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5-Year-old disappears from bedroom as her mother sleeps nearby. Where is Elizabeth Shelley? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Police cars at every corner,
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of law enforcement going house to house, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: searching everywhere in the grass a canal, hoping to find
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  Speaker 1: five year old Elizabeth Shelley. There's not much to go, mom,
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  Speaker 1: and so we don't even know where to start, where
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  Speaker 1: to go. Family is just as puzzled as police. Police say. Lizzie,
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  Speaker 1: as her family calls her, was seen sleeping at two
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  Speaker 1: am when mom went to bed. When mom woke up
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning, Lizzie was gone. She's been a staret called
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  Speaker 1: all morning, all day. She's still bolling. It's her worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: It's the worst thing. She just makes wants it to
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  Speaker 1: go away. She wants her baby back. There you hear
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  Speaker 1: Mary Whipple, this little girl's grandmother, speaking to Kat SUTV
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  Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City, speaking to Laurence Steinbrecker. Where is
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  Speaker 1: five year old Elizabeth Shelley? If you could see her photo?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely pressure. Just this little girl, the one I keep
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  Speaker 1: looking at, has flowers all over the top of her head. Lucy,
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  Speaker 1: my little girl wanted that I had a little clipping
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  Speaker 1: flowers and they would cover the entire top of her
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  Speaker 1: head and that's the way she liked it. I Nancy Grace,
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  Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: The search is on for a five year old little girl,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Shelley joining me right now in all Star panel
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcot, juvenile judge lawyer. You can find to her
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  Speaker 1: at Ashley Wilcot dot com. Doctor Michelle Dupree, medical examiner,
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  Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Joseph Scott Morgan, forensics expert,
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  Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University and author of Blood Beneath
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  Speaker 1: My Feet on Amazon. Doctor Jolie Silva, forensic psychologist, and
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  Speaker 1: joining me right now from Crime Online dot com, where
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  Speaker 1: you can read this and all other breaking crime in
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  Speaker 1: justice news. Ellen Ki Lauren, Ellen, please tell me about
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance of this little girl. I don't understand it is.
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  Speaker 1: She's asleep. The mom sees her at two am. Two
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  Speaker 1: am is not unusual. By the time I get the
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  Speaker 1: children to bed and I come and clean the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: let the dog out, blah blah blah blah, it's one
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  Speaker 1: thirty two o'clock. I never go to bed without looking
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  Speaker 1: at the twins. Never And then suddenly in the morning
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  Speaker 1: she's gone. How does that happen? Ellen, that's right, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother looked in at her at around two am.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Shelley was asleep that the family calls her Lizzie.
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  Speaker 1: A little after nine am, when the mom woke up,
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  Speaker 1: Lizzie was gone. Listen. People have been out here all
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  Speaker 1: day handing out missing fires, scouring the neighborhood. But just
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes ago police were able to serve the
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  Speaker 1: searchborn on the house by getting a first look inside
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  Speaker 1: to see if there are any clues inside the home
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  Speaker 1: as to where Elizabeth Shelley could have gone. That's our
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  Speaker 1: friend at KTSUTV saw like city Laurence Steinbreaker outside the home.
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  Speaker 1: Several thoughts colliding in my head at once. Joe Scott,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan forensics expert. We need you right now, Joe Scott.
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  Speaker 1: It is a from what I can tell, a single
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  Speaker 1: story dwelling wood with a front porch, a front door,
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  Speaker 1: windows around the outside of the home that are within
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  Speaker 1: climbing reach. They don't look too tall to climb into
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  Speaker 1: to get into. To me, from what I can tell,
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  Speaker 1: there are no second story windows. There is a front yard,
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  Speaker 1: a sideyard on either side, a backyard. There is not
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  Speaker 1: an enclosure such as a gate. They have to have
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  Speaker 1: a gate opener to get into. There's no walls to scale.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm seeing. But also I heard search warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, Joe Scott Morgan, Ashley Wilcott. They needed a
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  Speaker 1: search warrant to look in the home. What well, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: you know that's an abundance of caution right there. Let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest. By getting the search warrant, they have the
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  Speaker 1: right legal means to do it, so nobody can test it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're not going to have an alleged you know,
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the poisonous tree because you didn't enter properly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I was with you there
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  Speaker 1: in criminal law, first year law school. I get it,
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  Speaker 1: search warrant, But did you also hear the rest of
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  Speaker 1: that sentence? A first look in the home after they
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  Speaker 1: get a search warrant. I'm telling you, my baby girl
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  Speaker 1: goes missing. Oh yeah, I would be dragging the cops
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  Speaker 1: in by their collars, Joe Scott Morgan. It's called permission.
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  Speaker 1: You give permission to the cops to get in. I'm
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  Speaker 1: be you. I'm not getting that. Why do the cops
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  Speaker 1: have to go get a search warrant to get into
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  Speaker 1: the home. You know what, that's a whole nother can
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  Speaker 1: of worms. I can investigate. But tell me about the
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  Speaker 1: home structure. What do they need to be looking at
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  Speaker 1: regarding the disappearance of Elizabeth Shelley five years old? Well,
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  Speaker 1: first off with the physical structure, Nancy, war of things
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be looking for. Is are there any
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  Speaker 1: signs of forced entry? You'd mentioned the windows, their ground level.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking a look at the home right now, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is plausible that somebody could access the home visa
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  Speaker 1: that manner. Now, is there anyway someone could have gained
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  Speaker 1: entrance to the home without forcing their way in? Has
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  Speaker 1: a window been left open, has a door left unlocked?
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  Speaker 1: Or does someone have key to the house? And also
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  Speaker 1: we want to take a look at the individuals that
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  Speaker 1: are in dwelling the house that location. Is there somebody
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  Speaker 1: that was in that house that could have brought harm
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  Speaker 1: upon this little girl and essentially facilitated her disappearance? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about the entry or exit into a
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  Speaker 1: home is extremely important. You heard Joe Scott Morgan mentioned
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  Speaker 1: is there a forced entry? You look at everything, are
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  Speaker 1: there primarks on the door has a screen been removed
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  Speaker 1: from a window? Has a screen being cut? You can
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  Speaker 1: tell if a screen has been cut from the outside
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  Speaker 1: or the inside of the home. All these things matter.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a burglar alarm system that should have, could
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  Speaker 1: have would have gone off? Or does someone have access
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  Speaker 1: to the home. Take a listen to this. Inside the
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  Speaker 1: Hiram Shortstop, it looks like business as usual eight forty two,
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  Speaker 1: but outside something unusual. Search crews digging through the garbage,
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  Speaker 1: gathering around the dumpster out back, combing the street. The
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  Speaker 1: little girl goes missing, and you also BLI this and
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  Speaker 1: nobody can find it. No one can find five year
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  Speaker 1: old Lizzie Shelley, not here in Hiram, not in Logan,
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  Speaker 1: where she disappeared from her home Saturday morning. Police say
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  Speaker 1: they think her uncle, Alex Whipple, knows what happened, but
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  Speaker 1: he won't say so they're trying to fill in the blanks.
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  Speaker 1: The Hiram Shortstop gave them some help. Ryan says he
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  Speaker 1: saw Whipple Saturday disheveled like he had been, like he
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  Speaker 1: had been on a binge of some kind. That was
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  Speaker 1: hours after Lizzie disappear. To Ellen Coolar in crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot Com, investigative reporter. Who is the uncle twenty one
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  Speaker 1: year old Alex Swipple And what if anything, does he
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  Speaker 1: have to do with this? Was he in the home
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  Speaker 1: that night? Alex Whipple was in the home that Friday
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  Speaker 1: night before Elizabeth Shelley seeing he stopped by up to
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  Speaker 1: visit his sister, who is Lizzie's mother. Now, what can
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  Speaker 1: you tell me about when police catch up with Alex Whipple?
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  Speaker 1: He actually has some of Elizabeth Shelley's clothing in his possession.
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  Speaker 1: That police have said that they found evidence not satisfying
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  Speaker 1: what items tying Alex Whipple to the little girl and
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  Speaker 1: showing that he was with her outside of the home
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  Speaker 1: since she was last seen there. Police also say that
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  Speaker 1: he is being uncooperative about the girls whereabouts. Now that
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  Speaker 1: right there, Ashley Wilcot, disturbs me. Why would he be uncooperative? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that always is a concern with me when anyone is uncooperative.
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  Speaker 1: Think about Nancy wake up in the middle of nights gone.
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  Speaker 1: I would expect anybody and everybody I know, I'm related to,
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  Speaker 1: I know of, is absolutely going to be one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent cooperative with law enforcement because they're gonna help me
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  Speaker 1: find my child. When they're not cooperative to me. My
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  Speaker 1: gut is there's a problem with that person. We know this.
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  Speaker 1: The search is going on right now. CoP's still at
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  Speaker 1: this so hour going door to door and getting permission
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  Speaker 1: to search homes and yards of residents in neighborhoods surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the area. The child's father begging via Facebook for people
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  Speaker 1: to help find his daughter, begging the public to pray
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  Speaker 1: for his daughter. Little Elizabeth three feet six inches, just
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  Speaker 1: forty pounds. She has shoulder length, curly brown hair with
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  Speaker 1: bangs in, big brown eyes, in a full set of
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  Speaker 1: beautiful teeth. The tipline four three five seven five three
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  Speaker 1: seven five five five repeat four three five seven five
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  Speaker 1: three seven five five five Where is five year old Elizabeth?
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy grace Well. Albany Police tell us
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  Speaker 1: a three year old is on a ventilator at an
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta hospital this evening. APDs Family Protection Unit says the
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  Speaker 1: child has some pretty brutal injuries. This all comes after
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  Speaker 1: an FPU and Division of Family and Children's Services investigation.
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  Speaker 1: So police tell us the child had injuries to her
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  Speaker 1: dentital area and her ribs, along with swollen hands and
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  Speaker 1: an unknown trauma to her head now. Investigators say she
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have some old wounds as well. This all
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  Speaker 1: comes after a call to police about an unknown problem
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  Speaker 1: on Monday morning to a home. Police say one of
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  Speaker 1: the suspects told police the child was unresponsive once officers
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  Speaker 1: got there. What happened to this beautiful three year old
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  Speaker 1: little girl? If you could see her the photos of her,
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  Speaker 1: she reminds me so much of Lucy at age three.
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  Speaker 1: The look in their eyes, a smile on their face,
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  Speaker 1: just looking forward to everything there is to learn about
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  Speaker 1: the world. Jenia Brooks just three years old. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. You were hearing our friend at w A
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  Speaker 1: LB Emily Forrester, giving us the latest. You know, Jenia
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  Speaker 1: Brooks had to be airlifted all the way from Albany
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  Speaker 1: to Atlanta. All the way to Atlanta. That is some serious,
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  Speaker 1: serious physical damage to Doctor Michelle du Pretty joining me,
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  Speaker 1: medical examiner and author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. This
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  Speaker 1: is what I know about a life flight in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I've only known about two. My dad when he was
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  Speaker 1: about to die at Emory Hospital and they had to
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  Speaker 1: airlift him to University Alabama, they were the only ones
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  Speaker 1: that would agree to do surgery on him and my
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  Speaker 1: little nephew and major car crash, got lifted to Scottish
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  Speaker 1: Ripe Children's Hospital and had been in a coma. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when somebody gets airlifted, that's a big deal, Doctor Dupree, Yes, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: that is a big deal. And typically that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the most severe cases when that person needs urgent medical
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  Speaker 1: attention and it's not immediately available in the surrounding area.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a three year old little girl. Jennia
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  Speaker 1: Brooks joining me an all star panel, a juvenile judge,
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  Speaker 1: lawyer anchor. You can find her at Ashley Wilcot dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Michelle Dupree, Joe Scott Morgan, forensics expert, author of
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  Speaker 1: Blood Beneath My Feet and joining me right now. Anchor
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  Speaker 1: reporter from wa LB News ten Damon Arnold, Damon, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. Damon. First question to you,
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  Speaker 1: what alerted police or EMTs to go to the home
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  Speaker 1: of Jenia Brooks. What alerted them? Why did they show up?
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  Speaker 1: They got a phone call from someone who was relatively
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  Speaker 1: close with the family, who had gotten a glimpse of
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  Speaker 1: Jenia and saw that she was in pretty bad condition
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  Speaker 1: and decided to go ahead and place that phone call,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what initially sparked interest in police going over there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, let me back you up with me
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  Speaker 1: from w ALB News ten Damon Arnold, who has been
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  Speaker 1: there on the scene. So a family member sees her
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  Speaker 1: in bad shape and they called mt. Now, Damon Arnold,
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting on a a cross examination. This is a yes
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  Speaker 1: no answer. Was it the mother or the stepfather? Was
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  Speaker 1: it either Crystal Brooks or Gregory Parker that called police?
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  Speaker 1: We are told that the stepfather made the call same
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  Speaker 1: as you. Was unresponsive. Okay, I don't know what exactly
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  Speaker 1: that means, Not that I couldn't understand you, Damon, but
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  Speaker 1: that I don't know what that means unresponsive. Would she
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  Speaker 1: not wake up when you shook her? Would she? Was
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  Speaker 1: she having trouble breathing? I mean, what does that mean
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  Speaker 1: in your world? Doctor Michelle Duprey, when somebody is unresponsible.
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  Speaker 1: Are they passed out cold? Yes, Nancy, Basically they are unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: They are still They're not considered decease, but they are
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  Speaker 1: unconscious and probably have very love or heart to detect
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  Speaker 1: vital sign to Ashley Wilcott joining me, juvenile judge and
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  Speaker 1: lawyer at ashe Wilcott dot com. Now, from what I
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  Speaker 1: understood from our friend Emily Forrester at w ALB, that
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  Speaker 1: she was airlifted from Albany, Georgia to Atlanta after an
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  Speaker 1: investigation by CPS Defects Department Family Children's Services Child Protective Services.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no offense, Ash Walcott, because you're a juvenile judge,
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  Speaker 1: not that you're connected with CPS, but you hear it
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  Speaker 1: all day long. You know, it takes a lot to
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  Speaker 1: get CPS to do anything. So when I hear they
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  Speaker 1: actually were doing an investigation, that really raises the hair
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  Speaker 1: up on my neck to know they were that far along,
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  Speaker 1: because you can't get them to do a thing. Every
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  Speaker 1: time I hear about Child Potative Services, there's a dead child.
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  Speaker 1: It's too late. They've done nothing. So listen, you know, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to say other than this, You're right.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody reports child abuse, they opened a case, they start
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  Speaker 1: an investigation. If they're investigating, then they should see the child.
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  Speaker 1: They should see if there are any injuries, any problems,
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  Speaker 1: that that child needs to be removed from their home
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  Speaker 1: and needs treatment. What bothers me in this case is
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  Speaker 1: what you're pointing out. There was an investigation, yet who
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  Speaker 1: called police because the child was nonresponsive? The boyfriend? So
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  Speaker 1: somewhere there's a system fail. Yeah, you know what you
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  Speaker 1: called it like it is. He's a boyfriend. Damon Arnold
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  Speaker 1: joining me, anchor reporter wa LB News ten. Because he
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  Speaker 1: a live was he a bf? What was his status
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  Speaker 1: in the home? We reported it originally that he was
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  Speaker 1: the stepfather, but I'm pretty sure that he was just
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  Speaker 1: a boyfriend. That you had two different last names, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe them to be married. Hey hey, hey,
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  Speaker 1: watch out, watch out. I'm still Nancy Grayson. I'm married
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  Speaker 1: to David Lynch. When somebody says miss Lynch, I think
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about David's mother. Okay, so you think he's
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  Speaker 1: more the boyfriend as opposed to the stepfather. Is that correct? Correct?
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  Speaker 1: Hey Ashley, Ashley question to you, to be a formal stepfather,
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  Speaker 1: do you have to go through some legal process like
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  Speaker 1: to adopt the child or is that just a slang term. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the legal answer is this, you have to be married
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  Speaker 1: to a parent to be considered a step father. But
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people refer to themselves in practice as
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  Speaker 1: a stepparent even if they're not married, but the legal
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  Speaker 1: requirement is he's married to her. This little girl, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at her. I'm looking at her right now.
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  Speaker 1: What a smile. This little girl languishes in the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: hospital on a ventilator. Listen. The three year old that
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  Speaker 1: was involved in what Albany police call a heinous crime
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  Speaker 1: of child abuse has died. Three year old Janiah Brooks
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  Speaker 1: who died in an Atlanta hospital this afternoon at around
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  Speaker 1: twelve fifteen. Now. She was airlifted from Albany about twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours ago, and APDs Family Protection Unit says that
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  Speaker 1: the child had brutal injuries. Investigators say they've charged two
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  Speaker 1: people in this case. That police say that one suspect
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  Speaker 1: is Gregory Parker, and they told police that the child
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  Speaker 1: was unresponsive. Parker is facing several charges, including aggravator assault, molestation, rape,
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  Speaker 1: and aggravated sodomy. Crystal Brooks is also facing charges. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say that she knew about the child being harshly treated
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  Speaker 1: and was there at the time. She is charged with
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  Speaker 1: party to a crime of aggravated battery, battery, cruelty to
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  Speaker 1: children in the first degree and giving a false statement. Initially,
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  Speaker 1: I just feel sick. I feel sick when I heard
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  Speaker 1: these charges. Jeniah Brooks three years old. Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to what the specific charges. Our friend Emily Forrester Gregory
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  Speaker 1: Parker's child is charged with aggravated child molestation, rape, aggravated sodomy,
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  Speaker 1: aggravated battery, battery, and cruelty to children in the first degree.
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  Speaker 1: Another suspect, Crystal Brooks, is also facing charges in the case.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say that's because she knew about the child being
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  Speaker 1: harshly treated and was there at the time. Now she's
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  Speaker 1: charged with party to a crime of the following charges
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  Speaker 1: aggravated battery, battery, cruelty to children in the first degree,
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  Speaker 1: along with giving a false statement. Initially, Now police say
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  Speaker 1: the suspects are known to that child. Right now, that
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  Speaker 1: investigation is ongoing. Crime stories with Nancy Grace Brooksted after
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  Speaker 1: being taken off life's support injured by what Albany police
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  Speaker 1: are calling a heinous crime of child abuse WLB News
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  Speaker 1: to his Damon Arnold joins US Live Now after speaking
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  Speaker 1: exclusively with the family of Brooks about the final days
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  Speaker 1: leading up to her death. Jim Jenia's family tells me
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  Speaker 1: that they wanted nothing more than to keep her alive
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  Speaker 1: and well, but they understood that it was time for
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  Speaker 1: her to rest after so much pain. Kiss gave her
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  Speaker 1: her last kiss. I held a hair which she took
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  Speaker 1: a last breath. A family trying to find peace during
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  Speaker 1: the time of sorrow after the death of their three
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  Speaker 1: year old loved one, Jenia Brooksty Saturday, after a family
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  Speaker 1: took her off life support. Albany and police calling this
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  Speaker 1: I Haine his crime of child abuse. It was a
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  Speaker 1: heart decision, but not a seafish one. She had brain
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  Speaker 1: damage and broken fingers. It was a lot. You are
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  Speaker 1: hearing our friends Jim Wallace and Damon Arnold at w
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  Speaker 1: a LB with me right now. Is Damon Arnold? Damon
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  Speaker 1: I just i'd to tell you I have been to
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  Speaker 1: so many funerals, so many crime scenes, so many victims, families,
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  Speaker 1: homes and apartments. It's it's so hard talking to them.
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  Speaker 1: But then sometimes it's like they want to talk. I like,
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  Speaker 1: let it out. I guess tell me how the family
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  Speaker 1: took the news that this three year old little girl
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  Speaker 1: was dead. It was really eerie to sit there, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: to know that you know, that was Jeni, a biological
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  Speaker 1: father and grandmother, and her grandfather was also there, and
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  Speaker 1: getting across from him, you could tell he hadn't fully
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  Speaker 1: grasped the concept that age had lost a daughter, you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: in such a brutal manner. He was trying to figure
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: out how to process that, and you could see it
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in his body language on his face. And that's why
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I ended up interviewing the grandmother, because there was so
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: much that he was trying to figure out how to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: say that dot being angry and still trying to do
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: his daughter justice. You know what's interesting joining me now
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: in addition to Damon Arnold, Joe Scott Morgan, doctor Michelle Dupree,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and Ashley Wilcott, doctor Julie Silva, forensic psychiatrist. Doctor Silva,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I recall, following up on what Damon Arnold just said,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: after my fiance was murdered, there would be so many
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: days it didn't actually seem real, and I would go
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to my mom and say, mother, is Keith Dad? I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: just I could not get my mind. I couldn't understand
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: what had happened and why, and it was just a
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: completely normal day. And then out of the blue, bam,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: violent crime, change all of our lives forever. What is
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that process? When you can't get it through your mind?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You can't absorb what's happening. You know, when when people
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: lose people in their lives suddenly like that, there there's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a different grieving process than if somebody dies, would say,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of terminal illness, because there's there's a shock factor. I mean,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: your your body, not only psychologically but physically go process
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: information the same level you normally do. It's your your
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: entire brain and it is firing as though you know
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: a bear is standing in front of you about to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: eat you. That's basically how I can describe it. Your
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: entire olympic system is totally on overdrive and you just
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: can't process information, you know, the way you normally would.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Or even if, like I said, somebody died of a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: long term illness, even though there's still a brievement and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a grieving process, it's different when it's sudden like that.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to Linda face on. This is Jenia's grandma.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: She don't have to be afraid now. He said, you know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: here's steps coming toward her and said, well, what's gonna
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: happen now? Jenia's grandmother says the damage could not be
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: undone despite their prayers. Even if she had survived, we
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: all think about all the doctors, psychologist, psychiatrists or what
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: have you to help bring her back hold. I don't
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: believe that she would have ever been hold. Jenia's father,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Daryl Phaon, was at work when he got the call
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: about his daughter. He rushed to be by her side,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but says the call will always haunt him and twistatations
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: would be with lu You know, I think it best
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: for us. You know she wanted to scruggle no more.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: You being heartbroken now. The family is preparing to say
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: their final goodbyes as they lay Heaven's newest angel to rest.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I wish I was near to media for her. Took
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: her in my arms like I was supposed to what
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I could to Ashley Wilcot, juvenile judge and lawyer at
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcott dot com. Several things are just slapping me
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: in the face right now. I feel like I'm colliding
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: with them. The fact that the grandmother says she doesn't
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: have to be afraid at night anymore. What's gonna happen tonight?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And broken fingers and old wounds. All of those things
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: are raising red flags to me about what this case,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: how it's gonna unfold. Ashley, Absolutely, So that's the key.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Old wounds. And there's so much horrific damage to this
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: little three year old. It could not have all been
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: inflicted at one time, which means people knew, someone knew,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: there were signs, there were symptoms there, they were concerned
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: about her. All these things that a should have been
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: reported and beady during the investigation. This child should have
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: been removed from the home to Joseph Scott Morgan forensics expert,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet, Joe Scott broken fingers,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: What does that tell you that this death, this death
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is it borders on torture. It sounds like Nancy. And remember,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: we need to continue to focus on this and this
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: is why this girl, this little baby, did not sustain
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a fatal injury. She sustained multiple injuries. And for every
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: single injury, that's a point in time. It's almost like
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a historical marker. So we can begin to kind of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: go back in time and unfold what happened. She can't
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: speak to us anymore, but you know, they talked about
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the age of these injuries that some were old, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the aging of this is going to give us an
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: opportunity to give an idea how long has she been
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: suffering the sustained trauma over a period of time, And
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of things that are coming down the road.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Here we've got the sexual sexual assault evidence, We've got
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: this torture like event with her hand, and then not
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to mention this head injury that she sustained. So every
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: piece of this is going to be interconnected. But yet
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to have it's going to be like on
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a long timeline relative to her little life. You know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking this through. To doctor Michelle Dupree, medical examiner,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: author of Homicide and Investigation Field Guide One, I was
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: prosecuting a murder case and in doing that I met
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: all the victim's family, and one of the sisters of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the murder victim is an adult survivor child lestation. I
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: remember her telling me that when she was a little
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: she knew her dad was going to come a Lester
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: raper and she thought if she put rubber bands on
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: her on her doorknob it would keep him out, that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the door wouldn't work. I mean in her mind that
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was true. And I'm just thinking about what the grandma said,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: how she won't have to wonder every night what was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: going to happen. In other words, is the stepfather, the boyfriend,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Gregory Parker going to come in her room and rape
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: her at three years old? You know the mother had
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to know, she had to know way in Yes, Sancy,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. This is just a horrific crime.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And someone knew the fact that these injuries are dated,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that there are several injuries that are older, shows the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: chronicity this has been happening over a long period of time.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: This is this is an excuse of someone knew crime stories.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: With Nancy Grace, We're going to let you go because
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: now you don't have to wake up in the middle
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of the night or any time of the day and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: wonder when is it going to be the next time?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: When am I gonna have to go through this? The
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: next time you're hearing Jenny's grandmother when the false face
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and speaking, when will be the next time that you
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: are three year old are brutally molested to doctor Michelle Duprey,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: medical examiner, what do the broken fingers on this child
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: mean to you forensically life was being tortured. Lots of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: reasons that someone may have done that. There are lots
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of ways they may have done it. They may have
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: broken them intentionally, trying to discipline the child, or just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: simply make the child cry. To Jessica Morgan, does it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: mean in any way that the child was fighting back? No,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I doubt that that is the case, Nancy, to sustain
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: these kinds of injuries. I think that it was something
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that was probably purposed, and it can be anything from
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you know, the perpetrator bending these fingers back individually, or
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: it could be a crushing event, which again is horrific enough.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe the child in some way tried in an attempt
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to fight back, but if that's the case, it was
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: met with this kind of punishment too, Doctor Michelle Duprie,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: How does a child die of a brutal rape? How
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: can that kill a child? A three year old? A
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: child can die from several ways because of that. That
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: can be trauma internally, they can suffer internal bleeding. They
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: can also die from associated injuries with that. So it
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: really just depends on sort of that totality of circumstance.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: To Damon Arnold, joining me anchor report of a w
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: ALB News ten. Well, in this case, I'm said to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: report this three year old little girl has a plethora
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of injuries that could have caused her death, a severe
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in brutal rape. How did the mother not hear this
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: child screaming? I mean in this home, she was there.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: How did she not know her ribs? Severe injuries to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: her ribs, swollen hands. I don't know why our hands
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: are swollen, her fingers broken, trauma to her head, she
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: was hit in the head. She appeared to have old
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: wounds on her body. I don't get it, Damon Arnold.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: How did the mother, Crystal Brooks not know what was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: going on? She should go down with Gregory Parker the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: same as him, and I fully believe if we're gonna
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: have the death penalty, this is the case for it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Tell me about the mother, Damon Arnold. She knew about
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: what was going on with Jenia and mister Parker. Again,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's suspected in the ledge and maybe that's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: just the reporter in me, but you know she's being
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: charged of course, you know, with you know, giving a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: false statement so to finish kids. She knew and from
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: speaking with the biological father. She was keeping him at
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: bay his words, you know, he wasn't allowed to come
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: around Jenia for you know, probably the last year of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: her life, which tells you another story. Yeah, that she's
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: intitially covering something up. I'm looking at now. I've switched
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Ashley Willcott from the picture of her all cute and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: precious with her hair done up and a little I
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: swear I think Lucy had that same shirt from Target
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: with a little white puppy on the front of her
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: shirt with hearts all around it. Big smile. Now I'm
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: looking at a photo that her aunt shared and it
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: shows Jenia hooked up to a ventilator in the hospital.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And you know what, this is kind of photo I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: don't want to look at. But this is a kind
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of photo I would have to show a jury because
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I would want them to know the suffering that this
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: child endured on a ventilator at three years old. This
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: child should be playing with the water hose and going
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to a vacation Bible school or playing all summer. She's dead, Ashley,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: after living off a ventilator. I'm just sick about it. Yeah,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a picture's worth a thousand words. Nancy A. Picture of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: her on a ventilator tells the jury everything they need
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to know. And remember, Nancy, she did not go from
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the picture. I've seen that picture you're referencing. She's a
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: beautiful little girl. Look at that smile on her face.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Every little girl was beautiful, but the smile, right. So
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you have to remember their steps between that picture and
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the end of her life, many many steps that if
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I were the prosecutor, I'm going to outline every single step,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: every single injury, and I would emphasize again that the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: mother knew this was happening to her own child and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: did nothing to protect her. Well, Ashley Wilcott and Damon Arnold,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you're backed up not by your own observations only, but
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: according to police, the mother Crystal Brooks quote, not only
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: knew about the child being harshly treated by Parker, but
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was also present during the abuse. You know, I know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: according to police, Gregory Parker is the one that rape
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: this little girl, beat her, killed her. But the mother
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: stood by the one, the one a child calls out
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for at night, the one that they run to when
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: they grow graduate, the one that they expect to sacrifice
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: everything and love them no matter what. Mommy. And let
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: me just say, Crystal Brooks knew what was happening in
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that home, Damon Arnold, tell me about the home. Is
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: there any way she could not have known? Absolutely not.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: With the photos that were given to me by the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: dad and some of the you know, staying injuries that
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you saw in those photos, you know, there was just
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: no way that anyone who was in Denia's president did
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: not know that something was off there. And I'm telling
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you what I don't want to Jolly Silva, doctor Jolie Silva,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrist. Very often juries will look at a mom
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and they will inside internally maybe even subconsciously, identify with
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: their own mother and will not convict a mom. But
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: in this case, this three year old baby girl dies
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: after being molested and beaten by the boyfriend. Police say
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the mother not only knew of the abuse, but witnessed it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, she may not be the devil,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: but she's the devil's hitchman. When you look at something
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: like this, you think, how could there not be you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: pure evil right when you how could how could there
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: not be people that are born purely evil? When you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: look at something like this when you look at a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: mother who was likely there not I mean, and not
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: just one time, probably repeatedly knowing this was going on
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to her own three year old, you know, And what
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: is this mother like? What it was her life like
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: where she had a baby of her own and can
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: allow this to happen in her presence? Is what was
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: her life like? I mean, there's a very little doubt
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: in my mind that she had a history of trauma herself.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You know that the way that her brain is made up,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: she is not capable of remorse of putting herself in
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: her child shoes, not just for these incidents, probably ever
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: for the duration of the three years. You know. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: don't really care about what she went through in her life.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for that. But what I care about right
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: now is she's responsible for this three year old baby girl.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: The baby girl has been raped and beating and she's dead,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and the mom frankly needs a death penalty, just like
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the boyfriend does. Mean Champain, We just got word from
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards. He says that Gregory
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Parker will be charged with felony murder in the death
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of three year old Jenia Brooks. We wait as justice
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: unfalls in the case of three year old Jenia Brooks.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: When I think of that little girl being buried, with
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: her hands swollen, all of her finger's broken, fearing every
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: night what was going to happen to her that night,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: with no one there to protect her, as Mommy stood
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: by and let it happen. Rest in peace, little Jania
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Gregory Parker Crystal Brooks goes straight to hell Nancy Grace's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: crime story, signing off goodbye friend.