"CROSSWORD KILLER MOM CONVICTED: 104 MPH Murder Plea, Dismemberment Trial & Crystal Rogers Justice"

0:03 Caalarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, and welcome to celebrity trials. Justice moves at different speeds for different people. Sometimes it takes years, sometimes it takes hours. Today we've got verdicts, sentences, and new trials beginning, including an update on that Florida mother who texted her son into murder. Turns out the first jury couldn't convict her because one juror was more interested in crossword puzzles than justice. Well, the second jury had no such distractions. Let's start with breaking news from Pensacola. Remember Sheila Agy, the mother who allegedly called her teenage son a motherfucking bitch if he didn't murder the mother of his child, The one who coached him via text message on where and how to kill eighteen year old Brooklyn sims Well. Folks, Justice finally caught up with her. After less than three hours of deliberation, a Florida jury found Sheila Agy guilty of principal first degree premeditated murder. But let me tell you about the circus that was her first trial back in November. Because this is what happens when you don't take jury duties. Seriously.

1:20 Picture this. A woman is on trial for encouraging her son to commit murder. The evidence includes text messages where she's literally planning the killing. The victim's family is in the courtroom desperate for justice, and what's juror Sally Sue Smith doing crossword puzzles during testimony during deliberations crossword puzzles. When other jurors confronted her about it, she felt threatened, said she had a pacemaker and the stress was affecting her heart rate. Judge Coleman Robinson had to declare a mistrial because this one juror turned the deliberation room into chaos. The judge called her behavior unhinged and apologized to the other jurors who had to deal with her unpleasantness. Jury foreman Vladimir Gousarov later revealed that when they tried to discuss the racist language in the text messages where the N word was used as slang between Keith and Sheila, this same juror insisted it was racially motivated and refused to understand context. She just could not understand what was being said. Gusarov told reporters they went through thirty two pages of texts line by line, and she still didn't get it or didn't want to. But this week, with a new jury paying attention instead of filling in seven down, justice was swift. The evidence was overwhelming. Text messages starting at eight forty am plotting murder Sheila, calling Keith a coward if he didn't kill Brooklyn, instructions on where to

2:50 do it so the baby wouldn't see, warnings not to use her vehicle. Sheila took the stand in her own defense, claiming she loved Brooklyn and did nothing wrong. She said Brooklyn was the best mom I've ever seen. Really, Sheila, you loved her so much you texted your son to murder her. Even Keith testified for his mother's defense, claiming she never wanted me to hurt Brooklyn. But the jury saw through it. The text messages don't lie. Brooklyn Simms is dead because a mother turned her son's anger into murder. Sheila Age will be formally sentenced later, but she's facing life in prison. Good she can do crossword puzzles in her cell for the next forty years. Fraser Michael Boehm stood in a Van Nuy's courtroom on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. To murdering four Pepperdine University students not guilty after driving one hundred four miles per hour in a forty five zone after data from his BMW's black box proved he was accelerating right before impact. This twenty two year old rich kid from Mallae killed Neev Rolston twenty, Peyton Stewart twenty one, Ashaweir twenty one, Deslynd Williams twenty one, all seniors, all members of Alpha Phi Sorority, all with their whole lives ahead of them. They were walking along Pacific Coast Highway on October seventeenth, twenty twenty three, when

4:21 Boehm's BMW slammed into them at over one hundred miles per hour. His excuse road rage. He claims someone in a white Honda Civic was chasing him, so he had to flee at twice the speed limit. The female driver of that civic, she says she never made contact with his car. Photos of her vehicle show no damage. But here's what really makes my blood boil. Boehm has hired Alan Jackson as his attorney. You might recognize that name. Jackson just got Karen Reid acquitted of murder charges. Now he's representing a spoiled brat who turned pH into a killing field. During his preliminary hearing, Bohm's previous this attorney actually called him a kid and noted he had no prior driving violations. A kid. He was twenty years old driving a BMW at one hundred four miles per hour.

5:11 That's not a kid. That's a killer with a luxury car. The data doesn't lie. In the two point five seconds before impact, Boehm accelerated from ninety three to one hundred four miles per hour. He wasn't fleeing, he was flying, and four young women paid the price. Victor Calandra testified he saw Boem driving erratically, swerving between lanes before they ended up at a traffic light together. This wasn't sudden road rage. This was a pattern of dangerous driving that ended in quadruple homicide. Bohm's next hearing is September fifth. The victim's sorority sister, Bridget Thompson, told Court TV she'll be at every hearing. It hurts me that they can't be in the courtroom to represent themselves. It gives me peace to know I can be there. That's the difference between real people and entitled killers. Bridget Thompson shows up for her sisters. Fraser Michael Boehm showed up to court in a suit his parents probably bought, claiming innocence, while four families plan funerals. Back in a moment, Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm Red Carter, and we're closing with updates on two trials that show just how evil people can be when they think they won't get caught. The Nicholas Cassadis trial is in full swing in Liberty County, Georgia,

6:41 and day two brought us exactly the kind of gruesome details you'd expect from a man accused of cutting his wife into pieces. Prosecutors are painting a picture of a former Navy jag officer, a prosecutor himself who knew exactly how to commit murder and clean up after it. Medical examine Keith Lehman testified about the defensive injuries on Mindy Castis's hands and forearms. You know what defensive injuries mean. She fought back. She tried to stop her husband from killing her. Layman also testified about unsuccessful attempts to cut through bone that couldn't be attributed to decomposition. Think about that. This monster didn't just kill his wife. He tried to saw through her bones to dispose of her body, and when that didn't work cleanly, he kept going anyway. The States theory Kesotis owed his first wife one point five million dollars from a divorce judgment and was on the run with Mindy to avoid paying the defense. They claim a mysterious CIA connected figure named Jim McIntyre was controlling their lives and forced them to flee right a shadowy government operative made you dismember your wife. That's your defense.

7:56 But here's the kicker. Prosecutors have a target receipt showing Casodis bought condoms an old spice on his way to meet his third wife just days after Mindy's death. This man scattered his second wife across two counties and immediately went shopping for date supplies. District Attorney Lori Bio put it perfectly. The killer was a prosecutor. He would have known to clean up, and boy did he try. Crime scene wipes were found everywhere near Mindy's remains. But you can't clean up evil Nicholas. You can't wipe away what you did. The trial is expected to last two to three weeks, with prosecutors calling at least thirty five witnesses, seven women and five men. Will decide if this monster spends the rest of his life in prison. Finally, some actual justice to report. Stephen Lawson, one of three men convicted in the Crystal Rogers case, was sentenced to seventeen years in prison on Wednesday. For those who don't remember, Crystal was a mother of five who vanished on July third, twenty fifteen. Her body has never been found, but three men have now been convicted in her death. Lawson and his son Joseph, abandoned Cristel's car on the Bluegrass Parkway the night she disappeared. They tried to make it look like she'd broken down and wandered off. Instead, they proved they were part of a conspiracy to murder an innocent mother.

9:23 The judge agreed with the jury's recommendation, seventeen years for conspiracy to commit murder, five years for tampering with evidence to be served. Concurrently, Brooks Hawk, Cristel's boyfriend, was convicted of murder. He and Joseph Lawson will be sentenced on August twenty First, you know what strikes me about this case. It took nearly a decade, but Kentucky didn't give up. They kept investigating, kept pushing, kept looking for justice, even without a body. Three convictions without remains. That's how you honor a victim. When killers think they've been clever. Stephen Lawson is seventy years old. Seventeen years might be a life sentence for him. Good you help murder a mother of five, You deserve to die in prison. What a week in the world of celebrity trials, folks. We've got mothers texting murder instructions entitled Brat's Killing, sorority sisters at one hundred four miles per hour, Navy lawyers dismembering wives, and conspirators finally facing justice for a decade old murder.

10:27 You know what all these cases have in common. Arrogance, the absolute certainty that they could get away with it. Sheila Age thought she was clever using text messages to coach murder. Fraser Michael Boehm thought his BMW made him invincible. Nicholas Cassotis thought being a prosecutor meant he knew how to get away with murder. Stephen Lawson thought abandoning a car would cover up a killing. They were all wrong. Justice might be slow, asked Crystal Rogers, five kids who've waited ten years. Justice might be messy, the jurors who had to deal with Sally Sue Smith's crossword puzzles. But justice is coming today. Take a moment to think about Brooklyn Sims, those four Pepperdine students, Mindy Casotis, and Crystal Rogers, real women with real families who deserve so much better than the monsters who took their lives. I'm read Carter.

11:21 With celebrity trials, stop doing crossword puzzles during murder trials. Slow down on pch and for God's sake, don't buy condoms on your way to meet your next wife while your current wife is in pieces. Justice isn't always fast, but verdicts are forever. We'll see you tomorrow.