"DIDDY WANTS OUT, COUNTRY CLUB KILLER ARRAIGNED & MOTHER STARVED BABY TO DEATH IN DITCH"

0:03 Caalarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Wednesday, September twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Sean Ditty Combs wants out of federal custody because apparently jail is too uncomfortable for billionaires accused of sex trafficking and racketeering. A man who shot up a New Hampshire country club makes his first court appearance because nothing says class warfare like opening fire at the ninth Hole. Jeffrey Spence's trial begins for plotting to murder his father. The inheritance couldn't wait for natural causes, apparently, and a mother faces sentencing for starving her baby and leaving him to die in a ditch. Some stories are too horrible for clever commentary. Plus, I'll tell you about our eight day O. J. Simpson Special starting this Friday. Thirty years later, we're still asking how he got away with it. This is Celebrity Trials.

1:04 Shawn Combe's Puff Daddy p Diddy, Didty Brother Love or whatever he's calling himself this week, wants out of federal custody. The man facing federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, thinks he deserves to await trial from his mansion instead of a cell. His lawyers filed a motion yesterday arguing that Combs should be released on bail because and I quote, the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center are not suitable for a person of mister Combe's stature stature. He's accused of running a criminal enterprise that trafficked women, distributed drugs, and used violence and intimidation to cover it up. His stature is alleged sex trafficker. That's exactly who MDC Brooklyn was built for. The motion claims Comb's is suffering irreparable harm to his reputation and business interests by being detained. Irreparable harm to his reputation. The indictment alleges he forced women into freak offs, the elaborate sex performances that lasted days, required IV drips for recovery, and were recorded for blackmail.

2:08 What reputation is there left to harm? His legal team, led by Mark Agnafilo, is proposing a fifty million dollar bail package. Fifty million that's more money than most people see in a thousand lifetimes. They're offering his Miami mansion, his private jet, and his mother's house as collateral. His mother's house. This fifty four year old billionaire is putting up his mom's house to get out of jail. Janis Combs, eighty four years old, might lose her home if her son decides to flee. That's not love, that's leverage. The conditions they're proposing are laughable. House arrest at his Star Island mansion in Miami, electronic monitoring, surrender of his passport, private security to ensure compliance. Private security he pays for to make sure he follows rules. That's like asking a wolf to guard himself and promising he'll only eat vegetables.

3:04 The prosecution's response was beautiful. Assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson wrote, the defendant has unlimited resources, multiple properties in non extradition countries, and a demonstrated pattern of witness intimidation. He is the definition of a flight risk. She's not wrong. Combs owns property in the Caribbean, has connections worldwide, has the money to disappear forever, and, according to the indictment, has a history of threatening and bribing witnesses. The indictment alleges Combs ran a criminal enterprise from two thousand and eight to now seventeen years of alleged sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction. But he thinks he deserves to wait for trial in his mansion with an ocean view. The motion also argues Comb's needs to be free to prepare his defense, that jail restricts his access to lawyers and evidence. Every defendant in America faces these restrictions. But did he thinks he's special, thinks his money makes him different, thinks the rules don't apply to Bad Boy Entertainment's CEO. Here's what the indictment actually says. Combs did. Forced women into sexual performances with male sex workers, recorded it, use the recordings as blackmail, distributed drugs to keep victims compliant, used violence when they resisted, bribed witnesses, intimidated victims. Ran it like a business with employees who knew and participated. That's not music industry excess. That's organized crime with a soundtrack. The

4:36 judge will rule on bail tomorrow. But here's what won't change. Combs is charged with crimes that carry a life sentence. The evidence includes videos, financial records, and multiple cooperating witnesses. His empire is crumbling, his legacy is destroyed. His freedom might be gone forever. Sean Combs made millions selling the image of luxury and excess, private jets, mansions, parties that lasted for days. Now he's in MDC, Brooklyn, eating prison food, wearing prison clothes, living the prison life he rapped about but never experienced. He wants out because jail is hard, because it's uncomfortable, because it's not suitable for his stature.

5:20 You know what else isn't suitable. Allegedly trafficking women, allegedly drugging victims, allegedly running a criminal enterprise disguised as entertainment. Did he thought he was untouchable, thought his money protected him, thought his fame made him immune. He's learning what every criminal eventually learns. Federal prosecutors don't care about your Grammys. They care about your crimes. Robert Walsh, forty seven, made his first court appearance yesterday for shooting up the Brookstone country Club in Drry, New Hampshire. Because nothing says I hate rich people like attempted murder at a golf course September nineteenth, Friday afternoon. The country club was hosting its annual member, guest, tournament, lawyers, doctors, business owners, all enjoying their privilege on a perfect September day. Then Walsh showed up with an aar fifteen and a grudge. He opened fire from the parking lot. Sixty three rounds and under two minutes. Miraculously, only three people were injured, none fatally, not for lack of trying. Walsh just couldn't shoot straight, probably because he was drunk. His blood alcohol was point one to eight when arrested, more than twice the legal limit.

6:38 He drove drunk to commit mass murder and failed because he was too drunk to aim. That's not evil, that's pathetic evil. Walsh's motive. He'd been fired from the country club three years ago, three years He held a grudge for three years about losing a job as assistant groundskeeper. Decided the appropriate response was mass murder. At yesterday's arraignment, Walsh appeared via video link from Valley Street Jail. His public defender, Sandra Martinez, asked for a competency evaluation, claims Walsh has mental health issues and alcohol dependency. Mental health and alcohol don't make you plan mass murder. They might lower inhibitions, but they don't create homicidal rage from nothing.

7:19 That comes from entitlement, from believing the world owes you something, from thinking violence solves problems. Judge Catherine Brown denied bail, calling Walsh an extreme danger to the community that's under selling it. He shot up a country club because they fired him three years ago. What happens when McDonald's gets his order wrong. The victims are recovering. Doctor James Patterson sixty seven took shrapnel to his leg. Attorney Margaret Chen fifty four was grazed by a bullet. Businessman Todd Williams, forty five, has bullet fragments in his shoulder. They were playing golf, now their gunshot victims. The country club is closed indefinitely. Members are traumatized. The annual tournament that's been held for forty seven years is canceled because Robert Walsh couldn't get over being fired from a minimum wage job.

8:12 Walsh faces three counts of attempted murder, reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, and criminal threatening If convicted on all counts, he's looking at forty five to life for a job he lost three years ago for a grudge he couldn't let go for victims who didn't even know his name. The prosecutor, Michael Stevens, said it best. The defendant turned a golf course into a war zone because he couldn't accept consequences for his actions three years ago. He's been planning this, waiting, choosing his moment. Robert Walsh, forty seven years old, threw away his entire life because a country club didn't want him trimming their grass. Now he'll spend the rest of his life in a place where there's no grass at all, just concrete and regret. We'll be right back with a son plotting patricide and a mother who starved her baby to death. Jeffrey Spence's trial started yesterday in Jackson, Mississippi. He's accused of plotting to murder his father, Richard Spence, because waiting for inheritance is apparently too difficult. The prosecution laid out their case. Jeffrey, thirty eight, unemployed living off his father's money, decided he wanted it all now, not when Richard died naturally, not when the

9:46 will was read. Now. The plot was simple and stupid. Jeffrey tried to hire a hitman through a friend of a friend, offered fifty thousand dollars for the murder. The hit man was an undercover FBI agent, because of course he was. It's always an undercover FBI agent. The recorded conversations are devastating, Jeffrey explaining how his father takes walks every morning at six am, describing the route, suggesting making it look like a mugging, negotiating the price like he's buying a used car, not murdering his father. In one recording, Jeffrey says, make it quick. He's old, he doesn't deserve to suffer, just needs to be gone. Doesn't deserve to suffer, but deserves to die so Jeffrey can inherit early. The moral gymnastics of a son justifying patricide. Richard Spence seventy one, made his money in commercial real estate, built a fortune from nothing, gave his son everything, private schools, college, paid for trust fund jobs at his companies that Jeffrey kept losing.

10:53 And Jeffrey's gratitude murder for hire. The FBI agent testified yesterday described how Jeffrey wanted updates, wanted confirmation, wanted to know when it would happen so he could establish an alibi. He was going to be at a casino on camera when his father was murdered. Jeffrey even discussed the funeral, told the hit man he'd need to act grieving but not too grieving, said he'd practiced his shocked face in the mirror, practiced his shocked face. The defense attorney, Robert Clark, is claiming entrapment, that Jeffrey never would have gone through with it, that he was just talking, just venting frustration about his controlling father. Venting frustration doesn't include providing walking roots and negotiating prices. That's not venting, that's planning murder.

11:42 Richard Spence was in court yesterday watching his son stand trial for plotting his death. He looked broken, not angry, just broken, like he's trying to understand how the baby he raised became the man who wanted him dead. In victim impact pre trial statements, Richard said, I gave him every thing everything I failed as a father, not in what I provided, but in what I created A son who sees me as an ATM. That's taking too long to dispense. Jeffrey faces life in prison if convicted. His inheritance gone. Mississippi has son of Sam laws. You can't profit from trying to kill someone, even if you're inheriting anyway.

12:24 Jeffrey Spence wanted his father's money so badly he was willing to kill for it. Now he'll have nothing, no money, no father, no freedom, just decades to think about how greed destroyed everything his father built, including his son. Content warning. This next case involves infant death. It's horrific. There's no other way to describe it. Melissa Chen, twenty six, faces sentencing today in Phoenix for starving her four month old son and leaving him to die in a ditch. I've covered a lot of horrible cases. This might be the worst.

13:04 Baby Marcus was found July fifteenth by a jogger in a ditch in one hundred and fifteen degree heat. He weighed eight pounds, a four month old who weighed what a newborn should weigh. He'd been starved systematically for weeks, then abandoned to die alone. The medical examiner said Marcus was alive when left in the ditch, died of dehydration and exposure. It took hours hours of a baby dying alone in the Arizona heat because his mother decided he was too much trouble. Chen's story kept changing. First she said Marcus was kidnapped, Then he died of sids and she panicked, Then she couldn't afford formula. Finally the truth.

13:49 She didn't want him anymore, didn't want him, so instead of adoption, safe haven laws, giving him to literally anyone else, starved him, fed him water instead of formula, watched him waste away, then drove him to a ditch and left him to die. Her lawyer argues she was overwhelmed postpartum depression, poverty, no support system. That's not an excuse, that's not a defense. That's an explanation for why she's a monster, not whether she is one. The prosecutor, Lisa Rodriguez, showed photos of Marcus when he was born, healthy, seven pounds six ounces, then photos from the autopsy. I won't describe them, the jury cried. The judge had to call a recess. Chen's mother testified, said she offered to take Marcus, begged Melissa to let her help, but Melissa refused, said she could handle it, handle it. She handled it by murdering a baby through starvation. The grandmother brought Marcus's blanket to court, the one he was wrapped in when found, tiny yellow with ducks on it. She held it while testifying, saying, this is all I have left of him, this blanket and the knowledge my daughter killed him. Chen pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. She's facing twenty five to life.

15:08 The judge will decide today. But what sentence fits this crime? What prison term equals starving a baby? What justice exists for Marcus? The prosecutor's closing statement. Marcus Chen lived four months, most of it hungry, most of it crying, most of it ignored. He died alone in a ditch in the desert because his mother decided he was inconvenient. There is no punishment sufficient for this crime. She's right, there isn't. Melissa Chen will get her sentence today, twenty five to life. Probably she'll eat three meals a day in prison, more than she gave her son. She'll have shelter, water, medical care, everything she denied Marcus. Baby. Marcus died at four months old, eight pounds, in a ditch in Phoenix in twenty twenty five, in America, where safe haven laws exist, where adopt is available, where help is possible, But his mother chose murder instead before we go. Let me tell you about something special we're doing. Starting this Friday, Eight Days of O. J. Simpson, eight episodes covering each month of the trial that defined modern America, thirty years after the murders of Nicole Brown, Simpson and Ronald Goldman were going back to nineteen ninety four. Friday, we start with June and July nineteen ninety four. The murders, the Bronco chase, the suicide note, when OJ Simpson went from beloved athlete to accused double murderer. Each day we'll

16:39 cover another month of the trial, the evidence, the lawyers, the mistakes, the media circus, all building to October third, nineteen ninety five, the verdict that divided America. We have insights that didn't exist then. DNA evidence that was revolutionary, but misunderstood, race relations context that was ignored. Medium manipulation that became the template for every celebrity trial since. The gloves, the Bruno Magle shoes, Kato'kaalan judge Eto, Marcia Clark's hair, Johnny Cochrane's rhymes, Mark Furman's racism, the dream team versus the prosecution team that dreamed it would be easy. Eight days, eight months, of trial. One comprehensive look at how a man who nearly decapitated his ex wife walked free. How fame, fortune, and a fractured jury system let Oj Simpson get away with Double Murder That starts Friday, September twenty sixth. Set your reminders, clear your schedule. We're going back to when Court TV was new, when DNA was mysterious, and when America learned that justice has a price tag. The Trial of the Century thirty years later, starting this Friday on Celebrity Trials. That Celebrity Trials for Wednesday, septemnumber twenty fourth.

18:01 Did he wants out of jail because it's uncomfortable? A country club shooter held a three year grudge over a minimum wage job. A son plotted patricide for early inheritance, and a mother starved her baby and left him to die in the desert. Tomorrow verdict, watch in multiple trials, and whatever fresh horror emerges. Plus Friday begins our eight day journey through the OJ Simpson Trial, The double Murder that changed everything. I'm read Carter. Some days this job is about celebrity scandals and legal drama. Other days it's about babies. Dying in ditches, and fathers watching their sons plot their murders. Today was the second kind. See you tomorrow.

18:43 And if you're feeling overwhelmed by your baby, your job, or your inheritance timeline, there are options that don't involve murder. Use them. See you tomorrow,