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Father Kidnaps, Kills Tot After Breakup with Girlfriend | Crime Alert 03.19.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace and Breaking Crime News. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: life behind bars for a Texas man who killed his
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  Speaker 1: two year old daughter during a police chase, all while
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  Speaker 1: facetiming the live video to the girl's mother. Deantrey Flanagan,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, picks his daughter up from daycare, then confronts
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  Speaker 1: the mother, Kirsten Watson, at work. He accuses her of
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  Speaker 1: talking to another man, strikes her or takes her phone,
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  Speaker 1: and flees with the daughter, Zevaya Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: That's when Flanagin facetimed Watson. With seviah sitting in his lap.
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  Speaker 2: Flannagan's hand is around her throat, keeping the little girl
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  Speaker 2: from breathing. Flannagan repeatedly shouts this is what you made
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  Speaker 2: me do, while Watson begs him to stop. The chase
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  Speaker 2: ends when Flanagan crashes into two cars. When cops move in,
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  Speaker 2: they find Flanagin used a blunt object to hit Sevia
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  Speaker 2: in the head and smashed Davia's head against a blunt object.
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  Speaker 2: The little girl is rushed to a hospital but pronounced
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  Speaker 2: dead upon arrival. Watson called police several times in the
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  Speaker 2: days leading up to the murder, worried Flanagan would become
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  Speaker 2: violent after their break up.
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  Speaker 1: A jury convicts Flannagan of capital murder. Watson vows to
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  Speaker 1: keep Savia's memory alive. Ricky Holly wants a late night
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  Speaker 1: snack and decides on Domino's pizza. Ready to dig in,
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  Speaker 1: Holly goes into a rage and she discovers the pizza
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  Speaker 1: is uncut and cold. She gets in the car and
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  Speaker 1: drives to the closest Saint Petersburg, Florida Dominoes to berate employees.
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  Speaker 1: When they refuse to replace the pizza, she throws the
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  Speaker 1: pizza at them and rips their phone off the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Well police are called. Ricky Holly twenty two spends the
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  Speaker 1: night in jail for criminal mischief that she won't find
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  Speaker 1: Dominoes on the commissary menu. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking
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  Speaker 1: Knees Crime.
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  Speaker 3: Onlines John Lemley we began in Georgia as a Fulton
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  Speaker 3: County judge has ruled that statements made by Robert Aaron Long,
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  Speaker 3: accused of killing four women at Atlanta area spas in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, can be used at trial.
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  Speaker 4: Well Chief Judge Ural Glanville denied the defense's effort to
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  Speaker 4: suppress statements Long gave police after his arrest. Prosecutors save
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  Speaker 4: the twenty five year old Long carried out two deadly
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  Speaker 4: attacks on March sixteenth, twenty twenty one, first at Young's
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  Speaker 4: Asian massage in Cherokee County, where he killed four people,
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  Speaker 4: and then in Atlanta, where he killed four more at
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  Speaker 4: two separate spas. Long pleaded guilty in Cherokee County and
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  Speaker 4: is serving life without parole, but in Fulton County, prosecutors
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  Speaker 4: are seeking the death penalty and a hate crimes enhancement.
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  Speaker 4: His defense argued Long was denied legal counsel when questioned
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  Speaker 4: after his arrest, violating his sixth Amendment rights, but prosecutors
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  Speaker 4: counted that Long spoke voluntarily and had not requested an attorney.
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  Speaker 4: Longface's charges including murder, aggravated assault, and domestic terrorism. A
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  Speaker 4: trial date has not yet been set. A Canadian man
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  Speaker 4: has been sentenced to twenty five years in US federal
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  Speaker 4: prison for damaging energy facilities and the Dakotas As Crime
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  Speaker 4: Online Sydney Sumner tells US the court deemed his actions
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  Speaker 4: as acts of terrorism.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Smith, a fifty year old Canadian from the Toronto
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  Speaker 2: area who had been residing in Astoria, Oregon, was sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to twenty five years in federal prison for attacks on
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  Speaker 2: energy facilities in the Dakotas. These incidents resulted in one
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  Speaker 2: point seven million dollars in damages. Smith pleaded guilty to
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  Speaker 2: charges of destroying energy facilities stemming from two incidents, one
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  Speaker 2: near Carpenter, South Dakota in twenty twenty two and another
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  Speaker 2: near Ray, North Dakota in twenty twenty three. US District
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  Speaker 2: Judge Daniel Traynor imposed two consecutive twelve and a half
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  Speaker 2: year terms, significantly exceeding federal sentencing guidelines that recommend three
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  Speaker 2: and a half to four and a quarter years per count.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutor David Hagler justified the harsher sentence, stating Smith's actions
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  Speaker 2: met the definition of terrorism by attempting to intimidate or
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  Speaker 2: coerce a civilian population. Defense attorney Douglas Passon argued against
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  Speaker 2: the extended sentence, portraying Smith as an individual deeply concerned
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  Speaker 2: about climate change who deliberately chose remote locations to avoid
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  Speaker 2: harming anyone. Smith expressed that his frustration after years of
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  Speaker 2: lawful advocacy led to these actions, and cited his autism
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  Speaker 2: and Crohn's disease, and his plea for leniency. He described
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  Speaker 2: the sentence as tantamount to a life sentence, doubting his
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  Speaker 2: survival in prison due to his medical conditions. However, Judge
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  Speaker 2: Trainer was unswayed, emphasizing that Smith ignored US laws and
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  Speaker 2: engaged in terrorist conduct by attacking critical infrastructure on two
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  Speaker 2: separate occasions months apart, and traveling great distances to do so.
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  Speaker 4: Smith plans to appeal this sentence, arguing it is unjust
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  Speaker 4: given his medical and mental conditions and disproportionate compared to
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  Speaker 4: similar crimes.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks John.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Morris Mulliss, mother of three, last seen at a
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  Speaker 1: family reunion Royalton, Indiana, days after her parents find her
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  Speaker 1: home locked and empty. Notes left on our door go
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  Speaker 1: unanswered dad before are missing. Two weeks later, Ashley twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: claims Daniel York Senior, a married man she sing is
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  Speaker 1: the father of her kneeborn. She lives in a home
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  Speaker 1: owned by Yorke and his wife, Sheila. After Ashley disappears,
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  Speaker 1: her baby girl remains with the Yorks. Two years later,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel dies, Sheila moves to Florida with Ashley's daughter, Sheila
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  Speaker 1: later adopts her, claiming no living relatives exist. Ten years
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  Speaker 1: after Ashley's disappearance, Sheila York arrested for kidnapping and obstruction.
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  Speaker 1: Investigator says she falsifies adoption records and lies about family ties.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley five feet six, brown hair, brown eyes. Tattoo of
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  Speaker 1: Ashton upper left arm, butterfly right leg. If you know
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  Speaker 1: or think you know anything about the disappearance of Ashley Mullis,
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  Speaker 1: please contact Delaware County Sheriff's seven sixty five seven four
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  Speaker 1: solve unsolved homicides. With this crime art, I'm Nancy Grace.