our new panelist, Atlanta psychologist,
- 6:42Speaker 1: founder of Grow Counseling, doctor Wendy Dickinson. You know, doctor
- 6:47Speaker 1: Wendy Dickinson. It was a technique I used often in court,
- 6:51Speaker 1: but really I just recently heard a formal name to it.
- 6:55Speaker 1: It's called routine evidence evidence of routine. I would argue
- 7:00Speaker 1: to a jury this person departed from their regular routine,
- 7:04Speaker 1: and I just noticed it was being called that in
- 7:07Speaker 1: the end on Sayed Case, which is part of Serial
- 7:11Speaker 1: the podcast. Here you've got a woman that goes about
- 7:15Speaker 1: the same routine all the time, and suddenly you find
- 7:17Speaker 1: her cell phone, her purse, and most important, her dog
- 7:21Speaker 1: has been abandoned. Yeah, it's it's um. There's obviously something
- 7:26Speaker 1: going on when we see somebody who just immediately changes
- 7:29Speaker 1: their routine. It's one of the factors that we've worked
- 7:31Speaker 1: for and assessing has there been a trauma? Is there
- 7:35Speaker 1: is there somebody in the person's life that has impacted
- 7:40Speaker 1: them in a way that's caused them to change their routine.
- 7:45Speaker 1: We look for maybe a head trauma or something that's
- 7:49Speaker 1: organic in nature, kind of a biomechanical issue with them,
- 7:53Speaker 1: because those all points to something's changed, something's different. Well,
- 7:57Speaker 1: you know what, I'm glad you're such an optimus doctor
- 8:00Speaker 1: Wendy Dickinson, because Stephen Lampley, from where you and I sit,
- 8:04Speaker 1: when somebody leaves their dog, their cel phone, their purse behind,
- 8:08Speaker 1: they're dead. Okay, Doctor Wendy Dickinson thinks, Hey, maybe they've
- 8:12Speaker 1: had a traumatic event, maybe they're reeling emotionally. I'm like,
- 8:16Speaker 1: they're dead. That's usually true, Mancy. Of course, there are
- 8:19Speaker 1: the outside events where a person has become delirious or
- 8:23Speaker 1: injured and is wandering about, but as you and I know,
- 8:26Speaker 1: most of the time, that's what's happened. They're dead somewhere.
- 8:32Speaker 1: One way Shannon was remembered was with pictures scattered on
- 8:35Speaker 1: the railing throughout the gazebo. There were also candles and
- 8:39Speaker 1: boxes of tissues. T shirts were being sold saluting Youngstown
- 8:43Speaker 1: Girls on the front and Justice for Shannon on the back.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Even Shannon's dog, Molly, now in the care of Debby,
- 8:51Speaker 1: was there. It's not the easiest. I have my moments,
- 8:54Speaker 1: but there's a lot going on, so I'm just trying
- 8:56Speaker 1: to stay strong and keep going. As people arrived, there
- 9:00Speaker 1: was some talking, but for the most part they were quiet, solemn,
- 9:04Speaker 1: remembering Shannon Graves. It's a good thing. It's good for people,
- 9:08Speaker 1: you know that our missing her, and it's I think
- 9:13Speaker 1: it's good for awareness of what's going on with the
- 9:15Speaker 1: whole thing, because it's pretty foul. Yeah, foul is one
- 9:18Speaker 1: way to put it. Wk B NTV STANDBONI reporting right there.
- 9:24Speaker 1: You know, I just don't know sometimes how many more
- 9:28Speaker 1: of these I can take to Nimahdadi, former California prosecutor.
- 9:33Speaker 1: You like I and Lampley have probably seen it all.
- 9:35Speaker 1: I guess I can throw Kathleen Murphy and Limley in
- 9:38Speaker 1: that well, really our whole panel. But Nima, do you
- 9:42Speaker 1: ever get beaten down when you see another scene of
- 9:48Speaker 1: candles and pictures and tissues and stuffed animals because you
- 9:53Speaker 1: know someone has been killed and all the candles in
- 9:56Speaker 1: the world are not going to bring them back. And
- 9:58Speaker 1: the only thing left for some body like you or
- 10:00Speaker 1: me to do it's to seek justice. That's the only
- 10:04Speaker 1: thing I new to do in court. I would get
- 10:07Speaker 1: so overwhelmed with this murder and that murder and this trial,
- 10:11Speaker 1: molestation and that arson. It just seemed to make me
- 10:14Speaker 1: meaner and meaner and meaner, because it's all I could do.
- 10:17Speaker 1: It's fight back. I'm with you, exact same feelings and
- 10:21Speaker 1: candles and pictures. It humanizes everything so much and it
- 10:25Speaker 1: just brings it down to the core and it's devastating,
- 10:28Speaker 1: you know, And the only thing you can do is
- 10:30Speaker 1: just push forward and fight and bring justice to these poor,
- 10:33Speaker 1: devastated families. And I know you know with me from
- 10:37Speaker 1: la is Alan. Do you can hear in the studio
- 10:39Speaker 1: Jackie Howard, so as we talk about, you know, sound
- 10:43Speaker 1: or pictures that compliment our story, that help explain it,
- 10:47Speaker 1: and I'll see sound of vigil. I'm like, I don't
- 10:49Speaker 1: want any vigil. They're like why because it doesn't help.
- 10:54Speaker 1: It doesn't help solve the case. So, John Linley, can
- 10:58Speaker 1: we move from the visual, which I appreciate. I appreciate
- 11:02Speaker 1: it as a crime victim what that means to the
- 11:04Speaker 1: family to have a vigil and remember Shannon. But I
- 11:08Speaker 1: want results, John Limley, you tell me this girl is
- 11:13Speaker 1: dismembered and a freezer. Uh huh? What happened next? Well,
- 11:18Speaker 1: before they even find her body in the freezer, police
- 11:22Speaker 1: began checking jail's, prisons, hospitals, anywhere to see if they
- 11:26Speaker 1: could find Shannon in any of those facilities. Why did
- 11:29Speaker 1: you say that about her? Well, this girl doesn't have
- 11:31Speaker 1: a record. No, but they've run out of leads, and
- 11:34Speaker 1: so they're looking any and everywhere just to see if
- 11:37Speaker 1: something has happened along the way. Then a couple of
- 11:41Speaker 1: months into the investigation, there's some shocking news coming out
- 11:45Speaker 1: of Campbell, Ohio. This is just a ten minute drive
- 11:49Speaker 1: from Youngstown. Word is that a couple living in Campbell
- 11:53Speaker 1: have made a horrific discovery in their own house, in
- 11:57Speaker 1: their basement, and they think a friend there's has something
- 12:00Speaker 1: to do with it. Oh, well, don't stop there, go ahead. Well,
- 12:04Speaker 1: the beginning of the story goes back when Ken Eschenball
- 12:07Speaker 1: says a friend introduced him to a man named Anthony Gonzalez. Well,
- 12:13Speaker 1: Ken says he became friends with Anthony because Ken owns
- 12:17Speaker 1: some audio equipment and Anthony was interested in recording rap music.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Fast forward to the middle of the July. This is
- 12:27Speaker 1: when Anthony asks Ken for a favor Anthony tells Ken
- 12:31Speaker 1: that the electricity has gone out in his home and
- 12:34Speaker 1: he's concerned that some meat he was keeping in a
- 12:37Speaker 1: freezer was in danger. A thoughting going bad, so when
- 12:41Speaker 1: Anthony asked Ken if he could bring the freezer to
- 12:44Speaker 1: his home in Campbell, Ken said sure, no problem. Anthony
- 12:49Speaker 1: arrives at night with a friend, according to Ken, bringing
- 12:53Speaker 1: the freezer through a backdoor and into the basement. It
- 12:57Speaker 1: wasn't until three days maybe, Ken says, after the freezer
- 13:01Speaker 1: arrived in his house that Ken's wife notices that it's
- 13:05Speaker 1: secured with a padlock. He says he doesn't think too
- 13:08Speaker 1: much about it because Anthony could be a little unusual,
- 13:13Speaker 1: a little odd at times. That freezer sat in the
- 13:16Speaker 1: basement for a few weeks until one Saturday morning when
- 13:20Speaker 1: Ken's wife planned to make some spaghetti and meatballs. She
- 13:24Speaker 1: thought she would just borrow some hamburger from the freezer
- 13:27Speaker 1: and then replace it later. No harm done. Ken's wife
- 13:31Speaker 1: told him that she removed the three screws that secured
- 13:34Speaker 1: the padlock. To the man, she must have really wanted
- 13:37Speaker 1: spaghetti and meatballs to go into someone she doesn't know
- 13:41Speaker 1: freezer and the hope she might find some Hamburger meeting
- 13:44Speaker 1: in there. Don't screws the padlocks breaks and gets in there.
- 13:48Speaker 1: I don't believe that for one minute. Kathleen Murphy, she
- 13:51Speaker 1: just wanted to know what was in the freezer. Eat
- 13:53Speaker 1: in the freezer. She wanted to eat that spaghetti. They
- 13:56Speaker 1: were going to make spaghetti that night. But she didn't
- 13:57Speaker 1: want to runto the gross Kathleen, she didn't know what
- 14:00Speaker 1: was in there. She didn't know if there was a
- 14:01Speaker 1: ground bay freezing. But the reality is, it doesn't matter
- 14:04Speaker 1: why she went into the freezer. What matters is what
- 14:07Speaker 1: she found, what she got in there. John Limley. Yeah,
- 14:09Speaker 1: she begins rummaging through the freezer and comes upon a
- 14:13Speaker 1: large garbage bag inside. This is when Ken's wife says
- 14:18Speaker 1: she immediately got a bad feeling. She put everything back in,
- 14:23Speaker 1: replaced the three screws, and called her husband. And when
- 14:27Speaker 1: Kenn arrives at home, he opens the freezer and found
- 14:30Speaker 1: that whatever was inside the bag was frozen solid. So
- 14:35Speaker 1: he got out a knife. Well, is everybody trying to
- 14:38Speaker 1: tell me nobody looked in the bag? You know? Joining
- 14:41Speaker 1: me is Stephen Lampley, a detective extraordinaire. Stephen. Everybody better
- 14:47Speaker 1: get their story straight and tell the truth. They can't see. Wow,
- 14:53Speaker 1: I want a spaghetti and meatballs. And I just thought
- 14:55Speaker 1: maybe this freezer that's padlock in the basement, that belongs
- 15:00Speaker 1: to somebody else might have some frozen meatballs in it.
- 15:03Speaker 1: So I went and broke into it, unscrewed all the hinges,
- 15:07Speaker 1: took off the padlock, and found a dead body. No,
- 15:11Speaker 1: she has to tell the truth. I was curious, I
- 15:14Speaker 1: had a bad feeling. I opened the freezer. It's in
- 15:18Speaker 1: my basement. I can open whenever I want to in
- 15:21Speaker 1: my basement because little lies like that. If it is
- 15:25Speaker 1: a lie, maybe she just was on an insatiable quest
- 15:29Speaker 1: for meatballs. But even a little lie can ruin a prosecution.
- 15:34Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley, Nancy, you're absolutely correct, and you know well
- 15:38Speaker 1: more than the rest of us to about prosecuting murder cases.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I don't believe that as well. Of course, that's my opinion.
- 15:46Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think she was curious as
- 15:48Speaker 1: to what was in the freezer, and that's when they
- 15:51Speaker 1: made the discovery on the body parts. And of course
- 15:54Speaker 1: it's my understanding that all of her body parts were
- 15:57Speaker 1: in there. Okay, thank you for that last touch. Not
- 15:59Speaker 1: all the body parts were in there. You know. To
- 16:02Speaker 1: doctor Wendy Dickinson, what is it about human curiosity? Why
- 16:06Speaker 1: not just admit I was curious about why they stored
- 16:10Speaker 1: the freezer here and I opened the padlock. Why make
- 16:13Speaker 1: up a story about me both well, I just I
- 16:15Speaker 1: have to imagine that after she found the body in there,
- 16:18Speaker 1: she's completely freaked out and afraid that she was going
- 16:21Speaker 1: to be implicated in some way. But I think you're right,
- 16:24Speaker 1: it's the core of it. It sounds like she's curious
- 16:27Speaker 1: and I wanted to know what's in the POWD blocked
- 16:29Speaker 1: fridge freezer. Why do you have a power block on
- 16:31Speaker 1: your freezer? That's not normal? And I'll tell you another
- 16:34Speaker 1: reason I'm worried. To Nimahadatti, former California prosecutor NeiMa you
- 16:39Speaker 1: know this jury charge as well as I do. I'm
- 16:43Speaker 1: sure the jury it is there the sole province of
- 16:47Speaker 1: a jury to determine credibility of a witness. In other words,
- 16:50Speaker 1: are they telling the truth or not? Not the judge,
- 16:54Speaker 1: not the prosecutor, not the defense. And there is a
- 16:56Speaker 1: jury charge that the judge gives at the end of
- 16:58Speaker 1: every case before the jury makes the deliberations, and it
- 17:02Speaker 1: is if you disbelieve the witness in any part and
- 17:09Speaker 1: some in part in whole, you're entitled to throw out
- 17:14Speaker 1: all of their testimony from your deliberations. Now, think about it, Nima,
- 17:19Speaker 1: follow me along with this for a moment. Tell me
- 17:21Speaker 1: what you think. If that's true, and you have one
- 17:25Speaker 1: nut back in the jury room and they decide this
- 17:28Speaker 1: woman that opens the padlock is lying about why she
- 17:31Speaker 1: went into the freezer, they could throw out all of
- 17:34Speaker 1: her testimony. You know what, That leaves a perfect story
- 17:38Speaker 1: for the defense that she did it, that she and
- 17:42Speaker 1: her husband did it, and they're trying to pin it
- 17:44Speaker 1: on somebody else. Because if you could throw out all
- 17:46Speaker 1: of her testimony about discovering the body, then the state's
- 17:50Speaker 1: got a problem. Yeah, this is pretty terrible for the
- 17:53Speaker 1: prosecution when you have a witness that even a little
- 17:57Speaker 1: bit a little white light could destroy the credibility and
- 18:01Speaker 1: that would be the end of their entire testimony. And
- 18:03Speaker 1: without this piece, it would make this case difficult for
- 18:06Speaker 1: the prosecution. So bottom line, I believe the woman is
- 18:10Speaker 1: completely innocent. I think she got curious and opened up
- 18:13Speaker 1: the freezer, as I would too. Padlock freezer on my basement,
- 18:17Speaker 1: no way, and she found the worst discovery of all,
- 18:21Speaker 1: a dead body. So question, how did Shannon Graves get
- 18:27Speaker 1: into the freezer? Not on her own because she's dismembered
- 18:45Speaker 1: crime stories with Nancy Grace. Youngstown City Prosecutor Dana Lance said,
- 18:53Speaker 1: just after Graves was last seen five months ago, Layton
- 18:57Speaker 1: moved in, drove graves car, used herself phone, and even
- 19:00Speaker 1: cared for her dog. Then, on July twenty fourth, a
- 19:03Speaker 1: witness told police Late and Novoa moved a Padlock freezer
- 19:07Speaker 1: to a Devitt Avenue home and cammel. Five days later,
- 19:10Speaker 1: the homeowner called police after finding human remains inside. Well,
- 19:14Speaker 1: that's certainly a love match. Artiro Novoa, who is Shannon's
- 19:19Speaker 1: then boyfriend at the time she goes missing her live in,
- 19:22Speaker 1: he's already slung up with another woman, John Limley, another
- 19:26Speaker 1: woman who is driving Graves's car, using her cell phone,
- 19:30Speaker 1: taking care of her dog. What right? And this name
- 19:33Speaker 1: Arturo Novoa is one we haven't heard yet because that's
- 19:36Speaker 1: not the name he was using when he was with
- 19:40Speaker 1: his girlfriend. Also when he was with these friends that
- 19:43Speaker 1: were keeping a friend a freezer. Yes, Artiro Novoa is
- 19:48Speaker 1: the same guy. I think you said Anthony that wanted
- 19:52Speaker 1: somebody else to quote store his freezer. So correct, Anthony
- 19:55Speaker 1: Gonzalez and Artura Novoa one and the same. But his
- 19:59Speaker 1: name is really our tour of Novola. You know what
- 20:02Speaker 1: I always love And let me throw this to doctor
- 20:04Speaker 1: Wendy Dickinson, Atlanta psychologist, founder of Grow Counseling. I love
- 20:10Speaker 1: reading an indictment to a jury because you know, when
- 20:13Speaker 1: you start a felony case, the prosecution reads the indictment,
- 20:16Speaker 1: and I love reading that indictment out loud, especially when
- 20:20Speaker 1: there are a string of aliases behind the defendant's name.
- 20:24Speaker 1: For instance, Jackie Howard aka also known as Jahoe, also
- 20:30Speaker 1: known as the Jack. Yeah, and you go on and
- 20:34Speaker 1: on and on and on, and finally the jury's like,
- 20:37Speaker 1: I don't have an alias, I don't have a quote
- 20:39Speaker 1: street name. Why does this person have so many names?
- 20:43Speaker 1: Having multiple names? It's never a sign of good things, Wendy, Yeah.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I mean when you look at somebody who has a
- 20:48Speaker 1: string of multiple names, you start to wonder what is
- 20:51Speaker 1: it that they're trying to cover up? You know, we
- 20:53Speaker 1: look at behavior that's outside of the normal curve of behavior,
- 20:56Speaker 1: and like you said, most of us use one name.
- 20:58Speaker 1: We're straightforward about who we are. That's our identity. When
- 21:01Speaker 1: somebody has these versions of themselves and they're trying to
- 21:04Speaker 1: portray in different ways, it starts to raise questions about
- 21:07Speaker 1: what their real intentions are. Same thing, Aland when a
- 21:09Speaker 1: guy has multiple cell phones, Alan, I'm always suspicious Why
- 21:13Speaker 1: I have more than one cell phone? Who do you
- 21:16Speaker 1: want to call on one phone versus the other phone? Alan, Well,
- 21:19Speaker 1: ones for business and once for family. M Okay, let
- 21:24Speaker 1: me go back to you, John Linley, Crime online dot
- 21:26Speaker 1: Com investigator reporters. So we figured this much out. But
- 21:28Speaker 1: what I don't know? Who is Layton? I know Artiro
- 21:31Speaker 1: Novoa aka Anthony? Who is Layton? That is our tour
- 21:36Speaker 1: Novoah's new girlfriend Katrina Layton, or maybe she's not a
- 21:40Speaker 1: new girlfriend. Maybe she's been a girlfriend the whole time.
- 21:43Speaker 1: That's for investigators to find out. Both of them had
- 21:46Speaker 1: been booked into the County jail. Youngstown Police tell us
- 21:50Speaker 1: that although Novoa denied knowing anything about a body inside
- 21:53Speaker 1: a freezer, he had the keys to the padlock when
- 21:57Speaker 1: he was arrested. Okay, that's pretty damnage, do Doctor Michelle Dupree.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Now we really need you, doctor Dupree, medical examiner out
- 22:05Speaker 1: of South Carolina, author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Just
- 22:09Speaker 1: the title alone makes me want to stay up at
- 22:12Speaker 1: night and read that, and sadly, I'm not kidding. Homicide
- 22:16Speaker 1: Investigation Field Guide. Wow, okay, doctor Michelle Dupree. We know
- 22:22Speaker 1: that this young girl, twenty eight years old, Shannon Graves,
- 22:24Speaker 1: is in the freezer. She's dismembered. How do you how
- 22:29Speaker 1: do you salvage a frozen body? And what does literally
- 22:33Speaker 1: NonStop freezing temperature due to human remains? But I think
- 22:37Speaker 1: that's all very good questions, and there's several things we
- 22:39Speaker 1: have to consider. One is, we do have to defrost
- 22:42Speaker 1: the body, but we have to do it in such
- 22:44Speaker 1: a way so that it doesn't occur rapidly so there's
- 22:46Speaker 1: as little damage as possible to the skin and to
- 22:50Speaker 1: the tissue. Well, how do you do that? Wait? Wait, wait, wait, wait,
- 22:53Speaker 1: you just told me something I've never thought of. I've
- 22:55Speaker 1: had plenty of cases where the body have been frozen,
- 22:58Speaker 1: but you're telling me you have to unthought it in
- 23:02Speaker 1: a particular way so as to decrease the likelihood of damage.
- 23:05Speaker 1: What do you mean by that, well, so that if
- 23:07Speaker 1: we need to do microscopic studies, and we always try
- 23:10Speaker 1: to do microscopic studies in our autopsies so that we
- 23:12Speaker 1: can preserve as much tissue as possible without the frozen artifact.
- 23:16Speaker 1: So we just defrost it slowly. You mean you just
- 23:19Speaker 1: let the body sit there. You certainly don't warm it
- 23:22Speaker 1: up in any way, do you. That's right, We just
- 23:23Speaker 1: let it most we sit there. Okay, so let me
- 23:26Speaker 1: understand this. The body parts are in garbage bags, John Limley, Yes, correct, Okay.
- 23:33Speaker 1: What happens? Then the meatball aficionado finds the dead body
- 23:38Speaker 1: and the padlocked freezer. Whoops, the I unscrewed the padlock
- 23:41Speaker 1: and calls her husband. I still don't believe that without
- 23:45Speaker 1: knowing what was in the garbage bag, she called her husband.
- 23:47Speaker 1: I think she looked in there and she saw a body.
- 23:49Speaker 1: But that's just me. But they better get that and
- 23:51Speaker 1: nailed down before they go to trial. The husband comes home,
- 23:53Speaker 1: they confirm its body, and then what happens. This is
- 23:56Speaker 1: when very quickly police discover the identity of our Toura
- 24:01Speaker 1: Novoa aka Anthony Gonzalez and his girlfriend charged them. Now,
- 24:06Speaker 1: as for this girlfriend, Katrina Layton. It's discovered that during
- 24:11Speaker 1: this time period she had since Shannon's disappearance, she had
- 24:16Speaker 1: essentially taken over Shannon's life, even taking care of her
- 24:20Speaker 1: dog and driving her car after her appearance. And one
- 24:25Speaker 1: important point, Katrina Layton was also the one who bought
- 24:30Speaker 1: that freezer where the body was kept for who knows
- 24:33Speaker 1: how long. Okay, this is what I don't understand, and
- 24:36Speaker 1: I'm not to that point yet because I don't know
- 24:37Speaker 1: all the facts. But how does one person murder somebody,
- 24:43Speaker 1: dismember the body and everybody else just goes along with it.
- 24:48Speaker 1: I'm going to go out to my partner in crime,
- 24:50Speaker 1: Alan Duke. Alan, you and I have covered so many cases.
- 24:54Speaker 1: You were at SNN long before me. You were with
- 24:57Speaker 1: me so many nights at HLN. We there was so
- 25:00Speaker 1: many cases where people will commit a crime, which is
- 25:03Speaker 1: bad enough, but those other people around it in the
- 25:06Speaker 1: mix that knew what had happened, that went a lot.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Here you've got this woman Layton, I guess, wearing her clothes,
- 25:13Speaker 1: taking care of her dog, driving her car. I mean,
- 25:15Speaker 1: she's got to know. Yeah, it's like in the Tera
- 25:17Speaker 1: Grinstead case, the trial going on bo Duke's helped his
- 25:21Speaker 1: friend Ryan burned the body in a pecan roag. Why
- 25:23Speaker 1: would you do that? You didn't kill that person, Why
- 25:26Speaker 1: would you have anything to do with it? I don't. Again,
- 25:28Speaker 1: I'm going to go to shrink on that. But let
- 25:29Speaker 1: me get the rest of the fact. So Linley, they
- 25:32Speaker 1: identify that it is Shannon. No, no, they don't yet.
- 25:36Speaker 1: They identify that the freezer was brought over there by
- 25:39Speaker 1: Artiro Novoa under the name Anthony, and then they pieced
- 25:44Speaker 1: together that the girlfriend Layton has been driving Shannon's car
- 25:48Speaker 1: and taking care of her dog. Okay, then what happens, Well,
- 25:52Speaker 1: they discovered that after Shannon was killed and locked away
- 25:55Speaker 1: in that freezer, this girlfriend, Katrina Layton, she had blamed
- 26:00Speaker 1: Grave's identity and lived her life, but she didn't really,
- 26:04Speaker 1: you know, she didn't go to the point of, you know,
- 26:07Speaker 1: changing her name and identification and such. Novoa and Leyton
- 26:11Speaker 1: allegedly moved inside of Shannon's home, used her credit cards,
- 26:17Speaker 1: even caring for her dog. All the while the community
- 26:20Speaker 1: is searching for this young woman. So basically, Katrina moved
- 26:24Speaker 1: in with Arturo started living Shannon's life. She didn't hold
- 26:28Speaker 1: herself out to be Shannon. She just lived her life,
- 26:30Speaker 1: using her phone, caring for a dog, apparently the two
- 26:34Speaker 1: just driving her car, wearing her clothes. I mean, but
- 26:38Speaker 1: that is impersonating her. John Linley, Kathleen Murphy. That's gonna
- 26:42Speaker 1: look horrible if this ever goes to court, that she
- 26:45Speaker 1: just walked into somebody's home. How could she argues she
- 26:47Speaker 1: didn't know anything had happened to Shannon Graves when she's
- 26:50Speaker 1: taking care of her dog, wearing her clothes, driving her car,
- 26:53Speaker 1: and using her cell phone with all of her contacts
- 26:55Speaker 1: in it. Oh, Nancy, She didn't say she was impersonating.
- 26:58Speaker 1: She said she was just used her item, using her ID,
- 27:02Speaker 1: using her home, taking care of her dog. But to her,
- 27:07Speaker 1: that's not her boyfriend, her apartment, her car, her driver's license,
- 27:11Speaker 1: her credit cards, her dog, her cell phone. I mean,
- 27:14Speaker 1: she's not. What am I missing? That is impersonal? That's
- 27:18Speaker 1: I come into your house and I'll start wearing your clothes,
- 27:21Speaker 1: taking care of your children and having dinner with your husband,
- 27:24Speaker 1: driving your car and calling people on your cell phone.
- 27:27Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say, I'm not impersonating you. Fine, have it.
- 27:30Speaker 1: Your white Nemaha Dati former California prosecutor. She's in deep,
- 27:35Speaker 1: deep trouble. Yeah, she is. This is pretty terrible, using
- 27:39Speaker 1: somebody's ID, using the car, everything that is impersonating somebody
- 27:43Speaker 1: and seems like she's an accessory. There's no way she
- 27:46Speaker 1: can have known about any of this. She needs to
- 27:48Speaker 1: find a really good defense attorney and separate herself and
- 27:51Speaker 1: start to fight as soon as possible. Take a listen
- 27:53Speaker 1: to Youngstown Lieutenant Doug bbof Nick and her friend A. W.
- 27:58Speaker 1: K be into with you. Arrest made. Two individuals were
- 28:02Speaker 1: arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse, and then
- 28:07Speaker 1: the other individual was also additionally charged with obstructing justice
- 28:12Speaker 1: in connection with the remains found in Campmell. We believe
- 28:16Speaker 1: that we are investigating it because we believe that it
- 28:19Speaker 1: originated in the city of Youngstown and was taken the
- 28:22Speaker 1: camel Are those two people are troa in Katrina Taylor.
- 28:27Speaker 1: That's correct, he's ald Us wearing Camelot Street house. It
- 28:31Speaker 1: was on Devitt Avenue in camel What can you say
- 28:36Speaker 1: about the body those found? It appears to be a female. However,
- 28:40Speaker 1: we weren't able to closely examine it. The body was
- 28:43Speaker 1: taken to Cuyahoga County Corner's office where there's going to
- 28:47Speaker 1: be a forensic examination earlier this week. We'll be able
- 28:50Speaker 1: to determine the hopefully the cause of death. The next
- 28:53Speaker 1: steps today in a murder case that has garnered national attention,
- 28:56Speaker 1: two people accusing the murder of a woman and then
- 28:59Speaker 1: putting her body in a freezer, we're in court today.
- 29:01Speaker 1: First News reporter Tyler Trill was there and has the
- 29:03Speaker 1: latest from the courtroom. The couple young Sound police accused
- 29:07Speaker 1: of hiding a missing woman's body inside a freezer pleaded
- 29:10Speaker 1: not guilty to all three of their charges inside a
- 29:12Speaker 1: Mahoney County courtroom this morning. Arturo Novoa and Katrina Layton
- 29:17Speaker 1: are charged with aggravated murder, tampering with evidence, and abuse
- 29:20Speaker 1: of a corpse after a police discovered the body of
- 29:22Speaker 1: Shannon Graves in a freezer and a camel home in July.
- 29:26Speaker 1: They've both been in Mahoney County jail ever since. Grays
- 29:30Speaker 1: is the ex girlfriend of Novoah. The two lived together
- 29:32Speaker 1: in a home in Youngstown. Prosecutors say Katrina Layton then
- 29:36Speaker 1: assumed Shannon Grave's life after she had died. Bond was
- 29:40Speaker 1: set at a million dollars for both Novoah and Layton
- 29:43Speaker 1: back in July. That bond continues. Out to John Linley,
- 29:46Speaker 1: Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, I noticed that these
- 29:49Speaker 1: two are charged now with aggravated murderer of this beautiful
- 29:53Speaker 1: young girl, Shannon Grays. But two other people are charged
- 29:56Speaker 1: with obstructing justice. So bottom line, this Ohio man thirty
- 30:01Speaker 1: one years old, Orchia Novoa, hid his girlfriend's body in
- 30:04Speaker 1: a freezer while living with another woman, also in her thirties,
- 30:08Speaker 1: who assumed Shannon Graves identity. It's Artira Novoa and Katrina
- 30:15Speaker 1: Leyton arrested by Youngstown police. I learned about this story
- 30:21Speaker 1: conveniently at a restaurant slash Bar. I was not drinking
- 30:25Speaker 1: across the street from the courthouse in Youngstown, and what
- 30:29Speaker 1: I heard left me shocked and upset, not just about
- 30:34Speaker 1: the murder, but the fact that people would stand by
- 30:39Speaker 1: and be part of this scheme. To John Limley, I
- 30:42Speaker 1: noticed that two people are charged, Novoah and Leyton with
- 30:45Speaker 1: Shannon's murder, But who are the other two people that
- 30:47Speaker 1: are charged with obstruction? The names in the indictment Andrew
- 30:51Speaker 1: Herman and Michelle Enfield. These two were charged on engaging
- 30:58Speaker 1: in a pattern of corrupt activity, tampering with evidence twelve
- 31:03Speaker 1: counts there, and abuse of a corpse. In short, they
- 31:07Speaker 1: assisted Novoa with getting a rid hiding the body of
- 31:12Speaker 1: Shannon Graves. I just want to make sure, John Linley,
- 31:14Speaker 1: of one thing. The two names you read out, they're
- 31:17Speaker 1: not the meatball lover right, they're not the people that
- 31:20Speaker 1: claim they find the body and they're shocked and they okay,
- 31:23Speaker 1: so they're in the clear at they're the good guys
- 31:26Speaker 1: in this scenario. Who are these two other people? How
- 31:30Speaker 1: could they? You know? I don't get it. Nimahadatti, former
- 31:33Speaker 1: California prosecutor. I've seen it before where other people just
- 31:38Speaker 1: stand by and let something horrible happen and help in
- 31:42Speaker 1: the cover up and do nothing. Yeah, this is pretty terrible.
- 31:45Speaker 1: It seems like they actually helped conceal It seems like
- 31:48Speaker 1: with that obstruction of justice charge, they helped conceal the
- 31:51Speaker 1: crime as well. And it's just disgusting. And the apartment
- 31:57Speaker 1: that they lived in was actually Shannon Graves's apartment. Artiro Novoa,
- 32:02Speaker 1: the boyfriends and then Layton basically assume her life, all
- 32:08Speaker 1: her belongings. They take over her life. These two have
- 32:13Speaker 1: now landed in a court of law. Take a listen
- 32:16Speaker 1: to this the next steps today in a murder case
- 32:18Speaker 1: that has garnered national attention, two people accusing the murder
- 32:22Speaker 1: of a woman and then putting her body in a freezer.
- 32:24Speaker 1: We're in court today. First News reporter Tyler Trill was
- 32:27Speaker 1: there and has the latest from the courtroom. The couple
- 32:29Speaker 1: young Sound police accused of hiding a missing woman's body
- 32:32Speaker 1: inside a freezer pleaded not guilty to all three of
- 32:35Speaker 1: their charges inside a Mahoney County courtroom this morning. Artiro
- 32:39Speaker 1: Novoa and Katrina Layton are charged with aggravated murder, tampering
- 32:43Speaker 1: with evidence, and abuse of a corpse after a police
- 32:45Speaker 1: discovered the body of Shannon Graves in a freezer and
- 32:48Speaker 1: a camel home in July. They've both been in Mahoney
- 32:51Speaker 1: County jail ever since. Graves is the ex girlfriend of Novoah.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Graves family reported her missing back in February. The two
- 32:59Speaker 1: lived together in a home in Youngstown. Prosecutors said Katrina
- 33:02Speaker 1: Layton then assumed Shannon Grave's life after she had died.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Bond was set at a million dollars for both Novoa
- 33:09Speaker 1: and Layton back in July that bond continues. Law enforcement
- 33:14Speaker 1: also searched the couple's home. Those that were charged with
- 33:16Speaker 1: obstructing and helping hide the body, and they say, quote,
- 33:20Speaker 1: the measures this group allegedly took to cover up the
- 33:23Speaker 1: gruesome homicide are incomprehensible. That's from the age might Dwing.
- 33:29Speaker 1: These three defendants are accused of engaging in a pattern
- 33:32Speaker 1: of corrupt activity and attempt to mislead authorities and conceal
- 33:36Speaker 1: the atrocious crime. Wow, how long they got away with
- 33:42Speaker 1: her body being dismembered and frozen and a freezer sitting
- 33:46Speaker 1: in somebody else's basement is just amazing to me. To
- 33:51Speaker 1: Detective Stephen Lampley, how do you get away with something
- 33:56Speaker 1: for that long glance? It depends on the situation. You
- 34:00Speaker 1: look at Jeffrey Dahmer. Friends, of course, this is no way,
- 34:02Speaker 1: this is not a serial killing that Jeffrey Dahmer got
- 34:05Speaker 1: away with this forever. I mean, it seemed like it
- 34:06Speaker 1: was an eternity that he was killing and giving away
- 34:09Speaker 1: with it, and d was using a preaser himself. It
- 34:13Speaker 1: just depends on the circumstance that it can be done
- 34:15Speaker 1: and has been done and may be done again. I'm
- 34:17Speaker 1: also learning that the missing woman's body, of course, discovered
- 34:22Speaker 1: in a freezer, was not complete. Her entire body has
- 34:27Speaker 1: still not been found. I've also learned she was only
- 34:32Speaker 1: identified through fingerprints in DNA. To medical examiner and author
- 34:38Speaker 1: doctor Michelle Dupree, what does that tell you they had
- 34:41Speaker 1: to identify her through through fingerprints in DNA. Well, that
- 34:44Speaker 1: tells me basically that the body was in a condition
- 34:47Speaker 1: that it was unidentifiable by any other means, And identifying
- 34:51Speaker 1: a diseased person through fingerprints is relatively easy as fond
- 34:54Speaker 1: as we have tissue again that we can use to
- 34:57Speaker 1: get a fingerprint from and something to match it too. Well,
- 35:00Speaker 1: in my mind, Nemaha, Daddy, I don't know if you're
- 35:02Speaker 1: thinking like me, but what it tells me is she
- 35:03Speaker 1: doesn't have a head. They cannot identify her, They cannot
- 35:07Speaker 1: be in facial recognition. They had to use fingerprints in DNA.
- 35:10Speaker 1: That's what it tells me. Nema. I don't know, but
- 35:13Speaker 1: I mean, they couldn't identify her through gental records, They
- 35:17Speaker 1: could not identify her through facial recognition. They had to
- 35:20Speaker 1: use her fingerprints. Nema. Yeah, this points to me this
- 35:23Speaker 1: was all premeditated. They thought about this. This was done
- 35:26Speaker 1: in a very articulate and disgusting matter and was well
- 35:30Speaker 1: thought out. It's terrible, but Nan she may not have
- 35:34Speaker 1: had a head, but she also could have just been
- 35:36Speaker 1: too decomposed to have visual recognition. And unless we have
- 35:39Speaker 1: something to compare general records too, and we have an
- 35:41Speaker 1: idea who that person is, there's no judge base in
- 35:44Speaker 1: the sky for everybody who general records, So fingerprints are
- 35:47Speaker 1: an excellent way to do that. You know, what does
- 35:48Speaker 1: that do to a family, doctor Wendy Dickinson, that you
- 35:52Speaker 1: don't have your child's whole body to bury. Potentially her
- 35:57Speaker 1: head or some other part of her body is missing. Well,
- 36:00Speaker 1: I mean it's obviously a trauma on top of a trauma.
- 36:03Speaker 1: I mean the family has already been through so much
- 36:05Speaker 1: with her being missing and not knowing what's happening and
- 36:08Speaker 1: finding out all of these details, but then not to
- 36:11Speaker 1: be able to have the closure of being able to
- 36:13Speaker 1: bury her and see her for one last time. It's
- 36:17Speaker 1: extremely difficult on their family on their grieving process and
- 36:21Speaker 1: really can lead to some pretty complex ramifications for the grieving.
- 36:25Speaker 1: To John Lonely, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, where
- 36:29Speaker 1: does the case stand now. Well, before I get to that,
- 36:32Speaker 1: it's interesting to point out because we've talked about where
- 36:36Speaker 1: these extra body parts that were missing have gone. This
- 36:40Speaker 1: indictment shows that they disposed of graves body by both
- 36:45Speaker 1: chopping it up the parts that they found in the
- 36:47Speaker 1: freezer and dissolving part of it in acid before sticking
- 36:51Speaker 1: it in the freezer. Prosecutors alleged that these people helped
- 36:56Speaker 1: burn graves possessions, used her phone and cart, and earlier
- 37:00Speaker 1: this month, one of them, i Enfeld, even threatened someone
- 37:04Speaker 1: who dared to ask her questions about Shannon and her disappearance.
- 37:09Speaker 1: So at this point, first of all, Katrina Layton reached
- 37:12Speaker 1: a plea deal. She was able to avoid sentencing by
- 37:17Speaker 1: simply agreeing to testify against her boyfriend. Now the other two.
- 37:23Speaker 1: The trial date at this point is set for June third,
- 37:27Speaker 1: and this is when Artura Novoa and his co defendants
- 37:31Speaker 1: Andrew Hermann and his wife Michelle Ienfeld, they will all
- 37:36Speaker 1: go to trial on murder and disposal of Grave's body.
- 37:40Speaker 1: At this hour, Artura Novoa heading to trial for murderer
- 37:43Speaker 1: and abuse of a corpse. But what I will never
- 37:46Speaker 1: understand is why other people willingly go along with evil,
- 37:52Speaker 1: and stand by and let it happen, and do nothing.
- 37:57Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfals. Nancy Grace crimes Toory, signing
- 38:01Speaker 1: off goodbye friend,