"CARDI B'S BEATDOWN TRIAL, SERIAL KILLER'S DAUGHTER UPDATE & 'I DID IT DUDE': Idaho Father's Chilling Confession"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Friday, August twenty second, twenty twenty five. A quick note before we dive in, as we're recording this Thursday evening. The Menendez brothers' parole decisions haven't been announced yet. Eric went before the board yesterday, Lyle goes today. Check our Bonus episodes for complete coverage of those outcomes. Now today on celebrity trials, Cardi b is heading to trial next week for allegedly beating up her own security guard, and folks, when your bodyguard needs protection from you, you might have an anger problem. Then, days four and five of the Christopher Wolfenbarger trial brought us Google searches for how to kill someone with your bare hands and a defense attorney who actually argued the victim was planning to kill herself. In a twisted family tree that includes a series real killer Grandfather. Somehow this is still the most disturbing branch. And we close with an Idaho father who made it real simple for investigators.

1:09 When they asked Jeremy Best about his dead ten month old daughter. He said, and I quote, I did it, dude. Sometimes killers write manifestos. Sometimes they just confess like they're admitting they ate the last slice of pizza. All that and more on today's celebrity trials. Let's start with Cardi B, because apparently being worth eighty million dollars doesn't buy you self control. Jury selection begins Monday in Los Angeles for what might be the most embarrassing lawsuit in hip hop history. Cardi B real name Belcalis Almanzar, is being sued by her former security guard, Immani Ellis for assault, battery, and get this racial discrimination. Yes, you heard that right. A black security guard is suing a black wrapper for using racial slurs while allegedly beating her up. Make it make sense.

2:03 Here's what allegedly went down. On February twenty fourth, twenty twenty, Cardi B was at her Beverly Hills mansion when Ellis, who was working security, apparently did something to set off the Wrapper. According to the lawsuit, Carti struck Ellis multiple times, used profane and racial language, and even spit on her. Ellis claims she was left with injuries and emotional distress. She's seeking unspecified damages for assault, battery and infliction of emotional distress. But here's where it gets interesting. She's also claiming racial discrimination and harassment. Now, Carti's legal team has been busy. They scored some pre trial wins getting certain evidence excluded. They're arguing Ellis can't prove her case, that there's no evidence of actual injury, and that the whole thing is a money grab. But Ellis's attorney, Shahrad Tavacoli, isn't backing down. He says they have witnesses, they have evidence, and they're ready to present it all to a jury starting Monday. Let me tell you what this is really about.

3:03 This is about a celebrity who thinks the rules don't apply to her. Cardi B has a documented history of violent behavior. She pled guilty in twenty twenty two to assault charges for ordering an attack on two strip club bartenders. She was involved in that infamous New York Fashion Week brawl with Nicki Minaj. She threw a shoe at Minage for God's sake, and now we're supposed to be surprised that she allegedly beat up her own security guard. Here's what kills me about this case. Ellis was there to protect Cardi B. Her job was literally to take a bullet for this woman. If necessary, and instead she allegedly ended up taking punches from her. The racial slur allegations make this even more twisted. We're talking about a woman who built her career on being authentically from the Bronx, representing her Afro Caribbean heritage, and now she's accused of using racial slurs against another woman of color. Cardi scored some legal victories leading up to trial. The judge limited some of the evidence Alice can present. But here's the thing about assault cases. They're simple. Did you hit someone?

4:12 Did witnesses see it? Were their injuries? And in California, even minor, unwanted touching can constitute battery. You don't need broken bones, you don't need hospital records. You just need to prove someone put their hands on you without consent. This trial is going to be a circus. Cardi b showing up to court in designer outfits worth more than most people's cars, her fans outside screaming support, the media treating it like entertainment instead of what it is. A powerful person allegedly abusing someone who worked for them. You know what's really sad Ellis probably took this job thinking she was lucky working security for Cardi b that's good money, prestige, maybe a stepping stone to bigger things. Instead, she allegedly ended up getting beat up by the very person she was supposed to protect. Jury selection starts Monday. Trial could last a week or two, and somewhere in Los Angeles, twelve people are about to decide whether being a celebrity means you can put your hands on anyone you want.

5:13 Spoiler alert, it doesn't. Now for our update on the Christopher Wolfenbarger trial in Atlanta, where the family tree looks like something out of a gothic horror novel. Days four and five of testimony gave us everything from Google searches about murder methods to a defense attorney actually arguing the victim was suicidal because when you can't explain away the evidence, just blame the dead woman. Thursday's testimony brought us Patton County Sheriff's investigator Jamie Abernathy, who delivered the kind of evidence that makes defense attorneys lose sleep. Christopher Wolfenbarger's Google history included and I'm not making this up, how to kill someone with your bare hands? And how long does it take to strangle someone? The searches were made in the months before Melissa's disappearance. You know, normal stuff everyone googles while planning. Definitely not a murder. But wait, it gets better or worse, depending on your perspective. The prosecution played Wolfenbarger's interview with investigators where he claimed Melissa was alive when he left the house on November twenty fourth, nineteen ninety eight. He said she was planning to go shopping for Thanksgiving dinner, except her body was found buried on his family's property, and forensic evidence suggests she'd been dead for days when he made that claim. Friday's testimony brought us doctor Karen Bailey, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Melissa's remains when they were discovered in two thousand and two. Cause of death blunt forced trauma

6:43 to the head. The skull fractures were consistent with multiple impacts from a heavy object. But here's where the defense got desperate. Attorney mcclan watson actually stood up and suggested with a straight face that Melissa might have been planning to kill herself, that maybe she asked Christopher to help her die. Let me break down how insane this defense is they want us to believe that Melissa Wolfenbarger, mother of two young children, daughter of a serial killer, which already gave her enough trauma for ten lifetimes, asked her estranged husband to beat her to death with a blunt object and then bury her on his parent's property, and that Christopher, being the helpful ex husband, he was obliged, then kept it secret for four years, then acted surprised when her body was found. The prosecution also introduced evidence about Christopher's behavior after Melissa's disappearance. He filed for divorce, citing abandonment. He told their children their mother didn't want them any more. He moved on with his life like she never existed. Meanwhile, Melissa's mother, Norma, who remember helped her serial killer husband dispose of bodies, was frantically searching for her daughter. Even someone who helped cover up multiple murders knew something was wrong here. The defense keeps trying to paint Norma Patten as unreliable because of her past.

8:04 But here's the thing. Being married to a serial killer doesn't make you wrong about everything. Sometimes terrible people can spot other terrible people. Takes one to no one, As they say, Christina Garrett, Melissa and Christopher's daughter, return to testify about growing up believing her grandparents were her biological parents. She only learned the truth when investigators showed up in two thousand and two. Imagine being six years old and finding out your whole life is built on your father's lies and your mother's bones. The prosecution is methodically building their case, google searches about killing methods, a body buried on the defendant's family property, lies about the victim being alive, a pattern of abuse testified to by multiple witnesses. The defense they've got nothing but character assassination of a dead woman and her serial killer adjacent mother. This trial continues next week, and folks, if you're googling how to kill someone with your bare hands, maybe don't just a thought.

9:08 We're back with more in just a moment. We close today with a confession so casual it's chilling. Jeremy Albert Best, forty eight, of Kellogg, Idaho, was charged Monday with first degree murder in the death of his ten month old daughter, Kaylee Jean Best, and when investigators asked him about it, he didn't lawyer up, he didn't claim innocence. He didn't even try to lie. He said, I did it, dude, like he was admitting to forgetting to take out the trash.

9:48 Here's what we know. On November fifth, twenty twenty four, emergency responders were called to Best's home for an unresponsive infant. Kaylee Jean Best, just ten months old, was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner determined she died from multiple blunt force trauma injuries to her head. This baby was beaten to death by her father, who then confessed like it was no big deal. According to court documents, Best initially told investigators various stories. First, he said Kaylee fell off the bed. Then he said she might have hit her head on the crib. Classic abuse excuses, the kind emergency room doctors here every day from parents who don't know how their child got those suspicious bruises. But when Detective Brad Masks of the Shoshonee County Sheriff's Office pressed him, Best cracked. And when he cracked, he didn't just confess, he gave details. Best admitted to striking Kayley multiple times over several days. He said he was frustrated with her crying.

10:49 He said he lost it. He demonstrated for investigators how he hit his infant daughter in the head with his hand. Then came the statement that should haunt everyone involved in this case, I did it, dude, What else do you want to know? The medical examiner found injuries consistent with child abuse, multiple impacts to the skull, bruising in various stages of healing, trauma that didn't match any accidental fall scenario. This wasn't a moment of lost control. This was sustained abuse that ended in murder. Best is being held on one million dollar bail. His preliminary hearing is set for next month. His public defender hasn't commented yet, probably because what do you say when your client confesses this casually to killing a baby. Here's what makes this case particularly disturbing, the casual nature of the confession. Most people who kill their children, and God, what a horrible sentence to have to say, most of them at least pretend to be devastated.

11:50 They cry, They claim it was an accident. They put on a show of grief. Jeremy Best said I did it, dude, like he was talking about drinking the last beer. That level of disconnection, that absence of apparent emotion about murdering your own infant daughter. That's not just criminal, that's sociopathic. Kayleie John Best was ten months old. She was just learning to stand, maybe saying her first words, starting to show personality, and her father beat her to death because she cried. You know what babies do. They cry. It's literally their only form of communication. They cry when they're hungry, tired, need changing, or just want to be held. It's not personal, it's not defiance. It's literally the only way they can tell you they need something. And Jeremy Best's response to his daughter's cries for help was to beat her until she couldn't cry anymore. The death penalty isn't on the table here. Idaho reserves that for first degree murder with aggravating factors, but Best is looking at life in prison if convicted, and with a confession like eyes, I did it, dude, conviction seems pretty likely somewhere in Idaho a ten month old girl should be taking her first steps. Instead, she's dead because her father couldn't handle the basic responsibilities of parenthood, and he confessed to it like it was nothing. I did it, dude. Four words that sum up the banality

13:20 of evil. No grand explanation, no complex motive, just a man who killed his baby and shrugged about it. Kaylee Jean Best deserved better. Every child deserves better. But in America, we keep pretending that biology makes people fit parents, that DNA creates love, that chromosomes generate protection instincts. Jeremy Best proved that's a lie. Sometimes fathers are monsters. Sometimes the person who should protect you most is the one who destroys you. I did it, dude. Remember those words. Remember them the next time someone says a parent would never hurt their child. Remember them the next time someone says we should always keep families together. Remember them for Kaylee Jean Best, who died at ten months old because her father was frustrated by crying. She never got to say data.

14:15 He got to say, I did it, dude. That's justice in America. That's Celebrity Trials For Friday, August twenty second. This weekend, check our bonus episodes for the Menendez Brothers' parole decisions. Will thirty five years be enough? Will California release two men who shotgunned their parents. We'll have complete coverage, and don't forget our weekend Classic Trials episodes Saturday, we're diving into Phil Spector's Wall of Sound becoming a chamber of death. And Sunday we're examining Martha Stewart's journey from billionaire to federal inmate number five five one seven zero dash zero five to four. I'm reed, Carter. This week we saw a rapper allegedly beat her body guard, a killer google how to strangle someone, and a father confessed to murdering his baby with four casual words. But sure, tell me again how people are basically good until tomorrow, and remember your Google search history will definitely be used against you in a court of law. See you tomorrow,