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OK Man Kill-Shots Cancer-Surviving Granny While "Testing Out" New Christmas Glock| Crime Alert 6AM 01.08.2026 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, an Oklahoma woman holding a
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  Speaker 1: child sitting on her front porch, fatally shot on Christmas
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  Speaker 1: by a neighbor whose target practicing in his backyard blocks away,
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  Speaker 1: Cody Wayne Adams, trying out a new gun he purchased
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  Speaker 1: as a Christmas gift. Authorities alleged a stray bullet leaves
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  Speaker 1: Adam's yard strikes Sandra Phelps in her right arm while
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  Speaker 1: she's holding the child with her left arm. Adams, thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion first degree manslaughter. A real Christmas miracle.
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  Speaker 2: The baby not hit. Jennifer Gould has the details.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy Sandra Phelps, a five time cancer survivor who spent
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  Speaker 3: years cheating death, was taken out by a single Christmas
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  Speaker 3: bullet while cradling that infant grandchild. On a holiday afternoon. Sandy,
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  Speaker 3: or Nanny as she was known, was relaxing on a
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  Speaker 3: covered porch around three point fifteen PM in the Meridian area,
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  Speaker 3: about ninety miles southwest of Oklahoma City, when the crack
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  Speaker 3: of gunfire began echoing from the north. Witnesses say Sandra
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  Speaker 3: remained eerily calm, even joking with her family as the
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  Speaker 3: shots rang out, saying, quote, someone got a new gun
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  Speaker 3: for Christmas end quote, unaware that the weapon was currently
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  Speaker 3: being aimed in her direction. Moments later, the grandmother let
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  Speaker 3: out a simple, heartbreaking ouch and collapsed into the love seat.
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  Speaker 3: First Responders found a scene of absolute horror. Sandra had
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  Speaker 3: been struck by a high caliber round that tore through
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  Speaker 3: her upper right arm and steep downward angles before burying
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  Speaker 3: itself deep into her chest. She was pronounced dead on
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  Speaker 3: the spot, still clutching that infant she'd been protecting just
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  Speaker 3: minutes prior. One of her grand spoke to ABC five
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  Speaker 3: News she was a loving woman. She loved and cared
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  Speaker 3: for everybody. The trail of blood led deputies nearly a
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  Speaker 3: third of a mile away to the backyard of thirty
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  Speaker 3: three year old Cody Adams. He admitted to cops he
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  Speaker 3: got a Glock forty five caliber handgun for Christmas and
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  Speaker 3: was just testing it out by taking potshots at a
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  Speaker 3: red bull can that was on the ground. Investigators found
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  Speaker 3: a graveyard of spent casings on Adam's deck and noted
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  Speaker 3: a terrifying fact from his shooting direction. The emergency lights
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  Speaker 3: flashing at Sandra's home were visible in a direct, unobstructed
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  Speaker 3: line of fire. Adams reportedly broke down in tears, muttering
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry after a deputy told him his target practice
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  Speaker 3: had claimed a life. With no backstop to catch the
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  Speaker 3: heavy forty five caliber slugs, the bullets were just free
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  Speaker 3: to whistle through the residential neighborhood. Adams is now charged
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  Speaker 3: with first degree manslaughter for his conscious disregard for human life.
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  Speaker 3: Currently out on bond, he is slated to face the
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  Speaker 3: music at a preliminary hearing on February twenty six. For
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  Speaker 3: the Crime Alert hourly update wherever you listen to podcasts Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Jennifer more Crime and Justice News After this,
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  Speaker 2: a cold.
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  Speaker 3: Blooded killer allegedly turned a New Year's Eve reunion into
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  Speaker 3: a slaughter, stabbing his ex girlfriend to death before playing
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  Speaker 3: the role of a worried lover to buy himself enough
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  Speaker 3: time to flee the continent. Nikitha Shada, a twenty seven
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  Speaker 3: year old rising star data analyst, was found brutally murdered
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  Speaker 3: inside the Columbia apartment of our June Sharma twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: just hours after the suspect called police to report her
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  Speaker 3: missing in a diabolical attempt to cover his tracks. Seth
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  Speaker 3: Hoffman with the Howard County Police spoke to Fox five
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  Speaker 3: DC her life was taken before it really even started,
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  Speaker 3: so it's certainly a tragic incense, especially by somebody she
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  Speaker 3: knew and had a relationship with. The carnage unfolded shortly
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  Speaker 3: after seven pm on December thirty first, at Sharma's residence
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  Speaker 3: in the ten thy one hundred block of Twin Rivers Road.
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  Speaker 3: Detectives believe Sharma unleashed a savage knife attack, leaving the
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  Speaker 3: ambitious professional dead from multiple stab wounds. Two days later,
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  Speaker 3: in a move police call purely premeditated, Sharma walked into
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  Speaker 3: Howard County headquarters to file a bogus missing person report,
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  Speaker 3: claiming he hadn't seen Nikitha since the holiday. While cops
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  Speaker 3: began their search, Sharmah was already racing to Dulles International
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  Speaker 3: Airport boarding a one way flight to India. The charade
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  Speaker 3: collapsed on January third, when officers broke into Sharma's apartment
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  Speaker 3: and discovered Nikitha's hidden mutilated body. An international dragnet involving
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  Speaker 3: the FBI and Interpol was immediately launched, and by January fifth,
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  Speaker 3: Sharma was reportedly cornered and arrested by Indian authorities. The
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  Speaker 3: motive may be as greedy as it was gruesome. Nikkeitha's
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  Speaker 3: devastated dad revealed his daughter had loaned the suspect a
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  Speaker 3: large sum of money and was demanding repayment. Howard County
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  Speaker 3: police are now working the red tape to extradite the
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  Speaker 3: suspect back to Marria to face first degree murder charges
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  Speaker 3: and finally talk about not being par for the course.
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  Speaker 3: A man hunt took a tearable turn when a wanted
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  Speaker 3: suspect attempted to dodge the law on a set of
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  Speaker 3: wheels better suited for a birdie than a breakout. Officers
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  Speaker 3: tracked the unidentified fugitive to a local golf course, but
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  Speaker 3: instead of surrendering, the suspect hopped into a golf cart
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  Speaker 3: and floored it into the rough. Not to be out driven,
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  Speaker 3: Sandy Springs police swiped their own cards to launch a
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  Speaker 3: high stakes, low speed pursuit across the greens, and it
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  Speaker 3: was caught on body camp stop.
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  Speaker 2: The car stop the cart.
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  Speaker 1: Stop the cart, Get out of the cart. Sandy swings, get.
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  Speaker 3: Out of the car, hands up, hands up, Yeah, more
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  Speaker 3: for your rest. The twelve mile per hour fast and
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  Speaker 3: furious chase ended with the suspect and cuffs after he
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  Speaker 3: realized he was officially out of bounds. The department has
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  Speaker 3: since unveiled their fairway unit, complete with a spiritually prepared
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  Speaker 3: pushbumper for future pit maneuvers. It's a stroke of genius
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  Speaker 3: that proves running from the cops is never a hole
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  Speaker 3: in one Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: Crime Stories, where we do our best define missing people,
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  Speaker 2: especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace.