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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. Umatilla High School student Melissa
- 0:09Speaker 1: Hatcher is facing a charge of criminal solicitation to commit murder.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Fourteen year old boy allegedly shot five family members, including
- 0:18Speaker 1: John Sisk, stepmother Mary Sisk, and three children. When county
- 0:22Speaker 1: police are investigating at this hour after two siblings allegedly
- 0:26Speaker 1: tried to kill their parents. The Monmouth County prosecutor says
- 0:30Speaker 1: a sixteen year old fatally shot his mother forty two
- 0:33Speaker 1: year old Linda Koloji, his father, forty four year old
- 0:36Speaker 1: Steve Kolloji, his sister eighteen year old Brittany Kolloji, as
- 0:40Speaker 1: well as a family friend seventy year old Mary Schultz.
- 0:44Speaker 1: We will be charging this individual with four counts of murder.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Dawn and Antonio were shot in the head while they slept.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Their son aj charged with their murders. It's not even
- 0:54Speaker 1: the fact of just dealing with not having my parents anymore.
- 0:58Speaker 1: It's the fact that I'm being accused of something of
- 1:02Speaker 1: this magnitude, and well, actually he was being accused because
- 1:05Speaker 1: he did it. That one has has been found guilty
- 1:08Speaker 1: of murdering his parents. What is it with youth children,
- 1:12Speaker 1: teens murdering their parents is all crashed back into the
- 1:17Speaker 1: headlines when a teen girl, and this is a soccer
- 1:22Speaker 1: player on the school team, a cheerleader for the school,
- 1:26Speaker 1: a straight a student, eighteen girl, Alyssa Hatcher accused of
- 1:32Speaker 1: hiring not one, but two sets of hitmen to murder
- 1:38Speaker 1: her mother and her stepfather, who, by the way, is
- 1:42Speaker 1: a lieutenant sheriff. I mean, I'm having a hard time
- 1:47Speaker 1: taking it in everybody. I mean, see Grace, this is
- 1:49Speaker 1: crime Stories. Thank you for being with us, with me
- 1:52Speaker 1: an all star panel to break it down and put
- 1:54Speaker 1: it back together again. Famous trial lawyer Brad Micklin joining me.
- 2:00Speaker 1: I'm the Michelin Law Group based in New Jersey. Now
- 2:04Speaker 1: im clinical forensics psychologist, doctor Jolie Silva, Professor of Forensics
- 2:09Speaker 1: at Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet
- 2:12Speaker 1: on Amazon. Joseph Scott Morgan, Detective Stephen Lampley, and right
- 2:17Speaker 1: now to Levi Page, Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter
- 2:22Speaker 1: Levi Page. You know I prosecuted and have covered many many,
- 2:27Speaker 1: let me just say, hundreds of cases of juvenile killers
- 2:32Speaker 1: and would be killers. But this one really takes the
- 2:36Speaker 1: cake because this girl seemingly is all scrubbed in sunshine.
- 2:41Speaker 1: That's not real. Let's just start at the beginning. Who
- 2:44Speaker 1: is Alyssa Hatcher, a teen girl out of near O'calla, Florida.
- 2:49Speaker 1: This is in central Florida then, so you're correct and
- 2:52Speaker 1: Elyssa is seventeen years old. But what what what you know?
- 2:56Speaker 1: I hate to pick a fight with you this early on,
- 2:58Speaker 1: but this isn't really fight. This is a clarification to
- 3:02Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan. You travel that area extensively in your work.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Joe Scott, when we say central Florida, I'm not talking
- 3:12Speaker 1: about the Miracle Mile at PCB, Panama City Beach. I'm
- 3:15Speaker 1: not talking about Daytona Beach. I'm not talking about Disney
- 3:20Speaker 1: where they're in Orlando. We hear about all sorts of crimes.
- 3:24Speaker 1: This is out in a rural area. And what's significant
- 3:27Speaker 1: about that, Joe Scott Morgan, is that that should be
- 3:30Speaker 1: a very low crime rate with very low bad influences
- 3:35Speaker 1: on your children. People all the time go, I'm just
- 3:37Speaker 1: gonna move out to the country so my children won't
- 3:39Speaker 1: hear anything about pot or cocaine or anything bad for them.
- 3:45Speaker 1: But this is out in the heartland of Florida, Central Florida.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Just hear leave my page say that, Yeah I did.
- 3:52Speaker 1: And you know this evolks. Images of orange groves, you know,
- 3:56Speaker 1: are you know, ridden through this area extensively. And also
- 4:00Speaker 1: people don't know this horse farms and cattle ranches. So
- 4:04Speaker 1: you begin to think about this is kind of an
- 4:06Speaker 1: agricultural area out here where you think your kids are
- 4:09Speaker 1: going to be saved. It ain't Miami Beach. Oh it's not. Okay,
- 4:13Speaker 1: it's not the hot spot where you see the Kardashians
- 4:18Speaker 1: at the top of some penthouse and a miniskirt up
- 4:20Speaker 1: to their ying yang. I mean, this is really the
- 4:24Speaker 1: heartland of Florida. Joseph Scott Morgan certainly is Nancy, it is,
- 4:27Speaker 1: and it's it's a place that you think is going
- 4:29Speaker 1: to be rather peaceful and becolic, and your kids are
- 4:33Speaker 1: going to escape all these things, and of course in
- 4:35Speaker 1: this case that that turns out not to be true.
- 4:40Speaker 1: You know, Brad Micklin, you're a veteran trial lawyer with
- 4:43Speaker 1: the Micklin Law Group in New Jersey. You know, people
- 4:46Speaker 1: have the wrong idea about New Jersey. It's the garden
- 4:48Speaker 1: stay and there's a reason for that. Yes, there's that
- 4:51Speaker 1: horrible intro on Sopranos, Okay, And yes there's the airport.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Yes there's a lot of industry, and yes it's a
- 5:00Speaker 1: bit are stinky. But New Jersey also is beautiful. They
- 5:04Speaker 1: don't call it the garden state for nothing because there
- 5:07Speaker 1: are a vast of a huge majority of Jersey is
- 5:14Speaker 1: beautiful trees, rolling country. That's the fact. And you know,
- 5:19Speaker 1: we're always so shocked when crimes occurring rural areas. What
- 5:22Speaker 1: about you, Brad Micklin, do most of your cases, your
- 5:25Speaker 1: controversial cases occur in cities or in rural areas. Nowadays
- 5:30Speaker 1: you can't really narrow down to where things occur. There's
- 5:32Speaker 1: usually four causes to a heinous crime, like disc especially
- 5:35Speaker 1: in the child at this age, psychiatric issues, drug abuse,
- 5:39Speaker 1: abuse at home, or as we know, the rootable evil, money, cash,
- 5:44Speaker 1: life insurance. I don't think it matters whether you're in Florida,
- 5:47Speaker 1: New Jersey, Texas. You're gonna have these everywhere. We just
- 5:49Speaker 1: see more of it because of social media. Wow, that
- 5:53Speaker 1: was a mouthful, and I think you're right. I don't
- 5:56Speaker 1: tell anybody I agree with the defense lawyer, doctor Jelly Silva.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Why do have we lulled ourselves into thinking that if
- 6:01Speaker 1: you're in a rural area like this place near O'calliflorida,
- 6:06Speaker 1: that everything's going to be peaceable. I mean, look, there
- 6:09Speaker 1: there's abuse that occurs at home there. There are certainly
- 6:12Speaker 1: psychiatric issues that occur everywhere. I mean, look when you're
- 6:15Speaker 1: in when you're in inner city areas, you see, you
- 6:18Speaker 1: tend to see more of that stuff than when you're
- 6:20Speaker 1: in middle class areas in rural areas. But it certainly
- 6:23Speaker 1: is there, and it's but it's it's not as prominent, um,
- 6:28Speaker 1: you know, especially when socioeconomic status is a little bit higher.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Maybe in rural areas. I'm not familiar with this particular area, um,
- 6:35Speaker 1: you know, and you don't see as much drug, youth
- 6:37Speaker 1: and and um as much of that insidious um psychopathology.
- 6:44Speaker 1: But it certainly exists there. So I'm and it's probably
- 6:49Speaker 1: something that was going on with this girl, no matter
- 6:52Speaker 1: what she appeared like on the outside. Yeah. I heard
- 6:55Speaker 1: of a lot of what you were saying, and there
- 6:56Speaker 1: is no suggestion of any type of molestation or abuse
- 7:00Speaker 1: on this girl at all. I mean, Stephen Lampley, you've
- 7:04Speaker 1: seen it all, boy, You've been around the block once
- 7:06Speaker 1: or twice. Stephen Lampley, Detective, I mean, you don't know
- 7:11Speaker 1: what It's not always the parents fault when you get
- 7:14Speaker 1: a devil child. You know, it's just not. No, Nancy,
- 7:17Speaker 1: it's not And I want to touch on just a
- 7:20Speaker 1: moment what they were saying earlier. You know, yes, we'd
- 7:23Speaker 1: like to think of the country. And again, the rural
- 7:27Speaker 1: areas is being peaceful. But it's my understanding that per capita,
- 7:32Speaker 1: other orders the average, this happens just as often population
- 7:37Speaker 1: wise in the rural areas as it does with the cities,
- 7:40Speaker 1: because you know, you look at the cities that you
- 7:43Speaker 1: hear about it, there's more of it going on, but
- 7:45Speaker 1: there's more people. But it still happens in the rural areas.
- 7:48Speaker 1: But yes, it's getting back getting back to your question.
- 7:52Speaker 1: We don't get to addict and choose our parents. We
- 7:54Speaker 1: don't get to they can choose our children. Sometimes the
- 7:57Speaker 1: situations end up going grossly awry, and then we get
- 8:01Speaker 1: some mismatch, we get some criminals, we get some devil children.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Leave Pacy. All you said was Central Florida, and just
- 8:07Speaker 1: look what happened. Pick it back up, LEVI. So this
- 8:10Speaker 1: seventeen year old Alissa Hatcher. She withdrew money from her
- 8:15Speaker 1: parents Aten, and she gave a lot of that money, Nancy,
- 8:19Speaker 1: to someone at a drug house for cocaine, and then
- 8:23Speaker 1: gave the other portion of the money. She withdrew five
- 8:26Speaker 1: hundred dollars. She gave one hundred dollars to get cocaine.
- 8:29Speaker 1: And wait and wait, wait, wait a minute, whoa wait
- 8:32Speaker 1: wait wait she did it twice. Yeah, First she got
- 8:37Speaker 1: several hundred dollars, according to police. And I've very carefully
- 8:42Speaker 1: read the affidavit, which you can read word for word,
- 8:45Speaker 1: just like I did at crime online dot com. We
- 8:48Speaker 1: got our little mits on the affidavit, it says, first
- 8:50Speaker 1: she gets out several hundred dollars, let's just say five hundred,
- 8:53Speaker 1: and she spends one hundred of bucks so that on cocaine,
- 8:57Speaker 1: and then she uses the other to try to get
- 9:01Speaker 1: a hitman to kill her parents. All Right, they do nothing.
- 9:03Speaker 1: They didn't turn up dead. They did not turn up
- 9:06Speaker 1: dead to someone else, got more money on her parents
- 9:11Speaker 1: a debit card, gets out nine hundred dollars this time,
- 9:14Speaker 1: and tries to get another hit man. Okay, take it
- 9:17Speaker 1: from there, Levin. And that is when one of her
- 9:20Speaker 1: classmates had overheard this conversation and went to a school
- 9:24Speaker 1: resource officer and said, this is what she's doing crime
- 9:38Speaker 1: stories with Nancy Grace. I'm gonna tell a high school student,
- 9:42Speaker 1: Alyssa Hatcher is facing a charge of criminal solicitation to
- 9:46Speaker 1: commit murder. The Lake County Sheriff's Office says the targets
- 9:49Speaker 1: were her parents. According to the investigative, parents were willing
- 9:52Speaker 1: to prosecute, you know, and so, like I said before,
- 9:55Speaker 1: do you know you think I'm a parent as well?
- 9:57Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't imagine something like that happening to me.
- 10:00Speaker 1: The investigation began when Hatcher's parents notified Umatilla police that
- 10:04Speaker 1: there were two unexplained transactions at this Bank of America
- 10:07Speaker 1: atm machine totally more than fourteen hundred dollars. She stole
- 10:12Speaker 1: a credit card from her parents and used it fraudulently.
- 10:16Speaker 1: At that point, your department didn't know and her parents
- 10:20Speaker 1: didn't know why she would have taken no no, sir.
- 10:23Speaker 1: That landed her charges of grand theft, fraud, and petty theft.
- 10:27Speaker 1: But Monday, a student told authorities she heard of a
- 10:30Speaker 1: double murder plot. When deputies questioned Hatcher, they wrote in
- 10:33Speaker 1: their report. The defendant said she spent one hundred dollars
- 10:36Speaker 1: on cocaine and then gave four hundred dollars to a
- 10:39Speaker 1: friend to give to someone to kill her parents. When
- 10:42Speaker 1: that plan failed, emputy say, she told them she gave
- 10:45Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars to someone else to kill her parents.
- 10:47Speaker 1: WHOA you're hearing CBS for Miami reporter Elliott Rodriguez A
- 10:52Speaker 1: young teen girl, a soccer star as well as a
- 10:56Speaker 1: cheerleader there in her high school in rural Florida? Could
- 11:00Speaker 1: it be that she not only withdraws on two occasions
- 11:05Speaker 1: nearly a thousand dollars, is Dave mac Jackie? Is it
- 11:09Speaker 1: a thousand? Or is it more than a thousand? More
- 11:12Speaker 1: than a thousand dollars to have her parents killed? Kick
- 11:16Speaker 1: her up? She used their debit card, So let me
- 11:20Speaker 1: understand this to Levi Page, investigative reporter with crime online
- 11:23Speaker 1: dot Com joining us, Levi, so, not only does she
- 11:26Speaker 1: get the cash pay it to two separate hitmen, but
- 11:31Speaker 1: she actually uses her own parents debit card, steals it
- 11:35Speaker 1: and uses it to kill the parents. Do I have
- 11:39Speaker 1: that right, Levi? Yeah, you're absolutely correct, Nancy. And she
- 11:44Speaker 1: was investigated before this murder for hire plot. She was
- 11:47Speaker 1: investigated for stealing the debit card and her parents found
- 11:51Speaker 1: out that she did it when they discovered those charges,
- 11:54Speaker 1: and then they went to her room and found their
- 11:56Speaker 1: bank information. She had written it down and had it
- 11:59Speaker 1: in her room. Okay, wait, by slowdown, slowdown, leave, I'm
- 12:02Speaker 1: drinking from the fire hydrant too much at once, so
- 12:05Speaker 1: the parents notice. The parents are alive. Obviously, the first
- 12:09Speaker 1: hip man didn't do his job. I had no idea
- 12:10Speaker 1: about the murder for hire. And they when they were
- 12:14Speaker 1: informed that their credit card was our debit card was
- 12:19Speaker 1: used not with their permission, they started investigating and they
- 12:23Speaker 1: went into their daughter's room and found their bank information
- 12:27Speaker 1: written down in her room. And this was even before
- 12:30Speaker 1: they had found out that she had was plotting to
- 12:34Speaker 1: have them killed. Take a listen to our friend at
- 12:36Speaker 1: Wkmgenus six. This is Jerry Askins. The investigators save her
- 12:41Speaker 1: friend actually reported the crime. Deputies today told us in
- 12:44Speaker 1: Lake County that she stole her parents debit cards to
- 12:47Speaker 1: buy drugs and actually gave money to two of her
- 12:50Speaker 1: friends to try and get her parents killed. And we
- 12:52Speaker 1: just got the report here in Lake County in the
- 12:54Speaker 1: past hour or so ago and right now we're working
- 12:57Speaker 1: to find out more. Here is a picture right now
- 12:59Speaker 1: we just got of seventeen year old Alissa Hatcher. She
- 13:02Speaker 1: was arrested yesterday and right now she's being charged as
- 13:05Speaker 1: a juvenile. Deputy says she admitted to using her parents
- 13:08Speaker 1: debut card and made two purchases. She said she bought
- 13:12Speaker 1: cocaine four one hundred or soul dollars and also gave
- 13:14Speaker 1: money to a friend to get someone to kill her parents.
- 13:17Speaker 1: She said, because it never happened, she gave nine hundred
- 13:20Speaker 1: or SOL dollars to a second man to kill her parents,
- 13:23Speaker 1: and deputy say her parents wanted her prosecuted and back
- 13:27Speaker 1: out here life in Lake County. Hatcher left the jail
- 13:29Speaker 1: here about ten forty five this morning, bound for the
- 13:32Speaker 1: juvenile jail and o'calla and it for GIVI jail. That'll
- 13:35Speaker 1: be a walk in the park. Alyssa Michelle Hatcher is
- 13:38Speaker 1: a Florida teen girl accused of peg not one, but
- 13:41Speaker 1: two hitmen to kill her parents and ended up as
- 13:46Speaker 1: a failed or murder for higher plot kicker. She actually
- 13:49Speaker 1: used money she stole from her mom and stepfather's debut account.
- 13:53Speaker 1: She's a Taen High school girl in Umatilla, Florida. She
- 13:59Speaker 1: was busted after a friend heard her talking about the scheme.
- 14:04Speaker 1: She heard that the girl, Elissa Hatchrick, paid a friend
- 14:08Speaker 1: quote a lot of money to kill her parents. Now
- 14:11Speaker 1: what about this, Joseph Scott Morgan. It didn't take long
- 14:16Speaker 1: to crack the boyfriend. They walk up to him. What
- 14:18Speaker 1: do you know about this? He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 14:20Speaker 1: I saw her and she wanted to kill both of
- 14:23Speaker 1: her parents. She told me that she told a friend that.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't take much to crack him, Joseph
- 14:28Speaker 1: Scott Morgan. And there's certainly no boyfriend girlfriend privilege. No,
- 14:31Speaker 1: there's absolutely not. And this is a confederacy of dunces
- 14:35Speaker 1: that we're dealing with here. Probably she's reached out to
- 14:38Speaker 1: the so called hitting men, and what they you know,
- 14:42Speaker 1: they say, they will say, and you know, there's a
- 14:44Speaker 1: sucker born every moment. She's seventeen years old, and yeah,
- 14:48Speaker 1: she's looking to, you know, have perpetrated a horrible, horrible
- 14:52Speaker 1: crime here. But these people that she's interacting with, they
- 14:56Speaker 1: know a quick score when they see it. And her
- 14:58Speaker 1: money is gone, her parents' money is gone, and all
- 15:02Speaker 1: they're left with is the idea of the parents certainly
- 15:04Speaker 1: that hey, our daughter wanted us murdered. And that's the reality.
- 15:09Speaker 1: To Brad Micklin, trial lawyer with the Micklin Law Group
- 15:13Speaker 1: out of New Jersey, Brad Micklin, I recall in a
- 15:17Speaker 1: somewhat well covered famous case a mother was called to
- 15:22Speaker 1: a grand jury and the public was up in arms
- 15:26Speaker 1: about a mother having to testify or speak against her daughter.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Here's the deal there. As husband wife privilege, priest, parishioner
- 15:36Speaker 1: as it is called privilege, attorney client privilege, there are
- 15:40Speaker 1: very few doctor patient privilege. There are a few, very
- 15:45Speaker 1: few privileges, and there's certainly not a girlfriend boyfriend privilege
- 15:50Speaker 1: where you don't have to tell what your lover said
- 15:52Speaker 1: or did during your relationship. So if you tell your
- 15:56Speaker 1: parents or your child tells you your business associate, your
- 16:00Speaker 1: best friend, your lover, under the law, you must repeat
- 16:05Speaker 1: that if you are subpoenaed. Absolutely fancy, there's no privilege
- 16:09Speaker 1: as you mentioned, and parents remain legally responsible for the
- 16:13Speaker 1: actions of their children, so if they don't report it
- 16:16Speaker 1: in many circumstances, they can become liabele for the consequences
- 16:19Speaker 1: of it. You know, and we're talking about whether she
- 16:22Speaker 1: had intent, whether she had intent to carry this out.
- 16:27Speaker 1: I mean, it could be very easily argued she did
- 16:31Speaker 1: not one, but two attempts to kill her parents. Now
- 16:36Speaker 1: you know another thing that's disturbing to doctor Jolly Silva.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Clinical and forensic psychologists joining us, Doctor Silva. And she's
- 16:45Speaker 1: got a very let me just say, robust social media presence,
- 16:49Speaker 1: and in some of those you see her with who
- 16:51Speaker 1: I think to be her mother, Tammy Hatcher Sheller, and
- 16:55Speaker 1: they look so happy together. They're on a ride it
- 16:58Speaker 1: looks like of some sword like you know, um, a
- 17:02Speaker 1: rollercoaster maybe, and they're clearly spending mom and daughter time together.
- 17:08Speaker 1: How could everything go so wrong? Doctor Silva? I mean, look,
- 17:12Speaker 1: there are families that, um, you know, can have such
- 17:17Speaker 1: a level of dysfunction, and for her, for for Alyssa,
- 17:23Speaker 1: I mean, her level of dysfunction is clearly off the charts.
- 17:26Speaker 1: I mean, and you can look at pictures of people
- 17:28Speaker 1: on the outside, whether it's on social media or in person,
- 17:31Speaker 1: and everybody smiling, and then behind closed doors. I'm not
- 17:34Speaker 1: suggesting that there was any kind of violence going on
- 17:36Speaker 1: within this home, but but you know, you can have
- 17:39Speaker 1: a couple who were smiling and happy, and then behind
- 17:41Speaker 1: closed doors there's severe domestic violence going on. So so
- 17:45Speaker 1: she was happy with her mother sometimes probably it is
- 17:49Speaker 1: her mother, but then she just immediately switches. Who knows why.
- 17:53Speaker 1: She thinks she hates them, she thinks they're unfair, she
- 17:55Speaker 1: has she has antisocial sociopathy going on, and who knows
- 18:01Speaker 1: what's going on with her psychologically? Clearly, what is that? WHOA? WHOA?
- 18:05Speaker 1: I'm just a trial lawyer. What do you mean by
- 18:08Speaker 1: anti social anti social sociopathy? What's that? I mean? Basically, Um,
- 18:16Speaker 1: you know, people who commit crimes with intent like that
- 18:22Speaker 1: don't have remorse. You know, it was not an impulsive act,
- 18:27Speaker 1: It wasn't out of nowhere, because she she planned it
- 18:29Speaker 1: not just once, but twice. So you know she inherently
- 18:36Speaker 1: would likely not have remorse for doing those things. I
- 18:41Speaker 1: mean maybe she would, the chances are not, okay. I
- 18:43Speaker 1: think what you're saying is anti social sociopathy is when,
- 18:48Speaker 1: even though you are seemingly a member of a society
- 18:51Speaker 1: where we have rules that we live by, that's what
- 18:54Speaker 1: a society is, you commit those crimes with a seeming
- 18:58Speaker 1: lack of empathy and remorse, complete disregard for society's rules.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Deputc. Hatcher confessed at her
- 19:23Speaker 1: home last night to paying one guy, then when it
- 19:26Speaker 1: never happened, she paid a second guide to try and
- 19:28Speaker 1: kill her parents. In all, deputy say she paid both
- 19:31Speaker 1: guides a total of thirteen hundred dollars. Investigators said that
- 19:35Speaker 1: there was drugs involved, so we don't know if this
- 19:37Speaker 1: was a drug induced decision as she made, but either way,
- 19:40Speaker 1: it's a very serious one. Sometimes people take things too
- 19:44Speaker 1: far and disappears to be one of those things. Well,
- 19:46Speaker 1: that's certainly putting perfume on the pig taking it too far.
- 19:49Speaker 1: According to police, she tried to have both her mother
- 19:53Speaker 1: and stepfather murdered. And oh, by the way, you were
- 19:57Speaker 1: just listening to our friends at WKMG. That was new
- 20:00Speaker 1: reporter Jerry Askins. She left quite a trail. Joseph Scott Morgan,
- 20:06Speaker 1: Professor forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet. Now,
- 20:10Speaker 1: if that doesn't make you want to buy it, I
- 20:12Speaker 1: don't know what does Blood Beneath my Feet on Amazon?
- 20:16Speaker 1: Listen to this, Joe Scott, you're our forensic specialist I'm
- 20:22Speaker 1: laughing because it's so rare. I get to cover a
- 20:24Speaker 1: case where nobody's dead yet. Anyway, So listen to this girl. Okay,
- 20:29Speaker 1: she withdraws money from ATM using her parents debit card.
- 20:34Speaker 1: She makes one payment and then she sends the second
- 20:37Speaker 1: payment via PayPal. Talk about leaving a droll. I'm so happy. Okay,
- 20:43Speaker 1: it took me forever to set up my PayPal account.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I still have to put in five or six incorrect
- 20:48Speaker 1: passwords before I can actually buy a pair of ten
- 20:51Speaker 1: as you used for John David or Lucy. So she
- 20:54Speaker 1: actually uses PayPal to pay the hitman to kill her
- 20:59Speaker 1: mother and stepfather, the sheriff, and the mom is a
- 21:03Speaker 1: nurse that works for the government. I mean, what was
- 21:07Speaker 1: she thinking. I have no idea, Nancy, and talk about
- 21:10Speaker 1: you know you're talking about you talk about forensics. You
- 21:13Speaker 1: did hear I said PayPal, right, yeah, I did. It's
- 21:16Speaker 1: tied into your email and card and you know, to
- 21:20Speaker 1: kind of kind of dovetail what you're talking about forensics
- 21:23Speaker 1: and investigations. You know, back years ago, we would look
- 21:26Speaker 1: for footprints at crime scenes and we still do. Well,
- 21:29Speaker 1: She's left a significant digital footprint here tracking everything that
- 21:33Speaker 1: She's done everything from you know, PayPal, which is you know,
- 21:37Speaker 1: essentially a banking a banking system in order to move
- 21:41Speaker 1: money around. And also not to mention the signature, the
- 21:45Speaker 1: digital signature left behind by the emails. All of this
- 21:48Speaker 1: stuff can be tracked. It's absolutely stunnished. Scott, just Scott.
- 21:52Speaker 1: If you order your murder weapon on PayPal, it's like
- 21:56Speaker 1: taking out a billboard on Third Avenue. I'm trying to
- 22:00Speaker 1: kill my parents. Yeah, I don't stop me. I don't
- 22:03Speaker 1: think that she has a future as a kind of
- 22:06Speaker 1: some kind of criminal, dark overlord that is going to
- 22:10Speaker 1: be deceiving people all over the place. She's mistress of
- 22:13Speaker 1: the dogs. No, you know, I'm just waiting to find
- 22:15Speaker 1: out if she's going to be treated as a juvenile
- 22:17Speaker 1: or an adult. And I'll get back to Michelin on that.
- 22:20Speaker 1: But speaking of PayPal, not only did she do that,
- 22:24Speaker 1: she's in a lot of trouble as well because Stephen
- 22:27Speaker 1: Lampley she goes to what apparently is a drug house. Now,
- 22:32Speaker 1: why this cheerleader slash soccer's player, slash straight as students
- 22:36Speaker 1: at a drug house, I do not know. But she
- 22:41Speaker 1: spotted at a drug house and when trying to hire
- 22:43Speaker 1: the hitt man. She goes get a black mail to
- 22:46Speaker 1: do it. Okay, you know what, Like she's basically framing
- 22:52Speaker 1: some black mail wandering around. Now it's going to be
- 22:56Speaker 1: his decision whether he wants to go do a hit
- 22:58Speaker 1: or not. But the attitude of saying, go get a
- 23:05Speaker 1: blackmail to do it, that is very disturbing in itself.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley, Sure it is, Nancy, Sure it is. And
- 23:14Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know her her thought processes
- 23:17Speaker 1: behind this, but I agree with you that's a very
- 23:19Speaker 1: disturbing statement. But at the core of it all, I
- 23:24Speaker 1: think her desire was to have her parents killed, and
- 23:28Speaker 1: whoever she thought best to do this was who she
- 23:31Speaker 1: was seeking out, and she course failed the first time.
- 23:34Speaker 1: They took her money and ran, and then apparently they
- 23:37Speaker 1: did the second time as well. So I think she
- 23:39Speaker 1: was just seeking out anybody that would be, you know,
- 23:45Speaker 1: the person that would take this and run with it
- 23:46Speaker 1: and do her dastardly paid for her long story short,
- 23:49Speaker 1: we also hear correct me if I'm wrong, Levi Page.
- 23:52Speaker 1: But Jackie Howard here in the studio thinks it's a
- 23:58Speaker 1: very integral point that she took the debit card out
- 24:03Speaker 1: of her mom. Terry Hatcher's quote locked Wallett locked as
- 24:09Speaker 1: in you lock your home when you leave locked wallet.
- 24:13Speaker 1: What do we know? LEVI, that's correct, Nancy. And that
- 24:15Speaker 1: goes to tell you that they that she may have
- 24:18Speaker 1: done this before, because they immediately went to her room
- 24:21Speaker 1: when they found out that their debit card had been used.
- 24:25Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but whenever I was
- 24:26Speaker 1: a teenager, if my parents had charges on their debit
- 24:30Speaker 1: card and it wasn't them, they would not immediately go
- 24:32Speaker 1: to my room to look to investigate. They did here
- 24:36Speaker 1: in this case. And Nancy, you were talking about a
- 24:39Speaker 1: trail that she left behind. You know a lot of ATMs.
- 24:42Speaker 1: I would suspect all of them in twenty nineteen have
- 24:44Speaker 1: video cameras, so there's going to be that. And she
- 24:47Speaker 1: confessed on video camera to police, so I can't imagine
- 24:52Speaker 1: her pleading anything other than guilty because they have her name. Well,
- 24:55Speaker 1: that brings me to another issue. Will this seventeen year
- 24:59Speaker 1: old leader, slash soccer player, slash straight a student be
- 25:04Speaker 1: treated as an adult? To Brad Micklin, trial lawyer with
- 25:09Speaker 1: the Micklin Law Group in New Jersey, brad. In many
- 25:13Speaker 1: jurisdictions there exists the quote seven deadlies, which is, you know,
- 25:18Speaker 1: a bastardization of the seven deadly sins in Canterbury Tales.
- 25:24Speaker 1: So the seven deadlies are, for instance, you know you're
- 25:27Speaker 1: a juvenile, you're let's just say fifteen, and you commit
- 25:31Speaker 1: one of these crimes murder, rape, sodomy, kidnapping, armed robbery, arson,
- 25:42Speaker 1: crimes of that nature, then you are almost automatically bound over. Yes,
- 25:51Speaker 1: there is a you know, pro forma hearing in front
- 25:53Speaker 1: of a GeV judge, but you're going to go to
- 25:57Speaker 1: adult court because those are such serious crimes. They're adult
- 26:02Speaker 1: crimes and you get adult punishment. Now, let there be
- 26:06Speaker 1: no mistake. When a juvenile is convicted in adult court,
- 26:12Speaker 1: that juvenile does not think go into adult jail. They
- 26:15Speaker 1: remain in juvenile jail until they reach majority, be at
- 26:18Speaker 1: eighteen or twenty one, usually twenty one. Then they go
- 26:22Speaker 1: into an adult jail if there's still time left on
- 26:26Speaker 1: their sentence. Do you think Alissa Hatcher is going to
- 26:30Speaker 1: be treated as a GEEV or as an adult. The
- 26:33Speaker 1: fact that she's taken to gevjail means nothing. She's going
- 26:36Speaker 1: to stay in GeV jail no matter what until she
- 26:39Speaker 1: reaches majority, so treated as an adult or treated as
- 26:43Speaker 1: a GV. I thought she was going to be treated
- 26:46Speaker 1: as an adult based on her age, how close she
- 26:48Speaker 1: is to being a legal adult in the nature of
- 26:50Speaker 1: the offense. But I think one of the reports you
- 26:52Speaker 1: played a moment ago said that she's being tried as
- 26:54Speaker 1: a juvenile, even though nothing I've seen in the media
- 26:57Speaker 1: suggested either way. Yeah, I think it was saying that
- 26:59Speaker 1: she's taken to juvenile custody. I heard the very same
- 27:02Speaker 1: thing and my ears pricked up, thinking, oh was it
- 27:05Speaker 1: has not been decided yet to my understanding, is she
- 27:08Speaker 1: going to be treated as an adult or a juvenile?
- 27:11Speaker 1: You know, very very curious the way this whole thing
- 27:15Speaker 1: is playing out. Take a listen to our friends at
- 27:18Speaker 1: WKMG This is News six reporter Ginger Gadson. A team
- 27:24Speaker 1: accused of stealing her parents money to hire someone to
- 27:27Speaker 1: kill them, makes her first appearance in front of a judge.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Alissa Hatcher appeared in a Lake County courtroom today. According
- 27:34Speaker 1: to a police affidavit, the seventeen year old stole thirteen
- 27:37Speaker 1: hundred dollars from her parents' bank account. The affidavit says
- 27:40Speaker 1: the team paid four hundred dollars to a friend to
- 27:43Speaker 1: kill her parents. When it didn't happen, Hatcher reportedly paid
- 27:47Speaker 1: someone else nine hundred dollars to do the job. The
- 27:50Speaker 1: documents estate she also used the money to buy cocaine.
- 27:54Speaker 1: Hatcher has been charged as a juvenile with two counts
- 27:56Speaker 1: of criminal solicitation for murder crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 28:13Speaker 1: She's sitting in juvenile jail facing felony charges, and deputy
- 28:16Speaker 1: say her friends told a school resource deputy. That deputy
- 28:20Speaker 1: told investigators here in Lake County, and right now we're
- 28:23Speaker 1: asking Lake County Sheriff's deputies to release more. There's nothing
- 28:28Speaker 1: that your parents can do till you bid. You're grounded,
- 28:30Speaker 1: a car's taken away, you can't go to the problem
- 28:32Speaker 1: whatever for you to get to this point right now,
- 28:35Speaker 1: as Lake County investigators are piecing together why they say
- 28:38Speaker 1: seventeen year old A. Lissa Hatcher stole her parents, deputy card,
- 28:41Speaker 1: and pay two guys to try and kill them, they
- 28:43Speaker 1: want to remind other kids there's help out there. That's
- 28:46Speaker 1: why they have the counselor set up in school for
- 28:49Speaker 1: things like this. But you know as far as juvenile's
- 28:52Speaker 1: teenagers never let it get to this point. One of
- 28:55Speaker 1: her friends at Severi's High told her school resource deputy
- 28:58Speaker 1: about one guy Hatcher, and that's when the investigation got going.
- 29:02Speaker 1: You're hearing our friends at WKMG. That was New six
- 29:05Speaker 1: reporter Jerry Askins. We're talking about help. She tried to
- 29:09Speaker 1: have her both her parents murdered, and we're talking about
- 29:13Speaker 1: helping her. I wanted to get all the help she
- 29:15Speaker 1: can behind bars. And interesting this girl's parents, Elissa Hatcher's parents,
- 29:22Speaker 1: they are the ones asking for charges to be pressed
- 29:25Speaker 1: against their daughter. According to court documents, the victims, the
- 29:29Speaker 1: parents of Elissa Hatcher advised of their intent to prosecute
- 29:33Speaker 1: for solicitation of murder and just so you know, solicitation
- 29:37Speaker 1: of murder carries thirty to life in that jurisdiction. The mother,
- 29:41Speaker 1: Tammy Hatcher Sheller, is a nurse and a senior records
- 29:44Speaker 1: clerk for the Florida Department of Help. The stepfather, Michael Scheller,
- 29:49Speaker 1: is a lieutenant with a Clearmont Police department that's about
- 29:52Speaker 1: an hour away from their home in Umatilla, Florida. The
- 29:56Speaker 1: two have been married since two fourteen. He has been
- 30:00Speaker 1: a cop since nineteen eighty eight, so relatively was it
- 30:04Speaker 1: a relatively new relationship. We're getting that twenty fourteen wedding
- 30:10Speaker 1: day according to the husband, the stepfather, Mike Scheller's Facebook,
- 30:15Speaker 1: we understand that there had never been any problems reported
- 30:21Speaker 1: within the home. We also know that this teenager, Elissa Hatcher,
- 30:26Speaker 1: was born in North Carolina. They moved to Florida, where
- 30:30Speaker 1: she was a senior at Umatilla High School, and a
- 30:34Speaker 1: classmate describes her as being sweet, caring, always willing to
- 30:39Speaker 1: help someone else. So what went wrong at this point? Though?
- 30:47Speaker 1: To Brad Micklin, a trial lawyer with the Micklin Law
- 30:50Speaker 1: Group in New Jersey, it's no longer the parents prosecuting.
- 30:55Speaker 1: It is now the state. If the parents wanted to
- 30:57Speaker 1: drop charges, it would still be up to the prosecutor
- 30:59Speaker 1: to that decision. Absolutely. Oftentimes, victims of many different crimes,
- 31:04Speaker 1: for many reasons, don't want the offender to be tried,
- 31:10Speaker 1: and this would be one of those circumstances. But on
- 31:12Speaker 1: the flip side, you want to be protected and the
- 31:14Speaker 1: only way to do that is that a criminal prosecution
- 31:17Speaker 1: against it. Now. I've been looking at her Instagram profile
- 31:20Speaker 1: shows her on the cheer of squad at Humatilla High,
- 31:24Speaker 1: she played junior varsity soccer. She has conflicting captions. On
- 31:33Speaker 1: one under her picture it says ruthless and another she writes,
- 31:39Speaker 1: no beauty shines brighter than a good heart. In another,
- 31:45Speaker 1: she writes, rock bottom became the solid foundation on which
- 31:49Speaker 1: I rebuilt my life. Why are you rebuilding your life
- 31:52Speaker 1: at age seventeen? I don't know, Maybe that's just the
- 31:56Speaker 1: teen drama coming out, but her social media does tell
- 32:00Speaker 1: me a whole lot more. I see pictures of her
- 32:03Speaker 1: in her prime outfit. Right now, she's charged with two
- 32:07Speaker 1: counts of criminal solicitation of murder and also facing theft charges.
- 32:11Speaker 1: You know what another thing is jumping out at me
- 32:13Speaker 1: to Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University and author,
- 32:18Speaker 1: is that apparently she used a hundred bucks of that
- 32:20Speaker 1: to buy cocaine. What effect would that have on her
- 32:23Speaker 1: decision making process? A tremendous effect, and the fact that
- 32:26Speaker 1: she had an awareness of it at seventeen she went
- 32:28Speaker 1: out and bought or allegedly attempted to buy a hundred
- 32:32Speaker 1: dollars worth of coke, that would give us an indication
- 32:35Speaker 1: that she probably bought what's referred to on the street
- 32:38Speaker 1: as an eight ball of cocaine, which is about three grams.
- 32:41Speaker 1: And if the folks at home want to know what
- 32:43Speaker 1: that's like, just take some cornstarch or some baby powder,
- 32:47Speaker 1: cup your hand and pour it into the center and
- 32:49Speaker 1: kind of level it off. That's about three grams of
- 32:52Speaker 1: cocaine and that would be enough to you to certainly
- 32:57Speaker 1: stimulate her to a great degree. Maybe she's thrown into
- 33:00Speaker 1: you know, depression. She has to have this in order
- 33:03Speaker 1: to or agitate her, or it could agitate her. Yeah,
- 33:06Speaker 1: and it it can send the user into like a
- 33:09Speaker 1: state of euphoria. It also desensitizes people so that they
- 33:14Speaker 1: don't have an awareness of when they're impacting other people's lives.
- 33:17Speaker 1: And plus, not to mention, it's very lethal. You know,
- 33:20Speaker 1: somebody using cocaine over a protracted period of time, they
- 33:24Speaker 1: can die of heart disease. Are certainly hypertensive related diseases.
- 33:28Speaker 1: She's seventeen. I don't think she's going to have a
- 33:31Speaker 1: heart attack. But I want to follow up on something
- 33:34Speaker 1: you said. Yes, she may have been angry at her
- 33:38Speaker 1: mom or dad. Maybe she didn't want to move. Although
- 33:40Speaker 1: she seems to have, you know, adjusted really well in Imatilla.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Maybe she hates a step dad. I don't know, but yes,
- 33:49Speaker 1: you can be agitated once. But Brad Micklin, you're the
- 33:53Speaker 1: trial lawyer with the Micklin Law Group. Was she still
- 33:57Speaker 1: agitated when she tried to get a second hit? Man?
- 34:01Speaker 1: I mean? And also even if she was agitated using cocaine,
- 34:06Speaker 1: the voluntary consumption of drugs or alcohol is almost never
- 34:11Speaker 1: a defense in criminal law. Or everybody over in the
- 34:13Speaker 1: jail right now, we'll go, oh, yeah, I was a
- 34:15Speaker 1: drunk when ohen I did that, So I'm walking out
- 34:17Speaker 1: of here. That's not gonna happen. Brad. I agree. When
- 34:20Speaker 1: I was listening to Joseph Scott, the thing and I
- 34:22Speaker 1: kept saying to myself, as much as I like to
- 34:24Speaker 1: defend people, is you know she bought the drugs one time,
- 34:27Speaker 1: but she paid two different people in two different times
- 34:29Speaker 1: to commit the murder, So I'm not sure how much
- 34:31Speaker 1: drugs really played a part here. And guys, yes, Brad
- 34:33Speaker 1: Micklin is a defense lawyer. He's a trial lawyer and
- 34:36Speaker 1: with the Micklin Law Group. But if you want to
- 34:39Speaker 1: win a case, if you believe in your case. You
- 34:41Speaker 1: don't just prepare your case. You anticipate what the other
- 34:46Speaker 1: side is going to do. Slight Reagan's old Star Wars program.
- 34:50Speaker 1: We're gonna shoot down what the Russians shoot at us
- 34:52Speaker 1: first before it gets here. That's what you do. You
- 34:55Speaker 1: figure out what's the other side going to say, and
- 34:58Speaker 1: then you get ready to shoot it down before it
- 35:00Speaker 1: even happens. That's what he's talking about. Brad. Bottom line
- 35:05Speaker 1: I'm interpreting what you're saying is yeah, the jury might
- 35:08Speaker 1: be able to explain it away one time, but she
- 35:11Speaker 1: wasn't still in the same cocaine high. Was she tried
- 35:14Speaker 1: to hire the next hip marry. I think if she's
- 35:17Speaker 1: tried as an adult and gets a jury, I think
- 35:19Speaker 1: she's just going to go for sympathy, which is the
- 35:20Speaker 1: only reason, the only benefit you get from being tried
- 35:22Speaker 1: as an adult. She's going to go young, confused, drug problem.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Sympathetic decisions only gets her out of this. Okay, So
- 35:30Speaker 1: if you are defending this case, Brad Micklin, and you've
- 35:32Speaker 1: got to go in front of an adult jury, what's
- 35:35Speaker 1: your defense. I mean, she confessed, You've got the boyfriend
- 35:38Speaker 1: who by the way, I'm going to circle back to
- 35:40Speaker 1: doctor Jolie Silva on this, a clinical forensic psychologist. So
- 35:45Speaker 1: often we see women let around by the nose by
- 35:49Speaker 1: a bad guy. They fall in with them, they seem
- 35:53Speaker 1: like they're under a trance. They'll do whatever he wants
- 35:56Speaker 1: them to do. Because here we see allegedly a boyfriend,
- 36:00Speaker 1: a BF says he saw her at a drug location. Well,
- 36:05Speaker 1: what's he doing there? All right? So it's hard for
- 36:09Speaker 1: me to believe he didn't have some influence over her.
- 36:11Speaker 1: Now that's a very good point. I didn't, you know,
- 36:13Speaker 1: I know that the boyfriend pretty readily told told police
- 36:18Speaker 1: what was going on if he was at the drug
- 36:22Speaker 1: house too. I mean, she's familiar with a drug house.
- 36:24Speaker 1: She's going to a drug house. Clearly there's some kind
- 36:27Speaker 1: of substance of use issue going on. Whether or not
- 36:29Speaker 1: he was influencing her, it's it's very very possible. Whether
- 36:32Speaker 1: or not he was influencing her to kill her parents
- 36:35Speaker 1: is another story. But you know, back to back to
- 36:39Speaker 1: what everyone else was saying just about the substance use.
- 36:42Speaker 1: I agree with everybody else who was saying that because
- 36:48Speaker 1: it was premeditated, it happened multiple times, and there was
- 36:53Speaker 1: let me get on PayPal and do this. It just
- 36:56Speaker 1: doesn't It just doesn't really add up that that cocaine
- 37:00Speaker 1: was the influencer here. So maybe the boyfriend has something
- 37:03Speaker 1: to do with it. Maybe the boyfriend hated the stepfather.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Who knows. It could be a factor in it. In
- 37:09Speaker 1: the big picture, it could be one factor, you know.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Levipage Crime online dot Com investigative reporter this idea that
- 37:16Speaker 1: somehow the boyfriend played a role in this. None of
- 37:19Speaker 1: that that has not come up at all in the facts.
- 37:22Speaker 1: In fact, the boyfriend blab to the cops that he
- 37:26Speaker 1: saw her there and that she wanted to kill her parents,
- 37:29Speaker 1: So I don't believe he is entangled in this in
- 37:32Speaker 1: any way. And also that theory that the boyfriend made
- 37:36Speaker 1: her do it or encourage her to do it. Coercion
- 37:39Speaker 1: under the law means you basically have to have a
- 37:42Speaker 1: gun at your head, locked and loaded before coercion will
- 37:47Speaker 1: work in front of a jury. Mind control is not
- 37:49Speaker 1: going to do it, So Levi Page, there's been no
- 37:52Speaker 1: suggestion anyone else is involved other than the teen cheerleaders
- 37:56Speaker 1: soccer players. Straight age student Melissa has her correct Nancy.
- 37:59Speaker 1: Her boyfriend was with her at what he said was
- 38:01Speaker 1: a known drug house. So that shows you that he's
- 38:05Speaker 1: not on the up and up. Nancy, and I just
- 38:07Speaker 1: want to go back to the fact that people are
- 38:09Speaker 1: saying she's a cheerleader, straight a student. She played soccer.
- 38:13Speaker 1: But there was I read a post on Facebook by
- 38:16Speaker 1: her cheer coach who was shocked by this, and then
- 38:19Speaker 1: there were people in the comments saying, well, this is
- 38:22Speaker 1: not shocking if you knew her. So apparently she had
- 38:26Speaker 1: a bit of a reputation in this community, and that hey,
- 38:31Speaker 1: hey le Page, my dear sweet LEVI don't take too
- 38:37Speaker 1: much to heart what one varsity cheerleader says about another one. Okay,
- 38:41Speaker 1: just know that going forward, well it also goes ahead.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Hit me back that up. Her parents automatically assumed that
- 38:48Speaker 1: she was the one that stole the debit card, and
- 38:51Speaker 1: they're the ones that are pushing for charges to be filed.
- 38:54Speaker 1: And as Jackie had mentioned, the debit card was in
- 38:58Speaker 1: a locked area with the mother. Did she has she
- 39:02Speaker 1: stolen from them before? That's going to be interesting to
- 39:05Speaker 1: see because she didn't have a job that we know of,
- 39:08Speaker 1: she was using drugs, did she still repeatedly to buy drugs?
- 39:12Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds Nancy Grace crime stories. Signing
- 39:15Speaker 1: off goodbye friend,