Oct. 29, 2025

"DIDDY'S 2028 RELEASE DATE, SCHIZOPHRENIC'S LIFE SENTENCE & TYCOON MURDERED BY HUMILIATED WORKERS"

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Reid Carter covers Diddy getting May 2028 release date after 50-month sentence for prostitution charges - convicted mogul currently at MDC Brooklyn awaiting transfer. Bionca Ellis, 34, sentenced Monday to life without parole for stabbing stranger's three-year-old son Julian Wood to death in Cleveland grocery store parking lot - schizophrenic stalked mother and child through store holding stolen butcher knife. Tech tycoon Tushar Atre murdered by employees he forced to do 500 push-ups to get paychecks - bragged about being "worth thousands per hour" before workers stabbed, kidnapped and shot him execution-style at his marijuana farm.

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Caalarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Wednesday, October

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twenty ninth, twenty twenty five. Three stories today about consequences,

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about what happens when wealth, mental illness, and desperation collide

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with violence. Did he got his release date? May eighth,

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twenty twenty eight. Federal Bureau of Prisons posted it this week.

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Shawn Combs will walk out of prison in less than

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three years after serving fifty months for transportation to engage

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in prostitution. Convicted in July. Acquitted on the serious charges

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sex trafficking and racketeering. Judge sentenced him to four years

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and two months in October, with time served since his

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September twenty twenty four arrest. He's got about thirty two

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months left currently at m d C Brooklyn. Attorney's filed

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appeal requested transfer to New Jersey low security facility. We'll

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see if he he gets it. Monday. In Cleveland, Bianca

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Ellis thirty four years old, sentenced to life in prison

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without possibility of parole. Murdered three year old Julian Wood

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in a Giant Eagle parking lot last June. Surveillance footage

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showed her stalking the boy and his mother, Margo, through

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the store holding a stolen butcher knife, testing it against

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concrete pillars, followed them outside, stabbed Julian multiple times in

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the back and face while his mother watched. The boy

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died in Margo's arms. Ellis's attorneys claimed insanity. Defense said

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she schizophrenic, was off her meds, didn't know right from wrong.

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Jury didn't buy it, convicted her on all ten felony counts.

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Judge gave her the maximum. Julian's parents called Ellis a monster.

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She apologized two words, I'm sorry, too late, and California

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justice finally delivered for tech tycoon Tusharatre, fifty years old,

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murdered in October twenty nineteen, dragged from his five point

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four million dollars Santa Cruz Beach house at three am, stabbed, kidnapped,

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shot execution style at his marijuana farm, left for dead

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in a stolen BMW His killers employees he'd humiliated, forced

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them to do three hundred to five hundred push ups

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to receive their paychecks, bragged about being worth thousands of

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dollars an hour, bounced their checks when he thought they

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stole truck keys. They didn't steal anything, keys were at

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the property. Weeks later, they came back, robbed him, murdered him.

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Two convicted this year, life without parole, two more on trial.

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Now turns out humiliating people who know where you sleep

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is a bad business strategy. I'm Red Carter today. When

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the system delivers justice, when mental illness doesn't excuse murder,

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and when bullies get what's coming. This is Celebrity Trials.

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Quick update because we've covered this case extensively, Federal Bureau

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of Prisons updated their records this week. Sean Ditty Combs

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now has an official release date May eighth, twenty twenty eight,

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thirty two months from now two years and eight months.

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That's all the time remaining on his fifty month sentence

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for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. July

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twenty twenty five, federal jury in New York convicted Combs

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on the prostitution charges, acquitted him on the serious stuff

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racketeering and sex trafficking. Prosecutors wanted eleven years and three months,

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Defense wanted fourteen months total time served. Judge run Subramanian

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split the difference fifty months, four years and two months.

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October sentencing hearing. Defense argued for mercy, claimed the transportation

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charges are relics of the Man Act that shouldn't apply

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to Ditty's conduct, said consensual adopt arrangements shouldn't fall under

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outdated nineteen ten prostitution laws. Prosecutors disagreed, said did he

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caused irreparable harm to his victims, that he deserved the maximum.

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Judge sided somewhere in the middle fifty months, also find

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him five hundred thousand dollars. Comb's was arrested September twenty

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twenty four, spent the last thirteen months at Metropolitan Detention

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Center in Brooklyn. That time counts toward his sentence, which

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is why he's getting out May twenty twenty eight instead

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of serving the full fifty months from sentencing date. Currently

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still at MDC Brooklyn, but Judge Subramanian formally requested at

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defense urging that Combs serve his sentence at a prison

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in the New York area. Defense specifically asked for transfer

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to a New Jersey low security facility, more comfortable, safer,

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better conditions than MDC Brooklyn. That transfer is pending, could

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happen any time, could take months. Federal Bureau of Prisons

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moves at its own pace. Defense attorneys filed notice of

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appeal this week, challenging both the conviction and the sentence,

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arguing the Man Act provisions are outdated, that the jury

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got it wrong, that acquitting him on trafficking and racketeering

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proves he's essentially sort of half innocent. To borrow a

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phrase from someone who's previously commented on this case, appeal

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will take months, maybe years, but did He's not waiting

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in limbo. He's serving his time, marking days off the calendar.

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May eighth, twenty twenty eight, that's the target. Will the

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appeal work probably not. Federal convictions are hard to overturn.

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Jury heard all the evidence, made their decision. Convicted on

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two counts, acquitted on others. That's how trials work. Could

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he get early release? Federal inmates can earn up to

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fifty four days per year of good time credit. Do

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the math. That could shave a few months off. But

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he's still looking at serving most of his sentence. So

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there it is. Didty's countdown clock is running thirty two months?

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Then he walks back to whatever's left of his empire,

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back to his music career, back to his life. Whether

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anyone wants to work with him after this is another

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question entirely. Monday, October twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, Cuyahoga

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County Common Please Court, Cleveland, Ohio, Judge John Russo, presiding

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the sentencing of Bayanka Ellis for the murder of three

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year old Julian Wood. Let me paint you the picture

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of what happened on June third, twenty twenty four, Monday afternoon,

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Giant Eagle Grocery Store in North Olmstead, a Cleveland suburb,

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sunny day, busy parking lot, families doing their weekly shopping.

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Margo Wood, thirty eight years old, was shopping with her

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youngest son, Julian, three years old, playing in the shopping cart, laughing,

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being a normal toddler. They finished shopping, headed toward the

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parking lot, loaded groceries into their red hatchback. Marko had

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no idea they were being followed. Earlier that afternoon, Bianca

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Ellis walked into a Volunteers of America thrift store. Thirty

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four years old. History of schizophrenia, thirteen psychiatric hospitalizations, pattern

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of not taking her medication that day. She wasn't medicated,

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wasn't stable, wasn't thinking clearly. She stole knives, multiple knives,

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kitchen knives, butcher knives, walked out of the store without paying.

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Nobody stopped her. Then she went to Giant Eagle. Surveillance

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footage captured everything. Ellis walking through the store, testing knives,

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hitting them against concrete pillars, checking which blade was strongest,

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most effective, most deadly. She selected an eight inch butcher knife.

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Then she waited. Margo wheeled Julian past. That's when Ellis stopped,

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turned around, started following them through the aisles, through the

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checkout out, the door into the parking lot. The footage

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is chilling. Ellis held the knife in her right hand,

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walked a few paces behind Margo and Julian, watching, waiting, planning.

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Margo reached their car, popped the trunk, started loading groceries.

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Julian was still in the cart, playing unaware. Ellis approached,

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no warning, no words, just violence. She stabbed Julian multiple

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times in the back, in the face, in the cheek.

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Three years old, defenseless, couldn't fight back, couldn't run, couldn't

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protect himself. Margo screamed, tried to stop her. Ellis stabbed

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Margo too, shoulder wound. Then Ellis ran dropped the knife,

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fled across the parking lot. Calls flooded in shoppers, store employees,

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people on their lunch break. There's a child bleeding. He's

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bleeding everywhere. They're doing CPR. Margo was on the ground

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with Julian holding her son, pressing on his wounds, screaming

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at paramedics, don't worry about me, Save him, Please save him.

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Julian died in her arms, three years old, on a

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grocery store parking lot, killed by a stranger with a knife.

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No reason, no connection, just random violence. Bianca Ellis was

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arrested minutes later, still had blood on her clothes, confessed

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immediately said she did it, said she'd been hearing voices,

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said she couldn't control herself. September twenty twenty four, Ellis

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was deemed incompetent to stand trial. Mental health experts evaluated her,

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said she couldn't understand the proceedings, couldn't assist in her defense.

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Sent to a psychiatric facility for treatment. Five months later,

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February twenty twenty five, she was restored to competency. Psychiatrists

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said medication stabilized her. She could now participate in trial.

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October twenty twenty five, trial began. Defense strategy insanity. Defense

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argued Ellis suffered from schizophrenia, that she was off her

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medication on June third, that she didn't know right from wrong,

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that mental illness made her kill Julian. Defense attorneys Fernando

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Mack and Carlos Johnson presented psychiatric testimony, thirteen hospitalizations, multiple diagnoses,

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pattern of refusing medication. When she took her meds, she

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was stable, functional. When she didn't, she heard voices, had delusions,

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lost touch with reality. If nothing more, we learn she

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is two different people. Mack told the jury what happened

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on June third is a different version of Bianca. Prosecutors

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agreed Ellis was mentally ill, but argued she knew exactly

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what she was doing. The surveillance footage proved it. Assistant

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prosecutor Anna Farraglia walked the jury through every second Ellis

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stealing the knives, testing them against concrete, choosing the butcher

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knife the biggest, strongest blade, following Margo and Julian through

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the store, waiting until they were outside, isolated, vulnerable, then

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attacking the surveillance video of giant Eagle demonstrates that this

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defendant carefully chose her victims and executed her plan. Faraglia

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told the jury that's not insanity, that's premeditation, that's intent,

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that's murder. Ohio law defines insanity narrowly. Did Ellis lack

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substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct? Could

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she understand that stabbing a three year old child was wrong?

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The jury said, yes, she knew, she understood, she chose

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to do it anyway. October fifteenth, jury convicted Ellis on

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all ten felony counts murder, attempted murder, felonious assault, multiple

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weapons charges. Guilty across the board. Monday, October twenty eighth

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sentencing hearing, the courtroom was packed Julian's family, Margo and

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her husband, Jared, Julian's older siblings, extended family, media observers.

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Everyone wanted to see justice delivered. Margo spoke first victim

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impact statement, her voice shaking, fighting through tears. That woman

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murdering my son replays in my head every single day.

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It is my living nightmare. I watched him take his

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first breath when he was born, and his last when

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he died in my arms. Covered in blood. She described

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hearing Julian's scream, seeing the terror in his eyes, knowing

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she couldn't save him. The last thing I will ever

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hear from my son is his scream and the sound

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of his pain and fear before he was gone. I

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can still see the terror in his eyes, and it

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haunts me every day. She looked directly at Ellis. You

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deserve to go to jail for the rest of your

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life so you can't hurt anyone else. You don't deserve

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a second chance. You don't deserve mercy. You didn't give

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my son any I hate you with every fiber of

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my being. Jared Wood spoke next, described Julian as funny, outgoing, fearless,

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full of life and laughter, loved dinosaurs, loved dressing up

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for Halloween, loved his big brother. That monster took him

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from us, Jared said, pointing at Ellis. Now all of

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our hearts will forever be missing a piece. Defense asked

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for leniency, argued for twenty years before parole eligibility, said

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Ellis wasn't the same person when medicated that she expressed

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remorse that punishing her mental illness wasn't justice. Ellis was

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given the chance to address the court. She stood, spoke softly.

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Two sentences. I just want to say I apologize. I'm

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really sorry for what happened. That's it. Two sentences for

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murdering a three year old boy in front of his mother.

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Prosecutors asked for maximum sentence, life without parole, argued Ellis,

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this is a danger to society. That mental illness doesn't

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excuse what she did. That Julian Wood deserves justice. Judge

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Roussou agreed sentenced Ellis to life in prison without possibility

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of parole for aggravated murder. Additional sentences on remaining counts,

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all running Concurrently. Ellis showed no emotion, sat with a

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sour expression throughout the hearing, completely different from the grinning,

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laughing demeanor she had days after the killing. Back then,

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she smirked through court appearances, made light of murdering a child.

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Defense indicated they planned to appeal. Good luck with that.

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Here's my take. Mental illness is real. Schizophrenia is a

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devastating condition. People who suffer from it deserve treatment, compassion,

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and support. But mental illness doesn't give you a free

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pass to murder children. The surveillance footage showed planning Ellis

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tested knives, selected the deadliest weapon, followed her victims through

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the store, waited until they were vulnerable, then attacked. That's

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not psychosis, that's predatory behavior. And even if we accept

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that Ellis was hearing voices or experiencing delusions, she still

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knew stabbing was wrong. She ran afterward, fled the scene.

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That's consciousness of guilt. That's knowing you did something terrible

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and trying to escape consequences. Julian Wood was three years old.

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Should be four now, should be in preschool, should be

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dressing up as a dinosaur for Halloween, should be playing

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with his big brother, should be making memories with his family. Instead,

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his last moments were terror and pain, watching a stranger

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stab him, feeling the blade hit his back, his face,

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his cheek, crying for his mother, dying on a parking lot.

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Margot Wood has to live with that forever. Every time

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she closes her eyes, she sees her son dying, hears

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his screams, feels his blood on her hands. If I

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want my fan to be whole, we need to go

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to the cemetery. Margo said in court. That's not a life.

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That's surviving trauma. That's a sentence worse than prison. Bianca

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Ellis will spend the rest of her life in an

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Ohio prison, will receive psychiatric treatment, will take her medication.

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We'll live into her sixties, seventies, eighties if she's lucky.

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Julian Wood will never turn four. Make it make sense.

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Rest in peace, Julian three years old, Funny, outgoing, fearless love,

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dinosaurs deserve to grow up. Your mother fought for you,

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your father honors your memory, and the woman who killed

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you will never walk free. Someone has to say your name.

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We'll be right back. With the case of tech tycoon

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Tusher Atre murdered by employees he humiliated and forced to

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do hundreds of push ups to receive their paychecks. Welcome

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back to celebrity trials. I'm Reed Carter October first, twenty nineteen,

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Santa Cruz, California, three am two share a Trays five

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point four million dollar beach house. Fifty years old. Tech entrepreneur,

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cannabis businessman, self made millionaire who bragged about being worth

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thousands of dollars an hour. That morning, someone broke into

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his house multiple someones. They dragged him out of bed,

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stabbed him, kidnapped him, forced him into a stolen BMW,

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drove him fourteen miles to a rural mountain area to

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his own marijuana farm, shot him in the back of

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the head, left him for dead in the BMW. Police

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found his body hours later. Brutal murder, execution style killing

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no obvious suspects who would want to kill Tushar Atra,

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turns out a lot of people. This week, the trial

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continues for Caleb Charters, one of four men charged with

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Atre's murder, and testimony revealed why these men killed their

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boss because Atre was a bully who humiliated, exploited, and

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enraged the wrong people. Let me tell you about Tushar Atra.

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By all accounts, brilliant businessman. Started multiple tech companies, made

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millions invested in cannabis when California legalized it, bought property

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in the mountains, started growing, hired workers, managed operations like

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a tech startup. But Aitre had a problem. He treated

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employees like garbage, pushed them to extremes, invoked fear, yelled constantly,

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withheld pay, fired workers over minor disrespect, and when he

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felt they'd wasted his time, he made them pay. Literally.

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August twenty nineteen, Aitra hired Stephen Nicholas Nick Lindsay and

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Caleb Charters to work at his marijuana farm. Both were

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members of the Army National Guard. Strong disciplined, hard workers,

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perfect for the manual labor atre needed. They worked sunrise

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to sunset, hauling plants, building infrastructure, maintaining the farm brutal

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physical work in California heat. Ahre's right hand man, Sam Borghese,

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University of California Santa Cruz graduate, hired to manage the

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cannabis business, testified this week about what he witnessed. Said

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Ray pushed his employees very hard, frequently yelled withheld pay

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if he felt disrespected, created an environment of fear and intimidation.

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But the worst part the push ups. Hre bragged constantly

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about being worth thousands of dollars an hour. His time

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was valuable. Anyone who wasted it was costing him money.

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So when Lindsay and Caleb needed their one thousand, four

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hundred dollars paychecks, a Tree made them earn it, not

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through work, through punishment. He forced them to do between

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three hundred to five hundred push ups in front of

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him while he watched, before he'd hand over their checks.

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Lindsay and Caleb were National Guard, they could do push ups.

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But this wasn't military discipline. This was humiliation, degradation, a

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millionaire forcing working class employees to perform like circus animals

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for money they'd already earned. They did it, they needed

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the money. Borghese testified he watched them complete the push ups,

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watched atre hand over the checks like he'd done them

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a favor. After nearly two weeks of working sunrise to sunset,

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Lindsay and Caleb told Borghese they needed a break. This

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was very intense work. They said they needed time off,

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needed to recover. Then something happened. Keys to a farm

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truck went missing, a tree, assumed Lindsay and Caleb took them.

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No evidence, no proof, just assumption. Aiders response called the

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bank bounced their check X sixteen hundred dollars in paychecks

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bounced after they'd worked two weeks, after they'd done the

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humiliating push ups. Lindsay and Caleb came back to the farm,

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found the keys right where they'd been left on the property.

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Nobody stole anything at was wrong. They confronted him, demanded

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he pay them for their work. A tray refused, started arguing,

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bragging about his wealth, how anyone who wastes his time

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is costing money, How he's worth thousands of dollars an

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hour and they were lucky to even work for him.

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Then he ordered them to do hundreds more push ups

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punishment for confronting him, for making him look bad. They

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left furious, humiliated, unpaid for two weeks of brutal labor.

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September twenty nineteen, few weeks after the bounce checks incident,

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Lindsay and Caleb approached Borghese asked for the security code

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to a Tray's beach house. Said they were planning to

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rob him, get their money back, make him pay for

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humiliating them or Gaizy thought they were joking, gave them

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a fake code, didn't report it to Aterrey, didn't call police,

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just brushed it off. But they weren't joking. Lindsay and

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Caleb recruited Caleb's older brother, Curtis Charters, and their friend

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Joshua Camps, four men total. Planned the robbery carefully waited

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until early morning when a tree would be asleep vulnerable.

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October first, twenty nineteen, three am, Curtis Charters drove Lindsay, Camps,

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and Caleb to ATRA's beach house, dropped them off, drove away,

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waited at the marijuana farm. The three men broke into

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the house, went to Atru's bedroom, woke him up, dragged

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him out of bed. Surveillance cameras captured what happened next.

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Atre running down his street, shirtless, screaming for help. Help,

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Someone helped me. Nobody came. Three am in a quiet neighborhood,

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no witnesses, no help. The three men tackled him, stabbed

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him multiple times, then forced him into a stolen BMW

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drove him to his own marijuana farm in the mountains.

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Caleb Charters was waiting there. His brother Curtis had dropped

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him off earlier. They had a tray at the farm. Bleeding, terrified,

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begging for his life, Joshua Camps pulled out a gun,

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put it to the back of Atru's head, bang execution style,

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one shot or fell dead. They left his body in

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the BMW, stole thousands of dollars in cash from his

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safe at the beach house, drove away. Hours later, police

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found two shor Atre's body. Fifty years old tech entrepreneur,

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cannabis businessman murdered at his own farm. Investigation took months

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surveillance footage from the beach house, cell phone data, financial records. Slowly,

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investigators pieced it together. Stephen Nicholas Lindsay and Curtis Charters

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were arrest to first tried earlier this year. Both convicted

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of murder and related charges, sentenced to life in prison

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without parole. Now Caleb Charters is on trial. His defense

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argues he agreed to participate in burglary but never intended murder,

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that his accomplices diverted from the plan. That the original

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plan was to break in while Atrey was out of town,

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steal cash in a vehicle, and leave no violence. But

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Achrey was home and plans changed, and Caleb was there

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when Camp shot Atre execution style. Caleb never touched Tushar,

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his attorney told the jury, didn't burglarize the home, didn't

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stab him on the street, didn't shoot him, but he

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was part of the conspiracy, was at the farm when

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a Trey died, knew about the robbery, participated in the aftermath.

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In the days following the murder, Lindsay and Caleb Charters

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deposited cash into their personal bank accounts, used ATRS banking

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details to pay bills, credit cards, transfer funds via paper,

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spending their victim's money while he decomposed in a BMW.

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Caleb's trial continues. Jury will deliberate soon. Verdict expected next week.

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Joshua Camps's trial was paused, will resume after Caleb's verdict.

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Here's my take. Toushar Atre was a bully, humiliated his employees,

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forced them to do hundreds of push ups to receive

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paychecks they'd earned, bounced their checks over missing keys that

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were never stolen, bragged about his wealth while exploiting working

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class labor. Does that justify murder? Absolutely not. But here's

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a life lesson. Don't humiliate people who know where you sleep.

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Don't brag about your wealth to people you've just screwed over.

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Don't force National Guard members to do five hundred push

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ups and expect them to just forget about it. Ader

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thought he was untouchable, thought his money protected him, thought

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he could treat people however he wanted because he was

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worth thousands of dollars an hour. October over first, twenty nineteen,

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he learned he was wrong. Four men broke into his house,

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stabbed him, kidnapped him, shot him in the head, all

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because he couldn't treat employees with basic human dignity. I'm

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not celebrating vigilante justice, not saying Atre deserved to die,

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But I am saying actions have consequences, and sometimes those

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consequences come from people you've pushed too far. Tushar Atre

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was fifty years old, tech entrepreneur, self made millionaire. Should

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still be running his businesses. Should have learned to treat

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people better. Should have realized that money doesn't make you invincible.

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Rest in peace, toushar and listen to everyone. Listening. Respect

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costs nothing. Humiliation costs everything. Jessica Quintana attempted murder eight

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minutes and finally Texas Liberty County three million dollar estate

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called Rancho Monte Carmelo. Jessica Quintana, thirty nine years old,

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lives there with her husband, Domingo sixty one, and their

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three children, ages six, eleven, and fifteen. September twenty ninth,

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twenty twenty five, early morning before sunrise, Jessica loaded her

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three children into a vehicle, drove them to a pond

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on the family property, gave them a mixture of tequila

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and niquill alcohol and sedatives enough to knock them unconscious.

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Then she rolled them into the water all three of them,

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tried to drown herself too, murder suicide, the whole family

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in a pond on their own estate. Sheriff's deputies swarmed

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the mansion after receiving nine to one to one calls

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about an attempted drowning. Found Jessica and all three children

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in the water, unconscious, unresponsive, pulled them out, started CPR,

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rushed them to the hospital. All four survived spent weeks recovering.

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Jessica was arrested Friday, October twenty fifth as she was

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released from the hospital, charged with two counts of injury

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to a child and one count of attempted aggravated assault.

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