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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grease, a Texas mom thirty three
- 0:16Speaker 1: years old.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Nabbed pretending to be her thirteen year old daughter at
- 0:25Speaker 2: middle school. Hold on, I'm just trying to imagine me
- 0:33Speaker 2: dressing up like my teen daughter and passing myself off
- 0:38Speaker 2: as a student at high school. Who does that? There's
- 0:43Speaker 2: gotten to be a very deep seated reason which I
- 0:46Speaker 2: don't quite understand yet. But guess what, this Texas mom
- 0:52Speaker 2: Casey Garcia, She's not the only one. There's a lot
- 0:56Speaker 2: of grown women pretending their teens and even tweens and
- 1:02Speaker 2: actually going to school to high school, pretending to be
- 1:07Speaker 2: a student for long periods of time and getting away
- 1:12Speaker 2: with it.
- 1:12Speaker 3: What do they get.
- 1:15Speaker 2: A crush on a little twelve year old boy? Do
- 1:18Speaker 2: they try out for cheerleading?
- 1:19Speaker 4: What?
- 1:20Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out what the attraction is.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Is it like grown women that start affairs, well a
- 1:29Speaker 2: statutory rape, to start sex relationships with boys? You know,
- 1:33Speaker 2: you always hear about the teachers and the school psychologists
- 1:36Speaker 2: and then this and then that in full on sex
- 1:39Speaker 2: relationships with boys in school. Is it somehow related to
- 1:45Speaker 2: I don't know. Again, I'm just a trial lawyer. I'm
- 1:49Speaker 2: not a shrink.
- 1:49Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave that to doctor Delatory. But I know this.
- 1:53Speaker 2: This Texas mother pretends to be her teen girl at school,
- 1:58Speaker 2: at middle school. And there's a whole slew of other
- 2:02Speaker 2: mothers across the country that have done and.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Are doing the same thing. That's freaky.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Number one and number two, the last thing I want
- 2:13Speaker 2: are my children fraternizing with a grown woman pretending she's eleven.
- 2:18Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories
- 2:23Speaker 2: and series XM one eleven. Let's start with miss Garcia.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Listen.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Thirty year old Casey Garcia stands four feet eleven inches
- 2:32Speaker 5: tall and one hundred and five pounds. She records herself
- 2:35Speaker 5: as she changes her appearance to try and look like
- 2:37Speaker 5: her thirteen year old daughter. She tans her skin, darkens
- 2:41Speaker 5: her hair, puts on a yellow Marvel hoodie and glasses,
- 2:44Speaker 5: then uses her daughter's school id and attempts to get
- 2:47Speaker 5: into Anne M. Garcia Enrique's middle school.
- 2:50Speaker 3: And she gets in, just like all these other mothers.
- 2:53Speaker 3: She gets in now happily for me. She actually recorded
- 2:59Speaker 3: her getting ready.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Have you ever had well, if you've got a teen girl,
- 3:06Speaker 2: a lot of times. If there's gonna be a dancer party,
- 3:08Speaker 2: they all get together and get ready together.
- 3:11Speaker 3: It's like a little get ready party.
- 3:13Speaker 2: And I've looked in on my daughter's little parties and
- 3:16Speaker 2: they're like combing their hair and they're getting ready, and
- 3:19Speaker 2: they're all recording themselves. Why does the grown woman do this?
- 3:23Speaker 2: I don't get it. But again, they certainly didn't teach
- 3:26Speaker 2: me this in law school. But I want you to
- 3:28Speaker 2: hear some of what this woman actually recorded and posted.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Let's go with cuta Jackie.
- 3:37Speaker 6: Can you see me wearing it?
- 3:41Speaker 3: She's saying, you see what I'm wearing.
- 3:43Speaker 2: I've got these weird shoes on. So she's putting on
- 3:47Speaker 2: teenager style shoes, getting in character.
- 3:52Speaker 3: Let's listen. So I look like.
- 3:55Speaker 7: No, cool awesome.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Cool awesome.
- 3:59Speaker 2: I mean, maybe I'm losing my mind, but she's actually
- 4:02Speaker 2: talking like a teen Hey. First of you, Darryl Cole
- 4:05Speaker 2: with me an all star panel, but a long time
- 4:09Speaker 2: felony prosecutor out of inter City, Atlanta. Darryl Cohen, former
- 4:13Speaker 2: state's attorney in Florida, now a defense attorney, and you
- 4:17Speaker 2: can find him at Darryl B.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Kevin on Facebook.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Darryl, did you ever and all the years you prosecuted.
- 4:26Speaker 2: I'm trying to think back on all of my cases.
- 4:28Speaker 2: I had plenty of statutory rape cases. I don't think
- 4:32Speaker 2: I ever had an adult female pretending to be a
- 4:37Speaker 2: twelve or thirteen year old girl and actually going to
- 4:39Speaker 2: high school.
- 4:40Speaker 6: No, Nancy, no way, but I probably would have fallen
- 4:43Speaker 6: over laughing, because unless she has a sidecard and great makeup,
- 4:47Speaker 6: how does she do it? And how do the people
- 4:49Speaker 6: around her not recognize the fact that she's not eleven, twelve, thirteen,
- 4:54Speaker 6: but she's at least twenty five or thirty. I mean, really, well.
- 4:57Speaker 2: What about the children, the other students. I mean, this
- 5:01Speaker 2: woman is only for eleven, she's one hundred and five pounds.
- 5:05Speaker 2: She wears a hoodie and glasses and make I mean
- 5:09Speaker 2: you hear her talking about I'm putting on weird shoes
- 5:13Speaker 2: because she's wearing shoes that a tween would wear. Okay,
- 5:17Speaker 2: you've got to hear cut See listen. This is more
- 5:20Speaker 2: of her recording herself.
- 5:25Speaker 7: Hello, fining yourself.
- 5:29Speaker 2: She's actually speaking to the school principle. Can I hear
- 5:32Speaker 2: that one again?
- 5:32Speaker 3: Jackie?
- 5:33Speaker 7: Please, Hello fining yourself?
- 5:40Speaker 2: Can you hear her making her voice higher with me.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Doctor John Delatory, renowned psychologist and mediator specializing in forensic psychology.
- 5:53Speaker 2: You can find him at doctor John Delatory also at
- 5:57Speaker 2: resolution fcs dot com Doctor Delatory. I've never seen anything
- 6:01Speaker 2: like it.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Listen.
- 6:02Speaker 2: I've seen the criminally insane. I've seen people pretending to
- 6:07Speaker 2: be criminally insane. I've seen defendants who have actually pulled
- 6:12Speaker 2: their own eyeballs out because they are insane and they
- 6:16Speaker 2: think the.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Eye is bad.
- 6:18Speaker 2: I've seen defendants rub their own feces all over the walls. Yes,
- 6:24Speaker 2: I've seen it all. I haven't seen this a grown
- 6:27Speaker 2: woman who seems perfectly normal, functioning, acting.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Like a regular mom. I've never seen one completely transform
- 6:36Speaker 3: so she can go to high school.
- 6:38Speaker 4: Well, let's be clear about something. This is clearly attention
- 6:43Speaker 4: seeking behavior. I think this is a product of perhaps
- 6:46Speaker 4: some social media aspect that she wants for her life.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Okay, could you a a slow down, Darryl and I
- 6:54Speaker 2: are just lawyers.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Okay, so I got so far. All I got was
- 6:58Speaker 3: attention seeking activity. Okay, what did you say after that?
- 7:01Speaker 4: Yeah, attention seeking behavior, and I think this is a
- 7:04Speaker 4: product of her wanting to have a social media presence.
- 7:09Speaker 4: She's getting a thrill. If we go back to the
- 7:12Speaker 4: clip between her and the principal, not only is her
- 7:15Speaker 4: voice higher, but it also sounds like she's enjoying whatever
- 7:20Speaker 4: it is that she's doing. She enjoys putting on this hoodie,
- 7:23Speaker 4: she enjoys putting on these shoes. She is enjoying what
- 7:27Speaker 4: she is doing, and the deception that she is playing
- 7:30Speaker 4: on all of these people that are around her, not
- 7:34Speaker 4: just the students, but the teacher's especially.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Okay, I'm smiling and you can't see me, doctor Delatory,
- 7:39Speaker 2: because Jackie's just sent me another picture of this woman.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Hey did you send this really quickly? To Darryl co
- 7:44Speaker 2: and to everybody on the panel. You were saying, like,
- 7:47Speaker 2: why doesn't anybody know she's a grown woman. Well, if
- 7:50Speaker 2: you look at the picture, she's got her hair pulled back,
- 7:53Speaker 2: she's wearing big glasses, she's wearing a face mask, like
- 7:57Speaker 2: a COVID face mask over her nose and mouth. So
- 8:01Speaker 2: she's doing she's using every trick in the book to
- 8:03Speaker 2: disguise her identity. Now, attention seeking behavior, you can say
- 8:08Speaker 2: that again, a product of wanting social media presence and
- 8:13Speaker 2: hate jack I know I've asked for it.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Twice. But can I hear cut Sea again.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Because I like the it's almost like a fierce beauler,
- 8:19Speaker 2: like checking the principal thing. She's going, uh oh, why
- 8:22Speaker 2: is the grown woman afraid to meet the principal? Here
- 8:26Speaker 2: she's pretending to be afraid of the principal.
- 8:30Speaker 7: Listen, Hello, finding yourself.
- 8:38Speaker 2: And listen, She's pretending she's afraid of the school principal.
- 8:42Speaker 2: She's raising her voice several octaves. Now listen to her
- 8:45Speaker 2: fake fear and cut d.
- 8:48Speaker 7: I'm going to get so caught.
- 8:49Speaker 5: I'm actually really scared.
- 8:51Speaker 3: Okay, Kaitlin Becker is joining me. I've been saving you.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Kaitlin Becker, Senior Investigator, reporter, Dailymail dot Com.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Caitlin, I mean she's getting into the mindset. She's like, oh,
- 9:06Speaker 3: I'm so afraid the principal was gonna catch.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Me and do what you're a thirty three year old
- 9:11Speaker 2: woman puts you in time out, puts you into tention,
- 9:15Speaker 2: make you have lunch duty.
- 9:17Speaker 3: But who is this woman.
- 9:19Speaker 8: You know on Nanty. She is a mom in Texas.
- 9:22Speaker 8: Her daughter Julie was thirteen years old, and that is
- 9:24Speaker 8: who she was pretending to be, specifically her own daughter,
- 9:28Speaker 8: not just any old student, and she wanted to see
- 9:31Speaker 8: if she could get through this entire school day without
- 9:36Speaker 8: being caught. And like you said, she kind of used
- 9:38Speaker 8: every trick in the book, wearing her daughter's clothing, kind
- 9:42Speaker 8: of mimicking her voice and trying to get through the
- 9:45Speaker 8: school day. But she did eat lunch in the cafeteria
- 9:47Speaker 8: without her mask on.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Yeah, Caitlin, I see her recording herself eating what appears
- 9:52Speaker 2: to be a chicken finger.
- 9:54Speaker 3: Okay, why this woman and so many.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Other women across the country are dressed sing up and
- 10:00Speaker 2: pretending to be students as early as Twain, such as
- 10:04Speaker 2: eleven and twelve. She doesn't just dress up as a Twain,
- 10:10Speaker 2: she actually fakes documents.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Take a listen.
- 10:13Speaker 5: Casey Garcia, disguised as her own thirteen year old daughter,
- 10:17Speaker 5: nervously tells the camera she's sure to get busted. Before
- 10:20Speaker 5: she gets inside the school. Disguised as her daughter, she
- 10:23Speaker 5: signs into the school using her daughter's name and school
- 10:26Speaker 5: ID number. Nothing happens, so she keeps moving forward. During
- 10:30Speaker 5: one of her classes, a teacher calls her by her
- 10:33Speaker 5: daughter's name. Julie Garcia makes it all the way through
- 10:36Speaker 5: the morning classes and goes to lunch where she takes
- 10:39Speaker 5: more photos.
- 10:40Speaker 3: She's not the only one.
- 10:42Speaker 2: I don't know if this name rings a bell to you,
- 10:45Speaker 2: but Marta Alvarado does the same thing.
- 10:48Speaker 3: Take a listen our ten.
- 10:50Speaker 5: Forty six year old Marta Eliza Serrano Alvarado enrolls her
- 10:53Speaker 5: seventeen year old daughter in Hanville High School, about thirty
- 10:56Speaker 5: miles outside of New Orleans. She shows all the appropriate
- 10:59Speaker 5: paperwork and seventeen year old Martha Jasinia Gutierrez Serrano is
- 11:03Speaker 5: off to class. But when officials from the Saint Charles
- 11:06Speaker 5: Parish Public Schools District receives a tip that a female
- 11:08Speaker 5: student who claims to be seventeen is actually an adult
- 11:11Speaker 5: in her mid twenties, they launch an internal investigation and
- 11:14Speaker 5: notify the Sheriff's office that they suspect missus Gutierra Serrano
- 11:18Speaker 5: is lying about her age. Search warrants are issued and
- 11:20Speaker 5: detectives find it fake passport at birth certificates belonging to
- 11:23Speaker 5: the younger woman. Marta elizeze Serrano Alvarado is forty six,
- 11:27Speaker 5: but her seventeen year old daughter is actually twenty eight.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Back to you, Daryl Cohen, the falsification, for instance, driver's licenses,
- 11:54Speaker 2: birth certificates.
- 11:56Speaker 3: That's a crime.
- 11:57Speaker 6: Absolutely, we're talking forgery, and we're talking stupidity. All the
- 12:05Speaker 6: ease are part of this. It's absolutely a crime. But still, Nancy,
- 12:09Speaker 6: I've looked at those picks and she does not look
- 12:12Speaker 6: in my view as if she was thirteen or fourteen
- 12:16Speaker 6: or twelve. She looks like an adult.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Did I ask you that? No?
- 12:19Speaker 6: You did.
- 12:19Speaker 2: No, I did not ask you that. I'm not asking
- 12:22Speaker 2: did she do a good job? I'm asking why did
- 12:25Speaker 2: grown women across our country pretend to be teens and
- 12:31Speaker 2: go so far as to fake documents, dress up and
- 12:35Speaker 2: all sorts of get ups, and go to school, sometimes
- 12:38Speaker 2: for extended periods of times weeks, months, pretending to be
- 12:44Speaker 2: a child. Okay, let me give you another example. Riley Madison.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Take a listen.
- 12:51Speaker 5: Riley Madison told administrators at Cairo Durham High School that
- 12:54Speaker 5: she was a fifteen year old homeless girl and that
- 12:56Speaker 5: she didn't have documentation they might need homeless children in
- 12:59Speaker 5: you cannot be denied education. The school is required to
- 13:02Speaker 5: immediately enroll Riley Madison in classes. When she enrolled, Riley
- 13:06Speaker 5: Madison intends school the next day, the investigation determines Riley
- 13:09Speaker 5: Madison is actually Michael Ann Goodrich, at thirty two year
- 13:13Speaker 5: old with a high school diploma. Goodrich is arrested in
- 13:16Speaker 5: charge with offering a false instrument, for filing, falsifying business records,
- 13:19Speaker 5: and criminal trespassing.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Okay, I've got to get to the why, and I
- 13:23Speaker 2: think you'll agree with me, Daryl Cohen, that motive is
- 13:28Speaker 2: not an element of any crime.
- 13:30Speaker 3: The state never has to prove motive.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Although sometimes juris want to know why did this happen
- 13:37Speaker 2: or they can't make sense of a crime unless they
- 13:40Speaker 2: know the motive.
- 13:41Speaker 3: The state doesn't have to prove motive ever.
- 13:43Speaker 6: Ever, you're absolutely one thousand percent correct. The fact that
- 13:47Speaker 6: a person commits the crime is all that's necessary. Committing
- 13:52Speaker 6: the necessary elements of breaking the law or laws. That's it,
- 13:56Speaker 6: one and done.
- 13:57Speaker 3: You know.
- 13:58Speaker 2: I want to circle now to Elisa Mula, AMD physical
- 14:03Speaker 2: security strategist. She is a child school safety and security
- 14:07Speaker 2: expert and advocate. Alisa, thank you so much for being
- 14:11Speaker 2: with us. This could actually pose serious safety problems. It's
- 14:16Speaker 2: not just some soccer mob deciding she wants to relive
- 14:20Speaker 2: high school. What if a relationship a sex relationship is
- 14:25Speaker 2: started with a teen girl or a teen boy by.
- 14:29Speaker 9: This mob, It absolutely does pose a huge problem. You know,
- 14:33Speaker 9: the schools often rely on the technology and they're used
- 14:38Speaker 9: to their everyday interactions with the students, but this really
- 14:42Speaker 9: demonstrates the lack of training in policy and procedure and
- 14:46Speaker 9: protocol for training for students, faculty staff. How is it
- 14:51Speaker 9: that this woman made it through lunch without anyone recognizing
- 14:55Speaker 9: or alerting authorities that this is not one who they
- 15:00Speaker 9: see on a regular basis. So it's great that they
- 15:03Speaker 9: caught her at some point, but if it were to
- 15:07Speaker 9: go any longer, You're absolutely right, there could have been
- 15:10Speaker 9: some sort of interaction or assault in a bathroom. We
- 15:14Speaker 9: see this on a regular basis. This actually just happened
- 15:18Speaker 9: in California, where a man encountered two eight year old
- 15:22Speaker 9: girls in a bathroom at an elementary school. This happens
- 15:26Speaker 9: all across the country on a daily basis, maybe not daily,
- 15:29Speaker 9: but on a regular basis, and this is a perfect
- 15:32Speaker 9: example of that too.
- 15:34Speaker 2: Mary Golden, a former Senior inspector US Marshall Service owner
- 15:37Speaker 2: Golden Consulting and Investigations. Mary, thank you for being with us.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Of course, my mind leaps to the next step. In
- 15:46Speaker 2: the world where I live, people often have nefarious motives.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Why would an adult pretend to be a little girl
- 15:58Speaker 2: or a boy and in fuel trade a middle school
- 16:01Speaker 2: or a high school?
- 16:04Speaker 3: No good reason.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Yes, I heard doctor Delatore say, it's extreme attention seeking
- 16:11Speaker 2: behavior and the product of any one case anyway wanting
- 16:14Speaker 2: a social media presence. But of course my mind leaps
- 16:19Speaker 2: to the criminal motivation. Do they want to stalk other children?
- 16:25Speaker 2: Do they want a sex relationship? Why are they there?
- 16:31Speaker 2: And not only that, it brings to mind other security breaches,
- 16:35Speaker 2: and I think immediately about the park Land shooting massacre,
- 16:41Speaker 2: where Nicholas Cruz had been a student at the school.
- 16:46Speaker 2: They knew not to let him in, all the security guards,
- 16:52Speaker 2: all the security posts, the teachers, the administrators, they knew
- 16:55Speaker 2: he could not come back ever, specifically with a backpack.
- 17:00Speaker 3: And of course what happens.
- 17:01Speaker 2: He comes back with a backpack, and he shoots at
- 17:05Speaker 2: the school and takes multiple children down, murdering them.
- 17:13Speaker 3: How did he get in? How did that happen? And
- 17:17Speaker 3: how are these moms?
- 17:18Speaker 2: I mean, they may be in it for some weird
- 17:21Speaker 2: sex gratification or attention seeking ploy but.
- 17:27Speaker 3: How are they getting in.
- 17:28Speaker 10: Well, she obviously got in with the normal flow of students.
- 17:32Speaker 10: I mean she was charged with criminal trespass because it's
- 17:35Speaker 10: not the fact that she just walked on the property
- 17:38Speaker 10: and said, look, I'd beat your security when all the
- 17:40Speaker 10: gates were closed, doors were locked. You know, criminal trespass
- 17:44Speaker 10: in Texas goes far beyond that is when you violate
- 17:46Speaker 10: the boundaries that you're there for a period of time,
- 17:48Speaker 10: and she was there for hours and hours, So I mean,
- 17:52Speaker 10: she wasn't worried about school security, or she would have
- 17:55Speaker 10: walked in beat you know, she defeated security, and then
- 17:58Speaker 10: she could would have went to the officer said look
- 18:01Speaker 10: I just walked into your school, you know, unattested. Nobody
- 18:04Speaker 10: stopped me, this, that and the other. And she claims
- 18:06Speaker 10: it's for school safety. There's too many shootings. Look, there
- 18:10Speaker 10: hasn't been a shooting in El Paso since twenty nineteen.
- 18:14Speaker 10: That was the Walmart shooting where twenty people were killed.
- 18:17Speaker 10: There hasn't been you know, that's the old There hasn't
- 18:20Speaker 10: been a school shooting in the past fifteen years at
- 18:22Speaker 10: an elementary, middle school, or high school in El Paso.
- 18:25Speaker 10: So how is that her hear reasoning for doing it.
- 18:31Speaker 10: That was just an excuse she made up because it's
- 18:33Speaker 10: something that she had to make up because that's the
- 18:35Speaker 10: big buzz of the day school security school shootings. She
- 18:39Speaker 10: had to use that hoping that they would buy into it.
- 18:42Speaker 10: And guess what they did.
- 18:43Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to figure something out, not in
- 18:45Speaker 2: deleatory and hey, Alisa, mula with me. EMD Physical Security
- 18:50Speaker 2: Strategy is specializing in child and school safety and security. Alisa,
- 18:55Speaker 2: I'm gonna circle right back to you. But tider Delatory again,
- 19:01Speaker 2: I need a shrink, doctor Delatory.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Do you have any children?
- 19:05Speaker 2: Okay, then you've lived through high school with them. I'm
- 19:08Speaker 2: just guessing you. Have they gotten to that age yet?
- 19:11Speaker 4: Living through currently?
- 19:12Speaker 3: Okay with you? Okay?
- 19:15Speaker 2: Have you gone to any school activities like games or
- 19:19Speaker 2: pep rallies or events? Okay, let's just talk about a
- 19:25Speaker 2: football game. Have you seen those moms that are a
- 19:28Speaker 2: little too into it?
- 19:30Speaker 10: Of course?
- 19:31Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 19:31Speaker 3: Absolutely, Look I'm into it.
- 19:33Speaker 2: I'm into it because my twins are there somewhere wandering around.
- 19:38Speaker 3: Thank you Lord for life three sixty.
- 19:41Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm into it because they're into it, and it's
- 19:46Speaker 2: not just the game it's just not the technique. It's
- 19:48Speaker 2: not just who wins. It's because their friends are there
- 19:50Speaker 2: and they're having hot dogs and they're walking around. You know,
- 19:54Speaker 2: they're having a good time, and I want to be
- 19:56Speaker 2: near them, But they're as moms. There's just a little
- 20:03Speaker 2: two into it. What is that, doctor dellatory. It's like
- 20:07Speaker 2: they are in high school themselves.
- 20:09Speaker 4: I think that's part of it. I think that there
- 20:12Speaker 4: is a desire, particularly when you're experiencing a tremendous amount
- 20:17Speaker 4: of stress for whatever reason, financial stress, relationship stress. There's
- 20:22Speaker 4: a wanting to return to a time when things were
- 20:25Speaker 4: a lot easier, You were a lot happier. Things seem
- 20:28Speaker 4: to make more sense in a way right that you
- 20:32Speaker 4: feel you felt more love right, and that could easily right,
- 20:36Speaker 4: as you've been describing, that can easily be perverted into
- 20:42Speaker 4: wildly inappropriate behaviors, criminal behaviors. It can be corrupted that way.
- 20:48Speaker 4: But I think you have to initially convince yourself that
- 20:52Speaker 4: the life that you're currently living isn't as good as
- 20:56Speaker 4: you once had had it.
- 20:58Speaker 3: Oh Reliving the Glory three Days.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greace.
- 21:22Speaker 2: To you, Caitlin Becker, Senior investigative reporter with dailymail dot Com. We're,
- 21:27Speaker 2: of course, I've got a slew of other cases, Kaitlyn,
- 21:30Speaker 2: I'm going to go through. But Caitlin, the glory days.
- 21:34Speaker 2: You know, have you ever met those people that are
- 21:37Speaker 2: still talking about when they scored the touchdown, or they
- 21:41Speaker 2: were a cheerleader, or they were played whatever, they're still
- 21:46Speaker 2: talking about it. I mean, when my husband brings up
- 21:50Speaker 2: that he plays football, Caitlin, are.
- 21:52Speaker 3: You married yet?
- 21:53Speaker 8: I am?
- 21:54Speaker 3: Okay.
- 21:54Speaker 2: I hope your husband doesn't try to relive his glory
- 21:57Speaker 2: days from high school.
- 21:58Speaker 8: He does not say goodness.
- 21:59Speaker 3: Well, you know so.
- 22:00Speaker 2: I never the whole time I dated David, I never
- 22:04Speaker 2: heard him do that. Now that he has the children,
- 22:06Speaker 2: he sometimetimes wanders off into reliving his high school I'm like.
- 22:10Speaker 3: Stop right there, these are your glory days right here.
- 22:15Speaker 3: This is it. This is your glory. Me and the
- 22:18Speaker 3: twins get used to it.
- 22:20Speaker 8: Nancy, you couldn't pay me to go back to high school.
- 22:23Speaker 8: You could not pay me to go back to high school.
- 22:25Speaker 7: And I liked exactly, I mean I was.
- 22:28Speaker 3: I liked high school too. I was fine.
- 22:31Speaker 2: But what is it with these grown I mean, I
- 22:35Speaker 2: usually hear men do it talk about, Oh, I dated
- 22:38Speaker 2: this one in high school. I played football in high school,
- 22:42Speaker 2: like whatever in high school and they're reminiscing.
- 22:46Speaker 3: But I don't hear women do it that much.
- 22:49Speaker 2: So what can you tell me about Casey Garcia? Why
- 22:53Speaker 2: would she want to relive her high school You know.
- 22:56Speaker 8: I don't feel like Casey Garcia was trying to relive
- 23:00Speaker 8: her school experience, and this was middle school, another place
- 23:03Speaker 8: you couldn't pay me to go. It almost seems like
- 23:06Speaker 8: she was trying to get attention as an adult now
- 23:10Speaker 8: versus trying to relive what she did there. And in
- 23:13Speaker 8: subsequent videos that she posted on social media and on YouTube,
- 23:16Speaker 8: she would talk about how now her integrity is being
- 23:19Speaker 8: called into question, which of course, and that she wasn't
- 23:22Speaker 8: trying to ruffle feathers, which is so antithetical to what
- 23:27Speaker 8: she originally said. Her purpose was was to expose black
- 23:31Speaker 8: school security. So either you're trying to expose something or
- 23:35Speaker 8: not ruffle feathers. So she didn't really seem to know
- 23:38Speaker 8: or be able to articulate why she really did this.
- 23:42Speaker 8: And I think the fact that she's four foot eleven
- 23:44Speaker 8: helped her case.
- 23:45Speaker 2: Yeah, so you believe this is more about an adult stunt.
- 23:49Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely getting attention.
- 23:51Speaker 2: As Della Torri earlier said, attention saking as an adult
- 23:55Speaker 2: than reliving or recapturing her youth. O hey, listen to
- 24:02Speaker 2: a similar scenario with a woman named Charity Johnson.
- 24:06Speaker 5: Charity Johnson enrolls in the tenth grade at a New
- 24:09Speaker 5: Life Christian school in Longview, Texas. Her story is sad
- 24:12Speaker 5: but familiar in this part of Texas. She was abandoned
- 24:15Speaker 5: as a baby. She didn't have any school records because
- 24:17Speaker 5: she's homeschooled while she was in foster care. The tiny
- 24:20Speaker 5: private Christian school has run out of a church and
- 24:23Speaker 5: they took her in. She's a good student, five feet tall.
- 24:26Speaker 5: She dresses young for her age with Hello Kitty and
- 24:28Speaker 5: Mini mouse stuff. She is well liked. Though then one
- 24:32Speaker 5: day she has arrested for giving false information to a
- 24:35Speaker 5: police officer, and her mugshot brings about the truth of
- 24:39Speaker 5: the con Johnson is actually thirty four years old. Osa
- 24:43Speaker 5: Marie Obiseki exposed her after her arrest, but said Johnson
- 24:47Speaker 5: is not a con artist for money, She's a con
- 24:50Speaker 5: artist for love.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying to just take that all in.
- 24:54Speaker 2: So everything about her as a child currently is a lie.
- 25:02Speaker 3: She gives that lie to.
- 25:04Speaker 2: A tiny Christian school and they buy into it, and
- 25:09Speaker 2: they let her in, including her falling for her skim
- 25:15Speaker 2: including dressing in Hello Kitty and Minnie Mouse. So to
- 25:20Speaker 2: Caitlin Becker, joining US Senior vest edit Reporter, Daily mail
- 25:23Speaker 2: dot com, how did Casey Garcia dress in order to
- 25:27Speaker 2: pull off her stunt?
- 25:29Speaker 8: She quite literally wore her daughter Julie's clothes. She actually
- 25:33Speaker 8: wore a dirty kind of stained hoodie that had marble
- 25:37Speaker 8: characters on it that belonged to her daughter. She completely
- 25:41Speaker 8: mimicked her entire personality. I think you could hear she
- 25:43Speaker 8: sort of changed her voice. She wore these glasses, She
- 25:46Speaker 8: kept her hood up a lot and kind of looked
- 25:48Speaker 8: a little sort of disheveled the way of the thirteen
- 25:51Speaker 8: year old might look when they brushed off to school.
- 25:54Speaker 8: And she pulled it off really well.
- 25:56Speaker 2: I want to circle back to Michaelan Goodrich in our
- 26:00Speaker 2: cut eleven, because this woman really plotted. Even becoming familiar
- 26:06Speaker 2: with the homeless student statutes listen.
- 26:09Speaker 5: Riley Madison told administrators at Cairo Durham High School that
- 26:12Speaker 5: she was a fifteen year old homeless girl, and that
- 26:14Speaker 5: she didn't have documentation they might need. Homeless children in
- 26:17Speaker 5: youth cannot be denied education. The school is required to
- 26:20Speaker 5: immediately enroll Riley Madison in classes. When she enrolled, Riley
- 26:24Speaker 5: Madison intends school the next day. The investigation determines Riley
- 26:27Speaker 5: Madison is actually Michael Ann Goodrich, a thirty two year
- 26:31Speaker 5: old with a high school diploma. Goodrich is arrested in
- 26:33Speaker 5: charged with offering a false instrument, for filing, falsifying business records,
- 26:37Speaker 5: and criminal trespassing.
- 26:38Speaker 2: So in the Riley Madison teen girl aka Michael Ann Goodrich,
- 26:44Speaker 2: thirty two year old woman Darryl Cohen, she familiarized herself
- 26:49Speaker 2: with the homeless statutes that state if a child is
- 26:53Speaker 2: homeless and presents to a school, they have to take
- 26:57Speaker 2: the child in with no documentation, background, know anything.
- 27:01Speaker 3: Rather than to potentially denying a.
- 27:04Speaker 2: Child in education, this woman went so far as to
- 27:06Speaker 2: research all of.
- 27:07Speaker 3: That to get into school.
- 27:09Speaker 6: It is beyond belief, Nancy, this is completely different. She
- 27:14Speaker 6: has obviously she has mental problems, but that's not the point.
- 27:18Speaker 6: The point is that she researched it, she knew what
- 27:21Speaker 6: she was doing. She is a danger to the kids.
- 27:25Speaker 6: Around her, and as such, she needs to be stopped,
- 27:29Speaker 6: and anyone else like this needs to be stopped. There's
- 27:31Speaker 6: no excuse for this. And frankly, when I was in
- 27:34Speaker 6: high school, I couldn't wait to get out. That's me right.
- 27:37Speaker 2: I thought you were a star athlete and you know
- 27:40Speaker 2: your nickname, your Monica cool Breeze. I thought that originated
- 27:44Speaker 2: in the ninth grade.
- 27:45Speaker 6: No, no, not quite.
- 27:49Speaker 2: Okay, guys, we're telling you about a very odd phenomenon.
- 27:53Speaker 2: And the more we investigated, the more we found out
- 27:56Speaker 2: about it, and the more we found out that it's
- 27:58Speaker 2: fairly prevalent. This is not one obscure example. Take listen
- 28:04Speaker 2: our cut.
- 28:04Speaker 3: Fourteen and meete thirty two year old Shelby HEWITTT.
- 28:08Speaker 5: Shelby Hewitt is a thirty two year old social worker
- 28:11Speaker 5: who has an active counselor's license until twenty twenty five.
- 28:14Speaker 5: But she's also Daniella, a high school student at the
- 28:18Speaker 5: Jeremiah E. Burke High School and at the same time
- 28:20Speaker 5: high school student attending Brighton High School. But she asks
- 28:24Speaker 5: students at English High School to call her Elie Alessandra Blake.
- 28:28Speaker 5: Administrators at the English High School in Boston spot several
- 28:31Speaker 5: inaccuracies in her paperwork and begin to investigate. According to
- 28:34Speaker 5: court documents, she uses forged documents to enroll in the district,
- 28:37Speaker 5: including fake Department of Children and Families documents. Shelby Hewitt
- 28:41Speaker 5: has been charged with identity fraud and forgery. She also
- 28:44Speaker 5: is charged with two counts of uttering false or forged records,
- 28:47Speaker 5: deeds or other writings, meaning she used forged documents to
- 28:50Speaker 5: enroll in the district. She faces up to ten years
- 28:53Speaker 5: in prison if convicted.
- 28:54Speaker 2: Back to doctor Della Torrey, have you noticed these women
- 28:57Speaker 2: make up fake names like Danielle Law or Riley.
- 29:02Speaker 3: They're picking names.
- 29:04Speaker 2: I guess they think names that are compatible with being
- 29:07Speaker 2: a teen girl again or even a twain.
- 29:10Speaker 4: Yeah, because you can't use you can't use your name,
- 29:14Speaker 4: but you can't use your name because you need to
- 29:17Speaker 4: protect your own sort of self ego. Right, So you
- 29:22Speaker 4: know you're doing something wrong, but if you use someone
- 29:26Speaker 4: else's name, there's a barrier, Right, there's a gap in
- 29:29Speaker 4: between the guilt and shame that you would expect to
- 29:32Speaker 4: be feeling because you know that you're lying by using
- 29:36Speaker 4: someone else's name. It's no longer you, it's this character
- 29:40Speaker 4: that's persona, this mask that you get to wear and
- 29:44Speaker 4: to live out whatever these attention seeking behaviors you want
- 29:48Speaker 4: to live out are.
- 29:49Speaker 2: We have presented fairly mild, more innocuous examples of adults
- 29:57Speaker 2: pretending to be teens in twins to get access actually
- 30:01Speaker 2: attending high school and middle school as a child. However,
- 30:06Speaker 2: there are many, many other cases that have a more
- 30:10Speaker 2: nefarious bent.
- 30:12Speaker 3: Take a list at our Cup thirteen.
- 30:14Speaker 5: James Wilson is a seventeen year old boy who meets
- 30:17Speaker 5: a fifteen year old West Virginia girl online. They have
- 30:19Speaker 5: a real connection. They meet in person twice, once at
- 30:22Speaker 5: a Pennsylvania hotel with her mother and two other friends.
- 30:25Speaker 5: They meet a second time at the girl's home. James
- 30:28Speaker 5: gives his girlfriend's cell phones and pays the bills. The
- 30:31Speaker 5: girl uses the phones to take nude photos and send
- 30:33Speaker 5: to James. Police get involved when a friend of the
- 30:36Speaker 5: fifteen year old confronts James, telling him she doesn't believe
- 30:40Speaker 5: he is what he pretends to be, and James threatens
- 30:43Speaker 5: to kill her. She contacts the National Center for Missing
- 30:46Speaker 5: and Exploited Children and an investigation begins. Turns out James Wilson,
- 30:50Speaker 5: seventeen year old boy is really twenty four year old female,
- 30:54Speaker 5: Carissa hads Has is arrested and charged with traveling across
- 30:58Speaker 5: state lines for the purpose of coerce or enticing a minor.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Now this is an adult female pretending to be a
- 31:06Speaker 2: teen boy.
- 31:09Speaker 3: It takes a horrible and criminal turn.
- 31:13Speaker 2: So that is where my mind goes when I find
- 31:16Speaker 2: out that a thirty three year old woman is going
- 31:19Speaker 2: to high school pretending to be a child. Now here's
- 31:24Speaker 2: a more Let me just say innocent example if.
- 31:28Speaker 3: There is such a thing. Take a listen. Now we're
- 31:30Speaker 3: cut nine.
- 31:31Speaker 5: Twenty eight year old Audrey Franciscini dresses up like a
- 31:34Speaker 5: high school student, carries a skateboard and a painting to
- 31:37Speaker 5: blend in with students at American Senior High School in
- 31:39Speaker 5: Miami Dade County, Florida. Once on campus, Franciscini records herself
- 31:44Speaker 5: handing out flyers promoting her Instagram page. A student said
- 31:48Speaker 5: Franciscini was recording weird stuff and said she had a
- 31:51Speaker 5: devil's mask. She uses the Devil's mask on her social media.
- 31:55Speaker 5: Franciscini manages to escape school security, but that night, detectives
- 31:59Speaker 5: tracker at her North Miami Beach home. She posts a
- 32:02Speaker 5: video to her Instagram talking about the police outside her
- 32:06Speaker 5: home to arrest her. Francescini is facing a felony charge
- 32:09Speaker 5: of burglary of an occupied dwelling and two misdemeanor charges
- 32:12Speaker 5: of interference with an educational institution and resisting an officer
- 32:15Speaker 5: without violence.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Okay, as well as they can end that one ended well,
- 32:22Speaker 2: but take a listen hour cut Bank.
- 32:24Speaker 5: DeAndre Banks is a twenty five year old man, but
- 32:27Speaker 5: on Facebook, he pretends to be a teen girl. Posing
- 32:30Speaker 5: as the girl, Banks is able to get attention from
- 32:33Speaker 5: a seventeen year old boy. As the teen girl, Banks
- 32:36Speaker 5: lures the boy to a house in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
- 32:39Speaker 5: When the boy shows up, Banks threatens him with a weapon,
- 32:42Speaker 5: then assaults the teen a fifteen year old boys Bank's
- 32:45Speaker 5: next victim. This time, he lures the victim to a
- 32:47Speaker 5: vacant house, but the boy is too strong and fast
- 32:50Speaker 5: and he escapes unharmed and goes to police. DeAndrea Banks
- 32:53Speaker 5: faces two counts of kidnapping one count of sexual battery
- 32:56Speaker 5: with a deadly weapon.
- 32:57Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, that type of behavior came
- 32:59Speaker 2: to the front during the Delphi double murder case. Where
- 33:05Speaker 2: teens Abbey and Liberty Libby were lured off of a
- 33:11Speaker 2: trustle bridge and murdered, according to police, by a local
- 33:15Speaker 2: pharmacy tech. But during that investigation, a suspect appeared, Keegan Clyde,
- 33:24Speaker 2: who had been impersonating a teen He had been impersonating
- 33:31Speaker 2: actually stealing photos from a police slash model officer Vincent Kolkowski.
- 33:37Speaker 2: Now what kik and Klin was doing was using offscer
- 33:40Speaker 2: Kowalski's image that Kowalski had put out there where he
- 33:46Speaker 2: looks like a really tough teen boy, kind of a
- 33:49Speaker 2: Justin Bieber lookalike, trying to lure young girls. So online
- 33:55Speaker 2: he looked like a teen and he was getting the
- 33:58Speaker 2: teen girls, not necessarily Abby and Libby to send nude photos,
- 34:05Speaker 2: to send topless photos. So that was his nefarious motive,
- 34:10Speaker 2: and he ended up being implicated suspected in a double murder. So,
- 34:16Speaker 2: doctor Delatri, it seems that men have much more nefarious
- 34:22Speaker 2: motivations for pretending to be a team.
- 34:25Speaker 4: It could certainly come across that way. I don't know
- 34:29Speaker 4: that there's a real distinction between why men do this
- 34:34Speaker 4: kind of behavior and why women don't do this kind
- 34:37Speaker 4: of behavior.
- 34:37Speaker 6: Because I do think.
- 34:39Speaker 4: Women do do this kind of thing, and they do
- 34:42Speaker 4: trick young boys and young girls into community these kinds
- 34:45Speaker 4: of acts. I think we see this more often in
- 34:48Speaker 4: men because we expect to see it more often than men.
- 34:51Speaker 4: We expect to see them doing things inappropriately and trying
- 34:57Speaker 4: to subvert the law. Well, I mean, we don't tend
- 35:01Speaker 4: to focus on that.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Well, I don't think my expectations of men behaving badly
- 35:06Speaker 2: affects other women I've never met and they're pretending to
- 35:10Speaker 2: be teens.
- 35:11Speaker 3: That's the one time I've disagreed with you.
- 35:13Speaker 2: I don't think our expectations have anything to do with
- 35:17Speaker 2: other people's criminal acts. Maybe we find out about it
- 35:21Speaker 2: more when it's men. But here's another woman that does
- 35:24Speaker 2: the same thing.
- 35:25Speaker 3: In our cut.
- 35:25Speaker 5: Fifteen, Hijuang Shin is sixteen years old. She enrolls at
- 35:29Speaker 5: New Brunswick High School and seems to be really excited
- 35:31Speaker 5: about the high school experience. A student at the school
- 35:34Speaker 5: says Sen asks some girls to hang out at Commercial
- 35:37Speaker 5: Avenue with her, but they never show. Shin starts acting
- 35:40Speaker 5: weird with the girls, and one of the girls says,
- 35:42Speaker 5: it's scary. It only takes a week before everyone starts
- 35:46Speaker 5: to find out this sen is not a sixteen year
- 35:48Speaker 5: old high school student. She's a twenty nine year old
- 35:50Speaker 5: divorced college graduate who's been sued by her landlord for
- 35:53Speaker 5: twenty thousand dollars in unpaid rent. Lawyers for Haijang Shin
- 35:57Speaker 5: say she's longed for the sense of safety she felled
- 36:00Speaker 5: as a teenager at the Massachusetts boarding school. The deception
- 36:03Speaker 5: leads to a grandeury indictment and third degree of fences
- 36:06Speaker 5: for false documents and hindering her own prosecution.
- 36:09Speaker 2: Doctor tell a Tory, that's exactly what you said, that
- 36:12Speaker 2: some adults yearn for that feeling of safety they had
- 36:15Speaker 2: in middle school.
- 36:17Speaker 4: Yeah, it is probably because they're not getting the needs
- 36:21Speaker 4: that they have currently in their current lives. They're not
- 36:25Speaker 4: being satisfied. They're not being satisfied because maybe they're not
- 36:28Speaker 4: able to communicate what their needs are. Maybe they don't
- 36:31Speaker 4: actually know what their needs are. They're trying to they're
- 36:37Speaker 4: trying to supplement what's going on in their lives and
- 36:41Speaker 4: it's failing, and so then they were turned back to
- 36:44Speaker 4: a time that they're nostalgic for. Right, they're nostalgic for
- 36:48Speaker 4: those feelings when things seem to be easier, rather than
- 36:52Speaker 4: dealing with the stuff that they need to deal with
- 36:54Speaker 4: now because it's too hard. And so living a life
- 36:57Speaker 4: like that, where you can get easy attention, you get
- 37:00Speaker 4: easy love, right, because that's what children do. They give
- 37:04Speaker 4: love easily, and they want attention easily, and so the
- 37:10Speaker 4: person finds ways of tricking other people into giving that freedom.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Darryl Cohen, I don't really care what their needs are.
- 37:17Speaker 2: There is something inherently wrong with trying to turn the
- 37:23Speaker 2: clock of time backwards and pretending you're eleven, twelve or
- 37:27Speaker 2: thirteen and actually pulling it off and attending school. There's
- 37:30Speaker 2: just something very wrong with that. I mean, there's the
- 37:33Speaker 2: obvious falsification of records, but I don't want youth eleven twelve, thirteen,
- 37:41Speaker 2: fourteen children fraternizing with a grown person male or female,
- 37:47Speaker 2: pretending to be a tween.
- 37:49Speaker 6: Oh. Absolutely, Nancy, that is about as wrong as it
- 37:52Speaker 6: can be. Because you don't know what the ramifications are.
- 37:57Speaker 6: We can extrapolate it, and they're not good. Yeah.
- 38:00Speaker 3: I mean, as you spin it out, it just gets
- 38:02Speaker 3: worse and worse.
- 38:03Speaker 2: Daryl. Of course, we're speaking from a point of view
- 38:05Speaker 2: where all we know about our felonies. When we get
- 38:08Speaker 2: these situations, it's already gone too far. Somebody has been molested,
- 38:12Speaker 2: they've been raped, kidnapped, as in the other examples we gave,
- 38:17Speaker 2: and Alisa Mula joining us EMD physical security strategist. Another
- 38:23Speaker 2: thing that worries to me about this last case where
- 38:26Speaker 2: the woman was actually a twenty nine year old divorce
- 38:29Speaker 2: college grad.
- 38:30Speaker 3: Who wants to have hangouts with the other teen girls.
- 38:34Speaker 10: Ill.
- 38:35Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean again, it's a great demonstration of just
- 38:38Speaker 9: a total disrespect for law and order and general breakdown
- 38:43Speaker 9: of morality, quite frankly, or disconnection with reality. And you
- 38:47Speaker 9: gave a lot of great examples, Nancy, of some seemingly innocent,
- 38:52Speaker 9: unauthorized activity all the way up to the Parkland shooting,
- 38:56Speaker 9: which was disastrous, And I watched that site. There's nothing worse,
- 39:00Speaker 9: in my opinion than the park One example. So you
- 39:05Speaker 9: can see there are many steps along the way from
- 39:07Speaker 9: something that seems seemingly innocent is something that turns tragic.
- 39:12Speaker 2: Hey, when you're saying, Alisimila that it's morally wrong, I
- 39:15Speaker 2: am not the church lady. I don't try to police
- 39:19Speaker 2: other people's morality.
- 39:21Speaker 3: But when it comes to a crime.
- 39:23Speaker 2: I'm on it like a cheap suit and an adult
- 39:27Speaker 2: pretending or impersonating a child at school asking for after
- 39:32Speaker 2: school hangouts to exchange pictures online. In my world, that's
- 39:40Speaker 2: about to go bad. Berry Golden, very bad, ye.
- 39:46Speaker 10: Bephe. In the case of Casey Garcia, I mean, she's
- 39:48Speaker 10: thirty two years old and she's trying to infiltrate a
- 39:51Speaker 10: middle school, saying hey, look how young. I look. What's
- 39:55Speaker 10: she going to do when a season or fifties she
- 39:57Speaker 10: can try to infiltrate a high school? I mean you,
- 40:00Speaker 10: and she's lucky she got off with just probation.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Now, according to Herbary Golden, her whole effort was to
- 40:07Speaker 2: test school security.
- 40:09Speaker 3: I don't know that.
- 40:10Speaker 2: The judge fell for that, and she did get probation,
- 40:13Speaker 2: community service, and a fine. The judge also ordered her
- 40:17Speaker 2: to undergo a mental health evaluation and better Truer words
- 40:24Speaker 2: were never spoken. Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,